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OLD BROWN BRANDY

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PEG O MY HEART

THE HONGKONG FELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

"Extrality"

SATURDAY, MAY 14; 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

ECONOMY DOES NOT CONSIST

the Sino-German Treaty has been ECONOMY WHERE THERE IS NO At present only an outline of IN THE RECKLESS REDUCTION OF ESTIMATES. THERE CAN BE NO published. The outstanding EFFICIENCY.Beaconsfield.

foature of it is the surrender of extra-territoriality. This is a vivid example of the changes

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Mr. T. W. Ainsworth has been Colonial Assistant wrought by the whirligig of time. appointed

In November 1897 a German Treasurer and Assistant Assessor naval aquadroon seized Kiao- of Rates, in addition to his other; Chau and compelled China to duties. grant a valuable concession, while ✡ fow

years later Mr. R.A.C. North has been tho Kaiser's nominee, Count appointed District Officer in the Waldersee, headed the march Southern District of the New of the combined Western armies Torritories, during the absence of upon the capital. Now Germany Mr. E. W. Hamilton on leave. reopens her relations with China

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1896.

HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO

(Cumpiled from the "Ifongkong Telegraph" files for week- ending May 22nd, 1890.)

THE DOLLAR.

HONGKONG'S DEATH RATE.

"A Grotesque Statement" Explained.

HONGKONG TRADE.

Fortnightly Report. The fortnightly price current and market report of the Hong- of Commerce, kong Chambor states :-

The cable which arrived in Hongkong on Thursday, telling how Mrs. Neville Rolf, a member complications between Kwang- Cotton yarn.-Fresh political of the National Council on Vener-tung and Kwangsi have caused a onl Diseases who visited Hong cessation of further buying orders

May 15th. The rate of the Kong with the Mission to the Far and the market has ruled quiet. East, was never so ashamed of Chinese are selling their holdings Dollar, on demand, to-day is being an English-woman as she at about $3 under laat ruling rates. | 2a. 2-1/4d.

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Woollons. Although there is no businees passing there is a better tone in the Market,

of Indian Cotton chauged hands

Raw Cottons-About 200 bales

Metals. Quiet, with no enquiry except at below home prices. Locally prices are lower for Nails and Steel Bars,

was whilst here, has aroused

of a doal

public feeling. V.R.C. ANNUAL MEETING.

Mrs. Rolf Ias stated May 16th. The annual meet-· ing of members of the Victorie infant death rate of Hongkong is at home that the rogistared Recreation Club was held in the eight hundred higher than the gymnasium of the Club-house birth rate, despite British occupare steady to firm as follows:- at $224/2314 per picul. Values on a footing that might almost be

yesterday afternoon. Comman- Mr.T. M. Hazlerigg has been der W.CH. Hastings presided this statement casts a serious picul, Chinose descriptions $24/32

ation for eighty years, and, as called that of a suppliant. While

Indian descriptions $21/24 per this prosents a dramatic reversal appointed to act as Assistant over a large attendance.

Land Officer in addition to his

Ireflection on the work of the of positions, it carries a

SANITARY BOARD REFORM. Sanitary and medical Depart per picul. significance that will no doubt he other duties, during the absence

nients, it has called forth an May 18th.We note, with a realisod by the commercial com-jon leave of Mr. Fhilip Jacks.

protoet from munity. The sacrifice of such a

the considerable amount of gratifica indignant valued privilege is eloquent of are asked to announce tion, the result of the ballot taken Secretary for Chinese affairs.

"The allegation regarding the | Germany's efforts to get a share that the Musicale arranged for on Friday and Saturday last to somehow in the hugo indus- Wednesday, 18th May, at the ascertain the opinion of the British Abral infant mortality rate of Hongkong is simply idotic" trial expansion that Germany Holona May Institute, has been residents in the Colony on the declared Mr. S. B. C. Ross, to a

expected to witness in postponed till Thursday. 19th moot point in connection with the

Numerous May, at 5.15 p.r. This will be Sanitary Board now under the crop represent signs of Gorman activity have the last concert of the winter considerations of the Governmentative. This deaths may have nirendy bean forthcoming. The session--di,

and we sincerely hope that His Ex-been of people not belonging to surrender of extra-territorial

cellency thefiovernor will, without Hongkong but they have been vote and to the instructions of their remains dumped in the the Secretary of State, and, in ad-streets; in

in the coming years..

We

(AS, WATSON & CO., LTD., rights is a matter of importance In the Government Gazelle delay give effect to the popular reported through the discovery of

HONGKONG.

Death.

FIGUEIREDO.--At Shanghai, May 13th, Francisco Xavier do Figueiredo, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo J. do Figueiredo, of Messrs, Hughes and Hough, Hongkong, aged 15 years. Deeply regretted. (By cable.)

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1921.

to other nations now that China issued

abolition.

yesterday aro given

neither 1.

nor

Government

with

abo

many cases in an

doath has to bo

Flour Market Report, Stock:

American Patent $4.75 per sack American Cut off $3.10 per sack American Strnight $2 90 per sack Shanghai Flour 2nd $290.

About 200,000 sacks. Quotation

CHEAPER MILK. "Milk will be sold much

is stirring herself to secure further regulations issued by the

At pressut Germans Governor-in-Council, under, the dition to withdrawing the Big advanced state of decomposition. cheaper in towns this summer

now before the Legislative Every will probably not be deeply Stamp Ordinance, the Wireless Council, take steps to fill up the reported and registered--it is our than last year."-Mr. T, F affected by their difforont status, Telegraphy Ordinance, the Li-

at a Chester dairy conference. seeing that most of them are quors Consolidation Ordinance, vacancies on the Sanitary Board duty and that of the Sanitary Burgess, wholesale milk dealer,

Department to do that. No dead and so restore it to its prostine

bodies are left unburied likely to be found in the Treaty and the Tobacco Ordinance.

strength and vigour. At the Ports, where they will have the

present moment it is neither fin, infant mortality you have to take then comes in as a necessary but in order to judge the rate of His Excellency the Governor flesh, fowl, nor good red herring into consideration the number of measure. Thus it is that whilst protection afforded by the Mixed Courts. The surrender, however,

been pleased, eor stitutes a sort of precedent, has

under in- It is

births, It is at this point where there may be a fairly accurate which will lend encouragement to structions from the Secretary of Department

B popular Mre. Rolf commits a gross record of male birthe, numorous China in her efforts for abolition. State for the Colonies, to re-assembly. It can neither debate mistake. She did

Verne Glenn with freedom not act

not pay instances of female births go which, it is said, she is planning cognise Messrs.

heed to the peculiar conditions unrecorded. Therefore the to bring before the League of Staten and Hugh St. Elmo Miller independence.

that obtain here. You cannot figures obtained in regard to Nations. There από signs as Vice-Consuls of the United

NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.

get the Chinese to under- births, falling as they do far short cnough, though, that the ill-con-States of America in Hongkong.

that it is

ав just May 18th.The solidated Republic is yet a long

new Chiefstand

of the actual number, do not give way from having established a It is notified that all architects, Justice (Dr. Carrington) took his necessary to register the birth of the Colony's correct birth rate. competent and impartial judiciary barristers, dentists (whether re-seat in the Supreme Court to-day a female child as well as a male Undor these exceptional cirum of its own. witness the treatment gistered as dental surgeons or sessions of this month, and the is very important to register the form a just comparison between at the opening of the criminal child. They do not think that it stancos it would be impossible to of Russian subjecte and property, exempted persons), medical

of birth's and which has impulled Moscow, practitioners,

pharmaceutical Attorney-General on behalf of birth of a girl. When she grows the number

is given in deaths. Any attempt to do so despite the Soviet's anxiety for chemists and solicitors can obtain the Bar and the members of the up a trade agreement, to stipulate for their cortificatos to practice at the other branch of the legal pro-marriage, and the matter ends would certainly show an undue fession, welcomed hun to the there. But with a male child preponderance of deaths over certain safeguards..

Stamp Office on payment of $25.

differout Colony and congratulated him on

from births. No one who is acquainted his appointment in succession to their point of view. The parents with the real facts, will pay The Chinese, who was charged the three able men who had think they might have use for the slightest attention to the We have heard a very great deal about Constitutional

A curious caso occurred re-with the theft of $1,000 worth of preceded him on the Bench and British nationality cortificato, grotesque statement uttered by

at Bow Reform this week. Tacked to the question of house cently

Street Lon-imitation pearls from a Japanese, whose equal he will undoubtedly for their son, and registration Mrs. Rolf". chief Police Court was this morning sentenced to rates, it has been given a prominent place, and the speeches don's

prove to be if his past career. is delivered at the Theatre Royal went over the old ground in when a lady teacher of music six months hard labour at the any clue to his future. the same old way. We heard of loyalty and patriotism was charged with registering Magistracy. The Manager of and the just claim we of this colony have of being franan institution in a false name. It the Sun Company informed the

appeared that the name used was] Court that he had previously dis- May 20th. The progress with chised as our brothers are at Home: we were told that our the defondant's maiden name, missed defendant for a breach of the Praya Reclamation works Legislative Council is but a municipal affair that unofficial which she stated she had used the Company's regulations.

is hideously slow. It is seven since the ordinance representatives are capable of running and we were even professionally and socially for

A cordial invitation is extended empowering the Government to contrasted with om fortunate brethren in Ceylon and the several years of account of hor Straits Settlements. A public petition is to be sent Home husband's ill-repute. The Magis- the public to visit and inspect the commenco the Reclamation was trate, holding that continuous new Trans-Pacific Liner operated passed into law and six years to the Imperial House of Commons appealing to members asage justified the defendant, by the Admiral Line for the since the actual commencement. to rid us from the intolerable thralktom of beaurocracy. It dismissed tho charge. Additional United States Shipping Board, the Mr. Chater fixed five years as the all sounds very nice and very "popular" very democratic interest attaches to the case ins.s. Wenatchee. The vessel will limit of time within which the

view of the New Woman's alleged be open for inspection on Monday whole of the indeed. But let us make quite sure we realise what we are demand that she be entitled to afternoon between the hours of should be carried out, and now doing and just where we would land were this idealistic retain her maiden name. In the three and six and for the con- at the end of six years not more freedom given us. There was a fair amount of talk fact, lease quoted the defendant had a venience of the public launches than one-third of the work is so

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.

Marital Nomenclature.

Years

TOO SLOW.

about principles. bat we ought in these days of hardparticular reason for not using will leave Blake Pier at short far completed

her husband's narne. The intervals.

to be much more concerned with "practice."

Magistrate, however, apparently The art of good government and public ádministration daw, in effect, the generol

can,

screened.

proposed works

COMPANY REPORT.

Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.

the

it is

very

Between Ourselves

By Rabt. MacWhirter.

lies in the ability of men to come to their task in an proposition that a woman The main attraction at the absolutely disinterested spirit, in their being able to view by usage, acquire a name other Hongkong Theatre over the week-

The other day the professor whose daily task it is to fix up the a problem unhampered by personal considerations and free, than her husband's. Change of end is the appearance of Carlos"

column on my right but two, was moved to wind up his somewhat to a large extent, from the operation of their own decisions.name can be effected by Royal and his talented company in a newspaper happy mixture of varieties, which

facetious remarks anent Consular Buildings in the Far East by In other words, the most efficient and beneficial direction licence, deed-poll,

announcement, or simply

acrobatics, juggling, by include

asking everybody in general and, nobody in particular as to when can be given by trained experts to whom the performance usage, but it is a matter for dancing, Roman rings, and head-

The twenty-eighth annual report was the Shameen devastated by sovers floods.”

That rather got me going for a bit, for, or course, my memory's Officials of that surprise to hear that this applies balancing, the latter being one of of duty is just that and nothing more

no' what it used to be, but somehow for the next day or two that kind are free to shape policies and pursue courses nearer to any married woman without the most hazardous feats seen in of The Mercantile Bank of India,

The Directors submit to the query kept shuttling through the old bean topside. It was only the ideal than could be framed by those to whom her union having been dissolved. Flongkang for a long time. Ind., to the shareholders states:

Of course, there was the case of addition to this special feature a We in Hongkong the

ebareholdere of Baak the when I saw Queen's Road partially flooded the other day that the legislation means cither profit or loss.

recently-deceased Mrs. five-part comedy-drama entitled

Men wading-boats in the must be honest to ourselves in all this and must put Anderson (Miss Mary Macarthur), The Thing We love" is being general balance sheet and state- mental process was accelerated.

ment of profit and loss account street photographs-Mee Cheong. There ye are, Felmanism, away ranting gallery-play in favour of realism. Hongkong who may have continued the use

for the year ending 81st December, Lesson I, cumsha, an unsolicited testimonial but please don't use is the home of strong vested interests, of sharply distinct of lor maiden name because she

At the Police Court this

The net profit for the year, after! So I saw old man Mee Cheong and sought his assistanco. Yea, communities--a Colony wherein the "grinding of axes

her marriago. Formerly it was morning a Chinese member of providing for bal and doubtful he minded fine, July 1915, floods on the Shameen. Plenty water, is by no means unknown, and one cannot view with any the custom for wives to do this: the crew of H. M. gunboat debts, and including 90,430. 28. yes, of course. thing but apprehension a movement that has as its object we have read somewhere that Moorhen

was charged with 24. brought forward from last

Have got photographs ?" for I know that journalists are the giving of power to men drawn from private interests, Sir J. M. Barrie's mother, away the attempt smuggle 730 account, amount to £368,688, 75. sceptical animals. No, but he had the plates and he sent a bundle of raw opium, Id. From this sum has to be de- round the next day. If Mee Cheong had been in business at the no matter how disinterested those who sponsor that move-in the Highlands, where the pounds

the ship for that ducted £60,000, being the interim time of the original fload, I believe he'd be able to give ye a picture ment might be. If our present Governinent is sometimes custom survived longest, used using

her maiden name of Ogilvy; purpose. A. B. James Finlay a dividend of 8 per cent., less in. of the launching of the Ark wi' a soap of Noah at the wheel thrown slow to act it has the merit of being just-it is competent but under modern conditions the sailor gave evidence of the cume tax, on the "A" and "B" in for the picture supplement. And he's got a memory only surpass- if conservative and it is free of all those objectionable practice would be inconvenient, discovery of the opium when the shares puid in September last, ed by Whitaker's Almanac and other such like useful publications.

defendant came abroad the gun- abuses that creep into "democratie" administrations.

The Directors have transferred So there ye are Joe; topside picture Shameon under water, July bost at Wuchow with the opium £50,000 to the reserve fund from 1915 and the bottom one a section of the Canton Bund like Iser · concealed amongst some articles the profits and added £800,000 rolling rapidly. Seeing's believing, eh?

had become well known before)

to say the least.

"Boy Emperor" Wife-

Hunting.

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to

1920.

my name.

We join with our reformers in wanting non-Chinese unofficials elected, we would deny the Chamber of Com- merce the privilege of a special representative seeing that

The young ex-Emperor, Hsun its interests are common to our own--the efficient adminis- tration of the Colony; we would have those unofficials sit-Teing, having reached the mature ting on our Council and expressing known public opinion age of sixteen, the Manchu Princes

are reported to be considering the in respect of his daughter with a off freehold banking premises. They anteing up for the damage sustained. But you will also remember for the guidance of our law makers; but we see in the marriage question. It is stated view to a monarchical restoration, now recommend a final dividend that from 1915 onwards there was a certain liveliness in Europe demand for an unofficial majority a danger for out-weigh that "at least threo girls between So far nothing has crystallised on the "A," "B" and "C" shares which, in official language, precluded His Majesty's Government ing any benefits that would accrue. We are sceptical of the ages of fifteen and eightoon in regard to these schemes. The of 6 per cent, lese income tax from incurring ony but absolutely necessary expenditure in between the ability of private interests to handle our public pro-are required one as wife and two scion of the Ching dynasty longe (making 16 per cent, for the year band. blems and we are certainly dubious as to their fitness to peror's" relatives, who have had the West, he will now has 8 per cent. for the half-year lat as concubines." The "Boy Em- to see the outer world, including on the "A" and "B" shares and hold the balance between the various claims of this the regulating of the youthful been kept within leading-strings July to 81st December on the **C** abares) leaving a balance of £127, cosmopolitan community. Our unofficials already sit in a Houn Tung's affairs, evidently He has obtained concessions s0 majority on our Public Works and Finance Committees, desire to preserve the ancient rule far as to have secured appliances 638. 78. 1d. to be carried forward.

about the bride's social status, from the Occident, among them a

The following Directure retire by and they are free to make in Council the speeches they but the ex-monarch, it appears, typewriter, to ocupy him in his rotation, but, being eligible. offer now make outside. All that we would give them in addi-bas "an eye only for girls of the quasi-Imperial seclusion. As he themselves for re-election :-Lord tion to that is the right to speak on thepublic's behalf-not common people.

At one time shows a disposition to kick over Carmichael, Mr H. M. Simoos.

It will be necessary to appoint the voice of privilege which they possess at present. We and another it has been rumoured the traces regarding matrimonial

that President Hea's daughter arrangemonts, we trust that those who sign the petition will have weighed would be the ex-Emperor's wife, whether his ex-Majesty

Auditors. Mesers. Cooper Brothers & Co. and Messrs. W. A. Browne well the import of their action. Democracy is a fine and that Chang Teo-lin, the Man- shaken off the close attentions of & Co., the retiring Auditors, offer sounding word, but-

churian warlord, hada like design uncles and aunts.

themselves for re election.

of luggage. The case was proceed-premium on the new "C" shares Having admitted so much. I think you'll also agree that so ing, as We went to press issued (raising the fund to £1,100, much liquid squishing around is not good for ony building-

000); added £15,000) to the officers' Consular or otherwise. What probably got you off the rails a bit pension fund and written £20,000 was the fact that so long a time had elapsed since the flood and the

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