GENERAL NEWS.
Another Manila Strike. Eleven hundred tobacco-factory ́hats bavo again stopped work in Manila. The strikers ask for "Incresece of pay from 38 to 100 per cent, doponding upon the class of labour they ure porform ing. It is understood that the management will not accede to these doninnls, as they deem
BORNEO AND LEILA.
How the China-Borneo's Launch Was Lost,
Speaking of the loss of the China-Borneo Co.'s a.. Leila last month, the B. N. B. "Horald" remarks
THE HUNGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY AUGUST, 20, 912.
FROM SODA.
Soap-making at Port Arthur
The results of manufacturing soap at the Soe Soap Manufactory, Port Arthur, from caustic soda extructed from Kwantung salt by an electrical process, are as
"The story of the collision with follow:--- .s. Bornoo is now only too clear. "Whilst 60 2/3 lbs. of H. B. Serang Rahman was ignorant of brand of alkali can be diluted to
them exorbitant and unjustified.the." rule of the road," and at all 225 lbs., the same quantity
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At the Flor de Intal cigar costa dotermined to, as he says, of the alkali produced from WANTED Ime'iately ship to know what
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factory three hundred and fifty" jalan topi "which meant takKwantung Balt
may be di-
Apply Box 100, cfo; operatives are also on striko. ing the inside course nearest the luted to 10 lbs. But, for the Tolograph" office."
Singapore Mortality Returns shore. The man undoubtedly purpose of oxidizing tallow of Hongkong, 19th Aug., 1912, ' [801 The mortality rolurs for believed that it was the right of same quantity, 167 lbs. of the Singapore, issued by the Registrar a lannair, especially when towing, H.B. brand are required, while of Births and Deathe, show that to pass un incoming ship on the 158 lbs. Kwantung alkali will
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and Typist Before Apply during the week ending August shore side and probably in all answer the purpose just as well. stating salary required XXX, 3, there were 259 deaths, giving his life he had never passed a Furthermore, Kwantung alkali|** Hongkong Telegmph.*** a ratio por millo of population of big ship on any other side when contains a much smaller quantity Bougkong, 30th July, 1918. 40.78. Malarial fever accounted leaving port, and so the more the of extraueous matter, and bosides for 37 deaths, phthisis 33, convul- Borneo went to starboard the dissolves with greater readiness, sions 20, bari-beri 30, cholera & more he went to port. Even which circumstances afford greater (1 imported), bronchitis 11.at the lust inomoni ho would convenience in its use, and make dysento y 10, pneumonia 15. have clonrod the ship had. Lewitable for the unking of soap of Thirty chillion under three left his helm alone, as the tong-fine quality."'' months of age died. The nation-kang he was towing cleared her It may be remembered that a alities were represented us follow: until fouled by the tow rope. But series of technical experiments in Europoon 1, Eurasinn 1. Chineso ao, he must jalan topi "-and the manufacture of alkali from 104, Malays 30, Indians 19. The putting his wheel hard over when Kwantung salt was conducted donths from malaria fovor shows the Borneo's bows wore right last year by Japanese chemists an increase of 2 on the number about him ho made one more try reported last wook, and cholera to pass inside hor, and the returns a decrease of 5.
crash, camo amidships on his Christmas Isle Sold. starboard side. The Loila must Honolulu, July 18.-Christmas have boon practically cut Island, reported to be the original in two, as Bho Bunk in "Treasure Island of Robert Louis 90 seconds. Those on deck were Stevenson and around which nearly all saved, but those below many another less famous tale of in the engine room, stokehold and piracy, treasure and blackbirding cabin wore all drowned. has been writton, on whose coral
It is hard to criticise Captain shores in the skeletons of many a wreck, has been sold, and one Sombill in any way. He, as
Captain Sembill.
FOR SALE
of high starling at both Shuang.. 1. D. B. Hamerla. Ejetor tuowan, a saltmaking centre not Qua by Cogswell and Harrison, Tan far from Port Arthur, and the cantas case, som implements and laboratory of the Engineering, 350 (about) shot cartridge, College, Port Arthur.
106 Wineltester Magazine Rille,
The alkali put out last year is den dare, cleaning rock, 98 cart- said to have contained only 60
ridges.. per cent, of caustic soda, while by Jeffery, isa canvas caso, some imple 956 Mabulichor Magazine Rile this year's product is credited meats, about 110 roundi vite, with our 08 por cont. of caustic
soda, holding out hope that this your's experiments will be more satisfactory than last year's.
of the partion interested in the master mariner, knew and obeory-"Manchuria Daily News." sale arrived in Honolulu yostoro, as he was absolutely bound to day aboard the schooner Luka. o, the "rule of the road." le ported his hol and "showed red,"until he was almost
Taff and Roosevelt have no
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wains in that condition. The foreign troops suffered vory sovora discomfort in most of quarters.
Austrian Prisoner in Shanghai,
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COKE IN JAPAN.
About
NERVOUS BEBILITY.
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the pallid, waxy complexion takes IN TENNIS, DAY, TUNIC and on the rosy hue of health, the flaccid muscles become strong and firm, and the ever-wearied body becomes vigorous, and per moated withan altogether unusual sensation of energy.
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The lomand for coke in Japan "Wilson is sure to win. Taft head on to the shore nt Bali Sim ivory great. On account of the Godown situ dol on water fro and Roosevelt have no chance" Sim. When he struck he was limited supply of coke imported This is the way Mr. J. P. Hoil heading N.W. and Loila was from England and Germany, the bronn of the firm of Heilbronn etually at right angles to him, Japanoso have therefore establish- and Company, who roturno on but until 30 seconds before he od special manufactories for their the 13th inst, from a six months' struck hor he was going full production. After several trials trip to the States and Europe, de-speed ahead. The Borneo is the on coals produced from various suribed the political situation in biggest ship in local waters, and mines, they discovered that the America to a Minila "Times"re-although Captain Sembill say coke produced from Kaiping coal- he can bring her to a stand-stil! dust is of the most excellent in one and a half times her quality. It is exceedingly cheap. More Heavy Weather at Tientsin.
A storm which burst last Tues-length, he also says it takes it costs about thirteen Yen a ton, day over Tientsin, after a long jono.. and
half minutes to while German coke coats twenty- spell of unusually lust weather, accomplish i. Should he, in a six Yen has done an immense amount narrow passage, have rung down twenty-four You a ton. The Kaip union in Sanalogen produces a CELLULAR
and English coke The result of this chomical of damage locally, says the "P. 'full spoed astern" a minute & T. Times." Talling coiling, sooner? If he had, the Loila Tongshan by rail to Chinwangtao late, but also revitalises and ing coal-dust is exported from food which does not merely stimu ruined walls, flooded stores and would not be lost. Was he wise whore there is a big, compound reinvigorates the whole norvous houses, have been the order of to come in at full speed when so capable of staring over ten thou-system, so that no matter how the day. As usual, the electricolose to port? It is not for land sand tons. The coal store is con- much its power has been dimi lighting wires have been sovorely lubbers to answer those questions, nected with the wharf by two nished it is gradually restored, disorganized, and the telephone wo are only left to wonder, lines of railroad, enabling a ship and keyed, as it were, to the pitch service betwoun Poking and Tien- and think and say
"oh the to take a load of three thousand of perfect health. With the im tsin broke down, and still re- pity of it"-and. Captain Pom- tous in twelve hours,
bill did right
to до to 54,1810 tons of this coal dust are the lustroless oyas bocomo bright, provement of nerve and blood, starboard. Everything possible was done to save life, life belts, imported into Japan
where it is turned into coke. were thrown and bouts loworoil, | and sloven lives were saved. No 1. Eisner, late of the Austria European was on board, but the hinese engineer and his two Hongarina Legation at Peking, is fromon were drowned, also one a prisoner in Shangliai awaiting Malay, one woman and two child-
Diseases apart, there is probab- transportation to Austria, whore bo will bo tried on chargos of
Jy no condition held in greater We should condole with dread by the inhabitants of hotare due to the rostored nutrition It part, some of those benefits The China Borneo Company, Bhortages in his accounts while whose launch the Leilo was, in the countries than nervous dobility of the body as a whole, for Sana connected with the logation loss of valuable property they have
Everybody knows the condi- togen is so easily digestiblo that Eisner was brought to Shanghai tavo She was quinged tions which produce it, an every it imposes no atrain at all on the Sikiang in the enstody of It is only too often that catastrophe body knows the enorvating and on the weakened stomach and two menbora of the Legation makes us fully realize our respon-
| deprossing affects which it digestive organe. Theso, natur- Guard.
siblitics, and the suggestion of the F.M.S.. Planter's Wedding.
The immediate need of every of debility due to the lack of
ally, share in the general condi assoasors that some qualifications At Rosary Churel, Marylebone, should be required from local sufferer is, obviously, to got better nervous force, and act with their Mr. Vincent Richard Wickwar, boutswains before they are entrust as quickly as possible. This is, normal vigour when the nerve director of the Glonahie! Rubber od with the lives of those whose however, by no means an easy force of the body is restored. Estates Co., Ltd., and other comwork and duties lie in and around matter with the use of the ordi- Madamo Sarah Grand, one of panies in the East, has been this Harbour on their launches,nary remedies. The consequence the most brilliant woman novel- married to Louisa, widow of the should cause food for thought and is that men, and women too, find iste living, writes:-" Sanatogen 7 late Henry Hudson.
possible legislation.
themselves becoming more and has done everything for me which more depressod in mind and moro it is said to be able to do for and more weakened in body as cases of nervous debility and ex the days go by, and they seem haustion. I began to take it after The remunerative prices which greatly desired and hoped for nese from extreme debility, and castor oil is bringing in. foreign cure.
now (after only four months), I murkole have awakened renewed Happily, modern Science is able find myself able to enjoy botli interest in the castor plant. The to hold out to those unfortunate wook and play again, and also industry apparently is one that people not merely a hope, but a able to do as much of both as I Dr.J. T. Wayson,city physician does not require much skill in promise of care which amounte
ever did." of Honolula and member of the planting, and, once established, the to an absoluta certainty. The With regard to the nervous territorial board of health, is bo-seeds propagate themselves, fer- rohabilitation of the mental debility engendered by life in the ing urged as entitled to one of tilizing the soil not being nocess faculties, the revitalization of the Tropics, Mr. E. Desbrulate the Nobel prizes of $10,000 for ary. The plant has been raised nervous functions and the com- Bankipore, Patan, Bengal, writes: GRAVING DOOK notable scientifle achievement. by the Jamaican peasantry for plete restoration of the original "Sanatogen is just the thing Ho in said to have discovered a years, and a considerable soroago vigour and vitality, are all for workers in the Tropios, and veritable cure for leprosy. This is now under cultivation. In the obtainable by means of Sanato-should always be carried, just ne Pasira amply Dook in oure is the carbonic acid snow East Indies, where the castor gen, which is now universally one never goes about without pencil, a device that produces a bean is extensively cultivated, known both by the medical pro-chlorodyne, as it is the only temperature of 100 degrees below it violds as much as five tous fession and by the general public remedy against the awful wour zorg and when applied to the of seeds to the nere. In Jamaica as the greatest tonic food in the and tear of life in burning tropical leprous soras literally froozoa the there are several species, and re- world. bacillus leprus,
cent experiments show that the
Always Know the Remedy Write for a copy of a most in Another Cure ut St. Winefride's nut grown there given larger yield of oil than the Esat Indian
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the purest tion to A. Wulfing & Co., 8. whose injured arm had boon at pesta. The oil of late has become cow's milk with that salt, of Kiakiang Road, Shanglia. tonded unsuccessfully by twenty, very popular as a lubricant phosphorous which is found i
is found in Banalogen can be obtained of
Sium's Animal Census. The animal consus tables for the various provinces of Siam, soventeen in all, show that thore were counted 1,015,040 buffaloes, 1,535,679 cattle, 0,728 horses, 3,001 elephants, and 4:10,208 pigs,
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