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BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HONG-

KONG AUXILIARY.

The first annual meeting of the Hongkong Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held yesterday afternoon at the City Hall, The Hon. Mr. May was announced to preside but as he was called to Canton, the Hon. Mr. H. A. W. Slaule took the chair in his absence. Supporting him were his Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, the Revs, E. J. Barnett, T. W. Pearce, Dr. Wilder (Amoricau Consul General), and W. G. Humphreys,

The meeting have been opened with de votional exercises,

The CHAIRMAN explained that he took the chair in the unfortunate absence of Hon. Mr. May, and as he had to plead attor ignorance of the working of the Society he asked them to orcus hing from any remarks and he would call upon Rev. Mr. Pearce to read the report.

The first annual report stated: Throughout the year under report the purposes which the auxiliary is intended to serve were kept in view and measure of success distinctly gratifying has attended the efforts of the general committed to carry them into effect.

Special meation should be mude of services rendered by the ladies committee. Reference to the treasurer's statement will show that the financial aid accruing to the Society from the work of this auxiliary during the year is, to the ▲ extent of $756.50 due to the well-timed activity of lady collectors. The committes recurus its appreciation; each following year will it is hoped be marked by a farther advance.

Bible unday was unly kept in the churches of this colony. In the local Chinese con gregations, special attention was directed to the Society's methods of distribution by col- portage, a form of Christian service that is calling for the highest consecation and the noblest energies of the Church in China. Ap peals of clergy and ministers were based on the Divine commined for a world-wide evangeliza. tion and the universal dixominatiun of the Sacred Scriptures was spoken of as a test of obedience to the risen Saviour and a first efficient means of witnessing to the power of His-rasurrection life.

Church collections have place in the treasurers statements attached, and will be acknowledged in the general report issued at Shanghai by the Society's agent in China. Efforts of the kind made in the local churches on Bible Sunday, have, however, and issue that cannot be set down in a Balsace sheet: thought is quickened, purpose is enlarged and motive power is given for the promotion of Bible work in an even widening field.

Bale of Scriptures from the depot during 1908 were in the under-mentioned aleren European and Asiatic languages-English. Gorman, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Punjabi, Chinese, and Japanese. A total of 8187 copies were thus disposed of con- sisting of 1545 Bibles 2358 New Testaments and 4284 Portions.

In 1907 there were sold at the depot 1004 Bibles, 2778 Testaments and 1097 Portions, The increase for 1908 is therefore approximately 67 per cent. For these publications the sum of $1,426.67 was received.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

Lordship went on to speak of the comfort which | the sanctions of the Bible in which generations

the Bible gave to the dying, and proceeded to state that the society was founded on a vory broad basis, among its officers being found the leading men of all the Protestant Christian chuurchion. Under its aegis man of different antionalities and races could co-operate for the advance of Christianity, and in this con nection he referred to the movement for a reunion among the Christian churches which was so strongly advocated last year at the Pan Anglican Congress. In working for such a Society as the British and Foreign Bible Society they were helping to forward the time when Christian people throughout the world should bo one as our Lord and Master prayed they might be.

have been 'trained. The Proverbs have made The musings of Job havo men mutions. forced men to look to the stars in reverence, The warning of Isaiah have made them afraid The grim, just, god-fencing figures of prophete and martyrs yet stalk in the souls of men who do not know it, and the God-man of Galilee still summons the sore of men to be pure, merciful and true to the end.

ARCH 11TH, 1909.

LOCAL SPORT.

FOOTBALL NOTES.

THE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM

COMMISSION..

BIE FRANK SWETTENHAM'S VIEWS.

In a letter to The Times Sir Frank Swotten-

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Last Baturday's deluge damped the ardoar of football onthusiasts and all the league ham writes as follows

The report of the Singapore Opium Commis- matches had to be postponed. Since then, how- ever, there have been two interesting matches on has just been published. The conclusions the struggle for the entry into the foal round are very similar to those of the Royal Commis

The fact is that we know all that of the Shield Competition having provided good it is necessary to know on the subject, and gramos between the men of H.M.B. Bedford and those of H.M.S. King Alfred and between the Buffs and E.M.S. Kent, the Bedford and the Butts baring qualified

This society devotes its anergies to the dis- tribution of the Bible to all nations. It is now printed in full or in part in over 400 languages This work is predicated on the proposition that

the teachings of The trasle batween the two naval teams was the man who shapes his life the book will come to the full stature of man- grand. From start to finish play was very fast hood and that the people who make it their and tried the nettle of the players, but all the guide will slough off avils bnd take on benefits men were in good form and showed up well, The King Alfred were hot favourites after hav We are especially interested in distributing the book among the Chinese: they are our neighing beaten the Club in the replay and giving the hours, and knowing and osteeming the qualites we Buffs their first defeat in Hongkong, but are almost a unit is saying no undeveloped poo-contrary to expectation the Bedford accured ple has the potentiality of these four hundred the victory. millions. We believe the book will do for them what it has done for the nations that have adopted it as the corner stone of their re

DR. AMOS P. WILDER nid :--Misslots are the subject of comment as regards personnel, method, efficiency; but there is an undisputed dignity and majesty in the naaccompanied circulation of the Bible. To question the potency of this book and the benefit of its distribution, is to argue with the stars. It is the motive power of our civilization; most or all we have we owe to it, As people absorb its teachings in their clarity and follow them, they become strong as in.ligions faith. dividuals and as nations; as they forget er

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The Buffs had a comparatively easy win over the Kent, their superior training manifesting itself to the disadvantage of the sailors.

The greatest match of the season will un- dosbtedly be that of the Buffs and the Bedford. Each team will play to win.

FOOTBALL.

BUFFS V. LUSTANO.

REFEREE.

This Lengua matek will be played this after noon at Causeway Bay, Kick off at 5.15. The Lusitano team will be. J. M, Britto, A. V. Barros and L. G. Cordeiro; F. Soares, P. da Roza and A. Baptista; A. Ribeiro and V. Azevedo; R.

da Silva; . Lopes and H. Hyndmann.

HOCKEY.

And what else will uplift China? Commerce, obscura. its precepts, they decline. Japan exploitation of resources, diplomacy, personal this contact, secular education even, have had their exception, yet potential people is too young and modern to way: they are hand-mails of truth, but they hare ran the gamut of all the tests of nationaldo not do the work. The Anglo-Saxon has life. It is remembered that Shintoism was rubbed against the Chinese for a century in not able to weak the bonds that enveloped South China, yet the crudost forms of super- debt to stition abound in almost every native home: that nation. Its suges confess B Christian impact, and hope is strong that the tawdry dragons are carried about the streets to Faith will come to its own there as elsewhero.expel the plagne; polygamy and slavery are eommon, and one may only infer the dark scenes the legacy of our Mou enjoy so much as fathers' devotion to this Book that in their that must be enacted under a system whose arrogance some are wont to any that Buddha or heaven can be bought or whose hell can be Confucius offòr un equally effective programine, averted by burning, coloured sundust and vain The only awer needed is to point to India repetitions. You say that our American-Euro.

One Knds virtues there, and pean phases of these coast ports are no less The final in the Hongkong Hockey Cup and China. whatever is good in man, wherever found, is abborent. We deny it absolutely. We confess competition between H.M.S. King Alfred and divine; but how does the work of the Bible in the sorry showing, bat we point out the con- the United Services Club will be played at 4.30 stant protest, the disgrace attached top.m. this afternoon on the Hockey Club groand uplifting, not individuals but the mass of men,

the promise at Happy Valley. compare with the fruit of the maxims of it, the periodic war on it; Confucius,so excellent in precept and so futile from the operation of Christian resistance and to make a nation intelligent and progressive? | uplift elsewhers of better days to come in the If the great Teacher of the Chinese should Far East. There is this all important differ- return should speak with his old time direct ence: Pagan vice and ignorance are a dead in- ness to corrupt Mandarindom, how long would ouhns, with no hope from within. Paganism it be before he too were crucified? And the unaided never improves. In a Christian com little green god of India "—what minu save in a munity where you find vise and degradation cyncial mood, would claim for its unquestioned there is no posce; there is recurring protest; way for thousands of years, the good things someone is for ever carrying forward the that Christianity has brought to millions of standard and bidding the line to come up; homes of the antions that rule the world?

one generation does not relieve the iniquity, Chang Chi Tang said a decade ago: The better men and women to fallow us force the Western religion is daily flourishing; while the improveniant. two cults aro daily declining and cannot, lust long For Buddhism is on last logs and Taoism is discouraged because its demons ars spiritless."

Mon are often discouraged by the shortcomings

Police

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THE BUFFS SPORTS.

in health than their fellows who are not addicted

gamera.

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habitual Batars or smokers of opiam, in modera. tion, are no more vicious, or degraded, or rained to the habit. What is perhaps onrigus is that when a man with the habit is weak, or depraved, ̈ ́or a criminal, all his failings or crimes are at- tributed to his use of opium;, whereas it is more than probable that, amongst moderate con- ers, no larger proportion belong to the de prayed and oriminal classes than of non-con- China is at perfect liberty to do what she Inquiries, and when the most exhaustive likes in this matter: England has made the report of 1895 was published it was supposed, by those interested, that errone- vus impressions had been removed and the matter was done with. Surely it is strange that England should now bo drown an international conference to consider this question Would the Powers, would the United States, take part in a conference, suggested, say by Japan, to inquire into the linching, burning, and shooting, of negroes! continues, and civilisation dons Th Lardere, probably because the American people would resent interference, and they are quito capable of managing their own domestic affairs. The opivin question affects this country, and so far as we are concerned want no international conference to tell us what to do. The Lord Chancellor said recently that England spend £186,00,000 annually in 40,000,000 people. If the Lord Chancellor was drink. It is a large sum for a population of at all right in the conclusions he drew in regard to the results of this expenditure, it would surely be well for us to lay aside hypocrisy for once, cease to repeat statements which are proved to be false, and leave the opium-consumer in peace.

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CURE FOLLOWED

YEAR OF AGONY

Intense Itching Eczema Drove Him Nearly to Despair Chief Surgeon of a London Hospital Called It Worst Case He Had Ever Seen-- Got Little or No Relief Until

CUTICURA STOPPED HIS

UNBEARABLE TORTURE

*About four years ago, in London, was troubled by a severe tching and

dry, sourly skin on my ankles and feat. The sanie, in a few days,

was the case with my arms and scalp. I could. hardly keep from scratching, which, I need hardly say, made it

worse.

Then large red patches appeared, with Inflammation" and soren eas After ten days, thousands of small red pimples formed.

On becoming dry, these caused intense Itching I was advised to go to the hospital for disonses of the ekin, I did so and was an out-patient for a month or more, the chief surgeon saying:.........'I never saw such a bad case of eczema. But I got little or no relief. Then I tried many so-called remedies, but I be came so bad that I almost gave up in despair. On coming to this country I heard so many accounts of cures by Cuti- cura Rergedies that I resolved, sa s last resource, to give them a trial. This was after suffering agonies for twelve months, and right glad am I that I did so, for I was relieved of the almost uan bearable itching after two or three applications of Cuticura Ointment. I montinued its use, combined with a ilberal use of Cuticura Roap and Cuti- ours Resolvent Pills and am more than thankful to say that after using three sete of the Remedies, I was completely oured. I can only add that should any one be suffering as I did, I hope that they will do as I did, and I am sure of the resul's. Henry Searle, Cross St., Little Rock, Ark., G. 9. A., Oct. 8 and 10,1907.

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THE PASSING OF A FAMOUS MISSIONARY:

I cannot forget that when the House of Commons passed a pious resolution on a sab imperfectly noquainted, a good deal was sil jeot with which the members may have boon about our morals and other people's money- So far as the opium question is concerned the English conscience is in much toas danger than the other people's money but if, to give China a monopoly of the production of apium, the cultivation of the poppy were prohibited in India, an enormous composation would probably have to be paid If British Colonies were deprived of the main source of their revenues, while England still raised a good deal from the liquor traffic, it might not matter to the Colonies, they bolong to the Crown, and Great Britain is responsible for their finances.

Commenting on this letter The Times of saysIt would be easier to

enthusiasts, our own the House of Commons and elsewhere, if sympathian with

bore somo practical rela tion to

For their enthusiasm

the sacrifices they demanded. the burden, it must be remembered, falls No, this Society and kindred projects brink Corpi Champion; Zud, Pt. Beach 3rd, Pt. upou India and our Far Eastern colonies, Times) have to record the death of Sa Grupour

and not upon the morally incensed taxpayer at Elliott. 2ud Heat-1st, Pt. White; 2nd, themas. Righteous indignation is a cheap virtne, when, as Sir Frank Swattenham pointedly Miller, 3rd, Pt. Wells.

Half mile race-1st, Lance-Corp). Andrews; puts it, the question is one of our morals and

other people's money."

The action of the Keep. Eleven starters turned out for this race tremes in either direction, commends itself, we and it was very exciting one. Lance Corporal believe, to the sound judgment of the country cautious policy, if slow, is more effective than Andrews winning by about eighty yards, the by reason of its frankness and its justices. A the over hasty counsels of well-meaning zealots. time being 2 m. 3 sec.

No doubt the Commissioners will bear this in mind, and will follow the lead of their prasilent, Bishop Brent in making their inquiry a *scientific analysis of fact.

The prelimenary heats in connection with the February 9 if

Butts Regimental sports which are to be held on the 17th inst., were run off yesterday. The

the only hope puer old dead China cau

Globe-trotters ever know.

comfortably ensconced by the hotel fire may concaire that because coolios patiently bear their chairs with a

roanita were:-

220 Yards, Scratch 1st Heat-1st, Lance

Throwing the cricket ball.-1st, Pt. Houcken; 2nd, Pt. White; 3rd, Ft. Hutton.

WATER RETURN.

of our civilization and wearily conclude that smile and mothers with burdens in their baskets 2nd, Lanco-Corpl. Reed: 3rd, Lance-Corp British Government, who have eschored - it is a delusion. They are in a hurry for a and babies on their hacks koop each other com- paradise and work to know the purposes of the pany up the precipice and divort their journey Almighty. Some are confident that they could with good cheer, that therefore all is well; they make a better world. One looks about him in do not know China. I have been in the interior the centres of the finest civilization and in and seen the poverty, the unprogressiveness, the social degradations, the inauities of fashion, in disease, violence and death. As through village, rotten drama and wolfish competition he reads and waled town I have walked through the deendance and decides that the life of the dreary monotony of ravenous hunger, filth, coolie is better. Men say--and it may be transqualor, beggars and thieves-the pathetic triff- -that all civilization must flower only to ing of soothsayers, and sad women kneeling to 1st March City and Hill District Water Worke. decay; but amid the mutations of the social I order and the crash of empires there is in remnant of virtue and strength and this mon of faith believe to be the promise of a rehabilitated world. Christianity's dominance is attested by its vital principle. The pagan faiths have had great sway and onlookers have been dazed by their spiondous, but once down, never live again. Bishop Lander then moved the following At different epochs Christianity has been resolutions: “That the General Committee for obscured and made unlovely and defiled by the the year 1908 be re-elected for the current year bigot, the mercenary and the sensual until just with power to add to their number," the Ladies Committee be thanked for spoci! mon have scarcely been able to "follow its by men and women with love in their hearts; in Wong-nai-chang ...

gleani" but now and shop through the hospitals where suffering was abated by men entries some base, clear visioned man has laid whose skill was mastered in Christian countries. held on the original teaching, dragged the divino Here for the few was the order, cleanliness, the thing from the humun debris, and cried Here is quiet, the mercy and consideration that you acid the Way"; the undying nature of the message

I know as the common lot; and I realized as never before the meaning of the words "The Consumption 122,900,000 102,145,000 gallons It cannot be denied the apathy shown us regards has reasserted itself, and once more the marel has gone forward.

The Rev. Mr. Pearce commented upon various items in the repert, drawing attention to tho say. port given by fellow Christina Chinese to the work of the Society, and pointing out that if there was one platform on which mon of different races and tongues could stand together it was the platform of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

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Services rendered during the past twelve months and be requested to continus for a further twelve months with power to add to their number," "that Dr. Sanders the hous. treasurer and the Rev. T. W. Poarce the hon. secretarý bo asked to remain in office for a further period of one year.". Proceeding he said that

Culture is a good thing for the individual but he regarded the British and Forsign Bible culture has its perils; so we are not to reject Society as one of the most encouraging institu vivilization because it carries its peculiar evils tions in the Colony. The report. presented by I know a man who reasons that because bar-roOMAR Mr. Pearce gave them ground for encouragement are most plentiful at the centres of education, and they had to congratulate the ladies com material prosperity, refinement and church life mitteo on their carnostness and success in collecting 750 last year. They were glad that that therefore they must be a good thing. Ha Bibis Sunday was so universally observed in the might as well say that insanity and suicide aro Christian churches on the part of the Chinese things because they are more frequent and the European community, and they were among overwrought rains of fine texture than encouraged by the effect of the splendid meeting among the staguant intellects of South Sex Islanders. There is much flippant talk about hold: last year to inaugurate this auxiliary this civilisation that generations of godfearing He remembered the stirring address which

ancestors have worked out for us.

We His Excellency the Governor gave 01

ungratefully thoughtless as to what that occasion, as well as the speeches of the two have.

What of the myriads of homes experts who spoke at that meeting, but though in your country and mine, the scenes of plenty he could not claim to be an export in the work growth, peace, of mutual respect, of deferense of the British and Foreign Bible Society he for woman: what of intelligenes, self-control, was always glad to do what he could to further merey, truth, in the average man, woman and its interests. It was a society which circulated child? If you lose your watch in the streets of the best book in the world. They would agree your home town, why is the chance of recovery that the Bible was in itself its best defence. so good? If you fall down sick, why so many The question of its inspiration had been answer. strangers to care for you! Why do travellers ed in this way. Does the Bible inspire The feel safe. in an English ship? They know if Bible is a book which inspiros those who read their child falls overboard, some Briton, caro. and study it, and the inspiration it gives lees of his life, will plunge after it. They know proves it to be the inspired Word of God. If if the Republic goes down, some Captain Senlby they could imagine a world from which the will see the women and children off in safety, Bible had been withdrawn, he thought they and stand by to go down with her. These not by chance, my friends - would realise how much the world had lost. If things are there were taken away all Bibles, all quotations they were paid for with a prica. Nations from the Bible, all institutions that had do not become strong and peaceful by the their origin in the Bible, they should be turning of a hand; no such scenes as I have amazed. How much poorer the world would be? instanced are common in paganism and why å great ory would go up throughout the The motive power in man is the heart; out of it world "Give us back our Bible." Literature, are the issues of life, and heathen faiths have law and the arts were very much more dependent not so influenced those who know their power upon the Bible than most people supposed. His The strength of Christian civilization is due to

painted wood, and children ploading with fendish gods of stone; ss. I have lain at night and heard the unmeaning pounding of drums and cries of superstition and suffering, I have said What, in God's me, is the solvent of this awful gloom, distress and decay?"; and I found but one cheer that was in the little knots of Chinese men, women and children gathered in neat, clean, perceful rooms and learning of the Christ; in families happy in the new light and arabitions for their children; in schools taught

truth shall make you free."

The resolutions were carried unanimously. Mr. Humphreys proposud and the Bev. T. W. Pearce seconded a vote of thanks to the speakers and the meeting concluded with the Dorology. and the Chairman. This was acknowledged

CURES BY RADIUM.

A Paris correspondent of a London paper. writing of a visit to the Paris Radium Institute,

Layy

The process followed in the making of radium is that originated by Professor and Mme. up for the latter, where she superintends the Curie, and a special laboratory has been fitted extraction of the radium required for her experi- ments from pitchblemle and other substances. The cheapest apparatus sold by the institute is catalogned ot 13 4s, and the highest priced at nearly.

£1,000.

cases

Out of sixty-eight cases of extraneous cancer sixty-four cures, I was informed, have been effected by radium during the three years of the institute's existence, and in a large number of cancers which could not be operated upon have been transformed into a condition in which operation is possible. Vascular tumours of great size have been enrod, port-wing stains and tenacious sears have been removed, and over a thousand birthmarks have been successfully treated.

Levd Storage of water in Reservoirs on the

LEVEL

1909. 1908. Below overflow. Belon.overflow. 30 ft. 9 in. 35 ft. 6 in. Tytam Tylam Byewash 23 ft. 7 in. 26 ft. 74 in. Tytam Interme

diate... O ft. 33 in. 2 ft. 10 in. 15 ft. 1 in. Pokfulam 19 ft. 0 in.

33 ft. 5 in. Wong-nai-chung 28 ft. 11 in.

STORAGE GALLONS,

1908. 174,300,000 1,335,000

Tytam Tytan Brewash Tytan Intermediate 194,276,000 Poktalum

1909.

It is with nich regret that we (Bangkok Monseigneur Jean Louis Voy, Bishop of Geraza, Vicar-Apostolic of Sium. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Academy. He passed away on February 21st in the seventieth year of his age, fortified by the Sacraments of the Chirch. His death took. place in the St. Louis Hospital, in Bangkok, where he had resided for some years.

When Bishop Vey first arrived in Siam 'in 1865, the Catholic Mission had then only Bishop and alevan priests, the Christian pop- Ho lation numbering about 10,000 converts. leaves now the Vicariate of Sinn with a Christian population of 23,000 soula, having 40 European and 13 native priests to administer them. There is not included in this, the Vienrate of Laos which is separately organivet, with 34 European and 4 native priests over a Christian population of 11,544 souls.

Sympathising with the derelicts and sufferers of this world. Bishop Voy male a special point of having all the principal stations of the Mi sion fitted with orphanages for children, and shelter places for the poor. The 15th of Sep- tember, 1897, was therefore one of the real letter days of his life, when, attended by many Fathers of the Mission and surrounded by ladies and goutianion, including practically all the residents of note in Bangkok, he formally opened and inaugurated the St. Louis General Hospital, which is sinco been carried ou to the great benefit and satisfaction of Bangkok.

SHANGHAI TRADE. Messrs. Noel, Murray and Co.s latest report on the Shanghai Piece Goods Trade says:-

The first steamer arrived at the Tientsin Band on the 25th nito... earlier than was We have not been able to gather much news of expected, and has already returned to this Port. the market, but there seems to be fairly good enquiry at firm prices. How they compare with those that are current here it is somewhat the dealers here, of course, difficult to say, making out they are not so good, are trying to 149,640,000 get in at lower prices, which bolders resent. 256,000 with the consequence that nothing hus 180,021,000 bron done from first hauds, and very little

His remains wore hid to rest on February 33,840,000 otherwise. Further steamers have left hore

2,620,000 almost daily with mederate shipments of 24th in the Church of the Amption in the goods and Yarn, the later, according to latest presonen of a large congregation, and with 366,357,000 Advices, having advanced considerably and is the rites and ceremonies befitting one who hold really the caly satisfactory feature, as it shows such high position and who laboured so long to the country people have the manns to buy that advance the Catholic faith in this country. commodity to employ the spare time weaving Since the death of the Bision, inrge numbers of until their services are required in the fields. the faithfal from all over the dioceses have paid visit to the mortuary chapel where the remains woven goode is distinctly disappointing. There have been lying in state, and veneration was is, however, every assurance that Shanghai will paid to the dead prelate up to within a few 2081,10

ragain some of her lost trade this year, so Im moments of the removal of the coin to the store hopo is placed church. Every evening proyers have bon said 17.5 gallons porters inust uot despair. Constant supply in all districts during bebru on the consumptive powers of Newchwang continuously throughout the night, by numbers of Annamites, Sianiese and Chinese, and the boys

His Majesty tho. King on learning of the

28.200,000 '4,568,000

Total 403,079,000 COMBUMPTION CF WATER IN THE CITY AND HILL DISTRICT DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY,

1908.

1909

Estimated

population 206,310 Consumption por

20.4 head per day

ary 1909, Intermittent supply by rider main in the steamers for which Port are from the College have ako been in attendance.

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1909.

86,500

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next

to Korea are quite satisfac- shipments tory and might have continued so, but for some stoamer that was on the barth to leave this week has been withdrawn.

Terson

Besides bestowing the same honours as King Phrs Chom Klao did in the case of Bishop Palegoix's funeral, His Majesty the King sent his aide-de-camp, General Phya Surasona, to represent him, while the Crown and other

SHIPPING MISHAPS.

The following paragraphs are from the Straits Times -

leave hure about the ""end of Rider main district during February 1969. The to return of consumption in subject to error owing week, but unless some radical change has taken to the difficulty of accurate measurement whilst place in the Tancial position, which we have hour of the funeral sent a royal hier, accompanied the extension works at albany Filter Dods are not been utvised of, it is difficult to see how by bearers wearing their scarlet uniforms, men trade cau improes to any grout extent. It is carrying symbolic umbrellas, and musicians with in progress.

true fresh outlets have been found for some of the old time instruments. These wore stationed KOWLOON WATER WORKS

the Bianchurian products, which should stimulate outside the entrance to the church. LEVEL.

1908.

the import trade in that Province. The River Below overflow. Below overflow, markets are still inactive, though latterly shipments have shown an improvement in that Kewloon Gravitation

24 ft. 4 in. direction, espacially Hankow, which it is trusted Reservoir.... 26 ft. 2 in.

STORAGE GALLONS.

will continue and make up for the falling off 1908.

1909.

Inst. year, as shown in the statement of Re-princes were represented, or appearod iu poreon. exports to that Port, compared with previous Kowloon Gravitation

147,433,000 years. It is satisfactory, however, to note that Reservoir............ 135,650,000

the total deliverias so far this year ure on the CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON

whole better than last year. DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.

1909. 1908. 20,825,000 30,899,000 gallons Consumption Estimated popu.

81,700 lation.

About the third week in January, it will be As regards freal business we can glour very Consumption por

head per day..."

8,8

8.6 gallons few particulars, but while nominally exceeding remembered the Italian sienner Capri, bonad

from Hongkong for Boulay, while neuring · The Government palyst reports that the ly quiet thorn is a light undercurrent of en-

quiry, and there are not wanting instances Singapore ran on a reef near the Horsburgh water is of excellent quality.

Public Works Department.

where sales have be satisfactorily replaced. Light and sustained very serious damage. Sizes W. CHATHAM. - With such strenuous competition that is now the date of the accident, the Capri hus been in Cares have also been effected of chronic

Water Authority. going on it is probably wisor to keep any such the Albert dock, undergoing repairs which, it is rheumatism, chronic eczema, and tulierculosis.

A recent departure is the application of

transactions as dark as possible. Manchester is stated, will cost something over $50,000. The radium to mineral waters certain medical

certainly unbending and better terms, can be repairs are now well on the way to completion, ALEXANDRA CINEMATOGRAPH.

arranged than could have been done a month and are expected to be finished very shortly. preparations the vitality of which is enhanced

The operations for the raising of the sunken by the introduction of a strictly calculated

Alexandra Cinematograph has at presont ago, though to what extent this is heing availed

Djambi, at east wharf, Tanjong Pagar, are of it is difficult to my, a very attractive programme and one which is

slowly-but very slowly progressing towards quantity of radium.

In answer to my questions. Dr. Degrais said: certain to popularizu this place of entertain- |

the stage when it is saticipated the hull may be heon We in Franen are no longer in the period of ment. The films which are new and particular LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, raised. Several stout steel hawsers have expectancy

We are now in the period of ly good show a variety of subjects, one of the

passed under the ship, the ides being to attach sonilration.

most interesting being the portrayal of home

those to huge baulks of timber lying across aither side. Those hawsers The institute is a private establishment with industries and street scenes in Chins. In Wednesday, the 10th ulting at noon, arrived at lighters mcored

are to be tightened at low water, and as the tide no official patronage. Since its foundation it addition to this the management have secured Genoa on the 9th ingbaut et 8 ma has leat to Paris capitals £4,000 worth of the services of Mise Bosa Barnes, most The C.P.R. str. Monteagle arrived Kobe at rises it is expected that the sunken ship wil rise radium. The medical men attached to the versatile artist. he could sustain the pro 7.30 am, on Tassday the 9th instant, and left laboratory give their services gratis to the gramme herself, as she sings sweetly, whistles again at 3 p.. same day for Yokohama where hospital patianta At the institute those who nicely, recites with dramatic effect, and plays he is due to arrive at 10a.m. on Wednesday cannot afford to pay are uttended gratuitously, the piano very cleverly. She is indeed worth the 10th instant. bat others are charged moderate fees.

hoaring.

The I.G.M. atr. Luelsow which left here an

with the lighters. Divers are still engaged on the wharf piling, sufficient of which has not yet been removed to allow of a lighter being moored between the ship and the wharf.