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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1915,
Sanitary Affairs in Kowloon,
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The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 82;
The text of Mr. Goldring's ro" port to the Head of the Sanitary Board on the condition of water pipes, wells and other matters in Kowloon, which appeared in our.. issus of yesterday, demands close consideration by our readers, no,fine,' matter on which side of the Har- At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 76; bour they may happen to live. In fog. the first place, it is nota common thing to find a member of Hong-
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Yesterday the
Telegraph
AND LEARN HOW TO kong'e Sanitary Beard going out published 35 columns of solid of his way to make peramal in-reading matter. To-day there vertigation into local grievances; will be 40 published. and our thanks and cong atula-
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1915,
LABOUR AFTER THE WAR,
The Mails.
tions are thus due to Mr. Goldring Siberian Mail. Due per for his breach of accepted custom.
Uis revelations will not surprise
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ce who bave lived in the ecough to have a how we do dig.
Colony lo general idea of things", in Hongkong. His coveries, summarised, are that| many of the side chennels do not properly, carry off surface water; that pipes are, in many instancos, choked or broken, thereby at onco providing favourable breed- ing grounds for mosqui'ose; that some of the private wells in the district which he visited offer! Tiko, fapilitin
Siberian Mail.-Closes por Liangebow today.
Chenen to-day at 4 p.m. Up to the Minutė-Share Market Newa.
י.
The Latest About the Cabinet.
This morning'a telegramu are wordy enough but, as usual, tell
us but little of what we want to
e.a.
8.8,
1890.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,
1890.
SHARE REPORT.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the welt
The quotations_which_follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph ending May 22, 1890.)
for May 22nd, 1800. May 22.The rate of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- dollar on demand to-day is 3/34."-200 per cont. premium, buyers.
OERMANY,
The Debate in the Reichstag
Union Insurance Society of Canton $100 per share, sellers. China Traders' Insurance Com pany-870 per share, sellers: 365 per share, buyers
North China Insurance-TIs,
Ltd.-$122) per share, sellera.
Canton Insurance Company,
Yangisze Insurance Association Tia. 00 per share,
know. Yesterday they range obanges on the proposed new, Cabinet; to-day they do the same said that Germany cannot go back May 16. "General Caprivi kind of thing with the Italian pol-from East Africa and had no itical situation-and, when they intention to encroach on the are boiled down, there is but British aphere, but was determin little of which to make a mealed to proceed in harmony with The statements as to the probable England." new Ministry it Home have on aaauthoritative amack; indeed Hongkong people are justified in May 16.-"We hear that s joulating:
We could specu-meeting will be held next week late just se well oureel vee." in connection with the formation While the Morning Post affirms of a proposed British Mariners' that ill health will prevent Mr. Association in this colony. The Balfour's going to the Admiralty, objects of the Associatica are not Steamboat Company-$36 per Hongkong, Canton' and Macao 240, the Times says that he will un difficult to understand. It is set share, buyers.
akol. Welforth that the officers and men of
[Closing prions:
Horglong Banke, - $192,
bag.. Unions.4860, sales, Indos.-$00. China Sugara.
$116, sales. Hongkong Docks $63, sales.
$107, Land Investmentą,
Eollers. Hongkong Tram- $5,15.
Bean Reinerdáře many open spacos where rubbleh i8 allowed to accumulate; and that ooolise are in the habit of using unoccopied flais and houses 48 storage places for night-sòil, Co-operation Needed;
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sellors, Wm. Powells $0, sellers.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1 9.13/16d.
To-day's Analversary,
on
Te-day is the 304th anniversary the institution of the Order of Baronetage.
of
A
A British Marluer's Association for Hongkong.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com pany-8370 per share, sellors,
China Fire Insurance Company $85 per share, sellers. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock per cont.
Company-63.1-2 premium, bayers.
$135 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Gas Company-
$190 per share, buyers.
Hongkong Hotel Company-
cent. Debentures-$501.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per
Indo-China S.N. Company-
Douglas Steamship Company
'doubtedly go ther
China and Manila Steamship listen to those prets suggestions the Mercantile Marine, have for Company $105 per share, with patience; wecan even believe toms long time past laboured sellers. that the Daily Mail la just under serious dieadvantages, aud grounds for attributing to Lord suffered in many cases grievous Derby the declaration that Lordeividual hardships, besides Dr. Pearse's cwn report supplies
Selborne and Caizon will having to enter into competition even further horrible detail, for
cluded in the new Cabinet, with unqualified men, and that it mentions that servants latrines
and that Mr. Harcourt will many abuses have grown up and in certain buildings of fate in
remain; but when we read brought a align a apon the pro- Kowloon havo frequently boon
The Quaints.
that the Daly News mildly fession that should rank second 25 per cent. dis., sellere. regarded as for public use, and it Monday being a public holiday, suggests that Mr. McKenna will to none in the world. Being also draws attention to the risk the plans for the "All-British" succeed Mr. Winston Churchill at fully convinced of the above faos, $55 per share sales. of "typhoid fever, via latrines performance of The Quaints will the Admiralty, we lay down the this Antosistion is being brought and flies." How long this pleasing be open at the Hongkong Hotel telegram with a sigh of despair into
exist ince to counteract condition of things has been from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday. and look up the Italian wires once influencos that are no.king sollera. going on wo do not know, but Company Notification, more, knowing that we shall at against its members' intereste, to
It is rotified in the Gazette that least find something moderately initiate reforms, to sweep away pany, Limited-$11 per share Luzon Sugar Refining Com we do know that is the authorities' duty to take immediate steps to at the expiration of three months sine therein.
abuses, to enable ile members to sollers. prevent its continuance or re-from-the date hereof the follow-
fill their total position with com- Hongkong Ioo Company- curtence. How many precious ing companies will, unless cause
fort to themselves, maintain the $98 per share, sellors! hours the Sanitary Board has wast- ie ebown to the contrary, be
dignity of their profession, and to ed during the past year in grave struck off the register and the
watch over and guard the interests discussion of mattera that are companies will be dissolved -
of its members whenever they may entirely of secondary importance, The Mongolian Produce Company,
be assailed. we should not like to say. Per Limited; Provident Rubber Es- baps it will now take the hints tates Limited. offered by Mr. Goldring and Dr
yesterday a Road."
Traffic Regulation.
The Italian Deputies Meet.
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profeened exponents that it has consed to be recognisable as an organi- means. "a small Suffrage," Dr. William James Woodrasn to can well take graver views of the tools. Deducting, 302,000 und
-elle
China Sagar Refining Com pany, Ltd. $198 per share
Hongkong Rope Manufactus ing Company, Ltd.-$111 pe share, buyere,
prem., sellers. Ltd. $25 per share.
Hongkong Steam Laundry C
issue)-333 per share, nomina Green Island Cement Co. (d
issue).-$3 per share, nominal Green Island Cement Co. (n
Co., Ld:-$92 por share, bayer Hongkong Land Investme
Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. $7 per share, nominal,
West Point Buildings Co, L $40 per share, buyers.
Mr. Philip Showden, one of the Labour Members of Parliament, seems to have interpolated into the annual report of the Blackburn Trades Council some views of his own which are hardly called for at eo.serious a time as the present, and which will therefore not increase his popularity among the more practical and fair-minded workmen of Lancashire. "The present trade prosperity," he says, "in artificial, and the outlook for labour is uat very promising. The industrial truce is being used by some unscrupulous employers to
Though from a practical point of andermine trade unionism, Trade unions will have plenty to do
view Italy may seem but very when trade depression begins to reaint reduction of wages,......
little nearer to a declaration of
Hongkong and Kowloon Whe May 17.-"The Hongkong, and Godown Company.-$73 pe With every desire to be optimistic about the immediate future of
war than she was six months ago, Canton and Macho Steamboat share, sellers. labour, one can find little to justify optimism. The country will be
the meeting of deputies in Rome Co's new steamer, expressly built bardened after the war with a National Debt of £2,000,000,000 Pearse, and do something Regulation 89A of the Vehicles yesterday must be allowed some by Messrs. Ramage and Ferguson-$10 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Lt And so, even before the war is finished, and while men's energies practical for once. We note the and Traffic Regulations published value, for even our old friends the of Leith for the Hongkong Macao A, S. Watson and Co., Ltd. are bent-ar should be beat-colely on crashing Germany for good suggestion in the former gentle. it the Castle of the lat April, Socialists expressed themselves route, left home for this port o1 $21 per share, buyere. and all, this lusty patriot goes out of his way to say to the worker: man's letter that there is need for 1915, is amended by the addition with enthusiasm in favour the 7th inst. All being well, she "Times are going to be bad presently. When the loan daya come greater oo-operation between the of the following sub-section of war. We can probably should arrive in Hongkong late way Co., Ltd.-40 per cen Hongkong High Level Trad see that you have all you want; never m.nd how much other Sanitary Board and another old 3. Except with a written per ignore with 'nafety the in June." olasses, or the nation generally, may have to suffer."
friend of oura: the P.W.D.; and mit from the Captain Superinteed Berliner Tageblatt's views as to
*May 17-"It will be observed Not a word about mutual tolerance; not a hint to the effect that and also the statement that the ent of Police no vehicle eball be when the Italians will or will not from a notice in our adve tising the high wages now being earned abould give the hitherto in ineffectiveness of the side chan-driven along and no pedestrian open hostilities. The last author- columps that the bath house provident an opportunity to right themselves; nothing but the old nels is entirely a matter for that shall ass along or be found in itative message is the most definite which proved such a boon last mischievovę, poisonous talk that has been such a carae to labour at Department to take up. Perhaps the under-mentioned road between of any, for it aseeris that the summer to residents of, and visi Home during the past few yours. A man with Mr. Snowdon's this body will also listen to good the hours of 7 p.m. sad 5 s.m. Austrian, German and Turkish tore to, Macas, have again been
advice. influence could have done a orniderable amount of real good hind
Canton Road (Kowloon) north of diplomatista are leaving Rome. opened by Mr. T.J. Collaro whose be taken advantage of the situation to warn the men who may Suffragist or Suffragette.
Navy Street and south of Jordan The most really important point efforts to provide suitable arom We quoted listen to him that, in the nature of things,-times must be hard at
touched upon by the Italian Parl-modation for a here, morit Appolalments, first, after the worisover, since there will be such an appalling amount paragraph from a Home paper
iament was the question of Italy's hearty support." H. E. the Governor has been duty to the Triplice; and why of leeway to make up. Instead, all he does is to frighten them with which falls foul of the London big ügures and to pave the way for a renewal of the old discontented Morning Port's objections to the pleased to appoint the Assistant this good wine Las bo kept till The China Merchants Company. and antagonistic attitude towards the employers. The charge use of the word suffragette". District Officer for the Southern last is more than the ordinary man fifteenth periodical balan
May 21-The Company's which Mr. Snowden brings against the employers in general-that We are very glad that the Morn District of the New Territories to can say. There is, we presume, no for the 14th year of Kuang Hou of seeking to use the temporary trace as a means of underminining Post, or any other paper of be (ex officio) a Member of the doubt in the minds of the world ́s (1888-89) was duly submitted and trade unioniam is by no means justified; but, even if it were, the standing and lofluence, should Board of Examiners and to be a politicians those of Austria, published. From the matted and employers would have ample right on their side in taking any fair daye thought it worth while to Member of the Sub-Committee Germany and Turkey.rxopted-f 15th year of Kuang Hoa to the VOLUNTEER CONCERT means to break down a system which, in itself originally a good of euch a ridiculous vulgariam officers of the Police an1 Gaol iation for Italy's ceasing to regard constitutes the 10th period, the protest against the introduotion for the examinati-n of subordinate that there was ample istifies end of the same year (1880 00) one, has been so deliberately misunderstood and so shamefully into our language. If it can be English, Obiccse and Hindustani, herself as one of the Triplice, accounts for which show a grose abused by the agitators.
Trado unioniem, like socialism, bas born 60 mishandled by its
Faid to mean anything at all i II. E. the Governor has appointed trosties notwithstanding. No one profit balance of 609,000 and odd aation for good; and to-day the British mind only sees in it, as well)
being A recognie. be a Medical Officer for the pur-binding force of contracts between odd taels for depreciation of of the Hongkong Volunteer C The following lathe program it may, a plan for overturning law and order and authority and in-can only itink that the barbarium Ordinance. Aud to be a Medical there is not a doubt among thela for dividends to shareholders, be given at Headquarters,
ed diminutive Hoflix. We poses of section 6 of the Coroner's nations than the British, *but dustry, and replacing them with a gigaatio eyetem of bullying, by arose out of some ignorant per Officer for the purpose of institut any of our
aleamers and godowns, and 8,000 Prom:nado Concert which. which those who shout the loudest are going to profit the moet. In the son's mistaking the termination ing inquiries with a view to at- Austria and Germany, by their and odd teald. Out of this . F-1- Piaco, Mr. Grimble,
own people that abstract, a league or union or guild for mutual help and for offering, for a sign of the feminine. If certaining the true cause of death own playing fast and loose, with
a total balance remains of 186,000 den Road to-night at 9 p.m. where necessary, a dignified resistance to aggression of domineer-decent papers would combine of any person who has rot been such contracts, left Italy ample the payment of a bonus of ten per Mariel. ing, is a beautiful idea; but as we of this geaeration have seen
the Superintendent has sanotioned 2 Song, Salected, Pte. H it in actual operation, it cutdoes all the most tyrannical systeme ligioualy boycott them, they might by a registered Medical Practi- identify herself with an Alliance leaving a net balance of 187,000 11'89 Express," Pto. H. Relpt
against such worde", and re-attended during his last illness excuse for no longer wishing to coat., to the stalf of the Company, known to history, What, after all has the trade union accomplish-
3. Humorous Monologue, ad? It has brought about a higher rats of yago. Yet, in doing so, gradually disappear. The same tiener and of report ng thereon to that future generations will look and odd fuels which, with the it has been instrumental in raising routs and food prices, bea brought may be said of insane contract-the Bead of the Sanitary Depart-back-pon with scorn and abhor-balance from the previous period, Pte. Allan, Corpl. Brown;
4. Quartette, "Soots Wha H untold inconvenience to the un ffending general public, and, worse
jons like "Bakorloo" (which, woment or to a Registrar of Deaths.rence. But-Why have the Italians makes a total sum to credit of Gray & Carpl. Smith still, untold misery and hard-bip to the wives and children of work brain of Mr. G. R. Sime), and believe, emsnated from the fortile ing mon.
If Mr. Showdon and his friends are to have their way, such undesirable importations
taken so long to come to a definits 722,000 and odd taele," New Submarine Invention. sation as the war is over we shall find all the old bad conditions as "auto" for motor-car.
decision in the matter?
5. Song, Selected, Mr. N Submarines may no longer be
May 22. Thus the Straits Wood. back again; trado suspended, ralli hold up, and so forth, in order those who favour the introunotton showing their periscopes. Budson The Comm:niques. that some anion or other may express its sense of righteous icdig of these and similar atrocities are Maxim is said to have perfected Ilford to risk destruction by
Times of the 14th inst:~A cell of 6. Song, Selected, L/O nation at the transferring of John Smith, railway porter, from Piat to have their way, our fins old an invention that will make pos-
low pence por share is made on Freman K.S.LI.. Raub shares. This will yield form 1 to Platform 2, or at the iniquity of some other John Smith in English language' will h
7. Humorous Song, Sele about £5,833. Payment will be Mr. W. A. Hannibal, not oboosing to subscribe to the union. Luckily, however, there
The little that we hear from the received at the Singapore oflice. will be other views which will claim a hearing. The disgraceful pre jargon. Wa
hame sible attacks by these underwater Tranos-Belgiano front is good. There are buyers of laubs who conduct of certain agitators, in eoeking to influence men to
We are not feeling fighters when they are completely Two more German aeroplanes have increased their offers from particula oa strike at a time when the lives of men at the front are dere
y affectionate towards submerged.
have been brought down, and the $2.30 to $2.00; but holders aro on the manufactures, put out by them, will have neet
Garmane just at the moment, The invention was pronounced Allies seem to be making estisaitting tight." where the opening of the pyes of the count
but we have to own that, for all by naval officers to-day, as revolu-factory progress round about urmed wonder their word trickeries and weird tionary in character, for sub- Beausejour. Forewarned is fore- before war broke out, things bed - discerned. Even combinations, they still retain a marines are now forced to poke armed, whether concerning Ger-
...for you come 1 inch a pass, that the Government although a Radical
greater respect for their mother their periscopes above the surface man programmes in the gas line
Thaddeus Stevens, says the dows meditating strong tongue than some thousands of before discharging torpedoes. action against the unions for men, by their golfishness and ar- Englishmon bave for thejre.
or in other matters. Should Italy Philadelphia Fublic Ledger, loved rogance, were steadily driving away the sympathy that many mem-
Mr, Maxim is keeping the nature "come in," we have the feeling Simon Cameron as the Phillies bers of the publie had originally felt towards them. When the war
of his invention a secret, and he that she will not give the Austri love the Federal League. When ig over, there will undoubtedly be a definite tendency on the part of
refused to day to give out any ana mach chance to lay pipes on Lincoln asked the old Commoner information whatsoever concern- her frontier. We still await this if bothought Cameron dishonest, the rulers of the country to tie the hands of these diecontant- mongers and to fix, once and for all, a rate of wage. Employers, Rear-Admiral R. A. Allenby, who that the United States Navy will Earl Kitohoner's hint that two
The London Gazette states that ing it. It is certain, however, Home Government's views on Stevens said:--- in many cases, have themselves been far from guiltless in' past times; is on the retired Navy list, has be the first to be offered it.
“I don't think he would steal Mr. W. A..Hannibal. some of those will need as much control as the men, and we hope been appointed a temporary lieut-
can play the gassing game. a rad-hot stove."
13. Humorona Song, Sale to see such legislation in force as will make it as much a criminalenent-colonel.
If the device is all that is Everyone will sympathise with, Cameron insisted that Lincoln Pte. P: Simron K.S.L not to offer a wage below a given amount as to demand one above it. Allanby, who is fifty-four years of in the seagoing submarine Seobley, they have sustained by General latter did so very quickly by Sitting Knitting Little Mi
Rear Admiral plaimod for it and it is installed the Australians in the great loss make Stevens apologize, and the
14, Humorous Song, “Mo Masters and men have boil, at one time or another, shown that they go, saw active service in the it would make that craft, now Bridges' death. He was a man saying: are not to be trusted to play a clean game when left to themselves, Egyptian War of 1882. At one nearing completion, perhaps the of rast experience in military
for the Navy, Pte. B. B and it is therefore the duty of the Government to step in and take time he was in command of the most formidable Aghting ship in affairs and one whose place it will, that he wouldn't steal a red-hot and Capt, Lambert.
I take back my statement} Accompanista: Mr. Geo Gri the matter out of the hands of those who have abused their powers. ill-fated Formidable.
be extremely difficult to fill. stove."
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From Admiral to Colonel.
the world.
Interval.
8. Quartette, St. Patric), a Gentleman," Pte. Allan, Brown, Pie. Gray and C Smith.
9. Song, Soleotéd, Pts. 1
10. A few words, Pts. Logan.
11. Song, Selected, Pte. Mariel
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