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There can be little doubt that These certainly are striking resulta and Colonel Ebronn was quite right in though it in scarcely possible to hope ascribing the source of infection to for in equally complete success at the adjacent village of Shaukiwan, Lysenian, the cleansing of Shaukiwah one of the most malodorous spots in the which it has become the imperative duty Colony To this village, the Chincse of the Government to undertake in
health returns within the next few years. So the sooner it is taken in hand the botter, for, as Mr Ho Rom Tose aptly reminds us, "Provaation is better
than eare."
NEWS OF THE DAY,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1909.
END OF BUENOS AT
STRIKE.
GOVENIENT HOUSES-
Governor Canoest-Smith and Staff loave to-day for Japan by the Mikko Maru. Testerday the following guests were invited to lunch at Government House:-Bon. Me And Mrs Brewing Hon. De Ho Ral, Hon. Mr Wol Yak, Miss Kiddle, Mr W. Kiddle,
Teving
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LONDON, May 11
The Buonos. Ayres, strike, which In the afternoon His Excellency the Farcas cut of Socialist troubles, has
ended. Governor with Governor-General. Smith, Lord Stanhope, and Mrs Brewis, went by mot by: Ma Evos, Ohiof Resident Engineer launch to Tai Kok Tsui, where they ward of the Kowloon-Ornton Railway, who con usted the party, to the South fines of
Beacon Hill Tunnel. The party walkeł tę. the head of the tunnel working, and return. ed along the line to Hugg-hom, where they ro-eurbarked in the Victoria for Hong kang
Over one hundred undesirables have been landed by the a. Alertes from Saigonis to-day,
Tolograms from Harbin state thab pingue is aprending in Mongolia sud in- vading Manchuria.
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Eetailers have raised the price of
THE RECLAMATION DISPUTE. rogar, the increase varying from "
Parther Argument..
Highly technicäť a d·legal points, wern "discussed' at to day's resumed "hearing, of the ease in the Supreme Court, before His
[Ready made day and evening residonta, users and frequenters of the interests of the troops and the Mine Maakanxie, Me Clementi, and Mr
Gowns, Paris Modela in which are mostly amphibious, there is a Colony at large, should at least lead to a Hats and Toques, Laces, resident and floating population of very considerable improvement in the Trimmings, Undercloth about 6,000 to 6,000 souls. A Chinese ing, Boats and Shoes, junk. Eshing boat, or simpan at the best of times can not rate very high Hosiery and Gloves,
from a sanitary point of view and the etc., atc..
condition of Shaukiwan Bay where they collect and anchor in their hundreds, can better be imagined than described, cs- pecially at low tide when the mud is exposed. But if the deeply incut Bay is an abomination to the nose and other organs of sense at such times, it is nothing as n mosquito breeding area compared with the conditions, pre- railing on shore. To quote Colonel BEDFORD's words: "Leaving the water and going to the land, they would find the main thoroughfare going" through Shaukiwan over which all persons gcing to or leaving barracks mast traverse. By the side of that main thoroughfare there was a slightly trickling, sluggish stream. A casual glance at that stream would show that opened to acquire the Holbein portrait, mosquito larvae were breeding there, sold by the Duke of Norfolk to Colnaghis, and a special sanitary officer had for the nation, the Government will con
tribute ton thousand sterling... reported that they belonged to the malarial family known as anopheles. Abcut this small stream were to be found sundry terraces of cultivated ground.
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Anetion.
2.45 p.m.-Auction of Household Fari ture, des The Homestead,' Paxk.
Amusement.
p.ta-Performance of Hippodrome Circus at Causeway Bay.
General Memoranda, FRIDAY, MAY 14:-
Gouda per Denbighshire not cleared on
this date at 6 s. m. subject to rent.
2.16 p.m.--Meeting of His Majesty's SATURDAY, May 15 ---
for
Whoo a man was fined at Willesden
using bad language, he said he was only then she gets excited," he added, that'hi the only way to do it."
"swearing at the dissos to keep her calm."
The Bandian Dramatic Compiny brought their season to a close last night when they gave a powerful interpretation "The Girl who took the Wrong Turn ing" to an appreciative audience “
Lordship the Chief Justice (it.F. Piggott).
in which Bis Excellency the Governor pro- i
cooded against Chu Ping for spoelfie per
formance of agreements under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance of 1889.
Mr A. G. M. Flotsher, Clerk of Councils, went into the box and Mr. Pollock proceeded to sak him question: Do you and in this C.3.0. of 1889."
farthing to a penny per pound. This is not, due to the Budget proposals.
RISING IN NIGERIA.
· PARTY OF: OFFICIALS AMBUSHERD,
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One of the Residente of North
he saked, "a minate by the then GovNigeria named Mr Ván Ranen, three-
The British Government has an-ernor of the Colony, Sir William Dos Europeans and 35 pelice, were proceed- nounced that if a public subscription
A telegram from Nairobi, British Ease Africa, says that Mr Roosevelt and his son Kermit are both very much fatigued, probably owing to the wasther. The Americans are surprised that they have so
Voux, dated 37th Nosomber, 1868
Mr Slade objected to the question being ing to izstal's chief about 50 miles complatod. It was not, he argued, com from Zungers on March 6th when they patent for counsel in the form of a leading wore ambushed. Mr Van Reaen, the question to reveal the contents of chief, and eleven members of the police
document
Ar Pollock coatanded that he was per
fectly within his rights, and proceeded to indicate that the question continued
asking for the opinion of the Attorney General with referonce to Chu Chuon being
Justices of the Pence at the Magistracy. All these terraces were carefully goo been affected by the alrian climate permitted to "sign the reclamation agree
p. Auction of Did' Chinoso Curion, irrigated by means of small water. Mr Roosevelt is, however, not in the least at Messrs Eaghos & Hough's Sales channels or pits, some of which
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Goode per megambia undelivered after
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TUESDAY, May 18-
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contained water, while in the others
war, fermenting fertilising fluids of the chameter of which all were aware. These were two admirable examples of Good per Ocena not cleared at 4 p.m. the race, but must be considered black
"on this date subject to rent.
blota in any land baving European habitations. Over and above this, . there were several streams coming down from the higher land and fading their HONGKONG, WIDNESDAY, May 19, 1909.my to the sea through rocky channels forming many water holes and pools the streams being used more or less as
The China Flail.
THE CLEANSING OF
I
dispirited.
The trial of thirty-six cativés in con-
nexion with the discovery of bombs at
Calcutta in Mísy, 1908, has been concluded at Alipore. Two mea wore sentenced to death and twelve to transportation for life det, smongst whom was Arabindo Ghose, with terms of imprisonment. The remain
word acquitted.
+
Mr Lloyd George, in roturning to My L. J. Maxso a cheque for £200 which be offered as a token of his willingness to bear Dreadnoughts, says he needs no convincing of the country's willingness to pay, but be
his share of the extra burden on new
rups patriotiam now in fashion.
-
ment."
Mr Sinde - Isak your Lordship to uphold my objection to that at once.
Mr Follock-There cannot be
objection unless bis Lordship takon it do You can't stop me half-way.
any
Made-I submit I ann when the
carlier part of the question shows it is going to be an export statement of the contents of a duonmont, the admissibility
were killed.
A punitive force was despatched on May 9th. The rising is only loca
RUSSIAN POLITICAL
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THE CZAR AS DICTATOR.
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of which is in dispute. 1 certainly object has been created at St Petersburg.
A serious political-ministerial crisis to such a question being sak in the hearing of the Court and appearing in the Court owing to the Cpar having vetoed a records.
the middle. We are not before a jury, the Council of the Empire, creating
Mr Pollock-My friend can't stop me in which had passed both the Dama and The whole question m be tiken down.
mitter is not admissible on the face of it
It is understood King Edward is con- could not be cut off.
ال
Ta chart presented to the members public latrines. Those rivalets dissidering favourably a petition from the it was obvious from the partion of the
Tuesday charged themselves into very small estuaries which went underneath the read and filtered on to the foreshore. La
of the Sanitary Board en 323 Promotes a healthy action of the skin by Colonel Beuro, showing the ad- counteracts all effects of parapiramission rate for malaria per 1,000 of
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dancing teachers who wish old danses revived at Stato balls. It is said the King and Queen were so enchanted with the pavines and minuety a danced'nt the
It is reported that M. de engineered the entire crisis.
JAPANESE NOTABIL- ITIES ABROAD.
have never heard in the course of a fairly Czar has refused to accept their
His Lordship I wil take it down and Naval General Staff make a fall note of the objection. Still, I The Ministry has resigned, but the
one ocial experience of a winate of a Mr Pollock still held, that the question Mr Slade objected on the ground that question already put that the rest of the question was going to be a statement of the alleged cantents of an inadmist
His Lordship I cannot see how a court which it boliores to be inadmisible
Ultimately Mr Pullock said he would be satisfied if his Lordship apprehended that ...opinion originated with the Governor, who was a most important personage under the Reclamation Ordinance.
document
tion, and is a refreshing one, in strength" of British troops at various all this, many idea harseries for Garman court that they harn decided to can be asked to take down a qucation gorating to the ayatenwas a Turkish stations to wit, Singapore, Ceylan, mosquito breeding were bund, and
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Africa, Hongkong and, Lycemun- was thoroughly inquired into with a view sufficiently startling even without the to measures being taken modify the lucid explanation which the gallant existing state of affaire." Atogether it is officer furnished, to demonstrate that it not a pleasant picture whis is conjured is high time that something should be up, get any one who has ver had the dope towards rendering Lyeemun a more misfortune to spend a litt time in the
so out of place dancing stately minuets.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr P. P. Wodehouse arrived back in the Colony by the English Mail:
the Medical Profession | healthy place of residence. As Colonel neighbourhood of Shankan will ac-Chins Squadron, has been cancelled..
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BEDFORD pointed out, the barracks at
knowledge that it has been touch-
The appointment of Lieutenant C.. H. N. James to the King Alfred, ship of the
Mr Valentine Chirol, in charge of the
The case was continued and eventually adjourned.
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LONDON, May 12. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has given a banquet to Prince and Princesa Nashimoto"
Princess Kuni has arrived at Paris,
On reaching the platform of Trent Station after hurrying to catch a train, the Hon. Frederick Stratt, brother of Lord Captain Kinmail Smith, one of the Belper, fall down dead. Suine yasrs ago two Ministerialists who supported in the the deceased met with a trap accident in Lobby the recent rote of censors, finde Lyeeman are not to blame. They have ed-up or in any degrecoloured by Foreign, department of The Times, passed isy between" life and death at the Lion the Government on Haval sad military Bridge Street, Belpor, and for over 1 year himself so much out of sympathy "with been built by the Royal Engineers on Colonel BROOD. He has rely related through Hongkong to-day on the English Hotel. Experts were consulted from Eag-questions that he has announced his inter- an airy plates some 250 feet above the plain "truth in plain,nvarnished Mail, bound to Japan.
land and the continent and his esse attion to resign his sent at Stratford-on- Signal Boatswain, F. W. W. Prosser tracted considerable public attention at the Avon, and to stand again as an ladepandant the sea and are of the most modern phrases
as was last employed as signal boatswained the most marvellous on record. As of national military training. The Unionles joins the cruiser Kent for aigual duties. time, his ultimate recovery being consider candidate strongly in favour of some form and improved construction, while no little skill End been expended in ren
of the battleship Impregnable,
result the Into Hon Frederick Strutt was candidate, Mr Foster, was defeated at the Bir Ernest E. Elake, K.0.1.G., senior somewhat disconcerting to the members of of 143, and will it is understood, again. dering the ground and precincts of
obliged to use an ear trumpet which proved General Election by the narrow majority
retire from the public service after at official! career extending over 45 years.."
Mr Bo Kos Toza, we glad to see, seconded the resolution red by Col. BEDFORD, "that a Committee appoint-
"
Softens the water, and imparta a delight. the barracks free from any source that ad to enquire into, and rej upon, the crown agent for the colonies, is about to the various public bodies of which he was contest the sest,
ful fragrance to the skin.
could give rise to malarial infection.stepa necessary to remo minimise Every soldier is provided with a mos the conditions favouring (ria in the
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A CURE FOR BOWEL TROUBLE.
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and surprise visits are made during the environs," and in so he paid night to see that the men, uss them. fitting tribute to the The medical officera ofercise all care, mendations made to the ment by and as to the water there is no question: Dr. J. C. Thomson with rence to
and liver oil in its modern sad most
Mr Gordon Bennett's yacht Lysistrata, STEARNS WITH OF COD LIVER OIL is No matter how severe an attack of Singh and other distinguished guests on osaseating fatty matter and contains the never fails to give relief: Factuale by board, left Colombo on April 29 for Adet, medical principal only.
ea route for home.
As Marion Crawford lay dying his Dialogus, the novelist deal ring that they daughter read to him at his requent Plato's taught him serenity in the face of floath. scronely into eternity: I die with Uhrist." Almost at the last he said: "I enter
Swinburne's death was due to pramonin,
it might, said the P.M.D. of the South combatting malaria and hinating China command, be compared with mosquitoes, the very obspreaders the general water supply of Hongkong of material infection. ting Dr. Bat in spite of all the money lavished Trosor's recommendation overn in preparing the ground around the meat, he declared, had during barrache, and in spite of every care and the past nine years somcularly CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE attention, the admission rate of malarial happy and beneficent res the fol LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT {'] føver at Lyeemun exceeds the admission lowing figures showed. with England, whereas the dead post had ex-| ANOTHER GRAND CHANGE OF rate which prevailed amongst troops in strength of 1,673 toch, dais
Eongkong as far back as 1903; before nions to hospital during wars
PROGRAMME.
following ad attack of influenza. A little unpleasantnow occurred at the funeral through a clareysine reciting soare portion
of the Burial Service of the Church of
Don't Forget Last Nights || anti-malarial measures were undertaken 1,010. In 1902 the ered. Lieutenant G. P. Leith has been posted and mosquito nets issued to the soldiers severely out of 1,381 were Moorher, Ch as Squadron, from command
His Excellency, Sir Yasonnion LOUARD, K.C.M.O.
The figures in the chart for 1903 showed
19 chèrists and storeksepoes,
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WHISKY
to the cominand of the riror steamer
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thon reached 770 per thousand; in 1907 they had fallen to 220, rising to 269 leat year. The Lyeoman admissions for 1908 stand in the chart at 792 per thousand--
years
the respective figu
Year. Strength.
1991220 1904...........1,426
Home, Fleet.Lieutenant Leith entered the naval servico in January, 1892, w
ion. promoted sub-lieutenant in 1897, and
1905
..1,370 1908...... 1,525 1907... ..1481
2.
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TIME AND PRICES AS USUAL, Box Flanit ROBINSON PIANU CL, appalling gore. The next highest return in the tables are studying Last Matinee Wednesday.
The per mille rate, cose from, West Africa, a notoriously, at 3.30, r. Doors open at 8 p.m. Overture 8. unhealthy region, yet there the malarial high as 1,102,8 in 190 Befreshments supplied by O. GREEN & Co. sdmissions were but 500 per thousand preventive measures con
resulte, fell away to Hongkong, April 23, 1909,
#07 in 1907.
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