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TO-MORROW'S AGENDA.
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BILL TO DEAL WITH ENEMY ALIENS.
The agenda for to-morrow's Legislative Council includes the following items
PUBLIC CONTENIENCES, Resolution under section 170 of the Public Health and, Buildings Ordinance. 1903- Whereas application has been duly made by the Sanitary Board to the Governor under section 167 of the Public Health and Buildings Urdinance, 1903, for the erection of * Public Estrine and Urinals under the steps in Duddell Street: and whereas such application having been duly approved by the Governor and a notification of the intention to erect A Public Latrine and Urinals at sach site having been duly published three Successive num- bers of the Gazette, certain owners į and occupiers of property in the vicinity have objected to such erection :
whereas such objections have been duly con-2 sidered: It is hereby resolved by this Council that the above men- tioned site and the erection thereat of a Public Latrine and Urinals be and the same are hereby approved.
QUESTIONS. The Hon. Mr. C. G, Alabaster, OBE will ask
in
and
1. In order to lessen the less: of life in typhoons and to obviate las far as possible rhe exploitation of poor sampan people by ex- cessive launch towage charges. will the Government
arrange
A business transaction of in- "Even if Germany loses every terest during the past week has oceau going ship flying her flag en the sale of the Oriental she will still remain in the front Brewing Company to the San rank of maritime nations and Miguel Brewing Company, threaten the supremacy of Great with the owners of powerful tags rangements for the transfer Britain and the United States," and launches to render gratuitous aving been completed. This is a statement by Mr. Henry C. towage service to sampans and places the brewing industry of Wiltbank the writer on commerci- other craft in difficulties whenever the Philippines under the control al matters. in the course the black signals are hoisted of one firm. The San Miguel of ab article in the current during a flood tide? Company acquired a few years issue of
Rudder 2. Does the Observatory take age the property of the Orientala New York shipping roonthly.into consideration the state of the Brewing Company of Hongkong. According or Mr Wiltback. Ger- tide in calculating the period of A large part of its stock is held many possesses a "secret mar-warning they give in the case of by a church corporation.
Marine estimated at approaching typhoons?
If not 500,000 tons gross camouflaged will they give longer warning on Manila newspapers, printed in
under the flags of neutrala Bood tide then on an ebb tide? English, bave announced that they nations," which she intends to 3. When will telephonic com- will refuse to accept liquor ad-use in the restoration of her munication with Cheung Chau vertisements in view of the fact maritime power and the resump. be restored? that they have considerable tion of her old methods of com: circulation in the United States,mercial penetration.
•
chant
and under the war-time Prohibi- There is every reason to be- tion Act any newspaper circulated leve," says the article, that in the United States is subject to shipping and shipbuilding enter a maximum fine of G$1.000 for prises in many neutral countries the publication of intoxicaring are honeycombed with German liquor advertisements.
capital, officered by German sub- jects or their dummy representa- The question as to the applic-tives, directed in the interests of ation of the "dry
German commerce.
D.
amendment)
in the Philippines, is still in some
It is this organised effort that doubt and is commanding the at- has brought into being a secret tention of Government officials German trade fleet, worked under and business men. The amend-foreign flags, and has thereby
tion a factor against which the
4. Can the Government give any information with reference to the sugges ed establishment of Chinese Government aerodrome in Hongkong, mentioned in the North China Daily News of the 19th August and the Hongkong" Daily Press of the 25th August? NEW BILLS.
matters.
First reading of a Bill intitul- ed An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Indictments in Criminal Cases.
and' incidental or similar thereto...
First reading of a Bill intituled and disposal of Rice by the
EDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1919.
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MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.
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The Hon. Treasurer (Hon. Mr H. Dodwell) and the Acting
Hongkong. beg to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of he following abscriptions and donations for 1919- Whampoa Bethel Food...
ment becomes effective next Jan-injected info, the shipping situa- An Ordinance for the acquisition Cplain (Rev. W. T. Feather- uary. The business men's organ-Allies may find it hard to con- Hongkong Government, and for one) of the Missions to Seam-n. isations have gone on record as topposed to the application of the tend. That Germany during the validating acts previously done.
amendment to the Philippines in war worked with an eye to her view of the fact that Filipinos are.
after-war trade is shown by the not generally addicted to the use way in which she sought to of intoxicating beverages. Acting/extend her sphere of shipping the Colony without a permit. It Union Insurance Society of
influence by negotiating for the Governor Yeater has also an- nounced his belief that the control of shipyards in neutral question should be placed countries. before the Philippine Legis-
Another weapon which, Ger- lature for their action.or
many has sought to employ in expression
the campaign of preparation for
ад
is
First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to prohibit former Enemy Aliens from being within is proposed to pass this Bill through all its stages at
meeting of the Council
This
SECOND READINGS. Second reading of the Bill Ordinance to
P. O. 3. N. Co, Ltd Asiatic Petroleum Co, Ltd. Bradley and Co., Ltd.... Gilman and Co., Ltd.......... W. R. Loxley and Co., Lid, Alez. Ross and Co.
A GLANCE IN HER GLASS. on rising in the morging will reveal to every woman whether or not she needs
PINKETTES
These dainty little gentle-as- 50 regularity, clear the skin of pim- natule laxatives ensure daily ples and blotches, cure sick bead- aches, bilious attacks, liverish- ness and ill-emelling breath. Of chemists, or post free. 60 cents the vial, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai
500
40€ 300
250 220
200
100
Lowe. Bingham and Mat-
100
100
thews Palmer and Torger
25
100 Standard Oil Co. of New
York
75
C. Thome...
50
50
A.-S. Watson and Co. Ltd. / 23
50
Mr Henry Humphreys.
25
Harry Wicking and Co...
20
50
Vacuum Oil o
50
Commodore V. G. Gurner,
40
*AN.'
20
25
Hon. Mr H. E. Pollock.
...
20
25
Pentreath and Co...
25
|Little, Adams and Wood...
25
Mr.G. 8.D. Hamel"
25
25
Hon. Mr Lan Cha Fit.
25
Mr G. Hastinga
25
Cand J. Tel, and Elec. Co..
9,735
anton Lid Jardine Matheson and Co.,
· Ltd. ... Butterfield and Swire... Hongkong and Whampoa of after-war shipping conditions is intituled An Attorneys who are conversant:
Dock Co., Ltd....... with constitution law, however,
the nominal transfer to neutral authorise the Appropriation of a Hon. Sir Paul Chater C.M.G. interests of ships built during the Supplementary Sum of Five mil. Hongkong and Shanghai generally belie that the amend- mant applies to the Islands as
period of hostilities. While it lion four hundred and sixty-six Bank........ bag as they are a possession, of
announced in the shipthousand three hundred and Dodwell and Co., Ltd the United States, and that Germany that such sales will not three Cents to defray the charges Shewan Tomes and Co.,
ping terms recently laid down to twenty-seven Dollars and sixty-Canadian Pacific OS. Ltd. petitions or memorials, or even legislative action, cannot prevent been given of the attitude of the
be recognised. no intimation bas of the year 1918. prohibition from becoming effec-
Second reading of the Bill tive here next January. Pro Deutral countries concerned in intituled An Ordinance to provide hibition advocates fear that if regard to the matter. It is be- that no person shall reside within the amendment is not applied in coming more evident every the southern portion of the Island
islands, American liquor day
the scope off of Cheung Chau, otherwise known interests will come here seeking against Germany is
the world's commercial anger as Dumbbell Island, without the "a-new field for exploitation.
limited consent of the Governor in το the Allies. Switzerland, Council Beports continue come in to Holland, in the order named, intituled An Ordinance to con: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Second reading of the Bill the Bureau of Agriculture giving declined to meet the wishes of the solidate and amend the law details of the typhoon damage Allies by agreeing to participate relating to Places of Public crops throughout the archipelago in the blockade against Germany Entertainment. In view of the seriousness of the incase she refused to sign the rice situation, the Bureau officials Peace Treaty. They have nothing intituled An Ordinance to amend Leigh and Orange..... and field men are bending every to gain by the seizure of German's the Rating (Special War Rate) Linstead and Davis effort to have farmers replant shipping, much to lose by break- Ordinance, 1917. their crops where they have been ng off commercial relations."
the
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stroyed so that the Philippines
will have an adequate food supply
next harvest.
that
cause he lost heavily in Americans in
There are now less than 1,000) bling, Fermin Mendoza, Civil Service, according to the the Philippine young Filipino, cashier at the annual report of Mr. Peroy R miversity of the Philippines, Angell, Director of Civil Service, conded with some P5,000, He compared with 2,600. Ameri- pleaded guilty to the charge cans in the service in 1913 will be sentenced next week,
ate
prep made for a
giten: Genes and brkle:
on Mond
Disector, in his
SPORT Criáécises the practi Bone Bureau and De
bands for making pre
too rapidly and charges that
are many instance
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Carmichael and Clark... Hughes and Hoogh Second reading of the Bill Lane Crawford and Co......
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