GENERAL NEWS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 8. 1918..
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. would be able to go out at night
A meeting of the Legislative Council was bell yes'erday after
*The Price of Soap.
For some time 'pint manufac-acon. turers have to face the i- The Hon. Attorney-General oreased cost of the ingredients of moved the resolution approving
The solutim of the problem the Supplementary Sobedule t has now been found, by joiu sctions Final Revision Ordinones on the part of certain of the large wholesale, firme, are about to advance prices to ret tilers. The aivance, it is believed, will he
about 5, a cut The rise in the
The Power of the Rifle, Edward Marsh, a cowman,
Death of Mrs, S. C. Angler.
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founder of that juisi,
it
1912.
In doing so the Hon. Attorney General said that this was the iset stage but one in the matter of the nan vaing ordir ance of 1912 provided the til in the course of correcting, the editor found there were corrections which should be
The resolution was carried." The Hn Attorney General, over the cond reading of the bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Regulation of Chin
Ordium.cr, 1888.
and at any time, wherea Lat pres- |ent "unloer' they had a "special permit they could rot go out at night. It was hoped in this way to get rid of a lot of unnecessary labour and to obtain a better control of fishing junke than has hitherto obtained.
The council then went into ecmmittee on the bill and on emerging therefrom it was read a third time and passed.
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The committee stage was then taken on the bill en ided "An ordinance to provide for the re- gistration and supervision of
ORAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the price of ingredients during the
certain schools."
Dealing with clause two, which | Peak to let; fine situation; 8 past few months has been chiefly
AS a defining clause the Hon. rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. Attorney
One Godown, Duddell Street. General said it was pro in pilm and coconut oil, end to a mace, be could prepare a supposed in that clause and in the
FOR SALE-HARTING and smaller degree in cotton oil, tall-plementary schedule whiob, on other, succeeding clauses to delete
fland Lot No. 1154. ow, &o. The tendencey is still in being approved by the Legislativo the word Registrar "Reg-
FOR SALE LADBROKE." throughout, No. 9 Conduit Road.. Fine View en upward dircetion. Is the coap Council, should become effective. istrar of Schools" trate the informe liste wholesaler A large tumber of corrections and make the tile Director of of harbour, & Rooms, 3 Bathrooms,
| Education."
Garden ard Tennis Court: Ag- has not much place, ra markers were discovered to be necessary,
The alteration was agreed to. comodations for 30 Servants. In connection with clause now for the most part.deal discotad it was proposed that these
should be approved. After this, three the Hon. Attorney Gen- with the smallest retailers. the only other thing would be to
tuke s resolution approving the oral said that some apprehen- alon appeared to have been and then the of revised edit on,
matter would be completed. expressed as to what schools Kingfield Farm, Woking, we When the now edition was finally would be exempted altogether. A list would shortly be published 'killed' by a rifle bullet while at approved there was Do doubt
in the Gazette of the schools work in a field. Edgar William would be of great utility Shipton, of Mnwen-tow, Wok- ing, a county councillor and Liberal registration agent, stated at the inquest alot won bis an returned from Bisley, he had in
chedule had been made out, and cartridge left. his wife s la doing so the Hon. Attorney was replied to in the negative.) nervous of firenrius witness fi ed. General Rid this was a very. The Hon. member then noked the entridge int an eller trees bill and was introduced (if it would not be better to pub- 18ia, in diameter at the bottom of with the inter tion of simplifying ish the schedule before the pas his lawn. The bullet went right the present practice under which aing of the bill. through the tank. They beard regista on of houses and house. The Hon. Attorney did not no cry, and had no idea that any-holdera was conducted. It was agree and the Hon, member then thing had happened until a visit hought that in the past a god pointed out that in the case of the from the police 90 minutes later. deal of unreadiness to carry out Rocieties' ordinance it was done. Two meadows and sa osier bed the provisions of the law a His Excellency the Governor. intervened between the place from the fact that certain fo said that this was a measure where the witness was and the were charged. It was proposed which required special organi place where March was working to do away with those fees ro itation, no organisation which The jury returned a verdict of the whole mat'er became practi- would not be ready until next.
The gravity of dysentery, which Death by misadventure.". cally free. In those circunt rear. Some of the approbensions is often so rapidly fatal, cannot stances there could, be no reason that had been expressed were be exaggerated.. Hence this The London and China Exable excuse for not carrying out so childish that they were article, which is published in the
the the provisions of the law, and at hardly worthy of consideratin best interests of the community. that annoni ces press
While at the first onset of death took place at Streatham the same time it was proposed Some people scomed to think
penalties for car that the director might take diarrhea averyone should consult Hill, London, S.W., on 5th t., that the of Mire, 8.0.. Angier, widow o ravenion of the o ditance should it into his head that the questi in his doctor, that the disease may the late Fredk. J. Angier, formerly be increased. That only seemed of religion should not be onbe nipped in the bul, he ebould of flongkorg and Canton and Datural because if they did away couraged. He had only been spremember that the arme treat-
Mes with the obligations, it was only proached from one quarter and Angier, who was in her 83rd year, natural to impose somewhat the only apprehension. he had meat which will build up his strength to overcome the disease had only been ill for a few weeks, heavier penalties. The alterations offered him was that some ago will also prevent him getting it. a stroke of paralysis following len were very small but they might to director of Education might Dysentery is eminently a ques days after auccessful operation effect a substantial improvement make an, onslaught on Christsition of nutrition. Hence, a food to purchase glasses upon which for cataract, Though Mrs. Angier There was going to be a greater schools. was only resident in Hongkongfort made to see that the provi- absurd. And Canton for two years, it was one of the law were carried out,
8 closer system of supervi-and during the eventful period round by **1856, including the capture of in
Canton by the British forces, the The council then went, info artenio prisoning by the baker committee on the bill which on
The returns compiled by Lloyd's Ah Lam at Hongkeng, and other emerging from that stage was read
Register of Shipping, which only incidents of the time. The late a third time and passed. Mrs. Angier was the mother of The Attorney General moved take into account vessels, the con- five 8728 and two duagh are, of the second reading of the Billen-struction of which has actually have endorsed Sadatogen as the Note whom three sons and two daugh-titled, "An Ordinance to amend begun, show that, oxcluding war greatest revitalising and rein
the Merchant Shipping Ordin-ships, there 543 vessels of 2,003-vigorating preparation for fortify- ters survive to mourn her loss,
241 tons gross under construction ing the system againgt infection. Tho Only European ance, 1899."
In doing so he said that this in the United Kingdom at the
If, however, dysentery has been optician in D'Agullar St. Apparently there is no obstacle
Telophone 1292. too diffi ut for the cinematograph was rather an interesting bill close of the quarter ended. June contracted, the statement of Mr. film manufacturer to surmount, though it was extremely short. 30. The tonnage now under coa Arthur R. Thorburn (The Mission and now the Battle of Waterloop to the present time all fishing struction is 60,000 less than that House, Singapore) shows the best bus been re-fuught before the boats had to have a permit and which was in band at the end of chance of speedy recovery. Mr. camera. The pictures, which were special permit was issued month last quarter, but exceeds by about Thorburn writes: My wife shown for the first time at ally. Now, roughly, some 50,000 of 220,000 tons the tonnage building has for the last sixteen weeks. private performbrice at the Pal- these permits were issued yearly in June 1912. Of the total ship- been suffering actuely from ladium are remarkable in more and members could understand building figures, 457,117 tons are dysentery, caught on one of our
that the laboar of issuing them was being constructed at Glasgow local steamers coming down the District of Kowloon, and Supplies warga thin one. Not only pre
remendous. Under thisordinance 360,800 at Relfart, 312,620 at Malay Peninsula. From the very us daily with the Chalcest they a triumph of etige-manage it was proposed that instead of Newcastle, 303,933 at Greenock, first she has taken Sanatogen, POULTRY meat but they show that ibe monthly permit attached to and 238.000 at Sunderland. The with this happy result, that, nowadaye, the British film man- ufacturer is recovering, with rapid fishing janke that should be con- United Kingdom owns 302 of the instead of being, strides, much of the ground lost solidated, with the general permit vessels under constraction, with are to foreign competitors in the early and issued annually. It would a tonnage of 1,533,970, the largest woke days of the ass industry, when, not then form a special permit hut foreign customere being Holland; tery, a helpless invalid, she is and the Poultry of EUROPEAN one is inclined to think, its pos- would be one of the conditions with 11 of 114,820 tona, Japan has bright and cheerful, and Lez STOCK. Try Our Delicious
been largely were attached to the four vessals of 20,070 gross tons be strength has sibilities were not thoroughly which grasper in England. The British general licence which junke bad ing built in Britian and China maintained. She has had
During the and Colonial Kinematograph to bavo. It might be said that if one of 560 tons. Company (Limited), who were they only have an annual licouco quarter 179 vesaola were com- responsible for the prodaction, they would lose control over the mended and 186 launched. have shown that the English janka. That had been got rid of appears that in the Royal dock- manufacturer can present a spect this way. The trading. junks yards 14 warships are being Boular film with quite as much whenever they came into the constructed, with a tonnage of success as his Continental rival, colony had to have their license 132,190, while private yards aro
The Second Sighten's daughter; Some idea of the magnitude of endorsed; they had got to have building 57 (including 34 des-
By Maurico Leblano, si By G: Bi Burgin the re-fought battle is given by their entry into the waters troyers), of 273,149 tons, for the The Crystal Stopper,
The Woolags of Jezebel Pettylor; the fact that 2,000 min, 1,000 of the colony endorsed upon British Government, and 17, of
By Marie C. Leighton,
By Haldane Maofali, horses and 50 cannon were the licence or in the book which, 129,1300, for foreign owners. Ducks & Drakes,
table of foreign and brought into solion rot on the they carried and which was, as it The historic field, but in the open were, a pass book. It was pro Colonial shipbuilding (war Averno, By Bertram Mitford, Carnacki, By WH. Hodgson. By E. Duff Fyfe, ountry neer Nerthampton. If posed to do the same with the ships excluded) shows that 11 Margaret Dent, colour, however, it is redeemed book and when they came in they gross tons, and two sailing ship there is anything lacking in local fishing janke. They had a little steam vessel aggregating 8,504 would have the fact of the entry of 288 tone, are under construc by the vigorous and realistic man- ner in which the actors have gone made in the book in the same tion. at Hongkong, and two about their work. The is nothing way as all other junks. In that steamships totalling 343 tona at half-hearted in the methods of the way a complete knowledge would Shanghai, whilst for Japan the Foldiery, and after seeing the be available of where the junke figures are as follow: Kobe and hand to hand fighting and the war, what it was, and what it did. Oako, 6 steam vessels of 15,100 impetuous dashes scross streems The advantage to the Gabing pso-tons, and Nagasaki,of, QUEEN'S DISPENSARY,
Waterloo Re-Fought,
That was somewhat The bill was read a third time
passed... Council was adj u-ned sine die.
Shipbuilding Figures. '
and open count y one marvels ple would be enormous. There tons, making total for that that no list of casualties hem teen was no difference in the fee pountry of 10 steamera of 68,884
but with the yearly licence they gross fons, published. The "Times
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