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TO PREVENT DUMPING.
The Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin, Registrar. General, presided at a meeting of Chinesa gentlemen, call d at their quest of His Excel. lency the Governor, to cmsider hoy dumping might be prevented. There were als present the committee of the Tang-wah Hospital (where the meeting was told) Mr. Lau Chu-pak, Mr. Fang Wa-chun and many prominen. members of the native commuuity.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that six years ago when plague was prevalent in the Colony, Hi Excellency Sir Henry Blake, the then Gvernor, personally invited the co-operation of the kai fong of a crtain section at West Point in rying ont plague preventive measures.
It would be remembered that
result was
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[February 22, 1908.
This a bilance.
was agreed to, and four days later the firs defondant silled on the complainant and ask whether he hal his many ready. Complainant had not so mach muny theo, but expected to have it in about a fortnight. Some ten days after this the three defendants started to give the complainant a
of disease and destruction all over the world.
James Crichton Browae, who turned to Japsa The inaugard madding was prosid dover by sir the great exemplar for his text, In the cours·
of his remarks he said that-
good time
generally, entertaining him at dianers, foists and so on at a Chiness hotel. And not only did they give him these feasts, but they even borrowed money from him to pay for them, and did not pay him ba:k. Ou Ocio- ber 16th the complainant went to Hollywoul Road with hi- $590) The men were not in when he got there, but a woman in the housə a«kod him to wait. Shortly afterwards the first d fendant entered and asked where the second
*In Japan, some years before the wir with Russia, rats had bee-ru- an intolerable post By the a rice of the Min ́ster for Agriculture a small sum, q valout, le suppies d, to the tonth of a farthing, was offered by the Government for each rat skin emp'et d liv-red to the: officials appointed to receive them. As the result of & a' policy rats sóòu hogsma setrew in Jap.. The rat skins wero not consigned to a ས་✖* preten ling not t BA the broker. destru "tor.
When the war cima, fillowed by Suddenly he caught sight of him, and se·med very satisfa lory. Mr. Brewin a sw among
the cold season, there were issued to the troop.acouished to 8+ bim. those present members of the kaifong from fine soft leather bigs or pouches to cuver, the
Then the cond d-fendant came in in a very excited state, and that district whe w.re still doi g good i
¦ nose and care, a set for each man, and so prevent said the third had ben gambling and lost a lot work, ad
wied
thank them
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were male of rat skins.
a good thing for him to do, as if sine bis arrival in the Colony, has always had
he went on gambling he would not have any the welfare of the people at hert, and would
mmy to put in the business. It was better, they not like to see them suffering under any griev
though, to arrange a gamble with him, and ance, Io knew that the Chinese repeted the
rodove him of his money for the good of the dead, and that they mus Lay some coas in for
DUSTUENA. It was a the dumping of the dead which had shocked him so much. Ifo (Mr. Brewin) was instructed to
fiad out these reasons. lis Exel ney did not wish the people to suffer and desired them to came forward and help to promote the welfare of the Colony. Ha poisted out that the establishment of the various district com. mittees was for the coven-ence of the Chinesa community. Tuo business of the muting was to form a committee in each street, and after reporting to His Excellency a further m sting would h called.
Mr. FUNG WA CHUs súd sues Sie Hury Blake's departure, the kaifong had apparently bcome idle, and in spite of rep ated application they were unwilling to come forward. Now the dumping of the d ad on public roads had not only become a laughing stock to the European, but had brought shams nd disgrace ou the Chinese generally. He. Mr. Lau Chu- pak and the Han, Mr. Brewin, had done all ther could do at the Sanitary Boirl, Their desire was to help the public not to go against the laws of the Governmsut, but to put a stop to the disgraceful prac ics of dumping the dead. The recul deposit of e-rps s in Blake Garden was the art only of a stagn. N parson or persons of civil and nations would do that. He concluded by inviting the es operation and help of the community to stop the evil practice.
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Mr LAC CHU PAR told his larers that His Excellency Sir Fredrick Lagird was very i displeased to see that the dead were bei g dumped in the public roads. If« (the Governori requested the Ha. Mr. Browin to call the m -hug in order that these presut might be ask d to co-operate to prevent the evil practics.
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Mr. FUNG WA CHUN, în reply to some ques tions asked couccruing smallpex, said that only those contracting th disease were removed for fear of spreading it, aud that persons who had ! developed symptoms as the result of vacci: ation might not be rem red,
A JOURNALISTIC JKE.
A Tokyo schoolmaster, wha diel a y year or more age, and a journalist now engaged at the Daily Press office, were discussing towards the end of 1983, the frived ms are of Sit much that the papers were then publishing about Japan. A suggestion that er u the big post. class papers wou'd publish anything, how. Cus absurd, that seemed to relate to Japan o the Japanes (during that season) led to them conoocting a little story about the skins of plague rats and the thriftyness of the Japanese war department. It was gu' H«m» and duly appeared, and the schoolmaster oven victimized with it au old aul experi nced Shanghai editor, Since then, though Japau his borc me less of a cynosure than she was at that time, the au- dota has continued its travels. It has at last got back to Japan, where the two wags in ated it. In a recent issue of the Japan Chr wiele appears the following :-
Some remarkable statements are occasionally made in the home papers as to what is and what
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The story as criginally conocíad made th ratskins into war flips at ached to the sul hersi caps, and it give the War D) partment credit for the foresight of having hoarded the skins for A year or mura bafora the war. harmless bear, but as there has been som- talk
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lately at Hongkong of off ring a reward for rat, it may be as well to explain that this Sir James Crichton-Browns thinks it was. schems was not quite so successful in Japiu as I 1 was not a tavernment scheme, pat inti oper v tion all over the country, but a cally adopt al device, several ruunicipalities where piagu › wa.... WH offering as much as four sen per corpse. may add that the Japanese coolies were as cula as the Chines‹ hara been, in recoguising the authorities reprimanded a man who had endex. possibilities of ra' selling. In one cas, the coured to sell them a few very immatur rats, oing to his ton precipitate production of the maternal rodent from which he had first removed them, by a rude attempt at a surgie i
The rats purchased by ration. authorities, by the way, after being tested for plagus bicilli, ar always destroyed, as contemporary points out,
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The complimaut dit not like the io of playing to swindle the third defendant, so a diclaration was drawn up in which it was stopaleted that half the money they wou should be Fuvested in the business ou behalf of the third in, aud the other half should be re- Curnal tbs siste-in-law to look after for İLEED. This declaration was signed by the two defendants and the complainant. The gambling gam was to be fastan, and it was arranged that
defendant, the
kuow who unthing about the game, should be the bauker. It was als› agreed that certain sigus should be made so that they would know what number would turn up. The scheme worked all right at the beginning, and for the first few times Chan Kam ng lost, but af or that he always won, and after twnty minutes' play the cɔm- parment was informed that he had lost $7,0 0 for whic a they want il a promissory note. Tusy tonk the 85 mm in cish that be brought, also reli-red him of a promissory note for $2,00", sud then invited him to another feast for which
"When these rat< have been duly fexed for
he had to pay agai After this he was t th sigus of plagu, they are sent, "not tauger's but to a crematory, so that the story desirous of knowing about the business and of the Government-purchased rat skins guva | although he called on the defendants several out to the army in Msuchuris is a pret; fiula į trues he e rull get no satisfaction, neither could fiction. And so far are rats from showing signs i laget his money back. Eventually the mu of disappear cue that the O-aka Municipality ¦ disappeared, and he did not see any more of has quite rec
ntly raised the market pries and ; them until they were arrestedk entered up in a ren-wed crusid · against the
Evidence was call d, and the case adj›urted. destructive rodent W. often Wonder who originates these little fables. '
We have already divulged the origin of the little fable" referred to, which, in a way, has served as an object lesson We regret that the genial Doctor did not live to see the lasix like prolongation of his j ke.
THE ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS
THE DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE" FOR 1908.
Fus fact that the Directory and Chronicle has reac ol the for y-sıl year of publication sufficiently attests the public apprecia ion of its usetula sa to ren fer it inuec ssxey for us to du more than call atten wn to the publication of the Els edition, and teradicate the new features of the book.
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A FOURTH CHARGE AGAINST THEM Before Mr C. D Melburne, at the Magis Ira y Sui-gan and Chin Kamt uz were arraiga dou fourth chargs of e inspiring to d-tea al broker named Kwong Using-sin ·f the sum of SO HE
to by meutioned must be the classifi «»«d lists of firms and professions which are this year on Februrry 14h, Yung Fan sin, Yappended the just Die-tory lists of Shing.
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Morrell (of Messrs. G7 ddring. Barlow and Morrell prosecuted and Mr. F. X d ́A ́mada Castro • af Messrs. Almada and Smith, appear d for the defendants,
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bai, Hongkong séð Singapore The increasing buix of Utom la wok by reas in of the ustural growtu it the European population of the East has bi herto mid- the publishers hesitate to ia. tr«luce this new feature which has often boe [1
pressed upon their attention by purchasers of the book ta Europe aud America, but the growing number of flim- 1n some of the larger lemmerd e-atens of the hast has rendered © sssified list, a neuty, & od we belters the
· publisiers hansenle to met this [ Vry generally appreciated The may adiiti--as to the aiready long list of planke esterel by the Demctory, we thu Mane u can trade centres watch pare bet mardkano watu age minials and... by
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Trade Ceatres, s1opting Mukden, watch has so far developed as to requiro a couple of pages.
Mr. Merrell inform the Court but 10 September of his yar the first defendant cillat
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attempti the latter to d least- Dess with him 1u riece {s. Complasat : - willinguss. 1{ b- e-ull rais: the expital, to start busines wil the Best d f-uðul Yung Fun - yu
ab .knew a uple of wealty men (The sad al third defendants, who had come down from Shanghai and might enter into parta retup wit, i them. He took the complaint to. Holy wood load, where he met the other awe, and they proposed to start this piece goods bespoe with a capital of $3108), uf white ta tl complainant W25 tike
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