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GENERAL NEWS.
Earthquake in Kobe. On the 27th ult." at 11.20 p.m.
rthquake was felt in the neighbourhood of Kobo and in Sumoto Iways, and Gunka, Awaji Provinco, also. The shook was sovore, though short.
A Sensible Plan
Locomotive drivors in Germany, if they have run the engines ton years without accident, receive from the government, a gold modal and $500 in cash.
Ex-Empress Sill Keen dn Yachting,
SHORT SERMON:
My Father workoth bitliorto, and I work-St. John, v. 17.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1012.
HANKOW IN RUINS,
The Task of Rebuilding the City:
Of all the pictures Time has
Mr. A. Sugdon, Commissioner given us, none is finer than that of Customs at Hankow, in the of a sweat-faced slender boy course of his roport for 1911 working by the side of a strong y
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man in a carpentershop in thelittle. It is suflicient to say that city of Nazareth 1900 years ago. 10-day the once rich and pro-
With the simple tools of those sperous native city of Hankow is EXPIRIENCED days he must have helped to make heap of charred ruins an area many a comfortable bonult and of 2 miles by 1 mile, formerly useful table. Maybe ho built a occupied by a network of streets ora dle for some baby who was not full of fine shops and teoming to be born in a manger, or holp- godowns, having boon utterly The Empress Eugenie, her fod to lift into modest being a destroyed. To attempt to assess fourscore years notwithstanding, stable over which no star would the damage would be futile-100 REQUIRED at once & Bookkeeper with a thorough knowledge of is a fervent yachtswoman, and is over stop to shine in matchless million taels or 500 million taels dover so happy nu when oruising | brillianco.
might be equally near the mark. aunt, flood Testimonials essential. the Non workers need not apply. Bor about in the Thistle. She is just He must have dono his work The blotting out of about to embark at ilurwich, and woll, squaring och joint and city has been the cause of untold ABC. "Hongkong Telegraph. will be more or loss on the water proving ongh level, for he was yet misery to thousands of iis formor Hongkong, 9th July, 1912. - (663) for six or eight weeks to come, to start a structure which would denizous; but even hore the cloud The Empress is a first-rate sailor, roof the conturies and which, to is not without some silver lining,
"OMPETENT Stonographer and Journalists and Mr. Stead, ondare, must be carefully plan. The city consisted of a congested C An appoal on behalf of a jour-nod and securely founded.
Typist (Male) for Bolickar Office. mass of buildings of all sizes, naliste momorial to the late Mr. So there, in Joseph's carpenter with the usual narrow lanca and Apply Box," Age. The Hong- W. T. Stead has been issued. It shop, ho fashioned in his heart insanitary conditions, and only ite Hagkong, 30th July 1912.
koby Telegraph. is signed by thirty-two of the and mind those beams of loving destruction would ever have made most representative mon on the service upon which must reat all possible the city on modern lines newapapor Pross, and it statos efforts we make to play woll our which is absolutely required for that the tribute of his colleagues part and hop in the hottering of the proper development of the to Mr. Stand is to take "the form
port. Much raising of the land of a bast, medallion, or tablet to
behind will be necessary before be erected in some appropriato place noir, the scene of his chief work in London."
Bank of Egypt Payments.
This will make a total dividend to date of 159. fid. in the ou the original dobt and are demption of the loan certifientes of 118. in the £..
The payment will be inado on July 10 to the holders of the loan
carlificaton.
Only One Christian? From the last American Army register there appears to be in the Philippines a total of 65 Chaplains
mon and things,
FOR SALE OR TO LET,
And his first work for men was the new city can be built, but! FURNISHED or I*NFURNISH-
dens with his hands.
Wo must never forget that this plans are being drawn up to greatest of moral and spiritual utilise the old site in con- landers was fret a worker with junction with future extension,
ED, Lowknɔr," No. 110, Tus Perk. Posos Oober 10th, 1912. Faniculars of price or rout can.be obusinod foun Mese's. Jolibson, Stokes and Master, Solicitors, Prince's Build- ings, les Hose Strest. Bene. 25th July, 1512. 1544
TO LET
TO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2, Pod-
der Street,
One roomed Office. Apply Property Office, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
୮୫୫ Hongkong, 22nd May, 1912.
A further payment is to be his hands; that before he want
Fature Needs. made by the Senior Official Re-out to show men a way to hap With local desolation and goner ceiver an Liquidator, of the Bank pinos through faith he evidenced disturbance, it is hard to pro- of Egypt Limited, in part roho value of works.
phesy when ilankow will recover demption of the loan certifientes Such ramembrance liclps us to an old, experienced Chinese of 3s, in the fun their face seo labour in its tuo light us the merchant holds not sooner than value.
surest road to high worth, whether 20 years; the writer, with eight the aim bo the making of a good years experience of its growth home, the writing of a poom or under great difficulties, expects the regeneration of the race. that the third year of a settled Nor is it wise to overlook the Government will see its trade circumstance in Christ's life greater than ever. Immense sums which led to the words quoted in will have to be spent on the new the text.
city and raising the land behind; Shen. British Concession, He had oured the impotent man but it is only reasonable to sap-
Sit Rooms and Laiga Offices, by saying to him, Rise, take up pose that Chion as a whole will reently in ocen ation of Standard Oil. thy hod and walk."
como to the aid of the place Best basin sai uition. The man obeyed and walked which has been destroyed in
Apply to T. E. GRIFFTH, Cantor" through the stroots carrying his establishing the Republic. The
[078 Canton, 6th Anguit, 1012. on the active list of the army, bed. Then the Jews, sooking local leaders have shown senso these 16, or about 25 per cent, are some excuse for attacking Jesus, throughout, and may be expected Catholic, 14 Episcopaliaus, 10 warned the man that it was not to rebuild the city properly. Methodist, 7 Presbyterians. lawful to carry a bad on the Sab The wartransport has proved the Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, bath, and asked who laid ordered correctness of the general belief Loren Bid Age Stall fod Torcior Dog Woll marked 2 Coloured Baptists, 1 Unitarian, 1hira to do so, though they knew that nothing like full use lins head, binok patch on back, rather long well enough it was the Nazarene. hitherto been made of the Pei-body, short logs. Answers to name of After which they perencuted Han Railway for freight purposes. Snootch also Rubi. Pleuse Jesus and sought to slay him. The old site is too small; the return to 0. H. Ross. The Mount, because he, too, and broken the new city should be planned with Fonk. law of the Sabbath, wherein noa view to oventually using the Hongkong, 7th Aug., 1912. [ 527 work should be done.
triangle between the railway and "My Father worketh hitherto, the rivers entirely for business and I work," said the accused.
purposes, and driving both the Not only did Jesus work, but residential and poor quarters out- he was constantly oxalting work side the railway. Mach of the and working for the worker.
Christian, Dutch Reformed and
1 United Brothron.
Big Shipment of Typewriters for the Philippines
What is supposed to be the largest sine le shipment of type writers ever received in the Philippinos was duo to arrive on the steamer Karanga on August 9. The entire shipment is one of 103 Underwoods and the majority of thein have already been sold.
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Consul at Medan on the trade of The report by the British Vice- the East Coast of Sumatra in 1911 mentions that the cultivation of plantation rubber is already one of the most important industrios in Sumatra, and bids fair to be a underablets. factor of very considerable import-
lund inside the railway, and all He it was who seemed to under- outside; requires. to be raised, stand better than any who had which work will take yours. The The Pall Mall" states that the como bofore the real status of the opportunity must be taken to run new Japanese Embassy in Grosman who worked with his hands. A siding from the railway to the He could understand this be- British, Russian, and Fronch vonor-square, formerly the resid-
eauso he himself had worked Bands, and one with two lines ance in future in farthering the ence of the Duke and Duchess of with his hands from early boy through the city to the China development of the east coast of Hamilton, will soon be finished, hood. Ho know what strength Merchants' 8. N. Company's the island. It is calculated that and will be ready for occupation, and courage and self-reliance are frontage, and thence along the approximately five-eighths of the Count and Countess Kata will re born of honest Inbour. He knew river front to the edge of capital invested is British. Oce move in the autumn, and will that such virtues, thus mothered, the British Concession and right or two hitherto unexploited dis give a houd-warming in Novom would always be needed in a along the banks of the ri-tricts have been opened up, and world which dopenda for its best vors to the junction of the there is little doubt that oven Interport Football.
things upon the honest work of railway and the fan.
more would have been done in the mass
Electric Tube Suggested. this direction had better means The whole city frontage on of communication by road and both rivers must be utilised on rail been available. A large
bor.
The honorary secretary of the Shanghai Football Association has received an invitation from the Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club
With workers he surrounded himself. To workers he addressed himself.
inviting Shanghai to bring over Ho showed men that work is tirely for cargo working, the number of companies intend
Fatal Dynamite Explosion In Јарап
mits occurred. Herald" says two workmen were in stantlytkilled and several others injured.
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a football team in the winter. The latter indicates that the first not a curse; but a blessing; that trallic road running immediately to plant little or nothing further few days in January would be work is not a burden to be dread-behind the block bordering the in 1912, but several are pre- opportune for the sending of such, but a duty to be met, because river. An excellent thing for paring to plant considerable a team, and the communication it offers the largest opportunity Wulan would be an electric tube areas. Reliable statistics as to
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And loving service, born of also lighting Wuchang and driv- in the rubbor industry in Sumatra full support of Yokohama,
honest work," is the nearest ap- ingrailless cars; it appears to offer and the area under plantation proach any man or woman can few difficulties, and a double line cabbar are unobtainable, make to the perfection of that life would cost under £1,000,000, turne show at the end of 1911
130,000 On July 28, a number of work which was faultlessly lived so perhaps only £700,000. It would approximately! men in the employ of the Yoko-
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Buch land for going far to invested in the cultivation of rab GRAVING pay the cost of laying the bar on the east coast of Sumatra is line. Such a tube would be far approximately: British £5,000,- more effective than the constantly 000; Dutch, £3,000,000; 'German, he was living in Manila on the "Le Matin announces that mooted bridge, which a com- £80,000; Belgian, $62,000; and 6th inst. The romains were at the doctors at the Pasteur In-petent foreign engineer has Swedish, £20,000; a total of TORCE PATENT BLIPWAYS taking vessela onco removed to the morgue, as stitute at Tunis have devised a oslimated to cost £6,000,000, 88,162,000. Some thirty com-up i 8,000 as displacement providing conditions the caso appeared to be one of new vaccination method against apart from cost of land approaches, panies are now producing rubber, babonio plague, Autopsy show Asiatic cholera. The method and which in this climats would but the majority of them have ed the suspicions to have been consists in intervenous injections cost a large sum for upkeep. The only recently commenced tapping, correct and the body was prepar- of comma-bacilli. The blood of quickest and cheapest means of and that on very small scale. Offi- od for burial accordingly. The the persons thus treated becomes developing the wealth of this cial figures are not yet available, "Cablo-news American says that extremely rich, and they are country is in, encouraging trade, but it is estimated that the quan- this is the first osas of plague that rendered immune. MM. Nicolle, withdrawing all obstacles to its tity of plantation rubber exported. has been found in Manila for a Conor, and Conseil made experi- growthy discountenancing adul- from the east coast of Sumatra Jong time, although several gus mente on themselves, and hon teraion and bed quality of goods during 1811 amounted to approri- picious ones have come to the at- absorbed cholora Escilli through andidoressing agricultural Imately 677% tone, of which about tension of the anthorities
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A Bubonic Death at Manila
A Filipino student, Severino
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