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MENTHOLATUM

ceeded 100,000.

TO TEST THE

THE CHINA-MAIL.

socommodation for the faressing the score of expense, for though the

NOW IS THE TIME and size of the ships rest now charged for the tire of the

Irequenting it. The ares in the existing harbour in wash there mootings is considerably higher than is suficient depth of

thak formerly paid by the shipping for modern vessela is stretly companies for the privilege of having and experiment has their own buoys in the harbour they proved-in spite of the very positive actually find it cheaper in this end, opinions of irresponsible amateurs, 18 published in the Press and ventilated because they only pay for the actual

SOOTHING EFFECTted

OF

MENTHOLATUM

WHEN APPLIED

ON

INSECT BITES

TRY IT!!

and

STOWAWAYS.

Karda

WITH A STORY BEHIND THEM,

Magistrate Lindsell this morning Nina Chinese were charged before with having towed away from Balik- Pappan by the 12 Tibodas,

that from what he could gather from

Mt. Schefeld, of the 8. Q. A said

in cficial papers-that no amount of time during which their abips occupy the defendants yesterday, seven of dredging, on however large scale, Government mesringe, and are put to them were assisted emigrants who had can remedy this unless maintained at

off

full pressure in perpetuity, and for no account of upkeep or of the gone to Balikpappen under contract this the revenue of the Colonial periodical raising and relaying of the them, they held

to work for 360 days. According to Government is insufficient. As trading moorings for cleaning and repairs, had worked

that they company after trading company, with But the success of this soheme has days, but their employers held that all the 360 their lines of steamers, and nation so permanently solved the problem they had, in some cases, another 30 after nation, with theirs, entered, the of providing the necessary accom- days, and in others another 60 days lists of competition for the trade modation in the harbour-it has only of their contracts to serve." The of the port, it became the policy of postponed it. the Government in years gone by,

defendants refused to work further, It must be remembered that the sad as passager wars refused them,

permit auch shipping companies to lay

by

from

the

All

BÉRALES

CED

lie

hand-trucks It is

to

(To be concluded).

Magistrate: Are you going to in- vestite the allegations,

י

PLAGUE EPIDEMIC.

posibly to save themselves trouble vast majority of ocean vessels visiting they stowed away. The defendants and expense and responsibility, to Hongkong have to discharge and take also alleged to him that holidays did HONGKONG HARBOUR. The matter of South African morning buoys for their ships in such in their cargo, while lying at buoys not count in the 360 days and for

emigration, over which so PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. dishonest political capital was made ments. A nominal rent was charged accommodation, want which can to work off that day, but had to mach positions as best suited their requireThis is due to the absence of wharf illness, they were required not only in the harbour, into and from lighters, every day they did not work owing to in Great Britain, on the score off for the privilege of having such This article written by Captain Chinese slavery" affords a good moorings in the harbour, and the Hongkong Harbour is what it is. pay to make up the time lost. The dever be supplid so long as put in two extra days without Basil Taylour, RN. formerly Harbour illustration of the difficulties to which position of each Master as Hongkong is reprinted from we wers pot, and of the absurd and and definitely defined allotted verations restrictions with which it harbour master. In the course of The Syres and Shipping, London:-

the possible sites for wharvse other two defendants were “indepen- are exposed positions, and dent" emigrants, having gone to Hongkong being the terminal port was sought to fetter the emigration time, all the best berths were taken feasible method is available Balikpappan of their own free wills of certain big ocean lines, and a port trade. South Africa wanted the up, and later arrivals had to be of providing proper shelter for them and without contracta. of call for many others, there is a labour badly,

extremely content with inferior positions for in bad weather. The bottom of the very large passenger traffic to and advantageous terms were offered to their moorings, generally at some harbour is soft mnd of enormous depth, from the Colony. In 1919 there were to the coolies, who volunteer considerable distance

Mr Schofield: I have not spoken so that the difficulty of obtaining orer fourteen millions of passengers ed in ahoals. Special regulacentral part of the city, and from proper foundations renders the build-to anyone yet about investigating the carried. Of course, the vast majority toins as to additional inspection, their cargo godowns; also, in some ing of a pier or wharf an extremely matter, but I think it would be worth of these were Chinese, conveyed to accommodation, and general trest-cases, when the reassis concerned portly business, and the wharfage while to go further into it. and from more of less adjacent parts ment of the emigrants were made, were of exceptional size and draft of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf emigrants, the Magistrate said: You of the Chinese Empire in local vessels, and the pay was higher than had ever water, they found themselves pretty and Godown Company have four are deliberata atowaways. You went

charges are correspondingly high.

Addressing the two "independent”. but the numbers carried in ocean been offered before. It was just atter close to the bottom at low water. steamers also run inte milliore. Com- the South African war and the And when a rather more observant good pies, at which aight ocean there of your own free will and bad pared with these figures, the numbers" Boxer" trouble in North China, and passenger than usual noticed that the

work no contracts. Thing weeks' esch. of Chinese emigrants, not included in cereal suitable steamers, which had propeller of the ship in which he ar- general cargo, and that company's Dealing with the thers, the Magis the above, passing before the Ein- been used a transports for convering rived actually charred up the soft mud godowns adjoin the piers, with tram trate raid: It seems if you had igration Officer pale into insignific. British troops, were available on the at the bottom on going astern, he told es alongside on which are run small carried out the rest of your contracta ance, for the record number sant in spot. The accommodation, sleeping, people that she had touched bottom,

not an in-ver s month each-you would any one year has never greatly ex-cooking, sanimry and deck space for and that it was disgraceful, ste. frequent thing to see wil eight berths have got your pamages, but you

exercise which had

satisfied There were letters in the papers; unoccupied, sometimes (but not very would not. Seven days each. Chinese emigration has been a ticklish question from early days. On poured to be not good enough harbour, which was sitting up; and while cares of ships are working "Tommy" were, however, pro- great agitation for dredging the often) on soocant of bad weather, the one hand lay the policy of non for the Chinese coolie, so the ships the shipping would certainly desert cargo in the stream. This firm has interference in allowing the cookies bad to be fitted out anew. Even such a part, and Hongkong would be also & "T" wharf on the Hongkong to embark on board any ship for any then objections were raised by those ruined The Government ordered an ide, at which smaller vessels can lie of the Hongkong Sanitary Board, Dr. At yesterday's fortnightly met'ng port, without inspection, let or with a political axe to grind, both in inquiry and a survey, and there was & hindrance. On the other was that of Bouth Atries and at home. But the regalar storm in a tancup. But wist.

W. W. Pearse, the Medical Officer of Over regulation. The former was apt coolies went, and they saved South was worse was that, taking a daily

Health, said that the plagus cas to lead to an approach to the horrors Africa, industrially and financially.

recorded up to date this year DDM- average, two-thirds of these privately Wanchai Scouts-An impressive bered 588. Up to the mud of April of the slave trade, over-crowding, ill-

Then a new cry was raised. The owned buoys were always unoccupi-service was held at the Wesleyan there had been recorded 357 cases, treatment and disease on board ship, Chinese were declared to be a menaceed, so that two-thirds of our best Church on Sunday, when the banner This was the fiat year in which the and it

WEA found that many to civilization; and that no white anchorage was not available. For of the 3rd Hongkong. Wanchai Colony had experienced a sevens' of the coolies had been kidnapped woman was safe from them on the though it was provided that the Wesleyan Troop of Boy Scouts was epidemic since 1914, when up to the and ware unwilling emigrants Rard. Here is the other side: My buoy-owners

This and other abuses tended rather informant, an English lady on a visit to allow ships other than their full strength under the command of were recorded, quite thome time liberty consecrated. The troop paraded in end of April no fewer than 949 c to increase than diminish as the to a mining district, proceeded with own to use them, as a matter of fact the Scout Master A Kirk, and many sa this year. For the demand for Chinese labear became the manager of a mine, his sister, they very seldom did so, and greater in various parts of the world and others, over the works, in which were often hard put to it to find a address appropriate to the occasion then were 1,259 cases of plague

we attended Divine Service at which an years from 1915 to 1921 incl The latter policy threatened to kill mixed labour, black and yellow, berth for a tramp, or other vessel, was given by the Chaplain to the recorded, showing an average of 177 the emigration trade by putting too was employed. On getting inside the whose owners or agents did not own Troop, the Rev. Clouston Potri, cases every year." Dr Pentine mid that many restrictions upon it. So it be compound, the eister naked the mana- came necessary for us to endeavour to ger to go on with the others, as she steer a middle course between the two was going to sit down and rest where which was: for the Government to with the singing of Fight the good been accustomed to have during

The Chinese Passengers she then was. Some of the party seguire all the buoys and their moor-fight," followed by a prayer and the the past, Act of 1855 was the basis of all local questioned the prudence of her reings; to rely and redistribute them: reading of the scriptura lesson, by the not

BUYEN years, it did legislation and regulations

promise 20 far that it and maining there alone, but her brother and thereafter to berth all vessels at Scout Master. The enlours were would be as bad as 1914 when I first arrived the said. "Oh! She will be quite all right the

It was buoys best suited Colony I found that constant there; I see lots of Chiramer short! their size, draft of water, and require glory of God and as a visible token of the worst month, but as soon as the to dedicated by the Chaplain" to the expected that this month would-be) mendments bad PO obscured And he went on to explain that there ments. To this proposal of mine the honour of the 3rd Hongkong, temperature reached 82 degrees there the regulations that it was almost im was not a Chinese there who would there was considerable opposition on Wanchai Wesleyan Troop of Boy would be a rapid decline. Dr. Pesse possible to understand what they not protect her against any mole the part of a certain section of the Scouts." They were then presented pointed out that the population in meant, much lese to carry them out.sation--by the blacks, of course-shipping interest, with the result that to So I set to work, first of all to dis-and there was no danger from the it was not carried out for 14 years; injunction: "Receive these colours to 1921, had increased by 78 per cent. the colour party with this Hongkong in the last ten years 1911, cover what there regulations were in-yellow man. tended to effect, and then to redraft

but at last, in 1914, the scheme was aid may God help you to guard them in such a form that they should I was still at Hongkong when the work smoothly. The scheme hass

put in hand, and at once-began to them well." The National Anthem The four contractors and con- represent the intentions. But it was coolies, their indentures having exproved a great success, for it has pronounced. The troop processed slaughter in connection with the Gage sung and the benediction tractors fcrement charged with man- some years before a really intelligible pired, returned from South Africa. virtually doubled the ire of the with their banner while the choir Street house collapse, when one woman emigration ordinance was passed in Almost without exception, they had harbour, and every ship has received sang "Onward," Christian soldiers." was killed and two injured, were the Colony, and several more before become rich men for life as the result a berth suited to her needs, which was The ceremony was witnessed by a again before Magistaate Lindsell this it was approved by the Home Gov- of their alleged alavery. ernment. But it came at last, and

not always the case under the old representative gathering of members morning. On the application of the A question which ba the trade is now well-bat net over exercising the minds of all of us lying at her own boor.

been arrangement, even when a vessel was of the congregation, including men police another week's formal remand -regulated, with ample safeguards interested in the welfare and efficiency have

There of both the Services, a company of was granted. It is undemtood the complaints, not Girls Guides, and Brownies and Crown Solicitor will appear to pro- anticipated, -on Wolf Cubs.

secute at the next hearing,

extremes.

on both sides.

Wers st

that I suggested the obvious remedy, ceremony a buoy. It was a long ago as 1900 HCF. The simple and solemn although this year's epidemic was a the consecration began more serious one than they had;

been

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