GENERAL NEWS.
·Gold Coast Rubber,
At the request of the Imperial
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
SERVICE MATTERS:
Air Gun for Warships.
Institute, botanical specimens of The four armoured ships to be certain Heves treas (supposed to laid down for the Navy this year be Heves spruceann) growing at will be fitted unt only with over
THE POSITION OF HONGKONG.
Some Significant Points In the Annual Report.
The Report on the Blue Book Abari, Gold Coast, wore forward-head armour for protection against of Hongkong for the year 1911, ed for determination, as it was norial attack but also with guns
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stated by M. Yvea Henry that ex-of high elevation for attacking which, says the "L, and C. Ex- periments with Hevea spruceannairoraft. The new gun is a com- press," has been issued somewhat in the Gold Coast and Southern bination of anti-torpedo craft and late in the day as a Parliamentary WANTED a Godown twoing the Nigeria had shown that this anti-aircraft weapon, Bays the
sen, in Balor West Plat, species was more suitable for oul-"Daily Mail.". When required paper, is this year from the pen capacity about 50.000 ob. It. Offen tivation in West Africa than for work against surface vessels of the Acting Colonial Secretary P. O. Box No. 472. Hoven Brasiliensis. The speolit ha a range of 13,000 yards (Mr. C. Clementi), and, accom
Hongkong, 18th Oot, 1918- mens were, however,determinedat (between BOYON and oightpanied as it is by a map of the Kow as Hevea Brasiliensie, Mull. miles), with 311b, shells, and the island and the neighbouring Arg., and it therefore appears mounting is such that it can territory, proves to be a very illu- that the supposed Heven apri- be given an elevation of nearly minating documeut concerning ccana trean, at Aburi, like those 80deg., at which angle its effen- the many-sided life of the Colony. OFFICES TO LET Fint Clas in Southern Nigeria, are wrongly tive height-range is 9,000 yards With certain exceptions, it reveale]
accommodation, light and named. M. Henry's opinion to (ovor se milos). At a distance a fairly satisfactory state of affairs, siry, on Firm, Second and Third Floor, garding the relative value of the of four and a half miles it can As regards the public revenue, in new building being erected for Moss. two species in West Africa was send its shell to a height of this amounted to $7,197,000 WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO.. therefore based on erroneous 13,000ft. For use against airer showing un excess of $410,000 Klectric Liit to all Boon, Electric | LTD. Entrapos from Des Vœux Road.
determinations.
aft a new type of shrapnel shell over the estimate, whilst on the Light throughout. Troublesome Chinese Chieftains, will be used, so that a very large other hand the expenditure of The plan can be senn and all partion- The trouble among the Nos area would be, covered by the $7,077,000 was $308,000 under lam obtained at the Offices of Meners. ohiefs in the district of Kueichow shrapnel bullets and the flying the satimate. Thus the balance PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra which adjoins the prefecture of fragments of the shell itself. A for the year's working was Buildings, Std Floor, Ohnotung in Yunnan, writes a smoke-producing powder is also $420,000, bringing the balance feeskinx, 80th Bøpt. 1917, 1708 enclosed in the shell to enable of assets and liabilities up to "N. Chinese Daily News " respondent is still serious. It is the gunner to see the accuracy or $1,827,000 in the Colony's favour. reported that some of soldiers otherwise of his aim. The Gur We may note that up to the and of Yang Tatuh have joins the mau Ehrhardt anti-aeroplane gun of the year a total capital sum of MODREENAGH, 21 The Peak. rebels and that the authorition fires a shell of the same kind, over $12,000,000 had been spent bet. view the matter very anxiously. which leaves a trail of smoke in on the British section of the It is time that the extraordinary
Kowloon-Canton Railway, which power of those chiefs was taken Early Reoganisation of the more than exhausts the existing away from them. Some of them Mediterranean Fleet. Railway Loan, and renders it pro- in the neighbourhood have boon The reorganisation of the bable that a further loan will guilty of crimes almost unthink- British Mediterranean Flect is to have to be raised this year.. ITO LET LARGE abstantielly buil, uble. If their power was taken be affected earlier than was ox will be remembered that through East Point. Forfarther particulare apply away from them thousands of pected, says the "Daily Mail," traffic to Caulon was establish- Property Offics, Jardine, Matheson & people would breathe more freely, of Sept. 21. It is understand od in October last, hat Co. Ltd.
Dear Salt In Prospect. that the cruiser Suffolk, at pre- the revolutionary disturbances so Hongkong, 18th Aug., 1919. (688 The Ministry of Finance accord-sent in home waters is not return-interfere with the running of ing to the Chinese Press, is framing to Malta, and the cruiser the railway that little can be ing a scitome to augment the re- Lancaster is under orders to judged from the result obtained ceipts from the salt gabelles. The proceed to England. The Good in the short period dealt with. It chief point in this so-called Hope and Hampshire are not is so far satisfactory, however, to schomo seems to be the time-worn likely to remain long in the learn that the local traffic was Oleo, Jardine, Matheson à Co., Ltd. process of increasing the selling Mediterranean, and it is stated steady during the year and ro-Hoogkong, 22nd May, 1918. r881 price of salt in all provinces; the that a battle-cruiser will relieve ceipts more than had boon anti- increase differs according to local the Good Hope during the stay cipated. The keen competition conditions, so that the price will at Gibraltar of Admiral Sir A. of the water route to Canton must be raised by 4 cash per catty in Borkeloy Milne (Commander-in- postpone the time when the rail-ceeded those of the previous year some provinces, while in others Chief in the Mediterranean). The way, on which so much has been by the considerable sum of over by as much as 12 cash por catty, Shannon and vessels of the Duko expended, will prove a good six million dollars. This is no By this means yet another large of Edinburgh class may be ox business proposition. It is disap-doubt largely the result of the sum, viz: over Tls. 15,000,000 conted to join Sir A. Berkeley pointing to note the considerable influx of Chinese fleeing from the per annum is expected to be Milue early. in October. The fallingoff in the shipping of the Co-possibilities or dangers of the realized.
Third Battle Squadron will re-lony. The total outering and clear-revolution to the repose and Against the Standard Oil Co. main in the Mediterranoan until ing amounted to 543,570 vessels of safety afforded by the British
WEIGHT A telegram to the Ostasiat's the four battle cruisers have 36,179,153 tons, which, compared flag. Unfortunately, the effects cher Lloyd" states that a bill will joined the station. The ad with 110, shows a decrease of of such an influx were by no
AERTEX be submitted to the German ditional submarines destined for 3,504 vessels and 355,200 tons, means altogether favourable, ne Reichstag regulating the potto Malta will be sent out as soon as Of the total mentioned, 44,078 it had a decidedly
prejudicial CELLULAR leuin trade in Germany. the accommodation for thoir vossal of 23,303,108 tone were influence on the health conditions Limited Company will be formed reception is completed at Cals engaged in foreign trade, a of the native quarters, as well as which will have the exclusive frans.
against 40,714 of 23,100,250 tons bearing very hardly on the Por- right of carrying on wholeste
in 1910. Further, whilst the table tuguese section of the community UBTAINED trade with coal oil for lighting purposes; it will be put under One of the most sporting bat. given showe a deoreuse in British in the advance of rents produed ocean slipping of 355 abips of There can be little doubt that the supervision of the Imperial talions that over came to Sing: 521,051 tous, or of 8.3 per cent. in crowds of refugees contributed Government. By these means apore, suye the "Free Press, "numbers, and of 64 per cent. in largely to the increase in the the danger will be averted of the tell the truth perhaps the most tonnage, foreign ocean vessel number of cases of plague and to complete control of the petroleum lively, the old 58th, the 2nd only depressed by 132 ships or 3 the considerable outbreak of market in Germany by the Northamptonshire, which
here from 1889 to 1892, has been per cent, in numbers, and 23 por small-pox which occurred at the IN TENNIS, DAY, TUŅIO and
cent. in tonnage. With regard later end of the year. Never undershirts., PRUNK DRAWERS Singapore Mortality Returns. told off to proceed to Crete in to trade, I the figures available theless, the gradual replacement The mortality raturns for "onnection 'with the Balkan Singapore, issued by the Rogis troubles, and incidental dili. are not reliable, but so far as they of the old type of Chinese dwell- trar of Births and Deathe, show culties. How time flies may be go they reveal an increase. Opium ing by the new premises erected that during the work ending understood by the fact that the importa, it is pointed out, fell off in accordance with, the Fablic some 10,157 chests, or 32.0 per Health and Buildings Ordinance, October 5, there were 280 deaths, junior captain of those days, is cent., so that the decline in this 1003, is said to be effecting a giving a ratio per mille of popu: now Lient-Col. C. & Prichard, trade as the result of the British slow, but certain, improvement HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.Head Offiou for the die East:-18, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG Tation of 42.30. Malarial fever D. 8. 0, in command of policy was very considerably ao-in the healthiness of the native accounted for 33 doathe, phthisis the 2nd Battalion, which is
celerated. There was again a quarters. There should, however, 21, convulsions 20, beri-beri 20, now at Malta and therefore substantial increase of 24,500 certainly be no slackening in the bronchitis 8, dysentery 18, cholers quite handy for employment ir emigrants, due, of course, to the efforts of the authorities, for much PLUNKET'S 1. pneumonis 18. Twenty-one Crote. The other subalterns of demand for Inbour on the rabber remains to be done. The general children under three months of those daya still with the regiment plantatione of the Malay States, death-rate for the year was 21.13 age died. The nationalities were are all majors now, but all of represented as follow:-Europe them are on staff duty somewhere industries of the island we may community, sad 13.88 among the Amongst the many flourishing per 1,000 among the Chinese Rus 2, Chinese 194, Malaya 44, or other. Major E. 0. Smith has note with pleasure the prosperity non-Chinese community, as com just retired from being Senior of the engineering and ship-pared with 22.50 and 10.04 dur Staff Officer in Burma. Major building enterprises, of which ing 1010. As regards the Parlia Dr. Amigo, the Roman Catho. E. Higginbotham, whose red there has recantly been numerous meat of the Colony, its arduous lio Bishop of Southwark, recently tunic, worn as A.DO. on Johns- paid his annual visit to the prin- ton's Pier as A.D.O. to Sir Olegas. The sales of Crown land labours resulted in the passing of and pier rights rose over $200,000 as many as sixty-five ordinances, cipal Kentish hop districts. At menti Smith, when the present to $270,000 whilst there was again which almost suggests that it is East Farleigh, noar Maidstone, Tear of Russia e Tsarevitch he celebrated Mass in a tent, a landed at Singapore, created in number and value of private busy law-makers of Westminster, a very considerable increase both attempting to rival the extremely rude altar having been improvis foud between the Governor and properties which changed hande, and is surely a record for a ed out of three or four plain doel the General, Sir Charles Warren, the purchase moneys having ax- territory of the size of Hongkong. boards. The crowded congre whose orders word "white" gation was entirely composed of for garrision full dress,-is now pickers, some of whom had come bussing the Gymnasium at Alder- from far-distant gardens to see shot. Major Philip Allen (known their bishop After the service sa Allenjabat," wicked Allen,
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Mass in the Hopfields.
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A Sporting Battalion.
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Notice
the bishop chatted with the to distinguish him from Allen A HANDSOME PICTURE
piokers and visited their encamp-"baik," who afterwards shot him- ments. In the afternoon he visit-self), is now a Senior Staff Officer ed other parishes.
and Major Percy 'Skinner, the
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