NOTRS BY THE WAY.
•LIQUOR" LIGENCE,
18th olts. Those who have been following with interest the newly-fntroduced resolution whereby it is proposed to increase the revenus derived from liquor licances by 100 per cent., experienced another mild surprise yesterday. The discos sion was farther deferred at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council. This, however, was not altogether unexpected, as it is of prime Importance for those concerned to give full consideration to the question before rushing the Bill through Council. Meanwhile, there is a painful reticence on all sides as to how Gov armant proposestamentthe loss in the Colony's revenue as a direct result of the Imperial Gov. erameal's policy. It would hardly be 40 ex: aggeration to say that there are not many who would wish to be in the Colonial Treasurer's shoes during the next few fiscal years, when such a thing as the opium trade will have beep wiped out of existance. To this respect; it would be interesting to know how fat, if at all, the British tax-payer is going to contribute to wards the crippled revenue of the Culonies, brought about by the suicidal policy of s Government who are ever ready to fend a will. ing ear to ignorant and irresponsible fadditis while they are blind to greater evils that nee Bearer homo. They are throwing away the substance for the shadow,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1909.
THE MURDAN-ANTUNG
RAILWAY.
' DESCRIPTION' DỶ A RECENT TRAVELLER.
SCENERY AND SENSATIONS.
band above a
ADMIRALTY DOCKYARD.
HOTICE TO MAKINERY,
blood-freezing precipice. Now the qualot. Helmet, mountain, paura through" the' hills and distracts our`atten. tion. But the raliof is only momentary, At the paxt curve the oscillation is intensified
It is notified in the Gasofie that, when any of The line has been worse constructed bere and H. M. ships are about to enter or leave the the curves are more frequent and sharper. Admiralty Camber at H. M. Dockyard, Hong We take the last steep gradient with the swoop kang, a red flag will be hoisted on the flagstaff of an airship-and bounce into-Fan-chi-hu-will-erected on the north arm of the aforesaid a precipitancy which provokes appetite. On
cambor. again, first looking down upon strange Chicasa villages and then high up to the terraced fields (including native craft and steam launches) When this signal is hoisted, all vassals
Journey, and one which in the present circum buoys and the Has formed by bunys Nos, 6 on the sides of the mountain. It is a madmast pass to the northward of the docking stances is not enjoyed until it has been safely 64 and 11. completed. We look in vain for something to falls over the steep wooded slopes into the hang on by as the train boels over and almost valley beneath. Up, up, up, winding with the sinuous motion of a serpent, taking as much as
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three curves at the same moment, sad when
we reach the stiff grader of -1 la 30 almost standing still. Along the miles of valley statched out-balow appear puches of green and yellow and brown grain with bore and there groups of trees, the whole long vista cul- minating in a golden river bed through which trickles a thin thread of silver
REST AND REFRESHMENT.
When any of H. M. ships are about to enter or leave the Admiralty Dry Dock, a blue flag will be halsted on the above mentioned flag.
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All steamships must then pass to the north- launches, junks, and sumpens, must keep oat ward of the man-of-war anchorage, and all steam of the way of the ship entering or leaving the dry dock when in the waters between the following boundaries:
Westera Boundary-A line joining Nos. 4,5 and West Dock" buoys and N.W corner of Dockyard Extension. Eastern Boundary-A line joining No. 3 -buny, bows of 13, M. S. Tamar, "East Dock" baoy, and Western arm of entrance to Naval Camber, The ship entering or leaving the dry dock to have the "right-of-way within these limits, all other vessels to take their own risk if within the above mentioned waters when the bine flag is skewn from the flagstaff.
THE TUNG WAR HOSPITAL.
'A YEAR'S REVIEW,
laspecting Medical Officer, on the Tang Wah Following is the report of Dr J. C. Thomson, Hospital for 1908-
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Adminions. Deaths 1899270 123..
1901 4īā muimin
1902414 normistami
1903
1004
1905 mum.733 vmunisten, 1900 1909
*1908-1941
327
result of conditions that a disappear per
Dr. W. B, A. Moora was Inspecting Medical. first half of the year; Dr. J. G. Thomson due almost entirely to the large number of Officer of the Tang Wah Hospital during the
Malaria also shows an increase ; but this.
cine added to the staff in August, and Mr. sumed this duty on 7th July,
admissions from the railway works, and in the A second licentiate trained in Western medi- Leung Chik Fan, of the Hongkong College of Medicine, was appointed to the new office. Mr. Loung had already acted as House Sur- geon from 1st March to axat June, when Dr. and deaths from this disease during the Jou Hawk was absent on leave: and from 3rd past ten years have boon as follows :-
Admissions, Deaths December to the end of the year he was again
1899mma:305............................. 58 num19 in sola charge daring Dr. Jen Hawk's absence
on sick leave.
Another medical student has been added to- the dressing staff: three students of the Medical College are now resident in the hospital as surgical dressera.
An important advance was resolved on by the directors in December, and will take effect at the opening of the next session of the Hong- kong Oollage of Medicine in March. It waT decided to permit the teaching of clinical medi- cine in the wards of the hospital; and the students of the College will thus become avail. able as clinical clerks for duty la the institution, The directors at the same meeting voled a sum of $500 for the purchase of clinical apparatus.
Even had. it missed the ephemeral pro minence of being the latest bone of contention in the Far East the Mukdeu-Autung lion would have earned distinction amongst the most audacious achievements in railway engineer fag. Were it better known it would probably figure as one of the world's sensations, combia ing as it doss the salient features of the switch- back railway, shooting the chute, a.d tobog gading, with the tampant exhilaration of the Rocky Mountains. The 30-inch gauge railway connecting Mukden with Autong-brien is obviously the offspring of expediency, not of reason, and nothing but a Japanese mind-dar ing and ingenious-could save conceived it Work on the line was started in May, 1905, the object of the Japanese army authorities being to increase mobility by carrying supplies over the rallway, the majority of the roads being in passable even in dry weiber. The railway was not completed through to Mukden until 1906, when the remaining 30 miles were laid At Chian-ton we, atop for an hour and a half down by Japanese company and later im. to permit the train coming from the opposite provements were effected in the matter of grad direction to cross. Although China-tou has no ing, deviations, through cuttings, and the re pretensions to being a metropolis it possesses construction of the more shaky bridges, a refreshment room bearing the legend "Here's
· SELF-GOVERNMENT SOCIETY.
Naturally the rolling stock is very light, small the place to cheer up." The words are ob How have the mighty, fallen None could Baldwin engines drawing three or four vehicles viously the happy inspiration of some person bave received a greater shock' than that'self- which it would be absurd to dignify with the who has travelled over Fu-chin-ling. The formed ociation at Canton known as the sama of carriages, being more boxes remark-wheels having been tapped in the approved Self-Government Society on being informed in able chiefly for inconvenience and lack of style and the oil boxes replenished we con A somewhat convincing manner by those who adequate accommodation. Two days are oc- tinue our journey. We have evidently lost our, hold the reins of government that their mis-cupied in covering the distance of 187. milos "aea-legs" agalo, for it now seems as if we' chievous propaganda would no longer be tole between the termini, the dangerous nature of were sitting on the carburetter of a motor-car. rated. The prompt action on the pait ofthe bigb the line rendering travelling after dark fraught But the jolting is not so bad as it has been, or
A report was made to the police last Friday authorities will be hailed with satisfac in in in. with considerable risk A practically no is going to be. We cross the river Taitse ten telligent quarters. The Self-Government Society freight is carried and the average number of times in less than an hour, winding through night of a case of suicide, which had occurred have been allowed too long to sow the seed of passengers per train is about zo, it is unreces- the valley to avoid bills which the ingenious in the harbour. The information wassupplied by discontent among their ignorant compatriots up- Sary to state that the line does not nearly pay but callous, engineers had not time to pierce the coxswain of a Yau-ma-ti forry launch, and derthecloak of political reformation and the con- running expenses. It is, however, under the when their army was hot upon the trail of the it would appeartbot while the launch was cross- tinued tolerance of Peking has been misiziter- administration of the South Manchurian. Rail- Russians; then five times more the first houring the harbour on her way to Yau-ma-ti, one
There is a steady advance in the number of preted as a connivance at their antagonistic way Company and its strategic value as the after leaving Nan-Fen and anothertwenty times of the passengers, who was seated forward,
admissions, and during some parts of the year policy. This theory, if ever entertained, bas connecting link between the Korean and Man- before reaching the half-way house at Tsa-ho- got to his feet and jumped over the side. The now been exploded and the only, tälag that churian routes, bringing Daloy in touch with kou. Indeed one becomes intimately acquaint-
launch was stopped immediately and a search many who desired admission, "and would with remains to be done by the Imperial Govern Fasan, has impressed Japan with the necessity ed with the Taitre before ba leaves it to take was made for the man, but without success, and advantage have been treated in the wards, had to be dealt with as out-patients; while rn! ment is to take the first possible opportunity to for rendering it effective at all hazards. Hence the next big incline. The bridges over which the launch continued the journey. The man pronounce the bau against an unlawful gang the present bubbab in Far Eastern diplomatic we passte of very primitive construction-pos was not known to anyone on board. On reach-peatedly a number of more chronic cases bad
ing Yau-ma-ti a report of the occurrence was
to be transferred to a bospital in Canton, by whose interference with matters on which they circles. That Japan will carry her point ap-sibly quite safe, probably not absolutely so-at
arrangement with the directors of it, to rolleve are hardly qualified to speak can only be a slum. peare certain, and with the wider gauge, the all events one would like to see some sort of lodged at the station.
overcrowding in this hospital. bling-block to China's progress, besides lower strengthening of the bridges and comparativelyrailing at the sides to obviate the chances ing her in the estimation of Western nations. little lunnelling, the line can be made reason of a drop into the river in the event of
ably satisfactory for passenger traffic, and will the train leaving the rails, which, as wo after euable the produce of the farmer, which now wards learned to our cost, is not so very ro filters through to the markets in a variety of mote. It is decreed by the time-table that we roundabout ways, to be carried expeditiously shall stop at Tsao-ho-kou ever night. So we dismount there, badly shaken, but otherwise ́and with a greater degece of safety,
unharmed. At the tiny little village, nestling io ring of hills almost claiming the majesty
-THE YARN DISPUTE.
One of the most important decisions deliver. ed in the Supreme Court of the Colony was that given by the Chief Justice the other day in the
VAID CRIO.
The importance of the decision by which Sir Francis-Piggott reversed his originalTM judgment does not so much lib in the fact that large sum is lovolved but in so far as item bodies a question of principle which will have
a direct bearing on future transactions between foreign merchants and native dealeri!,
A LADY'S AGE.
|
“MAKING HEAVY WEATHER. *.
of mountains, and clothed to their summits with
healthy foliage, we find particularly satisfactory accommodation at a Japanese in. That the foreigner had been there before was evident, as the house possessed' a "European" Toom: furnished with a bedstead, and, what is still basin. But these were merely ornaments, as more wonderful, a wash-hand Band, jug and
basin more than once disappeared mysteriously.
"SUICIDE IN THE HARBOUR."
COOLIE JUMPS, FROM PERRY LAUNCH,
BUILDINGS
The mortuary has been enlarged for the ac commodation of the greatly increased numbers of bodies being brought in dead.
Proparty in New Street to the north of the erection of additional wards, to be used special. present buildings has been acquired for the ly for the treatment of plague when that disanse is present in the Colony, and démolition of the houses on it is now proceeding,
STATISTICS.
The admission to the Tang Wah Hospital OPIUM SEIZURE AT BANGRO, during the past ten years have been as
follows:
DRUD CONCEALED IN FIRE DRICKS.
Customs' guards searching the 1.s. Phranang yesterday came across a post little "plant" o over 100 teels weight of opium drats stowed away among the coal in the bunkers, says the Sims Weekly Afail of the 16th ulo. It was but
1899...................
--...2,542
г
.1900...
1001.
2,981
3,989:
1902.
.3,576
1903...
.2445%
1904úvia masom
2,667
1905........
1900..........................
2,833 .3,200
1907......
1908.......
a fruitful source of fon for the humorist but of ten miles per hour the mind of the traveller there was never any water in the jug and the | of, a substantial nature, reinforced by wooden❘ year, making a total of 4,327 cases; 2,678 were
When one has taken his seat in the train the first problem that presents itself is where ba shall put his legs. All the available floor space is taken up with luggage which cannot be packed on the racks. In these circumstances the prospect of the ten-hours' journey to Teac The delicate matter of a young lady's age is bo-kou is by no means au egrecable one. But when the little engine struggles off at a speed seldom does this hackugyed subject crop up in
Hongkong Law Court. The other day, how-s kept busy with immediate affairs. The mo- over, witness in an interesting action at the tion is jerky, and some difficulty is experienced Supreme Court relieved the monotony of the in kenping one's seat and avoiding light pack- proceedings by giving vant to some decided views Ages which bave acquired extraordinary mobi. on the vexed question. The little, incidentlity. The 30-inch track alongside appears as a suggers the questing of the legality or other single blurred rail cot too neatly fitted at the wish of s.young ladyla evidence in a Court of joints, and the reason for the incessant jolting made evident. However, on the few miles Law' to the matter of her age and whether a member of the gentler sex who solemaly de of stenight live one soon gets used to the mo- clares to the Court that she is a maid of twenty tion dad is afforded an opportunity of admiring In not in point of fact of; matuser years. Not the rich beauty of the country. The monotony that any reflection is meant on the veracity of of Kaoling and bosss is rellevad here and the fair sex, who are the embodiments. of truth there by irregular groups of trees, willow and fulness, but when it comes to, stating the un-
poplar predominating. We pass the plateau of varnished truth in a matter of such supreme the Stato and the river Stabe-a river merely Importance to womenfolk, the best of them by courtesy-and the war trail is clearly indi have a right to be diffident. How different cated by hundreds of graves, the heaped with mare man. The average youth in the raw mounds now almost diminished to the level of gawky state prior to entering upon manhood the fielder A-ferio-valley, a splendid area of usually prefixes interesting details of his misty waving crops, was at the time of the war a mess past with When I was in my teens, etc., and of barbed wire entanglements-a Russian pre- lacidentally throws to an extra number of years caution against the irresistible nature of a which actual facts bardly warrant, But boys, bortor of the sanguinary ang tog
will be boys.
THE HOUSE HOY'S LEAVE.
THE SECOND HALF.
At the beginning of the year 1958 there were: 205 remaining in the wards from the previous year; 4,422 patients were admitted during the discharged: 1,440 died leaving 259 remaining in the hospital at the close of the year.
Of the 4337 cases, 427 were transferred olse- where for treatment; as follows:-23 to the Government Civil Hospital, 238 to the Infec tous Diseases Hospitals, and 165.to Canton,
Of the fatal cases, 450 were in a dying con. dition at the time of admission, and died with- in 24 hours.
There remains a mat total of 3,245 patients actually treated in the Tung Wah Hospital, of whom 1,611, i... 49.6 per cent, were under treatment by Europasa methods, and 1,634, de, 50.4 per cent, under Chinese native treatment. The percentages in the preceding your wore i
a small haul, but satisfactory. And to-day the" Castoms' folk, while searching the passengers by thes.s. Paklat, tumbled across one of the most wily and ingenions attempts to smuggle it was possible to conceive.. It seams that a Canton esa passenger named Ah l'opi had several boxes battens. These latter by their size aroused the us picions of the searchers and they promptly took Early next morning Tase-ba-kou is left be. ous off. Of course out dropped a long flat tin bind, and the plucky little locomotive proceeds of opium. Be they hauled off all the battens to cross and recross the river-sometimes al-
and found that cach batten had been hallowed out and contained neatly ficted tins of illicit fin, most really a river and at other times only a trickling stream fl wingthrough a shingly bed, one of which had in it no less than 59 taels The country is even more attractive than before, weight of the treacle-looking stuff. Of course and beauty follows upon beauty in quick suc the owner of the boxes was told be must cession. A few streaks of brown winding.
come along" and, just as he was about to: through the narrow valleys mark the roadline, do so it transpired that he was the owner of a while bere and there a wild flower has burst amall stack of firebricks. They were just an modestly into bloom, or the white feather of ordinary looking lot of firebricks that looked as the meadowsweet waves ostentatiously. The though they had come out of a furnace. Just for remainder of the landscape is green and every luck one was broken in halves when it was conceivable shade of green. In the Black Mine discovered that they were really tips fall of Pass perhaps the most interesting spot on the opium which had been covered with a thin route, bundreds-of-varieties-of-trees-grow-costing of clay and then fired. Just how this luxuriantly and give a pleasing setting to what was done without causing the tins to burst is would otherwise be only awe-inspiring. In somewhat of a mystery, as the line had no vent working its way to the mountain-top the train holes or traces of such, but it had been done adopts a semi-spiral course, and the tracks over it a wanderfully clever manner. Altogether Vaccinations are the formed 645 in 1907). the be struggle so which it has passed can be seen beneath-out fifty-one tins of opiam of varied shapes and are performed by Dr. Loung recently enacted there-nothing but the grass-fining curves and grades which would be con- sizes were found among the batteos and bricks
3,425 destitute persons were temporarily grown graves; which themselves breathe peace sidered impossible had they not already been and the Customs officials must be congratulat-sheltered and fed, until they could be sent to and repose Picturesque village with pro negotiated. Near the summit the ingenuity, of od pon having frustrated one of the cleverest their native villages or otherwise be provided sperous-looking mud dwellings hall hidden in the augineer has been severely tazed, but hesitempts at smuggling yet discovered locally,
for (950 in 1907). a bower of willow and poplar follow one ane has solved the problem of how to overcome other at intervals of a mile or so, and burst impracticable things by backing out the train upon the view long lines of hills, veritable gran acute angle on a grade of 1 in 40 and get. forests of small trees, pine, fir, osk and chest-ting the engine in its proper position at the out. Then comes an area of remarkable ter next station. At the top of the mountain we raced farms which remind ons of Japan, The|| had an exhibition of resourcefulness on the part country is a panorama of lovely villages whore of the staff. Owing to heavy mło the line back-
FIRE AT TAI-KOK-1801..
ONE HOUSE GUTTED,
European 51, Chinese 49.
The number of visits to the Out-Patient department was 90,650 (70,845 in 1907). 87,847 Ware seen by the Chinese-native-doctors, and 1,803 by Drs. Jeu aed Lavag
2,348 persons were vaccinated at, and in
Chik Fan.
1a58 dead bodies ware brought to the hos pital mortuary to await barial (695 in 1907). For purposes of registration, diagnosis of the probable cause of death is made in all possible Casos by Inspection of the body and cross.
fial's lachrymose "condition would have in hemp and tobacco are growing luxuriantly, led under the engine at a culvert and the morning fire broke out in a boate at Taí / preceding death. Where internal examination
The subtlety and finesse that is characteristic of the Oriental, mind have always a peculiar Interest which appeals to the Western observer, Evan such a stoical being as a Chinese bouse: boy is sometimes responsible for a ready wit which at its best can never be fully comprehen sible by the Occidental. The other day, was approached by my "boy" for a week's leave owing to a brother's alleged death. The Coles tantly aroused a griffin's compassion, but as I had granted him. leave only a month before on similar pretest, I naturally de- sired to investigate, On inquiring of the meek looking Celestial how it was that he came to lose two brothers in such quick succession, be replied: This time blong No. 2 blothel" gave him to understand that the next time ha would come to me, he would kill for the nonce No. 3, which brought forth the following typical answer: "ND. 3 biothel bave makee die last moop. Suppose anothel makes blethal die, he blong No, 7." "IN
A SPATE OF FINE WEATHER."
not to mention the now familiar kaoliang and beans, which appear to increase as we proceed. The slopes of the hills are terraced for hun- dreds of leat up, and the contrast of deep rich green and golden brown is a triumph of rustic beauty. One is convinced that the scenery is by far the best in Manchuria,
is' made at the
thein works are completed, and when the per- 'manent, railway employees will be doubtless adequately protected from malaria. The admis
-1902 1903
1904
1905
1900 1907
48........31
1908 35 9326 The hospital has been daly inspected by the Visiting Justices twice monthly, and has been certified by them to have been found on, all occasions clean and in good order.
The directors of the hospital, both the year's directors and the recently elected Board, hava been unfailingly most courteous in reference to matters submitted to them by tha inspecting Medical Officer, whose suggestions have been .carefully carried into effect.
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB,
FOURTH, MEETING,
The programme of the fourth meating to be. held at the Happy Valley, to-morrow, the '4th iust.,' (weather permitting) is as follows:- 14.15 p.m.-GYMKHANA STAKES. Valos $ro Distance one, mile. For all China pooles. Catch weights at to st, 6 lbs, Win- - nere of an open race or apon griffin race S lbs, extra. Non-winning subscription griffias allowed 5 lbs. Jockeys who have not won. more than two official races in Hongkong, Shanghai or Tientsin allowed'; lbs. ́A' cap. called the Gymkhana Cup will be presented at the end of the season to be won by the pany scoring most marks in the race for the Gymkhana Brakes at the Gymkhans meet- loge during the season, counting 4 polute for a first; z for a second and't for a third. The benefit of marks already scored to pass with the pony on a sale. Any winner of the race to carry 5 lbs.extra för each win in subsa- quent starts for the race, but in the event of 4 pony carrying the penalty not winning,'a lbs. to be deducted next time he starts, Sucb 2 lbs, to remain deducted until he wins again when he will carry the full penaltios without deduction, Penalties accumulativa up to 15 lbs. Entrance fee 55. 2nd Prize: $25 (Hall entrance fees to go to winnst.) Mr. Blank's Greyback, 146lbs, Mr. Dryasdust's Triad 156 lbs. Mr. Drayandust's Best Friend, 151 † lbs. Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson's Garth, 154‡ lbs. Mr. Laworks' Theodolite, (late Backstay), 146lbs. Mr. Leeson's Seafoam, 151 † lbs. Mr. Seth's Tortoise, (late Strathmill), 141 § Ibi. Mr. Slater's Pioneer, (late Tedcott), 141 § los.
* Pensity of solbs. Penalty of sibs.
Panaity of Bibs $ Allowance of ribs. Points awarded up to date as follows :—
Garth ***** Best Friend
SportsmanÅ.....................mere 3.-4.35 * p.m.-POLO
SCURRY, Distance, From 2-mile past in. "Ponies to start faciég the village and turn right-handed at fall of flag. Daich weights 11.7, (All ponies enter. ed must be bond" "fide polo ponies and passed' as such by the secretary, of the Polo Club). Entrance fee $5. First Prize: A Cap pro- sented by the Officers of the Garrison," zod Prise 525.. (Entrance fees to go to winner), 'Mr. H. J. Gedgi's Desire, Mr. H. J. Gedge's Rufus, Hon. Mr. W. }. Gresson's Middlesex, Hon, Mr. W. J. Gresson's Birthday, Mr. J. Jobustone's Blue Rufo, Mr. J. Johnstone's Dammit, Mr. J. Johnstone's Jock-D-Orran, Commodore H. Lyon's Swan. 3-4.55 pm-8 Clans, 5.5 p.m.-A Class.—'
THRIE QUARTERS OF A MILE HANDICAP- For all China ponies. The rice will be split op into higher and lower divisioon by the handicappers provided that there. are 75 or more entries. Entrance for $5. First prices: Two Cups presented by Commodore H. Lyon, and the Hongkong Gymkhama Club for Classes A and B respectively, zid prizes: $25. Entrance fees to be divided between winner of A class and B class.
Class B.
questioning of relatives as to the symptoms is considered necessary for medica-legal or public health reasons, or because of con- tradictory statements regarding the fatal ill- Public Mortuary. During the past year 131 bodies of persons brought in 'dead, and also tod bodies of persons who died in the hospital, chicfy of persons who were moribund at the time of admission, (.8., 239 in all, wore sent to | Admiral Lambton's Kamraah, 158 lbs, the Government Public Mortuary for posir Mr. J. Johnstone's Dammit, 18 lbs
Mr.Laworks' Theodolite (late Backstay), 155lbs. mortem examination (199 in 1907).
Commodore H. Lyon's Cavalior, 148 lbs. Major H. Findlay's Polo Stick, 145 lbs. Mr. M. M. Brice's Gambler, 145 lbs.
Mr. Blank's Argyll, 140 lbs.
locomotive sank down a couple of fact. In a few minutes a ballast gang were on the spot with picks, crowbars, and poles, might have been attended with seriousness, such examination and the engineers and guards setling to work the engine was got into position and the lise made safe within two hours. At another spot the front car was derailed and was lifted on to the rails again and the train set going is about 30 minutes. Of course the men get used to this, as such accidents are mare request than it is comforting to reflect upon. The jour hey over the pass takes about an hour and a quarter, and to the ordinary traveller the scenery
mountain were tunnellad an hour could easily be saved; and the passengers would be quite satisfied to miss the scenery in having the greater messure of immunity from accident,
Shortly after one o'clock last Saturday kor-tul, pear Yauma and bad it not bets for the sharp arrival of the brigade results. The house where the conflagra tion toon place in a two-storeyed brick one, and numbered 53. The ground floor was used as a grecer shop, and the floor above occupied by coolies. The fire occurred in the graand floor, amongst a lot of inflammable goods, and ate its way to the first storey. When the fire brigade from Yau-ma-ti Police Station, which was in charge of Sergeant Macdonald and Policeman Atlewell, arrived on the scene, the satire build. save the adjoining houses. In this the firemen were successful House No. 53 was guited. The damage done is estimated at Sson and was not covered by insurance. The origin of the out- break has yet to be discovered.
Free burial was provided by the hospital for the bodies of 4,113 poor persons (3.756 in 1907). The infectious diseases branches of the hot- throughout the year. The registers show ad- missions as follows:
Olass A.
AN INTERCHANGE OF COURTESIES, A certain bill some little distance from Shib, chino-iza recalled to a military man, who was travelling with us, an incident which took place while fighting was proceeding in that neighbourbood. The bealthy humour of the Another week of sunshine; Not for a long story and the fact that it' presents in a some compensates for the discomfort; bal if the ing was ablaze, and stops worainstantly taken to pital were under the supervision of Dr. Moore Mr.Seth's The Tortoise (late Strathmill), 143lbs.
what unusual light the amenities of warfare time has Hongkong been favoured with an are sufficient excuse for repeating it here. The almost cloudless blue sky week is and week hill was das of considerable strategic import out. Picnic parties and sporting fixtures loance, and both armies considered it absolutely galore have been in full swing during the past necessary that the position should be beld, na fortnight and there have been none of these long as possible. First the Russians and thop tricks of a fickle atmosphere with which exiles the Japanese gained the vantage-paint, only to In this lonely outpost of the Empire are only too familiar. The dreaded annual visitor bas wo far gives the Colony a wide berth and it would seem that Hongkong is after all going to present a clean sheet as far as the typhoon sea- son is concerned. Nothing could be more plassing to those of our residents who are not particularly in pursuit of blood-freezing ex- 'periences.
CASUAL CRITIC.
THE ANTUNG END." The run through from Mukden to Antung is through practically 190 miles of cultivated val
be dispossessed next day. The Russian ideasley and rolling downs, flanked by an unbroken
THE FIRST PINGEL ·
"
FAR EASTERN SHIPPING.
· PROSPECTS OF COMPETITION FROM THE JAPANESE,
Plague branch.res 275. Small-pox branch amamericane 69 Cases requiring operation ars so far as po: sible persuaded to go to the Government Civil Hospital, and this is more easily done than in earlier years, low cases where such transfer ence is urged by the Inspecting Medical Officer refusing consent.
Mr. Dryandust's Bare Friend, 161 Ibs, Mr. Dryasdust's Triad, 158 lbs. Mr. J. Johnstone's Hertzblatt, 157 lbs. MP, L. K. Leeson's Seafoam, 155 lbs. Mr. Blank's Greyback; 147 lbs. Hon. Mr. W. J. Greson's Lammerton, 145 lbs. Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson's H. H., 143 lbs. Mr.L.K. Leeson's, Soudan (lata Yorlar) 138 lbs.
of hygiene and general cleanliness did not chain of ires-clad hills. The foliage presents please & Japanese captain, who wrote the the appearance of thick malting, with pines and Russian officer in command anggesting that firm standing out like huge tree-fernt and lean
Dr. G. Montagu Harston continues to attend 4535-INDIVIDUAL TENT PEGGING as Japan would again ssics the hill shortly be poplare tilting their hands to the sunlight.
COMPETITION.-China ponies only to ba at the hospital on Mondays and Fridays at should see that the blankets and sheets were After leaving Feng-huang-cheng, the scene of
used. Best of three runs. 3 points for a Trade in the East, and shipping in particular, 4,30 p.m. to see eye out-patients. 687 now washed and well aired. When the Japanese one of the first actions during the Russo-ays "Fairplay," were exceedingly bad when I
carry; 2. for a draw and 1 for a touch. The CASES WETU 36DD (487 in 1907), and 3,550 again took the position they found everything Japanese war, the valley broadens and the hillessed over the ground in March and April of visits were made to this department. Of the
Judge has at his disposal 2 points for pace spotlessly clean and upon retiring the captain increase in height,, behind them standing out this year. In Hongkong I heard that most of the now cases, 193 wore trachoma. 62 pupils were
sod style over all three runs. Lance exer loft a bottle of brandy to mark bis appreciation prominently the irregular, jagged teeth of the lime-chartered boats which had hitherto been
cise will not count towards style. Lances as sent from various schools to be examined for of the Rossians' action. On their next appear Baw mountain. The amplification of space pugaged in the China coasting trade had bean
supplied by the Club, or of a similar pattern this disease, and 'of these 44 were found to be NEW TERRITORIBS PATROL. ›
must be used. Esimice fee $1. Firsť príza: " ance the Japanese found that the Russians gives a greater area of crop and more forest, sent me for good, and that out of some 140 cases of trachoma, the remainder suffering from were not to be beaten in the finer points of or none of the land is wasted. The valley of only about 30 vessels remained on the Coast. other diseases of the eye. 103 eye operations
a cup presented by the Hongkong Gym- courtesy, for not only was the camp generally the Shaho-the second of the dante do the Shangbai the same tale was told, and in
khana Club, OPINION OF MILITARY MEN TO BE OBTAINED,
ware performed, of which the following were Mr. C. H. Blason. cleaned up for the reception, but fire you bad route-now appears in sight, and the river is
Mr. M. M. Brica. A-Hongkong Telegraph representative was been left on the fable, fi, ure, beadquarters crossed, and recrossed a couple of dozen times Japan I was informed that out of a total tonnage the more important:-- given to understand that a number of officers of office to pay for the brighly
over bridges which, to say the least, look 11,400,000 of mercantile steam shipping owned Excision of formix in bad trachoma ****** 2a Mr. Crookendes, the Garrison left Hongkong last Saturday after
Jansche-Arlt operation, for trichiasis................................ 2 Mr. W. S. Dupree. Auspicious. Then came Astung, and we found Japan 400,000 tons were laid up, noon for Taipe, on board the tender Stanley, in The first real sensation of the journey by the half the city under water, the shops in the lower As regards the future of Japanese shipping! Snellen's operation for entropion ...........14 Major Eaton. order to make an excursion through a per curious little railway is when we begin the part having the tide-mark a foot or eighteen victualling will enable Japanese shipowners to Males operation for evisceration of the Mr. John J. Johnstone,
a of opinion that the low wages and chekp Hess's operation for ptosis
Mr. H. J. Gadge... tion of the New Territories, with the object ascent of Fo-chin-ling Up steep gradients, inches at the counter. At the time of our visit successfully compete against Koropeans and of discovering what facilities there exist through cuttings in. iba solid rock, passing Antong was another Venice, and in place of to gradually compete against European ves Extraction of cataract,...............................................15 Mr. G. O, Moxen.
eyeball..
*****-5 | Mr. Maxwoll: for stationing a patrol guard of mounted round curves with appalling suddenness, the gondolas the traffic from point to point of the sels now employed in the Chios trade: at pro-Tridectomy........... Constabulary in those districts, which are more
entries masas..21 | Mr. Silt. Carriages leaning over at an angle of 45 city was conducted in 'rikishas, the coolies palļ llable to the attacks of robber bands. The idex degrees. When we begin to go down the training up their trousers and wading through the sent lack of funds is the principal impediment. Irido-lysis for glaucoma 5-6.5 POL-ONE AND A QUARTER MILES
Pterygium Rüyam Is to sarray the road-or what correspond to jolts as if it would leave the line what kept it water up to the knees. The Makdan-Antung roads and to form an estimate of the value on is a mystery of science unsolvable by the journey is under the present conditions not a ** WENT there to find a friend," said Lai Kwai, Paracentasis for hypopyon orcomealulcer... such a patrol force would form to the Colony lay mind. The descent is gradual but tortuous, comfortable eas, nor is it altogether devoid of a coolla, who was charged before Mr. J. R. Wood, Tenotomy for squint nurumasin. I Some of the worst cases were: taken into Obviously the Ides has originated out of the and one la jerked from bis seat as a particular serious risk, but it is one which would gladden in the Police Court, to-day (a8th alto,), with enter "Castardly outrags, which was committed by Bly sharp curve is negotiated. Even at this the bearts of those who delight in scenery and inga dwalling house and stealing a quantity of the wards and dealt with as in-patients, but gang of Chinese miscreants on two Indian elevation the kaoliang grows head high, and enjoy experiences. In their special way many puff. At about six o'clock this morning Lai the frequent congestion of the hospital, aleeady to sfoglicemen, who, while in the execution of their acres of beans are spread over the country like parts of the world may pressat superior attrac-astered 86, Connaught Road Central The referred to, limited the possibilities”. In this
were foully done to death last week.; }
huge figured mats. "It in a relief to stop at Hotions, but for general interest and wide variety front door was not focked. He made his way direction.
Dr. Lezog Chik Fan assists Dr. Hárston in $500 REWARD.
Hang-izu, half way down, but when wứ again of Resnic beauty the country, is, one to be to the kitchen and collected a kettle, and some start the restlessness of the train in even more reckoned with among the show places of the ladies. On his way out be took up three face the ophthalmic work of the hospital, and acted a box. On his for him during a short absence, from the emphatic. We take daring curves with the world. It will be surprising if/when the linkets, which he found lying impetuous foolhardiness of a practised me has been improved, the Antung-Mukden trip is way down the stairs he was seized by the occu- Colony.
Barl-bari continues to increases to the Colony. forist and sweep down the long decline as if to not placed on the main tourist route. In the piar, who was waiting for him to come out. A
sentence of three weeks hard labour and four Admissions and deaths during the part ton sternity, till brought up; abruptly, by the Far ZAR. application of the brakes at a dangerous
W. J. Jonas, in Palm Carends - hóam' stacka wès passed.
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A raward of $500 is offered for information (which may lead to the apprehension of the person or persons who were concerned in the murder of two Indian Police at the Lens Tsun Gap; Au Tau, New Tamritories, on the morning of 20th August, 39096
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HANDICAP.-For all Chica ponies. En- trance fee St. First prize: A Cup Present ed by John Johnstone, Esq. and prize 1 $25. (Entrance fees to go to winser.)
Mr. Dryasdust's Best Friend, 16rlbs., Mr. Dryandust's Triad, 159ība,
Hon Mt. W. J. Grasson's Gath, #56lba, Mr. L...K. Leeson's Seafoam, 15glbs. Mr. Blank's Greyback, 147138,000 5 Hou, Mr. W, J. Grasson's Lammerton, fáa” Mr. M., M. Brice's: Toddias (lata Pakana)
‚ryglba. : Hon. W. J. Gressom's H.H., 13afbid., Mc. Seth's The Torpples (late). Stre
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