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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18" 1918.

Hughes & Hough

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1HF Undersigned bare received in ructions to sell by Public Anction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED)

THE CHINA MAIL

THE COLONIAL BUDGET.

DEBATE IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

(Continued from yesterday's issu..)

THE HON. MR. HOLYOAK.

injustice.

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INTIMATIONS

JUST A MOMENT

Every minute costs the RED CROSS £8. 0,0 and to meet this enormous expenditure a special appeal is made all over the world on

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Garemment and administered, and gratulation to the Governant on sired, thal-time the air per cent. har not the Budget which is now befora 119. becuncredited to the Fund. I spark open I propose to make a few further re- to correction. mitoa these matters nicks which the other officiils may, because I have had deputation after de or may not agree with on several putation during the last six months atter which I consider of great Прои

Pou this subject, and if the Govern importance. I regret to be that the rudut is not aware of the very great Government proposes to spend suspicion that axita in connection with ge4,000 in additions to the Lunatio Abel administration of the Fund the sooner in recognise in the bother. The Asylum building which is totally Scievance apparently is that, if the unsuited for its purpose. Why these privital funds had not been taken over premises and the Government Civil by the Government, by this time the Hospital have not been pulled down, provement of the Lunatic Asylum, sempulacry, deductions enforced and the years ago is a mystery that I can- Hon. Mr. HotYour said: Sir, refer which has long been a disgrace to would have grown now to something a standing disgrace to the Colony ix per cent. Government addition not explain--both these buildings 320 ring to the extintes for the your that this had been part of a larger result that the pensions to individuals mediately take in hand the forna- the Colony. I could have wished like a milion dollars or over, with the and I urge the Government to m "ToEwmWan' Coal Storage. 19 is cannot fail to have struck scheme to improve the whole of the would be on very much higher tion of a site for the erection of in

any of the unofficial members-onl[ Dodes wood

know it has not failed to do that dwelt on the unsuitability of the is a very considerable grievance at buildings which will be worthy of the Hospital system. I have already ration than at present. Further, there up-to-data coepital and its attendant Bentley's

the salaries of Government officials | almost throughout the Service are present Hospital, and my hon. friend the fact that a bachelor has to pay into Colony for years to come.

who represents the Justics of the this Find, willy nilly, and if he dies a l

I have inadequate. That this is recognised Peace has dealt with the value of bachélar he regaina no part of the suggested a site at Kennedy, Town hy the Goverment is provat more For less by the fact by the constant tha sito from the building point of compulsory réduction, which is a neat the eastuurd, at present decupied 16} which together with the large lot tol Use of the works duty pay. which view and has suggested the zernoval is added the safeties and which, of the Hospital to a more suitabla EE THE OFFICE ADMINISTERING tiraber yard, presents great pos conclade, is gitten by the Government That the present Hospital can hardly the Ciril Servants I ask for a full state ambulance, which means of convey

site from the health point of view. THE GOVERNMENT(Hear, hear) sibilities. It would be easily acces« : because the loveranent recognises.

Hon. Mr. HotToOAK-On behalf of sible for stretcher cases by motori has the salary dyn is insufficient. egarded as curative from the ment and explanation of the present lanca ought to my mind, to be adopt- Be that as it may, we al think that penn point of view cannot polition, which seems to me to call for ed for the present hospital for out- the time has come for a revision denied. I should like, also, to seo very full investigation. If the needs patients and visitors by tram and stor's en uodern lines and in te

some reference" to development in require a revaluation of the Fund, a harbour cises by launch, Before with the expenses of the his. Union with Victoria Hospital. Committed of Inquiry abould be formed making my, suggestion I consulted a aber** Asluinistration we should he questions which I asked some to revise the whole mafter,

like to see an item incluuled for the months ago in Council received re

well-known dorter who has had long HON. MR. HO Fook. provisión of a goil motor-car forplies which were, I considered, emin

connection with the hospital and the Government House. The day his ently unsatisfactory, and I had hoped

only objection he could see to the Hon. Me HorFoos said: Sir-1 scheme was the fact that the slaugh gone past when you might ineet tut the questions would have borne rise to endorse, the remarks of the ter house was rice at hand. I sub- visitors to these shores with the uit in some way in the estimates honourable member representing the mit that that building could be easily Ten Pieces, each 10 partis double width, soweit antiquated method of this year. The Hospital was origia Chamber in reference to the Sairing-xated, elew her. If, however, the Government se clas, and. nly intended for Europeans, and it pan School and the salary of its Goverment will not lock with ap- keeping with the spirit of the hon.serinly was intended so far as 1 Fundmaster. wold like to see a first-class can trace the original meaning of it, time to touch upon the question of another to make, viz. that when I wish at the same proval on this suggestion, I have [eur provided as part of the equipment for taking in maternity cases.

For a vernacular education in this Colony Morrison Hill is cut down to provide af Governens House. Au, it is y consulenhle time past, these At the beginning of 4917, in order to the filling for Prayn East Reelan

not cut bi plure to inention is, we have been denied entrance, and meet a long-felt and much-needed, tion a large uren he reserved thre 34 sinkl. be flusest if Clovernment submit that the Victoria is not ful- want, the Confucian Society, sup for the Hospital and the Asylum and Fuse was brought pure up to date filing the intention of the people ported by the generosity of certain I would further suggest that the site in the matter of fane place, or achieving the object whaber of free Chines schools in differ level of the surround ng buildings. who supplied the funds in the first Chinese, gentlemen, opened a numbe kept slightly red above the proluble that in the course of the HE Undersigned have received in. Jeding days, at the close of the war, it right achieve in connection, with ent parts of the Calony for the edinen. This position, with a view over the the public health. I propose, unless tion of the children of those who harbour on one side and the Wong- Fructions from Biesse bistingnister visitors will puss ges SHITE & Co, Chefoo, to sell by Public frequently through Hongkong than the torment sees its way to dead would otherwise be unable, through ne-chong Valley on the other, would has been the case in the past, and with this matter, to ask for a Coin poverty, to send them to sebeel, to my mind be a good alternative, these things are things which teadmittee of inquiry into the whole Air. Lau Cho-pak, in his capacity as to make Tonexions which cannot flession

President of the Society, represented

though personally, I consider "Ken- Under the heading of Bonds." I the matter to the Goverment, and nedy"Town to be the better of the bedegardal. *

asked that the schools be brought finds that it must increase the accoun

two. As, however, the Government under the firunt-in-Aid Scheme. Al- though the representation was alle I would ask them to provide a WE HAVE RECEIVED NEW STOCKS OF

moration of the existing deyhin, as far back as March 1917. I am Sepurate house for cases suffering sorry that no provision for this very hom the effect of alcohol. On one necessary expenditure has been made of my visits as a Justice of the Peace in the Estimates now, before us.

SATURDAY,"

the 19th October, 1018, at 11 a.m., At the Sale Rooms, No. 8.

Das Varz Roap, Corner of

Ice Eure Street,

FINEET EMBROIDERED DRESS

MATERIAL (Organdiu. Flouncing);

Direct from Switzerland. TERMS:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 12, 1919.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Auction,

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SATURDAY,

the 18th October, 1918, commencing at 1a.m. and continuing at 2.30 p.m.4. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Rond. Corner of Ice House Street.

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A large and valuable consignment of

WORK, LADIES' UNDERWEAR,

&c.,

de.

These Articles are of exceptional value,

made of high-class material with

cut work and drawn thread embroideries Comprising:- Double Bedspread of heavy Irish liren

be extended.

suitable sty."

.It

is no exaggeration to say that the manner and he was placed in a ward I saw a main thele suffering in that children of the Chinese labouring with a lot of lunatics. I carnot class to-day have smaller chances of

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Send "Your Minute" of £8.0.0 to Lady May's Rose Fund,

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ROSE COLD CREAM VANISHING COLD CREAM

Ideal Toilet Requisites.

Price 60 ets per pot...:

LIQUID TAR SOAP

A Fragrant Preparation for Toilet use and for Stampociag

gan Price $1.00 per bottle.

THE

VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

32, Queen's Road Central

39

Phone 298.

Under the end of "Ellocation,"

would like to offer congratulations to (the report of gles Committee appoint they lovemment upon the remark

el by the Government to impire in big progress made on this side of the toneling in English troveraient the Island in improving the reads for schools, Whack was laid before this 2otor traffic. Last year I criticiser TABLE LINEN, DRAWN THREAD Come in May of last year, contain-sharply and, I think, with justice

ed the following critician with the money spent on land on the regant to the Sayingpun school:ther side at the expense of the im

It is a most unsuitable situation, prorements on this side. Since that being netween two by roads on a time an energetic policy has been equal to the best convent work, be very narrow site.... The accom- pursued, and there has been a re, receiving even an elementary educi, agine anything more likely to send exquisite modern designs in Richelien dat is sufficient and turkable development in the roud tion in their own language than those anyone off his head than to find We recommend a new improvement between nero sns of a decade or so ago when, as some sir, it cannot be right that such himself in such company. Surely, school should be hulle on a more Deepwater Day, upon which, of you may remeinber, the Govern cases should be healed with those bielutit of the unofficial members, I en mintained a number of free gre permanently insane. A Now, Sr. I love looked in tam 'n bep to tender heartiest congratule Chinese schools. There must he with Richelieu style medallions, a large the Estates for any indication that ticus to the Government. In the thousands of children here whose I would like the Government to see regards the Praya East Reclamation, variety of beautifully embroidered Irish the new school which was unani-Estimates for the same subject 1 lo fathers belong to this class, and who, whether some scheme cannot be linen Tea Cloths and Te Serviettes,sty saggested by that Committee not notice any reference to the road are British-born subjects; and the devised so that when the ground is Ten Cloths and Serviettes of the Mosaicon in any sense provided for, from the Dairy Futan to Aberdeen State orts them the duty of giving built upon, a uniform design for Werk, only produced by this firm, in the Estimates for 115 or even Dock. a part of which is still very them at least an elementary verna-i horses on the front be agreed upon. Exceptional quality Ladies' Underwear that tli temporary accommodation dangerous. I hope in the cousing cular education so as to enable thei jeleding exquisite designs in Silk, which has been in existence in the year it will be possible to provide to become useful members of society. I thinks that if & committee of archi- MACARONI, Lawn and Long Cloth Night Dresses up two antshals ever shiee such improvements as will make the I am therefore strongly of the opinion tects were formed and a uniform (Empire and other styles), Envelope in shall, in case a site cannot whole of that road in good condition which, I know, is shared by the lead type of design were druten up, we "Chemises and Combinations of latest fond immediately, be replaced HIS EXCELLENCY: You are refers ing anembers of the Chinese Com- should then have a fine front to de- patterns, also a fine assortment of Petticoat Flounces hand-embroidered Table for teaching.

hypemminent building more suit ring to the portion of the road beyond munity, that the Government should play to the harbour instead of the

I visited this the Dairy Farm? fine voile and lawn Elouses, Collars, etc school with my hon. friend who re-

Je-establish free vernacular schools, ramshackle appearance which ob- Hon. Mr. Hotos: Beyond the and assist those free Chinese schools thins on the Praya to the westward. presents the Justices of the Peace Dairy Farm down to Abenken which owe their existence to private see the provision of the urgently quantity of best quality Shanlee only a few days ago, amil I have no Doclis. We hope, sko. that Kennedy enterprise, by bringing them under needed fowl market has been ignored Silk (heavy pongee).

Coloured Crepe de Chine for dresses, hesitation saying that the mit Rod will shortly be open to motor: the Gat-in-Aid Sebeme. If it is in the Estimates. One would have

quantity of superior quality Long-sheds in which education is carried car, or, if the whole of it cannot cloth in 15 yds, lengths.

now too late to make provision for thought that the case put by the on in that school are not suitable and be opened, that at least the first part the latter in the Estimates for next unofficial members of the Sanitary are resented by Chinese parents, I of it will be, in view of the fact that ur, I suggest that, & supplement- Board was strong enough to ensure Head Office: No. 47 and 40, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong: Telephons 1239. think provision should be made for very shortly it will be the terminus tailding the school, or for the of the Peak Tramway for me alteration of the present structure. [nonths 'to come.

Also

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A quantity of fine Nainsook in 12 yds. Jengtha.

&c.

&c.. (Full Particulars from Catalogue). On view from Friday, the 18th inst. Terms:-Coah.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Rongkong, Oct. 6, 1918.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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TUESDAY,

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ry vote be taken a soon as possibk, the necessary tongy being forthcom- Arising out of the consideration fing for this much-needed accom-' of the estimated expenditure under modation without the matter having

PASTE STARS,

EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,

AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.

LE our Fastes bear the "Rooster" label and are made from Flour of the Best

Quality containing a large percentage of Gluten. Starch and Gluten are ther principal components of Flour. Claten is easier to digest and contains more zutriment than Starch. Manufactured under the most sanitary condition.

Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World-

Terms moderate, especialy for Agencies. Orders executed promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Principal Factory: No.71, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, Chins: Telephone 12396 Branch Factory Wing Bing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong. Cable Address : ** Finowan."

The school is known to be doing well, I come now, sir, to consideration Taw and Order. I desire to make to be brought up again, and I think aud it is mowded. You are turning of "Charitable Services" and the

some sugestions for the suppres. that these members, of whom my away scholars because you cannot grunt-in-al to charitable institu- sion of serious crimes in the Colony, friend opposite is one, must be justly. accommodate them, and attempts tiots, and I would suggest, wr, that

Murders, armed robberies, "cutting d'sappointed that after a Comunities. are nie to persuade them to attend votes towards the Alice Mernoria and wounding, and burglaries stem had been appointed to enquire into DRAGON atler schools, but the scholars prefer and Affilated Hospitals, be increased to be on the increase, and I think the matter and strong representa to go to this one. In connection from $800 to $1.000. The Hospital

with the surde question I would sugis doing excellent work and is in need that the number of such offences cantions made, nothing lins eventunted. THE Undersigned have received inst this the grade of this school, of "funds, and in view of the work best be reduced by stronger mea Fernaps the member of the Bourd structions to sell by Pablic Anction, justice to the Headmaster, should it is doing, I submit that it should res being taken to prevent the who asked for a fowl's paradise smuggling of arms into Hongkong, frightened the Hon." Director of be raised to the sape gride as that receive burger support than it gets and, the unlawful possession of dead Public Works, as the estimate given (FOR ACCOUNT OF TAX CONCERNED),

of the El Kaloorie School, because from this Government.

ly weapons. Some measure of sue for providing the necessary accom- at the present time you haven'

In considering these funde I was less might be achieved in this direcmodation seems to bear no relation faster teaching a considerably larger somewhat astonished to find $15,000 tion if notices in English and Chinese to the sort of place that is really number of boys at a smaller salary, allocated in the Estimates to Ger warning passcogers against infringe. wanted: $50,000 would be ample for

H.E. tun OrricER ADMINISTERING man charitable institutions. Of

ments of the Arts Ordinance were the purpose, and if, ns estimated, u THE GOVERNMENT: You mean the course, that can only refer, I posted up on board the steamers call-rental of $300 a month can be res

sume, to the fact that it is intended ing at this port. 1 have no doubt is, then it a good financial grade of salary?"

to carry on works which was taken that owners, and agents of such transaction for Government. I a small over from German institutions, such stemmers would gladly co-operate would have liked to see

the zand Oct., 1918, commencing 'at

1.30 pm at their Sales Rooms, No. 6, Des Voeux Rood, Corner of ICE HOUSE STREET, TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, BRASS MOUNTED AND THAKWOOD DOUBLE AS TWIN

BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS,

&c., &c., AND AN AKSORTMENT, OF USEFUL HJUSEHOLD GOOD),

As follows:

Hon. Mr. HOLYOK: Yes. I pre me the grade of the school in fluenes the salary

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Caustic Soda, Soda Ash, Muriate of Ammonia," Sillonte of Soday Refined Bicarbonate of Boda, Mineral Water, and Soda Crystal, Bleaching Powder, Sulphur Acidi Sulphate of Ammonia, etc., eta, e

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No. 32. Des Voeux Road West, HONGKONG,

o the Hildesheim Mission for the. with the Government in this hitter. sum allocated for the purpose of Blind and the Berlin Foundling In the case of persons who are known providing some better means of dis THE GOVERNMENT The schools are House. If this be the case I am to the Authorities to be undesirables playing the names of the streets n (of exactly the same građe, amazed that the Government should and without regular employment, the Colony, particularly on the upper Hon. Jir. HOLTOAK: My hon. use the term "German" in connec but who cannot for want of evidence levels in the outlying districts. Chesterfield Sofas and Arm-chairs (new) friend the sentor unofficial member tion with it, seeing how offensive that be deported, the Government might have seen quite an artistic methet Folding Card and Occasional Tables, for the time being has touched on word is to all right-thinking persons take power to require them to furnish of dealing with the subject carried Upholstered Suites, &c. Bedroom For the necessity for making sono proviIt would have been better to put it security for their future good beout in combination with the lamp niture, comprising Brass Twin Bedsteads, sion for the sons and daughters of in as, vote of $15,000 in support haviour, or, in default, to quit the posle. No one will dispute the fact, Took Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards. Din European who, owing to existing of charitable institutions taken over Colony

that the lamp-posts in the Colony are ner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables circumstances, are unable to send from Germans.

1 am glod, sir, that in your fur from beings things of beauty, and and Chairs, Tea Tables, &c, Dinner their children Home for education.

yet there is no reason why they My hat criticium deals with the Budget speech you expressed appro Services Crockery, Gines Ware, Cooking That there is likely to be a more Widows, and Orphans' Fand. I think cuation of the good work done by the should not be artistio, and with the Stoves, Cutlery, Inlet Sete de Beth less permanent and growing popula. and east-bo-nimare of the Pole Reserve in supervising the nine of the street worked in with Room Utensils, Sundry Electro-Plated tion of this chameter is a fact that extreme dissatisfaction that seems to searalt of passengers baggage at the passes to and fro, an effect can cannot be denied, and that we must exist throughout the Civil Service in various whayes. Snce they were be obtained, which is both leasing Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood provide for their education equally connection with this Fund, and there, and Teakwood Screens, & quality of cannot be denied. Whether it fors I am sure is will be prepared to put on this work some five months and useful. I offer the suggestion to the recordmendation of a the Government in connection with Black wood furniture, including large should take the form of an assisted deal sympathetically with what I have committ Black wood crocs, Side Tables, Chairs, school, such as my hon. friend to say. As far as I can make out from Committee on which I had the hen the vote of $12,000 which is partly Cabinets, Engravings, Picture, commerded, or whether there should the Estimates, the sum of $23,000 was our to serve, Tct a single complaint for providing additional lamps, Rinkost and Brass Vases, &c & be provided a thoroughly up-to-date estimate as the revenue, mud the out of squeezo against the searchers There is one other matter which I Tenis Poles ind i, Several Carpets Central school, where & finished goitigs for Bessions were $27,000, which has come to nosice. (Applause, wish le say a few words about, viz. education can be given to boys and leaves a profit for the year 1919 of On behalf of my Chinese oleague the housing problem. It was not t girls such as would fit them for after 820,000. That, I presume, it is intended and myself as representing the be expected that one would find PIANO by John Uriosmead & Bons life, is a matter for future discussion, to use, as has apparently been the fras Chinese Community, I desire here anything it the: Budget more direct NOINEERS. And SHIPBUILDERS/BOJLER-MA

low for some years, as revenue. As far to record zur grateful thankey relative to the subject than the as I am aware, this Fund began in 1891.

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now and cond-hand.

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London,

(Full Particulars from Ostalogue).

TARKS

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Aucisonarra. kong, Uel. 17, 1918,

put it is a matter which, I submit, deserves the very serious considers tion of the Government and

Under Public Works Extraordinary

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Four per cent, was taken from the HON ME, H. W BIRD, endarios of all Cirji Servants and siz per turns ent was pided by the Government In The Hon. Mr. Bing said I am glad to find at lost a sum of 1918, hy order of the Secretary of State to fully ass

thekim the funds was taken over by the money in the

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