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for instance, the civil servants or military
The bulletin issued by Dr. Jordan yesterday
and naval officers on full pay in the Colony stated:Her Excellency Lady Lugard has TELEGRAMS.
are aware that they may vote at this elec tion. In view of the great extension of the franchise the two hours fixed for the vot ing would be very inadequate if even a fourth of the persona entitled to vote turned & CO., up at the City Hall on Wednesday evening to record their votes. Perhaps, no rush of electors is to be anticipated, though with four candidates in the field, we may con- fidently expect the master of voters to be greater than at any previous election.
ESTABLISHED AD. 1841
FANCY TOILET
ARTICLES.
HANDSOME TOILET SETS,
IN SILVER MOUNTED
FANCY
HANDSOME PUFF BOXES
LEATHER CASES,
CUT GLASS BOXES; ·
in Great Varioty.
MANICURE SETS,
The names of the candidates with those of their proposera and seconders are set forth in another column. We think it will gen- erally be admitted that Mr. SHELTON HOOPER's claims upon the electorate are such a should ensure his re-election at the head of the poll. During the three years he has served the community it has been abundantly clear to all readers of the Board's proceedings that be possesses grasp of the details of administration such as we think it can confidently be said no other man in the colony has acquired HAIR BRUSHES IN LEATHER CASES, outside the ranks of the officials actually.
PERFUME SPRAYS,
engaged in the work. His long residence in the Colony, his familiarity with the SCISSORS IN CASEB. history of sanitary legislation and his speciul knowledge of the duties of the Sanitary Department, especially as they affect the general body of householders, combine to give him a pre-eminent title to a seat.on the Board. The community owes to Mr. Hooper, and to all other members of the Sanitary Commission, a large debt of gratitude for the valuable services they rendered in that prolonged inquiry which resulted in the removal of grievances under which owners and occupiers alike of Chinese property had long been A Very Fine Selection in Great Variety groaning. It was this feeling of irrit
MEERSCHAUM and BETAR PIPES, CALA
PIPES, (a Special Assortiment), ation-exasperation would perhaps be SMOKERS COMPANIONS, MEERSCHAUM the better word-which prompted Mr. and AMBER CIGAR and CIGARETTE HOLDERS, CIGAR and CIGARETTE CASES HOOPE and Mr. HUMPHREYS to come in real CROCODILE SKIN, SNAKE SKIN, forward as candidates for election to the
CROCODILE, SNAKE and Doɛ SKIN, ata, TOBACCO BOXES and JARS, ASH TRAYS.
RAZORS IN CASES.
BY THE BEST MAKERS:
PATENT RAZOR STROPS, SHAVING MIRRORS, HAND MIRRORS, 10., kc., Lic.
SMOKERS*
БАЯН
REQUISITES
not been so wall the last two days and there has been some slight temperature,"
The Portuguese Lilliputians are clever little artistes and they deserved all the praise they re- ceived on Saturday night for their performance
of The Geisha."
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[Protected by the Telegraphic Messages Copyright Ordinance, 1894] (REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE
DALLY TEE95."]
-HONGKONG
DEATH OF ADMIRAL ROZADESTVENSKI,
among ninety candidates Mixteen leading rest The Viceroy of Canton has selected from
donte to compose the Local Government Board which is intended to form a kind of training
LONDON, January 15th. school for the fature parliamentary represents-
Admiral Rozhdestvonski, who com tion. It may be noted that amongst themanded the Russian armada which Viceroy's candidates is Kong Hung Yan,
was annihilated by the Japanese in the alius Kong Sew Chean, a member of the Honam gentry who made himself rather prominent Straits of Tsushima, is dead. in the recent Taishan affair.
FOREIGN GENDARMERY OFFICERS FOR MACEDONIA.
of the Philippine Islands and Mr. Jose R. do Mr. William Cameron Forbes, Vice-Governor Lasarisgs, the Commissioner, called on His Excellency the Governor on Friday, who
LONDON, January 15th. invited them to lunch. This invitation, how-
It is announced at Constantinople ever, they were unable to accept being pledged that it is proposed to employ British, to a luncheon party at the Hongkong Clab arranged in their honour by Mr. Bolles, but they French and Italian gendarmery officers returned to Government House later in the to reorganize the gendarmery in the
vilayeta of Macedonia.
afternoon and wore entertained at ten by the Governor.
Harmston's ired arrived in the Colony on
A GERMAN LINER FIRED ON.
LONDON, January 15th.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SANITARY BOARD ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS.”]
DEAR SIR-As the clostorate for the Sani, tary Board representatives has been as largely increased by the Public Health and Buildings
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
wherewithal which
I see the newspapers are warning boase. holders to tako additional precautions at the present time and not'pat temptation in the way Chinese will do almost anything to procure the of their Chinese servante. As we know the
time at the New Year and the newspaper will give them a good Ordinances, 1903-6, it will, I am sure, be a matter
warnings should not pass unhooded. Many of interest to the public to know that all persons Europeas as to mourn the loss of valuables of the undermontioned classes have the right which disappeared just prior to those holiday to vote at the forthcoming election which will and an experience of that sort does not add to take place on Wednesday next at the City the enjoyment of the holidays... Hall between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock p.m.
Special Jurors. (108.) Common Jurors, (833). Mombers of Council, Civil ServanİA.
Consuls not carrying on business. Barristers-at-Law and Solicitors and their
Clerks.
Medical Practitioners and Surgeons, and
Dentiste.
Editors of daily papers and their staff. Chomists and Druggists. Clergymen of the Church of England
Roman Catholic Priests. Ministers of any Congregation of Pre- testant Dissentors or of Jews and School
masters. Officers on full pay in the Naval and
Military Servico.
Masters of steamers and local pilots. Persons who ara orompt from serving on, Juries on account of infirmity or of their being over the age of sixty years.
Yours faithfully.
A. SHELTON HOOPER.
THE NOMINAZIONS.
Saturday. As it disembarked at Donglas Wharf it caused a great sensation and crowds followed the elephants down to Causeway Bay, Every- The Liberian Customs gunboat THE SANITARY BOARD ELECTION. thing landed in good order and the Circus makes
"Lark" bus fired on a German liner | a startto-night with a very attractiveprogramme
and others which have to bo which includes lonping the loup, the animal sot, which was supposed to be disregard- appreciated. Seats can be booked at Robinsoring the Customs regulations. Fiano Company's offices. The first matinée takes place on Wednesday afternoon, to which children will be admitted at half price.
seen to be
THE SS. FATSHAN" AFFAIR.
Our Canton, correspondent, writing on the 16th inst. says:-Negotiations for the settle ment of the Fatshon incident have fallen through. Li Kai Hi, one of the men recently deported by the Hongkong Government and later pardoned, has advised the relatives of the
a larger sum of money..!
The German guardship at the Cameroons has sailed for Liberia,
The Lark" is commanded by as British naval reserve officer.
THE UNITED STATES AND VENEZUELA,
LONDON, January 16th. The United States and Venezuela
eto.. TOBACCO POUCHES in BEAVER, Board three years ago and the valuable deceased to hold ou, with a view to obtaining have agreed upon & basis of settlement?
AND SPECIALLY SELECTED.
services rendered by M. HoorEE on the Sanitary Commission are scarcely likely to ALL THESE GOODS ARE OF THE be forgotten by a grateful public on the
The HIGHEST CLASS
polling day.
three remaining candidates are untried mez. They hare
10 record of public service: the Colony which can be called to sup port their claims for the suffrages of the A. S. WATSON & CO., aleators. They must therefore be judged largely by their professional training and LIMITED,
local knowledge. Two are mediul practi. tioners whose training in hygiene sud sanita tion specially quality them for seats on a Sanitary Board: Da. BELILIOS has been long enough in the Colony to be known to most of the electors. Dr. FITZWILLIAMS has but re-
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS AND KOWLOON DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 6th January, 1909.
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Correspondents must forward their names and addresses with communications addressed to the
good faith...
Bates, not for publication bust as evidence of
one side of paper only.
inserted.
The merchants hore, however, are favourable to speedy arrangement with Messrs. Butter- field and Swire whom they recognise na having been very reasonable in this matter. But with the return of Li Kai Hi from Hongkong on the 13th instant, just as the matter was about to be settled, averything has fallen through owing to this man's isohievous interference.
Li Kai Hi is the leader of a soution of the
Self-Government Society who evidently will stick at nothing to prolong the egitation. It was he who originally took up the matter on bohalf of the relatives of the deconsed. One really is at a loss to understand why the officials and the merchanta are unable to put down. man of Li's calibre.
of existing disputes by reference of the questions to the Hague Tribunal. AFFORESTATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
LONDON, January 16th,
A Royal Commission recommends an afforestation scheme covering nine million acres of land in the United Kingdom, the scheme to be financed by a loan.
The Commissioners in their Report estimate that the income from these forests eighty years hence would
The local newspapers have of late behaved very well and have not published any inflamatory cently settled here, but he has strong suppor-letters or circulars. This morning one or two ters in the Hon. Mr. POLLOCK and the Hon.-papers published letters evidently intended to amount to 17 millions sterling a Mr. SLADE, who signed his nomination paper, revive popular interest in the Fatahan case.
However, as the merchants are favourable
Nominations for the two vacancies on the Sanitary Board closed on Saturday at noon, and gato anexpectedly four names were forthcoming
They were:--
AUGUSTUS SHELTON-HOOFER.
Proposed by Sir Henry Berkelay Seconded by Mr. D. R. Law.. GERARD N. LLOYD FITZWILLIAMS, M.D
Proposed by Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Seconded by Hon. Mr. H. W. Stade. RAPHAEL A. BELILIOS, M.D.
Proposed by Mr. W. L. Carter. Becoaded by Mr. F. Maitland. HORAGE-PERCY SMITH (two nomination
papers).
*
Local firms who present Chinese calendars to their patrons must feel ombarassed by the extra.. ordinary numbor and naturo of the applications for their pictorial favours Calendars have achieved a wonderful popularity among the Chinese and it is difficult at the present time for the European to dodge the requests of boys, ecolios and shroffs who make their applications calendar my." Next to possessing money their direct or ask you to "talkee taipan one piocen
one aim these days seems to be to get a calendar.
I aan rooinded of this by the following quaiitly expressed epistle which was handed me: Dear Mrs. PW. Smith-I beg you will kindly give me too Chinose and two English caloulars. Please deliver to bearer to bring back and I shall be very much thanked and obliged with your kindness yours with great steem and condescension."
Turf topios are beginning to be discussed now and the attendance at the Valley is growing these morning's notwithstanding that the morn. ing air bites keenly. Even the lucies are being enthused, to use a word which is not quite in common usage yot, and the forthcoming race meeting ought to be as popular as its predecessors.
The entries for the Races closed on Saturday and though I have not yet heard how they compare with last year's, it may be safely nssumed that they are more
Kinorous
There should be some capital sport this year. The Shanghai jockeys are beginning to gut in an appearance on the train. ing ocurso, Mr. Vida is down. He rides this year for Mesers. Findlay and Moir, Mr. Proposed by the Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk Burkill will be Mr. Mody's jockey, and Seconded by Mr. C. Lafrentz,
Mr. Hayes will ride Mr. Toog's ponies. It is Proposed by Mr. A. J. David.
very likely that other Shanghai riders will be Seconded by Mr. Ho Fook.
coming down. Hongkong in the matter of Polling will take place at the City Hall on jockeys is not quite so well off this season as Wednesday, provided there are not sufficient. Mr. G. C. C. Master is a great loss. Mr. withdrawals to obviate the use of the ballot R.F. C. Master, too, is away. But we still have experienced riders like Mr. Grisson, Mr. Dupres, Mr. Mackie, Mr. Gegg and others,
box.
CRACKER. FIRING.
In view of the approaching Chinese New Year, it is notified in the Gazette that, in accord- is given for ornokers to be fired as follows:- ance with Ordinance No. 3 of 1888, permission
Within that portion of the City of Victoria bounded by the following limits:-
1. South. Bonham Road. 2. North. The Praya.
3. West Western Street.
4. East West Street and Morrison Street.
There is a probability that the Kowloon Dock Amateurs may give another production of "The Silver King." Having taken so much trouble rendering of the famous dramas they would be to given very intelligent and very acceptable well advised, I think, to meet the popular demand for at least another performance. All their critics are agreed that their work wag éxcellent, but, of course, some have their own way of expressing it.
*
On Thursday, the 21st January, from 5 p.m. time prasanting prizes and discoursing to tho His Excelleney the-Governor has had a busy- to 6 p.m. on Friday, the 22nd January, from 8
scholars of the various schools and colleges in On Thursday, 28th January, from 6 am, to Excellency has been endosouring to encourage the colony. This year I noticed that His 8 a.m.
The fourth candidate, Mr. PERCY SMITH, is These letters, I have no doubt, were addressed year, and employment would be pro-mom, and 5 pm to 6 pm. well-known¬ar an auditor and sessuutant, to the Self-Government Society by witness for vided for thousands. and doubtless relies more upon his local the prosecution st somebody's instigation. knowledge then upon his professional train towards au sarly amicable settlement with ing. But the claims of au auditor to represent Messrs. Butterfied and Swire, I doubt whether the community on the sanitary Board con-Li and his olique will meet with much success not be ignored. In this connection we need. in the attempt to revive the agitation.
All letters for publication should be written on "No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papers will be "Orders for extra copies of DAILY PRESS should be sent before 11 am, on day of publication. After that hour the supply only refer to the Report of the Sanitary Imiled. Only mapply for Cash.
Telegraphic Address: PRESS. Codes: A.B.C, 5th Ed. Lieber,
P. O. Box. 84. Telephone No. 12.
HONGKONG OFFice: 10a, Des Vœux Road C LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. EC
The Daily Press.
SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAY,
Commission, which states in paragraph 257:
Nearly half a million dollars per annum A sorions stabbing affray occurred at the "ale expended by the Sanitary Board, yet junction of Lyndhurst Terrace and Gatzlaff no proper books are kept in the Depart Street on Saturday night. As a Chinese "boy" *mout of this vast expeuditure. There is said to be employed at No. 35, was walking neither a journal, nor ledger, and the so-along in this vicinity a knife was plunged into "called cash book is merely an apology his abdomen. The assailant must have made a "for the name, and for all practical Tery harried departure, and must have been very smart about his task for the "boy" told "purposes is merely a replica of the the police later that he did uut see who attacked Hongkong, January 18th, 1909.
*Bank pass book. The smallest frm him. The wounded man was immediately CONTRARY to general expectation, there is
"in Hongkong could not conduct its removed to hospital, and it is not expected that to be a contest for the two vacant'sents on
business satisfactorily with such books, he will recover. It appears, from a story the the Sanitary Board. Four gentlemen were
and it is probable that many individuals "boy" told the police, that his life had been nominated on Saturday, and the election, "keep much better records of their private threatened by an amsh with whom he formerly which takes place on Wednesday next, affairs," Want improvements in this kept my woon hearted with this have been made since the him of what would come to pass, and the "boy? woman and took unto himself a wife she warned should be the most interesting that has connection ever occurred in Hongkong, for, by the publication of the Beport we do not know,
now suspects that he has been assailed by his amendment of the Public Health and but it is very evident that apart from Mr. quondam lover or someone in her employ.
PERCY SMITH's local knowledge, on which, Buildings Ordinances, the franchise has been
to the poll
We
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
hai on morning the 16th inst, and is dus here The Austrian Lloyd's str. Persia left Shang
to-morrow.
inst., and
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LAUNCH OF A FRENCH 1 READNOUGHT.
LONDON, January 16th. The French battleship, "Voltaire, of the Dreadnought type, having a displacement of 18,000 tons, has been. successfully launched at Toulon.
THE ITALIAN CALAMITY.
LONDON, January 16ch. The Provincial Council of Messina assembled on a ferry boat off the city. The various speakers paid touching tributes to the aid given by the whole civilised world.
TRAIN WRECK IN AMERICA.
LONDON, January 16th. Fifty passengers have been killed Denver-Rio Grande train at Glen- and thirty injured by the wreck of the
wood Springs.
GANG OF CHINESE COUNTER FEITERS UNDER ARREST.
Within that portion of the City of Victoria the boys to take a greater interest in sport, and not comprised in the above limits, and also it set me wondering if he was aware of the within that portion of the Kowloon Peninsula great distinction between Europeau and Chinese which lies to the South of a line running from boys. European boys generally have to be keps the junction of Fifth Street and Temple Street, to some extent to their studies and need little Faunti, to the Northern boundary of Kowloon inducement to take up sport, but Chinese boys Marine Lot No. 40-
are different. They require comparatively little but it takes a lot to get them to take up sport indacement to apply themselves to their studies,
as we understand it.
From 4 p.m. on Thursday, the 21st January, till 4 p.m. on Saturday, the 23rd January, and on Thursday, the 20th January, from 6 am to 9.20.
Boribed area.
for improvemente in the educational purricula At this time of the year when suggestions of the schools of the Colony are timely, let me draw attention to the commercint value of look- ing pleasant. I see this demonstrated in the American public schools.
art is now being
Cracker firing is to be strictly confined to the times named above, both within and without the prescribed area; and both sides of all Streets, or parts of Streets named as the boundaries above are to be considered as within the pre
No burning oracker or other fire is to be bile expression of the Chinese salesman which Most people, I think, are struck by the immo- thrown above the head or near any person or gives the impression that he doesn't care a inflammable material, and all reasonable precaution, whether you make a purchase or not. tion must be taken against accidents, as every one is liable for damage arising from his
The Police will have strict orders to summon or arrest persons firing crackers in contraven tion of the foregoing restrictions.
Tas firing of bombs is strictly prohibited.
SIR THOMAS SUTHERLAND ON
OPIUM.
Speaking at the ordinary general meeting of the proprietors of the P. and O. Company, o4 December 11, Sir Thomas Sutherland saki---
Mt. A Donison and. Mr. C: B. Buyer Line) left Nagraki for this port on the 15th offered to sell him silver counterfeits, agm moderate extent is as necessary to him as the
use of bear in England.
Now, in the course for saleswomen in the Ameri- can public schools, pupils are taught, among other things, the art of smiling when the cus that the art of looking pleasent is worthy of an tomer approaches. A New York paper suggests
endowed university-extension lectureship. Per- haps the Faculty of the Hongkong University (when it comes into existence) will bear th suggestion in mind.
In Hongkong even the civilian has to smell power. Ho is under fire day and night for two
considerably widened, and interest in the presume, he chiefly, relies, his profes- choice of representatives of the community auditor should count for something in sional training as an accountant and
in correspondingly heightened. Instead of
the election. Now that the candidatos the mere handful of persons who have
are officially before the electora, with The NY.K. str. Aki Maru. (American hitherto bean entifled to vote at whom the choice rests,
hope Line) left Kobe for this port via Moji and these elections, there is Now an elec the healthy sign of public interest in hero on the 24th instant.
Shanghai on the 15th instant, and is expected
I presume that as philanthropists you must or three days. True, it is only the discharge of torate of between 2,000 and 3,000 persons the Sanitary administration which the
rejoice at the extinction of the Indian opium erackers and bombs and other fireworks but to whom the candidates appeal. This is is nomination of four candidates for the two Line) left Shanghai for this port on the 16th police at Changahan caught Chinese, coun-nesson to grieve, and what I must say, I great thing, and the fumes of sulphur sail the The NYK. str. Bingo Maru (European Late in November last, the Japanese Consular trade, but as shipowners you have considerable they are almost na nerve shattering as the real it should be. Every member of the com.
vacant seats b.tokens, will be generally instant.
is expected here on the 19th terfeiter of sparious nickels, but finding still in doubt, is whether our philanthropic action in munity is interested in the Sanitary manifested on Wednesday
circalation many counterfeits of subsidises this matter will be followed by the Chinese nostrile just as strongly as they would in times rush To N.YK. str. Kama Meru (European ellver coins of various denominations, kept a Government in administration of the Colony and it is
in preventing the growth of the of more serious operations. If it would not Line) left Kobe for this port via Moji and skarp lookout for the scoundrels. It happened stave opium in China. I believe that a Chins be considered ironical the best I can with my only right that those who represent the
Shanghai on the 16th inst, and is expected on the 15th ult. that a Chinese detectise on the such a climate that the use of opium to
man is constitutionally so created and existe in readers is a quiet time during the New Year. here on the 25th inst. community on the Board should be elected.
Consular police force was approached by a The NY.K. str. Kuuns Meru (Australian Chinaman who knowing nothing of his on the widest possible basis. We direct public attention to the letter from Mr. Superintendent of the Peak tram line) left for inst, and is expected here on the 19th instant close the bargain at a certain restaurant where SHELTON HOOPER, which is published in Begnet.
Mania on Saturday to survey a team route to ..
She was neatly captured. Upon inquiry, he was
TRADE MARKS.. The NYK. str. Tamba Maru (Eatropean found to have four confederates engaged in the another column, pointing out the extent of
Line) left Singapore for this port on the 16th manufacture of bad coins near a way station on
Representations having been made to the this extension of the franchise. Parentbe-
instant, and is expected here on the 21st the Chinese Eastern Railway about 70 mitee Foreign Office by the Birmingham Chamber of instant. Line) left Manila for this port on the 16th nation at hangohan. The gang had made Japan and the Argentiue. Sir Edward Grey has
The N.Y.K. str. Yawata Maru (Australi north of Changahim The police lost no timommerce concerning the injury inflicted on who says he has witnessed a somewhat similar
arresting the quartette at their den for exami British traders by piracy of trade marks in instant, and is expected here on the 18th inst. Ruson, Chinese, and Japanese counterfeits, replied explaining the regulations prevailing in sing the last named for purchase of cattle eto. Japan resposting the registration of foreign The P. & Q. str. Dovanha left Bingapore for from Mongolians. They had turned but more trade marke and advising owners of trade marks this port on the 16th instant at 10:30 am, with than 11,000 in Japanese subaldiaries of which to forward particulars of such marks to the the ontwand English Mails, and is due here on Y160 was seized on the promises, as well as
Patent Bureau in Tokyo. He says the diffealty The N.Y.K, sir, Yelorofu Maru (Bombay much good imitations of the genuine sa to make by the failure of foreigners to take any action to the 21st instant at about 8 am
TECO inhinese counterfeits. All of them are of protecting trade marks is greatly increased Line) left Kobe for this port via Mo on the it extremely difficult to tell the difference, secure their rights, and recommends traders to 15th inst. and is expected here on the 24 Manshu Mainichi Shenbun (Dairen).
combine to appoint a common agent st Tokyo to inst
watch their interests.
The retum of books registered under section of Ordinages No. 2 of 1883, during the quarter ended 31st December 1908, is published in the current Gazette.
tically we may express the opinion that the information which is set forth in this letter from Mr. HOOPER is information which ought to have been officially published in the same
Friday and Saturday, the 22nd and 23rd ample manner by the Government, in the January will be observed as public holidays in interests of the candidates who are canvas the Colony, but the Police Magistrates' Depart sing for support, as well as in the interests ment is excluded from the operation of the of those entitled to vote, for we doubt if, | Public Holidays Ordinance on Saturday,
Merry Widow hats are not popular in Hong- kong. We see very few of them, and I have been told that the Peak ears are responsible for this. This reflection is muggested by the receipt. of the following clipping from a correspondent
incident on the Peak cara d
An amusing incident occurred a day or two ago at Frankfort. A lady boarded an electrio tram-car the platform of which was filled with smokers, but the inside was practically empty. The smokers mada way for the lady to pass within, but she simply looked at the entry, and then cast an appealing glance at one of the smokers to give her his standing place. Ha, was somewhat embarrassed, thinking perhaps