WATSON'S
STONE GINGER-BEER
The ONLY fermented Stone Ginger-Beer in the Far East.
The real charm of Slone Ginger-Beer is the
produced by partial fermentation ; without this nɔ
Ginger-Beer can be said to be genuine.
flavour
Stone
$1.20 per dozen.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
[SOLDIERS AND EDUCATION.
BY DAY
1895.
THE VIRTUE OF JUSTICE, CON-HONGKONG TWENTY-
FIVE YEAR'S AGO.
The War brought many [SISTS IN MODERATION, AB REQU- changes but it brought faw more|LATED BY WISDOM.-- Aristotle. beneficial than than the inaugur ation of a'sabeina for educational training in the British Army-a|
the Jewish New Year, the local Monday and Tuesday, being Jewish Offices will be closed.
The Gazette publishes scheme which has been extended amendment of the. Cremation since the days of the armiatica Regulations. and which is destined to be of great practical value to the British soldier of to-day and
We bare
been the future fortunate in having an "op- portunity to peruse the latest Government report on this ques-
His Excellency the Governor tion in which the whole subject has appointed Mr. Arthur Dyer is most comprehensively reviewed Ball to be Second Police Magist and explained. How the scheme rate, was inaugurated in a very humble way and what has been accomp lished in the mouths succeeding
SHIPPING NOTES.
(BY "NEPTUNE *
purchase of the wunden: the Australian Government
of
In their monthly report on the what you hear and half of what freight market,; a look) firm statos $300 see, and read" requires
(Compiled from the “Hongkong|that there has been a fair demand revising.
for tonnage to load paddy from Saigon to Panang and for rica
Telegraph" files for weeks ending Sept. 131A, 1895.) THE DOLLAR
Sept. 19th-The rate of the
-1. Dollar, on demand, to-day is 2a.
ST. PATRICK'S CLUB
THE POSTAL SYSTEM.
The following additional firmssistance. the armistice is told in very has been granted a licence to official and matter-of-fact tarms, trade under the Non-Ferrous but it is patent that a soldier's Metal Industry Ordinance, 1917: welfare is a great deal more in -T. Kawashima. the minds of the country's
high ever it was.
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A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. work for the future is out The total output of the Kailan Post Union, is soranged hud temporary refuge for the mum-gaged in rectifying certain minor
full month.
ERATED WATER MANUFATURERS.
Telephone 436.
tons.
carried
PUBLIC COMPETITION.
some new
finished, but this WAX
he
do would
what
from Saigon to Java ai 50 cents - The waterside workers in Aus par pient, but whilst British and tralia recently boycotted the Japanese owners were willing to P. and O. steamara consequent on accept this rate in both directions, the deportation in the P. and Q. charterers quietly filled all their įsisamar Kyber of Father Jerger. Sept. 12th. A very pleasant Shipping Board steamers
requirements by several American The boycott was only withdrawn after the P. and O. Company ex- concert was given in the St.. Patrick's Club, near the Tram terms which no local owners could plained that the Commonwealth Goreramaatrequisitioned Father Station, last evening, in aid of the afford to entertain considering Jerger's passage in the Kybar building fund of the Club, the the heavy disbursements ther without seeking the Company's Variety Company of the Royal have to meet for these trips consent. Artillery rendering most ahfe Although thể võlume of business transacted during last month was somewhat larger than that of the
As an example of how trade Sept. 19th-There cannot be a
proceding one, the rates obtained unionism viadicates itself, an second opinion on the point raised in all instances have been barely interesting story is told of the by our correspondent Mr. Ho sufficient to cover ruaning ox-P. and O. Narkunda, a large mail
Coal Amei, to the affect that unless ajponses.
freights from and passenger staamer. ' The and Hongay continued to afford a Company's contractors were en- lined, the courses of instruction for the week ending 21st August, ities of Hongkong with the Canton erous steamers free in Southern defects in the electric lighting are enumerated and the procedure to be followed for a man who amounted to 94,317 tons and the and Macao authorities poder-waters seeking immediate em and fans which had disclosed wishes to take an Army Educa sales during the period, to 70,189 taking to deliver all letters comployment, and, in addition to this. | Grst voyage, and also in fitting themselves during the vessel'a
tional certificate is indicated. All
ing in and going out of the few rice freights from Saigon to Colony at least quite as quick the Philippines materially helped stewards' quarters which had been
electric light in manner of subjecta can ba taken
and safe Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires (by the serving solider-in fact his
1.9 the It is notified for general in-
Chinese to relieve the acute situation. For built. The work was almost them to forwant their names and addresses with communications army life could be made, apart formation that His Honour the post carriers 38. BI present a time local charterers were finished on July 8 and the addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but a and from actual military training, a Chief Justice bas ordered that
be thought it svidence of their bona fides.
period of study to fit him for the next Criminal Sessions was but fair and desirable that in the market with firm offers steamer was scheduled to leave of 20 cents per picul for *for India and Australia on the 9th All communications intended for publication should be address-much higher calling than is be held on Monday, 20th Septem-ing by Chinese post carriers to very prompt steamer, but as with 650 first and second saloon
the present system of letter carry- ad to the Editor.
generally thought to be the lot of ber, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
ex-service
Macao this could not be secured they passengers. The Company sug and from Canton and град. The opinion of Field Marshal Sir
should not be interfered with, and eventually filled their require gested that the trifling amount of The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 Henry Wilson is quoted in the His Excellency the Governor should be excepted from the ments in Saigon at 14 cents per work which bad to be done bould per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
Report, and he has said First bas appointed Second Lieutenant exclusive privelege of the Post-picul. The highest offer placed be
in this market by Saigon chartar-negatived. The chief engineer The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- of all we bare to weave into the A. J. M. Weyman to be Lieut.master General of Hongkong.
ers was on a lumpsum basis which said tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a life of the soldier education. anant in Command of the Cadet
worked out at about 16 cents per WAS necessary when the Secondly, we have to make a Company. Hongkong Volunteer Sept. 14th.-We understand that The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee profession of arms and bring is Defence Corps, with effect from His Excellency, the Governor has picul. Several Japanese steamers steamer got to sea with the ship's is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies close up to education, to modern the 1st September, 1920, vice determined to open to public sccepted salt in bulk from Tsing-electricans, but as the vessel was delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies thought and to modern science. Lieutenant A. O. Brawo, resigned, competition the preparations of fan to Hongkong at $4.50 per ton sailing, intimation was given that sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. If we have succeeded in doing
designs for the new public buil- The Chinese steamer Yue Ying-if the remaining work was done on board all the vessel's Single Copies, Daily, ton cents.
At the P. W. D. Offices on the dings. We are glad that it is to was fixed locally from Nausha
electricians would be boycotted Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for aflast of the three problemseth instant, Inland Lot 2311 be so, if it is sa. It is great] Bay to Canton at $6.50 per ton-|
on thair return. It does not Axed period will be continued until countermanded.
no de require much imagination to for topoage ол time The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be sailors and airmen hand you back Kennedy Town, is to be sold by pity that he did not take the There is practically belivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Lad.. our men into civil life we will feet and the upses price is 82.120. ning, a great pity that the meat-charter
conjure up the inconvenience and auction. It comprises 3,000 square same view from the very begin-mand
for the coasting discomfort which will follow to hand you back not only good Kowloon Inland Los 1400, Portings of the committee appointed trade. The time charter of the the passengers and also to the soldiers, sailors and airmen, butland Street, is to be sold on the to consider the question some Portuguese steamship Sunts has stewards during the time the will hand you back good citizens.” same date. Its area
is 8,023 time ago were not public, and been extended for 65 days at the vessel is at sea through the non- The present Minister of Education and "others have added their square feet and the upset price is their debates and proceedings reduced rate of $6,000 per month rectification of these defecta
published in the newspapers. by Saigon rice millers.
little thing like this does not eulogies to the scheine and the'
Why cannot the public business
trouble the conscience of the vital need now is for the Gover-
of the Colony, be conducted open-
Trade Unions. iment to provide the necessary Shanghai papers announce the ly and publicly?
money to have the idea put death of Mr. M.C. Clare, MA.. into liberal practice. The Headmaster of the Shangbai danger is that there will Jewish School. Mr. Clare. hadi not be allocated sufficient money been in pour béalth for some time. to realise all the benefits intended. The late Mr. Clare was a graduate but there will without question of Trinity College, Dublin. Prior be many Krealer advantages to his going to Shanghai, Mr. |
s. Telemachus The Hongkong Treasury issued accraing to the soldier who bas Clare was in Macro and in St. the following financial statement Whether the Old Country is to be plunged into the throes of a his eventual return into civil life. was well-known at the Hongkong Balance of Assets
foresigh: enough to prepare for Stephen's College, Hongkong. Hel for the month of May, 1920:- great industrial strike in consequence of the demands of the miners In Hongkong we shall soon bave University and also did work is a question, the answer to which is being awaited with the great soldiers who are students also, during the late est anxiety by Britons the world over. It is clear that in the and we hope that the local alloca- Censor's Office at Hongkong.
in the present unsettled conditions such a development would ameution of money for this purpose TO & disastrous calamity, and. what 13 Dore, it might will be made ample enough to easily lead to an upheaval che consequences of which threaten the whole structure of government. There is some ground for bope in the fact that the finers' leaders are now in touch with A BETTER TRADE POSITION. the Government, and that the latter desires to treat the issue quite fairly is evident from Sir Robert Horne's statement that the Cabine: In spite of all the rumours of a bigbest recorded being 89.6, on will gladly let the Industrial Cours decide concerning the demands coming trade depression at Home the 6th, and the lowest 74.1. on for increased wages, the Court, if the miners so desire, to include one cannot have read the latest the 26th. There were 137.5 hours representatives of the employers and the workers as well. Whether returns issued at Home without of sunshine and 10.97 inches of the Miners Federation will agree to submit the matter to the realising that the Old Country i5 85. The rainfall for the month rain. The average humidity was Industrial Court, however, is doubtful, especially in view of the fact gradually getting back into its that considerable dissatisfaction was caused in labour circles souse peacetime swing of industrial of August at the Botanical Gar time back when the Court decided that no ease had been made out Production. The figures cabled doos was 14.74 inches on 19 days, for a further increase of wages in the engineering and shipbuilding through by
Reater dealing Kellett, it was 8.93 inches on 22 at the Matilda Hospital. Mount trade. When that decision was made known the opinion was freely with the trade fo: July expressed in labour quarters that the Industrial Court method should and August show a marked im- and at the Police Station. be thrown over and a reversion made to the older practice of dealing provemen: oo anything that has Taipo. it was 28.35 inches on 19 direct with employers.
transpired since the days of the days.
Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1920.
TRADE UNION DEMANDS.
would
that we shall have solved the
soldiers and
that when
WA
provide all that is desired.
$1.515.80.
war
The average mean temperature recorded at the Observatory during August was
81.3. the
the CH
17th
OUR FINANCES.
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During the last month there have been a few fixtures from: Saigon to Hongkong. Saigon to
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foreign-
Are officers holding | Manila, Saigon to Pegang, Saigou going or home-trade master's to Cebu and Saigon to Java.[certificate entitled to the rank of Saigon - Hongkong-- The 8.3. captain, when in command of a Pheumpenh (29,000 piculs) and ship? This question has been the
(34,000 agitating the Board of Trade and piculs) at 20 cents per pical. the Imperial 31erchant Service Saigon-Java. A United States Guild. During the war, it will Shipping Board vessel (1,000 to be remembered, masters of |2.000 tons) at 35 cents per picul,mercbant ship were referred to and Liabilities on 30th April, 1920.... $5,583,612.18 and another American steamer in the official London Gazette in (several parcels of rice). For the matter of war honours, ate. 83 Revenue from 1st to
31st May 1920.... 1,358.732.70 the carriage of salt there were captains, and the Guild recently chartered the Ryuyu Marnasked the Board of Trade to 6.952.344.88 (2.000 tons) at yea 6 per ton. regulate the question by obtain- Toshu Maru (1,650 tons) ating an Order-in-Council to toat per ton, the Uafuko effect. After lengthy correspond- 1.101,786.37 $4.50
Maru 11,700 tons) at $4.50 per ence, it has been settled that $5,850,558.51 ton-all from Tsingtau to Hong-masters of the Mercantile Marine kong and the Yas Ying Wa cannot be antboritatively entitled (800 tons) from Nausha Bay to to rank and style themselves as Canton. The 85. Ropara was Captain. chartered for five trips from
Expenditure from 1st to 31st May, 1920,
Balance.
THEATRICALS.
THE NEW BANDMAN COMEDY CO.
Macao to Muntok (500 passeng-
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|ers) at 623 per ton, and the sa Next month twelve more United Prometheus for the carriage of States Shipping Board vessels will coal from Wakamatsu to Hong-be switched an the For (kong at yen 6 a top. The 3. East. The Admiral Line will five. the Pacific As already announced, the Hwah Hing was chartered for a obtain Bandman Comedy Company will full cargo of sugar from Java to Mail Steamship Company five, It seems to us that in all these constantly-recurring labour dis- signing of the armistice. Not
Commence a season
this Colony. The Alings made and the Matson Line two. The here on putes the problem which employers are up against is that of reduc-only 7 there a remarkable The offices of the Supreme Saturday, Sept 18th. The visit of a trip from Haiphong to Batavia vessels assigned to the Admiral ing production costs, and although it is not suggested that high shrinkage in the adverse balance Court will be open daily from 10 the Company will extend to about at 75 cents per picul.
Line are to sail from Seattle to wages cannot be associated with low manufacturing costs, it can be of trade during July but in am to 1 pm. during the Long a fortnight.
Yokohama, and Hongkong. They very definitely asserted that even the present liberal rates of wages August the exports from the Vacation, except on public and The plays to te presented
will carry cargoes and passengers let alone higher rates cannot be justified as long as they are United Kingdom incressed by an general holidays, when the offices during the first week are Saturday, A new Chinese shipping com- from the Atlantic to the Pacific associated with low rates of outpat. There is nothing new in this enormous figure, whilst imports will be entirely closed, and on "Nothing but the Truth," Monday pany, having for its object and on their maiden trips, and the statement, and if it is repeated it is because it is the pirot on which only increased slightly in com- Saturdays, when they will be "The Naughty Wife, Tuesday maintenance of a service between ships will be delivered one *. everything else turns. What employers want, and what we believe parison-a good percentage of open from 10 a.m. to noon, sab-The Voice from the Minaret," China and South America via month. In addition to the fire the sane and honest worker desires, is that the principle of payment that increase being in the desired ject, however, to the provisions of Wednesday "General Post, Panama, is on the eve of being ships consigned to the Admiral by results should be accepted. It is the only sensible plan on which materials. Patting these section 5 of the Supreme Court ThursdayThe Yellow Ticket" established, the company being Line, the latter are applying the industrial problem of to-day can be solved. The old trade facts together they spell greater Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, so Friday Billeted and Saturday promoted by the Chinese mer to the United States Shipping unionism which seeks to reduce every man's effort and incidentally surplus production by British far as it relates to the Criminal Lord Richard in the Pantry chants in Paru and Chile. The Board for more. to pl his wages for that is the ultimate result-to the level of general workmen and the beginning of a Sessions. The Long Vacation Booking plans will be open at name of the new concern will be between Puget Sound and Vladi- inefficiency, will not do in the present year of grace. It only stood renewed growth of Britain's commences on the 20th instant Moutrie's from Monday.
the Chunghus Steamship, Com-rostock. The plans of the Pacific the test in the old days, because the cost of living was low and re- foreign and colonial trede. and terminates
pany. A representative of the Mail Steamship Company are not striction of output was not so regular a feature in industry as it is Nothing could be more desirable October, 1920, (both days inclu-
Company has passed through yet known, but it is expected that to-day. As a Home commentator says, the factory and workshop this juncture, for with the sive).
Hongkong. His mission is to the vessels consigned to this system has got to be reformed root and branch, and if this cannot enormous debts incurred during
purchase three steamers of from steamship company will sail on be done without a conflict that conflict will have to take place. It the war to wipe off Britain must
5,000 to 10,000 tons for bis the same route as the Admiral will be a thousand pities if industrial war is thrust epon the country. needs be a manufacturing and
company.
Line. The prospect for the but it would almost seem as if nothing but a period of unemploy selling nation rather than a con-
would
do incalculable barm
development of trade in the Far ment and an scquaintance with hard times would bring the er saming and buying nation. The just now. For that, if for no other.
East are wonderful, and within tremists to their senses. If trades unionism cannot adapt its policy money we owe has to be earned reason we do sincerely hope that
In a previous budget I stated the next ten years the trafila and constitution to meet the needs of the time it will have to go and there is no other sane way of the present coal crisis arising out Alice Memorial and Affiliated that, from advices sent out by between the United Sates and be replaced by a sounder system of labour organisation.
getting it. That is why of the demands of the miners will Hospitals begs to acknowledge Reuter, the Hongkong Mercantile China and Japan will surpass We saw it stated in one of the Home papers the other day that it Is B0 important that be satisfactorily settled before the with thanks the following Co, Ltd., intended purchasing a our wildest dreams. The oppor exbaustive enquiries made up and down the country showed that a British houses abroad should country has been plunged into donations to the funds of the large fleet of wooden steamers tunities in this part of the world considerable body of the best workers only remain trade uniouiste concentrate in keeping the the vortex of a general strike. Hospitals :
from the Australian Government. are immense, and the American from the fear of unemployment following their withdrawal. abufacturers at Home as busy And Dr. Macnamara's appeal Sir Robert Ho Tang ... $100 Whether that is so or not, it is impossible for us, so far away as we as they can, and that is why we to the employers to provide Mr. Li Ping are from the centre of things, to ascertain. But we can well sppealed a few nights ago for the employment for ex-service men Fruit & Vegetzele Dez- imagine that the saner workmen must realise that there is a limit concentrated co-operation of all should do much to relieve any lers' Guild to the concession of demands for more wages, and if the trade union British concerns in this British growingly difficult situation in Tang Man Tin movement is being directed by men who would paralyse industry Colony. When it is possible to that respect. The manner in Tang Man Chin and cause unemployment on a vast scale, then there might easily Home it should be bought from absorbed over five million workers Choy Wsi Yau.
buy needed marchandise from which British industry has Choy Yat Ho come a revolt on the part of a large body of workers who are pre there and not from another is little short of marvellous and Wo Fat Shing pared to give and take in a square deal with employers. Goodness. knows that all classes of labour have immensely battered their country. The Home demand' is the only way to avoid an acute Kan Ue Fong Theatre position since the war, even allowing for the increased cost of living. dying down and manufacturers industrial position is for the work Wo Ping Theats -- Bat the agitators appear to think that they can go on demanding are in a much better position shops of England to be kept busy. Hon. Mz/Lan Cha Pak and getting mors on infinitum evidently forgetting, in their to ship goods than they were Britishers the world over an Mr.Lal Kwai Fui, selfishness, the fact that every fresh concession adds to the burdena little while back. Unemploy-help do that and it should be their Rudolf Wolff & Kaw
[Kr. C. E. Wi Köy for somebody else, and, in the long run, for themselves as well
industrial disputes prime sim
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The Times Trade Supplement steamship companies are making published an interview which the most of them. Mr. Bishop, the Sydney Manager
of the Hongkong Mercantile
Company, is supposed to "have For the first quarter of this given the Times" correspondent, year, 899 ships pamed through in which # was stated that the Buez Cansi, of 3,911,922 canal - the Company had made arrange toni, of which the British were ments, to purchase, the fleet, of the largest, with 542 ships, and |wooden ships that the Com-2,504,502 tons. It is a siguiforni monwealth possessed. This, I sign of the times, that the learn from the Hongkong | Tapačase came next with 92 slipe Mercantile Company, in not at of a tronage of 333,577, the Dutch | all correct -- Thare :18, 10 inten: following with 6ỡ shice of 282171
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