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THE TRUTH WOULD SEEM LESS BRUTAL IF PEOPLE WERE "BETTER-ACQUAINTED WITH IT.

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending May 3, amounted to 72.194 tons and the

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One unconsidered trifle in the matter of the disposal of the Ger- man colonies is the cost of their conquest. We call it a trifle, and so it seems in these days of taking a billion as unity, yet the sum is fairly respectable, measured on

1894

HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.”

› {Compiled from the “Hongkong "Telegraph" files for week

ending May 26, 1894).

THE DOLLAR

May. The rate of the Dollar, on demand to-day, is 23.ld. THE END OF THE DROUGHT.

May 21 The Tytam and Pokfulam reservoirs are now full to overflowing. the latter having "a depth of five inches over the

overflow gauge.

THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY. May21.--The annive."“ary of the Queen's birthday will be celebrat- ed in Hongkong, a.. Friday next. The occasion will be observed as i a public holiday by the Govern- ment departments and the banks of the Colony. His Excellency the Governor will hold a levee at Government House from 12 to 1 pm.

WRONG BEARINGS.

May 21-Our reliable and highly esteemed contemporary, the old scale. Estimates of the the Daily Press, in its interesting

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sales during the period. to 13.685 outlay on the campaign for the and instructive issus of the GERIN, DREVARD & 'co.

tons.

Yesterday's health return land,

There will be a feast of turtle soup in one of the local hotels. this evening.

Six coolies were seen carrying a huge specimen of the testudinate reptile from the Praya to a local hotel this mor ning.

Gambling is an infectious habit. It gripped a number of Chinese in Western Street resterday. Four of them who were brought into the Police Station by the Police were this morning brought before the Magistrate. were each ordered to pay a $3 fee to the Police.

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conquest of German Southwest | morning. states that The Africa, also East Africa. Togo British steamer Fekien," from

and the Cameroons, Swatow the 19th May, had light| up па less shows six cases of plague (five foot

than southerly winds and fog in the Who is fatal) and one non-fatal case of $1,500,000,000.

going Gulf of Pechili. From Pro- diphtheria. The sufferer in the to pay for this? Not the colonies montory of Shaweisha S. E. winds last-named case was a Britisher. themselves.

revenues and fog. Thence S. W, with could not meet even the inter incessant rain to Tungying. est charge. Will the League of thence wind N. N. E. from fresh Nations, which is to take man-to gale in squalls, steady rain." datory control of the colonies. And now we pause to think a tri foot the bill? This is highly imfle and take a long breath. The probable Great Britain would editor of the Telegraph has been

with surely object to shouldering the shipmates

Capt. W entire burden-especially if she Davis and therefore can from does not get the German colonies. experience, testify that the genial The whole question is but one of William is without exception the charming and most the thousand cemplexities which most

is so east to handle three audacious raconteur on the Ching thousand miles from Paris, but Coast which which necessarily take time and Pickwickian sense of course, that could. under ordinary gray matter there.Yes Fork he Evening Post They

circumstances and on any topic give Ananias of old a good 10 lbs. and an easy bearing-but as а Between passenger aeroplanes sailor and a navigator he stands And it is in. and the Channel tunnel a stock second to none. subject for British jokes threatens view of this latter fact that we to explain to disappear at the very time that want Capt. Davis prohibition obliterates one of the what he was doing on a vorage Swatow to Hongkong Stock American subjects. It used from to be a rare month in which fooling around in the Gulf of Punchor Tit-Bits did not furnish a Pechili, dodging winds and fog Dew jest concerning the seasick from the Promontory of Shawei- Channel victims. Indeed,. asha and getting wet from the combination of the Channel joke incessant rains in the vicinity of and the joke about the bewilder-Tungying. ed drunken man gave Punch

JUNK CAPSIZES. one of its happiest hits: a picture of

May 23-It is reported that a 3 hopelessly in- toxicated gentleman splashing

Chinese junk with about 400 about in the

dark Serpen- passengers from Hongkong on tine. and exclaiming, as the board (escaping from the plague) policeman's bull's-eye flashed capsized and sank. yesterday in upon him: "At last, the lights of the Cap-sui-moon Pass. No re- Dover! Even the French haveliable details have yet come to since the days of Napoleon at Boulogne exerised a father ironic wit upon the Channel passage, and they cannot turn to St. George's Channel to keep vestiges morning remanded on bail at the of it alive, as the British may. Police Court on a charge of un-But it was bound to come. Since lawfully receiving and harbour- Thackeray's time the Channel ing a married woman, 26 years has been less and less what it of age. A boarding house runner

was. By great train ferries in who was caught with an at the war the British seem to have .omatic pistol in his possession robbed it

of all its funny, on the Hun Tak Wharf yesterday was this morning fined $1,000, with the alternative of six months' hard labour.

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Shareholders of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. will be interested to learn that a strong rumour is prevalent in the Colony that the Company has just concluded the sale of some of their property at a very high price to a well-known firm. After stealing a suit of clothing and $7.10 in money from a certain house in Wanchai, a thief hasten- ed to put the greatest distance possible between himself and the chance of any arrest. by re- treating in a sampan to Kowloon. Justice, however came after him, and one of her minions captured him in Nathan Road. To-day the thief started on a contract for six weeks hard labour" at the local

Gani.

A Chinese woman was this

"He has been sent from the Colony three times recently. The C. S. P. has ordered that men who come back pereistently should be charged."

With these words, Inspector Brazil opened a case, to be tried by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, of a blind mendicant who was charged with soliciting alms. The man was fined $5, or 10 days, and ordered to be sent back to

Canton.

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.

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Orders issued by Mr. J. W. Franks, D. S. P. (R.), state:

Practices Tuesday, Band 20th May: Tuesday, 27th May..

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SHARES IN LYEMOON PASS- May 23-Two large sharks each about twelve feet in length. were sighted by officers of the Chinese Imperial Customs ser- vice, yesterday in the Lyemoon Fass steering straight as a dart for Hongkong Harbour. Although sharks have up to date, given no trouble, it will perhaps be wise on the part of bathers to run no un- necessary risks for the present.

WASTE OF WATER.

May 24-Where are the ener- To what extent are women getic attaches of the Water and keeping their jobs as the men Drains Department? We ask this return? aske a New York paper. simple question because it is a The State Bureau of Women in fact that a number of the water Industry has made a study of 117 taps in the houses of Taiping-Shan plants employing 25,744 women, aistrict are leaking while others of whom 13,643 were replacing have been broken short off and men. which warrants the belief have been partially banged up that great numbers of women with rags. A thorough inspec will stay with their work. The tion of the water taps in all study is incomplete, because by occupied and unoccupied houses no means all the soldiers are yet throughout the Colony would back but this incompleteness appear to be advisable at the is less than it might seem, for a present time. „ statement of intention was elicited from many employers. No less

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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE RUSSIAN FIGHTING. "

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Helsingfors, May 1.- The Bolsheviks have closed the Russo-Finnish: frontier, which resulted in similar steps by the Finnish Government. The Finnish naval fag was hoisted for the first time to-day.

London, May 3 The War Office states that in reports from Archangel dated May 1st and May 2nd, General Ironside states that long anticipated and serious enemy attacks on the Dvina and Vaga fronts have commenced. Bolshevist gunboats ap peared opposite the Drina"front and shelled our positions spasmodically, but no casualties have so far been caused. The gunboats were forced to withdraw owing to the fire of our sixty-pounder, guns. After a long bombardment the enemy attacked on the Yago front in great strength, being repulsed everywhere with great loss. Our men lought splendidly. The ice on the Drina has now completely broken up and it is expected the river will be navigable to our gunboats within a week.

Copenhagen, May 3.

Oting to the German coup d'etat at Liban and the" weakening of the Lett front the Bolshevists are able to transer considerable forces to Eathonis, where there is sanguinary fighting with numerically superior Bolshevist forces. Armoured trains and motor cars are greatly par- ticipating on both sides. The Bolshevists did not capture the town of Narva, which was almost destroyed by the violent Bolshevist bombardment, but the Esthonians were obliged to surrender the town of Bujen.

London; May L

A Bolshevist communique states that the Bolshevists, attack- ing the Archangel front, advanced from the left bank of the Drina to south of Shuvega River but were held up by floods... It admits that the Bolsheviks in the Murmansk region have "retired thirty miles west of Petozarods "under pressure of

the enemy.

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than 82 per cent, of the plants will May 26The proposed exhibi-

ECHO OF THE PAST. keep at least part of the women tion of Victorian products is

The father confessor of the and over one-half are going to noted for Monday and Tuesday

Duchess of Hohenberg, who with retain all of them. In the few next in the Victoria Hotel. All

her husband Archduke Franz

murdered plants that were discharging all who are interested in getting

Ferdinand was better and far cheaper food than women employees, most were

Serajevo in Juce 1814, states that doing so because of cancelled Hongkong has ever yet had the chance to enjoy, should make

the Archduke was deliberately Government contracts.. The

of looking

With the recurrence of unem- point

lured to Serajevo with the inten investigators found many in-

problem of

to be stances where women were dis- and asking a few questions. ployment, the

immigration-more particularly tion of allowing him

assassinated and that no pre charged because of physical, me- chanical, or temperamental inca. May 26-A reward of $500 is from the Far Eas-has again cautions were taken to ensure his

into prominence. There is pacity, bu: they were much fewer being offered by the Hongkong consistent demand for the safety. The guilt is attributed to Madame than instances in which they did Government for information that deportation of enemy aliens and the late Count Tisza and three Melbe. During the past four equal work for less pay. Only 7 will lead to the conviction of the depot prohibition, for the time members of the then Hungarian

MADAME MELBA. Among the passengers on the Cunard liner Caronia, which ar-

a

INCENDIARISK.

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rived at Liverpool from New York recently, was

the famous,, soprano per cent. received as high pay as person or persons who set fire to

years

has raised in Australia and men. It needs no ingenuity to the shop at No. 137 Queen's Road being, of alien immigration from America nearly £100,000 for the see an argument for the Minimum West, on the evening of the 15th any but Brirish countries. There Red Cross. Although Madame Wage Bill in the Bureau's inst. Melba's first appearance.in opera statement:-"Primarily women

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CHOLERA AMONG

TELEGRAPHISTS. " British 22,000 aliens. in

Calcutta, April 30-There has Columbia, excluding Chinese and Japanese, of whom there are been a serious outbreak of cholera at Covent Garden was 32 years are being retained because they ago the richness and purity of allow manufacture at less cost SINGAPORE VOLUNTEER COEPS. Bome-40,000 as well as a few among employees of the Calcutta

last. About a her voice remains unimpaired. per unit of production and "with The Australian prima donna has less friction between management been promoted Lieut. Colonel of a total population of approxim celebrated over 25 seasons at and workers. Women are much and acts, temporarily as Com-ately 350,000 nearly 20 per cent. graphists and clerks including 82 Covent Garden alone. Last year, more easily satisfied than men, mandant S. V. C. The resigna- are aliens. People are looking Europeans and Anglo-Indians for her services in organising they will work for a longer period tion of Lieut. Colonel Derrick, 8. to the Peace Conference to show and 15 Indians are reported ab patriotic work in Australia, she of time on smaller wages, they V. A, as Commandant B. V.C. is the way to some satisfactory sent from work while 15 peons cholera. So far there have been Oriental immigration.

three deaths reported. was created a Dame Commander are pliable and submissive to accepted and he is promoted settlement of the problem of are reported to be down with of the British Empire.

Majot, J,. A. R. Glennie has thousand natives of India. Out lelegraph one hundred, tele

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