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The man named Nesbit who LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, resolution was brought Lafore NOTES AND COMMENTS. was knocked down and injurod by, a tramear, following the race9 on Saturday, has died in hospital.
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His Excellency further said
The *** Hongkong Telegraph."
A meзting of the Legislativo that before they pre seeded with The Long-suffering Public. In reference to the rumour in
Council was held this afternoon the business of the day he would rogard to tho reputed sale of the
Too little attention is paid in in the Council Chamber after a bak thoir Formission to make a "Ilongkong Tolograpli," which: At the Magistrney, this porn vacation of two months. A comewhat poreonal statement. Hongkong to the preservation of wo contradicted in our issue of fing, a Clinoso passenger on board last evening, there appears to be the ss, Paul Beni was fined $25rgo amount of new business Since they last mat ho had the rights of the public, especial- accessity for fually and con- for being in possession of a load fower than 10 first readings, His Secretary of Stato informing As a concrete examplo at the pro- was taken up, there being no received a message from thely in regard to the right of way. clusively clearing the air. The od revolver and 14 rounds of Excellency the Governor, Sir him that Ilis Majesty had sent moment the work proceeding proprietor has not sold the paper; ammunition without the noses- Frederick Lugard, presided and boon plessed to appoint him. it has not passed partly or wholly eary legal permit.
there woro also present:--- andor the influence of any faction,
to the amalgamated governments at the University bars tlie passage H. E. Major Gonoral O. A. of Northern and Southern Nigeria: of vobiales from Chino Road to the class, clique or interest, and it will continuo in the futuro, as in
The British Admiralty has Anderson G. O. commanding the Ho would therefore be leaving Pokfulam Road. There seems to the Colony on March 16, and bo no notice posted up that the the past ander the prosent pro-placed an order with Vickors, troops. prietorship, to be conducted on Ld., to build thres improved Hon. Mr. Claud Evern.
The Colonial Secretary, the would, with the deepest regiet, perfectly independent lines. Its submarines of the "E" class. inotto has been and remains :-----
The Attorney General, the Hon They will be uced for longer sca
Mr. Rees Davies, voyages, and will mount two
The Colonial Treasuror, the quickḥring guns..
Han, Mr. A. M. Thomion.
Director of Public Works, the A grand orchestral concort in Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, to be given to monow evening, Registrar Goooral, the Women's World appears to-beginning at 9.20 o'clock, by Me. E. R. Hallifax, day on page 3, whore thore is the band of 3. M. S. SobrCapt. Superintendent of Police, also an interesting story in re-horst, by kind permission of Capt. F. J. Badeley. gard to durbar etiquete in India. Admital von Krosigk. The con-
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HONGKONO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1912
A WAR THAT DRAGS.
The war between Turkey and Italy is a thing of shrods and - patches.".. Itchas dragged its course for five months without any thing very sorious having bgon done. For weeks the combatante are idle, on land and sun; then comes hows of an attack by ono side; and both are apparently satisfied, thromain quiet for quito a time lunger after the effort. To be sure Italy has always been making a little ground, but at the present råte" of“] progress it will be a long time before anything really decisivo is done and one side or other admits Precisely what happoned at Boirut it is diflicult to understand, But, then, conflicting and balling secounts of engagemonts during this war have been fairly common. Early reports spoke of a bom- bardment at Beirut, but this the Italian Admiral has denied. The engagemont, he says, was between a Turkish gunboat and torpedo
final defeat.
cert is in aid of the Home for Blind Children, Kowloon, and the Borlin Foundling Homs. The plan is at Moufiio's.
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have to take leave of the Counoil road fronting the University is at their next mosting on March impassable, and the driver of a 7. His Majesty lind also boon vehicle is loft in blissful ignor pleased to appoint Sir Henry May
as his successor and he had to auco of the fret until his progress congratulate the unofficial mom-is blocked and he has to back out bers who represented the com- and then drive a long way back Hon.munity on the fulfilment of their in order to got on to a lower
wielos
level. Tho road should-ba miado -
The Hon. Da, Ilo Kai, The Hou, Mr. H. E. Pollock K, O. The Hon. Mr. E. A. Howatt. The Hon. Mt. E. Osborne. The Hou. Mr. C. H. Ross. The New Colonial, Secretary. The Hon. Mr. Claud Soverb took the oath of allegiance on taking his seat
as Colonin Secretmy.
Finance
Gambling.
Tho ordinance to amend the Pallo- it is certain that this jambling ordinance of 1891 was would be done wore the work also roud'a first timo.
proccoding wearer the contro of This bill amend the principal the city and in any cyant no ordinace by increasing the petices should be posted up inform nalty on solling lottery tickets from
twenty-fivo to a thousand dollarsing the public what they and by making possession with a have to expect. Whoovor is siow to scalo (with the burden of responsible for the block at this proof on the defendant) anparticular point has more than one occasion shown the same
offonce.
Classifying Warehouses.
Public opinion in England is seoptical blant the proposal put forward by Mr. Tokonami, Japan. eso Viet Minister of Home Affairs, fora blonding of Shinto, Bud dhism and Christinaity. The The following recommendations
Another now bill which passed lack of consideration for the pub- will"Daily News says that even if his by H. E. the Governor were rita first reading was ono outilled lic, who proves to bo all 100 Al-offorts word, attended with a ferrod to the Financo Com-An Ordinauto to amend the paleont and long suffering. next measuro of surrass, the result mitteo:
Liquors Consolidation Ordinance would only his an amazing hybrid council to vots a sum of $5,000
The Governor re omiends the 1911."
The Smallpox Epidemic. religion.
This bill is introduced in order The returns ja rogard to the in aid of the vote miscellaneous that licensed warehouses may be small-pox epidemic, which wo services, grants in aid of other classified as certain classes of kong, Government Frofessorship licence fee than others. At pro-cant. Soventy casos nud fifty institutions, University of Hong-worehouses can stand a higher published yesterday are signifi
council to voto a sum of $1,380 fall into four classes: warehouses attention. The fact that among The Governor recommends the sent they may roughly be said to deaths are figures that arrest in aid of the volo Modical Depart for European wines, those for the sufferers wore six British monts, Porcons moluments, Chinese wines, those for bethhows that the comparativo hu- A-Staff, Assistant to the Modi- card sliop and those for the shop cal Officer for Kowloon.
The body of a child bús brow flom. Death in this instanco was good for trade" at the outset, picked up by the polico at Hung Revolutions are not always luo to natural causos.
but the Chinese-one has made the fortuno, no it is being said, The doad body of a cikl, aged of at least one cotton manufac about five years, has been found turor. A Parisian who has 200 in a boat drifting off Kellett's "in the know" for the last two faland, Death was due to small-years has ben arumulating stocks of stondurds and flaga of all sizes. Ho is now exporting Republican emblems by thou sands to the partisans of Sun Yat-son.-" L. & C. Express."
The body of a child who had apparently died from natural causes, has been found in the stract," at "West Point, by the police,
* At the Magistracy, this moun-
In the same locality a child's body in a decomposed condition, was also found in the public thoroughfuro. The child had ap parently died of small-pox.
bon voyago.
Anti-Vaccination Views.
New Way to Give Ether,
council to vots a sum of $425 in scents.
The Governor recommends the which to make tinctures and for purposes of differentiation is which keep spirits of wine with munity which has favoured what,
aid of the roto Judicial and Logal
neually called the foreign popula Departments, Special Expondi- Registration of Bleths, tion, is not a fuaitre of this tmo, D.-Law Officers, now An ordinance to amend the law epidemie." Onco more then would relating to the registration of bi-this
furniture.
ket.
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at polico stations for any purpose whatever.
To Avoid Trial:
suicide rather than stund his On Feb, 25 a man committed
were givon. The returns now. issued give the nationality of those who have contracteil, tho show how many of exch disease, but there is nothing toʻ
A new method of administer- The Governor recommends the and donthe, was read the first we, urge on our readers the ing other is, announced to the council to vots a sum of $218 in time on the motion of the At importance of being vaccinated without delay. Wo have no ing, a pontones of six weeks' and medical profession by Dr. S. J. aid of the vote Sanitary Depart-torney Gonoral,
According to the "objects desiro,, as we have, said bo Meltzer, of the Rockefeller In-ment, Other Clerges, Sanitary four hours' stocks was passed on astitute, after I sing tasted in. seve-Staff, Light, Tsim Sha Tsui Marand reasons of the bill, it Chinaman for stealing brass frour
fore to posons alarmists, but is hopod, by making the Kowloon Decks.
ral city hospitals with success. It is to put a tube down the wind- The Governor-rainmonite the forks at public dispensaries, it would be futilo to pretend that' pips of the patient and force air council to vote a sum of $72 in where babies are Jaken to be that there is no danger. It is a with a bollows into the lunge to rid of the vote Education, A.-vicinated, district registrars as duty not only to one's soll, but creato artificial respiration, the Department of Director of Educa-well as the police officers in return curront of air passing tion, Gther Charges, Frays East charge of the police stations, also to those with whom one is through the space between the English Sel ol, ront.
which are district registor offices, brought-into contact, to take every tube and the wall of the wind- The Governor recommends the that, more Chine will rogistor precaution. Aud the greatest of pipo. Ether is mixed with the Council to veto a sum of $3,400 the births of their children than these is vacoination. While on
is the anso at present owing to Invitations are being issued air and the patient routered un-in aid of the voto Public Works, the natural version which man the subject of health it might bọ for the opening of the pavilion conscious for an unlimited period Extraordinary, Building Chingus women have trattending Biggosted that the value of the of the Hongkong Chinos Recros without any serious after-effects. ing. wall in front of the Tai O
Police Station.
weekly return issued by the tion Club-at-4 p.m. on March -Degth of ̈Archbishop Nicolai.
The Governor recommends the 2 by Ulis Edvollenoy the Governor. The denth is. announced of council to vote a sum of $66 in
M.O.. would be enhanced if the Anchbishop Nicolai, of the Rus-aid of the vote Medical Depar-A DESPERATE SUICIDE, died from any particular disease,”
stionality of those who linvo Among the passongors who left sian Church, in Tokyo, on the monts, 13-Hospitalsand Asylums Inaba Maru to-day were Hongkong by the N. Y. K, s. 16th instant. Archbishop Nico Othor Charges, Civil Hospital, Funatsu, the former Japanese aud in July ani celebrated his
Mr. lai was seventy-six years of age, analytical apparatus, ole. Consul, Mrs. Funatsu and family. fifty years' service as a mission-corneil to vote a sum of $54 in The Governor recommends the The committee of the Nippon ars in Japan. From Russia laid of tho voto Sanitary Deport Club assembled this morning and first arrived at Ilakodate in 1801, mont, Other Cherges, Sanitary prosented Mr. Funatsu with an where a Russian Mission had Staff, ront of quarters for soaveng address, and at Statue Wharf the been founded at the chapel of ing coolios.
An Indian constable on the nationality Javo succumbed, whole Japanese:community and the Consulate in 1855. le re-
date in question was conveying for example, the rotorns show. many of the leading Europeans, mained at Hakodate until 1868, council to vote a sum of $2,500 in a-lunel from Tai O to long-
The Governor recommend's the
man when he had under arrest that six British coatracted small- Chinese, und Indians bade him when he took up permanent roin aid of the vote Harbour. Mas kong, where he was to stand his pox during last week, but how sidence in Tokyo. There are for's Department, C.-Steam-trial on a charge the police were any of theso, if any, succumbed, now 174 lusso Crook Churches Launches, other charges, repairs to prefer against him. Off Sha is not shown." The information "An American named Miller ap- in Japan, with a total member- peared before Mr. Irving, at the ship of 31,000 as compared with conneil to vote a sum of $870 in overboard!.. and the constablo
The Governor recommends the Lo Wan the prisoner jumped is of ne much importance as in- Magistracy, yesterday, at the re-94,000 Roman Catholics and nid of the vote Public Works, followed him. There Colour is lent to this statement hy an-quest of Dr. Peares for refusing 5,000 members of Portestant Extraordinary, Communications, desperate struggle in the water, othor, from a Turkish source, which speaks of spectators thronging small-pox being removed to the to allow his child suffering from
Hongkong Roads and Streets, but the odds. wore too much for Motionless' Moving Pictures An Aviation Tragedy. tho qungs.. It that is true, they could hardly have been the same isolation hospital, and also for
path from Kennedy Road to the constable, so determined was people who created us panic, forced the Governnient-armoury, armed objecting to have his other two gram of Feb. 17, announcing that
In regard to the Reuter tole. Boundary Path.
The heading on this note is a the man to sacrificó la life palpablo- paradox, not to say an The Governor, recommende the sooner than face the Magistrate obvious contradiction in terms, thomasolves and ran amok for a time. People with coolness and
childron vaccinated.
Mr. Graham (filmour, an airman, council to vote a sum of $2,000 The constable had to loose his hold Yet we feel justified in, in using. curiosity enough to watch. an engagement mo not panic-atriekon whole house and there was. no "N. C. Daily News" remarks Legal Departments, Spesial. Ex- taken from the water he (the con- of the London "bo" The Mr. Miller said he occupied and lost his life at Richmond the in aid of the vote Judicial and in order to avohisown life. When it as we err in the good company people. On the other hand a message in to-day's paper slutoa that contact with any others, that the noirs excited much in-penditure, A.-supremo court, stable) was suffering very much "motionless" moving pictures aro 200 spectators on tho quays woro killed by tho Italiana' firo. Those His Worship decided that the terest and sympathy in Shanghai, furniture, accounts form na tangling a story as could well be inaagined.
child should bo immediately re-for the unfortuante aviator, Mr.
from the effects of his Immersion, to be used in connection with the The Governor recommends the and it was found necessary to tube railways at Home. The idea moved to the hospital. What grows more steadily clour with overy 'passing week, how-
Graham Gilmour, was a son of council to voto a main of $4,000 convoy him to the hospital, whore is to reverse the process at an or the late David Gilmour, who for in aid of the voto Public Works, Re he received medical treatment. Binary cinematograph theatre ever, is that Italy's task is to be much more laborious and protrnet-, A more appropriate time for a many years was a silk merchant current, Buildinga, maintenance Though an oxhaustivo search where the spectator is still, but ed then at first appeared. Sho ontorad Tripoli, in the first instance, racing sketch could not be decided in Shanghai. Mr. Gilmour senior of building in Now Territories." was made for the other man no the pictures succeed each other as the liberator of the Arabsand, in some degree at least, was accopted upon than the wook following the retired from Shanghai about
trace of the body could be with more than lightning-like as such. Just what caused estrangement and decided the Arabg jockey club meeting, and the seven or years ago, and it will be The Colonial Secretary laid on found.
rapidity on the sercon. In the tub- upon finally and unreservedly casting in their lot with the Turks opportunity was one which Mr. remembered by those then in the table a draft of the now stand- has never been made clear, but with that devision came a sinister would not allow to slip. Ho has Kinngee Road, close to the Muni-
es the spectator will be moving Stephenson, of the Bijou Theatro, Shanghai that his offices were in ing orders of the Council.
His Excellency said that he Mr. F. W. Dix won the English obvious that unless some means be while the picturos are still. It is possibility. The longer this war in prolonged the greater grows the staged a racing absurdityin which joipal Council compound. His son, thought the present standing or amateur skating championship. adopted of causing each picture danger of a terrible struggle between Cross and Croseont. It is a "Lady of the Ring" and acura the deceased aviator, came to ders were very antiquated and competed for near Cambridge on to create a separate impression in yot no more than a possibility, and wo admit its unlikelihood, but are responsible for many comi- Shanghai a few years ago, and many of the rules very obscureand February 1, covering a mile and the eye of the spectator nothing the menace may grow. It may provo, thon, to have been a happy repartee. From start to finish the years, Athome he had first takon mixed under different headings.
calities and much sido splitting remained hore about a couple of in some cases the subjects were ja half in 4 min. 43 sec..
more than a blur would bo, dis and fortunate circumstance that the King's visit to India was made audience is kept in rollicking up motoring, and afterwards avie- while the danger-olond hung on the horizon. In any conflict be humour and nover for a inoment tion, and only a comparatively been referred to the Secretary of taken towards the establishment Phillips of Losers, Keith, Prowso
The pretont draft rules hall,
tinguished. This presents a very An important stop hins beon real difficulty, but Mr. George tween Christiavity and Islamism fudia must be considered. And does the sketch fall flat. The short time ago Reuter telegraph State and approved by him, and in London of a School of Oriental and Company Limited, claims to with India's loyalty proved by the King's visit, detponed and pictures too, are good, and the od out an account of one of his they were now, laid upon the Statios. The financial difficulty have overcome it and "motion atrengthened enormously by it, the danger as it immediately affects depicted in the film entitled "The in China, Mrs. Giles, wife of II. B. Council, might have an opporposal is to use the London in-apparently, become e
misory onneed by strikes is well exploits. One of his sistors is still table so that all members of the has been overcome, and the pro- less" moring pictures will soon, Britain is greatly lessence!.
{ Ironworkers' Strike,"
M, Consul at Chaugelia, |tunity of examining them befora stilution.
boat and his own vessels,
The Bijou Theatre.
Churchos.
Standing Orders.
Was a
torost.
tube freyal
a feature of