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THE BUILDING COLLAPSE
JERVOIS STREET.
DEATH INQUIRY.
IN
GERMAN AND JAPANESE RELATIONS.
The inquiry into the canses of the death of tou people who lost their lives by the collapse
of the houses Nos. 98 and 100, Jervais Street ou
September 4th was resumed at the Magistracy postorday afternoon before Mr. J. R. Woad and the following jury: Messrs. P.. Helm, E. L. Hughes and F. Rapp.
Ma Cheuk Sang, recalled, said there were three barners on the bottom floor, two on the first floor and aons on the top floor. There were no fireworks or explosives on the promises.
Lam-Pui, shopkeeper, said on the night of the iire he was slooping on the ground floor.
street, and saw that all the promises were ablaze.
Did you hear any explosion -No as soon as I saw there was fire I ran to call my master.
SPEECH BY HERR DERNHURG..
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1910.
Under the auspices of the Tokyo Stock
Exchange influential Japaness business men invited Horr Dorabarg, ex-Colonial Secretary inviterator, banquet at the Imperial Hotal, Tokyo, ou 8th Sept. There were present Prettier Katsura, Cepat Komura and many other prominent Japanese statesmen and busi- ness mon. The largo dining hall was brilliantly decorated and illuminatoil. Towards the close of the banquet, the Japan Herald's report states, Mr. Ryohei Toyokawa, representing the hosts of the evening, welcomed Herr Deraburg in courteous and enthusiastle terms, gratitude He said it was the source of much
of his to them that Herr Dernburg, in
In spite brief sojourn in Japan, should have honoured them with his presence and referred to the
MORRISON OF PEKING.
[BT AN OLD CHINA HAND.)
of them the more we admire their sterling qualities and the more charitably wo admire their natural idiosynorsies,”
ke
Last year, when Dr. Morrison visited Japan, and his colleague, Mr. Valentina Chirol, were given an official reception such as probably was never accorded to correspondents, as such, before, The Emperor received them and the
Government did all it could to honour them. Dr. Morrison may not have such a reception here, but he will receive a cordial welcome from all who know and care for British pres- tige in the Far East-Daily Mail. birth, he
Fifreon years ago George Morrison was ou s visit to London an unknown and maybe a some what disappointed man. He had just finished a three-thousand-miles trip through China, in native dress, at a cost of £18, and written a book on it book which sold fairly well for work of its kind. From aighteen to thirty-three he had crowded suficient adraatares into his life to make mang volumes. Australian by birt had walked across Australia from Normanton to Geelong commanded an unsuccessful expe- dition to New Guines, coming away with spear heads in his body: taken his medical degres at Edinburgh while recovering from the effect of his wounds; signed on sa an ordinary seaman in the South Seas to study the Kanaka question; gone se as emigrant to America
two
THE HOME OF THE NEW DOMINION.
HOW NR. RHODES DEVELOPED THE
ARCHITECT,
The State of South Africa gives prominence
architect, Mr. Herbert. Baker. The sketch be in the classic style, and on a colossal scale suggestive of Canil Rhodes. The artioto shows how Rhodes developed men.
AMERICA'S TRADE WITH CHINA.
AN EXPLANATION OF THE DECLINING EXPORTS OF FLOUR,
The San Francisco Chronicle says : ---- A few years ago that eminent economic au-
GENERAL NEWS,
MR. ROOSEVELT'AND THE ENGINE. Mr. Roosevelt, in the course of his tour through the West, arrived at Dunkirk railway station. He begso to speak just opposite a locomotivesbout to start its journey east. The had its valve open, and the noise was thority, President Hill, of the Great Northern, was babbling with enthusiasm over the proe- deafening, the Daily News says. That's about
the only thing I can't talk
Mr. against," peots of building up a big export trade in onr
All right and ether food products to China and other Roosevelt shouted to the driver. parts of the Orient. He was so impressed with Teddy. We've got to ist off steam as well as the fature of this particular trade that he cansed yon, came the retort. his company to invest in a couple of big steam.
but have abips, which cost a great deal of money, never paid their running expenses since.
At the time he embarked on the venture the Chronicle expressed distrust concerning his judgment, and pointed out that the Chinees demand for four would be a matter of slow
growth, and that the probabilities favoured
-when-his-utiontion should be
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Mr. William Dover, of Heswall, Cheshire, engineer, who died on June 6, loft estate valaci at £7,454 groas, with net personality £6,806. Ho stated that he was strongly of opinion that the Tex Commandments," as the only part of Holy
Writ insoribed by God's Own Hand, should of China, appear is a conspionons part of the Cathedral
hich had crowned Her 'cess through a post-graduate course under Charcot | given seems to suggest that the buildings wilbild modern mills to grind it. Both of these sa insaribed, or engravel as a part of the fabric
How many fakis at 98. Jervois Btreet are policing was dan to his protious experiones asdon with little money and apparently no
missing -Two died.
Any missing P-No. The two mon burnt to death belonged to Sing Cheong Wo.
HOW RHODES DEVELOPED THE ARCHITECT.
As soon as he heard the noise he ran on to the great ocnâdence imposed in their guest by the served as assistant purser in a skip in the West to a paper by J., Soleman on the Uni the belief that the domestic grove to the Church of Christ of the
German Emperor, and which resulted in Indian fruit trade; acted as Court physician to buildings to be erested in Pretoria, and their possibilities of profit, would be able to supply the therefore left £100ty of Liverpool,
ghior, open trast if, memorable appointment to the Secretaryship of the Shereef of Wazan, in Morocco, and passed
needed wheat, and that capital would be found to in her opinion, the Ten Commannitoets should be the German Colonies. The
colonial iz Paris,
predictions have been realized. Our Consuls in a conspicuous place; and, failing his daughter Yet here he was, thirty-three years old, in
are now devoting themselves in their reports to being so satisfied, she won directed to pay £50 to explanations of the cause of the falling off of the British and Foreign Bible Society and £50 business man and a
and a backer. Hence the parti.
American exports of flour, and they harmonize to any such religious or charitablo inalitution as cular desire of Japanese bankers and business prospects; travel books rarely yield anything men to come in contact with him, and the but honour and a very few ten-pound notes.
Herbert Baker was a pupil of Sir Gilbert perfectly with the Chronicle's conjectures of she might select. reason why Japanese cars Herr Dernburg At the moment when things seemed least hope. with the greatest men of to-day. The role fol he was surprised to receive a noto asking / Bookt, and worked afterwards under Mr. Ernest six years 150 have fallen into the perniciona
Americans George, A.R.A. He went out to South Africa habit of underrating the capabilities of Oriental him to call on the manager of The Times on Wong Chui Lain, master of shop 102, Jorvois tions between Germany to the cordiality the following Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thurs
on a holiday. There he met Rhodes -
peoples. They have allowed themselves to he -Street, said he was sleeping in his accountant's very friendly
The moment was opportuas, for Rhodes deceived by the facility with which the armies room on the night of the firo, Bomo time existing in the sentiments of the two ugoplas dalies characteristic shrewdness Morrison,
was beginning to find expression for the rough of the Western Powers furt the Chinese and after two o'clock ho was awakened by the noise both have close economic relations, Japan beingle wondering what could be wanted of him natutored art that was in bini by planning Japanese to open their porte to trade, and think tores cotta, over which is spread the skin of oES
the greatest consumer
mor of Germnu articles in the for he know no one in Printing House colossal ideas of building, and in the young that because a people onde showed political in Japan owed in
who could wany respects. her
"If I on he resoned with him. effect the thoughts of his efficiency and industrial backwardness compared square-resolved to call on the Wednesday. Englishman he discovered ons
our standards they must always remain in H.I go
ing spirit." Both mon had told his fokis te run, and he also ran away from eager to further strengthen the relations existall. I will be deemed too
1 will soon indi nord-
the condition inch draw booke ontail. They ara realised the rich heritage 'immense and brooding which South Africa vtals however, to soon discover their mistake. and rats behold it with terror, and in a day or between the two countries. Japanese business mon would always be to welcome great on Thursday
possessed in the architecture of such as Hare Dernburg. The speaker sngly Wednesday found him in the sowspaper bodies expronson engine oppreciation for its China, liko Japan, will be compelled to make
of something falling, and soon afterwards dis-
Orient,
the score. He heard no explosion.
By Inspector Gourlay The smoke was
ing
mon s
addition
were
entering his shop by the open space in the then requested Herr. Derabarg to sonvoy the liked it. Ho likod it as that that bo due good quality, its simplicity and strength; the best of her resources, and that means their hereditary enemy is placed Among the. the case which foll, especially in view of his soiving a visit of a friend coming from a long start for Indo-Chins. And so George Ernest that mich te taste and originality a style roses profit, and certainly none in the field steals nothing, eats nothing, kills no birds, and
accountant's room,
Mr. Barlow, on behalf of Mr. d'Almeda, said
ho would like to hear something with regard to
Worship's questions regarding an explosion.
Witness added that he was asleep when the epse fell, and did not know why it foll,
Chan Ming, cook, residing in a house in labe at the rear of Jervois Street, spoke to hear- ing a loud noise, and on leaking out he saw that the houses on the other side were collapsing
The manager had read his book and warm sentiments of Japanese to his people at
work for him. home and concluded by quoting the well-known wished Morrison to do Confacian adage on the exquisite pleasure of It was armaged then and there that ho should
distanco
Morrison set out on the work which made him, within three years, the best-known foreign correspondent and one of the most intinential political journalists of the age.
The speech was translated by Mr. Hori, private secretary
Herr Benburg responded. We append the gist of the translation of his speech appearing in the Chugai Shogy as follow: --
Herz Deraburg
wished to take the opportunity of expressing bia sincero thanks for the courteous. trostiaent accorded him both by civilians and business men single arterius his had received he would make every effort in his future travel to prometa a mutual understanding to Ispanoso and other foreigners
in
THE CHANGING EAST. Dr. Morrison is now in London onco mere, fresh from a journey through Contral Asin. He comes at a time of change in Far Eastern affairs. The past few wooks have seen a rovo.
THE ARTIFICIAL CAT. We learn that an ingenious inventor has male an artificial cat, not le chat a nent queues," but the veritable house cat. The artificial cat's body is composed of plaster or which has left the society of cats at some time or other. The eyes are covered with sulphur of enleinm, which gives to the artificial eat a mora terrible
appeararoe than he eat in life. Mico
two forsake the room in which the imitation of
at the Chinese will neglect no industry which advantages claimed for the artificial cat are--it and the artist in the younger man was quick to
promises
They are capable farmers, sttas no unearthly ories at night. detect in its
be carried further. He spent his of agriculture.
SPLENDIDE MENDAX," time measuring and sketching its details, and and despite the impression that the empire is bgan an the overcrowded, there is still plen y of land within
All its bordere that
The Provaricators' Society of. Hallarat and can be put to the best possible kis collaboration with Rhodes b
Groote Boknux," which. remodelling of however, was shortly afterwards, destroyed use by exploring the congested population in Wooloomoolog was proceeding in prres and harmony till the make-story man spoke. by fire. Rhodes commissioned his architect |
Some people consider the snake hasn't got any. There will be plenty of trade between the to rebuild the house on o model, Bast and the West in the years to come, just a
sense: but they're wrong. For instance, once yet retaining the old houstond, and the critics of the there is between the highly derdoped countries when I was in India, I saw a bindoo wonton to most South Africans. "Grote Schuur of Europe and the United States. But it will plece her baby outside the hat with a feeding como close up-to-that child. My heart_was_in artistic homes of the English-speaking world. now nauke, alike for its peculiar beauty not be of the bind that Hill sat the other ex-bottle of milk. As I watched I tan a sonka ponents of Oriental exploitation have dreamed.
the suake was only which we would like most to sell to them! They atter the milk! He slipped A CHARACTERISTIC COMMISSION. will bay what they want, and it is reasonably car stild's mouth and into his own, and then pat The younger man's proved ability to carry tain that, in most cases, they will only want to the end of his tail into the child's meath by way to effect Kirodes' dreams of laying under buy those things which they cannot produce of a comforter!" in his schemes for memorialising those who had served and given up t
new
intensive culture.
After the house foll, he saw flames, and he and return for the various courtesie. Ia lation-none the less real because quietly and associations, as one of the bistoric and hina and Japan will not take from us that my mouth. But, bless you the test out of the
his fokis went to see the fro.
Fong King, tradesman in the same locality,
told a similar story.
Inspector Gourlay-Were there any doors or windows shattered The boxes were piled in front o the door. There was not much damage done to the house.
bet
ime he would make a careful study of Japan to be taught in schools throughout the Em- contribution the great Greek and Roman models themselves.
a
ese customs and requirements sveryday so that he might attend to his duties with better results. Though Japan's position as first-class Power in the world had been assured, she would still continue to follow the practices in Europe and Americs, thas neglecting her own
tooted in the hands on the Pacific shores. The fate of Monchuria has been virtually settled in China the reform party, after tem porary eclipse, has come back to power: the Currency is to be mono-metallised and English pire; Japan, by denouncing her commercial treaties, has entered into a new stage in her vast business campaigns; Korea is about to lose the last mocking smblems of her soparate
se untionality. More ébanges are yet to come,
su
of a new country,
their lives for their states
1,000-MILE AIR RACE.
THE FUTURE OF THE HIGHLANDS, The afforestation of the waste places in these islands of ours, says the Puit Mud Gazette, in -making steady if slow progress The Royal Commission told us last year that half of the
carrying
When you ran out had you a clear way k-1 } obtaining native customs. Independ! It is not too much to say that a largo part of Baker on a vin led Rhodes to send Herbert NEW MACHINE FOR SECOND £10,000 PRIZE. total quantity of waste lands was capable of
had to climb out over fallen bricks.
his desire for such as Alau Wilsex, and buildings to be an influence enuobling the people to the land of those "doad but septrud sovereigns" who still rule the spirit of acteristically written in pencil en u semp of paper, I am privileged to quote:--
March, 1900,
ence was. of coarer, an important requisita, the thinking world will form its temporary the occasion and heard the houses collapse with pure independetice in commerce was to be views about these doings from the line takon builders from their urna. The ecmission, oltar
easily expected, hence the necessity Гарал
A Chinese constable said he was on duty on
a noise like the report of a gun. On proceeding to the scene he found the place on fire and -portions of the walls fallen.
P.C. Clark said that on the morning of the fire he was at No. 5, Police Station, when he heard a report which he thought was that of a big gun. He looked up and saw the reflection
bet
nations
of
and Germany coming in closer tonob with each by Dr. Morrison. other. Whon viewed from the standpoint of the Prorid's civilisation
sation friendly relations between Japau and Germans were an important esset. What little service he had rendered to Baron Takahashi was prompted by no other desire th th its home gizat be preceded by the onltivation of mutual confidanes, and Herr Dornburg called upon the hosts to render service of fire. Accordingly ho blaw his whistle and
in this direction. He concluded that the power P.C. Hedge rang the fra bell and callod
fal asalstance of influential Japanese business the brigade. Witness went in the diresmen and bankers will go a long way towards tion of the fire and found on arrival that the attaining this important ideal, Kobe Herald. back of the buildings had collapsed. He went to lie front part, bat was unable to render assistance by reason of tho collapse and the fames. However, he assisted to raise the fire escape and joined the brigade in their oporations. P. C. Hedge gave corroborative evidence, except that he heard no report.
quantity of Chinese crackers, and five pieces of gas-piping all more or less twisted.
Inspector Gourlay stated that at 2.50 5.m. on the 4th inst while in his quarters he looked out and saw the reflection of flames on the hillside. Then he beard the fire bell ring, and on going to the locality found that the fire was in the houses Nos, 98 to 102, Jervois Stroote and that
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY POLICY,
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
cent,
"C. J. RHODES,'
cannot be commenced until skilled engineers Russia was then making her fight by colamuar 6. four in number, possess
Elaborate preparations are already proceeding for The Darly Mail second £10.000 prize, for which, during the second week of July next, airmen of all nations will race for 1,000 miles across England and Scotland.
Although the great contest is so far ahead, M. Norbert Chereau, manager for M. Blériot, was able last month to describe the two spesial typos of cross-cenatry Blériot manopisuse which will figars in tho zaos, One will be built esan tially for reliability and the other for great
fino foroste-was capablo, that is, f being converted from absolutely useless inte They toll as that if most profitable territory. this doselation was made to bloom into forests, the country in fulness hand refi million pounds sterling in enital veiva of time would put over s
into its
pocket,
resp annual reward ive employment give that would more than cover the cost of old-sgo pensions, and would a splendid gool for which to strive, and the 20,000 men. This is, indeed, & golden prospect, Woods and Forests Department has made a two thirds of a million Argyle, near
досу
TALKINO PICTURES.
to
ROUJO
the
How has this mon contrived to obtain such power ne montor of the world about the Far East P Travel in outlying parts of China and "I desire you to see Rome, Paestum, Agri- you go you are sure to find traces of Morrison, of areating a mausoleum to those who fell at you will soon learn one of the causes. Wherever gontum, Thobos, and Athens. I am thinking his investigations and his friends. Walk inst Kimberley, a vault and a copy of Paestum, outside the Legation quarter in Peking and you Your expenses as to trip will be paid, and in come to a typical Chinese house,
ouse, its outer lodge case I undertake any of there thoughts, you will facing the street,
,big courtyard within, receive the usital architect's fee of five greed. The first will bare a 60-hp, engine good start by planting house on one side, and a long, low building on the other. Here Morrison lives when not on
The due memorial st. Kimberley was the and a speed of forty-five miles an hour; the trees on the desolate high another half- saconda 100-h.p. engine and a speed of soventy the waters of Looh lined out at Ford
million seedlings bave his travels. The long building is his library result. Crester schemes were nuder way when, and containing probably the finest collection of in 1902, Rhodes life-work-was-out--short
So minutely are the capacities of these new Nursery Quite apart from the value of books on the Far East in existenco to-day. It Herbert Baker's tribute to the memory of his
easy to see how the Highlands of is managed or a plan that reveals the man.
patron was the building of the great granite aeroplanes being estimated that M. Chorean, timber, it is
valno if they became Everything is systomatised and indexed, Tho
The another Black Forest. Germe languish in least fact can be ascertained at once. The tall, memorial on the slopos of the mountain behind making rapid calculations upon his dock in his Scotland would increase
Groote Bokuar," As in all lofty-art, the Regent-street office, was able to add: elean-staren, sturdily built Australian loves to
beanty of this temple is inexplicable, the 50-h.p. machine will fly in a wind of twenty forest regions, and the hillsides where now s show
an appreciative visitor his
his cut- books.
of ita high speed will
be safe in a wind of might become dotted with country houses and nobility are apparent. To so it is to realise Mr. Fisher, the Commmonwealth Prime lings, and his methods. Hore he works; hora mystery incommunicable. Its sincerity and miles an hour. The 100-hp. model, on account faw crofters oke out a miserable caistees
an hour speed which I bare set down for this Minister, i-a special interview with the Mel. he maintains constant correspondence with men with Goethe that "Architecture is frozen thirty-five miles an hour. The seventy miles mauatoria, Janafe." bourne correspondent of The Times, expressed of all nationalities throughout the middle
Bystems, accurney, constant inter The new buildings will be planted on the racing monoplane ie its average, across country
short
Mr. Edison gave a practical" demonstration last month of his kinotophone, by meane of P.S. Garrod said that on the 8th and 9th inst, surprise and regret that The Times should be kingdoms all classes, and a tremendous corre-Meintjes Kon, the must considerable eminence under favourable circumstances, and for:
lieve that the Ministry was not in earnest about conras with.
period, ita speed will probably exceed eighty he saw the whole of the debris turned over by the transcontinental railway projects. Such a spondance have been the foundation on which ca the northern side of the town, within a mile miles an hour. A thirty-five mile an hour wind which moving pictares are made to talk. A a gang of coelies. On the 8th inst. be found a belief showed complete misapprehension of the lie bas built up his knowledge.
of the asatre of Pretorie. The central features unusually high, of onursa. Therefore the picture was thrown on the wreen, and the in- vention, which synchronisee the automatio "INTELLIGENT ANTICIPATION OF HVENTS." will be an open amphitheatre. The dominaut kerosene oil lamp, and some small cartridges. Ministry's attitude. He added:--
"We fy no kites and decline to parada pob Less than eighteen months after his memor-fear
feature is the long, law, cedar roof, with its great capacity of these fast-fying machines to remain
records, spoke for itself. The kinetophone is Next day he found another kozosene oil fin, at our intentions until we are prepared to able call at Printing House-square Morrison projecting eaves, which rus along the entire 900 aloft in such a wind will mean that ordinarily movements of photograph and phonograph entire adverse weather will not interfere with the not yet perfect, but in a few weeks it will be so without a break.
great carry them throngh. The Port Darwin railway was sent to Peling as resident correspondent. fect of the
contest
st at all. "We have been making some estimates as to far perfect, according to Friends of the great. have decided on the best route, while the con-diplomstic means for aupremacy in thro For something of the grandeur of Greek architecture.
the length of time it will take the pilots of swift inventor, that music halls everywhere will be
We clamonring for its
lipg machines to go round the 1,000-mile course.
of the possession. The struction of the Western Australian line is East, and the policy of our Foreign Office was The chief characteristic of the design is tho
the
move in unison with the picture absence of all unnecessary orasmentation. For inadvisable till we have secured by agreement marked by anything but strength. Morrison with the State concerned there shall be no
took up a firm line of his own. Time after its gifest in detail it relies almost entirely on the do not consider the distance will be covered in people in
fewer than four days. The limit of an airman's words of the phonograph. A picture of a insu break of gauge at least between Porth and
time be was able to publish revelations that simplicity and durability of the materials used.
capacity in such arduous work as flying across thrown on the screen dropped a cricket ball, difficult country will probably be five hours The man pounded the table with a hammer, and its impact sounded instantly from the door. Adelaide. These matters are actively is hand, shook the Chancelleries of Europe. Our own
fying a day. Adverse winda will slow down the and this Government is arging the States to Foreign Office was angry, and made no secret
of it. Announcements by Morrison would be HOW TO REDUCE THE DEATH-RATE.
I of aeroplanes competing very materially" and every blow was perfect. He dropped a plato, Mr. D. J. Stutrosk, Mr. Grahams Wille's and as-the-pieces- flow the crash ruroupded. In the World of To-day there is a most in-
manager, was able to describe the type of British-Finally, a motor-car hor tootled, and the de withdrawn on the next. Lord Curzon, then
teresting article describing how Dr. William
built seroplane with which that airman will monstration ended.
Electric wires control the mechanism of the Undar Secretary for Foreign Affairs, tried to explain the matter away by describing Morri. A. Evans, Health Commissioner of Chicago, has son's statements as "the intelligent anticipa made the Chicago death rate below that of any probably attempt to win the great race.
Mr. White, who is now in Americs, has photograph and phonograph, and the records specially designed two or three ma Edison properes to make the personalties and for eye and ear are made simultaneously. Mr. tion of events before they occur," a repark great city in the world; and this is due not only which made many people wish that a little of to the efficiency of his administration, but to the bay party. uro. His final choice! the same intelligence might be transferred to snorgy with which he has educated the people will be made when he has definitely made up his voices of the world's great people familar to mind which is best-biplaas er monoplane. It sverybody. Theatrical and operatic productions The Newcastle, cruiser, completing at the officialdom. By 1900 Morrison had a world-wide on the importance of health. In order to warn the people of Lhe dangers of insanitary sur
all British biplane, quite unlike
unlike pre
earth. Ameriour sghools already use-mering If works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth,
to fly an In the siege of Poking during the Boxer roundinge, be issues a weekly paper which is sont is now fairly certain, however, that ho will elect will be popularised in the romoter parts of the & Co., Elswick, where she was laid down a trouble, Morrison's condnot in the work of de free to social workers and school officials, and sont-type machines of this kind. It will be extra pictures largely for illustrating lectures, and
It gives s persons.
it is believed that the kinetophone way shortly wookly April 14, 1909, is ordered by the Admiralty to
ordinar that any
speedy, and engined very much more
zir.craft.
Con- become ne popular. existing be commissioned at Chatham about the third fence won universal praise. He showed himself other interested
a bort and fearless leader of fighting men. summary of the stats of the city's health, with orhortations in regard to and picturesque week in September, on delivery from the con-
Men talked of Morrison es pro-Japanese.
Benson. In suat-
trary to general opinion, Mr. White-firmly to combine tractors, for service on the Chius Station,
all the advantages of the monoplane, with one replacing the Bedford, cruiser, Capt. E. 3. They were mistaken. He was, first and always the dangers of the particular mans Fitzherbert, which uns stranded on
the precautions to be against pneumonio Korea. The considered some parts of Japanese policy an- unclena crow of the Vindictive, cruiser, Capt. J. Watisfactory, he did not hesitate to say so, sud bronchitis, Diagrams of racial or local or two features added which that type of machine an unexpected shock to his Japanese friends.di gith lenders of 200 to 300 words, are point to the printed text: Health E. Drummond, of the Nore Sub-division of the though his criticism of Japanese policy came as death rates, maps showing where the babies does not pressean"
to be drafted to the Newcastle, Horto Fleet,
talka, pithy whose balance complement will be detailed from
supplied every week to 180 papers. But it is just to such outspokenness that he the Chatham
Not costent with this method t of
propaganda Depot,. The Newcastle, which had been previously owes his roal influence. Men know that when this indefatigable doctor lectures all over the selected for service in the Home Fleet, is a Morrison says a thing, he has allowed neither city, and occasionally takes a ten minutes' tiru faster craiser then the Bedford, having attained fear, favour, nor dread of readjusting is old at popular music-hulls in order to give a plais amez spood of 26.266 kaots at her recent steam views to hinder bim,
ten minutes' talk to the audience on health and trials, but is not so large mor so powerfully Three years ago, Dr. Morrison paid a short discos. One of the results of his energy is equipped, her armament consisting of two 6-in. visit to London and was invited to the dinner of list of Ute thirty thousand cans of milk which and eight machine guns. Capt. G. P. E. Hunt, the Chius Association, a body largely made up enter Chicago daily; twenty-five thousand
ion the Varcastle. D.S.O. will
of merchants interested in Chinn trade. There already conform to the ordinance, eightees She has been built from the designs of Sir P. was muok patronising and superior talk about thousand by pasteurisation and seven thousand
director of naval construction, and has China and the Chinese during the course of by tuberculin tasting.
"There is The following are some of the health maxims
the houses had collapsed. The fire was burning/ expedite an Territory Bill is being pressed effainly denied on one day and the denials
fiercely at No. 100, and they couil not get there as the gas was escaping. Bubsequently the fire was got undor.
He had examined Nos. 98 to 102 and could see no trace of any explosion. If an explosion had occurred he was sure that more than three houses would have fallen, s the houses were old and the wall's loosely "bound. the wall between No. 100 and 98, which had fallen, had given way at once it would have mede a noise like an explosion. In his opinion the cause of the fire was the collapse.
Mr. B. W. Torry, outdoor superintendent for
The Northern
through the Senata with the utmost reasonable speed. The Estimates will include an amount covering the preliminary outlay on the Western Australian line.
H.M.S.NEWCASTLE."
reputation.
the Hongkong Gas Company, said he did not at the entrance to the Straita of the rocks pro-British. When, aftor the war was over, he mer the care of children is dreit upon; in winter believes that one can get a biplane
think the are was due to an explosion of gas He had visited the ruins at Jervois Street and thought the party wall was not strong enough to hold the building. After a gas ex- plosion one would expect to find the fittings wrenched and twisted; in this case they were crushed by the collapse..
Inspector Gourlay-Had there been a gas explosivu the gas moter would have been damaged?
Witness Yes.
Mr. James Hutchings, inspector of buildings W
is
commission
A FEARLESS CRITIC.
said
taken
+
for the Public Works Department, spoke to a longth of 430 fest, a beam of 47 feet, and a the dinner. Then Morrison aros be, gravey· } of Dr. Evan, which are distributed as tracts de being present when the buildings in question displacement of 4,800 tons. She ima bien fitted much to condoma in China, ministrails on hoardinge
were being shore up. Previously he had no reason to doubt this stability of the houses, but aftor the collapse he saw that the party walls
were bad.
Do you consider it possible that this building came down by itself or did somebody bring it down F-It might come down by itself.
with turbinos of 12,000-h.p. Her estimated cost is £355,821.
We who know how
how high are the tive ideals both in this country and in America, who remember how unscathed we emerged from the inquiries into expenditure during the war, A NEW JAPANESE DREADNOUGHT.
naturally condemn administrative methods in China that are not up to our standard." It is Work on the battleship Kawachi, which is natural that we, the most superior of all God's
de Yokosuka Navali
whose people, mission it is to pry into the in- being constructed at
conatries, Arsenal, tas inado fair progress and the launch-
sbo::ld ing ceremony is exported to be held on the 15th termal affairs of other less favoured
Id condemn procedure in China that would proximo at 2 pan., reports The Japan Daily never be tolerated here. It is natural, for
arample, Herald.
that the Bystem of
of purchase of The keel of the battleship was laid in April of runk in Chisu
condexaded should be Had you inspected No. 100 recently --No. last year. Her displacement is 20,800 tons by those nondescript capitalists of alien origin. You only inspect buildings which you length 480 feet, breath forty-eight fest, and whose entry into their ranks is adding so Baspect 7-Yes.
The jary fosud that in the case of the six draught twenty-eight lent Bhe is to be greatly to the dignity and prestige of our
equipped with ten 12-inch gabe, ten 6inch hereditary aristocracy." And so on.
"Those zoen death was due to asphyxiation caused by quick firing guns, twelve 4-inch quick-firing of a who live among the Chinese are reluctant the collapse, and in the case of the seventh mangans and five torpedo tabes.
to leave them," he declared. "The more we ses the use of death was known.
Is it among your duties to inspect buildings to see whether they are safe or not!-Yes.
Closed windows are open avenues to consuniz-
tion.
Strong drink makes weak men.
Your lungs can't be washed, but they esa.be.
aired.
Filth for flies and flies for fever. When youdon't know what to eat-eat nothing. Dry-dusting moves dust; it doesn't remove it. One fly swatted in May is equal to a million
sorats in July. So-called dhost protectors are targets for colds
and coughs.
Breathe freely and fally: the more you expand your chest the less you will contract colds.
Floods of sunshius in the home may fade carpete, but it puts the bloom of health upon your checks. Take your choice.
WEATHER REPORT.”
SEAMEN'S EYESIGHT TESTS,
As a result of the case of Az. Jolin Trattles, who failed to pass the Board of Trade Examina tion in colour vision, and was subsequently passed by a practical examination on the River Thames, the Board of Trade directed that the The Hongkong Observatory-yesterday issued-eyesight tests at present in use should be inquirad On the 20th at 11:45 am. The barometer into by a Select Committee appointed.
Board As
Merchant the Imperial has risen considerably in N. Chins and fallen Guild, who were mainly responsible for bringing
Jammu, quickly over
the following report:
ន
by
Bervice
nortunity to nomiante a representative or repti-
Marine De-
The depression lying over the Yellow Ses about the whole subject, were not given an op- yesterday has moved quickly Fastwards and sentatives to sit on the Committee, they Les now over the SE. part of the Sea of Japan. addressed a communication to: the
The barometer has fallen slightly over the S.
Fubmitting coast of Chins, Formosa and the Philippines, partment of the Board of Trade, subi
that the
the composition of this Committee was and pressure is relatively low over the middle
such as to bring its utility into grave part of the Chiau Sea
question,
of the members majority Pressure is high over N. China and over the
of tho Committee were Fellows of the Parifio to the Eastward of the Bonins..
Royal Bariety, who
were rasponsible in the first The wind will probably freshen from N.E.-
for recommending the present system of and E. in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the Chins Sea,
at 10a.m. to day, 0.00 inches.
J
the
༢$༢a£ ¢u *
tests, and that they were practically on the defence of their own recon---
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending mendations, whilst the Guild which representa
so many thousands of certificated captains and”. offleera to whom the subject was such a vital The forest for the 24 hours ending at noon
one, were excluded from what they maintained to be their undeniable right to representation. to-day is as follows:-
E. winds, fresh-
Farther, the Guild objected to members sitting Hongkong & Neighbourhood
oning; fair.
on the Committee who had previously expressed N.E. winds, Formosa Chouzzel
fresh opinions to the effect that the present tests were satisfactory. Much correspondence has. South coast of China between? Samo as No. 1. passed between the Board of Trade, the Imperial --- Hongkong-and Lamecks. I
Merchant Service Guild and the Departmental South coast of China between Same as No. 1. Committee on Eyesight Tests, but the composi
Hongkong and Haimaa...
tion of the Committee remains unchanged.........
ALF