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The faventor: is always en One of the women membera at- deavouring to attain some practical tending the British Association end, whilst a discover by Intent, is 'meetings at Leeds laughs at the motived. solely by prospect of a year away from
· NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. generally curiosity.
Not infrequently, no civilisation. She is the wife of Dr. the Inventor makes dia-C. M. Yonge, of Plymouth, and is THE SIXTH ORDINARY AN- doubt,
NUAL MEETING of SHARE coveries, for the most part unwelto, accompany her husband and other experts on a British explora- HOLDERS in the above Company come and disconcerting, in the tion expedition to the lonely wastes will be held at the Company's Town course of practicalising his ideas. of the Great Barrier Reef in the Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, Hong The discoverer seldom reaps much Southern Pacific. Mrs. Yongo has Kong, on SATURDAY, 22nd Day material benefit from his labours, a medical degree, and her marriage of October, 1927, at Noon, for the but this also holds true of the was the result of a romance be purpose of presenting the Report great majority of inventors, of the Directors and Statement of few who attain success, in Accounts to 31st July, 1927.
sense of the term, generally pur- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the chase it very dearly at the cost of Company will be CLOSED from the many anxious days and sleepless 1928 8th OCTOBER to the 22nd OCTO-nights. Financial worries pile "HARFORD" Magazine Gap, close BER, 1927, both days inclusive. themselves on top of unforeseen
TO LET.-"Bellevue" No. 6 Peak Road. Fully-furnished from 1st December, 1927. Apply to Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming.
TO LET Fully Furnished for ten
months.
from
February
The
this
PETER
PAN
tween master and pupil at Edin- Sunday to
burgh University.
to motor road and publie garages. By Order of the Board of Directora technical difficulties. Partners and said. "I think I shall manage all Modern Sanitation. Large garden. Moderate rental. Apply H. E. Goldsmith, P.W.D.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Studebaker Standard Five-Seater Motor Car.
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Secretary Hong Kong, 6th October, 1927.
Q.
R.
1926
NOTICE.
Tuesday
FIGHTING THE MOSQUITO.
PROBLEMS STILL TO BE. SOLVED.
She will be the first English- woman to live on the Great Barrier Reef, and her home for 12 months will be a primitive hut on one of the nearest civilised country.
"I am not a wee bit afraid," she
associates become dupressed and right. I would go anywhere to discouraged. They urge the aban- help my husband Where he goes donment of the venture and the re- I go. I shall take some nice light turn to safe and hundrum manu-frocks with me. I do not believe
It is thirty years since the facturing operations. It is said in women trying to imitate men by
wearing riding breeches and knee malaria parasite was first found in that the original partners of Bir boots. There is never any need for a mosquito, and all doubt was re- Charles Parsons in Insisting on the that. Even a woman scientist solved as to the means by which abandonment of any further at should always look feminine. The infection spreade from man to man, woman who tries to look very wise The lesson of this great discovery tempt to make the steam turbine a mechanical and commercial success, and very manly is making a big was that deatruction of all the mos- quitoes in any district will abolish The Investigations of the expedi-malaria among the inhabitants, and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Assured him that he would never make a copper penny out of his
tion, it is believed, might result in it has been so well applied that that NO SHIP OR VESSEL FOR SALE Chofeo Stamps. Un-Should PASS between the DRED-idens. Bosserner, it will be remem used. Set of six atamps: 2, 5, 10, GER, working off Kowloon Point, bered, proposed in the first instance the discovery of great wealth, par lives have been saved that that mado habitable, and important en- gineering schemes in the tropics 15, 20 and 26 cents. Price $2 per and the Four Buoys, marked with that his steel process should be ticularly in the matter of mother-lion, huge tracts of land have been set-Apply Box No. 600, c/o Red Flags, laid to the Westward developed by firms, already engagéd
thave been realised. of her. The Threo Eastern Buoys in the trade, working under licence. of this Tier support the Dredger's These, how ver, failed to overcome Head-chain and constitute A certain infantile troubles, and after FOR SALE-One brass "Hung GRAVE DANGER to Craft at experimenting a few weeks or Ming" pan of the Chinese Han tempting to Pass between them. months declared the process to ba 18 valueless. Bessemer had accord- Dynasty with automatic springs. The Dredger's Head Cable Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, further supported between
ingly to start steel works of his Most Western Buoy and the Next Own c/o "China Mail."
Buoy to the Eastward of it, and constitutes A DANGER to the
Model. In splendid condition. Fully
Low Mileage. equipped. $2,000. Apply Box No. 507, care of "China Mall."
China Mail."
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Wwithin an hour from London.
In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
the
G. F. HOLE.
Harbour Master. Hong Kong, 18th October, 1927.
FANLING
HUNT
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of the
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with a film of paraffin, of aero- P.L. LABOUR CONGRESS TO BE drained, of lakes that are covered planea that scatter Paris-green over Philippines labour and labour or-miles of water in order to prevent the the young mosquito from finishing are invited to ganisations Another instance, proving how second session of the Pan-Asiatic its life-history. And we are apt to League to be held in Shanghai, think either that the problem of Propellers of Craft attempting to lightly promising new ideas are from November 1, to November 3. malaria is solved, or that its only Pass between these Two Buys. discarded by those having no per- The place selected for the sesalon solution lies in the wholesale des- Should any Craft attempt to Pass sonal interests at stake, was cited is Fan-Sung Yuan which is outside truction of the anopheline mosquito. YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly between the Dredger and the and promptly printed."China Western Buoy of the Tier and foul by Sir James Henderson, who re of the International settlement. The report just issued by the Mail" Office, No. 5. Wyndham St., the suspended Head-chain, there is corda that the first Barr and Coples of the invitations have been Malaria Commission of the League a great probability of the Chain Stroud rangefinder was rejected by receved by the Labour Congress and of Nations show how erroneous Telephone Central 22.
Falling to the Bottom and Fractur- the Army because the first instru some individual labour leaders like these ideas arc.
Italy And The Balkans. ing the Telegraph and Telephone ment to be made had no provision Cirilo Bognot, president of the
Stevedores Unión, Lope K. Santos, It is well known that malaria is for protecting it from the sun. another labour lender, and Domingo still the scourge of many European Cables in the Cable Reserve.
Owing to pressure of time the in-Ponce, head of the Legionarios del countries-e.g., Italy, Russia, and By Order,
ventors had not had a chance of Trabajo. testing the instrument thoroughly Mr. Eognot told the "Bulletin" the Balkans besides Asia Minor and many parts of the tropics.. But before submitting it for approval, that he will probably go to the ses it is seldom understood that in most but this done; they were sion and take advantage
chance to meet labour leaders and of these areas even regardless of offered no chance of putting the capitalists from other countries of expense-there can be no question batter right. It may
safety be the Far East. According to of eradicating the mosquito. said that no invention ever came Crisanto Evangelista the Labour During all the journeys of the perfect from its originator's brain. Congress cannot send a delegate be-Commission in Europe and Pales- Provision may be made for what is cause of the lack of available tine, only two regions were found thought to be every possible con- money. It is intimated, however, in which anti-larval measures had tingency, but when the new device that individual persons from the been carried out on a considerable organisation, like Mr. Bognot, may scale with definitely successful re- Account of the Reconstruc-is entrusted to alien hands the apgo, Domingo Fonce, head of the aults, and the decision is reached 10tion of the Taipo Bridge not parently impossible seems at times Legionarios, muy also go, it is said, that such measures can only be re- The Pan-Asiatic League is an or- commended, after careful investiga- having been completed, the
the provided by the Lee-Metford rifle,ganisation of labourers from India, tion, in a few isolated, districts. AUTUMN MEETING
This makes it necessary to re FANLING HUNT will be held on which the committee responsible for China, Japan and the Philippines.
it believed they had rendered fool-Every year, a session of the league member that there are other SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3rd.
of dealing with the much to reduce the severity of the Hong Kong, 18th October, 1927. proof. They had, they thought, is held in one of the three coun- methods
In England, the Nether- disease in his neighbourhood, and submitted it to every conceivable tries. The first session which took disease,
place last year was held in Japan, lands, and Denmark, for instance, it is regrettable when the medical 80 much test of reliability, yet Mr. Tommy This year it will take place in malaria was robbed of its import service of a district is Atkins quickly demonstrated that Shanghai; and the next year, it is ance long before its connection occupied in destroying mosquitoes
The teaching of English compost- they had not exhausted the possi- believed, it will be in Manila. - with the anopheline mosquito was that its members have no time to
tion and elementary arithmetic in understood, and in spite of the fact treat malarial patients.
the secondary schools of the coun- that these insects remain in abun- bites of the altuation and that
try is severely criticised by the dance. It is evident, therefore, that it is possible to make malaria In several European ecuntries, Cambridge Local Examinations Syn- negligible, even where mosquitoes unfortunately, there are regions dicate in, a report which, necóm-' cannot be abolished, and the Com-where the conditions of life are so panies the class lists of the carti-
educational mission believes that this should be primitive, and the the general aim of anti-malarial standard is so low, that no direct work in Europe.
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb, Higher Local). (Gamb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received
Auction
THURSDAY, 20th October, 1927, at 12 o'clock, Noon.
ON
at their Sales Room,. Duddell Street. One. 1923. Two-Seater, "Buick"
Roadster (24 H.P.) in good running condition,
On Vlow on Day of Sale. Terms: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 15th October, 1927.
ON
STEEPLECHASES.
NOTICE.
of
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. DRAFT Programmes and Entry
to happen. An instance of this was
he could go one better.
Forms for the SEVENTH
So far as we know, no Govern- EXTRA RACE MEETING to be
ever been held on SATURDAY, 5th Novemment department has may be obtained at the Race improvement in any Course, Hong Kong Club and science or art. Causeway Bay Stables.
Entries will close at 12 o'clock noon, on Tuesday, 25th October, 1927.
Hong Kong, 17th October, 1927.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
at 12.30 p.m.
By Order,
on
branch of In recent years hopes and anticipations ran high in the certain political circles, that great national wireless station at Rugby was going to demonstrate once and for all the superiority of public over private enterprise. The most that can now be said for this station is that it represents quite a good piece of work, but its design. ers and engineers have made 10 contribution of fundamental Indeed, importance to their art.
BETTER THAN POWDER.
AND ROUGE.-.
Cleanliness and Quinine.
THE HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
A competent practitioner can do
Indirect Measures: Bonification.
BADLY TAUGHT.
STRONG COMMENTS BY EX- 'AMINERS OF ENGLISH,
ficate examination;~~-
They say of English composition
anti-malarial measures-apart from distribution of quinine-are of it appears from the high propor- much value. Much can be done, tion, of candidates whose work on The means of fighting the disease however, to get rid of the disease. this paper was thoroughly unsatis-- may be classifed as direct and in- Of all Indirect means to this end factory that In many schools English direct. Two measures only are re-the Commission attaches most im- Composition receives inadequate at- zarded by the Commission as direct portance to schemes which aim attention on the part of the teachers. -namely, the killing of mosquitoes
in human habitations and the kill-improving the economic and social The standard of essay writing was. condition of the people. Nothing deplorably low. Compositions ware ing of malaria parasites in the is more favourable to malaria than childish in thought and expression,
Both are described frequent movements of a popula human body. a's essential.
People in malarial tion in search of a bare living, and and were characterised by lack of districts must cease to give shelter it is found that the disease dis- coherence, incorrect use of quite THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL
to their foes; they must make their appears as an important cause of common words, and a general ignor MEETING of Members will there seems a possibility that for the complexion, Pinkettes give homes uncomfortable for the Bickness and death when steps are ance of what an essay means. be held in the Jockey Club, Room, the station may prove a white the clear skin and bright eye of anopheles by removing cobwebs taken to provide regular work and Stock Questions, Hong
Candidates at many schools had elephant. The beam system, which health by ensuring daily regularity: and dirt, by clearing out cupboards, to increase the productiveness of. Kong Club Annex,
been crammed to answer questions FRIDAY, the 21st October, 1927, SATURDAY, 29th October, 1927, originated with a private company, Taken when needed they banish recesses, and dark corners, and by the land.
at 12 o'clock Noon.
takes but a fraction of the power sick headache and bilicus attacks, whitewashing.. The gorged "and Such "bonification" of a district of a certain stock type, and their to cover equal illstances, and it is gently stimulate the liver, clear the sluggish mosquito ought to be con- does not have its effect if the re general training in the use of the American engineers attached to chemist sells Pinkettes, or post as the bed-bug or the louse
tongue, purify the breath. Your aidered as harmful and disgusting claimed land is worked by hired English had been neglected. The the Western Union Company who free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. should be caught and killed fixed wage and lead a life of great
labourers, who receive only a small"
says the report," "is of have practicalised
trans-oceanie Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse wherever possible as part of the hardship in temporary huts and grave significance, and the atten- telephony-Engineering.”
daily task of house-cleaning.
For destruction of malaria in the hovels; this shows that it is the tion of teachers is carnestly called higher standard of living rather to the need for a more thorough body we have quinine. Unfortun than the actual measures necessary and systematic teaching of the la ately, the cost of this drug prevents its distribution to millions of those for reclamation of the Jand (draintelligent use of the English who need it, and the Commission age, etc.), which is the anti-language,
malarial factor. The open ditches The examiners found that in has done a service by publishing and canals by which swamps are arithmetic and subjects involving the expert conclusion that
drained for agricultural purposes arithmetic "there was a marked standard preparation consisting of often breed more anopheles than lack of trained intelligence in par the principal cinchona alkaloids in the original swamps; but even an
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. (for account of the concerned) One Case containing 2 Pieces Pilot Cloth,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS. & Auctioneers
Hong Kong, 18th October, 1927.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany (Limited);—":
Wallie Peak. Hotel,, Kiuklang,
from
Chabod, from San Francisco. Eduardo Ung, from Yokohama.": Pingley, from Shanghai,
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent. Hong Kong. 18th October, 1927.
Unclaimed telegrams are lying
C. B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 12th October, 1927.
Secretary,
HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS.
October 17, 1927.
Mr. R. J. Birbeck: Messrs. M. A. Cohen, C. A. Calcina, E. T. Cross, G. Charle.
Messrs. T. Donnelly, A. Dodd, M. Dalgarno,
Mr. L. M. Easterbrook. Mr. K. Felzminnn.
Miss L. Guildford, Mr. H. F Gresham.....
Mr. A. F. Henry,
Messrs. J. E. Joseph, G. G. John, Messrs. H. A. Keller, Y. K. Kou, H; G. Kirkland,
Wat
Messra, J. Lane, H. W. Lewis,
Miss H. Lillie.
Messrs. Fred Maloof, J. F. Me Cenna,
Mr. Th. Oosterbejn:
Mr. C. G. Purchase, Capt., and
Mrs. C. A. Poo
Mr. J. T. Russell.
Mr. G. L. Scheck, Miss I. Spoo more, Rev. W. F. Scott
Mesars. T. B. Wilson, G. Wragge.
in the E. E. Telegraph Company's Miss Winter
local office for the following-
*Jaffray Chez Percy from Terrane.
Jaffray Missionary Home, Kow- loon, from Tourane. Vo
Rabefacio, from Kuala Lumpur,
E. A LEGGÄTT.
Superintendent.
A
Databery 1
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY
GRAFI
Canada continues to rec
| Road, Shanghai.
Lord Chr
It
result
as usoful in treatment as pure increase of mosquitoes is far more forining numerical calculations and quinine Itself. It is definitely than compensated for by the fact of clearness in expression." stated, moreover, that quinine Is
useless for the protection of unin- that the population le stabilised and Teachers are told that many fected persons, and the effect of aggregated into villages and is get schools fail to give their pupils af these pronouncements should be to ting a better livelihood and better satisfactory elementary knowledge of their own country; the general education.
Modern medicine is learning to
increase the available amount of anti-malarial remedies, to divert them for use where they are most pay attention to the resisting level of the Latin work was worse. needed, and to reduce the cost of powers of the body as well as to the than a year ago; and there was germs which cause disease. Bonifi-much bad grammar in the English medication.
cation, in a wider sphere, is an at- versions of the French passages, tempt to raise the resistance of the The candidates numbered 8,081, Even from the standpoint of pre-community rather than to destroy and of the 6,586 entered for cert vention, treatment is one of the mosquitoes. Such destruction is ficates 2,202 boys and 1,905 r most important means of combating of course, desirable when and wore passed Honours cert malaria.Infected people should where it can be compassed. Ob were gained by, 494 boys and at onto be recognised and treated, server Medical Corr
Treatment.
if only because one) mosquito, bit-k
ing them, may carry infection to a
score of human beings. In tural districts not only should there be
a free supply of quinine, but also a. Benedical man whose duty it is to
mske systematic
tect the THRENHIM
Fand de-
afiol, district
nly one
COME
FOR THE AGE
them?