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a position to speak with authority on this question, but we fear he has allowed his hopes to run away with his good sense when it comes to believing all the stories he hears aboutthedotermluation of the Chineseat Went Pojut to cleanse their houses of the deadly WATSON & CO., anophole. Atameeting of the Sanitary Board
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bich may be likened as an exact parallel to
the strong opposition now being made at home by their Lordships of the Gilded Chamber, to what they are pleased to terms, “a revolutionary
is recognised as the grantee of the subsist- | Budget, ing farm. His bid of $90,000 a month way the front, writes the Pera Portoor, s The ubiquitous Mr. Laidlaw, is again to
considerable proportion of these blog Hongkong Opium Farm. flies come from the ew Territories, which so far as we could ever discover are simply ideal breeding-grounds for the pesky mos quito and the frisky fly. What to the Sanit ary Board going to do about that? Why not educate the Chinese over there in the
be accepted as a sufficiently safe index of
having in the House of Commons urged knowledge that lies in stagnant water are
the exact, worth of the Farm; for it may be upon the Government that the time had Jiable to give birth to swarms of mosquitoss
accepted for granted "that the figure was
come to bring pressure to bear upon the Hong kong Govemment to proceed more rapidly then wo in Hongkong--that is to say on the
To a recent speech at a meeting of the arrived at lo no haphazard fashion, but cau with the dosing of the divans, and that the island would be safe. But is it exactly fair for Dr. Clark to traduce the lily and malign Legislative Council, H. X. the Governor ex- tiously worked out with all the advantages officials ought to be instructed to look for come the pot plant? Doubtless we shall find next plained that, because of the necessity for con. that experience and reliable data can com source ether than opium for immediate reš venue No Laidlaw, in bis zeal, might hava, that the sanitary experts of the Department solidating the opium laws of the Colony,mand."
bald his patience a little, and given some will be pounting the flower-show on the out- especially as they affected the importation The lowest of the four bids is that of Mr. hint or suggestion as to how or in what look for people attempting to win prizes with of morphia, the Government deemed it ad- She Ying-lik and is one of 591,000 monthly, manner the immediate revenus might be the innocent lily in the destructive water potvisable to extend the period for tenders for The tenderer, who is now a resident of the faddists in the 'cause of opium and the new Opium Farm. This delay has not Colony, has his largest commercial interests temperance,only one conclusion can be formed, proved prejudicial to the interests of the in the Straits Settlements. Wearcopen to citam Mr. Laidlaw downwards, and which may Colony From the figures, which we have rection in the statement that he is but wholly would one and all be overjoyed at seeing All be correctly described as to the effect, that they
without interest in the subsisting Farm. This, he had Eitherto derived their livelihood from fact disposes of the report which was either of these sources, reduced to a state of current until late last week that Chinese beggary and starvation. They quite ignore the fact that the British Government at one time from the Straits were ignoring the invitation paid many millions sterling a compensation to
the other day, he is reported to have said that A great many pools had been dealt with, and the Chinese themedives were taklug a "considerable interest in the matter. Apparently they were becoming educated to the knowledge that 'mosquitoes conveyed disease, and only two of three days ago he had been informed that the Chinese gard erners at West Point were no longer able to sell lilies in pots of water because their pations realised" that mosquitoes were bred in the houses from those pots containing.. Stagnant water. This was a striking illustra tion of the spread of knowledge among the Chinese of the better class." Now we sub The French mail of the 31st August was deli succeeded in obtaining from sources which nilt that in the language of our Americanvered in London on the agth lost,
leave no room for doubt as to their accuracy, friedds that is just the limit. We can hear
the Coloby may congratulate itself upon that conversation between the seller of lilios MR. W.-Butler Wright is under surveillance of
petty officer and a British bluejacket in Can- the fact that the revenue durived from
the Opium Farm has once again for tenders, ton at the Victoria Hotel, Shamsen.
come to the rescue of the framers of the Colony's budget for next year.
and the prospective buyer who has a horror of Magnant water and we can conjure up the look on the face of the seller when he dis- covers that he has lost a customer because he CHAM has neglected to change the water. For all we know, to the contrary the Medical Officer
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A NATIVE was fined $10 at the Mag✩tracy this morning for being in unlawful possession of brase; nails and screws, the property of the
'Naval Yard.
A NIGHT coulle was fined $25 in the Police Court today for dumping on the bill-side at the Peak, Another coolie had to pay 55 for a similar offdace.
of Health's story may be perfectly accurate but it certainly smacks of a fairy tale, AT that rate, it would be a work of superflaity To close all the wells, and at least such wells as those which are praised by the analyst and condemned by, the bacteriologist. All that is necessary, is for the sanitary inspec tors, to state in plaio language that mosONE of the Korean Elder Statesmen-has died quitoes breed in such holes, and the coolics of cholera at Seoul. The cholera outbroak is, would shun the water as they would the now spreading to the Suchong coal mines and plague. But while the Medical Officer of to Vladivostok, Health could be optimistic with regard to mantik-carrying mosquitoes; he was still able.
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A TELEGRAPHIC edict has been sent to the Viceroy in Fabien, ordering him to grant re- tief to those who suffered by the recent storm. at Machlang in that province,
THE collection of Likia dues in Canton during the first ten days of the 8th most, as reported by the Lakin officials to the Viceroy, amounted to 54,994.0.58 tanh,
The "Germao, cruisers Scharnhorst and Fura Bismarck are now at Cherhulpo, and Rear Ad- mirat Ingenah, who commands the German Far Easter squadron, has paid a visit to Seoul.
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THE FARMS COMPARED
raised. From the attarances of the extreme":
slave holders when that detestable and abomin abla system of labour was abolished, but, so far as the 'liquor or opium trades.are.concerned, one word is mentioned regarding compen satlon for disturbance,
Comparing the value of the revenue deri-not
It will be recalled that the Governor's ved from the current Farm with what would
latest utterances to the Legislative Assembly presented a somewhat gloomy outlook of the Colony's financial prospects for next year and the following years. His Excellency anti- cipated a falling off in the value of the New Opium Warm by somefive lakhs of dollars, and Sir Frederick hoped that the pledge given by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to approach Parliament to give a substantial contribution towards the Colony's loss, by reason of the gradual closing of the oplum, divans would resufina solatium being voted by Parliament in the aid of Hongkong of
some $250,000.
Thecontroversy that has since artsen in the Colour has hinged principally around the Colonial Secretary's pledge, but as fate would have it, thanks to extraneous circum stances which need not be entered into at the moment but with which we are perfectly
small loss which can be foreseen by the tamiliar, it is abundantly evident that the
letting of the new triebdial contract is so infinitesimal that it may be regarded is a egligible quantity in the preparation of the Colonial Estimates which are about, 10 be presented to the Legislative Council.
be collected, assuming that the highest bid of $98,750 per month be accepted by Govern ment, it will be seen that the difference is one of 525,000 per annum only an amount so small that it need not enter seriously into calculation in the endeavour to adjust the Colony's budget for next year.. The yearly rental now derivable from the letting of The Opium monopoly is one of $1,210,000, and the aggregate represented by the highest bid should be 51,185,000.
Approached by a member of the staff of the Hongkong delegraph this afternoon, the officials in the Colonial Secretariat badno information, at the moment, to communicate for publication, although it was ascertained that the Government would make public the figures next week. As stated; our readers may accept the figures presented above as representing the bids which were submitted to Government this alteroon
In accordance with the usual custom the Executive Council will take the tenders under advisement and the award will, it is anticipated, be made by Government in the course of next week In the meantime taxpayer may rest tolerably certain that the bugbear of further taxation-in addition to the liquor import duty-aced not be regard ed with the same ominous fear that toomed so large but a week ago.
the contrary, one misionary exultingly writes from one of the inland Provinces of Chi- nato.the effect that, "farmers who have failed to comply with the now order, have their poppy crops uprated, are seized and beaten, and sant into the city wearing the wooden collar,' whilst another equally jubilant, writes from another Province that
and the blog was done. The result is our Pro vinco is amply beggared by the sudden sup pigssion of an annual influx of millions and mil formerly riceived in payment of the 'drag' and lions of fels from other provinces, which were
The people are featlog it very keenly indeed. The other provinces, however, are so much the better offand minus the cures of the opium.
That the Temperance Party at, home are. daily gabing ground, daunot be denied, and as we bare already stated, it might be wise for the reformers to pause's little in their real, in place of resorting to what can only be term- of the not over scrupuloss methods resorted to to order to attain their ende, which if persisted
"Our Ide Viceroy ralad with a strong hand
may lead to their belog rebuffed and to the defeat ofibe principal object in view. Accord jog to the latest ropotitamment 2-99 Che, English - working, mau's favourite baverage la beer, but Mr. Lloyd George's *memorandum shows a steady decline in con sumptics, the consumption of the number of gallons i standard gravity, por bond of pɔpa-
eloquent as showing that, owing to lessened. lation, per year, whilst the latest returns are consumption of whisky following on the rise in price, the result has been a striking dimlántica cases of drunkenness and crime in Scotland. As we have frequently advocated, it would be well If some of the enthusiastic missionariar and reformers would divert their attention to many places nearer home, where their efforts are equally as much required, and whose care- ful atteol ́o we would beg to call to the follow-"- ing extinct from one of the leading home dailles
to make suggestions calculated to make the REFRESHING. blood creep. For example if we are not care ful we may, have yellow fever knocking at the door, to say nothing of dengue fever, Dr. Clark put the watter in this form!" Yellow fever,, I am glad to say, is unknown. in ilangkang; were it otherwise the Sanitary Board would have a far more serious lank" on hand than any they have yet had to deal with Filariasis is, however, endemic in Southern China, while yellow fever is .ch the coast of Maschuria with a view to settling A CHINESE Commission is about to inspect demic in the West Indies and in Panama,iphery disputes by arranging a fishery agree. and it is very generally feared that when the ment between China and Japan. Panama Canal is open to traffic this disease may be imported to the Far East." "As a matter of fact yellow fever is not endemic in the West Indies; it is sporadic and years elapse between epidemics. Many South American port such as Santos and Rio which were formerly hotbeds of disease and yellow jack in particular have been rendered. comparatively immune through the efforts of the medical-men who have given attention to the sanitation of these places. Reports from Colon and Panama are also favourable to the idea that yellow fever is gradually being stamp ed out. Besides, yellow fever is not one of We understand that a marriage has beep. those discases which hang about a person arranged and willen, et The ford Engines for an indefistle period; it makes the attackLieut. A. N. Paxton, of Royal tab and comes to a height in a few days or hours and long before a vessel arrived at Hongkong via the Panama Canal the disease would have run its course and practically-lo.view of the many complaints that have been all danger of contagion would be at an end.
made from the provinces of the superabundance The Medical Officer of Health, however, is of copper cents, notwithstanding, the fact that anxious and hem. 8t lave learnt with plea the mints have ceased to pin them, the Go sure that; at the present time, a special" "grnment bas ordered steps to be taken to mosquito survey of India is being made to prevent surreptitious coinage, in order to faci ascertain in which locaties the stegomyia litate the financial re-organization. mosquito is to be found this being the one that convey's yellow fever and that special steps will be taken to deal with. these and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge deliberate and palostaking care on the shall be in such form as the Treasurer may slam life lo qar own little filand.
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areas before there is any possibility of the infection reaching that country: "As stated in my previous minute"these two diseases have been definitely proved to be conveyed to man by mosquitoes which do not belong to the sub-family anophelinac, and although they
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the present time hose the Bard will not of the Hippodrome Circus and Menagerie,
By Government solification of the 3rd September, 1909. "sealed tenders would be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, till soon on Thursday, the joth of September, 1909, [10-day for the purchase of the privilege known as the Opium Farm cafablished under The Opium Ordinance, 1909, that is to say, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of selling, within the Colony, (including the New Ter ritories), Opium so prepared inclusive of the privilege of collecting dross and of preparing and dealing in Dror Opium, for three years from the 1st of Marchi, igro,"
Until a week ago all'appearances pointed to the belief that considerable apathy was manifested in the largely advertised invitar tion calling for tendert." Those behind the curtains, however, had an inkling that the studious silence betrayed a
part of those who contemplated bidding for the exclusive privilege, in order to assure that success which business acumen and commercial circumspection 'enjoined as the only safe practical principle to success, That all who had an eye on the Farm rent about their work with the maximum deil
The principal condition of the Farm is that the successful tenderer shall before the shi day of January 1910, deposit with the Treasurer approved security, either money or title deeds the value of three, months rent, of the Farm for the due per formance of the conditions on which the privilege is granted and of the stipulations or agreement in respect thereof, and the security previously deposited with the Treasurer to the lender being received will be retained until such successful tender shall have deposited such security. Particulars of the security offered must be submitted to the Treasurer before the st. day of November, igon, for the approval of the Government, and the security
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hers could really grasp the utter misery, and hunger, and destitution, and want, and sickness which we have at our doors, they would realise that truly Charity begins at home, and let the already happy heathen remain bappy as "ho js, Alari, for the thousands in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and other towns, who; if they got one meal of scraps per diem, aro overs jord, and cannot desced apso another (ex- capt for lack) while i' faits, whilst the "sleek, well-fed well-looked alte fortigo pative feasts like a gourmand and gets millions from the British public for the conversion of his soul, Let the heathen fetch for themselves, till such times as we have rectified the borron of the
·FIGHTING PLAGUE, IN "UNDIA:
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require. Title deeds of land in any British Territory may be submitted for approval." MISSIONARIES AND OTHER REFORMERS, From the home newspaper received by last mail, including the current monthly issue of that argan of the Aati opium Society,
Britain's Opium Harvest,' there would appear spread of plague in India by rate has long oc to be no slackening in the efforts, or campaigns Capted the attention of scientists and medical
The discovery of a mains of preventing the
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BIRTHS.
On September 24, 190g, at Shanghai, to Mt. and Mrs. Philip N. F. Heath, a daughter,
became endenschere before taking the neces sary steps for their prevention. There are, moreover, other diseases which are most probably conveyed by mosquitoes, and one of them is dengue fever the facts in regard
way Bay, a few months back, is back in town, Mr Jackson Informs us that Bysack's Circus is provided with fresh attractions on the forth coming visit to Hongkong. Te the strength of the Colonics and the Continent. Mr. Bysuck their artistes they have had new arrivals from.
to the conveyance of the infection in this has also engaged the services of several excep..
ment to day furnish the amplest and the most incontrovertible testimony.
THE TENDERS.
At the appointed hour to-day the follow
who, in many cases, ought to be more properly. In this connection the Journal of Tropics! termed as 'faddists, in the ualted 'causes' of Medicine and Hygiene pablishes some account temperance and opium suppression. Accord of the efforts made by the second ludia Plagne. ing to the reports given by these two said Commission. This Commission, recognising. patties of agitators, its amount of access the fact that plague, is communicated, 10 which has attended thek efforts would appear, mas from rats by mesas of mat-fless, has
On September 24; 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr.. disease are not yet alisolutely decided, but tionally clever Japanese performers during his ing-tenders were received by Government to use s common expression, to have surpassed raised the question of insecticides as a means of
and Mrs. C. D..Field, a daughter,
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THE 300 tons of Chiasse pork imported at the end of July have been sold in the ordinary way and to the anal purchasers of pork--the retail
there is enough evidence to induce Pro- recent visit to the Land of Chrysanthemums. fessor Ronald Ross to claim recently that the extermination of the mosquito from Port Said and Ismailis has result in these towns being absolutely free of dengue while the disease has been raging in other parts of
pork butchers, restaurateurs, &c, and doubtless' Egypt, and a similar theory has been put for many Londoners have; during the last few days, ward by Professor Andrew Balfour in regard boon unwittingly dining off Chinese pig. It is to Khartoum. Dengue prevasis here and is re-learned; on the authority of an expert, that it is impossible to detect any difference between the davour of appearance of English and Chinese pork after cooking. There is a graver side to
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 190g.sponsible for a considerable amount ofalckness among all classes of the community." "Den. PAINTING THE LILY—BLACK. gue may preval here, but surely got to any very great extent, but of course there in nothing little piling on the agony. All
It is very interesting to learn on the au-
The necessity for a preparation possess.rg
the most sanguine expectations. Should it be clearing infected dwellings of floss. It seeme Ku Yin-shan, Leung Kin-
really the care that this amount of success that the acid solution of per-chloride of mercury saug, and Ng Ming-sau, $98,750 has been achieved, would it not be wise for at one time in use his been” abaddoned in Ho Shai-kit,
98,600
the would-be reformers to pause a little in their favour of cyllie. wholesale undoing of what has been the habits Luk Yan,... 96,000 of centuries, to rest for a little on their laurels, palicidal as wall as bactericidal powain is 91,000 and be content with the consummation and evident. Kerosins smuktion merele bilin' the She Ying-luk, .............................
respective progress which has so far attended their efforts, dese, but something moto shomed to be reż. Oo the contrary, thereverne would appear to quired, and the germs of the disasse themselves be the case, and as we have before stated, they attacked. The value, therefore, of an Insecti seem to have entered upon the task with acide in combination wit a disinfectant would light heart, totally oblivions and indifferant to soms the rational and
The bids. represented the monthly rentals which the tenderers were prepared to offer and, ab a matter of fact, have pffered for the Farm,
The highest bidders-represent - à... small / the consequences that were bound to`sssso; /-with regrifementare spotifc plan of c
the question. For year the breeding of pige syndicate of individuals who do not appear by English farmers for the home market has to have hitherto attained much prominence been on the dawn grade, and now the farmera
Such eventualities as the depriving of thousands
thority of the Medical Officer of Health that I biting flies, among which the mosquitoes will bave to meet, in addition, A competitor in the local world of, finance; but where ravenne in countries where it can be used in complaution with cyllja. A mixture of,
the Chinese in Hongkong are acquiring such are included, are capable of conveying septic
a thorough knowledge of the virtue of sanita-infection to Dias, and may thereby induce
This pil¿ciple has bean for some time carries, of the means by which to earn their daily ed out a practice, a la Hongkong, dad bread, the causing of heavy declines in several paits of India Listerine has been -spared,-and-the-resultant-dislocation of all opel parts of syfilm and petrol, diluted with who is not hampered by any of the restrictions Chiness syndicates are concerned there is financial estimates, as simply scoffed at and water but recently been schployed with satis under which they labour. The different condi
never any telling what is the strength of the treated in a most callous manner by the bob factory repulls as a reliable palicide and disin. allowing miosquitoes to breed on their pre- general Impairment of health brought about, ersble them, despite the cost of transport, to be
a corresponding cartelsment in the extension kerosine all emulsion the ROMA mises that they are, adepting, the most especially in women and children, by the placed on the English market at a figure nearly trolling
of public work and other necessary improve- siringent measures.to comply with the sug bites of mosquitoes is an important lactocin 25 per cent, below the price asked for home. The second bid falls short of the highestments, of which the various countries affected
atand-in pood, and, as the deficiency faust Bestions of the Sanitary, Board. The Medi- considering the healthiness or otherwise bred pigs. The Chinese beasts were sold for
Officer of Health should certainly be in of the Colony"-- Now It
tion,ad are 10 well aware of the danger of death from blood-poisoning, while the tions.under which these laposted pigs ara bred Enancial backing they are capable of con♪ } brists,” Caortailment of the revenue most mea Tectant, As, regarde, thi pulicidal action of
(but cyllid Clone the cyllin
qual
sd. per lb, whilst for, English gigi cii, per intender by exactly Sign a month, or $1,800 ms Food show, has traders will im como 01
sag uzkedi
years an infiniter ferant, indeed where