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BIRTHS. CANNING. On August 19, 1912, at Hayling Island,, Hants, England, to Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Canning, a daughter.
TOCHTERMANN.-On August 20, 1912, to Mr. and Mrs, Kari Toohtormann, at Chinkiang, a daughter.
MORSE-On August 20, 1912, at "Ovalau," Noutral Bay, N.S.W., to Mr. and Mrs. Graham Morse, a son.
DEATHS.
OELKERS. On August 20, 1012, at the Shanghai Goncral Hospital, fiqrioh Oolkers, Dock Master Tung Ka Doo Dook, aged 58 jours.
SLAZENGER.-At 24 Prince's Gate, London, W., on August 18, Mra Jane Slazenger, widow of the late Bilph Slazenger (of sfoara, Slazenger and Soue, Juanon St., London). By cable.
The object of this paper is to priblish correct viformation, so serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1912.
PLAGUE REFLECTIONS,
II: ARE ALL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN?
DAY BY DAY.
Friendship, like health, is hot. duly prized until it be lost.
Mall Delivered.
The Gorman Mail⠀⠀ of July 24 was delivered in London on Aug. 24.
Naval News. H.M.8. Newonatlo arrived in Hongkong to-day.
'TB 037 loft Hongkong for Can- ton to-day,
Plague Retitra.
There were only two cases of plague notified in the Colony last wook. Both were outside the city. Thiere wore two deaths.
Discharged.
Three mon were charged before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Court, this morning, with boing rogues and vagabonds. All were discharged.
Petty Larceny. For stealing cigarettes and clothing from a house in San Wah Fong, a man was sent to gaol for. fourteen daya at the Polico Court, this morning.
THE PLAGUE."
No rats, plague. Logic:
No cellings, no rats. BOSH,
SPREADING DISEASE.
Coolles: Tip Rubbish Outside Dwelling-Houses,
TRADE MARK CASE,
A Whole Morning's Session in Mosque Terraco,
Wasted.
Mr. O. G. Alabaster, instruoted by Mr. G. K. H. Brutton, appeared to support the application and Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed byo'clock in the morning. Mr. Otto Kong Sing, for the re- spondent firm.
moncement of the fourth day last night.
This morning saw the com- the hearing of the action in which the Lam Fat Shing firm, dealers in grase-cloth, are making an application for the rootifion. They came and dumped the rub tion of the trade marks registor at Mosque Terrace. They deposit- bish in front of my friend's house in connection with the trade ad a full dustbin. marke rogistered by the Wo Lea firm, also denlere in grass-cloth o'clock in the evening.
What time?Just about seven
round?
What time does the cart come
Inspector Fenton-About four
Mr. Melbourne? Did they have a basket on a tin? Witness-A tin.
HOTEL RAIDED.
Big Haul of Arms and Ammunition.
NOTES AND
COMMENTS
Joining" Asia and America.
At the Police Court, this inorn-We have been informed, on ing, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, good authority, that a well-known
This is essentially an age of two coolies were charged with hotel in Hongkong has been linking up and speeding up. The depositing rubbish outsides houso raided by tho Police and that a scheme for tunnelling the Behring onormous quantity of arms, an- Straits and thus linking up the A witness said that he saw the unition and accoutremonts of railway systems of Siberia and defondantsempty a tin of rubbish warefare lits boon found on the North America, has been again. outside the house of his friend,promisos. No arrests have been revived, and representatives of made up to the time of writing, an American syndicate are at anything about these men?-Nominent, as the man suspected by noction. The scheme involves a Mr. Melbourne Do you know nor is an arrest regarded as im- prosent in Europe in that con
the Police is at present away from forty mile tunnel beneath the
atraits, says an American con- | the Colony.
The future might reveal that a temporary, and passengers from surprising traffic in arms and am- any European capital would bo munition has been condunted in able to travel to Now York and the Hongkong, though it is only na principal cities in the United tural to suppose that the goods States and Canada by train were ro-sold out of the Colony.
journey throughout. The syndi cate now in Europe will require to furnish a stronger argument CHINESE WOOD OIL.
than that in favour of the soheme Mr. Frank Browne, F.L.C., Go-"
if Europeane are to support it. After putting in certified trane- lations of somo documents, Mr.
vernment Analyst of Hongkong, We can hardly imagine the aver- Alabaster said he wanted to call simply emptied the contents and Heat Test for Chinese Wood travelling by a long train route Was the tin left there? They contributes to the "Chomical age Parisian, say, who wants to a witness from Bonham Strand took the tin away.
Nows" a very useful artiolo on reach New York or Chicago, Shipping Movements. On the first column of l'age 7 who, however, had not put in an
Do you get a lot of trouble Oil," The quality of this oil, Mr. in preference to a much shorter will be bound a summary of vos-appearance.
there?--Yes. They cause a lot Browne says, is determined-to-803-route. It appeared that the witness of sickness there too. seln advertised to arrive and de-
large extent, particularly in the Home Weather. lad sont a foki with some books
United States, by its behaviour to believing that that would suffice.
It is commonly said by Con- heat. Thooil has the well-known A messenger was sent to request
characteristic property of forming tinentals and Americans that the his attendance, but he refused to
Mr. Melbourne-Yes, but the jolly when raised to 250deg. come unless he were subpoented. Fourt does not come until four for a few minutes. Different versation is the weather. That Accordingly the messenger had to o'clock in the morning. observers, Mr. Browno anys, om- may be so; confessedly we do come back, obtain the necessary subpona, and return for the been hers long, so I don't know aturos, so that the results are not ur brilliant talkers. Nevertheless, Tirst defendant:-I have not ploy usually different temper-uot, as a nation, ahins as versatile the law. I put the rubbish there easily comparable, and it has those who have followed the to wait for the cart.
'scomed very desirable in view Home telegrams latoly will admit Mr. Melbourne: Do they give of the large and increasing export that the weather-topic is excusable you much troubio?...
of this article so to arrangon heat enough in all conscience, just now. Worship. They come from the both buyer and sell in any part ditioue of life in the southerly Inspector Fonton:--You, your test which could be repeated by People unfamiliar with the con- next street into Mosque Terrace of the world. The test is fully half of England are over ready to and drop the dirt into the street. described by Mr. Browne in the judge by the north and north-
Mr. Melbourno: Two dollars articlo. oach or five days, and cautioned,
part to-morrow. This feature will bo continued daily.
Arrived To-day.
Mr. F. D. Cheshire, connected with the American Consular ser- vice, arrived in Hongkong to-day by thes.a: Kumino Maru, and staying at the Hongkong Hotel.
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Burglar Captured.
witness.
After waiting for a few minutos A man who burgled the pre-His Lordship left the Court and, raises 167, Queen's Road West, after an interval of about an hour was,, at the Police Court, this and a quarter, no witness having morning, sentenced to six months put in an appearance Counsel hard labour and four hours applied for au ndjournment until after tiflin, which was granted, the whole morning's session boing wasted,
slocks.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
Possession of Lottery Tickets.
A Chinoso who was found in possession of a quantity of lottery tiokots was fined $100, or in de- fault six weeks, by Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Court, this "Little Sadie's" Benefit Night. morning
New Advertisements.
Messrs, Garner, Quelch and Co., Humphrey, Taylor's Liqueurs, Page 5; Messrs. Gando, Price and Co., King George IV. Ramos and Co., Victoria Theatre, Whisky, Page 6; Mesara, Ramos,
Lawn Bowls.
One of the dofondants said: "I put the rubbish there to wait for the cart."
A BAD EXAMPLE.
is a Government Department
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HEAVY BAIL. Two men were charged at the Police Court, this morning, bo- fore Mr. O. D. Melbourne, with being in possossion of lottery tiokota.
Stokes and Master, defonded and Mr. Lewin, of Messra, Johnson, asked for a remand. The request was granted, bail being fixed at
CANTON NEWS.
Britiabor's sheet-anchor of con-
midlands, and consequently
to urgue that frost and snow in Cumberland, or thirty hours of incosunt rain in Derby, cannot seriously affect the country,
The Crops
'Money-Mad Foreign Powers.
Touching the matter
Above the Law? Magisterial Substitute. ́ ́ Though the audience at the
The same people do not tire of Mr. J. R. Wood, Director of Victoria Theatre last night, the
Soine times in the Police Court Education, prosided in the First occasion of Little Sadie's bonolit, we sou Dases in which Chinese are
ing in England nowadays—an hinting that there is no orop-farm- Court to-day, in the absence of was not so large as might have charged with allowing mosquitoes
idea which will afford ground for Mr. E. A. Irving, who is still con-been expected, the enthusiasm to breed, and penalties are duly
growers in Kent, Surrey, Hants," a melancholy smile to the hop- fined to bod in the hospital, sullor-displayed in the reception of this inflicted, but it seems that there $600 in the case of the first Hereford and Worcester, to say ing from fover.
wonderfully dainty child-artists, is room for complaint against defendant and $25 in the second. nothing of the hapless potato- WIR such as will live, for a long some one in authority, in re-
farmers who must needs face the time in the infant memory. At spect of a similar offence. The the cunclusion of her clover and ruins of the last few days have
coming Uhristmas rent-day ab rying dance Little Sadie was formel a puddle covering at least (The Telegraph" Commepondent)solutely empty-handed. An im- In our last article dealing with plague and the incnsures taken
the recipient of many bouquets one quarter of the land in front of
Canton, August 24,
poverished grower means a starv with a view to arresting it, we admitted frankly to grave doubts as
admirers. She was certainly the has, so far, been made to get rid cil was held the other day in con-populace of the south, as well as and present from uumerous the Law Courts and no attempt A meeting of the Canton Coun- evident that the agricultural, ing labourer, and it is quits, to the results, measured in terms of helpfulness and usefulness, of Page 2.
performer, at the benefit, and the of it. It must be admitted that nection with the action of Mr. thousands of the poorer Lon- pulling down ceilings. Wo quoted from a reply given by the
applause and encores she received the effect produced by the minia- Ohan King-wa, Commissioner of doners who usually look to make a Medical Officer of Health, at a meeting of the Sanitary Board, to the W. Russell, of Kowloon, beat almost roached a pitch of incon-ture lake is delightful. A fair Police, in suppressing the comfortable sum by migrating effect that ho did not know whether any dead rats had been found Bateman, of Taikoo,at lawn bowls, siderateness. She responded twice expanse of water mirroring the "Kwang Nam Po
on the Police green by 21 points and her little feet tripped merrily blue of the sky above, broken published in Canton. The mom-fruit, potato and hop districts, ", a newspaper temporarily to the lny, corn, in certain tiouses from which coilings had been stripped. It sooms 5. This was the semi-final of the over the boards as though so here and thero by tufts of strong bera of the Council regarded the must this year set the balance on a pity that information on this point was not forthcoming, for it is Lawn Bowls Championship. Rus-kuow not fatiguo. So wrapt in growing grasses, makes a fine action of the Commissioner the wrong side of tho nocount. the dead rat which, it is believed, really matters in regard to plague soll will now have to meet Sor-acation was the audience that contrast to the crude rodness of the as in direct defiance of the Poor souls, they may well restrict The rat fios, so far as we are aware, does not desert the living rat geant Pitt in the final.'
they onlled for cacoros, forgetting virgin aarth. The combination orders of the Contral Government their conversation to the weather, the age of the entertainer and the of the P. W. D, and the Clerk of and as exceeding the powers of for man. It may, however, when it leaves the dead rat, attach itself Snatcher Smartly Sentenced. unfavourableness of the season of the Weather may be all very well, the Judicial Court. A motion was to a human being and so communicate the disonse. Information on prisonment, with four hours' stocksion. The gameness with which still water, and the sooner the Commissioner asking him to ex- A sentence of six wooks' im-the year for such physical exer- but Hongkong is no place for put forward for writing to the the point, therefore, would be definitely useful. Wo quite readily and twelve strokes of the birch, the precocious youngster respond-dua oforce at landson pe garden-plain under what ordinance the China's future, we notice that agree that ceilings are not pulled down in order to find dead rats, was passed by Mr. Melbourne, at ed to the re-calls still further ing are stopped, the better an paper had committed an offence at a mass meeting of Chinese, but it would add to the sum of availutio and helpful knowledge the Police Court, this morning, on endeared her to the playgoers of example will be set to Chinese which justified its suppression. hold the other night at Los upon the subject if facts and figures could be offered as to whether a man for snatching a handbag the Colony..
landowners. We wonder if dead rats are found in ceilings or floors and as to what the
from Mrs, Souza, of Bolilios Ter-
a The motion was carried by n Angelos, some thirty-five thou The pictures were entertaining, Government department is like large majority. propor- tion is, relative to the number of cases which lead to coiling-stripping
and on the whole the programme the King-above the law. The point may not seem material, but every bit of data on a subject
The 14th day of the 7th Moon, help the new Republic. This, it was good.
or the 27th inst., is a Festival for is.said, is the start of a fund to still imperfectly understood must be regarded as of importance until
IMPERTINENT EXCUSE.
WHO IS AT FAULT ? the Dead, and it is a common be raised in America and intend- it is conclusively proved valualoas.
custom among the people in od to reach $300,000,000 Gold. We learn that weeks ago the Kwantung to celebrate it by If this sun can be raised, it should garding the removal of ceilings from plague-infected buildings as a necessary and notually useful work. Let us assume, even, that it is
nose stolo his employer's clothing have an overhead fan placed in and candles outside their doors, firm basis. But we shall Co. took the necessary steps to ing joss-papers and joss-sticks placing the new Government on a work of procal necessity. Are all due precautions taken in
A sontence of three weeks' im-He also thought this EXCUBO carrying it out? We submit that they are not. Times out of num- Prisonment and four hours' stocks should be sufficient to gain the work has been put in hand. uro usually thrown into the Chinese in America until the total the lower tram station. To-day After those offerings, copper cents reserve our congratulations to the ber have Europeans commented on the circumstance that ceilings
was passed.
dismissal from the dook at, tho This improvement is one greatly streets, with the idea that the dead sum is raised. They have still are removed from plague-infected house-ceilings which may, and
Trade Mark Case- Police Court this morning, and needed and will be much appee-will get the money. In reality, long way to go before the in many cases probably do, harbour rat floss,and are carried in. This week the Chief Justice, told it hopefully to Mr. J. Bciated by all who have occasion however, these offerings attract balance of the money is secured. armfuls all over the Colony. If a coiling is infected while it remains Mr. W. Rees Davies, K. O, is sit- Wood. The latter, however, was use this station. St. John's large numbers of small boys, who After all, thirty-five thousand whole, it is surely immensely more dangerous when it is broken up ting in summary jurisdiction to nos to be persuaded so easily and Place is known to be a warm corn-aro in the habit of picking up dollars has to be multiplied by and carried to twenty er fifty different parts of the city. We take the cases eet in the list on made manifest his view of the challenge the usefulness of the work as a whole, but that point is Friday for hearing. Mr. Justice case by sentencing the defendant er, and is a pity work was not the coins, and consequently nearly one thousand before it debatoable. There can be no debate on the claim that, since what Gompertz, the Puisne Judgo, is on to fourteen daya' hard labour.
commenced at an earlier date, as fighting often ensues. The Com-reaches $300,000,000.- "And the the summer will soon be over,missioner of Police has now money-mad foreign powers, are believed to be precautions are taken, all due precautions should be observed. That is u matter not of dispute but of simpla com
BOY AND THE SHOES. Only a few weeks now remain issued a proclamation to the effect as one of the speakers at the during which the fan may be that the celebration of this festi-neeling put it, are fairly certain A boy who stole a pair of whiteused with advantage.
val is a waste of money. The to be called upon to bear a hand shoes which wore loft out to dry,
barning of the jos-papers is, heyet. by an Indian, in the passage
ANOTHER BURGLARY. load-
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race.
Nelther, Money Nor Friends, A man who said he had no money and had no relatives in the Colony, was charged at the Police Court this morning, before Mr.
and shoon.
In order to raise money to pay
sand dollars Gold 'were raised to
Let us assume, however, that the authorities are: right in re- Melbourne, with stealing clothing his fare into the country, a Oh Hongkong High Level Tramway offering saorifices, and by burn-go some considerable way towards
mon-sense,
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gaged in the motion to rectify the register of Trade Marke, in which the case for plaintiffs has already taken three days.
Leave Granted.
says, likely to cause fires in the neighbourhood, while the throw.
TRIAL.
ing the house of Mr. Bisschop, interruption of the traffic, but EDITOR COMMITTED FOR
Tjibatas," 20: Plantation Road, also gives encouragement to young was broken into and a quantity rascals in robbery and snatching. dressing table in the bedroom and cease, and all offenders will be of silverware stolen from the This latter, practice must now from thisdrawing room. The matter arrested and fined.
Has not this carolees handling of the work-been-characteristic of plague measures from the start? Some of our readers must-ro- member how, during the first grent outbreak of plague, when the Furlough to the United Kinging to the offices of the "South Colony was stirred to its depths by the strange and awful visitation dom is granted to Lient. Colonel China Morning Post," was sen We understand that last oven-ing out of cash is not only an (to which it has since become more kogustomed) the plague-infected A. Begbie, 8th Itajputs, for one tonood to receive twelve strokes of district of Tai-ping Shian was condemned and houses were pulled year, from September, lat. Leave the birch and ordered to be de down. They must remember, too, that the debris was not taken of absence, on private affairs, to tained for forty-eight hours by Mr. olear of human habitations but was dumped down in a European permission to travel in France
the United Kingdom (with O. D. Melbourne, this morning. quarter to spread the disease or not, as pleased the Tatrs, and that and Switzerland) is granted to stole the shoot and throw them so Defendant said another man much of it was finally cold, without any measures being taken to Lient, A. P. W Wedd, R.E., from him. When he picked them up render it even reasonably free from infection, for the purpose of erecting Imlichonses! Regard it how you may, the word September 18th until date of he was arrested.
precautionar is misapplied in this connection. However well. Arrival of troopship at South- that meant they y be, they are too arratio to be convincing. They are Ampton. Station leave is kranted erratio, we believe, in more senses then one. Lest we have been lol to the undermentioned Officers Quarantine Restrictions *** 7 o'clock this morning, and, later Australia, and Manila, sa Ma- with, the latte
tfay in this regard--and we do to think we have we may con- for the periods stated Lieut. oltide this secondmentele with a question Are the opiling removed B. Thomas, R.G.A., from 2613 The Colonial Secretary's office | ly from stolen frames, together .. Kumano Marn, from Austra, all plagne-infected buildings or are some regarded with less toalet August, Liont.F. W. Thick, informs us that Weihaiwat has wider several small articles were lia and Manila Bay Glental, for ressors list soom all too apparimt
peese, B.G.A., from 28th August mleased Hongkong from quara found by children in Mr Foth, loch fro
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Withdrawn,"
Mr. Channing Arnold the Editor and Proprietor of the Bur ma Critic," has been committed for trial in a charge of defaming Mr. are being prosecuted, but wh The following mails arrived G. P. Andrew, Deputy Com The robbery was discovered at to-days.8. Changsha, from sinner of Mergal, in ponne
was put into the hands of the police this morning and enquiries
Malis Arrived.
in the day, some photos, apparent thilde, from Hoihow and Pakhoi