THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH," TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913,
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SANITARY BOARD.
POLO GYMKHANA,
· No 2 Wa On Leno Sir With reference to the The man who can't put fre The Conservancy Question Again. at lie instance of your depart Building Nuisance rotice a Vep
A Capital Evening's Sport.. into his speeches ahuld put his
A mesting of the Sauty cubicles in the above i us, wo ment with rospect. to. illegal, As far back du spesches into the fire.
There was a very good at cu Board was held the afternoon, shall be obliged it, you will dance at the Racecourse las even- who following busines was inform us whether it is the ing, to witness the Polo Gym- discuss
intention of the Board to issue khans, and among those who
The Malls.
French Mail. Left per 88.
Magellan at 1 pm, to-day," American and Siberian Mails.-
Close per 88. Empress of India at 11 a m. to-morrow. Australian Mail - aloess per
Kumaão Marn at 20 a.m. "to-vancy Contract :-"
morrow.
most of us can remember, the present dosiga has been thonght good enough, and the idea of a covering sheet in colours must neceseuilly suggest something in the way of a weak concession to modern vulgarity. But the whale tendency nowadays seeme towerds continentalising art, literature and the press, and tho more conservative of us must re-Siberian signedly bow the head. But at least let us hope that the pro- prietors will stop at a coloured cover and not seek to convert
laws were passed which govern that the Board does not feel called the conditions of the upon to give the information. "Punob into, a eart of mongrel
Contract Thore difficulties' Mr. Chua Kai-ming: I agree between Simplicicamus and
ara all connected with with Mr. Bowley. Le Rire by giving it
Mr Chapman, Commandant of the sections which brought Col. Youuna-I conoor coloured interior. Punch the Hongkong Volunteers, re- Kowkcon City, Shamshuipo, and the above.
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or was, essentially Brit ish; a trille beary at times but nevertheless suitable to the British mental palate. We wonder what it will be like in the future. All we know is that when the Brit- isher forsakes what is natural to him and tries to ape other nation- alities he does not shine.
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A Well-merited Honour.
Hongkong folk who remember Sir Patrick Manson will road with pleasure the news, in yesterday's Telegraph, of his having been hon-
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Mail.-Closes per ... "China at 5 p.m. to-morrow
Returned to the Colony, Mr A. J. Mackie returned the Colony yesterday by the Syria.
Mr. Chapman Returns.
to
turned to the colony from leavo to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Apcar Arrive.
Mr A. V. Apeir returned to the Colony to-day with his bride. He went to Singapore about a fort- night ago and was there married.
Mr Nolan Returns,
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Type Reported Stolen.
Since the letting of this con- tract certain difliculties have come into prominence which had, I think, not tean fully considered by the Board when the new bye-
We have the honour to be,eir, Your obedient servants,
Palmer and Turner' Mr. F.B.L. Bowley:--Lsuggest
A minute by the Head of the these notices through the Build sujoyed a capital evening's sport Sanitary Department was reading Authority with respect to all were:-
Mr and Mrs Maitland, and the relative to the Kowloon Conser illegal cubicles sbroughout the two Misses Gordon, Mr and Mira
the colony.
F. C. Jenkin, Sir Wm. and Lady Rees Davies, Mr H. P. Whi's, Mr Soares, Mr L. d'Almada & Castro, Mr H. J. Nesbit, Mr Hayward. Mr G. D." Melbourne, MM. Liebert, (French Consul) and Miles. Liebert (2), Dr Allen, Dr Coleman, Mr Stewart, Mr Hast inge, Mr Ellis Kadoorie, Mr G. K. Hall Bratton, Mr D. Lewis, Mr R. F. O. Master, Mr 8. Beth, Mr Leiria (Portugese Consal) Mr
I. E Gresson, Dr MoKenny, and many others. The band of the D. C. L.. I, through the kindness of Major Dickinson and the officers, was in a attendance and, under the leadership of Pandmaster W.T.Roberts, played the following programme:
other outlying villages into the list of place, the excreta from which have to be removed out of
the colony by the contracter.
Or
!.
THE SITUATION IN CANTON.
with
Lung's Soldiers getting out of Hand.
1.-Spanish March, "Gallito," Horvas.
2 Idyll, "The Land of Dreams," Drill.
3. Selection, "The Pink Lady," Caryll.
4-Valse, "Brume," Krier, 5.-Intermezzo, "Rendezvous,"
Aletter.
H. F. Hickman.
1.-Major Dickinson and Mr Me- 2-Captain Spicer and Mr J. H..
Michael.
Bradney. 3.-Mr R. F. C. Master and Mr
Parl Mutuel. Winner 8103.50 Cash Sweeps 1st $72.45 2nd 20.70 3rd 10.35 Commission, 1160
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In de il the difficulties are:- (1) at in the winter. some Sergeant Watt's Recovery. ninety rar.cant. of all cultivable Sergeant Wait of the finger-land south of the dividing line print department of the Hongkong from Kowloon City to Hok Un Police, bas now recovered from Kok and from Sham Shin Po Mong his serious illness and he is now Kok is own with vegetables proceading to Japan to recupeste. which are alwage watered with
No further newe is yet to hand An old Friend Goes, “ (human) excretal fluid. To the Another old tree has disappear summer the percentage is oduned to the Fastion or fate of the oured with a presentation at the ed from the strests of the Colony, somewhat, becaues, padi is plant police oficials whom we mention- et yesterday as being under. great International Medical Con-one opposite the offices of the ed in the beter lands but the gress. The man who, for fifty Nederlandsch
Handel Mante-ares so cultivated in still very as that, the soldiers of General arrest. The latest reliable report
6.Selection, "The Chocolate. years, bas laboured in the cause chappj being felled this morning. extensive. of Tropical Medicine has a record.
Lang are getting more and more Soldier," Strauss, Organ Recitals.
Chineso vegetable gardanetatt of hand, and sinister stories, It is expected that Mr Denman must
7-A Veil Dance, of which he may well be proud,
either 96 thee told as to their forcibly eater- Beauty" Finck."
Mystio and it is something for Hongkong Fuller's series of monthly organ Baids
cense cultiva ing houses and violating women 8. Two Step, "The Police- to plume itself on that so great recitals in the Cathedral will ting cause they know no man should have gained much commence next month, and con- other fertiliser which will pretorney General, Wong Shiu-kwei,
It is announced that the At man's Holiday," Ewing. of his experience in this little tinue throughout the winter,
Good Save The King. duce the same fecundity If, bas tren dismissed from his post, The results were as follow Colony. Dr. Manson came
Returned from Holiday, therefore, we cut off the supply Me Wong is a young man of very Tent Pegging in Pairs one com- to Hongkong after having Mr and Mrs A, Seth returned of human excreta from there considerable strainments, who petitor with lance, the other with established for himself a fine to the Colony to day by the Kamo lande we shall deprive a large was educated at Blundell's School Sword; 2 ruas:→→ professional reputation, first in Matu after a long holiday in number of people, many of whom and at Oxford. He is the son of Formoss and then in Amoy, and England. Mr Sath was at one are desperately pcar, of their proceeded to build up the practice time the Registrar of the Supreme means of livelihood And what since his appointment to the At a wealthy Straits Ühinese, and, now carried on by Drs. Stedman, Court.
will be the benefit' that the com-
torney Generalship, bas done Harston, Marriott, Black and
munity will derive from their mach towards a greatly needed Labb; (his immediate successor Mr. P. Nolan, the first Supreme lose? We shall certainly not overhauling of the Provincial
purify the vegetable supply of ti al colony. The lote of this source · law of supply will merely increase An English geatleman who ar the supply of contaminated" rived last night from Canton states vegetables from other places in that, the Europeans on the Sba- vegetables in question may well the killing of Chan King-wab eluding theCanton delta where the meen stili refues to believe that have been watered with the very bad anything to do with his be exorets we have so carefully ex ing a member of the Kuc- cluded from our own lande. And mingtang or with his having
have been levelled and surround- but ascribe it to private "grudge. ed with hedges and banks and A story .is current A tailor of 88 Queen's Road many of them are low lying. If, the Shameen to the effect that
(Owner) Central, has reported to the po therefore, they are put out of one of Mr. Chan's alleged offences Mr. ·V. Davies' Slash," lice that some person has stolen coltivation they will, in parts at was that, during the period of during the month, from his any rate, become mosquito-breed- anarchy following on the abdic Sir Patrick's name must ever cabicle, eight pieces of clothing ing swamps. I believe this setually ation of Chan Kwing-ming, he Mr. J. H. Bradney's Ginger, The problem of Ireland grows more serious with every passing be most intimately associated valued at $70,
happened with a piece of land appealed to the British Govern- 1011b hour. Telegramus received within the past few days show that the with the study of the mosquito; The Long Vacation. somewhere near the present sitement to intervene. mon of Ulster mean business and are preparing, curafully and de-portant work. He was one of the Supreme Court commenced on station. (2). As regards the prac.dies
in this direction lay his most im- The long Vacation for the of the Kowloon disinfecting
(Owner) 3 Mr. L. C. Heygate's Ben liberately, for the worst. Ollicers of standing have been persuaded first to study this insect long be- Saturday and will last until Octo-tical side of the question the Oantoners fired crackers in rejic Captain Connolly's. Nobby, Our. informant strongly Trovato, 175lb, 71b over
the story that the into lending their aid to the volunteer movement in Ulster, and, fore he came to Hongkong, In ber 17. During the vacation the
(Owner) except the Government is prepared to yield quite a deal of ground, practical tests and experiments, be open every day excepting bitter that only a strong force of oracker-firing there was, took
Amoy he proved to the world, by offices of the Supreme Court will population is so persistent and so ing over Mir Chan's death. What 168lb
opposition from the agricultural there seeme no likelihood of avoiding a fratricidal war. That it that elephantiasis was transmitted public holidays and Sundays from police incessantly harrying them place on account of the Moon Captain C. V. de G. Edye's (Owner) would be of short duration matters nothing, it would is a rainous from man to man by the mosquito. 10 am, until 1 p.m.
could ensure the removal of the Restival. A semi-private circnlar war for Britain. The pity of it is that nothing more seзms to have By this means he gained his first Harbour Collision.
ja said to have been issued, urg publio recognition, which took The mis'reas of a Harbour boût) been heard of Lord Loreburn's eleventh hour proposal that the the form of an L.L.D. It was reports to the Water Police that boats. Even if we are pre-ing the desirability of oracker. Mr. R. I. Fearon's Spinaway, problem of Ireland be settled by content at a conference of party Manzon too who enggeated to whilst rowing off Wanchai, the pared to ignore the misery firing, but this was ignored.... 175lb, 7lb overdue leaders. That such a serious problem could I finally settled by a Ross that he would find the steam launch Glacis collided with we could hardly ask the polica to that such harrying would cause
(Owner) Mr. P. Crighton's Liebesang, conference is doubtfu!, but at least something like a compromise transmission of malaria. The all the crew into the water. The As a matter of fact I am convine. mosquito responsible for the and overturned the boat, throwing give the requisite time and men.
16816 might be effected; and, at worst, more good would result from such latter, after two years of labour in members of the crew were picked ed that the oply-real-reault of an -a-meeting-of-leaders, at which the whole issue could tá fully dis, this direction, gave the result of up by the launch people. Damage attempt to enforce the law would
cussed, than from the passion-raising campaign which has been his patient work, (dissecting the to the extent of $50. was done. pursued of late by both sides, and, it is regrettable to say, mainly mosquitoes) to the medical world, atomagli-lining of hundreds ol by Unionist leaders who should know better.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913.
THE PROBLEM OF IRELAND.
was Dr. Cantlie). What bis re. Court interpreter, who has been searches have done towards mikat home for the last eighteen ing life in the Tropics possible months has left home by the 8.8. for the rising and future genera- Nubia and is expected to arrive tions, is more than can be told in in the Colony da October 17. small compass; more perhaps, A compositor from the Town 'an Yat Po; has leported to the police that some person has stol- an 250 lbs. of lead ebeeting and $150.
than will ever be known, for, as
may be seen from the tone of his speech which we printed yester. dar, his essential modesty will getting fl credit for his share in the great battle against Tro- pical disease.
!
· Total, $115.00", Event 2-4.45 p.m.-Polo Scurry 2 furlongs. Catch weights,
168 lbs.
have stood in the way of his ever/258 lbs. of lead type, valued at not only 80, for all tusse Inndal committed any particular offence, Mr. E. H. MacMichael's Cat's
Sir Patrick and Mosquitoes.
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STOLEN SATIN.
The Tailor's Loss.
Notice to Mariners.
in the
excrets to the
conservancy
Eye, 1681b 00
.
1881b
108lb
(Owner) 2
A NARROW ESCAPE
(Mr. Gressor) Mr B. K. O. Pope's Birling-
ham, 16816.
(Ондег)
be that the cultivator would have Attack by a Chinese Bull on a to pay more for his manure, and
Well-known Resident. the consumer more for his
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Pari Mutuel
Ticket No. 92
1st 129.16
82
2nd: 36.90 7. 3rd 18.45 Commission 20,50)
Mr T. E. Bisdea's Billikin, and then we all knew that the
1891b, lb over. Lord Loreburn's letter was in itself a public confession that the beast, be he never so tiny.
"Anopheles" was a dangerous-North Channel extrance to the tor has practically admitted that Sanitary Department bullock be
China Sea-Shanghai District, vegetables. Indeed the contrac We have been informed that
(Owner) 0 Birlingham, after delaying the policy of the Government will form no permanent solution of the
Yangize.Tsungming Crossing he would have let the excreta ga come unmanageable yesterday the lead and maintained it until start, was left. Cat's Eye teok Irish question and a proof that there are Liberal leaders who re-
Alteration in Buoyage-Notice back to the local fields, provided whilst on Seymour Road. It finish, dispite the desperate cognise this. How many other Liberal statesmen agres with him,
is given that, inconse. of course, he were suitably paid. broke away, and, in the coures of challenge of Blush, winning by a quence of changea
It view of these objections it its mad wanderings, a wellknown length and a half. Siz lengths no one outside the Cabinet can esy; but there is ground for believing
Obanuel across the Trungning has been thought best that the local gentlemen residing at the Separated second and, third. that there are more than one or two. The Times has told us that At the Police Coart this Binks,, the following alterations provisions of the bye-laws should Peak had to go through a most the members of the Cabinet are seriously disturbed at the prospect morning, Inspector
Gerrard in buoyage have been made not be rigidly enforced for the thrilling adventure. Walking Cash Sweep:
$11.80 which faces them, and this need not be wondered at. If the Bill is charged a Chinese with stealing The First Crossing Buoy bae present and that the contractor peacefully down from his home to paased into law there is every promise of serious trouble in Uler bay thirty-six packages of satin which Damb Beacon bear: N. 74 loss of this expected source of
from a wrecked jank in Yaumati been shifted to a position from should be compensated for the his office in Connaught Road he of open conflict, in fact. If, again, the Bill is oven yet reject id, thread, and saven rolls of satin, 75 E, and is distant 3.65 miles, revenue, by a reduction in the ball which evidently had got was suddenly attacked by the there is prospect, amounting almost to certainty, of just as serious valued at $98.40. A sentence The Buoy is now moored in 17 amount of his monthly payments away from the man in charge trouble from the other side. That is the situation which the of four months' imprisonment and feet of water at low water of spring to Groverement. Liberal Government is called upon to face, and there is no room for four hours' stocks, was passed. tides and retains its former
However, the gentleman in Mr Obin Kai Ming-I agree question could not get ont A similar sentence was passed characteristics. The Second Cross with the H.S. D.
of the way quickly enough Ladies Nomination. -Bound two It is true, of course, that all this is the outcome of the Govera-yesterday for stealing fifty-two shifted to a position from which what distances is it proposed that and from latest enquiries we are
on a man at the Police Court, ing Gas-lighted Buoy has been
Mr F. L B. Bowley-Within to save himself from being tossed ment's having sold itself to the Nationalists long since. It is true pieces of white summer ol:thing, Dumb Beacon bebra N. 80. 10. the bye-laws should not be en glad to state his nervous system Mr that something like this was prophesied many months ago, But nothing is to be gained by harking book, upon what is put and eight-yfive pieces of Chinese and is distant 2.0 miles. The forced?
only sustained a shcok without gone, and by opening, old wounds. The past is done with; the pre-packets of Chinese coloured water at low water of spring tides with the H. S. D. but I think that know Chinese bulls and therefore Mr
and eighty Buoy is now moored in 10 feet of ...satio, Bent, and the future, which are the unhappy offspring of that past, thread, valued at $617.80.
|· The M. O: H.:---I do not agree any further bodily harm. We are what concern politicians now. Surely it is not too late for a con-
and retains its former charroter the opinion of Dr Pearse, who is congratulate him on his narrow ference for conciliation. The Nationalists, it would appear, have
stics. The West Spit Gas-lighted Baoy has been shifted to a post be recorded here.
in charge of Kowloon, should Говсаре. shown a somewhat conciliatory spirit of late, and they are etated to Trams For The Turks tion fom which Bridge Boncour
The bull also knocked down) Mr be prepared to go back on their original bargain and concede some Several sections of the now bears 8.80 W., and is distant 2.0 A minute by the president re- come persons whose addresses are thing. Are Ulster Unionists not prepared to concede something in electric tramway in Constan- miles. The Boy is now moored lative to a letter from Mesara Pal- not known. The animal ended, return? The circumstances are so grave that a strong effort abould tinople were opened to the public in 36 feet of water at low water mer and Turners Building be made, even at this time of day, to reach something like agree this month. The vehicles are smart of spring tides and retains its Authority notice was read ment on a matter of suoli vital import. Nothing could be lost in the and a source of lively interset to former characteristica. All bear- attempt and something would certainly be gained,
the general public,
· Linga given are maguetic,
doubt that it is greatly perturbed.
coloured
The letter was as follows: The secretary, Benitury Board
up ita capers by jumping into the larbour pear Murray Pier. Later it was got out little the wares for its experience
Total $205.00
posts and in, About 500 yards..
V. Davies Flying Kan-
H. KO. Pope's James, garoo, 1881b, Nominated by Miss Choroh (Owner) 1691b, nominated by Mim Hookyny Upper) R, I. Fearon's Plebeian, 175lb, 7lb over, nominat, ed by Mra Laylon
18016;1
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