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The August Criminal Sensioon open to-day. The calendar embraces four charges of kidnap pin, oan of forgery of bank nota, one of cutting and Founding, one of armed robbery, and one of larceny.
A couple of weeks ago a number of Panti and Hakka shoemakers quarrolled regarding the complished, and while no one can charge oustom of a certain steamer. The quarrel was the Government with having neglected its ronowed on Tuesday evening when two Puntis obvious-duty in this connection, wo mint välted a house in Second Street and there all feel indebted both to Colonel BEDFORD, brought about a tight with two Hakkas, one of and to Lieut-Colonel Sir JOSEPH FATEER, whom was a visitor from Shaukiwan. The Puatis attacked the Hakks with hammers and his successor in the post of Principal bamboos and the visitor's head was badly Medical Officer of the Garrison, for damaged, while his leg was broken. Evidence
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["DAILY PRESS” BYOLURITE SERVICE.] THE FLOODS IN JAPAN.
THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVE ASSOCIATION.
members.
Ito the committee, the members of the Associa- tion will have the satisfaction--and I believe that I voice the sentiments of those who are His Excellency the Officer Administering the present when I my-the intense satisfaction of Government (Bir Henry May) presided at a feeling that they were really honoured with a extraordinary general mosting of members of the Volunteer Reserve Association hold in the place in the defence scheme of the Colony.. City Hall last night. There were present: Mr through we will get a body of mea, notsonamer. (Applause.) I believe myself if this sohome goes G. H. Wakeman (Vios Chairman), Mr. Aous sa the present members of the Association, Jenkins (Hon. Secretary) and upwards of thirty bat a body of men who will do great credit to the Association and to the Colony, and HIS EXCELLENOV soid:-Gentlemen, We who will be cordially welcomed by the have met to consider the question of the military authorities, (Applauso.) We have got re-organisation of our Association which Toxro, August 16th.
has been put forward with the unanimous ap Volunteer soldiers-80 per cunt, gentlemen !-- amongst our members about 80 per cent. of old Dysentery and typhoid have almoval of your committes. You will remember
gloss of the year 1904 by Sir Matthew Nathan, sharpshooters who, when they have learned ready appeared in the flood-stricken that this Association was formed towards tie and we can make up the balance with a lot of districts,
who took a very keen interest in Volunteering the little modicam of drill the military Intermittent rains maintain the in all its forms. Now, the primary shinst authorities require, will be very dangerous. snemies for asybody to most, if they should
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giving as they have done a needed in the ease was hoard before Mr. J. B. Wood at i depth of the waters and the conditions as to ingresso the defence force of the Col. think fit to attack this Colony. Now, gentlemen,
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TRIBUTE TO A MACAO HERO.
Thirty years have olapsed sinos Colonel Mosquits died in Maeso: No "storied urn or animated bust" has marked his resting place; his grave in fact has been neglected. On the initiative of one of his colleagues, Lieut.-Col. J L. Marques, a pablic and patriotic absoription was raised for the erection of a suitable manNO- len to the memory of one who in 1849 saved the Colony of Macao from an invasion by the Chinese troops. With only 32 braves under hie command he routed the enemy and took posson Colonel sion of the Chinose fort at Passaleño. Mesquita was born in Macao, and so were the 32 bravos who marched out with him on the 25th August, 1849.
mitted that malaria is a preventíble disease there ought to be constant and unremitting effort to emdicate the cause. The Banitary Board has been well advised to cause a pa- philet of simple instructions on the subject to be distributed. It ought to do much good, The whole question, as Lieut.-Colonel FAYSI says, is one of education. There are still many laymon who doubt whether the entire blame for malaria epidemics is to be charged to the anopholes mosquito; and who har |bour a belief that the prevalence of malaria is not unconnected with the breaking of soil, We have, for example, heard the prevalence of malaria at West Point during the past twelve months attributed to the breaking of the ground of the University site; wo have transferred to the Military Hospital 6. also heard it suggested that the cases at the Januaring and a new and special grave will be military hospital may not be altogether ready on the 28th lust, when the funeral unconnected with the preparation of cortège will leave the hospital about 5.30 p.m. building sites in the vicinity; the then-with full military hours, being that the breaking of new soil in tropical country gives off a malarial miasma Such a theory now-a-dayaobtains no support
very exciting one. Foreigners are co-operating with the police to keep back the waters. The colony is isolated.
GREAT SENSATION AT PEKING.
DISMISSAL OF GRAND COUNCILLORS.
There were none;
my I want you to bear that in mind. Sir the Magistracy yesterday, and his Worship are unimproved.
Katthow Nathan was at the time new to Hong. I do not think I can usefully add anything else, reserved his decision natil Friday.
The situation at Karuizawa is a long and very enthusiastic, and he imagined I can only say that I believe this scheme would that in the course of time all the young men in be cordially approved by Sir Fredorials Lugard the Colony would serye in the Volunteer force, if he was ід tho Colony, and I and that the reserve which he wished to equato Hoef-herdip add that I myself would would therefors infrease all the time and become be very pleased ladood to have a small a real reserve of men who had already boon lot in this re-organisation, which I really think trained in the Valunteer force. Ponding that is to the benefit of an Association which I Enormous damage has been done happy result, he conceived the ides of forming personally have taken a very great interest in
this Association in order that the men since its initiņtion. (Applausa.} to sericulture by the floods.
who had already served in the Volunteer The CHAIRMAN then asked members if forces or in the regular army might have ou there Ware any questions they would opportunity of keeping up the most important | liko to ask, point of their training, that is, thar ride shoot- Ing. And he also hoped to get hold of a num ber of men too old to join the Volunteers, and to get them to learn to shoot and thereby prove PRKING, August 17th.
themselves efficient members of the Association. His first ideal has not been attained, His An Imperial Edict published to-second object has been attained to a very con- day has caused an immense sensation.siderable extant. This Association has served
The Edict dismisses Grand Coun- cillors Shih Heu and Wu Yu-sheng, and appoints in their place. Prince
of training to rifle shooting a large number of
The work Yu-lang, and Hsu Shih-chang, who
men who novor handled a rifle before, and of the secretaryship is very beary, and I has been relieved of the Yuchuanpu. some of whom, curionsly enough, have think you will agree with me that it would be a Tang Shao-yi succeeds Hsu Shih-turned out the beat shots in the whole great advantago if he could have some olerical assistance or, in the alternative, if he could be show. (Laughter.) But, gentlemen, you will see chang substantively in the post of that his primary object is not being attained-rald himself for his work. The resolution is as President of the Board of Com-that it to increase the defence force of the munications.
Colony because the military authorities, as you will readily understand, cannot accept the members of an Association who are in no way trained to arms. Men must know a little drill,
Bis remsins have been oxhumed and
On the 25th inst., a solemn roquiam servica
will be held at the Sé Cathedral, His Lordship the Bishop of Maono assisting in his pontifical robes. His Excellency Governor
from the medical experts, but in a pamphlet Marques ned all the civil military sul intended for populas instruction it may not naval oficials will be present, as well as the A CHAMPAGNE OF FINE QUALITY. be altogether superfluous to explain how it inhabitants of Macus and representatives of the Portuguese communities of Hongkong is that the vicinity of freshly-broken ground Canton and Shanghai, the latter with a PER CASE 1 DOz. QUARTS.
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general impression alike PRICE.
$35.00 breaking of the soil simply routs out the
at the hall of the "Gremio Militar," when the mosquitoes from their breeding places, but ceremonies of unveiling the portraits of the among foreigners and Chinese
late Governor Amaral and Colonel Mosquits will be performed in the presence of H. E. the Governor, the Right Row, Bishop of Macao and all public officials and civilians.
we do not know whether this has been A. S. WATSON & CO., established by the medical researches on the subject. If so, it is a point which LIMITED,
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DURING the last decade we have seen in Hongkong a steady and substantial reduction in the number of cases of malaria annually recorded by the Medical Department. As everyone is aware, Hongkong from the
individual his personal responsibility in this matter of eradicating preventible. disease, and though we may never hope to see the Colony entirely free of malaria-since a very large number of cases originate in Chinese territory-the heavy decline in the returns during the past ten years, conse- queut on measures taken by Government to exterminate the mosquito, plainly indicate how much more can be achieved if only the individual can be got to recognise his re- sponsibility and to give his assistance.
The Bishop of Victoris will preach at`ßt, Andrew's, Kowloon, on Sunday evening next.
Mr. and Mrs. Mar Müller, and Lord and Lady French left Peking a week ago lor Poitaiho.
The violinist. Miss Marie Halle sailed for
South Africs recently, Starting a world's tour from there she travela to India, China and Japan.
A fisherman from Aberdeen, who was found in posfession of a quantity of dynamite without
permit, was fined $50 by Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yesterday.
We understand that on the 28th last, when
the cortège reaches the cemetery, Lioat-Col. Marques, Dr. Samuel of the Patria and Mr. A. Basto, the advocate, will deliver speeches before the remsins of the deceased Colonel are lowered into the grave.
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SEQUEL TO A FIRE
ALLEGED INTENT TO DEFRAUD AN
INBURLANCE' CONTANT,
Lui Lai Kong and In Kwai were charged before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday
with setting fire to the Cheong Wo shop of 128, Shanghai Street,
Yaumati, with intent to defraud an insurance compay of $5,500.
Mr. W. E. L. Shenton (of Messrs. Dascos
Looker & Deacon) prosecuted, and defandante were represented by Mr. P. Sydenham Dixon (of Mr. R. A. Harding's office). Measra W Meyerink & Co., agents of the Liverpool and London and Gobo Insurance Co., were repro sented as being interested in the se.
Mr. F. Browne, Government Analyst, was the first witness. He spoke to receiving a number of samples of eloth from Sergeant Appleton for analysis. On examining these he found kerosops; on some large quantities, on others a lessar amount
kerosene evaporated with time.
In reply to Mr. Shenton, witness stated that
Mr. H. A. Lammert, auctioneer, deposed to
decidedly favourable.
LATER,
very useful purpose of bringing together a large number of men who have already bean trained either as Volunteers or as soldiers of
The CHAIRMAN-There being no questions, gentlemen, I will put from the chair a reso- lution which I have drawn up, and which perhaps will cover the ground we want to cover, I would just may before I mors it that year committee thought that in approaching the Government they might ask for an annual grant to pay the secretary, or at any rato to defray the salary of soms assistant to the
His Majesty's army. It has also boon tomber of had & graut and we lost it.
secretary. You will remember that we ones
at any rate sufficient to enable them to be moved from one spot to another. This defoot Bir
Frederick Lugard, who is also very koonly isinterested in volunteering, was not slow to notice, and you will remember that at his instiga tion a notice was sent out asking members of the Amoolation, whether they would consent to undergo a small amount of drill. No response ema recalved to those notions. Well, gentlemen,
Sheng Kun Pac has resumed the Vice-Presidency of the Yuchuanpu (Board of Communications) and will
follows:
"That the Hongkong Volantone Reserve desires a Volunteer Reserve Ordinance on the Association inform the Government that it
Ens of the draft Ordinance attached hisreto to be communicated with the addition of the in- clusion of a provision for a a knowledge of
drill on the part of the members and quad
derstanding that the Government will make &
of $250 per annum if the number of allicient the year, and of a total payment of 3500 per members of the Reserve averago 50 throughout snuum if such number averages a bandred or more throughout the year."
grant towards the salary of a paid secretary
Captain BRANCH seconded the proposition, which was unanimously carried:
Eig EXCELLENCY The Secretary will send this resolution in to the Government,
there is no blinking the fact that attendance at the range has fallen off enormously In the first year of the life of this Association and the rosalt will be communicated
be attached the Tuchipu (Board of the attendance was so great that one had to wait in due course. Meantime, of course, s a long time before one could get a shot at all. Association goes on. It is not wound up Finance) in order to assist in the re- In the year before last out of 230 members until the Ordinance is passed and othor form of the currency.
CHANGSHA INDEMNITY
PAYMENT.
PEKING, August 17th. The Hunanese have paid the
of tael Japanese an indemnity 110,000 for damage to their property during the Changsha riots.
LEOTAR'S SERVICE TO THE "HONGKONG
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ANGLO-GERMAN ENDOW. MENT SCHEME.
-LONDON, August 16th. From Berlin it is announced that Sir Ernest Cassel has given £200,000 in remembrance of King Edward and
during the year in the Colony 127 never shot at arrangements made. Thank you very much, all, and last year out of 193 members 23 never gentlemen, for your attendance. I believe we shot at all This is not satisfactory, and, in have done a good afternoon's work, addition, I would once more remind you that the primary object with which wo were instituted, namely, to increase the defence force of the Colony, is not realised, because the As sociation can find no place in the defence team of the Colony. Now, goatlemen, your soi- mittas, after reviewing the situation as I have briefly reviewed it, bave come to the concinston
that it is in the best interesis of the Association to wind it up on its present basis, and to ask the Government to pasa
Ordinnace euch as, exists in other | Colonies providing for aVolantoer Reserveforne: The draft of that Ordinance has been airoulated to you, and all it amounts to is this: that under the law the members of the Association would enrol themselves, take an oath to place them selves under military law if the cocasion should arise, and make themselves officient in musket. ry by going through the same that the Hongkong Volunteers shoot every year, which is also the same some as the
Course
Territorial foros shoots at home. The course;
as a mark of respect to the Kaiser in I may tell you, is & mere bagatella
Householders will be interested to learn that making an estimate of the value of the shop. order to endow a scheme to aid for members of the Reserve Association whe
session has had an unenviable reputation market coffee roasted and ground on their pre-8250, and the stock from $300 to $350. He
Captain BRANCH proposed a тебе of thanks to His Excellency the Offeer Admin- istoring the Government for the interest he had taken in the Association, and hoped that his efforts would meet with every success.
The vote was carried by acclamation, and His Excellency's brief return of thanks ended the business.
DEATH OF A FRENCH NAVAL OFFICER.
Our Canton Correspondent writes:-Tale- graphic news has just roached hers from Wuchow to the effect that the commander of the French river gunboat Argus has committed suicide. It appears that this terrible cccurrence is the result of a-sunstroke which tho unfortunate deceased was a married man with a family. afloor received some few days ago. The
BICE AND BERI-BERI.
beginning of its history as a British pos- Weigmaun, Limited, are putting on the local The furniture and fittings ware worth about indigent Germans in England and attend the range. None of you who shion Swatow, adds his experience to the body of
in this respect. In the early days the troops
mises. The coffee is of excellent quality.
The Rev. Dr. Foster, who is in Bangkok at present on one of his periodical vitite from
evidence establishing the connection between and the consumption of highly that test. made no estimate of clothing belonging to the indigent 'Britishers in Germany. He would have the slightest difficulty in passing beri-beri
There is no provision in that little polished rice. About three months
was an ontbreak of beri-beri in the High 180 there fokia, because he was not naked. From the hopes thereby to improve Anglo-draft Ordinance for any drill, but your com.
School at Swatow, and in a very short time general appearance of the shop it appeared to
mittee strongly recommend you to ask that have been a quick fire. He considered the German relations.
had the
the school was down with the disease. IE provision be added to the Bill requiring of mem- was feared the school would have to be closed. The trustees will be Their Britannic beranothing more than a knowledge of squad drill | But very shortly before, the Head had read an and German Majesties.
—that is, enough drill to enable a body of men to article in a Hongkong paper on rice and beri- beri, the first he had seen on the subject. Ho be moved from one place to another. That drill PRESIDENT OF CHILE DIES it in a few hours. If the members agree to this
is so simple that any intelligent man at learn put the whole school on No. 2 rice, and in a
fortnight
the disease was eradicated. That of course is mach the ordinary ex- AT BREMEN.
perience, but Dr. Foster's goes a little further. He was not in Bwatow at the time, bat on his return he also used the No. 2 rice. He found It distinctly more nourishing than rice, and less of it is required to satisfy hunger. 1 white polished He describes the difference between No.
Sorgeant Appleton sisted that at 2.25 a m. on the 8th he proceeded to 2, Shanghai Street in consequence of an alarm of fire. He found the
of the garrison were killed off like flies by
A Chinese woman who was arrested at 7, malaria, and down to the present day the Swatow Lane for selling opium was charged troops appear to be greater sufferers from before Mr. J. B. Wood at the Magistracy yes stocking looked small, and the rolls of the the discuss than the civilians, though they terday and ordered to pay a fine of $50.
stuff which were obarred were all part used have shared in the general improvement. The Directors of the Siam Steam Navigation | He did not find any elik. We see it officially recorded, for instance, Co., Ltd; recommend a dividend of 5 per cent, that the malarial cases admitted to the for the last half-year and to add Ticals 10,000 military hospitals last year totalled 268, to the Reserve Fund, after the usual 5 per cent
depreciation on the steamers. giving a ratio of 59 per thousand of the
A case in the Supreme Court yesterday Garrison, against 515 in 1908 (115 per raised the point as to whether the Governor. thousand). We recollect that last year the in-Council has "the arbitrary powers of an Principal Medical Officer of the Garrison irresponsible atstator, as one of the Cousse (at that time Colonel BEDFORD) made the put it. very surprising statement in a public speech
The Lord Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak is that the hospital admission rate for mala now staying in Hongkong. He will preach at rial disenses amongst the troops serving in Bt. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning next Hongkong was then still greater than that at 11 o'clock, and at St. Peter's Seamen's Church in India or in any other Colony in which at 6.30 p.m.
whole of the ground floor in flames and the
woodwork of the two adjoining houses baružig. Before leaving the shop he shifted a tin of kerosene from the rear counter. On returning
LONDON, August 17th. The President of Chile, Pedro
later he found a list of goods (enumerated), includ: Montt, has died suddenly at Bremen ing a parso containing a Chinese agreement. of transfer from the late owner to the first defendant from heart failure.
AMERICAN POLITICS.
a broken tin can on the floor smelt of kerosene,. while a heap of shavings was found near a bod. Under the rear counter he found what appeared
LONDON, August 17th. to be an account book, with a heap of shavings underneath. The standing lamp was found A New York, telegram atates that lying on a settee on its side, and the chimney, British soldiers have to serve with the ex-. The late Commander Stewart Carmas Wei- which was lying alongside, was dracked, but not the Republican State Committee has ception of the West Coast of Africa, which gall, R.N. (retired), of Riverbank, Ham, Surry, broken. A number of the rolls of cloth found unanimously appointed Mr. Sherman, is a notoriously bad station. Since it was who was formerly engaged in the China Surwy. by witness molt strongly of kerosene, as did established, after prolonged research, that the ing Service, left estate which has been valted the floor near the rear counter. The firet de temporary Chairman of the State tendant spoke to witnes about the lamp before Convention to be held at Saratoga on aropholes mosquito. is the infecting for probate purposes at £10,957,
Tomination witness said the fire was the 27th September. No prosecution has been filed against Jean burning ferooly when he arrived on the scene. agent, the Colonial Government has con- ducted a systematic warfare against the Great, formerly azurveyor in the Pablic Works He thought he saw the first derevanat later qu
Department, who was last month committed for the same day.. insect. For the past tar or twelve years it trial at the Criminal Sessions on a charge of The case was adjourned. has been spending annually about $20,000 obtaining $10 by false protensos.
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and
re-organisation your committee suggest that the drill may be conducted on the rouge after var practices: it would not take more than a vary for minutes. Now, that is what would to required of you under the Ordinance, and in return you
No, 2 rice, as these terms are understood in would get the use of a rifle per man, which wo
Swatow, as very much the difference between do not get at present, and which would be a
potatoes that have been pared before being Fery great boon. (Applause.) You would also got cooked, and potatoes boiled in their jackets. a certain amount of free ammunition for firing The No. 2 rice, it should be added, requires the annual musketry course for those who
more mastication Fletcherism, as they torm it in America.
Miller qualified; you would also get emmunition on thinks, might try to make it more attractive in however, Dr. Foster as favourable terms as the Volunteers; and appearance. The question of retaining the you would also enero the continuance mest nourishing part of the rice grain, ha thinks, will become one of importance in the You cannot expect West as well as in the East, In America, at to you of the rifle range. the continuance of that rifle range to you as least, owing to the high cost of living and the long as you are not recognised as an Item in the meat boycot, the consumption of rice has gone defence of the Colony. You all know that range up very greatly, and it seems likely to become a popular one, and you all know that there whale rather deserves the action of the are many unita, including the Volunteers of millera-Bangkok Times. ...and... outside the Volunteers, who would
is
consideration
The cruiser Nioba has been sold to the Cana
A motion to appoint Mr. Roosevelt like to get that range taken away from Above all, gentlemen, - as I have was rejected.
said in the little circular which I sent dian Government for £215,000,
you