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Sir Robert Burnett
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Obstructions in Kowloon.
In the past we have drawn attention to not a few of Kowloon's little grievances, but there are
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913.
"DAY BY DAY,
The man who is always worry-
still one or two remaining. The ing about his own personal pleas- latest complaint which reaches usure is almost certain to miss it. & Co. is in regard to obstructions of
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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS."
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publio thoroughfares. We hear,
The Malls.
24th. Siberian Mail.-Arrived per a.s. Devanha this morning American Mail-Arrived per s.8.
Siberia this morning.
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More About the two. Great Companies,
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HONGKONG AND WHAM-tionately less time. The draught ments and for use in the sur-
POA CO. AND TAIKOO, on keel blocks at h.w.os.t. is 15 rounding countries,
|ft. 4 in. forward, 25 ft. aft; depth That a concern so young, could, of water at smirance, 28 ft. Gin, especially in fnco of formidable h.w.o..t length of slip above opposition from the older firm, high water, 437 ft. on rail sohieve s:tch popularity and re level; length of slip above nown in so short a time speaks The following is a continuation low water, 593 ft. on. rail more highly than any other testi- of the historical sketch of the level. No. 2 and No. 3 slipways mony could do the class of work esch 0934 ft. long by180 ft. wide, turned out by it. Its sucoesa has, above Company contained in yes- length of cradle 230 ftare of course, been uphill work, for terday's issue
each capable of taking steamers like the Hongkong and Whampoa In 1880 Admiral Willes, Com-200ft. long, drawing 17ft., and Company, it has had to contend mander-in-Chief of the China 2,000 tons displacement. Such with serious opposition from Station, was instructed to en-a vorsel osn be hauled up in 30 Manila, Shanghai, and Singapore English Mail.-Clossa per a.s.quiro into the facilities in minutes. The draught on keel and even from Tsingtau and from
Dovanba at 11 a.m. to-mor-this neighbourhood for docking blocks at b.w.o.at. is 15ft. Gin. the Japanese yarda.
large men of war. After inspect forward, 24ft aft; depth of water ing the various docks, he decid- at entrance. 27ft. Gin. h.w.0.8...; ed that the best plan would be to length of slip above high water, deepen and enlarge what was 405 ft, below, low water, then called the No. 1 Dock at 561ft. on rail level. The cradles Alleged Possession of Banknote
Impressions.. Kowloon; but it was found that of all thros slipways are of Mor- the cost of enlarging this-to- tan's patent type, with swing- gether with the amount lost while ing bilge. arms, and "are A European named A. Poll, alterations were in progress hauled by wire cables, which Shanghai, either of Austrian or world more than equal the cost work on. drume electrically Russian nationality, has been
for instance, that it is a frequent French Mail of March 25.-De- occurrence for mule-carte belong- livered in London on April ing to the military authorities to be backed into the gutter opposite the Kowloon Railway station, there to remain for an hour or more with the bodies of the carts projecting fully half-way LOTOSA the pavement. This undoubtedly constitutes an od struction in contravention of the law, and the beauty of it is that this is taking place right below the Police Station! There is another obstruction Siberian Mail. Closes per a.s. which has beon blooking
Empress of Japan at 5 p.m. the pavement at the corner of Nathan and
Tow.
Canadian Mail-Olosos per s.a. Empress of Japan at 5 p.m.
to-morrow.
to-morrow.
Green Istand Cement Co.
Haiphong Roada for some weeks The annual meeting of the past, in the shape of huge piles above Company is to be held to- of sand covered with tarpaulin; morrow at noon. while further along, at the junc.
Dinners.
tion of Nathan and Kimberley The Old Alleynian dinner and Roads, right in the centre of the the Northumberland and Durham footpath, is a granite block which dinner both take place to-morrow previously served to mark a cert-night. ain inland lot. This blook has
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six months, and is a very distinct danger to those who have occa- sion to use the footway at night. P.W.D. please note.. Interport Shooting.
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Death from Poisoning.
The woman reported to have taken aniseed poison, at Yamati hospital. yesterday, has died in the
Leave.
Leave to the neighbouring countries has been granted to Captain T. M. Wakefield, R.G.A., from 29th April to 30th June.
of a now 'dock.
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EUROPEAN CHARGED.
of
Under the driven, the' hauling gear being arrested in a local Hotel. He is advice and supervision of Mr. operated by two sets of electric alleged to have been in possession Gillies a new one was therefore motors of 225 b.h.p. each. The of certain banknote impressions constructed, from the plans of Mr. cable for the No. 1 slipway is and some chemicals. The man, William Danby, C.E., and was 13in. circumference, while the we are informed, gave some completed in 1888. All this, it No. 2 and No. 3 slipway cables are trouble to the police when he was in said, was done at the minimum each 12in, circumference. Steel being arrested. of expense to the Company, which pierheads give a fair lead to ships A representative of the "Tale- graph asked Mr King, the acted as its own contractor, Mr, entering all three slips. Gillies and his staff seoing that The motive power for the whole | Assistant Superintendent the sub-contracts were drawn establishment is supplied from a Police, if our information was up on most favourable terms.
contral electrio station, the gene-correct, and be replied “Yes, but In 1885 the capital was raised ratora boing driven by gas engines there was nothing sensational in Fle had a revolver, to $1,562,500 and stood at that of the Cockerill-Westgarth type his arrest.. figure till 1901, when it was in-(3,000 collective horse-power) fed bat he never attempted to use it." creased by 8937,500, bringing by Mond gas supplied from four the total to $2,500,000, at which producers. it still stands.
Buliding's Slips.
From enquiries amongst those who have met Poll, we learn that he had been staying at the Hotel for about eight days and was a very quiet, unassuming man, of mixed much with company. gentlemanly bearing, who never
Privilege Leave. Privilege loa vo has been
The property at the three The building slips cover au granted to Captains G. O. Tora-establishments of the Company bull and G. W. Anderson, 26th at Hunghom, Shamsaipo and 300ft. wide, and are fally equip
aren souring 550ft. long by Punjabis, from 7th May to 5th Aberdeen comprises an extent of ped for every description of con- July..
We have also been informed 60 acres. The Company has structional work. Conveniently that he has wired to Shanghai Returned from Banishment. carried out some remarkable banishment was sentenced to six perhaps, the most interesting and moulding lofte, carpenters' and fend him..
A man who returned from salvage oporations, of which, grouped round the building yard for one thousand dollars, with
are the platers' shops and sheds, which to engage a lawyer to de-. months' imprisonont and four memorable was that of raising joiners' shops, saw mill, etc. hours' stocks, at the Folice Court, the three Spanish ships sunk in this morning.
Manila Bay by the American fleet, under Admiral Dewey, on May 1, 1898.
The Interport Shooting contost promises well this year, and it would appear that a strong effort is being made to secure the. strongest possibleHongkong team. Hitherto it has been alleged, whether rightly or wrongly need not be discussed, that the selec. tion was too limited and that the team which did duty was not necessarily the best the Colony could produce. This year, at any rate, the same charge should not be brought against the chosen team. Every effort is being made to ensure that the team sholl be
For Consignees thoroughly representative. Prac- Consignees of cargo by the 8.8, tice matches are being held and Siberia are reminded that cargo are open to all ißomen in the remaining undelivered after to Colony. From amongst those who morrow will be landed at con- attond these practice shoots the signces' risk and expense. ten best shots will be chosen be
Off to Japan. Among the passengers who Hongkong's team. It is sincerely to be hoped, then, that every man left yesterday for Japan by the in the Colony who has any pre- Kamo Maru were Major and Mrs tensions to appearing in an inter- Pyne, Major and Mrs. Stewart port team, will attend the practice and Mrs and Miss Denison: matches. The first is to be held Language Examination Result to morrow, and, for the convent Master Gunner. H. T. Hyde, Lieut. P. B. Wiltshire, and ence of those who cannot attend R.G.A., qualified in Colloquial then, another will be held on Hindustani at an examination Sunday. Plague Treatment.
held on the 22nd April.
The use of smuke in preventing the outbreak of plague has evid- ently been attended with success in India. The town of Sargoaha, in the Shahpur District, has been systematically smoked with quite
Motor Driver Fined.
Missing, Umbrella.
Station Leave."
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THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD.
Dry-dock.
Smithy and Foundry.
10, Grand possca-
and
Before the Court. The main workshops, which Though the name on the hotel are fitted with electric overhead register is A. Poll, the charge travelling cranes up to 100 tons sheet contains a different one. - capacity, cover over five acres of At the Police Court, at one ground, and comprise boiler ocluck, to-day, the defendant was The history of the other im light machine shops, forge and ond charged as Auston Hauler, shops, erecting shope, heavy and brouglit before Mr O.D.Melbourne portant Dock Company of this smithies, iron and brass found-35, of Austria-Hungary, broker, Colony is less interesting to theries, coppersmiths' shop, etc. The of room No. general reader; indeed, in a sense, machine shops and boiler shop Hotel, with having in his
may be said to have no history, are mupplied with machines of sion, feloniously and knowingly, comparatively speaking, though it is one of the enterprises of turning out work of the largest impression of a ten dollar bank for the heaviest discription, capable a paper upon which there is the of so old a firm as Mesare Butter and heaviest class. The boiler note of the Nederlands Trading field and Swire, Taikoo Yard machinery is capable of dealing Society: with having in his pos itself is but a young institution. with plates 30ft. long, 13ft. wide, session, feloniously and know- just inside the Lyeemoon Pass, pairs and any other work of a is the impression of a five dollar The docks, which are situated and up to 2in. thick.. Boiler reingly, a paper upon which there were opened for general work in like nature can be carried out by bank note of the Chartered Bank Those who have followed the progress of the campaign on,
1908, building having commenced means of electric welding end of India; with having in his behalf of National Service in Britain cannot help having noticed that
in 1900. They occupy over fifty oxy-acetylene processes by ex- possession, A motor driver, employed at the Exile Garage, was fined $5, out with all the plant and machi-modern set of the former plant which there is the impression
acres and are equipped through perienced
feloniously a steady advance is being made: Up till within a comparatively
workmen, G most knowingly, B papor прод at the Police Court, this morning, recent period, the public was distinctly, apathetic on the matter.
for not having a light in the rear nery necessary for the most modern having been lately installed. of a ten dollar bank note of the Even among those who gave the subject phasing thought were not
lamp of the car, a night. and rapid construction and re-
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- few who regarded the exponents of the movement as misguided, encouraging results. The bint
pairs, as well as for overhauling panic-stricken alarmiste. But persistent pegging away, in season is worth attention by Hongkong. Department, left his umbrella on
Mr Tutcher, of the Forestry war, or other, ships. The work, The forge and smithy, in addition ng Corporation, contrary to seo- as our readers are aware, is carried small-power haminera for ordinary 4-1805. He was farther charg tion 19 sub-section 3 Orduance and out, has now caused public opinion to veer round to the other But there is this great difference one of the seats in the Botanical on under the immediate super- to the emithy purposes, are suped with being in possession of view point. The movement has, thanks to the unflagging zeal dis- in the two cases to be considered. Gardens yesterday, for a moment, vision of a very large staff of plied with a gas forging furnace.
"The people gave great aid and when he went for it he found Europeans.
and an 800-ton. hydraulio forge revolver and sixteen rounds played by Lord Roberts and others, gathered fresh impotus as it has
of ammunition, without permis in clearing their houses," weit was missing.
ing press, capable of dealing with. progressed; and to-day it commands, not solicits, attention and con- read, "and in pointing out rat
work up to 3ft. in diameter. The Bion from the Captain Supermt Bideration.
holes themselves.” Contrast that Station leave has been granted
The granite dry-dock, con- foundry is fitted with the Intest endent of Police, attitude with that of the Chinese to Captain R. T. K. Hodge, 2nd structed to British Admiralty type of cupolas, and is capable fendant admitting possession No ovidence was takou, de- Further point to the importance and urgency of this question of here, and the task facing the local Bn., D.C.L.I., from 25th to 29th requirements, is most conveniently of turning out castings up-to of the papers and the national defence was given by the noteworthy debate which took authorities is clearly one of grea-April; also to Lieutenant D. placed for the full and free man about 15 tons. There is a well-
tho evolver and ammunition. Ee place in the House of Lords on Monday. But the chief spokesman tor magnitudo. Only two days Sneyd, 24th (Hazara) Mountain urring of ships prior to dock equipped plumbers' shop, also said he had a permit for the for the Government-Lord Haldane-was in no sympathetic mood. at the Police Cours. Mr. Battery, from 23rd to 28th April, ing, being well clear of any con- sheet iron shop for making vent
Tratman spoke of the difficulty
revolver but not here (Hongkong). Quite the reverse; he was lippant, sarcastic and obstinate. The of getting house-owners to face
gestion of shipping in the har-ilators and other light work The following is an extract from bour, and having an entrance free The galvanizing shop is fitted the 20th inst, at 2.15 p.m.
The case was remanded until attitude of the Opposition, on the other hand, was above reproach. the duty of limewashing, and he the "London Gazette," dated from all strong currents, Its with two baths, one capable Lord Middleton, himself a former Secretary of Stato for War; said that limewashing was two 25th March-Notice is hereby dimensions are: 787ft. extreme of galvanizing plate up to 20ft.
or three months in arrears. appealed to the Government not to treat the question as a party few healthy fines would probably will be celebrated in London, and 750ft. width at coping 77ft. 8in. doing general work. The saw Agiven that the King's Birthday length, 750ft. on the blocks, long, and a smaller bath for
Fourteen gamblers wore brought matter; while Lord Curzon contributed an eminently worthy see a spurt made, but, even grant at all stations, both at Home and width at bottom, 88ft.width of mill is equipped with one of before Mr Hazeland, at the Polica suggestion, that both sides should join hands in solving the probleming that, it is clear that the abroad, on Tuesday the 3rd June entrance at top, 81ft. 10in. Ransome's horizontal log band Court, this morning, from West It is a hopeful sign that this idea of a joint conference of the leaders difficult task at best,
authorities hore are faced with a next.
width of entrance at bottom, saws, and also with a rack benoh Point. The first defendant was fined $50 and the remainder $3 Garrison Recreation Club. 34ft. of both parties has been so well received in the Lobby, for there China and Christianity.
6in. depth of water circular saw, and oan handle loga each. Captain T. A. Robertson, over centre of sill at h.w.o.s.t., up to 60ft. or 70ft. long. The
Cutting Flowers. cannot be the least shadow of doubt but that party political feelings Is not the Bishop of London A.O.D., has taken over the duties and 31ft. depth of water over machinery in the wood-working
A house boy who was caught have in the past stood in the way of a fair and full consideration of just the least little bit sanguine, of honorary secretary of the Gar-sides of sill at h.w.o.e.t. The cen- department is all of the latest cutting flowers near the gates of
and over-ready to jump to con- rison Recreation Club from tre of the sill is 4ft. above the pattern, both American and Mountain Lodge, without permis questions affecting national defence. We do not say that any, one clusions, where China's sudden Lieutenant H. G. Paris. R.G.A. bottom of the dock. The caisson British machinery. All classes of party has been solely to blame for this; both the leading parties in zoal for Christianity is concerned? A meeting of the club will be held is of the now box sliding type, electric light installation and Men, was anod $3, by Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, the State have misused their opportunities. In a recent speech Lord We have heard experienced and at the Ordnance Office at 2 p.m. weighs 400 tons, is electrically dynamo repairs for ships, sto, this morning. Roberts uttered these words:-"I consider both parties equally to bonest mission clergy speak with on Monday next.
driven, and can be hauled aorons are dealt with in * specially blame. The Unionist party is as much to biome as the others. of the Chinese conversions, but we anything but enthusiasm of many
the sill to its chamber in 5 equipped electrical department. False Pretences Charge at The steward of the 8.8. Seneg minutes. The dock can be filled Ordinary repair work comprises They had the lesson of the South Attican War in front of them, and have never heard that (e.g.)Sun Yat ambia has reported to the police in 45 minutes, and the pumping the docking and overhauling of the matter was brought home to them by two Royal Commissions. san's Presbyterianiem helped in that whilst on the high seas be- plant consist of two powerful cen- many types of vessels ranging Mr. W. A. Wheeler, of Genz They took no notice of the state of affairs, and that was the origin of any way to increase the confidence tween Shanghai and Hongkong, trifugal pumps, which are to- from the coaster and river boat. Wheeler nad Oo.; on a charge of all that is going on now. And the Liberal Government is no better" reposed in him, whether by his someone took from his cupboard, gother capable of pumping out
obtaining money by falso pre- fellow-countrymen or by those the sum of $122. The cupboard the dook without any vessel in it, Of a few thousand tons to liners tences by the sale of the auto- These are the words of a man who is in dead earnest and who knows Europeans who know anything was opened by his own key which and with 34ft. 6in. depth of water of 37,000 tons. Gunboats of koitting machine, was post full well what he is talking about,
about the East. When the young was hanging in his cabin. on the sill, in less than three various nationalities have also en-poned till the 18th instant at 10 Chinese party have grasped, and Children Entertained.
hours.
trusted their work to the Taikoo a.m. One of Rautor's messages says that if a middle way between the put into practice, the quite Mrs Messer, the wife of the
Dockyard. Building, up to the Singapore Legislative Council. existing conditions and conscription can be found, there are many elementary features of Chris Captain Superintendent of Police,
Slipways.
present, has comprised various Last Friday's Orders of the Bupportera of the Government who would be relieved. Not of the tianty: simple honesty, mercy and has been entertaining the wives No. 1 slipway-1,030 ft. long vessels, including a light draught Day inoluded third reading of the Government alone, we imagine. Such a solution, we believe, if it morality, it will be time enough to and families of the members of by. 80 ft. wide, length of cradle river steamer 250ft. long, and Bettings Ordinance, Merchandize could be resohed, would make a strong appeal to the country as a congratulate them on their con- the Police Force, at her residence 250 ft. is capable of taking up several coasters from 160it. to Marks, Infectious Diseases, and whole and meet with a generous response. If, however, the question to matter very little whether they Tuesday. It will be Saturday be 18 ft., and of 8,000 tons displace engines of the above vessels were Arms and Explosives
version; bat, until then, it seems at Tai Ping, in parties since steamers 300 ft. long, drawing 260ft, in length. The boilers and Municipal Bill; Committee on the cannot be disposed of in this way, there remains only one safe call themselves Catholics, Bap fore the parties finish. The chil- ment. Such a vessel can be also built on the premises, and a motion to transfer the purchase alternative. That is plain, undisguised conscription. And nothing tists or Buddhists; Holy Rol-dren have a gay time, playing hauled up in about 45 minutes, large business is done in building price of the Singapore Hailmay is to bo gained by blinking the obvious faut.
lers," Christians, or nothing at all, games of all kinds,
and smaller steamers in propor. boilers both for logal require 84,147,000 to loan account,
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