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THE Retrenchment SCHEME
PROPROSED ABOLITION OF FORT OF ASSIST.
ANT MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH..! The following minuto is by Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Head of the Sanitary Department -
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST 20
COMPANY PROMOTION
IN HONGKONG.
OPINIONS, IN SHANGHAI
HONGKONG OPIUM BARM.
AMENDMENT OF FORM. of GBART:
CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES:
COMMITTEE'S EXCELLENT WORK. In the camant lasue of the Government In the report of the Registrar-General just Gasifis are printed certain amending condisned, will be found the following reference to tion to the form of grant of the Hongkong the Chinese public disprosaries Opium Farm. They relate to sanrobes for
The three Dispensaries. In Victoria (the licit opium and were accepted by the Opium Eastern, Central and Western), were early in Farmer and have beco sofarced during the the year put under the control of, the Tang current Farm. The amendment of conditions Wal Hospital, on the understanding that the to be fulfilled by the grantee am as follows:- hospital should be guided by the advice of the Public Dispensaries Commitico, a body ap. painted for this object. The hospital withdrew from this arrangement towards the end of the year, and the Dispensary Committee is now in control. It is composed of the Registrar-Geo- eral as chairman, the Chinese Members of Council and of the Sanitary Board, the three chairmen of the annual committee of the Tung Wah Hospital and a number of the other lead- ing Chinese. The accounts of the Victoria Dispensaries are kept by the Registrar-General, who is also charged with the collection of sub-
After clause (5) insert the following: (5)(.) The Goverment to be at liberty at any time to depute parsons to supervise the boiling and preparation of oplum
The following lettere on the above subject appear in the N. C. D-News:-
Sir-In your comments under the above His Excellancy has instructed me to a heading in to-day's issue of your paper you certain whether the members of the Hoard state, "The specific instance to which the writer Concur with me in stating that only two allades... in aot a violation of the Hongkong Medical Officers of Health are now required Ordinances for would it be a violation of the and not three. I proposed to refer the matter English Company Acts." This would undoubt to members la connection with the Retrench-edly be so according to the Companies Act ment Committee's proposals: as the matter of 19-0, but there can be no doubt whatever Isfurgent, however, I should like to bring it
it that, in the instance referred to, there would forward at the next meeting in the form of have been a violation of the existing Acts. One
After clause (6) insert the following:- resolution That the Board reccommends of the weak points of the Act of 1900 was that
(6)(a) To observe the following rules re- that there should in future be one Assistant relating to the issue of prospectuses, and this Medical Officer of Health only and that the Weakneus was so apparent that drastic amend-lating to searches in addition to those contais- post of zud Assistant Medical Officer of Health ments were inserted in the Acts of 1937 anded in the Ordinances:
1. Whenever a house or floor of a house be abolished as 1000. 21 convenient, and that 1908. As it now stands, the English Com wholly in the accupation of one Chinese fami- arrangements be made with the Medical De
paties Act states, inter alia:
ly has been unsuccessfuly searched for opium, partment for the loan of a medical officer dur Sec. 8o. * 2-A copy of every such pro-and whenever the Captain Saperintendent of ing the absence on leave, etc., of either the spectus signed by every person who is Medical Officer of Health or the Assistant named therein as a director or proposed direc Medical Officer of Health, to discharge the tor of the company or by his agent authorized duties of a sanitary adviser to the Board and
in writing, shall be filed for registration, and the Department."
no such prospectus shall be issued until a copy thereof has been filed for registration.
1.3.1.09.
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Mr. Ho Kom Tong minuted:-I think one A.M.O. H. is quite enough.
Mr. A. Shelton Hooper With the large amount of mortuary work to be done by A. M. OH, it is doubtful if the proposed retrench. ment is advisable.
Dr. G.B. L. Fitzwilliams:- think that this is a wise and suitable retrenchment and I don't
agree with the misute of Mr. Shelton Hopper
that the amount of work in the mortuary is likely to give any serious trouble.
Mr. Lau Cha Pak-1 agree with Dr. Fitz williams.
Hon. Mr. A. W., Brewin-This cannot be considered satisfactorily without full discussion In Committee as to present duties of the A. M. O. H. and some explanation of the reasonS why the post can be cow abolished,
Director of Public Works:-I think, too, some explanation and discussion is necessary.
TERRIBLE SEA TRAGEDY.
MOTHER MURDERS CHILDREN. Marooned on Middleton Reef for more than a month, the captain's wife killing with her own hand her two children and throwing their bodies overboard to keep the starving sailors from killing and eating her offspring, the death of the mother the following day and the rescue of the five remaining sailors the day after by an English tramp steamer, is the story of bard. ship and suffering brought to Manila by Captain Schuldt, of the German freighter Sonneberg, which arrived yesterday, reports the Manila Time of 7th'instant,
The Sonselorg came direct from Sydney to Manila, and the vestel bearing the rescued sailors arrived there the day before the sailing of Captain Schuldt for this post.
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From Captain Schuldt's story.of the tragedy appears that a Norwegian bark, of which be did not remember the name, went ashore in a blow on Middleton Reef about 200 miles north Bast of Sydney, and, the skipper and some of. the sailors were washed overboard almost as (soon' as the vessel struck. The reef is one of the most dangerous in that part of the world and many vessels have come to an untimely and.on_bar.rock..............
For more than four weeks these shipwrecked sallors, the skipper's wife and four children, were marooned on the island, belp coming once when an English ship came in sight and the officers took photographs of the stranded bark, but thought her to be abandoned and sailed away again. This occurred two weeks before the final roscua.al the remaining mem- bais of the crew, and as the half-starved men and the woman sảw their hope of rescue fode from sight over the horizon, their plight, was Indeed pitiful..
Another vessel was stranded on the reef a sbort time before the striking of the Norwegian bark, and some of the sailors went over to this vessel to get provisions if there were any on board, Relursing they encountered heavy seas and before getting back to their starting point 17 of them were drowned,
Soon after the drowning of these sailors two The children died from exhaustion. There were but five remaining sailors, the wife of the captain and two children at this time, emaciated, and dying of hunger and thirst. On the small island where they were wrecked there Was no vegetation and no fresh water They were all half-crazed from starvation and lack of water, their condition made worse by drinking sea water which was the only liquid they could gel.
Murmurs began among the sallors to kill the two remaining children for food, but the mother overheard the threats and that night her own hand killed her babies and threw their weighed bodies into the sea in order that they might not be used for food by the demented men.
The following day the mother herself died from exhaustion and the pervous shock from the murder committed less than twenty-four hours before. Within a day from the time she died bops again flickered in the breasts of the ship-wrecked sailors as they saw smoke on the horizon of the tropical rea.”
The amoko grow, steadily more distinct, and within a few hours an English steamer lay off from the wreck and took the five remaiciog men on board and steamed away from Sydney.
Upon their arrival at that port they could give only disconnected reports of their ex- perlance, as every man in the crowd was more or less demented from the long period of suffer- ing, and from hoping against hops for rescue. They were well taken care of on the ship that took them off, and upon arrival at Sydney were givan bospital treatment, for their condition was nearly hopeless on account of lack of nourishment and water for so long a period...
SALE OF THE "HVGBIA"
LETTER FROM GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT
- prospectus is issued wilbout a copy thereof being so filed, the company and every person who is knowingly a party to the Issue of the prospectus shall be liable to a fac not exceeding $ for every day from the date of the issue of the prospectus until a copy thereof in so filed.
Sec. 285. a. a—The expression "proB- pectus" means any prospectus notice, circular, advertisement or other invitation inviting the public to subscribe for or purchase any shares or debentures of a company.
COBсera.
H. P. KING,
Even under the Hoogkong Ordinance 1 ed before it can trade as a limited liability presume a company must be proparly register-
I am, etc.
Shanghi, August II, 1909, Sir-Your correspondent Mr. H. P. King is a little too positive in stating that it is illegal by English law to issue the prospectus of a company before the company has been incor porated. Section 8s of the Consolidated Act of 1908 clearly contemplates the possibility of a prospectus being issued prior to incorpora tion as It commences as follows (— -
Every prospectus issued by or on behalf of a company or in relation to any intended company shall be dated, etc."
has
it is file
It is clearly illegal by English law to issue a prospectus, before the same
for registration, but been filed apparently legal and practicable to such prospectus for registration before filing the memo and articles for registration. Your Correspondent appears to have been confused between the regulatinas providing for the fil leg of a prospectus for registration, and the re- guintions providing for the filing of the mens Brandum and articles for registration, which are two quite different things,
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Police has reason to suspect that a search warscriptions. rant for oplus has been obtained on falın in- formation, the granted shall furnish confiden. tally to the Captalo Superintendent of Police name and address of the informer.
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1. The badge required by section 6 of the Prepared Opium' Ordinance, 1891, shall be worn outside the ileevs of every exciss officer detail. ed for the searching of persons on public whar Yes or for executing opium warrants, and such badge shall show the excise officer's office and
number.
3. Not more than five excise officers shall enter or be in a family house at the same time for the purpose of executing a search warrant, and each of such excise officers shall be pro- vided with a dark lautero.
4. Excise officers detailed to execute a soarch warrant shall allow themselves to be'searched from which they proceed to the search, and also by the Police before leaving the Police Station on their way to the place to be searchód.
THA CENTRAl market.
PROPOSED INNOVATION. A
The following application received by the Sanitary Board for a "killing" room in the Central Market to 'be used as a fruit stall was laid on the table at the meeting of the Sauliary Board last Tuesday afternoon-
Hongkong, 12th February, 1909. Sir, There are at present two vacant places, in the Central Market formerly used for
slaughtering poultry, but are now abolished which would be very suitable for the stalls where ladies could come right in and choose what. ever they wanted instead of standing outside on the pavement while a lot of coolies stare at them. I know many ladies and gentlemen would like to taste the fruits but there being no respectable place in the market where one could do so.
Should I be able to obtain the above-men- tioned stall, shall have them nicely fixed up with a few chairs 'where customers could sit and wait while their vegetables or fruits are being weighed. Yours faithfully,
(Sd.) CHAS: HENRY KIM.
It would naturally be expected that a com pany established cuide the United Kingdom should have to comply with the same condi tions as a company established in the Un- ited Kingdom. There is, however, nothing in the Act of rgo8 to this effect, although there are provisions specifically relating to com pavies established outside the United King-geDD, wrote as follows: These rooms have
dom Section 174, subsection 4, merely pro- Vider thing every company to which this see tion applies, and which uses the word" Limited" as a part of its same, shall in every prospectus inviting subscriptions for its shares or deben-- tores in the United Kingdom state the country
in, which the company is incorporated."1 am, etc...
H.
*** Prior to the arrival of the above letter we had received word from the, Mr. King that he had overlooked the point raised by "H"- ED,
MAP OF HUNGRONG.
NEW SURVEYS,
undertaken last year for the purpose of defin- Many survey's of considerable extent were
jag the boundaries of lots or preparing sale or lease plans, The mast extensive works of this Galure were the surveys of 36 Squatter Villages which took more than one surveyor's time for the whole year, the completion of the survey of Deep Bay, which occupied a surveyor over three months, and a survey of the whole of Messrs. Butterfield and Swira's property at Quarry Bay which, taking the combined of surveyors engaged, occupied over six months' time of one surveyor. In addition to those, a certain amount of triangulation work to form the foundation of a trigonometrical survey of Hoogkot and Kowloon was carried out, and extensive surveys were made of the south-
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6. T. DUNN, Esq.,
Supt., B. and F. Departmanı.
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The threa Dispensaries on the Komicon side (Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City), aza mora independent. They collect their own sub- scriptions, banking the money with the Regie- trar-General, and keep their own accounts. They have separate committees, on which the Chinese Members of Council have seats.
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The work of the Dispensaries is of a dual catura. Do is educational side it is performed mainly by the committees with the assistance of a large number of "street committee men (kal-fong chik-lei) who are men of importance in their own streets, and able to bring a good influence to beer on their neighbours. The purely medical and surgical work is done by the doctors with their staffs of clarks and stretcher coolias.
The work of the committee and street com mittee men in connection with the discourage ment of "dumping" has been fully reported on in a separate report.
1909.
HONGKONG ELECTRIC'.
TRAMWAYS.
THE BALANCE SHEET.
We have received from Majem. Shewan, Tomes & Co, agents, Electric Traction Co. of Hongkong, Ltd., the accompanying Balance sheet and statement of proft and loss account of the Electric Traction Co. of Hengkong, Ltd., To Capital
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Authorised and Issued: 325,000 shares_of At each issued as fully paid as, per last account.***** Five per cent. mortgage deben. tures charged upon the under. taking and all property of the Company AZER
Creditors-** London.. Hongkong
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1,388 10 6 teel" 1,239
Reserva for de- preciation and renewals ......ar Balance of profit and loss acconst
By Tramway under- Staking, fàcluding land and outlay on construction cqpipment-
In other propagandist work the committee have been equally public spirited, especial. ly in disseminating literature bearing on the connection between rats and plague. They bave, also. distributed for the Sani- tary Department some thousands of traps and have brought about a weekly death rate of rats of over 1,000 at no cost to the rate. payer. They also made wholesale poisoning of rala possible by assuring the co-operation of the mann of the population. It is no small" advantage to have the natural spokesmen of the people as advocates of hygienic measures, and on the side of sanitation, **
It may be added that the applications for Gov- erament midwives through the Dispensaries re- present only a fraction of the cases undertaken by the midwives. The total number of new cases treated in the six Dispensaries js-24,353, An increase of over 30 per cout, as compared with last year.
JAPANESE MONEY MARKET.
LOWERING OF FIXED DEPOSITS URGED. The Jiji Shimpo recently bad an article ip which it refers to the great difficulty now ex perienced by the banks in Tokyo and elsewhere regarding the profitable disposal of the large amount of funds which are fast accumulating in their vaults and counsels the lowering bi
and
As per account, 3198
19.
375,000 00
195,000 0 0
3,617 I
·SHELL TRANSPORT SHARES.
NEW STRIKE OF OIL ON EAST COAST
BORNEO.
There has been steady and persistent buying of Shell Transport-shares, and the shares have advanced; Buying comes from such wallda formed quarters that it is generally assumed some development will shortly be announced which will explain heavy purchases. This seems to bava coms in a cablegram announcing a new strike of oil in Kostel, on the east coast of Borneo, There are likewise rumours of closerconnection with the Standard Oil to the effect that the president of the Royal Dutch : Petroleum Co., with which the Sbell Co. works, will get a seat on the board of the Standard Off Co., and that one or twa representatives of the latter will join the board of the Royal Dutch,
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ALCOHOL PERSUS OPIUM.
"Eogland, with all thy faults I love thas still," was the exclamation of soma oss, evidently for the moment carried away in a sudden oniburst of patriotic enthusiasm, Nations, like individu, z 16,000.00 als, no doubt have their certain particular faults and weaknesses, some more predominant 286 II 1
than others. There is no place at the present day where the efforts of the social reformer, or the Sociation for the ameliorating of the misery and wretched condition under which human beings axist, for the improvement of the condi
£538,914 3 4
: December, 1997.520,278 x 11 add expenditure
..Cash at Bankers.
and in hand- London Hongkong .....................
Loan against security "Debtors and
pay- ments in advance London............ Hongkong****
Stock of stores, tickets and coal in Hongkong, as per inventory signed
by general man. ager and agents...
252 2
520,530 18 1
ol·
ition of the poor, and for the suppression
many forms of sin, vice and than in England, or rather is most of the larger cities throughout the British Isles. No doubt tales could be related by the police authorities, the city missionaries, by the, authorities in charge of the immense refuge bearing the name of Its founder, Dr. Barnardo, or testimony without limit could be given by the veteran 'General' Booth, of the extent to which misery, sin, squalor and vice 605 7 IT
are rampant in the metropolis itself, in London, 6356 2
the richest city in the world. 1,240 14 F Notwithstanding all the need of the efforts of 10,000 00 philanthropists and the charitably diaposed, so glaringly required at their own doors, numerous religious and other 'busy bodies' or 'faddists' will persist in ignoring the existence of the same The moito, that 'charity' begins at bomo, is either forgotten or ignored, and their efforts at amélioration are directed towards other races of mankind, rates of other creeds, and colour, thousands of miles away.
34 5 '531 10
By Goods in transit. from London
to Hongkongomun
361159
•
6,198 3 3
381 1x
£538,914 3 4
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1908.
...Dr.
£. d.
$249 197
To Power expenses (Abstract A) 3,319.95 To Traffic expenses ( To Maintenance
To
and repairs... th General expen
C) 5510
se5 ...............
2
D) 9,684 9
Total working expenses..... 23,764 3 8 The financial position of the associated To Reserve for depreciation and fixed deposits as a means of relieving the pre- Tokyo banks on July 24th last compared with the corresponding-date-during-the-last-thres To Balance carried dowo years, is shown below :—
sure.
Mr. Adam Gibson, Colonial Veterinary Sur been practically unoccupied since the new killing rooms were erected at the end of the market. They are only used at festival times and then are poi, crowded. I have already suggested in my reports on markets that one of them might be closed. I think it might be a good thing to let this as a stall for three years at the average rest of the other fruit stalls and July 24, 1909... 252,513 241,850 44.194 at the end of that time ita value would be better known. There are not too many fruit statis.
30,7,09:
算
renewals
* 4,000 0
CASH IN 'DEPOSITS. LOANS. HAND
To Debenture interesi Y1,000 ¥1,000 ¥1,000To Balance carried to balasce
shee! ......
1908. 215,901 247,970 26,369 1907......... 222,983 218,015 28,827 1905 19 1454 176,813 21,273 As will be seen from the above, the amount of deposits at the Tokyo banks on July 24th,
million yen, 1909, showed an increase of 37
17 per cent., as compared with the same date last year, while as regards Ibans, this year's figure in million yen below that of 1968. This state of affairs affects the interests of the banks in no small degrea. Assuming the average rate of daily interest on deposita to be I sen per Yroo and that on loans
Mr. Ho Kom Toog miquted :-I think the C.V.B.'s recommendation should be adopted.
Mr. A. Shelton Hooper-Have there not been some other applications to rent this killing room for a fruit or vegetable stall before?
Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin:-The poultry daalers who were turned out have first claim.
Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett:-1 agree with the Registrar-General. If my memory serves me, I think the rooms are very dark and- not partisen, the banks have daily to pay out Y3,700 cularly will ventilated. If they are to be used more in interest and receive 4,000 less on us stores, it is possible soma structural altera loans than last year. This brings their daily tions should be made.
loss to Y4,700, or Y1,700,000 in a year, lo such circumstances, it is not surprising that the banks are suffering from a plethora of capital
Mr. Las Chu-Pak-Was this room not required by the poultry dealers for storing pur- pose, and did they not offer to pay-for-the-use-and from the lack of profitable employment-for- time
of it?
eastern portion of Kowloon Peninsula in con. pection with railway work and of several blacks of land beld by the Military Authorities for the purpose of determining boundaries and areas. A
survey was also prepared of the Naval properties in the vicinity of Macdonneli Road, (re-named Canton Road), Kowloon, for the issue of leases.
Seeing that such extensive surveys have bad to be undertaken, it was decided that in future uniform scates of so feet to s Tech (1/600) and 2 o feat
an inch (1/2400) should be adopted for the maps of the whole Colony thus getting rid of difficulties hitherto experienced owing
to the variety of scales in uso. The whole, of
Hongkong, Kowloos Peninsula and New Kowloon has been divided into Ordnance Sheets and the survey of Kowloon is being pushed on with a view of replacing the existing map which is on the {1/2500) scale.
ORIENTAL TELEPHONE
COMPANY..
THE HONGKONG CONCERN,
CHINESE RAILWAYS,
ALLEGED GERMAN INTRIGUES,
The following is the original text of the telegram sent to The Times by its Poking Correspondent, to which Reater referred in a telegram of July 25:~-~
Peking, July 21.
The telegram of President Talk to the Prince Regent, emphasizing in friendly, but dumistakable terms American rights le the Canton Hankow Szechuan Railway loan, has stirred the Chinese. Following upon its re ception the Regent, for the first time, sum. moned the whole of the Waiwupu to audience, and showed considerable anxiety; for, if this policy of drift continues, he realizes that he may receive other and less friendly warnings direct from other rulers.
it. The official rate of interest bn fixed de posits in Tokyo in per cent., the daily in forest on special current deposits 1 sen, and on ordinary current deposits 7 rin, but it is an opaq Secret that some of the banks are paying more favourable rates to some clients. Interest OD
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The most prominent question towards which their efforts have been directed of recent years, as far as this part of the world and the Far East generally, are concorond, ls, without doubt, the much discussed opium question, concerning which the latest papers from home gire: AC- coasts of some meetings of various societies, which have been held with the vsaw "of ac-
celerating the final extinction of the vice. A common saying is to the affect that we all have our vices, and, if opium be the chlef 'vice of the Chinese, undoubtedly "drink', is the chief 'vice or, as it is termed by many, the 'curse' of the English people.. Scedos of vice may be witnessed any night In the London gin palaces of the lower quarters of the city, compared with which nothing on a similar scale so degrading can ever be found in the Orient.
One of the principal meetings held was that of the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppres 9sion of Opium Smoking in China, at which the -principal-speakers-were-the-Venerable Arcb.
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0
9,506
£37.770 5
9,750 0
--186 11 1
£10,036 11 1 Lind. £. s. d. 36,913 3 5
By Traffic receipts
Other receipts-
Londra..... 287 4 10 Hongkong: 59 17 1
WAL
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By Balance brought down
Balance as per balance sheet 31st December, 1907 .......
347 2 o
£37,7770 5'5
9,506 19
30 94 £to,036 11 The rate of. Exchange is taken at
11. 90/16 per dollar. -ÉG-MOROANE
ROBERT MILLER.
ERPROST IN RATS.
Directors,
MEDICAL INVESTIGATION IN JAPAN,
deacon Moule, formerly of Shanghal, and the Solicitor General for Scotland, Mr. Arthur Dawar, K.C., M.P., etc., a son of the chief man- aging director of the eminent whisky distilling firm of that Dame, whose brands are not only so well-known in these parts, but who haye 'also the honour of being distillers onder Royal 'Petronage." The speech of the Archdeacon contains little that is either interesting or novel, with the exception of his remark that "the 'vice' was fast being extinguished, and that Young China was not smoking opium." It will be the hope of all that these two statements may. be true, but it has been already made public, and not without considerable foundation, that if Young China are not taking to opium, they are taking to alcohol in place. The picture of Mr. Dewar denouncing the 'vice', the son of ops of the wealthiest Tamilies in Britalo, and who owes the position he holds largely owing to the profits derived from the produce of another *vice, which equally enslaves the people, kas very much the appearance of Satan reproving
"He again reiterated the fact of his being a comparatively recant 'convert' to the 'cause,'", and which had been brought about by his being beckled on the question whilst addressing some meetings of the electors of the consti- . tuency be represents in Parliament, concluding with the remarks that he had found the Report of the Royal Commission had misled him that ha bad found the report was not in accordance with the evidence, and that from beginning to aod, the wars, treaties and diplomacies were all shameful things for Great Britain? It will be remembered, "that, during the_sitting of the Conference at Shanghai, the Rev. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, speaking at the Westminster Bible School, made a fervid and impassioned
None of the reports of the other meetings contala much that is either new or laterestion.
Zealand, by that pious sect or body, the Society of Friends, commonly" KEDED "AS "Quakers," but which is too lengthy to bene reproduction Mere.
pana is not uniform, maging between 7.3 and 1.8
A Tokyo dispatch to, the Aizki credits Dr. sen, while that on call loans is 8 rin of undet.
Shibayama, of Tokyo, with the following state- Supposing the average rate on loans to be
ment: Some years ago leprosy germs found 1 sen (which is equal to 5.475 per cent.
in the rat were studied in. India and subse- per annum), ibe difference between the Interest on loans and fixed deposita is less than 0,5 par quently in New York, In Japan Di, Kawa- mura Rokuro, now residing in Wakayama, cent., so that the difficulties of the banks which aim at profiting by the difference between the
discovered the leprosy germ in a rat în Osaka early this year, The discovery was made two rates of interest may well be imaglaed.
public in April last, when Dr. Wakamura nothing is better calculated for the banks, con of medical mes at the Tokyo Infectious be in harmony with his will, and that Prayer For the relief of this embarrassing situation Fead a paper on the subject at a meeting appeal to his hearers 'to cry out to God day and night that the findings of the Conference might tipuer the Jiji, than to drive away from their Diseases. Hospital. L'aler os a similar exchequer a large portion of the idle money discovery was made
at the Kumamoto meetings were accordingly held, and Divine known as fixed deposits on which a high inters Medical College, Dr. Ichihara, Director of inspiration was implored to enlightens est is paid. As far as present appearances in
sit ing of the Conference, spiritual and tom. dicate, there is nothing in sight that will cause found leprosy germs in rats recently. He ex- the Fusau Infectious Diseases Hospital, also
poral weapons being thus employed with Prince Ching, the President of the Waiwapa, market, while there are several factors, such as a particularly large demand on the funds in the
amined soo animals, two of which were found zealous perseverance, and nothing being left
usdone to move the powers in Heaven Abora · whose neglect of his high duties does China the redemption of loan bands, the introduction interested in the matter and has himself beon to contain the germs. Dr Shibayama is' much
and on the Earth beneath. much dishonour, bas been awakened, and en
of foreign money, etc., which will go to further Tuesday was present at the Waiwopu to discuss accentuate the sickness of the money market. conducting investigations. He calculates that one sat out of every three or four thousand con- affairs with Bir 1, N. Jordan, the British Minis: The only means of valiaving the existing [tains.the germs. A dead rat' whose hair has with the exception of one held in fan Naw ter, for the first time since the latter's arrival
pressure is to open a safety valve and let here three years ago. Sir J. N. Jordan grave out a large portion of the deposits which
come out and whose tail is eaten away has al. most invariably been found to contain the ly warned him of the danger that China was running by her failure to enforce the orders of have now grown to rather embarrassing progerms. In every rat affected with the disease. portions. The principal difficulty with the the Central Government upon the provinces.
the lymphatic glands have been found to present situation is the accumulation of an ex- The President's telegram is directly duo to
be swollen, but not in the same way a The subscription list opened on July 13 and the intrigues of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank traordinarily large amount of deposits, sot
decline in the amount of loans, for the latter,
in the case of plague. The leprosy germ closed on July 16, for an issue by the Oriental whose influence overthe Hoogkong and Shang. though alightly less than last year, is consider in the rat very closely resembles in for The following letter from Government tela Telephone and Electric Company, Limited, of bai Bank is an injurious to British Interests leably larger than in 1966 and 1967, when this whether the germs are identical and what con that found in man. It is not yet known tive to the use of Kennedy Town Hospital for 50,000 four per cent. redeemable debenture Chins. Their agent induced Chang Chib-tong business boom was at its height. The carrying nection there is between the two, and it is not the treatment of smallpox and the sale of the stock at 86 per cent, ranking pari pases with to write a dispatch to the Walwapa, saying that, out of a lowering of interest on deposits would hospital hulk #ygria, was considered at the 150,000 similar stick already issued, and con
unless arrangements were speedily made with have the effect of reducing the amount of the yet practicable to caftivate those of the rat for Sualary Board meeting last Tuesday after-tituting the balance of an authorised amount of
America respecting its participation in the loan latter to a more convenient level. The besita: testing purposes. Dr. Shibayama intends ex £200,000. The stock is repayable at par on July
he would proceed to the signature of the final tios shown by bankers to do this is evidently perimenting, by injecting the germe into Colonial Secretary's Office, 1, 1955, but may be redeemed after July 1, 1910,
contract in spite of the American protest, owing to the apprehension entertained by the monkey. If the experimant succeeds be 'in- 18th July, 1909. in whole or in part, on six calendar months' co
would relinquish the scheme altogether. This that if the interest on fixed deposits is lowered tends to replant the leprosy germ found in Sir, I am directed to state for the informatica. Thastock is secured by a trust deed tion of the Sanitary Board that, upon the re- ting as a first floating charge upon the whole dispatch, coupled with the uncertain action of to below 5 per cent, the greater part, if not man in animals in order to study the consec
tion between the various germs, the invertebrate Waiwupu, was promptly cabled all, of them will be withdrawn from the banks commendation of the Principal Civil Medical undertaking and assets of the company, both to Washington and called forth Mr. Taft's ex: and deposited elsewherd. This will so doubt Officer, supported by Dr. Stedmap, His present and future. The prospectus states that cellent and opportune message.
VICTORIA RECREATION club. prove trudes the interest paid by the Post Office Excellency the Governor has decided the company provides telephonic communica Mary Englishmen here hold the opinion Savings Barks is a little over 5 per cent, while to effect a retrenchment is the Colonial tina la Madras, Singapore, Rangoon, Moul- that the British Government should brlog pres State and municipal securities bearing $ per
EWIMMING FETE expenditure by using the Kennedy Town main, and Mauritius, and exercises a con aure upon the Hongkong and Shanghai B.nk cent. interest can be bought below their face Hospital for the treatment of small-pox trolling influenca in the following companies to dissociate itself from the German intrigues, value, Bul whether so wholesale an exodus of and by selling the hospital bulk Biggeld. Bit The Telephone Company of Egypt, working which are persistently directed, bere as ele funds will follow the lowering of interest as is Excellency bas also decided at the request in the whole of Egypt; the Bengal Telephonewhere, to bring us lato a misunderstanding with faused by the bankers seems problematical. A of the Directors of the Tung. Wah Hos Company, working in Calcatta; the Bombay the Americans, whose policy and aims le Chide any rate, there in scarcely any need for the pital that leave should be given to the Telephone Company, working in Bombay, are identical with our own..
bankers to worry about the removal of money Chinese .community to use their Infectious Ahmedabad, and Karachoes and the China and
which can only be retained at the payment of › Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town for the Japan Telephone and Electric Company, work-
treatment of small-pox, and the necessity of
bigh interest and which may involve serions the construction of a new small-pox hospital,
loss if long retained. The greater ponion of the capital forming fixed deposits in this coun under the auspices of the Tong Wah Hospital,
try is in the nature of fixed lavestiments, soð. *hai thus been obviated.--I am, etc.,
can hardly be regarded as a proper commercial fund. The sooner the ordinary: banks are in- lived of this kind of capital the batter it will be for their wallara - Jeden Chronicle:
2000 :-
The Secretary,
Sashery Board
A. M. THOMSON, Colonial Secretary,
opera-
7
ing in Hongkong and Kowloon. The shares RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library thos held, with debentures in the Bengal) and Museum for the week ending the 15th Telephone Company and the China and Japan August, 1909 s Telephone and Electric Company, were valued
in the balance sheet for 1908 at £245,703, while the company's freehold premises in Singapore, Rangoon, and Houtmeln ware valued at over.
Non-Chiness..
Chinese
Library, Museum,
436
250 2,572
The Victoria Recréation Club are bolding another of their Swimming Foles on Saturday afternoon, the 28th August, commencing at 4 p.mi and judging from the list of events a good afternoon's sport, will no doubt result. The Water Polo match will be contested between picked men and a splendià match will doubt. lese be the outcome.
The Programme is as under:- L-Ons Length Handicap."'ngi a--Running Headar from Springboard. 3. Two Lengths Handicap. 4-Throwing Polo Ball, SimTeam Race.
As we have already remarked, it seems a great pity that equal enthusiasm is not dis- played nearer home. The ravages, misery and crime crused by drink are innumerabis, Elling gaols, hospitals and asylums, reducing many. from affluence to want, or finally anding in the disease so commonly known as D. T. when sleep, gentle sleep, nature's sweet restorer, is banisbad, and, as regards the victims,
Ten thousand demona haunt him day and night Hun: him alle ka darkası and in Pght,' -Perak Pioneer,
RUBBER
SINGAPORE RUMOUR ABOUT A BLUMP.
The Straits Timer llars that a rumour hab. been actively circulated about a slump in rube ber.
We (Strdila Times) do not know upon what the. | rumour rests, but it is probably a mere fiction.
circolated by the "Bears," as we hare svary o „reason, to believe that any marked tendency, pís a change would have been reported to us from London..
We have counselled " getting leval," and will, not, therefore, be suspected of undoe optimium. when we say that, although a slight reaction; may come at any moment a cal stump is not.