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OLD JAPAN.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TWENTY-TWO cases of bubonic plague were re- corded in Hongkong during the last 24 hours. 01 that number if had succumbed to the disease at noon to-day.
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NO MENTION OF SIR ROBERT HART,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 11th May,
11.10 a.m. ·
LATEST TRICK TO EVADE FARES, The example furnished by Japan in call. ing the attention, of tourists' and others to
Quite the latest device in the way of rickisha- the attractions of the Land of the Rising Adstrom,
coolin tactics was revealed in the Police Court Ordinary business.e-manonicaturas såmould be willressed Sun, and the benefits which may be derived
to-day. It is well-known that the coolie who to The Masagre,
from a short residence in that delectable
The Maring Court will theet on Monday next; haunts the corners of the streets, with his country, has incited the people of Manila to the 14th instant, at 19:0 am., to enquire into ramshackle vehicle behind him, has little or suggest that it behoves the Insular Govern the circumstances connected with the founder-
no use for the resident of Hongkong, who only pay's a hundred per cent, above the legal tariff. ment to follow suit. But the latter has noting of the British steamer Chu Kong near
What he wants is the newcomer, or, preferably, seen its way to exploit the country for the Breaker Point.
the tourist who has no idea of prices and lays benefit of private firms, leaving it rather to A SPECIAL meeting of the Sanitary Board will
out his money in lavish fashion. Then the individual effort to attain the results achieved be held to-morrow for the purpose of consider puller is in clover and extorts a fare which is a by Japan There can be no doubt that by ing the advisability of closing a block of three thousand times in excess of the legal price. judicious advertisements, and keen business houses known as Nos. 94, 96, and 98 Reclama-Thus the coolie waxes fat and impudent. But,
A decree appointing Chinese offi acanien in the matter of placing those tión Street, Mangkok.
unfortunately for the coolie, there is a law to the advertisements, Japan has succeeded in
effect that a disengaged puller must accept the cials to be ligh Commissioners of inducing an ever-increasing inflax of visit
first fare calling for his services. It has been the Imperial Maritime Customs ser ors, who spend their money in the country
the practice of the fraternity when one whom and .contribute to the well-being of the
they considered stingy or undesirable bailed vice has been published.
Mucli sensation was created when upon their souls and consciences-save the system of espionage which was adopted by
mark!--that they were already engaged and the Government led to a temporary decline
were only waiting 'their "masters." But that in the number of tourists, who objected to
trick does not always avail, and when a stern being considered "suspects," liable to
pedestrian, with time to spare, threatens to call fatuous interrogatories, and shadowed from pillar to post. The newspapers of Japan were not backward in condemning the policy
world je 30 centa por quarter.
Single Coppios, Dally, ten cents: Weekly,
Sva cons
only
The smallest list His Honour the Puisne judge has had to deal with in Sammary jurisdiction was that before the Court to-day. In most of the cases the defendants were either not pre. were sued for, and judgment with costs was the
The Hongkong A slegraph people. Just before the war, an irritating sent, or when prysent atfmitted the debts they them to point airily at the skies and declare
HONGKONG, Friday, May 11, 1945.
PLAGUE RATS.
resuk in each case.
SERGEANT GRANT #raigned a boarding house keeper before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne at the Magistracy, charging him with failing, wile, having two emigrants in the house, to enter their names, etc, in the book provided for that
give visitors an unfortunate impression of Worship imposed a fine of $10.
1.
the news became known.
It is thought that as Sir Robert art is not mentioned in the decros
a policeman they promptly decide that dis-no interference is contemplated with cration is the better part of valour, and grum-
speed. Now, however, they have invented a
[Straits Times.]
Russia's Political Life,
London, ard May, The Daily Telegraph's correspondent in St. Petersburg says the re-actionary Durnovo bas asked to be relieved and has been dismissed;
Although the majority of people are quite convinced that one of the main factors in
blingly take up the undesirable patron. But they the internal management of the Cus the propagation of plague is through the which tended to drive away tourists and to Purpose. The keeper pleaded guilty and his have their revenge in the manner of their toms, which, it is believed, will pro- mediums of rats, there still remains a section af people who are sceptics on the point, the country. While the war was in progress A kicksta Coolie from West Point was brought new and decidedly original form of evasion, ceed on the old lines. In a letter, which appears in a Bombay the police surveillance nuisance was some-up on remand at the Magistracy this morning, and it was related to Mr. Melbourne at the paper of recent date, a correspondent pra- what relaxed, and the Mayors of the chief charged with being in possession of a quantity Court to-day. A gentleman' leaving one of the of morphine, and injecting the same on another hotels in town hailed a couple of coolies, who tests against the extermination of rats on the cities issued a circular declaring that notchofie without its being duly prescribed by a pretended to be asleep in their rickishas, Pro- ground that it occasions a panic amongst withstanding the war the country remained medical practitionce. Mr. C. A. U. Melbourne bibly they were asleep, but when called in the residents. Although he states that he undisturbed and the beasties of Japan were fined the defendant $1.50 to the first chargestentorian tones they rubbed their eyes and
as beautiful as ever. From recent reports it and $25 on the second.
gazed abstractedly at the disturber of their does not ask that rat killing should be stop-
dreams. When they saw that their rude ped, yet it is evident that he has little symppears that tourists are once again flocking
awakener was apparently a local resident they to the Great Britain of the far East, and
quickly came to the conclusion, that they pathy with it. In the first place, he states that it is neither decided that rats bring nothing is being lelt undone to make them
would do better in some other quarter of the bacilli of plague into a house and thus feliciously remember their sopran in the
the city. Now, it might have been thought hive lifted the DEODORISER infect it ner that rats are more susceptible land of the chrysanthemum and the cherry
that, they would each nichton, board 58. Kalyan for Newchwang. shafts of his bone-shaker and bolted; But to plague than other creatures. One would blossom. The latest example of the energy. think that these points had been so clearly with which private individuals in Japan seek demonstrated that no thinking person could to make the foreigner understand the charms fail to realise that at extermination is the of the country is found in a miniature list essential in the crusade against plague, volume, of over a hundred pages, which en Every day in the week rats are brought larges on the glories of Kyoto, and, in parti.
DISINFECTANT,
GERMICIDE
CHEAP
HARMLESS
EFFECTIVE
to
the Bacteriological Institute, which on dissection exhibit all the features of
plague infection. The signs of the disease are most clearly marked, and the authorities. would bè seriously wanting in their duty if
A. S. WATSON & CO..they failed to take heed of the fact that rats,
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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
Hongkong, 3rd March, 1906,
1.
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GREGOR & CO.,
that would have been too primitive an end to
Five out at thirty-one Queensland horses which were sent to China by Mr. Geo. Kiss of Sydney, on board the China. Navigation steamer Farsan, and which air ved here on 1st May, charge of Mr. Fitzger dd, were shipped last The remainder is expected to leave on Sunday for Shanghai, where they will be auctioned.
the game; and besides it could scarcely have been considered sport. They had a simpler A GANG of coolies was firing crackers t
and a much more efficacious plan. Cuolie West Point, outside the prescribed area, near the Government Civil l'espital last night, and Coolie No. 11 jumped in, and they drove off the police went to clear them away. They gloriously. It is true that the second coolie did so, and a lad had to be ariested for hool abandoned his rickisha to the wind and wea ing the police. He was placed before Mr. Fther, but he wisely guessed that nobody Aareland this morning charged with the offence. He was fined $5, and his Worship su, gested to his father that the lad should be "hicked" when he got homes
cular, calls attention to the excellent accom modation furnished by the Miyako Hotel, in which there are ninety bedrooms and all Due appointments of an up-to-date establisli ment. Kyoto, we are told, affords a better opportunity for viewing Japanese life, cus toms, and scenery than does any other cityThe plaintiff is not here, my "Lord," said a in the empire. The introduction of Euro solicitor to His, Honcur the Puisne Judge this pean improvements elsewhere has been moning, in the. Summary Court, but the attended with such radical changes that Old defendant has admitted the deh in my pre- Japan is in danger of being obliterated; but Kyoto, partly on account of its geographical position and partly because of the nature of
No. I raised his rickisha to the horizontal while
and that Goremykein, who is an extreme bureau- crat and ensiny of Count Witte's succeeds the Count, whose resignation is ascribed to ill health but is really due to his finding it im possible to fight the reactionaries:
Colonial Conference next April, Lord Elgin has announced that the Colonial Conference will meet in April, 1927.
Insurance Losses through 'Frisco. Disastor.
The Scottish Union and National Insurance
Companies' losses over the San Francisco disaster are estimated at £360,000.
Disturbances in Zululand.” Panitive operations have been commenced n Zululand where numerous kinals have been burned and quantities of cattle have been
would dream of interfering with a desolate vehicle, sans springs, sank everything. The intending passenger was left on the sidewalk to mourn the departure of the puller and pulled-puller, and to obtain the services, if scired. possible, of a rickisha-puller of less squeamish tastes. Naturally, he felt annoyed at the trick Irish Party "Agin" the Govern-
mont. AiR meeting of the Trish Party it was resoly.
which had been played upon him, and as most
if allowed to breed and infest the crowded tenements of the more congested quarters of the city, would bring alsout a condition of things similar to what prevailed in Hong kang a dozen years ago. Plague is suck an insidious disease and so difficult to locate in the first stages that every method must be its industries, still retains much of the beauty Lord," said the solicitor. "Then you'd better the conclusion that this was a case for the
adopted whereby it will be prevented from getting a foothold in this Colony. When bubonic plague broke out in Glasgow some years ago, it was only after the most strenuous efforts that the city was cleansed of the scourge. And that in a community where an enlightened population seconded the labour of the sanitary department to the utmost of their ability. How much greater is the danger of the disease spreading in a
door to an ignorant and haphazard city like Canten? It is only by the most unremitting Dil and vigilance that the disease can be
sence" Yes, but I can't have that," replied his Honour," where is the plaintif?" "He has Rone to Chnson on some other business, my
get him back and let him prove his claim," re-
for which it has been famed more than a joined his Honour, and the case was adjourned thousand years. Kyoto (meaning "the capi tal; the residence of the Emperor") has been IT is with regret that we have to announce the closely associated with the Imperial Family death, which took place at the Government since the year 794 A. . when the Ent Civil Hospital, yesterday afternoon, of Mr. peror Kwammu selected in site on which Derny O'Keeffe, one of the sanitary inspectors.
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sensible mea might have done, withough most men would not have taken the trouble, heed to vote against the second reading of the complained to a policeman, who came to Education Bill,
to the Magistracy, where they were charged with having refused to accept a fure while dis- engaged. This should be a serious charge, if only that the heinousness of the offence should he clearly brought home to the minds of the rickisha-pullers in Hongkong. Mr. Melbourne heard the evidence of the complainant, who took the trouble to go to Court for the purpose of giving evidence, and, at the same time, salutory lesson to the rickisha clique. Mr. Melbourne came to the conclusion that Coolic compatriot-was guilty of the charge, and be was ordered to pay a fine of theenormous amouni of $3. The Magistrate confessed that he knew
Court. The coolies were summoned and taken
10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Colony like Hongkong, situated as it is next Nara which lasted for seventyfive years. officer, and will be missed by many friends. No. 1-the coolie who had dragged off his
ITALIAN
VERMOUTH
FROM
FLLI CORA
TURIN,
marks in this connection:
3y kind permission of Lieut. Col. A. G. Fitton, 1.5.0., and officers, the Band of the 2nd Batt, The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regi) will play the following programme at music, during dinner at the longkang Hotel, on Saturday, 12th jnst.:-
Munch med, 4 „" Gruss, au Wien "................Reckling Overture 10............** Fr Diazolu ".............................................. Auber Vahr .............................. Daje Grillenbanijes "............Straum Section from......" Me. People Sjave Soluti
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Highland Patrol The Wer Machinegör "Amer Selection from......... The ticinha ̈*:
.
God Sare the King.
the present city stands as his capital. Pre-Deceased, who died, from pneumonia, was vious to settling in Kyoto, the Imperial formerly in the Royal Irish Constabulary, which he left in order to join the police at Shanghai; Court had shifted about from place to place, he thence journeyed to Hongkong to join the the longest stay on record being that at Sanitary Department. He was a very popular Kyoto remained the capital from 794 till The funeral took place this afternoon, to the 1868 with the exception of a break of six Roman Catholic (emetery. months during the year 189. It is 330 miles Irgus Tokyo and 45 miles from Kobe. | held in check, and one of the principal fac-
It has all the charms of the real Japan and tors in the prevention of the spread of
then it has, above all, the Miyako Hotel. the plague is the extermination of rats.
An itinerary for a 16 days! spell at Kyoto is Our contemporary, the Bombay Gazette, re included in the handbook, the visitor being In case taken from place to place is the vicinity of the should rat poison he distributed in a district till he has absorbed all the wonders district until due precautions have been and beauties of the place. The handbook taken to see that there shall be no resulting is handsomely got up, with a photographic panic from the discovery of dead rats. But reproduction on every page, and the enter against the insinuation that the destruction | prise of the proprietor of the - Miyako fotel of rats has no proved value in fighting in producing such an admirable guide to plague, we must emphatically protest. But the locality will, no doubt, be well rewarded. for the passive, resistance offered by natives It is another instance of the spirit which not in many quarters to the destruction of rats, the stamping out of plague would become a far more easy matter." With these ob servations we entirely concur, and although the conditions in Bombay are entirely different to those in Hongkong, the conten-
In another column we publish an extreme- tion' that rat extermination is highly essen- tial to the eradication of the disease applies interesting letter from the Rev. Arthur J. equally to both places. It shows, how: Stevens on the subject of the new church at Kowloon-the gift of Sir Paul Chater- ever, the contorted views which unscientific, which is being crected to meet the wants of not to say uneducated, people hold when they Episcopalians on the peninsula. As will be even-suggest-there is no proof that rats bring seen, a variety of gifts and donations, have the bacilli of plague into a house. As a been received towards the equipment of the matter of fact, there is overwhelming proofedifice, but many indispensable articles are that they do, and if medical men agree on yet required to complete the furnishings of anything it is on that point.
St. Andrew's Church, and it is eminently desirable that when the building is opened to public worship it should be free from debt. A church which starts with an in-
THE German mail of the 11th April was
ITALY delivered in London on the soih inst.
BEWARE OF OTHER SO-CALLED
ITALIAN VERMOUTHS
SOLD IN THE COLONY
AND MADE IN FRANCE.
Hongkong, 14th July, 1995,
only demands success funt ensures it. Little wonder that Japan is becoming a veritable holy land with Kyoto as its Mecca.
SAN APPEAL.
cubus of debt is in a most unenviable position, and the work of the pastor is ham- pered and hindered to an extent, undreamt of by the general public. The appeal which Mr. Stevens has issued will, we have no doubt, be most sympathetically received and
the second coalie, who had enjoyed the free ride, was guilty, but there was no evidence to convict, so he was discharged with a caution. So the two coolies doubtless poured their funds and paid $3. Probably, whenever we hail a rickisha in future we shall see a string of coolies hastily dropping there own rickisimas and jump- ing gily into a companion's vehicle. But the sight of the rag, tag and bobtail of coolicdom enjoying free rides is hardly likely to induce business from the better class of the commu. nity.
A TEEIOTALEW'S AFFAIR,
PREFERRED A PLAIN SODA.
less than a fortnight no less than two cases of plague have been reported among the police stationed at No. 7 Station, West Point, and two lukongs have been removed to the plague hoi- pital. One of the patients succumbed to the disease shortly after his admittance, while the other is still undertreatment. All the precaution that was taken at the Police Station to guarding with a plaster over her right eyebrow, to against the disease was, it is reported, the "sprinkling" of a little disinfectant about the infected men's quarters. If the dulside of
No. 7 Station is any criterion, the whole station requires to be cleared and white-washed.
A CHINESE woman was seen on the morning of the rath instant to deposit the body of dead, child in Tank Lane, and on seeing policeman near by, took to her heels. The officer gave chase and the woman fell, causing
a
some injury to the left side of her face. She was attended to, brought before the Court yesterday, and remanded to ascertain the cause of the child's death. This morning, Inspector Warnock informed Mr. F. A. Hazeland that the child's death was due to natural The woman was no relative to the
causes,
child, but was paid $4 to dump the body. She pleaded guilty and his Worship paid her S15 or three weeks' hard labour.
Bessie Thomson, residing at No. 2, Guge Street, walked into the Police Court this morn-
charge Alex. H. Malcolm, oiler, on board the steamet Siberia, with assault, on the tith in
stani..
The defendant on being asked to plead said:"I suppose 1 did hit her, judge, but it was a mistake,"
Complainant said that seven Americans went to her house last night and stared quarrelling, She told them to make less noise, and de fendant, picking up a glass, threw it at her and
struck her over the eye.
Indian Railways Scheme. Lynch (W. R. E. Yorks) asked whether, in view of the effect of the penetration of Russian in- uence into Persia on the frontier problem of India, Mr. John Morley (ecretary of State for India) would refuse to sanction a large expendi. ture on the railways to the north-west of India. Mr. Morley replied that any proposals for fur ther railway construction towards Afghanistan would receive his most careful consideration.
In the House of Commons, Mr. H. F. D• -
To Prohibit Duplicate Voting. The Government's Plural Voting Bill, which is to probibit anybody from voting in two con- rituencies, has passed its first reading in the House of Commons. The votes in favour of
the Bill were 327, and 66 members voted against it.
́Queen Aloxandra in Rome. H. M. Queen Alexandra has arrived in Rome.
Royalty Leave Gibraltar.
T. R. H. the Prince and the Princess of Wales have left Gibraltar on their way home.
Kaiser's Children Honoured.
The Sultan has conferred the Order of Osmanieḥ, set in brilliants, on the Kaiser's three youngest soak, and the Cordon of Chefa- kat on the Kaiser's daughter.
Paris as She Wore! Paris has resumed her normal aspect.
STONE FOR THE MILITARY.
Eight women were prosecuted at the Police Court this morning, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the instance of Inspector Dymond, for removing stones fram Crown land, to wit, Harlech Road, Peak, on the rath instant, with- out permission from the Public Works Depart; ment
Mr. Haggard, representing the Public Works Department, said that he understood from communications that defendants were remov. ing the stones for the military authorities. In the circumstances he would ask his Worship for a week's remand to consult the Director of
Public Works,
His Worship-Very well. Can you may whether the contractor who employs these Defendant held that it was done "accident people has a permit to remove stones from ally."
any part of the Peak?
Mr. Hazeland-Was defendant drunk?
Insp. Dymond-Yes, your Worship. They' con remove clones from the valley, but they Complainant-He never had any drinks in have recently encroached ou Crown land. my house.
The case was then remanded för one week. Bail Sto each.
Mr. Hazeland-Was he drunk? Constable-No, your Worship. Continuing, witness said that he and a party- of friends went to the house in question fast evening. The others called for drinks. When asked what he was going to have he replied, A plain soda, please."This did not appear to suit complainant ; and another woman, who
IN a wire from St. Petersburg dated 1st April, the correspondent of the London Daily Mail states that a revolutionary plot for the blowing up of the Duma while in session has been dis covered. The elections in the suburbs of St Petersburg are stated to be generally favourable
Social revolutionists everywhere abstained from voting. The Narka Zhin asserts that Govern labours in Kowloon may be tangibly re- ment agents are stirring up the feeling against cognised. The object is a raost worthy one, the Jews throughout Southern and Western and should enlist the support of a wide sec Russia Government offices are circalating tion of the community. We shall be glad to proclamations enjoining the murder and totur- publish the list of those who contribute to ing of the Jews, "who brought about our de- the fund raised as the result; of this appeal. feats and the revolt at home." The Jews are Alying to Austria and elsewhere. As extraordin- SIXTEEN nunces of gold are sufficient to gild
a wire that would encircle the earth, [36-11ary exodus has taken place at Kleft
to the constitutional Democratic Party. The generously responded to, if only that his informed of the tragedy. It appears that on the sat near him called him names, he thought it
A FATAL accident occurred at West Point on the night of the gth instant, in which a girl. aged to years of age, lost her life. It was, how ever, not until last night that the police were night of the occurrence the little girl wens to a grocer's shop at No 9 In Kü Lane to purchase At one corner of the shop some sweetmeats, were stacked some bags of sugar. When she was being attended to by the sales man the stack of bags collapsed and fell upon the unfortunate child. The bags ware remove ed, and the child taken to the Tung Wa Hosp tal, but she expired in; the way. She was examined at the mortuary and the cause of death was said to be concussion of the brain.
was a mean something." He got excited and picking up the glass threw it at her. It missed its mark and struck the complainant.
Mr. F.A. Mazeland fixed the defendant S10
Ar Saigon, on the 13th April, aflashof lightning struck down fourteen native workmen employed
SHIPPING AND MAILS."
MAILS DUX,
· French (Sufasle) 14th inst. • American (America Maru) ifth inst.. Indian (Namzang) pist insi, Canadian (Empress of China) zznd inst American (China) goth inst, American (Afongolia) zoih inst.
The N. Y. K. Boinbay Linesa, Wakasa Ataru left Keelung for this port on 10th inst and is expected here on 12th inst.
The LC. S. N-Co,'cas. Namtang left Cal-
may be expected here on 21st inst cutta for this port via the Straits on 5th inst.,
and
The Java-China-Japan Lija 28. Tilliwong
in repairing a man-of-war. One of them was left Kole via Amoy for this port on 9th inst., killed. The others recovered after a long while, | koỗ may be expected here on sand last