FALLEN TRAM WIRES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1905.
SPECIAL SALE The following suggested Rules for the Police
AT
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HOPKINSON
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525
ohildren.
Docks, WHARVES AND GODOWNS→→Hong. | | kong and Whampoa Docks, after further salos 8195, were placed at 3194 and doso steady at that rate, notwithstanding news of an unsuc cessful attempt to float the Sully-an attempt that in all probability would have book success. ful but for the aufortunate advant af is typhoon the pontoon after it which completely broke up had been got into position and hail raised tha ship's bows 12 feet. Kowloon Wharves have found bayers al. 393 and close at $100 study. Furnhamns are quoted in Shanghai at Tls. 140 and Hongkow Wharcas at Tls 185 New Amoy Books and Fenwicks unebauged and without.
JAPANESE AMAHS WANTED. Not long ago a correspondent, "Patorfami to observe in case of wires charged with electri-lina" wrote to the Singapore Free Preas advoos city falling in the street were framed by the ting the initiation of a system, under sound Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, restriction and consular survie lance, for the and appeared in the Electrical Times of the importation of Japanese nurias for European 23rd July, 1963-
"Putorfamilias" vory correctly said that amach as families in this Colony needed the careful and gentle attention to young children that Japanese wemon were so sure to give these worsen, ny a result of the war which has destroyed about 200,000 of the husbands and sweethearts or possible sweethearts of Japanese women, are left with diminished chances of a business. real home of their own and with increased LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGs-Hong- direst responsibilities on their own shoulders kong Lands have ruled quieter and closs with for their own livelihood. Au so the openingsalters at 127. West Points have been placed suggested by Paterfamilias" if systematically in fair lots ut Sub closing steady at that rate. adopted in China ports and in the Malay Humphreys have found smell buyers at 812]. Puuinaals would make some small outlet for Hotalean be placed at $145 ox div. of Spaid soms of the women the wan has left dopondout on the 4th instant. on their own exortions. The mail has this:--
WOMES IN JAPAN.
In the event of telephone or telegraph wires falling and making contact with the overhead trolley wire, or in the event of the trolley wire itself or its guard wires falling, all traffic in the lee vicinity of the wires should to stopped, and the public presented from approaching the fallon wires.
Tho fallen wives should on no secount he interfered with by the police or any unauthor. ised person unless for the purpose of mating life of protecting persons from boing injured, as oxplained in. Rule 5.
Notice should boat once given to the nonrest tramway official, who will take steps to eat off the current.
If such official is not availablo, malico should best one sent to the Tramway Power Station (Mckenzie Road) by telephone or message with request for someone ja authority to proceed ut once to the spot to deal with fallen wires.
Drivers of ears should not be called upon to
interiora with the fallen wires unless it is for the purpose of saving life or preventing poraous from being injur
COTTON MILIS-Ewus are reported from Shanghai Ts. 2 buyers, and Seychees Tls. 250 bayers. Hongkongs are offering at $11 Bater die of 81 paid on the thrinst.
Mrs. Hugh Fraser says that the war will leave behind it many difflenit problems one of the most serious will be the position the women.
of
Tha
MISCELLANEOUS.-With the excaption of small sales of Dairy Farm, Steam Waterboats- and Watsons at last week's quotations, wo late
thing to report unster this heading.
THE MOSQUITO.
The married woman carning her own living and standing alone hus heretofore been unknown in Japan, she says. Now, thire must be many saff women. Their husbands, or the men who If the following in in contact with any would have become their husbands, have been In the Chinese war the loss of life was person and it is tessary to remove it at once killed. in order to save life or prevent injury, the slight, and previous to that the country had boun
"at" pencoTM for a couple of hundred years. following potuts should be remembered.
The person removing the wire should-Never | the unmarried woutan was unknown, and has now's, tou very bad cases were treated, and other touch it with his bare lands or a datap cloth
BAI profonmilly. The Norer touch the person in contact with it, Arano nos must affect the position of the great need of the Japanese women at this time is industrial and practical education. Education of the highest kind they have had before, but it hus lacked on the practical sido.
Now every.
UPRIGHT PIANOS montioned in-Usa a Dry slick, Dry rape, er article of Dry clothing, or folia-inbbor gloves if available, to deng the wire away or to Sale Former drag the person away from the wire. Price. Price. Note that it is very important that anyone seems to recognise that this must be chau god. article used for this purpose should be Dry In seeking a means of livelihood the Japanese $150 $475 vot artich will convey the electric current and
woman will find a good I many occupations open 180 250 my give the per on handling it a severe glook.
tobor. In many cases the only difference from In caso it is impossible to get the wire atrap
her erilinary situation will be that she will 200 480 from person, the wire should be dragged to work independently instead of in association
thic The nearest tram rail, and hold down upon it, in with her husband. Women are already engaged 295
this ortor to discharge the surront from it. A con in most of the trades, and they are
Lake 150 sitkorable amount of flashing may be consen
Upkeepers of the country. They usually when the wire touches the rail, but this will not
charge of their husband's business, and 320
500 cause injury in any way. 325 480
Eael: cat will carry & pair of India-rabbor therefore they have become export accountants and book-keepers, The Empresa introduced the glover, and these should always be rod. 335
450 Animation cau after he restored by treating profession of trained nursing into Japan, and Dow there is an array of nursos. This, I think, must lead to the adoption of the 350
500 persons suffering from electric shock in a
similar way to persons rexened from drowning medical profession by women, and there is a strong fooling in Japan in favour of women children. TLB physicians for women and
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THE WELSH COALFIELDS.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. In the House of Commons last month, Mr. D. A. Thomas asked the First Lord of the Tren 700 snry whether he had under consideration tha desirability of proposing legislation to empower 600 the Clovernment, in certain contingencies, to 750 prohibit the export of Welsh steam ecal, such As that now supplied for the use of the British 650 Navy.
750
Mr. Balfour: I do not think it necessary to have any special powers conferred upon the 750 Government, because believe they have sufflefert pawns, under the circumstances contemplated 958
by the hon. gentleman, to provent the prport of steam coal.
Col. Lucas asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether be would agree to the GRAND (Small& Large) PIANOS.appointment of a Royal Commission or n COLLARD $300 formerly $650mmittee to inquire intr nl the circumstances of the purchase of collieries in South Wales by Fo-called German syndicate, the inquiry 390 BROADWOOD
particularly to include the value of the coal for Steamships. COLLARD (as New)
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Hongkong, th Septembur, 1915.
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750
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erea the
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in alder ses. These farons Pills
Back wit all Kidney Disorders, Fre from mit rewry Forty PILLS. As more So by all Phemi-is And Storaktepers
throughout the world,
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PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7.63 m.m. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS.
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 3rd Cctober, 1900.
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highest profession in Japan for either sox is that of teacher. Knowing what I do of the umbition and energy of the Japanese woman, 1 have no doubt that the results of these now con- ditions will be far reaching, but, whatever. progress they make. I hope that they will never give up their beautiful bous education.
If some group of European ladies in Japan would take up the matter and communicate with Japanese Crinsuis in ports in the Far East, it would be easy to arrange loent Indios committore who would correspon with the Emigration Committee in Japan. The Japan papers might work up the subject, for it sooms to us that the simpler way is to organise emigration, and then, in association with that, create local organisa. tions, in co-operation, to arrange for the immigration of Japanese nurses.Singapore Free Press.
SCENES AT HARBIN.
Fearful stories are told about the Bassinu generale and officers in Manchuria M. Joan Rodes, a war correspondent of the Mutin, is responsible for them. He says that. Harbin is
The tropical heat brought the mosquito from his daak Bramp
At St Barthole-
Justitations are admitting out dear patioats.
Motorists aud oyelists are among the victitas."
"Home Paper." Oni Enst you pinks a mock of me
And safo within your net," Apply profane diminatives
To your mosqaitolet, You dab mens a Fittle pest,"
"Confound the little Benst."
in
I draw so meel of your respect
Out East, my friends, Out East,
And so to more congenial climes
I wond my winged way: To land where I can maka a name,
And riot night and day.
I'm someone in my London home :
No longer I'm domssued, Balittled, by diminutives-
I'm now a full-Bodged fiel Out East my utinost affort earn Nought but a vicious slap. Oftimes I neirce can wake you from
Your after dinner aap.
Bat here, a swarm of thres are quite
Sufficient to "infest,"
And I a power in the land
Out West, my friends, out West.
Oh truly, my mosquito beart
Burns with a barsting prido: My faintest ham's a "clariou nolə”—
With adjectives I'm plied.
My bites-(you treat them with a scratch)
Need doctora over here, I'm-blocking up the Hospitals
You Easterners-D'you hear! Hurrah for Alexandra Park
Wood Green and Maswell Hill! Those whom I sting aro “victims” there.
And there I make themt ill Commend ma to the merry life.
The wicked jev, the zest-
For I'm a full-blown softhing plague Oui West, my friends. Ont West.
Joss CHINCHENJOSS.". Singapore Free Press.
“TROPICAL LIFE.”
Mr. Balfour: None of the information at ont disposal leads as to believe that there is a German yndiente in treaty for any important fall of Russian officers who are practically do sertera, or at least, absentees without leavr. area or any area at all, so far as I know-
We have received the first number of a now of the steam coal used by his Majesty's Toy, we cant the safes, the music-halls, magazine entitled Tropical Life which has just
are principally engaged in "faisant la Navy, but as I haro told the House,
being in a state of bega issued from London. The journal which should not and could not view with indiffer. d the other places, me drunken officers is plainly, but attractively got up, aims at record-
permanent intoxication. or any wadiente in which foreign influences insult civilians, and drew and use their swords ing trade, life and properly interests forth the
on the protext. Now and then the Rus-dwelling in tropical countries. Thera sian military authorities make a raid through opening chapter of an article en rubber which necessary for the mobility of our fleets.
M will be of interest, Ironlly. iam it appari has Harbin and arrest many of the absentees. those were grounds for believing that a forsign syndicate was in process of Roles says that he heard that Liniovitch shot taken up Heves cultivation and hopes todo well obtaining that control, which we deprocale, forty officers who had duserted, and were brought with it, and a paragraph at the end says on the I do not think it would be difficult to deal with back. In all the military-slations wone subject of smoked or unsmoke rubber that of them protending to be nursesome Straits planters sent some of their growth the matter. We could ment it by providing abound, many that the measure passed within living memory and displaying the Ganara cross. There were to Scotland for some leading rabbor worka thero permitting foreigners to be povossal of real generals, says M. Rodes, who divorend between to report upon, with the resul, that smoked para Other was valued at sixpence o nin-ponce more than property in this country should bo so far two battles, and book of new wives,
that they should not be allowed to generals, while their troops were able to enddau uzsmoked, awing to its greater textile strength.
Tharo is an article on the raw and maunfactad cotton in the Imper al Institute in which the Possess real property which is absolutely nucess- attacks from the Japanese, were at Harbin at ary for the defence of thees islands, or for the the feet of their ephemeral favourites.
As to the continuation of the war, M. Rodos Straits are elronicled as being represented. Nary. interests of his Majesty's Army or Such a bill would, I think, be in accordance states that the Russian troops in Manchuria do There are numerous other attractively written with the accepted principles of legislation. I not want anything of the sort. He was told articles which give the journal a promising do not think the necessity for introducing it that the generals desired the war to go on has yet shown itself: but as far as the Govern- because they run no risks, and it brought them ment are concerned we think that is the line in a good deal of money. Some of the poor on which we might procent shont the necessity Russian soldiers who had been in the Mukden panic wore eagerly searching the local papers avino.
for rows about the peace negotiations at Wash ington, M. Rodes gires, however, a good account of Mistchenko and bis Cossacks.
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MAN'S WIFE Fruita lofaction, then after wesks or excutive stand-
Infs the doly of some wives to patch and diam the family's waring apparel, but when the natural covering on hubla'e even wears through, whows Cost Com 'vütch in time" was neglects & Every wife should be "scalp aspector" to the
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ruff appear, followed by itching scalp and telfar belt. Newbra's Harvicids kills the gam and Curd every stage at tila disease except, Chronic Balness. Marvelous results follow ini nan. ÁN expulsite kair dressing.
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JOINTS STOCK SHARES. Messrs. Vernon & Suyth say in their weekly share report dated Hongkong. 8th September, 105.We bave to report an uneventful work with a fair cash business, but with no special features in the market, Forward business continues practically dead and there appars to be uo immediate prospect of its rovical. Rates have ruled, and the market olosos, study. BANKS-Hongkong and Shanglais, after" short period of inactivityuthcoming the rate are again enquired for, and no shares boing has improved to $887 with buyers. Shares are scarce, and with an unsatisfied deumed are likely to improve, even in the face of a ligh exchange. Nationals seem to bo entirely eat of the market and the quotation must be regarded as more or less nominal.
as
MARINE INSURANCES Unious have anticipated, rated quistes, and sellers at $770 have ruled the market. We have heard of no sales, but offers of $765 would in all probability le met by sellers. China Trudors have also rulcil (easier and after sales at 881 and 381, changed hands at 8, closing with nyers. Cantons are obtainable at $340 after small sales at hat rate, and at $335. Yangstzes and North Chinas remain without any local business.
FIRE INSURANCES-Hongkongs have been planed at $235,and 5336 closing steady to firm at the latter rate. Chinas have further im proved to $35 with sales, and close with
SHIPPING. Hongkong, Canton and shown further improvement on best
at $261 and quotations, and sales are reported $27, market closing with buyersal theformer rate. Indo-Chinas have continued weak and sales Tuve been affected as low as $93, after a few shares had changed bands at 931. At time of closing tuero appears to be no sellers under 895. We have nothing but the market is a weak one. else to report under this heading.
REFINERIES-China Sugars have ruled steady at $234, with a few sales at $256 and $235 for settlement At time of closing the market shows some slight signs of weakness. Lazons have declined to $21 without sales and clase with sellers.
MIXING-No change or business to report.
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