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Oplum la Yunnan.
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only is the poppy still being plant-
DAY BY DAY
Success never attends spas- ed in the Szechuan and Kurichuen modio effort. districts, but that more opiom is
The Malls.
nt present being smoked in Yunnanfu than at any time since Siberian Mail-Due per 8.a. the beginning of the anti-smoking Liosn to-day. campaign. This, wo imagice,
morrow.
New Police Constables. Three new polica constables named Henderson, Gorafort and Croucher, have been sworn for and duty in the Colony.
Oplum Possession. A man found in unlawful possession of a email quantity of opium, was fined the sum of $16,
KINEMACOLOR.”
A Cinematograph Artist la Hongkong.
NEW BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY
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at the Police Court, this morning. the Harbour, various street scene one continual round of the latest
CRIMINAL, SESSIONS!
Charge of Uttering a Forgot
·Draft.
The Attorney General, M. JAS, Buckuill, instructed by the
Seven New Musical Plays.
Some interesting facts in re
This morning at the Criminal The New Bindmann Opera Seasions before the PuisneJudge, gard to colour photography for Company is to open at the Thes. Mr JH. Kemp, and a jug com cinematograph have been supplied to the "Telegraph tre Royal on Friday night. The posed of the following Merri season promises to be a particuM Haseland. F. Ropp, H.J. will surprise no ore except the English Mail.-Thie to arrive per by Mr. Hiram Horton, special larly successful one and booking Morse, FD. Barretto, W.A.W more ardent of the Chinese anti- a. Aasaya at 6 a.m. tc-photographer to the Kinemacolor is alton ly heavy.
Hell, R. L. Atkinson and R M. Ans opiumites and those good and
Company of Wardour Street,
As will be seen from curadrerin, Wong Kong and Wa Kive London sangnine people at Home who
tisement columns, the Company' charged with attaring a
forged have made such an exhaustive
Mr. Elorton came out to the visit is for only 12 nights and draft, well knowing the same to study of the subject of opium
East at the time of the Japanese there are to be presented seven have been forged from the newspaper and from tracia. We cannot concsive how
Emperor's death and, after taking entirely new bus cal Flags with a saries of pictures of the toys|||| revival of the ever-popular funeral ceremonies, be remained "Count of Luxembourg... any person of experience and of
Crown Solicitor, Mr. P. Mog balanced mind can possibly hope
in the country to photograph th Surting off with two perfor to see drug-taking stamped out
army manmuvres. Since coming manges f "Gipsy Love," the the Crown. The prisoners who son, appeared to prosecute for of even one individual, let alone
to Hongkong he has taken a large great musical success from Unly's pleaded not guilty, were out of a ustion, in a few months
number of local views, including Theatre, London, there is to be resented. EVEN If the educated European who has
The Attorney General been so foolish as to give way to
ia Chinatown and, piou e of London productions. In Gipsy that the case was on which it Resworn for Duty. drugs, even for a year or two, o
Sergeant Kendall, of the Hong-coolie life, most of the public Love Mr. Bintimanu has secured only be dissuaded from the habit
kong Police Force, who goes buildings (including the Hong-one of the greatest attractions that was necessary to explato at vore gradually end by voluntarily 00- Home on Saturday, has been kong and Shanghai Bank and has ever been produced. On the legth as there were some sliği
commercial complications with operating with those who are esworn for duty on the completion the Supreme Court); alro Cheung company's visit to Singapore the which the gentlemen of the anry, seeking to care him, how can we
Chan Island, the Botanical Gar- entire house was polil out days of his leave.
More probably more frivilar then expect the enormous number
dens, and the Happy Valley before they arrived and so great of Chinese smokers .in.
airring on business us the K #big for some generations - and who the police that by means of the tures will ultimately be shown 48 was willingly' pait to stand in Ohun Yoen as: 11 Queen's Street, whee blood opium has existed
during the races. All these pic was the demand for seats that he was. A man called Write Chin a special Hongkong series at the the lobbies. The Governor hon hi a Lrother, Wog Pit, who strongly object to being cured
Company's cinematograph thesoured the performance with his carried on business at Honolulu, to abandon the practice with
tro (the Scala) in London, at the patronage and attendance. and money was sont ronstimes Colosseum-which has a special On Monday and Tuesday night from Hongkong to Honolulu and will next to no warning and by means of no saner argument than bruto
contract with the Kinemacolor"The Pink Lady" is to be pro vice vers. On January 6 of this force?
Company and elsewhtie. Mr. duced. This was a very big
year Wong Chun received a letter Horton has also taken some, beau succers at home and it is a bright from his brother stating that a tiful views of Manila which will merry picce with a good story, draft had been sent under appear in a series called "Manila plenty of gool omedy, singing separate cover on the Chartered of Today." In Canton he has and dancing. It is in this that Bank of India China and Australia the draft had been stolen. There
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1918,
MINISTER AND CONTRACTS.
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The Confidence Trick.
A shoemaker his reported to confidence trick a man has obtain ed from him ten sirs of shoes valued $18.
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Lawn Bowls.
A meeting of the Lawn Bowls League and the Championship Committeo has been called for April 8 in order to consider the ampetition for the year.
At Home.
Lient" "holopel A. J, Mullins
Durbar Pictures.
The series was shown to sir ind
A Fecret Process..
No Confidence..
General Bethune's statement, the other day, that the Territorials have not the confidence of the
• Raub Crushlar Retorn....... secured some good results and is the celebrated Gaby Glide for $150. The letter arrived but public" is all the more serious in that it comes from a man who Me, Wright and Hornby now preceding to Peking, Japan danced and this has cause I little has gone, carefully into the inform us that they are in receipt and Korday ora returning short of a sensation wherever could be no doubt that when they subject of volunteering and who of a cable from Singapore To-day Home.
it has been porformed. On had heard the evidence they Wednesday and harsley nights, would agree with him that she even if he be an enthusiast for annonnoing that the Raub crush- universal service, is at least aning return for the past month is
"The Girl in the Taxi. If you draft had been stolen becaure of ore. 855 oza.
Mr. Horton's business naturally ask a man just out from hom what bad happened afterwards, extremely level headed The question is, have the Ter-
takes him to many parts of the what play he didn't see, it's al- but he could not tell whether it Hongkong Declared Infected. at any moment We have been informed from world. He has worked largely in most certain be'll name this play was stolen in the Post Office or ritorials, since they were instituted, the Colonial Secretary's Depart the United States, add was ore of as it is a question of waiting outside. On January 24, the day ever possessed the confidence
ment that Singapore has declared the six photographers chosen to weeks before you on get seat when the draft ought to have ar of the public? So far as we can Hongkong to be an infected port go to India for the Coronation at the Lyric Theatre, so great rived, a man went to the Chart- see, one rection of the Britieb
Durbar. While there he ploto has been its success. Today i ered Bank and presented the people has pooh-poohed them port on account of small-por.
graphed all the principal features a drawing packed houses a draft, purporting to carry the from the start, and the other has
of the great event, and there have every performance. It is a signature of Wong Chun. The never regarded them in higher-light than as either on and the officers of the R.CA. are since been reproduced by Mr: enormous success with the Opera cashier wes not ablo to identify experiment or else a means of holding an "At Home" at the Charles Urban, the Company's
performance of one of the saucies either of the prisoners, but he, patting off consoription. General U.S.R. olub, Kowloon, on Sature manager, under the title of With Company and they give a fine the man who came to the bank as Bethune goes on to say that this day. The regimental sports are our King and Queen in India.plays written for some time past counsel, thought that the jury Friday nh witnesses Au would, at a later stage, very pro- confidence will not be gained till being held from 2 to 6 pm.
A half million people in Newtumn Minceuvres." In this play. perly find that in all probability Kowloon Bowling Green. York alone in two months. While Mr Alfred Frith has the finest pait the man who took the draft to the the present shortage of fifty
men is made up. Bat The Kowloon Bowling Green
it was showing in- London the he has ever had with the Opera bank was one of the primers. thousand, zven then? We should will be opened on April 6 by the seats at the Scale Theatre Hero Company: Neolless to say he The praction in the Bank was have thought abff twentython penal, inaugural game between booked up six weeks ahaadi takes every advantage of it and a when a Chinese person presented sand men, will chosen, well teams representing the President morever...pecial command, per packen house is assured in wil
rmined and well-drilled word duit se Vice President. Represen formances of is, vore gironess this talented complian's exa receipt and tell him to call draft for payment to hend him trained untreu canusand who satires of other clubs will be in Before King Uporge and the cruciatingly funny performance. again in a day or two. The books Lacked stamina and experience.
Royal Family at Balmoral and Saturday night "The Night were then looked up and also the A:Word to Dog Owners.
Passengers Transferred. Budringban.
Birds" will have its initial pro-advices to see if the draft had We have before now.commented The French mail steamer Nera The purity of its political life has long been one of Britain's
Last year Mr. Horton was en- diction. This wis produced over been ordered. After it on the annoyance often caused on waited outside Green-laland yes- proudest boasts. Wholesale, corruption, nepotism, and the like, the Star Ferry by dogs which terday until the arrival of the at the Panama Canal, a lask the music of Johann Strauss that went to the bank and told them geged in photographing the work 40 year ago, but so charming is had been presented Wong Chun have, happily, seldom tainted British politics, and we have accompany their masters to and do from Saigon, whereupon which occupied six months, much it is still one of the most popular that he was expecting a draft sufficient faith in the integrity and probity of public men at Home from business. If a man oares to some of the latter's passenger delay and inconvenience being Operas on the Continent. Il bar which had not arrived and he was informed that the draft had to-day to believe that the proud record which has been established have a dog noar him while he bound for Home were transferred
caused by the hot and smoke a very fine reception on its works good and well that is his to the mail boss 4from the engines at work. daotion in London and the piece been presented. Having torpio stande in no danger of being blasted. Within the recent past, own offait, I But if he can trainht i 35 Rickshas Collide.
is made the more interesting from ions, they waited until January however, there have been fairly widespread allegations of "jobbery not to annoy bim while he is at Surgeon F. G. Gable has re-
the fact that this was the piece 28, when one of the prisoners. on the part of prominent statesmen holding Ministerial posts work, he should also train it not ported to the Police that whilst The Kinemacolor process is that Miss Corless brought he came to the bank ahil asked for Insinuations of this kind, it will be recalled, prompted the instituto annoy other people on the ferry he was riding in his private more elaborate than any yo ination against Mr Bandinion.
and in the street. Dogs which rioksha in Queen's fond he was vented. The original nation sug- Do the Monday week, the real subsequently made the sirb- payment. He was detained and tion of the inquiry now proceeding into the circumstances force their way between and run into by a public ricksha. He geated itself to Me. Urban-who sent Gaiety Thea re success will feat of this obarge. Aus conse- surrounding the conclusion of the Marconi contract. Hard on this among lega on a gangway stand was thrown on the street and his is co-inventor with Mr. Albert ho presented "The Sunshine quence of a statement which le Smith while he was watching Girl whilst on the Tuesday we made, the police were able to came the suggestions of improper procedure in the arrangements a chance of being stepped on and vehicle was damaged,
of biting some one in consquence. made with Messrs. Samuel Montague and Company for the purchase once or twice of late we have no
Stealing Wood
the funeral of the late Queen are to Rea Princess Caprice" arrest the second prisoner Their Mr. Green, of the Forestry Victoria. The process is, in the now running to rocotit hou en at reuse was that they had nothing of silver bullion for the Indian Mint, the firm named being con- ticed a fresh matter for com- Department, prosecuted a woman, main, a secret; but the general the Shaftesbury Theatre. At the whatever to do with it and that nected by relationship with the Under Secretary of State for India plaint. We are glad to see doge before Mr. F. A Hazeland, at the idea is that of two screens time of writing there is no more the whole matter was managed well treated and have done a little Police Court, this morning, for or filters of galatino, the one popular musical play at home. by some one in some service and with the Postmaster-General,
torrards securing a wider and stealing wond from Government red and the other green, being ami on the Wednesday night, the We are not for the moment concerned with the justice or more general interest in dogs. land. A fine of $15 or in placed in front of the Irns. "Count of I uxembourg !! will be Wong Kong was found guilt otherwise of the attacks which have been made on certain Ministers But we do not care, to 200 a dog default cne month was imposed. photograph is taken, first through revived, whilst for the last and of having uttered a forged dra
the one and then through the farewell performance specialian and with having in either of the matters to which we have referred. It may he cccupying a seat on the ferry the while it is crowded, and one or
The return of communicable other, and this alternation of nouncements will be made. stolen remarked in parenthesis, however, that prominent members of the two people are standing up.
property, diseases notified as occurring in primary olours is continued We are a ker to draw particu-19 ced. Lwo year Opposition have made it clear, in the case of the Indian silver A Great Warrior. transactions, that they do not suggest the contract was obtained for To-day the Empire mourns the the Colony during his wook specially sensitized poo from tar stient on to file fact that the on each count of Viscount Wolseley, the shows that the were ve cases of panchromatic performances start punctually at current Messrs. Samuel Montaga & Co either by the influence or at the veteran Field Marshal whose diphtheris and Ave deaths (all flm i need, and the result is, 18 aine o'clock sharp as in many found guil wish of the two Ministers named. The chief point in the whole gehias won for us the stirring Chinese), three cases of enteric nearly as possible, a picture in onses the interest-fies from the only and won peo ter is that the Government should sllow a contract to be given victory of Tel-el-Kebir some 30 fever, (one Canadian; imported) the colours of the original object. rise of the curtain so that patrons reare hard labour, ma members of the families of Ministers. On this aspect of the seara ago. Bis was a wonderful and one death, eight cases of So swift is the transition from red are advised to be in their seats
career of activity in the cause of smallpox (one British, seven Chi- to green or green to red that it question we note that Mr. Bonar Law has laid down the principle Empire. He entered the Army nose two imported and six deaths.) is impossible to distinguish be
tween the two whereas the TROUBLE ABOARD SHIP that “if a frm had a special connection or friendship with the when only 10 years of age and Too Many Passangers, in
An Indian umployed on bord Government, or the party supporting the Government, that ought his fighting career began im- This morning at the Marine ordinary cinematograph cimera
assond, the Kinemacolor takes for fourteen days, by Mr. F.A. to be a handicap against that firm in Government contracte "mediately, for in that same roar Court, before Commander Basil takes about sixteen pictures per the b.s. Bilbiter, was sent to gan
he served in the Burmese War. Taylor, R. N. Chim Tun, a boat from forty to sixty. Orities of this utterance have suggested that it is a counsel of His subsequent war service in- man, was charged with failing to
Inzpland, at the Police Court, perfection that a Government should in this way penalise its claded operations in the Crimea, carry the regulation lights, while Owing to the enterprise of such this morning, for committing an political sympathizers, bat Burely it will be admitted that, other of Lucknow, the China War of under way, and with unlawfully companies as this, cinematograph assault on another member of the
such pro- crew on board the ship. things being equal, or even approximately equal, it is much better of 1860, the Red River Expedi- carring 6 passengers in excess of work has made that Ministers should not expose themselves to the charge of fou, the Ashanti War, the fouth the number allowed by his li-gress at Home that it is The Captain sail the man had enriching their own or their colleagues' relations even though that African War of 1879, the Egyp-cence. On the first charge be was generally believed, even in Am-been logged once and had threat tian Expedition, and the Gordon fined $2 and on the secrni 16, erion, that British films, though one to kill the towards That so slow in coming to the fore, was not very nice conduct.com- change be purely malicions
Relief Expedition. It was a Not Guilty..
Two men charged with armed will now soon head the world. Insidering he (the Captain) had his The point arises whether cases might not occur in which the grand record, and throughout it pablidinterest would suffer seriously by the disqualification, on the all success dogged his footsteps robbery whose caso was left un-Great Britain alone there are wife and daughter on beard.”
For hisservices in the Ashanti War finished at yesterday's sitting of already from thirty to forty above, of an otherwise eminently desirable co
contractor, he received the thanks of Parlia the Criminal Sessions were both millions sterling invested in the Fire During Firemed
For the third time the Fbs donbled whether such juances would crop apment and a grant of £25,000 for discharged this morning. In the industry. The Kinemacolor Com-
matters where the business "courage, energy and persevar case of the second prisoner the pany has an important branch in dianer of the freedom from ungenerous sug-ance," besides the Freedom of the Crown Solicitor, who was proseout America; it has also a company Fire Brigade was
ly by an alar worth paying for. It would be City of London, and the victory ing, withdrew the esse against of actors posing in the West In- ally observed that would deny all at Toel-Kebir won for him eleva. Him and a formal verdict of not dies to illustrate such works se
tion to the Peerage and a farther guilty was returned. In the case Komley 'Westword of Ministers unless it could
has its special photo grant of £30,000. Ho was indeed of the first a verdict of vholming public advantages one of the greatest Empire-buil- eturned at the corolusion of graphers now at work at the Bil
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