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ARGYLL MOTORS, ITD.

ALEXANDKIA. GLASGOW.

ALL TYPES

CARS

FOR COLONIAL WORK

OF

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ARGYLLS. JONDON, LID.

17, NEWMZIK AT., OXFORD SI, “WX",

FIGENTSINTALFAR EAST

BOMBAY MOTOR CAR CO., Bombay; BROWN & DAVIDSON Talawakatte, Ceylon; G HENDERSON & CO., Calcatta

"STME & CO, Singapors; ROWE & "CO,, Rangoon

➖➖➖➖➖ ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈*. LOUIS T. LEONOWENS LD, Bangkok.

TO INTENDING MOTORISTS,

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MOTOR CARS AT TRADE PRICES.

ENTLEMEN in the Far East who may desire to purchase Cars for their gia uso are offered a unique opportunity to do so on. Where an Agency exists for the sale of the most favonmble terms. SPYKER CAR, individual purchasers will be allowed the trade discount on their own Car in the first and upon any future orders which they may secure among their friends,

The SPYKER CAR which is now making the run from Pekin to Paris is adaptable to all countries and all roads, A single SPYKER CAR in a locality is invariably the forerunner of others. The SPYKER CAR is its own best advertisement,

Send for Catalogue of Particulars as to terms etc., to J, SPYKER, Trompenburg Works, Amsterdam, Holland.

Hongkong, 23rd August, 1907.

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MOTOR NOTES FROM HOME.

Written for the Daily Prem What a remarkable series of successes stand to the areilt of the skilful, nimble car builders of sunny Italy this season. France weeps for her fallen prestige, for the plams of victory dave all boop snatched away from her by her southern rivals At Beat the fine doet of flying Fiats had it all their own way, but latterly, thanks to the intimitable pluck of Prince Borgles and the dash and daring of Cagno who last Monday won the last big continental· event at the Brescia meeting, the Itala has for- ged... ahead and has been able to clinch the claims of its native country for highly reput able workmanship

exouts, and policy, and to have entered iut Auck hostile competition with it, but a fight to the finish with the two dias is inevitable. The war has already broken out andl is viewed by all sensible motorists as a regret table rupture that can only prove a brake on the wheels of progress.

majority of casse, impracticablu--fór atru starał reasusor only pra ticable at the expense of what would almost amount to railding.

These exty works, however provided for S.

must lead to a considerable increase of rentals to be paid for out of the meagre earnings

of the coolie and artizan olesand I am not

Important commercial vehicle trials began to satised that the community, and especially day at Chiswick with a preliminary inspection the poorer Chinese section of it, will prost the judges. Most of the best known indusproportionately by this further increase in the trial car makers are represented, and on Monday cost of living here. sixty vans, logrisa and days will start out on se arduous tour of the Midlands. As commercial vebtolos are of particular interest to colonials

hall give comments upon the trials in tay next work's budget.

THE CUBICLE QUESTION.

The report of the committee appointed to consider and make suggestions for dealing with

the Legislative Council by Command of Hi Excellency the Governor.

.

EDWARD A RAM I agree to the recommandations as a means of improving the housing of the working olussos- but l do ust agree that they of them solver, are enficient to eradicate Plagna which in my opinion can only be affected by more frequsut and thorough cleausing and the destruction of rats and vermin.

FDWARD OSROENE. Im in accord with Mosars. Ram and Osborne, and sign the recommendation in the hope that

Both Daimlers and Napiers ara 50 wel the Cabiole question, was yesterday laid before it may bring some improvement in the future. known in the Colonies that all my readers will be interested to learn of a controversy raging between the makers of these care, as to which can most justly lay claim to the title of hill claimbing champion of Great Britain. I was the innocent cause of this, for in the course of my writings I huppened to describe the Daimler car as making shorter work of grad ente than any other vehicle that bad come under my observation, This aroused the

I quasider however that $15 of the Pablis Health and Buildings Ordinanes No. 1 of 1903 The report was as follows :--

(ae amended by Ordinances 20 and 23 of 1933) Recommendations agreed to by the Com-with its provise would have properly mat the miltes appointed by His Excellency the Officer

case, assuming of course that the Sanitary. Administering the Groveram out to enquire into Departmeat, osrried out its duties in au in and report upon the Cubicle question generally, telligent manner.

1.

Cubicles must be permitted in houses. 2. As regards construction of cubicles, wool, metal or other material approved by the Building Authority should be laid down as the rule, subject to sneh being printed, whitewashed or otherwise.

In the pas', however, the Sanitary Honed by stricking closely to the letter of the law, and without taking the responsibility of exercising its judgment, has brassed the Chinese into all manner of expedients to obtain a certain amount

ire of the inevitable--Edge, and he has Sanitary p clean to the satisfaction of the of privacy and deosney for themisīvas, auch challenged the statement. From the head of present limits prescribed by Section 154 skonia (which the Ordinance was intended to

Napler I received a list of a dozen successer, in which he claims to have literally wiped up the road with the Coventry car. In fairness to the Daimler Company, therefore, I interviewed Mr. E. M. C. Instono, and so have been able to print in the sporting and illustrated papers I am connected with the caso for the prosecution side by side with the Daimler defence. -

Briefly the twelve claims to superiority made by Mr. Edge are heavily discounted by the fact that the Daimler, care were almost invariably driven by amateurs, private owners in no way gossected with the manufacturers, using or dinary standard touring vehicles, while the Napiers of much higher power and price were with one exception specially constructed care driven either by Mr. S. F. Edge himself or his brother Cecil. In Mr. Edge's list there was only one case where a privately owned Napier came up against Daimlers, and on that occasion the latter wers well to the front while the Napier, though of higher power, only gained 33rd place.

3. As regards diasusions of such, the be adhered to, with the discretins presently existing and exercised by the Sanitary Board but without the nooersity for the consent of the Governur-in-Council.

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expediente bing far worse than the evils with In support of my opinion I quote the follow- ing official reply dated 25th July, 1997, to my had

becu av tiled of: enquiry as to bow often the terms of the proviso The number of cases in which the Sanitary 4. The conditions of the construction, and Board have recommended to the Governor in maintenance of oubicles in existing bo Comoil moditiostions of or ex caption from the should be left to the discretion of the Sunitary equicon sots of § 154 of the Public Health and Board, without referense to the Governor in

Building Ordinance, 13, is as follows:- Conacil,

1943;...

4 Applications 1901, 19 5. 1900,

In the above connection the Board is recon. mended to exercise to the full extent its discretion provided for in the provisa to saction. 154 of the Principal'Ordinance in the directin of permitting as cubicles as is er redigat on all floors inglaling the ground for after. inspection of the premises by compiten: officers.

The number of cubicles allowed og sei should be painted up conspicuously on hoor

5. An addition should be made to the law

1907.....

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4 ...aune.

There are well over 5,000 Chinees tenement. houses in which cubicles are used. It would be absurd to auggest that one hard and fast rulə could be usefully made applicable to them all; much more so to endeavour to enforce it,

HENRY KESWICH. Colonial Sveretury's Office.

Hongkong, 3rd May, 1997.

in the shape of a proviso to Section 46, viz.:- Any roosa nof containing a cubicle may be inhabited to the extent of one adult person to every 3-square-fot-of- four space and 330ha Sanitary Board to the proviso contained in cubic feet of air space.

Sab-section 153 (0) 3 should be amended to permit the occupation of au see mutant's office it a shop by not more than two pers ns at vight

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6. In regard to re-erected bones, oubicles should be allowed. is the same manner and to the same extent as in existing houses.

Over and above this in all sush sporting events aa hill climbing competitions, it is the first past the-post man who is the favourite, who gets the The words or re-erected" should be struck bulk of the chooring, and' who provides the most out of Section 153 aub-section () and the follow- excitement from a spectacular point of viewing added:on aur site which is now vacant or which is now occupied by a matic buildings In this respect I can honestly say that Daimler of European type or by any non-domestic have ten victories to their credit to one that building." Mr. Edge can claim. In the lists successes referred to above where Mr. Edge has won on the fantastic formulas evolved by the R. A. C. handicappers, I find that in the ai jority of osaes the Daimlers have made fastest times while in more than one instance fastest times on all classes in the programme have been made by the well known Coventry car..

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I think I have said enough to meet the chal lenge Mr. S. F. Edge hasthrowu down. The Daimler Company bare supplied me with a list of their successes during 1906 and 1907, but this constitutes so many crowded pages of type written records a special edition of this grest and

This will permit eubicles in re erected houses of the tenemect class, but will prohibit them in now houses on sites nitterto unscupied by tenement houses of the ordinary Chinese typ?.

7.

The Building Authority should bare power by law to requira tast, in the use of domestic baldinga erec'ed on these sites, if intended for Chinese tenements, provision be made for the sub-divison of each storay above the ground storey into rooms of a suitable area, the iden sing to insist upon a proper provision of win de spassin such houses either laterally, or in such other manner as the architects may be able

to devise.

8. Noquestion of compensation or fou in con- nection with any of the foregoing recommand- ations.

I am directed to invite the attention of

Sect ou 15 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinanca which to judge from representations recently made to Government does not appear to have been availed of by the Board to deal with the cabiola question. I am now to suggest as a practical mezus for giving as much latitude in the use of the cubicles as is compatible with reasonable sanitary requirements to the poorer, classes of Chinese inhabiting tenement he 1885, that the Board by means of soms of its officers justila's a tous inapse ion and decide what number of cabioles might reasonably be allowed 1o be erected and maintained in each for, and' thereafter make recommendations geordingly for modification or exemption by the Governor. io-Council.

I am, etc.,

A. M. Trousə *,

Cotonial Secretary.

The Secretary,

SANITARY BOVED.

J.

NAVAL AND MILITARY NOTES.

Lieutenant A Voinntear Artillery, attached to the lith

Stewart, Fhanghai.

Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Aldershot, from Oct. 1 to 1 for the usual course of lastrac- tion.

The destroyers of the China Squadron seem

9. Government should undertake the demoli- to have made good practics with their light | glorious organ will be required unless the editortion of the upper Bre of every third house in quick-firing gaas at the ragant targat practice. blocks of Chiasse tenemuts repayment of theIt is now pretty certain that the magnificent expenditure incurred being mais by the owners record of the Angabip King Alfred will not be of the adjoining house in respect of the broken. improvements to their property by means

Captain J. AS. Murray, Army Ordasser annual instalments extended over a period of Department. Dublin, has been placed under. years and salenlate at rate of in order to prossed in Hongkong, embarking terest as to ultimately recoup the Government about 31st inst. for all its entlay.

wild his mighty blue pencil. I hold no brief for Daimlers, but I do feel that no more closely or sportsmanlike patrons of automobilism ara to be met with then the amateurs who drive the cars of this make so often to victory in the various hill climbs of Great Britain. To the best of my knowledge not one of them has ever been guilty of the secret ass of pieric acid, oxygen or any other extraneous aid to the internal combustion engine,

A car wings hill climb and the buying public, reading the gurish advertisements circulated by its makers, expect that its prowess as shown in hill climbing competitions will be reflec'ed in its every day performances when acute gradients are met with on tour. If oxygen was covertly need when the well boomed victory was gained

the buying public is grossly deceived. What do you, gentle reader in the Far East, know of the tricks of the trade, the fakes and freaks of certain of our pushful motor manufactures? It must be remembered that oxygen cannot be used by the ordinary amatear, that its use during a tour is impracticabile. For ways that

are dark and tricks that are vsia the motor merchant is indeed peculiar.

I have received. reports of the annual meeting

of the Automobile Club of Ceylon and I read with sympathy that the native mechanics and drivers (for whom of course quite a bright future must exist) are annoying their masters by suddenly absenting themselves from work or going on strike altogether. It was the same old story with my own "boys”, when I was sojourning (for my sins) in the odoriferons Essi And another maimuce. I. soo is noted at the above meeting, that of rikisha' coolies, adopting the motor hora as an embellishment to their ubiquitous vehicles. It used to be ha sms with the Chinese Babs on his cheap and pasty oyale in Malaya, and it is pretty much the same with the cad on castors at home. The unwritten law of a bell for a bicycle, and a horn for a motor car should be made concrete on the blue books of the Empire. In spite of its little worries I have to congratulate the Automobile Club of Ceylon upon its 160 members and general prosperity.

I bave ofte referred to the Automobile Association in phrases of eulogy, for their corps of scouts who patrol the roads in order to warn motorists of the proximity of police traps sarvo - most useful parpour, and any colonial touring in this country will save both money time and- temper, by sporting an A. A. badge on his dash board. It is most regrettable that the Motor Uniqu, an offspring of the R. A. C. should have reen fit to have trespassed upon the preserves of the A. A. to have alavishly imitated its badge,

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The houses left standing will, if paragraph 5 is acted upon, legally bon the persons dis pload from the buildinge so demolished.

Provided that any other schema recommended- by the Sanitary Board may be carried out in lieu of the shove,

A. M. THOMBON,

Colonial Treasurer, W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.

EDWARD A. RAṀ.. EDWARD OSBORNE. HENRY KESWICK, HO KAL FRANCIS CLARK, Medical Officer of Health.

WEI YUK

10th August, 1907. With regard to para. 9 I am unable to agree with the report. My personal experience in

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The troopship Sicilia will leave Southampton 31st fust with desfte and details for Egypt, Ceylon, Bingapore, sul Hongkong. She will call at Port Said on Nov. 13, Colombo, on the 26th, Singapore on Dec. 3, and Hong The Sicilia will kong on the 10th following. leava, the latter port on Dec. 21, will call at Singapore on 28th, at Colombo on the first day of the New Year, and she will resch Southampton Water on Jan. 27.

One of the most notable points about the Dow ballet, of which so much has been heard latterly, is the apparent minimun offset of the wind upon its flight notwithstanding its increased length. The other evening the writer had the privilegeef seeing some experiments with the projectiles. The markeman was firing with the service rifle at 590 yards, and with his ordinary ballat he found li necessary to put on. 10. If, for the wind, which was blowing very strong across the range. Changing to the new ballet, the samekaman put on four" balls"

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