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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY OCTOBER 25
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HANITARY BOARD'S VIEWS DISCOUNTED,
The following letter - from Eecretary, dated isik
SUMMON
Coʻonial:
was conside ad at
VANT.
THROUGH HOIGKUNO
We hare rece Co a book of the Horgkong scenery titled "Throug it is very tATE. as beatly brough, the their ball tens 'b'ocks (photographs: Mr. Arn
They are, on being gut
BBY LASDIRVES; MEST:COMPANY: means trained, or A German boy takes a do-
al caso occupied the attention of light in being efficie in being prompt to
"Hallifax at the Magistracy this mern, obey, in doing things smartly. Untidiness and the meeting of the Exultary Board this aftering, whin & Mr. Harding, of No. 5o, Praya Kast, was summozed by the Hongkong Land slackness he abbor. This, and this only, is A, the cause of many advantages which the Geriam directed to inform you that the Govern lavestant Company for failing to temore from mint has under careful coralder tion the their ptumises after belag zoryed with Dotica to man working people have over our untaugub, | report; forwarded in your letter of the 4th of quit. Mr. A. Shelton Hooper, secretary to the" untrained, undrilled and ungezogend August, of the Committee of the Sinitary Board Land forestment Company, prosecuted, while classes,
on the complaint made by the chief manage the deleidant appeared in person, of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. of On beleg asked to give his reasons for fail. konck, or call the naisance caused by a lattice and soll jusking to remove, defendant made a long-winded his fare in an attractive, In the vicinity of the company's premises, at: stalamint, in the cru se of which he asked to the secret of kis
prob by the Hunghom. The toport, which was adop'ed be givan lime,
His Worship—Y Ju're only wastlog time. photography in Lon by the Board, recommends the conversion of
glares through the 140 the latrias into a trough clesst. The committee, When can you remove? Is not sanguine that this conversion will stop
**_Dafenden?——If soar Woisala cote me abort," book will show the uz lai the anisance complained of; but they cous der
done in p'io
Potography, that it will maltigate the daisance.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. par 4"
#UB. CHIPTION RATES (IN. ADVANCE)' JAIL/X--$88 pár annum, WEEKLY—113 per annuus. The rates per quarter and per a meem, proportions.
Seriptions for any period loss than ons month- will be charged as for a full month, me duas The daily inna is delivered free when the addram is. A NATIVE WAY Awarded six months! hard labour noomcible to messenger. Fank vabecribers can have and four hours' stocks stocks at the Magistracy their copia delivered at their residence without his morning for returning from bialshment," any axies chargs. On coples sent by post an
A NUMBER of chair coolies were brought up le additional: 1,80 per quarter in charged for petah Folice Court this marolag for rushing for The postage on the weekly lane to any part of the fares. Figes ranging from Sto to $1 were in
world in 80 cents per querier..
p: sod, singls Copin, Dally," tem omnis. Woskly, twenty-
fiepos (for cash only).
BIRTH,
SuqaTLY after night o'clock last right, ao armed robbery was robbery was committed at Sha tau kok. Goods to the value of 584 were. removed by the robbers, "on
I'm bound to stop, but I ask that yɔ
you kindly listen tawy restopt."
"In spite
or may not ploaie the cul His Worship allowed the defendant to speak
cot appeal To the matter-of-fac the same reasons were cited again in a faltar deeply resented by the aliza lng tone.
A who upplands everyblog "His Worship-Have yon secuind audiber stand, but the fact remain place?
that every photograph pro
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~ *. In rup'7, I am to remind the Board that she'sire on which the lavine in question stands Wat, after consideration of objections lodged by the Hongkong Land Investment Co., Monsta Leigh and Orange, and the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co, unanimously approved Defendant-Serata), bat all the houses be; 1671 THE "C" Company-Boffs met the Royal Eby the Legislative Council on the 17th of Felong to the Lied Investment Company and
binary, 1992 The lairios wat accordingly oven my friends have been refaxed. gipeer la a friendly game of bockey yesterday erected during the course of the year. No His Worship-How long will it take you to af ergoon op the Military ground. The game complaint of nuisance caused by its presence remove Gelegraph | ruled in a victory for the Sappers by 4 goris has been received by Government unil the Defendant nok for a month's grace, 1 Macao and Japan, but wor
On 23rd October, at 1.50 am, the wife of Mr. N. BLUMENTHAL, Manager of Astor House Hotel, of a daughter..
Jur Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1910.
to 2
| THE craisor Attræk, which has just been re- commissioned for further sa.vica on the China Station, is at the head of the gunlayers-tests this year in the China sqandran.. The second tast ship was the Bedford, now wrecked in the LIEUT, C. B. G. Davidson, of The Buffs, hon. src and treasurer of the "Bedford Relief Food, is leaving the Colony on Wednesday next par HM.T. Rodillo and all communications, etc. dealing with the "Bedford Relief fund" aboald in futurs be addressed to Mr. G. Balleeb, c/o
Messa. Gilmar & Co.
TRE MAILED FIST. "Such a lot of talk, and nothing really accomplished!" exclaimed ong who has beras of Koes. come worn out with the subject of Protection. in Germany and Free Trade in Britain, and the various excursions made by British work men and others, especially the others, with the object of discovering a few facts to fit their pet theories, One gets bewildered at the contradictions in the reports given by these visitors to the lands whence the Angles A MARRIAGE has been arranged, and will take place very quietly early in November, between and Saxons and Jutes first came to over-
Ur.Anshooy Babington, youngest son a Liest throw one civilization and lay the founde enant-Colonel Babington, late th Hussars, of tiona of another. Some say that our. Teu Brocklands, Salisbury Groad Hants, and Mrs. tonic cousins bave more to eat and buy it Millicent Adela Cobbold, of Oxford. Högre, more cheaply than we. Some say that the Ciracaster, youngest daughter of Mr. Joseph prica, they pay is too high. We happen to Fell Christy, of Upton, Alresford; Hario. ^y be able to speak on this subject with au- Two Chinese women and a Chinamin wars Robert Porter & Co.'s thority, defying criticism. We affirm that charged with the alleged lidnapping of three the Germans get good food and plenty of it,native girls for the purpose of prostitution. It and that the price they pay is returned to war alleged by the prosecution that one of the
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"man does not live by bread alone," nor does he pay for it in one way only. In the earning of the money wherewith the, Ger mans pay for their daily bread, they gain morethan bread and more than money. There are no more splendidly disciplined people on earth than the Germans. From his child hood up a German is a trained and drilled man. Whatever his religion may be he is taught that nouagenda din bags, Buty, mlevi filial piety-courage to bear pain, courage to tell the truth, courage to take his part in A. S. WATSON & CO., working, suffering, and if need be dying for the good of the whole community. It is this common endeavour, this ordered toil for the public weal, this universal sense of res- ponsibility towards others that makes Get [18-many.gical, and will make her greater and greater yet. When one realizes that there is not in Germany that blackness of misery, that horror of which Mr. Jack London has written in his terrible and truthful book 'ke people of the Abyss, and when one reflects that the tragedy he presents is enacted by English men and Englishwomen in the capital of British civilization, and that the Germans
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female defendants was on the pelat of leaving
for Andam with one of the gicis, when she was arrested and when taken to her house, the other two defendants were found with the remaining girls in their possession. The case was com miited for trial...
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tickles the taste and have had rccasion | photographs of the
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23rd of May, too, nearly eight years later. have my notes here and I'll refer to them if "war caused solely
3. Having regard to its distance, vz, apo feet you lik
the pictures, in the can of from the wastera extremity of the terrace lo His Worship You Reedn't do that, stage delight in places that we which the European employees of the Dock Mr. Hoopar stated that this notice expired for | which we have often wished Oo, are housed the latrion cannot, in the opla. | defendant to give up 'dolivery in August last, souvenir. 7bs fint pctora. ion of the Government, be a nuisance to the Defendant was contionally allowed days and Stormy Sentet," is really very beauti pl occuplaca of the terrace in question except per weeks of grace, and finally he consented to give is no "laking" or "104ching op hapa on the comparatively rare occasions when up delivery on the sist of October but failed to triumph of prefect taste and skill, a
strong south-west wind is blowing. The ramove. The de'endant was simply fooling that we have rately, teen, equall prevailing wind throughout the year, it is the Company. They did not wish to be hard have no inuit to find, except tuz to be noted, varies in the locality in question on the defendant but als presence on the pra- the pictures were larger, or ibat from aerbeast through out to south east.mises prevented the Company from letting the them all on a wall in a big gall with the committee that a fruitful source of soxa for which he was not bound to state. He purpess for which they were designed, viz., in On the other hand, the Government agrees other portions of the blacks to costs, the rea they aic, in a booklet, they admirably fit the auisance to the occupiers of the houses relersed would ask that the defendant be ordered to serve as a souvenit of the beauty of Hongkong to, is the conveyance along Gillies Avance of leave at the end of the presect month, night soil from priyate hooker at Husgbom to the conie.vancy boat which lies Is the small hours of the morning close by to the westward of Gillies Ávanus,
Yet al
or to give to cibars at Homa soms iden of lu His Worship-Toat's very generous. If you The pige devoted to "Dawa” dons effectively don't move at the end of this month, steps will || giva in idea of how "Aurora sišas blushlag be taken against you.
from the bed of Tithonus" in Hongkong. The Dafendant at this polņt resatarted his origin" | Lunst photos crsaqally happy. Bottheo all 4. The remedy the Board recommend is the al adds mad on his Worship remonstrating, is so successfully dons that every page laun conversion of the latrine into a trough closethe pot up his flogers to his lips and said "1] pleasure. The pictures of Qainu's Road give a
very good idea of ane strecin horn. A This would cost over $1,000 in capital expen. must shut this mouth of mine!
Defendant-May I as': what the steps are to ditore, and would est-il a loss of revenue from ste of night-soit estimated a: Sjon. per ansum There is the further objectius that the locality where the sewage would badlicharged into the
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We could talk about these pictures through'a whole colama, without doing justice to their His Worship—Well, your beloʻgings will be charm,and we recommand our readers to look turned into the street and you'll have the rest them and see for themselves what they are.
Through Hon kang with a Camera. By J.. Argold, Messrs. W. Brewer & Co., Hongkonge Defendant-Is that the law i
harbour is, owing to the absence of a good ponsibility to remove them alstwhere.
scar of tide, not convid rod suitable for sach: discharge.
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His Worship—Yes, when you don't pay your || $1.50! ||
Defendant - Don't pay my rent:? - His Worship-1 mead when the landlord doesn't want you.
Government is not prepared to adopt the re
5. In view of the above consideratipos, there
commendation of the Board. It is considered ibat the batter temedy, for the nuisanco com. In a letter from the Coloolal Secretary to the plained of is to divest the conveyance of night. Secretary of the Sanitary Board, which was soil from the fatrine sad otter latrines and submitted at the meeting this afternoon, the private houses, from Gillies Avenue along Attorney-General is of opinion that, under the Cooks Street and the attest, batwonn B. H. 1. Fublic Health and Buildings Ordinance as 11.7and H. 8.1. L. 218. aciose a zarlama. andywy Mantiwat oment of Health or Aktion in process of construction, to a pier which sistant Medical ficer of Health eppointed to Goverment will erect at the point . shewn act as Colonial Veterinary surgeon should on the attached plan. - possess vete Joary qualifications, and that, whes opportunity ffers, it is proposed to regularine the appointment of Medical Officers of Health For Assistant Medical Officals of Health not
specially qualified as Veterinary Surgeons to act as Colonial Veterinary Surg on.
an and Y
THR Police cccatiually have to deal with
hardened criminals, bat a probable record- breaker in the matter of previous copricious was brought up before Mr. E. Re-Mallifax at the Magistracy this morningThe party fa question appeared on a charge of having oplum in bis possession in a fatsion and the excose offered to the Magistrate was: This time I did not sell it." His story, needless to remark, was
The Government trusts that these measures will prave more satisfactory than thote sog. gened by the Board.
Mr. A. Shelton Hooper minuted :-i rezza! that the government do not show more con sideration for the Europeas, employes of a local ladustry which contributes so much to the rates of the Colony.
A PUPIL OF REMENTI,
H. RAFALEWSKI'IN H.NGKONG,
Shortly residents of Hongkong will have the unique opportunity of hearing at the City Hall the wonderful pianist Rafsiewski, and the
sh
Defenda: knock me up I'm afraid
breik down.
His Worship That 'can't be helped. Defendan:-Tas charge is taken in Her Ma- „328ty's (awa... The charge la wrongly. worded and i uk to be given the benefit. You should at least take me that allowance.
His Worship-Will make you evity' allow-
RICO.
Defendant-I'm sick, I'm going to hospital..
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We di noi ancesertly endorse the opinions depressed by Correspondents in this column.J.
DECIMAL SYSTEM.
TO THE EDITOR OF the "Ilonakoma Taukokarh,"
Britain.
The Colonies as a whole have consistently
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NEW P & 0. STEAMERS.
The two new mail spamer now building for 3 'the'P. & O. Company are similar in typa to the ? | present vessels of the "M" class; but of much, farger tonnage and greater power. Ons vessel' Is' balog built by Mésors, Cairă & Co, m Greecock and the other by Messrs. Harland & Wolf at Belfast. The Dames chosen for sham are respectively Medina and Malaja,
They are of the following dimensions:- length, 550", breadib, 6x'u", depth, 34'3" and their tonnage will be 13.500 gross as against 11,000 of the "Mores", the largest vassal at present ruin'ng ia ika Com any's servica,
Accommodation is provided for nearly 701 first and second sal.ca passengers. A num b'r of single-berth cabins are arranged along side the music rocm, at the forward and of the hurricane deck, in addition to the usual cablos,,
The birdson deck of these ships is c
fect ventilation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held en 7 bunday, ayth inst., st.3.3) p.m. The order of the day are as follows :-
Financial Minutes, (Nos yo and gi}}\,}!, Report of the Finance Committee) [No, 16)
Hon. Mr. M. Stewart will move the following
Resolation *—*
Sle-In August lut it was vaguely Atinued to join the forecastle, giving more pio. nounced on the scthority of a cable from menade space, Additlunal cabins are placed & matralla, that the Commonwealth House of Representatives had passed a resolution in
in the space thus enclosed, favour of the "Decimal System." I have now
The smoking room in these ships lax, fsed a received a full report of the debate to which deck bights than is the other "M" and la thin cible referred and on perusal find that the end is a verandab smoking room in the epso,
placed on the promenade deck and at the aller- WE have the pleasure to advise shudder at it, but paas it by, content to work, disbelieved by the presiding Magistrata, mü Australian soprano Miss Lili harp, whoas matter of the first importance, to the mo¥8«"]
content to obey, rather than be and suffer impored a fize of 5:00 or three months. The goldes notes have made her famous in many ment in favour of the Metric System.
The dining sed mos c-roomy and the divan Interesting part of the story was that when the hemispheres. This is Rafalewski's deat visit the what those are and endure, who dare in Eng records were examined it was found that the to Hongkong and 'critica‚acefaim him as 'a,] and I am therefore able to enclose to you he view to enhaïced cɔm{ut, and the most per
This Association has repristed the debate of ladies' smoking-room ate all arranged with a- land to be proud that they are masterless, one defendant had no less than olevan previous marvel even in these days of great piauins, but wiħa copy from which you will sea that inde PUBLIC GENERALLY that, begins to learn, perhaps too late, the lesson convictions against him for the same offence, what is so amazing, is that Rafalewski is also print action by Australia and New Zeland
taught by modern Taussia. The English Another native who was arrested with the do- under the Euperintendence of our workmen delegates have not been able fondant with a granilty of the drig was fized virtuoso on the violio, having been a `fwousite is practically assured, in the evant of the Im
pupil of the Hungarian Master-Remeng Hepial Government refusing, on the occasion of to come to a definite conclusion on the $15 or three weeks.
now lays on his late master's famous the conference of Colonial Premlars next year, question of protection and especially As the result of a friendship which had its be. Guarnerios Dal Jess, and will use this into latroduce the Metric System into Great taxation of agricultural products, but ginning in Par's several years ago Mr. Garzelo strument in Hongkong, when he will be heard they, not being blind, have been able to Tuazon and Mils, Henrietta Marcat will be ¦ in a caprice of Paganini and some of his.owa contrast the practical advantages enjoyed by united in marriage in the Catholic Cathedral at compositions. As a pianist be will give the the humblest Germans with the hopeless coasted by his mother, Mrz, fratel on aissa great composity in soms of gloomy state of the English poor. The Ger accompanied Mrr, (sabel Ton List's great
400, his alster Miss Carolins, and his brother mans combine, they organize, The British Mr. Joss Talios, left Manila on the Great ought to, but do not. When a German finds Northera fizer Mimento for Hongkong where it his duty to do something for his fellowmen, they will meet the bride elect. The gesera! he acts in a way widely different from that procurator of the Dominican order in hoang in which most Englishmen, even the most Mr. Tanson is well known in society circles trog, Father Francisco Naval, will officiate. conscientious, are apt to conduct themselves. and is also identified with several business For a Britisher is only too likely to think enterprises to the city. Mile, Marcel comes that he has done all that his fellowmen can
from a prominent family of Maimand, a small town not far from Bordeaux, and has just come reasonably expect of him when he has sent pleted her education le Paris. The wedding cheque to some charitable institution, pints will raters on the Aliases Arriving There he imagines that bis duty has ended. But a German has been drilled to think and act differently. He knows well what faults there are in the system of which he is a part, and being accustomed to act in conjunction with others, he not only signs a cheque" but gets others to do the same, and he does more, much more, for he gives his time, his labour, bis service to what over task he has undertaken, and per des all the others to do in like manner, That is why the German workman does not SHOE FACTORY, LTD. go bungry and homeless in his old age, and that is why the German women are not Works: 98 and 80, Praya "East, afraid to bring children into the world, lest Office and Showroom: 88 and 85, they starve as the English and the French are saying Referring to children, we say Des Vour Road, Central, a no more than the bare truth when we affirm behaved few doors from new Post Office, that German children are the
At an early date, which will be Auly notified, we shall be prepared to supply the fincat and lutest LADIES Boots and Shoes.
THE HONGKONG & CHINA
Havewing, nah October, 1810 –
1001
and the mo consider that to be
hors about November 2..
That this Council desires respos the situation of the Secretary of State for the Coloniests the port of oligin of all the and one third of the componade of log this Calony, and humbly prays him Gowarement in its endravura before Parliament the propriety of
the opium vcs in I's most lij restricting the export from. Est means of gratifsing
Mr. Stewart will k His the Government distribo in Chinuie of the s
advocated the Metric System wb atver an op- porasly bat bera adorded, on their militude up to sow has been one efrxprctancy; they | The celebrated violiniste Kreisler and Mischa have besitated to take any decided step in the Elman also play the piano a little, but Rafalews. balief that it would not be many years before ki is the only artist in the world that excels as the Mother Country swept away its present a soloist co both instruments, ind plays the jumble of weights and mosss es and replaced coste, London, has the fellow The Fall Adult them by the Maire Lyitan. Ansival's has to a vicital at Bechstein Hall by Rafalewski: that it is useless to wait for alsad frem us, and, Gaselle, London, has the following in reference now, however, apparently made up her mind "He played Bethoven's Sonata Appassionata -knowing the feelings of the other Colonies in reaching quite to the point of supreme excal. this mater, I have little hesitation in stating fance which has been stralood in the interpreta that the attitude of Australia will be adopted tion of the same work b. M. Esgou D'Albert' by the representatives of the other Colonias. So The Tribune, London, anys, Rafalewski con recently as 1936 the Commiston appolated in play a plece with the left hand as perfectly as the Transvaal to report on the weights and an ordinary musician can with both bands. His measuns of that country reccmmanded the on goods passing repertoira likawise amb aces all descriptions of immediate Introduction of the Maltic System | Kowloon ! - if not will composition, and so powaifal were some of his for all purposes of land, suivry and chemistry. such a translation to t The following minnie, by the Head of the places, that one occasionally expected to see a The commissioners recommended afroitat the Sanitary Department, is laid before the Fourd bought of rockets laupward from the plane, Metric System should by létroduced through at its fortnightly meeting this afternoonz-!-- But he could too be as tender as a dove, and Carsia land at Mt. Davis, including a por especially was this so in a " Berceuse of his fin of Hit Davis Cemetery, has been banded own composition, and illustrating the 100g of over to the Mitary Autheriting by the Col war mother at the cradle of her child. & great Government for defensive purposes... The War Department is anxious to paclose this land and attist ir Rufalowski, i teaca liin. Before doing so. however, the Military Authoriti & lab to have the gravet A LIST of gravements of Indias transporte and moved. Thit will oncall exhumations witble of infielt to and from India for the season the area marked red on the attached map, 1910-es has been fussed by the Wer Office sucnitor worship at the savor within the ep Will-Isavo Cape Town on Norr
Bendeavoured to arrange for the annual The 1st Battalion Yorkshire Light, folantry closed area to be carried on by permits lasued
MOUNT DAVIS CEMETERY.
"QUIETION OF EXHUMATIONS,
́ritualed" within the' aran, allotted to them re-
by the Milkary Authoritics i the faller wers, Hongkong on Dec. 3. - The and Balla Raomation (zdastelen, the paly alternative, however, not prepared, to grant this privileged Kent Regiment will leave Hongko
1: Plonia circalstu, toʻmembere (with'n vliw
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out and expressed the hope that the British ance to amen Parliamini would shonly introduce legislation Ose commissioner presented a minority raport advocating actim similar to that now prop by Australia
There is strong feelin
this outject, and it appe they will rejoice in the pes rational system and will Lord Kelvin