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LABUK TOBACCO
ESTATE.
An Old Hongkong Fallure That's Now a Success.
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fino quality that now estalos are bound to apring up near it as soon as the necessary capital is forthcoming, A and as the country develops. The immediate nativas-the
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THE NEW U. S. PRESIDENT
Hongkong - American's View of
the Situation.
sungei, or river men-are a harm- Mr. J. W. Bolles, the General
A gentleman passing through less, ponce-loving folk, engaged Manager, in this district, for the on his way Home from British principally in padi-planting Big Standard Oil Company, has just North Borneo hos supplied the game is still to be had bears, returned to the Colony from a 8.8. Monteagle at 6 p.m. to-Telegraph" with some interest tombadoh, an occasional rhino holiday in Europe and the United to-day.
ing facts concerning a tobacco eros and orang-utan, while, among States. In connection with our estate on the Labuk River, acme the smaller fry, tiger-cats and telegrams of Wednesday, which fifty miles from Sandaken.
birds of all descriptions are reported the proodadings at the twenty years ago, a company, of HONGKONG DOG SHOW.mado to
Older Hongkong residents will plentiful... remember that, some five and
inauguration of thenew President, some remarks which Mr. Holles St. Albans to-morrow..
which the firm of Messrs. Turner
us are interesting Siborion Mail-Due per 8.8. and Co. were the managing
and instructive; for during Tjibodas tomorrow.
We are glad to be able to state he has had many opportunities directors, was started, under the that entries for the Dog Show con-of
his recent stay in America, Siberian Mail.-Closes per as. name of the Labak Planting tinue to arrive. The Honorary condition of parties and politics.
Chenan at 5 p.m. to morto ventures in the old days, it is oneof Segretary asks us to 'remind the
studying ¡Company. Like many similar
the present unhappy memories to Hongkong the latest date at which entries gentleman," said Mr. Bolles, "and their fingers over an investment
"To begin with, Mr. Woodrow public that to-morrow, March 8, is Wilson is an educated man and a for many local people burned can be received, that proved worthles
We alluded on Wednesday to electors but is going to influence that fact has not only influenced country there must always be of entries under the respective enough, that he has stuff in him, tho scarcity of offers from owners the country which he is now to In a new and, undeveloped
of sporting dogs. As the number rule. certain amount of risk attaching heads of pointers, setters, re by his skilful administration of Ho has shown, plafaly the outside world is difficult, thetrievera and spaniele has not come New Jersey. A rare lot of clean- to planting; communication with neighbourhood may be found to to the Committee's expec-ing up lay before him there, and be unhealthy,
tations, they have decided to cam-he surrounding bine these four classes under the thoroughly. Of course it's very natives may be troublesome, and one head of Sporting Dogs.
did it, squarely and hard to predict white may-
Returned to Hongkong.
B. M. he. Usk, Bams, and Otter returned to Hongkong yesterday. derman Mail.
on March 8
YMCA.. Concert.
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the problem, and iandirect grant towards Imperial Defecce. The Opposition, beaded by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, disapprove of this proposal, and are all for a distinct Canadian Naval Service "in co [operation with, and close relation tr, the Imperial Navy." They are, accordingly, aiming at an amend ment of the Bill along these lines, and declare that they will do their utmost to obstruct The German Mail of the 4th the passage of the Bill with. B
February was delivered in London View to forging an appeal to the country on the question. It may be somewhat regrettable that there should be|
The annual concert of the this difference of opinion on the YM.C.A.; taltes place to-night manner in which assistance should and promises to be a big success. The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telograph" will more than atoned for by the fact be given, but this development is
"Yellow Dragon." be as follows:-
The "Yellow Dragon' Daily iesuo-$30 per annum.
that all parties aro agreed on the March is devoted largely to a re- to success may arise. This was the show will be fifty cents.
for a dozen other stumbling-blocks The price of admission to the happen daring his tenure of Weekly issuo-$13 per annum.
main point, namely that Canada port of the procedings on the experience of the original promo- I he rates per quarter and per sem, proportional. Subscriptions part and to do it well. Theretion of prizezat Queen's Collego. did not go well, and, after losing can be depended upon to do her occasion of the annual distributers of the Labuk estate; things
the Presidency; one can. for any period less than ne month will bo charged as for a may be differences of opinion as
only surmise, arguing from his full month,
Address to Father Spada, aboutseventy-five percent of their SQUARING THE CIRCLE. & very popular mon with all past record. Undoubtedly he is The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to far as the willingness of Canada presented to Father Spada at the to close the side and for twen-An Omniscient Hongkong Bay. believe that his appointment has
to the method; there are none so
An illuminated addreas will be coolies from disease, they decided messengor, Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at to help is concerned.
classes; the mere fact of his their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by
Club do Recreio, Kowloon, ofty years it lay idle."
boing elected proved that; and I post an additional $1.80 per quartor in charged for postage.
Sunday at 3pm. The ceremony "The New Estats. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00
is to be a public one and friends. Last August, however, the New does not seem to differ from a but to the moneyed el ment as The Hongkong Chinese boytion, not only to the working dass given,and will give great satisfac per quarter.
Olympic Games Appeal.
of Father Spada are invited. London Borneo Tobacco Com- certain class of Britisher in his Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (fo:
cash only).
Tho Duke of Somerset's appeal
Received by the King, pany reopened the property, unreadiness to admit ignorance: At Buckingham Palace on the starting with a capital of some one given point. The other day
well. : Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed for British athletes who are likely Jerram had the honour of being were
for fands to secure proper training 4th ult. Rear-Admiral T.H.M. £80,000. Purts of the estate a mastor in one of our local period will bo continued until countermanded.
to appear at the next Olympiad is received by the King unon his forest
covered with virgin schools was putting a new boy (Payable in Advance.)
timely and patriotic. Between appointment as Commander in secondary jungle had sprung up
others, through his paces in geometry. now and 1916 it should bo possi. Chief of the China Station. Bishop where the original owners had ble to do much to restore British Corfe also had the honour of being made clearings; and the manager athletic prestige We read the other day that the amateur,
was faced with a by no meana athletic association is elaborating
e1sy task. To-day, however, after a scheme for producing an effec The Annual Meeting of the are, so we are informed, eighty about six months' work, there tive British team for the games Hongkong Church Missionary large fields either planted or in Berlin. This is good news; so Association will be held in Stready to be planted with tabaca long as the matter is left in the Paul's College, at 5.15 p.m., on Ic hands of the British. Olympic Thursday, March 13th. A few efforts of the manager, Mr. Th.
says much for Council, the results cannot but minutes will be occupied with van Doesburg, that all this has be disastrous. The work of the business, after which a short meet been accomplished with the aid Wo' stated Inst Saturday that Sir Frank Swettenham for the programme and see that of accounts for 1912 shows the Chinese and Javanese) and that Council is to make arrangementsing will be held The statement of but two hundred coolies suggested that a part of the surplus fund, collected in Malaya for the entries are teclinically correct income, including balance from not a single fatal case of disease the building of a battleship, should be devoted to the founding of a With the training of the athletes last year of $1,235.73, to have has so far been known. After a few collego of tropical agriculture. For some time past, the London it has nothing whatever to do. **Times" has been dwelling on the necessity for such an institution,
been $2,282.74: The balance at big jungle-burninge, sufficient the end of 1912 was $930 05, but ground was cleared to make room of this amount $922.40 has been for coolie-lines, hospital, drying alloosted, leaving a balance of and fermenting sheds, and ban only $7.65.
galows for the European staff, Seamen's Institute Concert.
Pianting,
By Order,
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."
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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 7. 1913.
TROPICAL AGRICULTURE.
recoivod by His Majostý,
Hongkong Church Missionary Association.
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the
is?" he asked.
"Do you know what a circle "Yes, Sir," said the youth. (Bat he may have lied.)
Tired of the Old Order. tired of the old arrangement of "You see, people were getting
a thorough change of administra things, and were keen to see how tion would work, They have suffered a good many disappoint The master then plied him with been led to expect big things of ments in the past. They had to his abilities: could be describe talk whore tariffa and other half a dozen further questions as President Taft; there was a lot of each and such a bisect an angle, construct an most of it ended in talk. Of parallelogram; matters were concerned; but straightline, etc, etc; and in every tions to tackle in the United equilateral triangle on a given course there are some heavy ques case he was answered with States, and it may be that a confident "Yes." individual," he said, at last with them. Personally, I think Can you, by any chance, aquars he will. There will doubtless be "You seem to be a knowing be strong enough to grapple even the new President will not
circle "Ob, yes, Sir."
many things to puzzle him at first, will come through all right." but give him a fair field and he
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long breath and then limply asked The astonished teacher took the genius to "do it." The boy hesitated, and at length enquir ed:
"What kind of a circle shall Query: Which of the two was
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Woodrow Wilson, that $100 he would have enough essential 100 strength to over-ride any Cabinet 100 or association that sought to in 100 fluence him in a wrong direction
"The main thing,” added Mr 100 Bolles, "is that we've got a clean 100 man; one at whose past career no 100 one can throw any stones."
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The Colour Question,
and recently Colonel Alfred Arnold has written to that organ What is Necessary. endorsing all that it has said on the subject. Colonol Arnold has had over twenty years' experience of life in the tropics, and should British athletes taught style. What is really wanted is to have "know what he is talking about. His contention is that a college or There is an art in running so that Seamen's Institute on Monday the started. These correspond to the I draw?"
"If any dishonesty should university devoted to agricultural science in its relationship to the the best paco can bo'escured with 10th at 8 pm. The first part of seed beds on which a Home A concert will be given at the Then the "trial bode" wore
show itself in Mr. Wilson's ad- ministration, it would assuredly tropics" would not only train men, but would also collect and collate the minimum of expended energy the programme will consist of a gardener the scientific results of its own experiments and of those of all other stance, had been instructed in the knowa local amateurs, including which looks very much like
be through no fault of his own. If Lieutenant Hallswelle, for invarioly entertainment by well cibbage or lettuce plants. The seed
Now and then a man in his posi tropical territories, and in the course of time, would accumulate in techniqus of running, what might Messrs. Ackerman, the Gaisford gronad coffee is mixed with
would grow. his the log-puller?
tion, and with such a multitude its archives a wealth of reliable data upon which a tropical he not have done. As it was, he Brothers, JE. Ferris, and J.wood-ash and scattered indiscri
of responsibilities resting on his agricultural scionca would be based, and to which both students was the finest quarter-mile run Bridgeman of M. S. Minotaur.minately over small plots of
shoulders, might unintentionally and experts could refer with inestimablo benefit to their work."
ner in the world, a matter of three The second, balf of the evening specially prepared ground. In
lete buses, great or small, creepin, sometimes through ignorance, As we have romarked before, probably not five per cent, of the who know little of the science of Rov, II. Lloyd R. N. on "Shang-brought from
years ago, but he was a runner will be devoted to a lecture by this particular case the seeds were
sometimes through a species of men at premont ongaged in plauting, whether in the East or in the pace; who ran magnificently, hai and the Northern Ports of Ranau estate at Kudat (B.N.D), begs to acknowledge with thanks he had no real control. It might The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice excusable inability to combat. weakness, and anmetimes through West, have more than a superficial and hastily acquired rule-of-thumb but with comparatively little Jonarledge of their work. Under existing circumstances, how can judgment. Properly trained in slides printed from the lecturer's country like Borneo, sad, in about funds of the Hospitals:-
the celebrated Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals some power or other over which be otherwise? There are two classes both of them lamentably style, he would have set up great-own photographis
China, illustrated by lantern Plant life moves quickly in the following donations to the be, however, in the case of small-of planters who may be said to know their trade. The one or recorda than he did, So with is made up of men who are getting into years and, through long jumping and throwing-British
seven weeks, the seedlings are experience, bave gained that sound practical knowledge which more athletes have much to learn in the have been made at the Admir. To help Nature, however, the seed- China Station Appointments, large onough to handle and to, dhan atones for their original lack of technical education; and the matter of stylo. This question has ally:-Lieutenants F. O. Han bedaare irrigated night and morn- The following appointments transplant in rows in the fields. other consists of younger men who have brought with them, when boen discussed by athletes for ning Lee (retired) to the Tamar, ing. Meanwhile the fields were be- they began planting, a good grounding in agricultural chemistry, years, but nothing has ever additional (N), for alarga ofing changkel'd (ie. knocked about and have, without being theory-mad, applied their scientific bean done. There has been talk, Chart and Chronometer Depot at with a big bos, which is the Born- learning to their daily work for some five or ten years. One may and no more. It would seem Hongkong, to date Feb, 17; H. E. eo equivalent to ploughing) and, say, and yet not be who do not come inder either of the above heads, are more or less prospect of promising young 1st and G., on recommissioning, enough to be moved, the fields Log sweeping, that the rank and file of plantora however, that there is now 4 Daareuther, to the Royal Arthur, by the time the plants were large norant and, in many cases, are content to remain so. The reason athletes being taken in hand and to date Feb. 4, and to the were ready to receive them. The wilear enguga to all those of our readers who have mixed among labber and tobacco men. Planting, nowadays, is too often what the
trained along the best lines. army and the Church of England wore in our grandfathers' days:
Minotaur, Isk and G., undated. Labuk soil is a mixture of clay a refuge for the fool of the family. Lads who have failed, through The Sydney Strike.
Sub-Lieutenant J. F. H. Pollen, and sand, excellent from a want of brains, to pass into Sandhurst or to qualify themselves for
to the Tamar, additional, for the plantor's point of view; the best, shae 67 (lu professions, are sent out by the score, by the hundred
Whiting, to date Feb. 1. Acting in fact, that can be found. It is good fo hear that the Sub Lieutenants: I. G. Glenais, 6985, to Cdylon, West Africa, the Malay States, sto.; some drink Sydney gas-strikers have suffered to the Royal Arthur, for voyage
A Promising Outlook, and die, some are sent home again as useless, some prove consider what schoolboye call a shot in the out, to date Feb. 4, and to the time after a further seven weeks. Loaf-picking may begin any ly worse than useless by not following instructions or by creating ore, through the promptenrolment Tool, undated; and J. S. Ferris, to The leaves are bundled, taken to discontent and insubordination among the coolies; and just a tiny remainder pick up, in course of time, sufficient knowledge to entitle question, there is a deal for mouth, undated,,“
of so large a number of voluntary the Royal Arthur, for voyage out, the drying shode and hang up. hem to call themselves planters of a sort.
workers. As on every other to date Teb 4, and to the Mon. When dry, they are sorted, ines- This, surely, is a matter that very closely allects those of our strikes is concerned; but even the
Aured and made up into new and against where the morality of readers who have invested money in plantations of any kind. The most sanguine supporter of the
bundles, big stacks of which are direotora of estate companies are paying out large sums in salaries trades unions, may hardly deny
STORY ABOUT WINE set out in the fermenting, sheda. every month, and it is very evident that, in many cases, they are not that the agitator, and, all too Chinese yesterday on a charge of and vigilance. The temperature And here is where the planter getting their money's worth. If incompetent or esmi competent often, the striker, is an ingrained boing in unlawful possession of of the stacks must be taken fre- Detective Murphy arrested a requires considerable judgment men can make an estate pay twenty-five per coat, planters who bully, with an over watchful eye 10 casks and forty cases of wine,quently and, whenever there is a have combined theory with experience in rightful proportions, could open for an opportunity to ex- The wine, was being transferro sign of their becoming over heat-to play for the Club v. Army (o 1800. The advertisements relat other things being equal-raise that twenty-five to thirty-five or ereise his domincering or from the S. Chun Chin to the ed, the bandlos must be unpacked morrow, at 4.30 p.m., in a cup od conspicuously to slave matters; forty fire. We have no more time for the planter who wants to blufiog" facultion. In this case, ss. Hong Wan and it is alleged and re-laid. work on pure theory than we have for the would-be navigator who the citizens of Sydney have given that it was proposed to tranship Everything, as for so we can son: Three quarters, B. Chapman, sale etc. The following is a thinks to sail a ship solely on the strength of his skill in mathematics; tho strikers pretty clearly to it to Penang,
match Full back, T.ES. Rob-runsways but we must not dieregard the valud of a good scientific substratum understand that they are not to The case was brought before the ful future for the Labuk estate. Half backe, Jasper Clark, J.0.0.
wanted", alaves fora whereone to lay an bsequently acquired experience, If such a college have the game quite all their own notion of Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at There are no other plantations Fergusson. Forwards, A. Mur-likely negro woman, 23 years of
gather, points to a most success V.M. Grayburn, H. S. Rouse, specimen we have mentioned were established, and if planting companies way; and that is why we are the Police Court, this morning noar it; its olosest neighbour is a dooh, A. I. Deane, T.J. Tisher, age; a good cook, washer and
Negro woman for øle.TA,, engage no assistants but those who have passed creditably rejoicing. Wo always like to see and the application for a formal large timber-camp belonging to W.M. Whamead, D, Wolker, Hironor. Sound and hea through it, we should probably see a big riso in ostale dividends, the bully jumped on, and the remand by police was granted. the China Borneo Company, but G. Hogority, R. M. Austin, C. C. Sold for no fault. For isle by o
very long.
tables turned on the bluffer. Bail in $1,000 was allowed, the land round tout is of such Stark (Capt.)
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T. Lieb Esq. N. J. Stabb Esq. Hon. A. M. Thomson
Mr Bolles te himself a Southern 50 democrat. Ia the South, be said, 50 there were democrats and demo 50 orats; men whose interests or ex- 50 periences led them to varying 50 shades of political thought; but, 50 however much the sab-parties 50 might disagree among themselves 50 or with other parties, the men of 50 the South always had their com 25 mon meeting-point in the colour 25 question. Over this, the Boath 10 had remained solid throughout,"
LOCAL SPORT.
Rugby Cup Tie. The following have been chosen
While speaking of the slave days Mr. Bolles showed us an interesting relic of the past, which ho bad unearthedr
while at home in copy of the "Daily Journal of Wilmington's North Carolina, for October 12,1