"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1914.
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We have before now drawa |attention to several badly-lit spota in Hongkong. There is another which we will now indicate, in the hope that our observations will be heeded in the proper quarter. It is the pathway which leads along-AND SO MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU
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TRAFFIC TROUBLES.
Some Suggestions for the Good of the Colony.
. ⠀⠀⠀ (SPECIAL ARTICLE.).
COSTLY CELEBRATIONS.
Cracker Firing Ends in a Serious Blaze.
A fire broke out at six o'clock, this morning, at 134, Wing Lok One was glad to see by the Street West, the premises of the
OPIUM CONFISCATED.
Found on the s.s. Atreus....
Court, this morning, made au Mr. J. E. Wood, at the Falios order confiscating 20lbs. of opium. The drug was found concealed on
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The Weather.
the Government is at length dis- merobants, and damage to the Sergt. Pincott, and in the absence playing an intention of dealing extent of $10,000 was done. of an owner he male an applica with the traffic problem in Hong- The place is insured for $18,000 tion a month ago for confiscation.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 85kong.. It is a problem, and a very with Messre. Meyerink and Com- The magistrate refused the
At the Peak Sam. Temp.
The Malls.
77;
acute one, too-largely because pany.
application until notices had been The fire brigade under Mr. posted on the ship, on her return for year upon year it has been allowed to persist without the King (Deputy Superintendent trip, indicating the finding of the
arug.
after dusk, with the thick foliage 00 CHEERILY HOME TO-NIGHT. which marks the spot, is absolutely pitch-black. One of these nights somc-one might very well be attacked while walking dull, along this path, and if such were the case the aggressor would have fog.
least attempt at solution. Any of Police) attended, and managed no difficulty in getting away, as
body's business has become no-to prevent any further damage there is ample.
for American Mail-Duo per 6.8. body's and as the Colony has ex-being done. The fire is supposed the magistrate that his instruo Det. Sergt. Placatt reported to cover biding purposes. Then, perhaps, Aldenbam or China to-day.panded and become increasingly to have originated from the tione had been carried out, and the authorities will wake up to Siberian Mail.-Due per ..active, the confusion has corres-sparks of a forty-foot chain of the order was made. the fact that the place should be Chonan 10-morrow,
pondingly become accentuated, crackere which was exploded in properly illuminated. Far better English Mail.-Due per 8.8. We have very excellent and commemoration of the opening of if they forestall possible happen- Dalia to-morrow at 4 p.m.. greatly detailed traffic regulations new premiess. The sparks iguitad "WE LIKE YOUR LAVENDER WATER BETTER THAN ANY Ings of this kind, and at once French Mail-Olosed per s..as für as they go. They need a large quantity of crackers stor-|
proceed to see that the place is OTHER WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET IN ENGLAND. (Hecent properly lighted.
Atlantique to-day at 11a.m. amplifying in some respecte stilled on the second floor. Australien Mail-Closes per 8.8-especially so far as "the rule of Testimonial.)
Nikko Maru to-morrow at the road" gosh-but, such as they 11 0,m
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1914.
OIL FOR THE NAVY.
Public Health.
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Count the Columns.
Manila Visitor.
.
Major T. L Hartigan of Manila saying at the Hongkong Hotel.
.:
We notice that the Shanghai Health Officer has issued a list of
Yesterday the Telegraph warnings to the public as regarda pablished 37 colemas of solid measures to be taken for the reading matter. To-day there preservation of health. These are will be 34 published. as a rale, ebrewd and practical; but, without any wish to be captions, we would point out that there is a possibility of over is straining where maltera bygiene are concerned. Consider- ing how thoughtless the average perron in the Esat is, when it comes to taking rational precautions against disease, it is well that warnings should be
To-day, according to the published from time on each Chinese calender, is the Feast of subjects as mosquitoes, rate, Heavenly Gifts. spitting, the accumulation of refuse, etc.; but when one hás
to 800
Flood Relief Fund.
The Tang Wa Hospital Flood Relief Fund now totals $125,- 328,30,
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Chinese Festival.
Confidence Trick.
Bazaar Postponed.
Senor Dertcano's
a
Home."
MOTOR PROSECUTIONS.
The Question of Joy-Riding
Shanghal,
The Police, regulations with regard to joy-riding have under-. gone slight modification, says the Shanghai N.C. Daily News. The ban has been removed from
as they should be. This is more CONSULAR RECEPTION. especially the case in regard to rickebas and trucks, but may be, now that an Inspector of Traffic is to be appointed, we shall see a further revision of the regulations, and what is of even greater im- portance, a strict enforcement of Senor Derteauo, the Consul private and hired care used by the rules. -
General for Peru, was At Home foreigners after midnight, subject, The point occurs to the writer, to-day on the cocasion of the an- of course, to due respest being however, that the new intention niversary of the independence of paid to ordinary rules, and the of the Authorities might very Peru, 1821. To the outsider, Police will in futuro give special well be taken further than is Peru may seem to have bat little attention only to parties of Chin- apparently intended. I am told interest in this for distant Colony ese using hired care in the early that Singapore has given special but it is perhaps not generally hours of the morning. They will consideration to this qucation, known that, in the State of Peru be turned aside from Babbling and, though there is far more at the present moment, are well | Well, but will of course still be vehicular traffic there than here over fifty thousand Chinees, and at liberty to keep up the best one cannot help thinking that it, that, between these and the traditions of " joy-riding." in the would be to the Colony's advantage Hongkong native merchant, a French Concession.
to learn a lesson or two from our very brisk interoliange of After all that has been said. on Southern neighbour. In Sing-money is continually going on the subject, it does not appear At to-day's reception, H.E. the that there need be any prolonged
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
thrust under one's nose a tabulat- By the confiden's trick a trustspore, so I am told, there is s ed list of things that must not being Chinece has been relieved of special corps of Malays employed Governor and H.D. the General dispute between police and consumed beginning with "fruit, thre 3 rolla of cloth velaed solely to regulate the traffic, and Officer Commanding were repre-public. All that is required vegotables, salads, melons etc. $25.00.
at their head is a European sented by their aides docamp,while is that cars shall be driven at a which have not been cooked or
Inspector, with the rank of among the callers during the moderate speed, that motor horns sterilised," and ending with "fish Too Many Passengers, from June to October,"-one
At the Mstine Court, this Magistrate. Not only doce he morning were most of the local shall be sounded with due regard feels a little borod. Fancy having morning, a Chinese was fined generally supervise the trato. Consula, together with the heads to necessity and not as regard
caces of infringement of the in Hongkong.
that owners should moderate to tell the boy who waits on you $25 for carrying excess passants licences, etc., but all of the European business houses of advertising the "joy-ride," and at dinner, "Boy; catches me one gera on a launch.
regulations come before, and are
their ambition in the matter sterilised banana." Fanoy giving The Flood Faad Bazaar, which magisterial capacity, thus re- dealt with by, him in his
of brilliant head lights. One fish A miss from June to
imagines sometimes they feel it October! We
like was advertiesd to take place this lieving the ordinary Police Courts should
incumbent upon themselves to some of these over-afternoon, has been postponed of cases of this kind. Could not
illuminate a whole neighbour- particular souls condemned to a
until August 3.
such a scheme, or a similar one,
hood and not merely the hand-to-month existence in the
be made applicable to Hongkong? The Langkat output for Jane frant of their car which jungle for a month or two.
The writer thinks it might, and was 8,063 tons and the average is really all that is required. pats it forward in the hope that daily output was 288.76 tone: The question of beadlights is it will receive due, consideration Mesara Wright, and "Hornby being discussed by the Shang
advise as that the output for hai Automobile Club, and doubtless the word will be passed round that motor car owners will be doing the public a favour by economizing in the matter of headlights. Otherwise, the Police may find it necessary to frame another new regulation.
Dirty Money.
To Consignees. Consigness of cargo by the ss. Yorck are reminded that goods undelivered after to-morrow will be subject to rent.
Prize-Giving.
L
from the authozilies.
The appointment of a Traffic July is We published, yesterday, state- The annual prize-giving is to Inspector is a wise step, but, 1st July... ments by a doctor and a banker take place at the Kowloon British in view of the hopeless confusion 2nd in regard to the likelihood of Sohool on Friday at noon. His which now oharacterises our 3rd infection's being spread by Excellency the Governor will street scenes, it is not enough. 4th money passing from hand to distribute the awards. hand. London banks, we learn, are now taking the precaution to Lady May was "At Home to boil dirty coins in a specially callere as Mountain Lodge this prepared chemical solution, which afternoon, There was tennis, is supposed to do away and an enjoyable time was spent with dirt and risk of infee by the numerous gueste. If auch
The question of an adequate supply of oil for the vessels of the "British Navy in ons which has been receiving much considerationtian simultaneously,
At Home.
The Artful Coolie.
Absconded.
No one man can be expected to 5th restore order out of the present th chaoa; he will need the assistance 7th and co-operation of a specially- 8th detailed body of men and that 9th is what the Singapore scheme 10th would give him. Mention has been 11th made of the ricksha and truck 12th within the past few years. It is now recognised that coal will very we are not questioning the point police that a parcel coolie of be assumed that there are no 19th care is necessary at Home and It has been reported to the traffic in particular but it must not 13th largely have to give way to oil in supplying the motive power for how much more necessary is it Messrs. Whiteaway and Laidlaw's other phases which call for at-
15th our warships; hence the feverish anxiety which has been displayed in Hongkong, where risks of has eashed a compradora order tention. There are. And especi. 18th to secure a full and dependable supply of the commodity. The infection ara, even under the for $14, and has absconded. ally is it to be hoped that some 17th most important development in this connection for some time past best circumstances, infinitely
effort will be made to deal with 18th is the Anglo-Persian oil deal, by the conclusion of which the matter of boiling the coinage; wood Road has reported to the who shamble along the pavements 20th greater. We will pass over the A shopkeeper of 132, Holly- the hordes of Oriental pedestrians 19th Admiralty is convinced that our interests will be fully assured. but what about the condition of police that a caolio has absconded of our principal thoroughfares, 21st There has been considerable discussion at Home as to whether Hongkong notes? For thirty with $25.19 in money which he anyhow and everyhow, to the 22nd or not Persis is a suitable source from which the Navy in Home years the Telegraph has been com was told to pay to the Hang Fat general discomfort and annoyance 23rd waters should draw its supply of oil, but the point has been rather plaining of the filthy rage that Shop, Banham Strand.
of everybody but, themselves. 24th overlooked that our Home requirements, though naturally, most are allowed to circulate in this
There are our oycling friends, 2516 important of all, are not the only point to be considered. There is Colony, in the shape of one and
A shop coalie, of 134, Wing also, who would
ba no 28th the further question of the supply of the Overseas Fleets or equad- five-dollar bills, and yet little Lok Street West, has been sent worse for a little judicious 27 rona to take into account. We have at the present time cosling alteration seems to take place, to the hospital suffering from supervision. In the matter of stations all over the world, to which, in the past, Welsa coal has Surely a Government that is up burns received at a fire which ricksha trafic, Ice House Street been rent out and stored. In the course of time this coal is said to-date enough to previda for the broke out at the premises this might very well do with a special to lose some of its qualities, while, on the other hand, oil not only exhibition of mosquito larvae to morning. does not deteriorate, but is said rather to improve by storage. It is small school-children is able to more than likely, therefore, that in future many of the existing handle an important matter like coaletations will become oil-stations. A naval authority in die this oussing this matter of supply, expresses the opinion that in All probability Aden will be fed from the new Persian source, while supplies from there may be brought up to Egypt and stored at Alexandria, where they will form a valuable stand-by for the Medit- erranean Fleet, which, in face of the menace of the submarine, we might find a difficulty in supplying from another quarter. Further instances are quoted to show how certain of our important coaling stations may be easily and economically supplied from the Persian eil-fields.
Low-Neck Dresses.
-Coolie's Burns,
Alice Memorial Hospital Corps of men to guard the foot The Hon. Treasurer of the going public from danger. These are a few points which occur to Alice Memorial and "Affilisted
one. They are put forward purely Hospitals begs to acknowledge in the common interest. Are with thanks the following they not worth a little considera- donation to the funds of the tion? Hospitals. F. Ping, $25.
263 tons 204
20
249
220
219
228
71
258
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11
218
208
181
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218
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383
365
356
348
1316
323
320
Total to date
Daily average
This month, the number of motor car prosecutions in
The Mixed Court has touched e record. That auch prosecutions go up with the temperature is shown by the records.
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Laat year for various infringe- mente of the regulation, prin- cipally fast or incompetent driving by Chinese chauffeurs, 228 there were in April nine pro- Becutions, in May two, in June fifteen, and July fifteen.
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309 278 0
7,238
268.07
International Rugby--The Melbourne Match.
This year there were nice in April, nineteen in May, twenty- one in June, and so far during the present month, sixty-four. The record number for the present month is due to the fact that prosecutions are taking the place of cautions formerly administered; a change of procedure necessitated by the increasing trafic dangers.
As a rule the fines inflicted are not excessive, generally amount- ing to 82 to 85,- This year mir people have lost their liven through being knocked down by motor cara, two in February, twoin At the adjourned conference of June, and two this month. There the League and Association repre- have been five fatal tram car sentsilver on July 4 an agreement accidents, but in each case the was arrived at so that Victorian accident was due to a fall from football will not clash with the the car whilst it was in
motion A Useful Additión.
international Bugby game in It will be seen that the extra- The U. 8. Court for China has Melbourne on August 16. The ordinary number of prosecutions recently received sa additions to conference decided that the this month is due to a more strict its law library, 522 volumes of Association should play one enforcement of the rules of the States Reports including those of semifinal match on August 8 on road, apparently in danger of Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts the Melbourno Cricket Ground, being forgotten. A board of officers is to Court of Appeals), and to be decided by the Association
Michigan, Minnesota, New York and the other match on a ground
Pennsylvania.
No Sittings. There was no sitting of either court at the Supreme Court, this morning. The day had origin Kingston, Ontario, Jaly ally been sat apart for the hear The authority from which we are quoting makes mention of Archbishop Spratt, addressing the Pg of a Full Court matter, but Hongkong, in the following way: Colomba would probably look women members of the congre- that being postponed, gave the to Barmah and Sarawak, as would also Singapore and Hongkong." gation, in St. Mary's Cathedral, aathorities a** holiday.” Other points need not be mentioned, but it is apparent from the said he preferred that those who Cremation Ground. foregoing that the Admiralty has not gone into this matter without wore low-neck dresses did not assemble on Saturday, August
very careful analysis of the situation. The whole point to be present themselves for Com
These together also that the Association final 3700 VEUT borne in mind is that we shall be able to stock all the foreign munion. He considered it die at 8.30 a.m., to inspect and report with the California Reports should be played on the Melbourne stations with supplies drawn from sources more or less contiguous, respectful of women to approach upon site for a cremation Which the Court had had for Cricket Ground on August 22, and, in the main, situsted within the confines of the Empire. What the altar in garments exposing ground for India Regiments, in como years, make the states The Armngement (3 to August 22 in mare, the oil supply will be just as safefin wartime as the coal them beyond the limit of decency, ble at the proposed burning National Hoporton which the Malboaras Cricket Olub Mel inentioned complete - to the will be abject to approval of the safer, in fact, for the wosl has hitherto come almost entirely from His Gracs on many occasions has one source and along a well-marked route. The new advantages expressed himself against low-ghaut, which is reached by a pain Court also has. The library now boarne Football Club, sad Riah- to see go which we shall enjoy will be such as are not open to any
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