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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1901.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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A LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Straits-Chinese British Association.
The second general meeting of the Members of chonboro Association was held on the 28th August, when there was a large altendance, Seah Liang Seah occupying the chair. The report of the Chimmittee was read and unanimously adoptol. The only change in the list of Office-bearers was that uf MTan Cheng Tuan, clented to succeed Mr Tau Chay Yan, who resigned his place on the Committee last November.
Andre'a Fito..
The lapas of three years which André,
who started for the North Pole in a balloon, fixed as the extreme limit of his return, bas revived interest in his fits. A Norwegian captain of mich Arctic experimco has theory which is interesting. He says it is a fact, which is probably familiar to all
· explorers, when the slightest
Arcidity of the atmosphere naste mud buil
of vessels are coated thickly with ico. When André varzed wet snow` `was falling and the balloon would soon be coated with. Its buoyancy would be overweighted
The
& New York despatch dated 28th July
agitation set on foot by the Navy League regard
The first hatile in the British naval At the meeting of the Sanitary Bosed ing the unreadiness of the
nouvres took place on the 29th ult.. yesterday, De Clark moved that Inspector Mediteranean fleet and when the cruiser sousdrons of the opposing . T. Cutton to authorised by the Board to other shortcomings of the Admiralty ects were engaged of the Sally Lelande, institute prosecutions in asses of contraven which are subject of considerable comp" with the theoretien result that the defend- tion of the provisions of the Fuplic Health ment in Hou journals, it must being fleet was annihilated and the English Ordinance. Mr Chatham seconded, and admitted, we think, that the Navy Channel loft at the mercy of the enemy. the motion was agreed to. League has por forward a very strong. Eighteen cruiserawers supposed to bo sunk.
The Equitable in Japan. KONGKONI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1901. case: and, so far, the answer of the
Government has been confession and Shanghai Cricket.
The Equitablo Life Assurance Com In a cricket match at Shanghaibetween pany of America established an agency at -promises of amendment. In no single
the A, Company, S.V.C.. and the Kyoto some time ago, and started canvass case has the First Lord of the Admir- The public will welcome alty succeeded in refuting tlie statement Royal Horse Artillery. the fanners had an ing for business. The Japanese assurance Du atarson's the opening statement of fiets put forward. The course fol. unpleasant experienes. The Volunteers companies, mys the desk, regard the went in first and put together 153 for the Equitable ass fortuidable competitor, and made by Dr J. M. AL-lowed by the Navy Langue was render loss of three wickets (G. F. Lansing 64, a proposal to adopt mures for defence CAMPAIGN.kinson at yesterday's od necessary by the statenient of Lord S. Horison $2 not out, T. II. Lanning, against the foreign company has been sub
inveting of the Sanitary Salisbury,ou the 19th of May, 1900, on, 0. Camming 17 not out, H. Emitted to the Konwaksi, an association Board. Like him, we consider the when he said The defence of the cour Campoll 13). The Artillery scored 68-formed by the insurance business mee. A Principal Civil Medical Ostiense shoni try is not the business of the War 4. F. Lanning opturing 5 wickets for 32 committo kes boon appointed to investigate always be the President of the Sanitary Office or of the Government but the ruos and V. H. Lanaing 3 wickets for 23. the measures Beard, if that eminently unsatisfactory business of the peopls themselves;' and { semi-pale boy is to include udicial in the face of this statenent a fault Live Shell in a Furnace.
The Tientsin correspondent, of the At peaterday's meeting of the Smi-ico. representatives in its membership, Af can be found with any body of titizens for the unseemly recriminations and who agitate for the reform of known & Dully News writes: Death in the tary Board, it was insisted that the and it could not romaine long sinft. HONEST LIQUORS obtuse olicial opposition to public de and admitted evils. Must people who lot has now beca rialled with a shell in Government had approved the proction of wind would carry it in the direction of The 3.8 Peito had this two urinals, and near the Canton and Franz Josef Land. betwem which a mamis, it is refreshing to read a state- have studied the fiascoes of the Coschen the furnace." ment ke Dr Atkinson's, and we can administration are of opinion that the experience the other day, tha lire, Macao Stesiaboat Wharf and ous nearthe Novn Zembla it would probably fall into only express the hop, as a mouthpiece time has come to and the connection/she exploded in hes furnace. It is said to old Nam Pat Hong Pior, Dr Clark, pur ho sea. This captain asys that the wreck have found its way there in the capacity of suant to notice, moved :-That the Board ultimately may be found on one or other of sinuseout half dumb-beli, from which it recommend the Government to erect a these coasts. of the public, that his plan of campaign between politics and the Navy. Ap- will not only be carried out in its exparently Parliament cates nos a jet was expedient to burn out the stamp of a public latrine-(u) On the south sido vi a 12, Garey`a Road. | tirety but that it will be efficacious in about the Navy, for it allowed a 'block piece of wood. If au enterprising literary lane between Inland Lot No.-852 and the Race from New York to Tokohama.
its results. As be says, the peculiaring motion to be put op the notice man were to write the life latory of shells .compound of 3 Pelice Station-forty seats, geographical position of Hongkong, the paper which has blocked the discussion--in North China in the last year he could (b) On the south side of a cross strect to says:The big British bark Brilliant, the daily toveinest in the native popul; on the whole Naval question so much-produce re starting stories than ever the west of the Kowloon City Road and nowest and largest sailing vessel that bas 2.30 p.. Auction of Valable House-ation, and the nature of the population desired by those who know where the Othello told Destemona. Nor is the story about 160 yards to the west. of Kowloon | aver entered this port, lies in the upper.
finished yet; there are more accidents to make the carrying, sut of protec weak points are to be four). Articles the medical measures a matter of the have appeared in the National Revice, many collectors yet bure live
shells at their premises. 8pm.--Gound Boxing Cumival at the greatest difficulty before a disease has the Contemporary Recčer, and other
City Hall.
shown itself in epidemie form ; but it is perilicals, but they all appear to go at least possible, as Dr Atkinson recog upon the legal zaxin, 4 With a poor The design of the now British battle- nises, to adopt axcasures which may ensu, pitch into your opposigne's Conships of the King Edward class represents preveal a severs outbreak of a diseasesel, and contain little more than mere a post striking Mrance, or, indeed, almast like plague or to cook it in its course, assertion as to our own strength and revolutionaryclage from past British types be inserted in the Gule and before the flow in the wake of the Brilliant inn dey These measures may appear to sage us that of the Franeo Russian conrbination. Instead of a batlery composed of a few very latrines can be bulit The President (Dror two. Should that 1,500,000 gallons of 3.15 p.m.-Meeting of Hungkeng Cricket / exceptimally drastic, buts - Drporates Wo wnnot ignore the known opicions heavy guus for the attack of thick armon Atkinson) secunded the motion, which was disease require desperate cures.' If of our own fighting admirals, while and many 6-in, guns for the attack of au TUESDAY, September 1).---.
the principles of getinal sanitation laid giving every creilit to Lord Selborne, armoured structures and thinly-plated agreed to.
casemates and arrets, we are to have almost Notices by Contributing Sharebakiers of down ly Dr. Atkinson are carried out Mr Arnold Forster, and the present
the lingkong and Whampus Dock
as many heavy pans as quickfirers. Asso Cassell's Publications. 19., Ltd., required before this date.thoroughly there to ruson to hop: that, Admiralty officials for gooi intentionsinted with the four 12-in. veapons are to The August number of The Quizy is to of course, and if the cuan in the Standard FRAY, September 13-
should plague, infortunately, revisit the nnd patriotish: bat the Navy s saber-ho four 9.2-in. guns, weighing about band. It is an excellent number, buti-Od and shipbuilding interes in Maine are after
330-18. | fully illustrated. “Littin Innocents Abroad," putting up their money on the ship of their Colony next spring the severity of dinated 4 party politics, and it is the twenty-seven tous, and firing a the epidemic initigated First Lord and the Treasury who settle projectile through 25-in, of wrought iron at by D. L. Westmer, is a very readabli arti- choice, that is their outlook, while it should prove, essary the Naval programme, not the men who 2.000 yards. On the other hand, the -in cle dealing with the great, work of the to go beyond these the Europea see know. So, since more the country is battery is redund from twakse guns, in the Church Pastoral Aid Society in transfer Criticising an Insurance Co.
Some criticism has been aroused among tion of the community will probably be face to face with doubt and uncertainty, Majestic and Farmidable types, to ten in the ring, at the proper season of the gran, the unanimous in apparing the proposals where everything should be corain be new ships. No Power and no designer he poor ragged children of London from local Japahoe owing to its nation of the as yet proposed to mount so heavy a weapon Smoky city to sweet country. An arti. Tokyo Fire Insurance Company in dispo made by the doctors the cleat of his yond Change. It more money ist
as the 0.2 in the battleship's anxiliary ticle on Episcopal Heraldry will be sing of the goods salved, from the firs at speech. • In any case, it should be a required for dini, Nang, and this British buttory. In all but the most recent German found very interesting to even those infa, chi Raganduri by private sale instead of | fixed principle of the Sanitary Board Poodle are told to anți the reagon wit, ships a 9.4-in Kropp has been thought miliar with the subject. Rer. W. Queet by muction. It appears that goods were
policy, in 'futuruslemies, to create Ühere need bå In
સ doubt
thie an beary enough for the min buttery For Hürder contributes in short biography en-sold to a dealer for Y27,530, and that he all plague bodies placed surreptionslywer, for if we are to remain an Empiresome years the Americans have supplement titled The Great Heat of New Gensa, immediately sold them at a profit of sun in the streets. We would go peyond our Nass must be kept arp to the high of their main bettery by fran four to eight The Great Heart is Ray, James Chalmers, four or five thousand yen, and it is argued 8-in guns: two or three years ago Italy one of the fouṛtecu Landh misaieries that if the goods had been put up to A. S. WATSON & CO., this and advocate that all plaque Lanties, bangk of perfection.
(engled them? and now we are following in their steps, or perhaps improving apoi them. It has been said in Parliament that currew ships will be the fincat in the world. Some" doubt, however, will be felt in the Waited Statesys the Nary League Jomnes as to whether the Amerism Georgia clas are not waru competitors for this title.
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· LOCAL AND GENERAL.
sing display in the City Hall, ter- Notes by the Way.
H.M.8, flood was to leave Singapore
raised by. This, Exidency the Governor, a he the agi de Arkinson says
All scientists ude - ogibed fant it for Sydney on the 1st or 2nd inst iping is a filth disease, fodered by destitution, overrerording and lich gj revention, its specific cause being a
5 8.16 5 2:56 | bacillus which probably lives in the soil
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There was one death iwan, plague (Chinese) during the past twenty-four
The New Battlestips.
Inland Lot No. 633-6ity seats. (c) Abbay with 1,180,000 gallons of case oil in the corner of Fourth Street. and Kenedy her hold, while the shipping master is Street, Yunati, to the south of Fourth shore hustling for a crew to take his vessel Street and
the East of. Kennedy Street to Yokohama, balf way around the world. fifty seats. The mower of the motion As the Standard Oil Company'a wharf, at said-These sites have been selected by Constable Hook, the Araarion bark Ave, of Public Works, and it requires a fetal aboard a trifa of 500,000 gallons of caso myself, in consultation with the Directorqually new and nearly a big, is taking resolution by the Board before notice can'
ell for Yesköharon sg. She will probably
oil aboard the Acme land in Yokohama pier before the 1700,000 gallons, aboard · the Brilliant, there will be a due to do among the sailors in this port.. Nobody is racing
Funte
murdered in April last by natives in the auction they would probably have realised Fly River, New Gnings." RL Stephenson much more than the amount btained for was responsible for Chambers being called them by private sale. The defence of the Great Heart,' and disuired to outlive him Tokyo Ficoinsurance Company, however, that he night write his life. Ron, Mr as given to a representative of the Hube Horder's sketch is all the better for being Chronicle, that they in by experiace written by ong who bad personal acquaint- that the prince sale bring, better rotums. auce with Great Heart in the wild aunts Towoften inlocat quetions, it is stated, aring in which hadelighted to play the part of the of speculators keeps down prices, and the pioneer of the Gospel and of civiliation. profite of gods bought for ridiculoas sims Two Stories about Governors.
To deal with all the anicles, stories, &c., laro shared between them. The local office The reference in M.A.P. be other in che inguine would take up too much of the Tokyo Fire Insuraux Co,, moreover, day to the reporter, putting in the Heat space; suffice it to say that they are une dues not consider that the profit of four or hears, and the cheers to complete Brous, instructive and interesting.-Litle Ave thousand you unde in this case is by William Hurcourt's written-out speechesFolls for the past bath maintains its any means extraordinary under the etrouns-
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and attacks lower animals. Having H.M.S. Rosario is going on à vagnge saith this, we expect Dr Atkinson to to the Cocos Islands, where the new cable recalls an amuing, story of the adventureputation as a high-close children's inga sinnces, then the nature of the goods as
that once befell a distinguished Indiazine, etful of healthy, humors and taken into consideration, LA ROSE
13.92 give his support to all reasonable station is being established,
Governor, whowas afterwards well-know educative reading for the young, profusely propomis
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It is reported that the Hon. Mr W. figure in the House of Commons: The illustrated with cleverly driwu and tra The War Relief Fund
of the Straits Settlements till the end of
Notenher.
legislation to prevent the raising of the Taylor will not leave Colombo to take up Governor was rulled upont lay the founds tive pictures Jock's Lagney by Mra A Subsriber, in sending us the follow his new appointment as Culonial Secretary tion of some sex isistication up-country Edwin Hubler as at its third chapter, and ing extract from Manchester newspaper, height of houses in the narrow streets
and all the chils, officials, and planters in there is still some left for next number. says. The war fand is more desirable. and lanes of this badly constructed city.
the district assembled for the occasion. His The Pink House, a village chronide of than an aesarily huge mentorial fund," In conclusinn, we would simply reiterate
Excellency had prepared suitable speech, small things for childish grown ups, is a There are, doubtless, many who will agree our belief that Dr Arkinson's statement Music at Hongkong Hotel,
and as he got on with it, s genial plantes rather quaint tale of the love of a small with bin. The extract is as follows:-The of his plan of campaign will give much By kind permission of Lirat.-Cul. I wear the platform, who had been overindulg satisfaction to the general community, Baillio and Officers, the Band of the 22nd ing in pers during the day, chimed in stage house for a steam tram engine, ra- Manchester Was Fand Committee is afraid ther a strange infatuation, which ultiontely that its money will soon be depleted, and and we may congmulate the detor on Bombay Infantry will play at the Hong each stop with 'Applapse,'' Loud sud pranded in the utter collapse of the former, that in six months it
necessary to: By be his implied declaration that he means kong Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evering Longed appl, Renewed cheere,' and
while the latter continued for a time to make a fresh appeal to the public for ad- kindred observations. The whole lucident
pursue his heartless and reckless order ditional subscriptions. If second call is was screamingly funny, and the popular until, unable to pay his way, he fell necessary, in doubt the public will answer to lead the Government along sure and from B p.m. to 2.30 pm.:- business-like lines. We hope he will be
Governor hul as much table to keep into disgrace. No more trams have been it as w rm-heartedly as it did the first. At succesful.
straight ince as the members of his audience. invital to that little village. Fork is a the anime time one feels-stungis that the
Civic Malapropisms.
Civic aproches are often a perfect forcing ground of malapropia. Few complex,
of exceptional value and guaran-perhaps, are touch letter than this tradi
the juice of the grape.
Developing and -
March......... A Frægeta,.................Costa,
Overture...... Light Cavalry... Suppe. Vale... The Officers,**........ Conte. Eclection The Belle of New
York, ***........ Kerker. Bar Dance The Boston Belle, Godfrey. Pelka Seo Me Dance, Solomons.
GOD SAVE THE Kino.
| Tho officials had the worst line of it, fooling
War
that it would have beer ist burglary journal that all mechanics should are on maintenans of a soldiers family in laugh at the Governor's discomfiture, and order. The double page coloured plate time should not be left to private genero ite only really happy man in the crowdows the marlous auctions of a sewing nsity, low unemidgingly given or oth was the daredevil planter who was causing chine cabinet. Cassel's Study Journal viently directed, as the Manchester War is up to it usual high standard. Mr Halli. Fund has been dr the hinds of its Colti-
all the trouble. His explanation afterwards
Printing UndertakenNET. CHATEAU RAUZAN / my duty without partiality on the one hand into four sub-heading rain water, goda from taking trouble; and to help such pres" did picture of Buckingham Palace forms meur along with the other items of war
or
ter to be the genuine product of tious light of a bygone mayor of Oxford. The Uses of Water
When I gaze upon the spontaneosa dome A very original essay on wateris quoted was that the weather was really tox, warewell Sutliffe's powerful serial, The wittee, gay in the army being what it is, One or two of the fee handelapping and chering, and Vengeanceof Judith, is continged, together the decent unintenance of u reservist's of the Radclife and the basilisk in Blon- by a contemporary. hein Park, I feel that I can lay my and writer's ideas upon the subject uns striking-thought he would, by way of politeness, act with the striking senes called Holiday family should be just as much part of the CHATEAU LA TOUR CAR-upon ay art and declare that I have done by novel. For instance, las dividesali water as chef de la clapte, to save the other fellows Hunt nader the Searchlight by the war budget as the proribio of powder and Journ's special commissioner. A plen-Shot, and it should be het by the Govern
expenditure Relief should not take the form of printe charity, Int of public pay ment for pallic services. There is a pres age in the secretary's report tead in the The quality and quantity of an infant's Town Hall yesterday which seems to be, foud is often seriously affected by the state health of mothers is frequently the cure of Offee and the interests of the soldier that ity mother bonith who nurses it. Ill- tray a certain antagonism between the War indigestion and diarrhoea in their babies
water, holy water, and bring. Water,' to men as thoro might be present: The Gover partiality on the other."
continues, is used for a good many things. nor, being a man incapable of petty resent and CHATEAU LAFITE are
Wherever used by physicians or public Sailors use water tu go to sea on. Water is ment, easily forgave the peggplantes, enmmended to the notice of the praises of
very good thing to fire at boys with and they were excellent friend afterward Steara' Wine
squirt gun, sud to entel fishes in. But Auther story is told in the me Presidency Connoisseurs as high-class after-
are sounded. This ideal nutrient tonic the strangest of all uses for water is this: in which a successor of the Governor in Nobody, he says, 'could be saved from question- fan cricket lead will do all that is duimed for it. It is dinner Wines.
reliable. It is trustworthy. Sold by si
At reception in the lot was Chemists; from 4. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., drowning if there wasn't water to pull them ing part. Hongkong
out of."
ther, among the local magrates #pproached His Excellency and passed along into the open toum, was he who had the
The Governor, in au audit temerity to appear in loss white nether aide to his aide-de-camp, observed, "That
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W Cupper, 350ft, aburethe level of the stream bronchitis and sleep at
to
It
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who
the frontispiece.
of
Nursing Mothers.
which are nursed at the breast. Poor is not altby. The Committee, he said, 'watory, uniubstantial and insufficient milk had hoped to wataolish a fund which would
Spa canant proporly new
neurish will disorder the health of the child and will be it to supplement War Office grants
baby
Fuorivo
veriperages theft of silk, makes withhold. If it is the duty of the Gorera- Liver Oil
fow Luer Dinition. Stratos Wimo of Coal when they seemed inadequate said endaly etime builds up the mant to frame £18,000 v Lord Bokartu mother's aystem. It sables the muter to
the
nourishment. It is sustaining la
greatest to finans Forth Bridge. The new East River Patent medicines, hat couki ge: nothing to his banjo ? Itis recorded that the unhappy est degree through the high- see that Che family of a reservist who has
spans are the 1.710t. cantilevers of the
give me any relief until my wife got a Bring at New York, now nearly finished, bottle of tais valushic medicine, which has
this trymg period a
man, when he got home to his bungalow time her the orms of digestion and rst threw up his living and then logh hut cumpletely relieved te.-W. BrockMax, juured on the innocent cause of his offendstilacios must furniss nutriting for bulk life dous got suffer because he has stons his
Wholesale from A, S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Hongkong
walkę w biopole paths, in addition to Bagiell, Mo., U. S. A. This emedy is cg for quite a long time before ho mother and child. As all Chemists and daty with less distinction buy not interior-
is andoubtedly the latest triumph in bride building. It has six railway fait-
wide roadway, and will be the widest bridge 1607 in the world..
for sale by AB Dealere. Warns, Ltd., General Agents.
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