1921-02-11 — Page 12

THE COLONY IN- EARLIER DAYS.

(ontinued from Page. 6.) The vecordingly did so, and all the officere, engineers, and other Europeans wore confined in the ato-room, watched by a guard with drawn cutlasses,

POST OFFICE,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Telegraphic, communication with Gap Rock Lightliguse is jiuterrupted.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1921.

HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

ENTERTAINMEN

THE CORONE

TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15

EXCHANGE:

[Opening Rate: closing Rate

on Page 11

SELLING.

21514

2/556

2/534

2/574

2/6

OPERATING.

T/T Singapore..

Nom. 106

T/T Japan

T/T India...

Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the TT

Demand time given below unless other- wise stated, and where mails are 30 da One of advertised to olose at or before 60 d/s the passengers, a man named 9 a.m. registered and parcel mails/s Petersen, a lighthouse-keeper in are closed at 5 p.m. on the pre- Chinese Customs servico, "being vious day.

unwell and on deck when the

FfT Shanghai

tirat rush was made by the

pirates, was one of the first!

victims, four bullet wounds being

INWARD MAILS.

found in the head of the dead man. Saigon --PEI HO, 12th Feb. How systematically the attack Manila and Australia

had been planned was seen in the

VICTORIA, 12th Feb.

97 17344 Demand, India 17334 T/T San Francisco)

48

fact that the pirates were able Shaghai--For DUNERA. 13th Demand, Paris... to st once secure charge of the Feb.

& New York.f ET Java .... Porr Marks f/T France

135

Nom

6.70

BUYING.

2/234 21734 2/8

2/914

nip. They compelled the fire-Japan-Per TAKADA, 13th Feb, ma to take charge of the London 13th Jan.) Por erines, while the crew wore ALPS MARU, 13th Feb. nde to carry out such work as Shanghai-Per TIENTSIN 14th pirates wished done. Of Straits-Por TAIAN M. 14th Feb. three native quartermasters one Manila, Australia and. Now was hit by a bullet and thrown

Zealand-Per TANGO M. overboard, the other two being

14th Feb. ale seriously wounded, while Japan-Per TSUSHIMA M. two Chinese cooks were also

14th Feb. fired at.

Japan--Per KANOWNA. 14th

Fob. Japan-Per AKI MARU,

Feb.

THE PASSENGERS-PROPERTY RANSACKED.

The ship was takon out to

soine distance

sea

and the pirstes applied themsel- ves to the work of looting. There

14th

OUTWARD MAILS.

To-morrow.

9 a.m.

Was sasure on board in the Fort Bayard-Per SHUNSHING, way of cargo, so the pirates ransacked all the luggage, oblain-Japan-er YATSHING. 5 p.m. ing seperty to the value of some

Swatow-Per CHUNG HING, $55,006, which was transferred to sixka. These had evidently

اد

on

waiting by arrangement. After regaling themselves with a the Namoa's deck, pirates made preparations having the vessel. The ship's lights wore thrown over- And, the firemen were ordered

raw the fires and open the alty-valve so as to blow off the strain, the windlass was disabled,! andrinerally everything was de that could dolay the ship in goti NWAY. Before quitting the ship the pirates throw containing $200 engine-room 30 Q enshaw" to the firemen. THFRYTES' EXPLANATION,

A while after the pirates had gothe officers got out of

êt inte

the

le room and the ship was readiness as quickly

the

1

asy

kon

४

for returning to Hong

abe, arrived at next morning. The

Y ro

NAWS

caused the

5 p.m. Hoihow-Per YUE YING WA

5 p.m. Shanghai, North China & Japan

vis Koho-Per ARRATOON APCAR, 9 a.m. Philippine Islands-Per YUEN

SANO, p.m. Philippine Is., Straits, Bangkok

4 m/s. L/C 4 m/s. D/P 6 m/s. L/O 30 dfs. Sydney and

Melbourne ..$ 30 d/s, San Francis-15014

co & New York

4 m/s. Marks

4 m/s, France

6 m/s. Franes....

Demand, Germany.

Nom.

7.30

7,50

Demand. New York 48% TIT Bombay ... Nom. Damand, Bombay... 1734 T/T Calcutta

Demand, Calcutta

Nom. 17334 97 10816

On Yokohama...... Demand, Singapore. 106 Demand, Manila

On Haiphong ... On Saigon On Bangkok Sovereign

Nom,

8516 Nom, 7.85

Gold leaf per Tael... 50 Bar Silver, ready... 36

forward

3434 Bank of England rates 7% New York/London ... 3.8834

SUBSIDIARY COINS. *Egypt & *Europe via L. ---Per KNIGHT TEM- PLAR, 11 a.m.

H'kong 50 ots. pieces 1/10% dia. 3watow,* Amoy and Takan--

1/5% dis. Per SOSHU M., 9 a.m.

1/5% dis. 19.2% dia.) Bangkok-Per KANCHOW. 2 Canton subcoins

Hongkong Feb. 11, 1921.

p.m.

Shanghai & North China-Per

YING CHOW, 3 p.m. watow, Amoy and Foochow~-~-

Per HAIHONG, I. p.m. Philippine Is., "Shanghai, N.

China, Japan via Canada, *United States, *Central &

10. 5

WEATHER REPORT.

over

*8. America & *Europa Feb. 1ld. 18b, 11m.-Pressure via Victoria--Per SUWA M.,has increased moderatoly Reg. 8.45 a.m. Letters 9.30 8.W. China and slightly over Luzon. It has decreased moder- ately from Weihaiwei to central Japan.

a.m.

nsternation, and im-Swatow,

ly the authorities were on

Sunday, 13th Febr.

Aroy and Keelung -Per AMAKUSA M., 9 a.m.

Per KAIFONG, 8 a.m. Monday, 14th Feb. Shanghai and N. China-Per

TJILIWONG, 11a.m. Java Port via Batavia-Per

HAIYANG, 11 a.m.

The anticyclone has passed into

ed over China.

The monsoon will freshen along the east coast of China and over the N. China Sea.

the Navy doing what it Pakboi, Pakhoi & Haiphong-the Pacific, and another has form- and the Chinese authorities |

stified of the occurrence. December 12 one of the 2 rminsters, a Malay, died in it, making four deaths. In meantime. the police had erred with their inquiries dw arrests wore made, but Buy ames insufficient evidence.

"

Chinese authorities, how- id hold of a batch of the strators, and on April 17, 1897. thera WAS a wholesale tion at Kowloon City, when 'zon pirates, thirteen of them

Tuesday, 15th Feb. Straits *Bangkok & Calcutta-

Per KWAISANG, 1 p.n. Philippine 1-Per TAMING,

2 rum.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24) hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.00 inch. Total since January 1st, 1.23 inches, against an average of 2.09 inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS

Swatow Amoy & Takao-Per ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

SOSHU M., 9 a.m.

swatow & Bangkok-Per

LUCHOW, 8 a.m.

p.m.

en rned in the Namoa con-Tion Tein Per-KWANGSE, 3 spicy, were decapitated. A few werks Inter &

further group suffered the same fate. Thus was expirated & crime reminiscent of the conditions prevailing when Britishers took possession of the island.

}

WITHOUT PREJUDICE.

A woman, who was sued by another woman at Southwark County Court-I don't want! your piano. It has always boon: a rope round my neck.

Willesden witness with two black eyes gave his name as Basham.

"I will tell nothing about the truth."A woman taking the oath at Bow County Court.

A judgment del tor wrote to the Shoreditch County Court that he was suffering from "bronchitis, asthma, heart disease, and im- pecuniosity."

A cyclist at Kingston-I had no guilty knowledge that the lampas out.

A solicitor at Westminster County Court-It should be re- unembered that my client is a for- eigner. Judge Sir Alfred Tobin-- My experience is that foreigners are quite as outo as English people.

Mr. Thomas Lumsden, for Seventeen years general relieving officer for the Ieda area, states that in his experience 30 ner cent. the runaway husbands have Adamcar conductor at Strat- ea was not properly drunk. A twistrate-What is "groperty When

Swatow, Shanghai & N. China -Per TIEN TSIN,5 p.m. Straite, Bangkok, Ceylon,

Mauritius, L. Marques, 8. Africa, India via Dhan ushkodi, and Bombay-Per DUNERA, 11 a.m. Amoy, & Shanghai, & N. China!

-Per SHANTUNG, 11 a.m. Japan-Per TANGO M., 10 a.m. Honolulu and Sau Japan,

Francisco-Per KEIYO M., 11 a.m.

District.

Forecast.

N.È. & N.

1 Hongkong to Gap winds.

Rock

moderate

to fresh;

fine, colder.

2 Formosa Channel N.E. winds

strong.

3 South coast of)

China between

H.K. & Lamooks.)

The saine

as No. 1.

4 South coast of The same

China between

H.K. & Hainan. J

Philippine, Australia, & New! Zealand via Thursday Is.

Per AKI M., Reg. 8.45 a.m.9.K. Letters 9.30 a.m.

Wednesday, 16th Feb.

watow, Amoy & Foochow-Per

HAILOONG, 11 a.m.

as No. 1.

T. F. CLAXTON,-Director.

Observatory, Feb. 11, 1921.

TIME SIGNALS.

The time ball on Kowloon Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10

Philippine Islands, Sandakan, a.m. and 4 p., except on Batür-

Australia & New Zealand via Thursday Is. Per CHANG. THA, Reg. 12.45 p.m. Letters 1.30 p.m. Swatow, Straits & Bangkok

Per LINAN, 9 a.m.

Sunday 20th Feb. Shanghai, North China & Japan

Per BADO M., 9 am, Wednesday, 23rd Feb. Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, L. Marques, S. Africa, India via Dhanush kodi, Egypt, & Europe via Marseilles Per. YOKO HAMA M. Reg, 8.45 a.. Lettera 9.30 a..

Thursday, 24th Feb.

days when it is dropped at 10 8.m. and 1 p.m., and on Sundays and Holidays when it is dropped at 10 a.m. only.

The ball is hoisted half mast at the 55th minute and full mast at the 57th minute. Should the ball

fail to drop at the correct time, it. will be lowered at five minutes past the hour and the ordinary routine repeated at the following hour, if possible.

Should the time ball. be out of order the areve routine will be sarried out with the flag “Z”, on the atorm signal mast.

Time signals are also given at night by means of three white straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, lamps mounted vertically on the Observatory wireless mast. From Mauritius, L. Marques, S. Africs, India via Dhanush-ah. 36m. 0 to 95. Om. Om. p.m. kodi Egypt & Europe vis the impa are extinguished Marseilles Per YOKOH momentarily at the even seconds AMA MARU, Reg. 8.45 am, except at the 2nd, 28th 30th

52nd, and 54th of each minute Letters 9.30 8.m.

The hours, refer to Hongkong "Correepor.dence Bearing vessel's Standard Time (8 hours of day:

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Previous

Day

on date.

on date.

H'phreys. Kat. K'loon Lands

L. Reclamations 8. West Pointe

Ewas

Cotton Mills.

Kuog Tiks

Lau Kung Mows b Orientals

S'hai Cottons Yangtzepoos

Miscellaneou Cemente pen.

Do, Light old b China Light new Chios Provident

at 2 p.m. a. at p. Dairy Farms Dat Barometer 30.01 30.06 30.44 Bleotrios H.K b Temperature... 62 37 45 Beatos Macao

6257 65 Electrics

Wind Direction E. B.F.E, WNW HK Tramways"b. Wind Force 111 | Past Irama, old b.

Rain................. 0.00 0.00 0.00 Sesam Highest open in ST Fou

Temperature on the 10th 63 Water

TS Temperature on the 11th 67 Wm. Powell.

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