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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5TM1⁄2, 1911.

There were three more eases af plague yester. I day, bringing the year's total up to 248

4 very important induence on the returns, the yearly average number of deaths for the whole Colony during the past five years

A riosha coolie who refused a fare In the Cen- having been 508 as compared with an

Leal District on Thursday was fined $5 by Mr. average of 377 for the previous quinquen-Wood at the Magistrany yesterday. nial period. But the railway factor is now practically eliminated. Tho

re Cla that about one-third of the deaths occurred in Health Districts 9 and 10, which are at the Western end of the City, where a large number of workmen were employed throughout the year in building operations. The site

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upon which the University is being built," the Report states, "is bounded on the West by a mountain stream which a year ago who found to be swarming with Anopheles larva, and although the training of this stream was at once taken in hand and finished in the month of November, 1910, yet it is obvious that the employment of a large number of natives in a locality so long as it swarmed with Anopheles mosquitoes was bound to lead to a tempor ary- increase in the number of cases of Malaria. The training of these streams and their tributaries, the clearing of the sites and their surroundings, the completion of the building operations and the dispersa? of the workmen (many of whom carry the malarial parasite in their blood, although quite capable of working) will we hope speedily restore these districts to their formor state of healthiness." It is in the next paragraph that mention is made of the fact that the completion of the Kowloon Canton railway early in 1910 coincides with a marked reduction in the

The engagements of the Bishop of Victoria. for to-morrow are; -8 a.m., Holy Communion at St. Andrew's, Kowloon; 6.30 p.m., preach at the Peak Church.

---The roveme derived by the Government from

land sales in the Colony Inst yene was 863,730 as compared with 256,520 in 1999 and 370,725

in 1908,

A variety entertainment, which is certain to be above the ordinary in point of merit, will be given at Monat Austin Barracks to-night in aid of military charities.

The Secretary of State having approved of the concession by the Hongkong Government of a piece of land to the Japanese community as a site for a crematorium, ia So-kun-po Valley, the work will be commenced within a day or two

On the retirement of Mr. Sakata, Consul General for Japan, who is loaring London, asilar bowl with suitable iuuription was presented to him by his colleagues of the Association of Foreign Console as a token of the esteem and friendship in which he is keld.

An Tehang oorrespondent writes that the damage to the Shutung is not so great as at first faured. She struck a rock and was promptly beached by Captain Plant, but not before she had made a good deal of water and twenty Chinese passengers had been drowned,

News comes from Tai O of a daring armed

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRANCE AND MOROCCO,

LONDON, August 4th. The majority of the French newspapers

(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENOT.)

LONDON DOCKERS' STRIKE,

A NEW JAPANESE COLLIER.

When tho stoamer Kiskasan Maru was launched at Middlesbrough a few weeks age, attention was directed to the enterprise of the Japanese frm of Moses. Mitani and Company in adopting the latest and most improved

typ of patent cantilever construction with topeials ballast tanks for the four colliers which they have ordered for the service of their Milks A preliminary meeting between masters their trade with Hongkong, 8 of 8,200

colliers. These vessels are to be employed

1 in and the

LONDON, August 4th:

are urging the convocation of a fresh inter. and dockers' representatives took place this nations conference in connection with afternoon, Bir Albert Rollit, arbitrator, Morocco on the plea that Germany is pur-prosiding. The conference will be continued posely wasting time.

to-morrow. A slightly more optimistic feeling prevails.

A more hopeful tone is apparent at Berlin, though it is admitted that considerable time must elapse before the conclusion of the negotiations is reached.

GREAT BRITAIN AND MOROCCO.

LONDON, August 4th. Great Britain is taking up vigorously the expulsion of Mr. Ostlar, the Daily Expresi correspotulent, from Agadir, and the orpul- sion of Mr. McCullagh, of the Westminster Gazetta, from Tangier by the Moorish Government.

[Mr. McCallagh is a journalist well-known in the Far East, having bald appointments in Japan and Siam, while he also accompanied the Russian forces in the war of 1904-05.]

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

LONDON, August 4th.

It appears that the meeting between Mr.

OLD TOM GIN number of deaths from malariain Kowloon. robbery committed in thai village on Thursday. Balfour and the No Surrenderites" yester-

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That statement in itself, of course, is not. proof of the non-existence of malariat condi- tions: if the meu are not in a malarial district, they are not likely to get malaria, but in this connection it may be observed that the Report of the Medical Officer of the Railways shows that there were 242 cases of nularia on the railway works in 1910, which, however, was practically a 50 per cent, reduction on the figures for 1909. In 1907 the number of cases on the railway was 1,168, and the inference A.S. WATSON & CO..] nay, no doubt, correctly be drawn from

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a steady decline in the statistics that the dosing of the men with quinine, the treating of mosquito pools with oil, and temporary drainage works, were successful moans of combatting the disease. In the neighbour. hood of the University the drainage work is of a more thorough and permanent character, and sooing how successful similar operatious have been in other parts of the Colony we can confidently expect to see Health Districts 9 and 10" restored to their former state of healthiness." West Point, it is true, has long had an unenviable reputation in this respect, but the whole district should, bene. fit immensely by the anti-malariat mensures which have been undertaken in connection with the building of the University. The Report mentions that another explanation of the temporary increase in the incidence of Malaria that has been offered is the greater uniformity of the rainfall during 1910, that

A gang of men, armed with choppers, entered the home of a villager, terrified and threatened the innafes, and, before they had recovered from the shook of the intrusion, escaped with goods

to the value of $200.

Weather permitting, the se. Heungshan will make the excursion trip to Macas to-morrow, looving Hongkong earlier than the usual time, viz., at 8.30a.m. instead of 9 am, and returning from Macso at 5 pm. The 8.8. Sui An will (weather permitting) make an axire trip to Macan, leaving here at 7 p.m. to-day and re- turning from Maco on Sunday at 1 p..

The marriage arranged between Lieutenant J.C. Wasubope (Wahab), of H.M. Submarine Depot, Portsmouth, second son of Colonel t. D. Wahab, Lancashire Fusiliers, and Mrs Wahab, and Kathleen, daughter of the late David Gilmour, of Shanghai, China, and the ista Mrs. Gilmour, of Preston Cross, Bookham, will fake place shortly and quietly, owing to the bride's family being in mourning.

An old Chinese woman from Hunghom was charged before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday with killing five ducks belonging to a neighbour. The ducts are said to have tres. passed on her premises, which caused thẻ ng- grevated woman to seize each of them by the neck and aring them against a wall. His of $25 to keep the peace for six months. Worship bound the defendant over in the sam

The typhoon signals which were hoisted on Tossing- evening remained up yesterday This is an unusually long interval. The weather was squally and abawory, but the wind

is to say, there was an almost daily succes sion of small showers during the rainyer reached typhoon force. The work on. season, sufficient to keep the breading pools supplied with water, and an absence of On July 26th, at Tsingtao, the wife of Cheavy rain storms which have the effect of BEETEAM ROSERBLUM, of a Boh (still born).

MARRIAGE.

BIRTH

On July 31st, at Shanghai, HONOUR MARIE BENNETT BOYD (widow of the late W. II. Boyd).

to CHARLES BEILBY KAYE,

DEATHS.

On July 29th, in England, Gzorrear Fes- DINAND TYLER, beloved son of Mr. and Mre. W. Ferdinand Tyler, I. M. Customs, aged 3

years.

On July 31st, at Shanghai, ROBERT MORRI. SON DOILIE, aged 23 years (Messrs. Barlow & Co.).

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, AUGUST 5TH, 1911.

the harbour was in consequence considerably became stronger and more prolonged, and rain dislocated. Last evening the wind squalle fell oven heavier than during the day. So dirty ferry launches to Kowloon stopped running and boisterous was the weather, in fact, that the early in the evening.

Before Commander C. W. Beckwith, R.N.

Mr.

day was at the roquest of the latter. Balfour's advice was asked na to the best means of procedure, and the notices of the vote of censure upon the Government were the outcome of the papers drawing up a list of Halsburyite peers varying from 68 to 75. while the Liberals and 64 certainties and 28 probables, whose attitude, however, has not boon declared.

LATER.

The papers state that the Cabinet yesterday decided to return .the. Parliament Bill to the Lords without creating now peers, in the expectation that it will pass by a small majority: If it is defeated the Government will immediately create numerous peers.

GOVERNMENT PARLIAMENTARY

PROGRAMME.

LONDON, August 4th.

In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Lloyd George announced that the House would adjourn on the 18th instant.

After the passing of the Parliament and Finance Bills, a resolution would be taken regarding payment of members.

It had been decided to hold an autuma session commencing late in October and devoted to the State Insurance Bill and other measures.

ARBITRATION TREATIES. SIGNED.

· Lonvon, August 4th. The Franco-American General Arbitration Treaty was signed at Paris today.

rivers of China. The Kinkojan tons dw, capacity, the test of the four, bean built by Sir Raylton Dixon and Company; Limited. On June 10 ahe underwent her trial trip. which proved in

in every way satisfactory. The atomer is of the single-desk type with poop, bridge and forecastle. Her principal di- mensions are:-Length,

seth 393 ft. 6 in.; breadth, 53 ft. 7 in.; and depth moulded, 29 ft. 7 in. The principal feature of her design is that she is self-trimming with absolutely alase holde and six enormous hatobways, each 33 ft. by 32 ft. There are large wing tanks at the top of the hotda at each side supported on the cantilever principle and containing 1,350 tons of water ballast, in addition ta

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quantity in the double bottom. The officers' and engineers' accommodation is pro- vided in houses on deck. She has 12 derricks worked by 11 steam winches, electric light throughout, and is in overy respect one of the most up-to-date colliers yet built. The engines have cylinders 26, 42, and 70 in. in diameter by Washington telegrams state that the 48in. stroke, taking steam from thres large boilers. The hull and engines have been cou- Anglo-American and the Franco-American structed under the supervision of Mr. J. 8. Treaties were signed too late for submission man, of Cardiff, with Captain Nagata, Mr. K. Ohta, and Mr. S. Kurato as resident to the Senate yesterday, but they will be inspectors. submitted to-day.

A Washington message states that the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty has been signed.

LATER.

numerous

The Sonute has received

petitions for aud against the ratification of the Arglo-American Treaty, but the general opinion is that it will be ratified.

An

ADMIRALS GIFTS TO MISS WESTON.

THE SANITARY BOARD VACANCY of the ships as some recognition of Miss

NO NOMINATIONS.

No one appence to aspire to represent the community on the Sanitary Board in place of Mr. Sheltop Hooper, who resigned by way of protesting against á resolation of the Sanitary Board being ignored by the Government,

In accordance with the notification published receiving nominations closed on Thursday aftor- in the Government Gazelle, the time for

noon, but no nominations were delivered to the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

:

BELILIOS SCHOOL.

PRESENTATION OF PRIZES,

on a visit to this Colony, intimated his intention Some five years age, Mr. R. B. Belillos, while

the school so generously built and presented by of prasenting annually to the pupils attending his late father, seven handsome prizes to be competed for at the close of the Midsummer Term, the subject, to be English composi- tion. The excellence of the essays recently sent in by the various candidatom testifies to the valuable stimulus provided by those prizes in this important subject--always a difficult'one for yanngstore, and specially so for native ebíldren, This year the prizes have been awarded as follows:-

Class 1 Emily Alwee

2-Cheong Fook To 3-Mabel Chenalloy

"

1

4-Florence Chenslloy

5-Emily Barros

6-Ng Yuen Lin

7-Dolli Baker

The fing-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Shima- mura, commanding the Japanese squadron which visited England for the Coronation, waited on Miss Weston, at the Royal Sailors' Rest, accompanied by other officers, and coureyed valuable presents from the admiral and offers Weston's exertions for the confort and pleasure of the crows during their stay in the port. In

an immense presenting

brcuze flower-bowl. ny mented with marvellous fidelity and skil! by native Japanese craftsmen, and displaying happily observed that "the selection was figuron of tortoises in relief, the lieutenant made as that little creature is said to live 230 years, sud the donors wished Miss Weston to continue her honeficent work for the sonis magnificent Japanese-umbrella of worked silk Presents borne by the ether officers were a and bodies of the sailors for a similar period."

(a real work of art), and sots of dayleys of very beautiful design.

in the work

the

During the day, Rear-Admiral Chong Pi Kwang, of the Hai Chi, dospatched a letter to Miss Weston in appreciation of the efforts sho has made for the well-being and happiness of his man while in England. He remarked that this appreciation ran through all ranks, as everyone ander his command lag for so great a number, and everyone was trouble and care involved understood the

memento of the occasion, he asked her acceptance <of provid.

both at Devonport and Portemouth. As a email dalighted with their experience at the Rests,

of gold ten-tasl piece, suitably fitted, to be used 45 a pendant, and he deoply regretted that there no Chinese Miss Weston to labour for the seamen of their nation.

CHINA TEA ASSOCIATION.

A paragraph in a Londen paper says:--The consumption of China tea in this country con- tinues to increase, the Board of Trade returns showing a total of nearly 7,000,03015. for the first six months of this year, as against 5,000,-. 000 for the corresponding period of 1910.

THE YANGTZE FLOODS.

From information obtained aboard the 1. C.S. Tuckuco on Sunday, the N. C. Daily News says, THE HIPPODROME CIRCUS,

it appears that the water in the Yangtze is falling, and for the present farther danger need In addition to the varied sad interesting not be locked for. The water is still high abors programme provided in the Hippodrome mataked additional flooding takes place it will be some the banks of the river, and even provided no at Causeway Bay, which continues to delight time before the eurrounding country is again numerous patrons, there will be an interesting above the water level. Moreover the e

Submarine 37. The men are to box the best of now start the condition of affairs will be worse the country boxing contest to-night between Corporal is by no means free from future It Seraton, of the K.O.Y.L.I., and Seamon Tovey, of reported that the water from the melting now of Tibet has not come down yet, and should i fifteen rounds, and as their last fight had an than ever. The hope is that before this water unsatisfactory ending, it is expected that they comes down the river will hate fallon to such an will proceed cautiously on this occasion and put without a renewal of the flooding.

extent that it will be able to carry off the water

The Government was agreeable to discuas

for an undertaking that the debate would the vote of censure ou Monday, but asked

be conducted under ordinary conditions of decency and fair-play.

Consideration of the Parliament. Bill up stirring battle. would be resumed on Tuesday.

CHILIAN DREADNOUGHTS.

LONDON, August 4th..

FOOTWEAR FOR CHINESE ARMY.

COMPANY MEETING.

SINGAPORE UNITED RUBDER.

Colonel Ivar Philipps, presiding at the statutory meeting of the Singapore Urital Rubber Plantations (Limited), said that the [atte of 499,000 shares at 2s, each was so largely over-subscribed that the allotment presented introduction considerable difficulty. Disappointed applicants

allotment, were such that the

ospital"

Mr. Knabenshue, the American Consul-Gen. eral in Ticutaiu, saya in a report on the market for leather goods in China: The time is rapidly A Santiago telegranulates, that the Chilian coming when the Chinese will adopt leather Admiralty recommends the acceptance of in vogue, and this will mean an enormous shooe in place of the cloth ones now universally the tender of Messrs. Armstrongs for the table that the first general

import of shoe materials. It is pro construction of Dreadnoughts of 28,000 of leather shoes will be with the should understand that applications for smail tons such, arined with 14 inch gnus.

Chinese Army There has been more or less amounts, if they were given a proportional discussion of the subject, and this is a matter

received which might profitably be taken up with in- by the company would soon be swallowed up in port merchants here. I have just been informed printing and postal expenses. They had com- that the military authorities at Peking have con-menced the organisation of the estates. There fructed with a native manufacturer of leather wors small blocks of adjoining and they footwear in Tientsin for 60,000 pairs of shoes posed to purchase, and one had been procured. for army use at 1.45 tasis per pair, which is the rubber was very satisfactory, the output They were opening up roads, and the growth equivalent to 89,6 centa American currency.

increasing In May, 40,000 trees were being tapped, and the output for June reached 474516. The manager estimated that he would get 500016. during Joly, and 10/0001b, for the first year, sa

PERSIAN FINANCIAL ARRANGE- MENTS

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scouring out the many rock pools which con. stitute the greatest difficulty in regard to anti-malarial measures in the Colony, This indicates the nature of the work that

An Indian chaffeur appeared before Mr, nce:ls yat to be done. We share the view so frequently expressed with reckless driving and exceeding the speed! Wood at the Magistracy yesterday obargod by members of the Sanitary Board that the limit. On hearing the ovidence his Worship Government should make amaple provision discharged the defendant. By the way, it for this work wherever it is needed. From would be interesting to learn by what method On July 31st, at Bhanghai, ALFBED JAMES EDWARD ALLEN, of the Imperial Maritime the reports we learn that since the anti-the police gauge the speed limit. The new Customs Servico, elder son of I. Winter Allea, malarial measures were first inaugurated in police regulations cannot be said to have mod. of Shanghai, aged 40 years.

the Colony in 1899, the nullahs and channels erated the speed of motor cars, there are no BOHOKONG OFFICE: 10a, Des Vœux Roid °C | built make a total length of 39,918ft, or manured miles, so far as we know, and no LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STEHT. EC more than 7 miles, and that the total cost members of the force provided with bicycle,

of this work has been 8221,554. That gives crctometer and stop wałob. an average of about $20,000 a year. It is Louey well spent, The Military return of at the Marine Magistrate's Court roterday, admissions to hospital for malaria show a Lance-Bergeant Thompson proceeded against decline from 1,529 in 1902 to 324 in 1910. the coxswains of the Astor House Hotel Launch, The rate per thousand in 1909 was 1,102.8 the Brema and the Wo On for disobeying the Moch was said during last year at the (1) in 1910 it was 177.0, This is among lawful orders of the Harbour Master on the meetings of the Sanitary Board regarding European troops only. Much of this 27th ultimo. Prosecutor informed the Coart the prevalence of Malaria in certain parts infection we are told is contracted in rum that the defendants' lanches obstructed the free of the Colony, pointing to the need for districts when the men are under training Albans, and did not remove until the police access to the gaugway of the stesiner St. more extensive nullah training operations. and camping out. That is to say, in the neigh-launch was right upon them. His Worship In the joint report of the Principal Ciril bourhood of the military cantoument in the imposed a fine of $15 on each defendant, the Representatives Medical Officer and the Medical Officer of city itself there is now very little malaria. alternativ being one month's imprisonment. Health, for the year 1910, which has just This points to the value of the anti-malarial

buve addressed been published, we get some instructive measures

It may be useful to record hors that the old which have been undertaken. In most of the cases of typhoid fever that Persian Government protesting against the building which had been used as an office in

JERUSALEM'S ONE INDUSTRY. information on these subjects. The total during the past twelve years and in view of or in this Colony, says the Medical and Sanit. payment of their nationals who are em- and was latterly occupied by some of the Pablie connection with the Prava Reclamation work number of deaths from malarial fever the malarial statistics for last year the ary Report, the infection is probably contrasted ployees or pensioners of the Persian Gov-Works Department staff was demolished in the district for the last year Cousal H. E. Batow Reporting on the trade of the Jerusalem during the year was 591. This is the desirability of extending these operations to yesting salads of raw vegetables, which have ernment through Mr. Shuster, the American exired for the materials,awn of B00 being saya that the only industry worthy of the same highest number recorded for ten years, and the rural districts scarcely needs further it is customary to water and manure the plants been grown in Chinese market-gardens, where

[What offers for the is the manufacture of soap. This made satis materials of the existing matabada P-Ed.) factory progress during 1910, the increase yot the Report tells us that the completion emphasis.

The

status of His late of the British section of the Kowlcon-

ate Majesty King the value of the commodity exported being Edward VII was then moved to its per- £12.000. There was also an increase in Canton railway early in 1910 coincides with

and a bamboo fance was erected to enclose an exported and these were macent position adjoining the Central Avenue the value of so-called " religions articles ares, which was laid out and turfed by the Jerusalem and Bethlehem. The population both at Botanical and Forestry Department, correspond. of Jerusalem was 80,000. of which between ing with the Northern plot of garden belonging 50,000 and 50,000 wore Jens, mostly of the Club, which had been occupied as a contractor's Kingdom, explainable in some instances, notably to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The pooper olaes. There seemed to be a decrease of sres between the new plot and the Hongkong about £50,000 in imports from the United gard in connection with the erection of the now in the case of cotton goods to the extent of Post Office, was vacated and cleared of matsheds £17,000, owing to considerable stocks remaining and building materials at the close of the year. from the previous years.

PRENCH AND ITALIAN PROTESTS.

LONDON, August 4th. A Teheran telegrama states that the of France and Italy 3 Note to the

Treasurer-General.

with dilated hus excreta-both urine and The Government derived from the markets of carefully avoid such artioles of food as water,

nightsoil. Residents in the Far East should PORT OF LONDON IMPROVEMENT. a marked reduction in the number of deaths the Colony last year a rovenus of $1.23,442.

crass, lottuoo, etc., in view of this danger of tinal parasites, all of which diseases may be contracting typhoid fever, cholera or intes-

LONDON, August 4th.

conroyed in this manner. Oysters from neigh decided to construct immediately a deep

The Port of London Authority has

Chiness ports are also occasionally the water dock costing £2,000,000 in connection

from malaria in Kowloon. What then are On Thursday night the body of an Indian the causes of the increase in the City of watchman employed in a coal godown at Yan Victoria and the outlying districts mati was found floating in the harbour. The of the island? During the past five watchman is supposed to have been drowned years the railway works have had accidentally.

source of infection.

with the improvement scheine.

ROYAL SQUARE.

of

Extract from the Report of the Director of stated in the prospectus, Public Works

made