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SANITARY

BOARD.

The usual fortnightly meeting of thie authority was held at the head-quarters. yesterday, Mr. D. W. Tratman (Presi- There tent of the Board) presiding. were also present:-Hon. Mr. W. Chat- ham, C.M.G. (Vice-President), Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Dr. Fitzwilliams, Colonel Youuon, Mr. F. B, L., Bowley, Mr. Chan Kai Ming, Dr. Francis Clark (Medical Officer), and Mr. W. Bowen Rowlands (Becretary),

QURESH DUMPING AT HAPPY VALLEY.

tions:--

1. Will the head of the Sanitary De- partment inform the Board whether it is necessary to continue to permit the dump ing of rubbish on the unsightly piece of Land surrounding the Waste Crown public convenience near "Le Calvaire" in the Happy Valley?

2. If yes, is it beyond the joint powers of the Sa itary Department, the Public Works Department, the Botanical and Forestry Department, and the Captain Superintendent of Police to fence the waste, plant a screen of trees between it and the road, and proveut muck-rakers from frequenting this happy hunting ground in defiance of the law forbidding trespass on Crown Land!!

PARIS LETTER.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

[PWM DOR.OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PARIS, May 2nd. THE BALKANI.

Though Europo is just now passing through some very anxious moments belief is gaining ground in political circles here that there will be no war. All eyes are actually turned towards the Ambas sadorial Conferences at present held in London with whom rests the key of the situation. The greatest confidenco is placed in the statesmanship of Sir

That most brilliant diplomatic victory. the European Powers are safely turning

Given time the crisis tion is admitted. the danger corner in the Balkan situa

THE MORGUE.

s

THURSDAY, JUNH 5ru, 1913. THE EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION OF SHANGHAI

ADOPTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS.

To receive the rules, regulations and

BILLS OF LADING.

PROSECUTION LY HOLT AND COMPANY.

QARGO FOR CHINA,

At Liverpool on May and a singular forward. Charles Ernest Irwin WRS Case affecting hills of lading was brought charged with attempting to obtain a bill of lading by false pretences and with ** Intent to defraud from Percy Fred Steamship Company (Messrs. A. Holt Jackson, clerk employed by the Ocean & Company)

fatale. Ho is, however, careful to point out exactly what type of blonde he means It is not the delicious creature of creani and roses, blue-eyed and golden-haired.) It is quite another type, small, thin, "bitter, acid, with pinched lips and nostrils, with eyes of glaucous onamel bye-lawa which have been drawn up for of Exportera, a meeting of the Association that come straight from the Renaissance." the recently formed Shanghai Association The opinion of the ladies on such

They was held at Shanghai last week at the question is well worth recording. naturally look at the subject from a more rooms of the Chainher of Commerce. The

Mr. A. Hyslop Maxwell, for Alfred personal standpoint. Thus, Mdile. Alisir was occupied by Mr. L. E. Canning,

Holt & Co., the prosecutors, explained tinguette declares that the evil reputation who was supported by Mr. G. P. Forster. of the brunette is a nonsense.. Mdlle. There were ten other members preseit.

The Chairman addressed the meeting that the action was brought under section Regina Badet also defends the dark

follows: Gentlemen, this octing 88 of the Larceny. Act, 1861. He should unteone of the also ask for the committal of the prisoner has been called as an Mr. F. B. L. BOWLRY, in accordance Edward Grey, who may already consisterhood. Her theory is that the greater with notice, asked the following ques. gratulate himself upon having achieved proportion of dark-skinned dramatic resolution passed by you on December under section 10 of the saine Act for villainesses is simply due to the pre-19 last, when it was decided that it was intending to defraud a person by induc- ponderance of the brunette in real life expedient to form an association to watch ing the Ocean Company to execute a bill over and protect the interest of the of lading known to the steamship com- Irwin, he stated, was employed by That the Morgue is an eyesore to Paris export trade. At that meeting a pro-pany to be false.

visional committee, consisting of Messrs. will be antisfactorily overcome without is the opinion of a great many people Hoerter, Bandes, and Forster, was Wingate and Johnston, of Liverpool, who resorting to arms-the chief object in who advocate its disappearance. Since appointed to consider the framing of bye- acted as forwarding agents for the ship- view. King Nicholas has acted most im- it is closed to the public, it is no longer laws, rales etc., and these gentlemen pers of goods to China and served, It was the prisoner's prudently by his prolonged defiance; an object of curiosity, one of the "sights" invited Messrs. C. H. Arnhold, Forum, amongst other companies, the Ocean

Its removal is Kicu, and Lorioz to join them. As a Steamship line

EL railway Hote came signs are not wasting that he has at of the Trench capital.

result of their deliberations I am shortly duty when

the consignor describing the last recognised the peril of such a course, not practical, for it continues to prove going to propose that the rules and bye from

All that laws which have been posted to you be quantity of goods to take it in hand and and shown himself more conciliatory invaluable to the authorities. His Majesty could not possibly fight can be done is to ranove the gruesome adopted, for the association to be known to the necessary work in connection with hai. I very much regret that this meeting The consignors in this case wore Walker Austria aloue, much less the whole Triple structure to another part of the metro as the Association of Exporters of Shang. the shipment. Alliance. Whether Servia, Bulgaria, and polis less frequented by tourists and could not be held last Monday, the clay & Co. of Bradford, who wished to send perhaps Gronce were prepared to back others. The destruction of the building originally intended, as then you would goods to China by the steamer Idomeneus, him up is more than doubtful, though he and the erection of a new Morgue on have had in the chair the gentleman who The charge was calculated accordingly to appears to have more or less relied upon another site may not be altogether an has acted as chairman of the provisional weight and in relation to cubic foot Dead House" stands need are also absent to-day: Mr. Bandow, note showed that the goods weighed 71 the present such co-operation. Russia's loyalty to the aesthetic improvement. The site on which committee, Mr. Huerter. The following measurements. Messrs. Walker's railway Powers has proved the decisive point. not become waste ground; either an who left for home leave yesterday, Mr. cwt, and the weight given on Walker's We have good grounds for believing this artistic fountain or a colossal statue of Arnhold, who is taking a short holiday invoice was practically the same. time in the sincerity of King Nicholas, some here or heroine would be an in- in Japan, and Mr. Forum, why left for goods were under a certain weight they rate. It was alleged that the prisoner are already too many statues in Paris in the rough draft. who is now stated to be willing to surment on present conditions. There home after having approved of the rules were shipped at the light measurement when making up the weights for the bill B in exchange for so that a fountain would really be found

of lading, instead of putting down the rendor Scutari,

more acceptable to the majority of people, substantial compensation to which every

What about a square or a garden?

fall weight had put down only 51 cut. there should only be the sweepings from one readily admits he is justly entitled. There are not half enough "lungs

this capital, in which children can enjoy the road; and leaves and paper and such Why did he hold out so long, and

He no themselves. ouds and ends as are left about on the jeopardise the peace of Europe? recreation grounds at Happy Valley. All doubt had his motives for doing so, which that is offensive there and all that is no one needs any extraordinary intel-

His plans worthbile picking over is dumped there ligence now to perecive.

much cherished plans, too, they were have by ous house-holders near. second question I hardly think is strictly frustrated, as they were all along were held, they were poorly attended. of place if I refer to certain questions why the bill of lading had been kept back,

Il it is the opinion of the destined to bo. The Powers' decision not So little did the first of May this year which have been raised during in order.

police and soldiers were conspicuous by One of the Brst questions was that of particular thing is to allow him to retain Scutari in spito cause anxiety to authorities that meetings of the provisional committee. their absence. Lilies-of-the-valley was the drawing up a uniform contract for bolts We Board that any required for the good health of the of most herois sacrifices was no hastily- Colony, and they make it known to me, drawn-up decision either. He was clearly favourite flower wol yesterday, it being the buying and selling of produce.

Kobe Board of Trade regarding & con it is my duty, as head of one of the Gorgiven to understand as much all along, considered a most lucky flower to wear on have been in communication with the tract adopted by them, but the latest Im that purt is that Yokohama skippers have. ernment Departments, knowing the work. but ignored and flouted the will of such a day by all classes.

not accepted the proposals front that very serious matter and had been ing of the other Departments of the Europe. So far so good. Still more

Board, and the same kind of thing has hanging over hin very much, and that it was entirely in Irwin's hands. It was Government, to forward the matter to the important of the two is the veritable

happened in the South. Canton has not Department which looks after it. I golden detay secured by the five Great

seen its way to accept a form of contract o suggested, mid Mr. Maxwell, that the cannot, however, be asked to state in Powers of Europe. Great Britain,

put forward by the Hongkong Associa-prisoner put anything into his own pocket secure the goods being shipped through public what other Departments would do. France, Germany, Italy and Russia hava

the Committee which I shall ask you his employers, The promcution did not With regard to this Department, I can successfully prevailed on the sixth- only say what I said at the previous met- Austria- to wait still longer before de

tion. This is a matter to be pursued by by the falsification, but simply did it to

ing, that it is possible to catch dumpers, claring a state of war against Montenegro,

later to elect, as she was on the point of doing a few but it is hardly worth the time neces aitated. One line of 85 costs perhaps ho days ago to the horror of Europe. There was everything to gain by pursuing a a day's work, or even more.

policy of persuasion, in preference to employing military measures, whose con- sequences would have proved disastrous to other countries besides the infant Balkan State.

The PRESIDENT-The answer to the first question is that there is no necessity that that particular spot should be used, but there is some necessity that some spot The rubbish put should be available.

JFCORRECT REFERNS.

The

In regard to the mortality return for! the 10th May, Mr. BOWLEY asked the Medical Officer where the one European case of small-pox came from.

The MEDICAL OFFICEH replied that the deceased was a West Indian, who arrived on the Middleton Castle on the 4th or

5th ult.

Mr. HowLEY asked if the Medical Offer

could trace the origin of the Europe civilian case of malaria, notified in the return of the 17th May..

Dr. CLARK-The patient was a Malay woman who had been was of her mind for many years, and who lived at Wanchai.

THE PROPOSED CONVENIENCE AT HAPPY VALLEY.

Correspondence was read relative to the proposed new urinal at Happy Valley

Mr. Bowley minuted-I supported Site A last year, but we were told that

If only King Nicholas adheres to his word and leaves Scutari he will not have cause to regret it, for he will be amply compensated, besides receiving the endless thanks of a grateful Europe.

FRENCH MILLIONAIRES."

MAY DAY.

in

May Day was free from labour dis. turbances, at least of any serious nature. In Paris, though several- meetings organised by the labour Confederation

"BOOM" BUDGET.

WINED OPINIONS.

Mr. Lloyd George's Budget speech was papers. Radical papers professed to ste variously commented on by the home in it a justification of the finance of 1809; Unionist journals expressed doubt as to the accuracy of the Chanceller's forecast of the incomo he will receive during the coniing year.

Thus the Times, which heads its leader, A Speculative Budget," says: "What excites our doubts more than anything else is Mr. Lloyd George's statement that there aro no signs of our having yet reached the climax of the present wave of good trade. We cannot agree with him, and if he is relying on that opinion we fear he runs a risk of disappointment. The sign that we have reached and a little passed the climax is that orders have lately ceased to come in. Manufacturers are still full of work, and It is a popular error to conclude that will be for months to come, but a turn in the tide is already visible. It will not french millionaires are wealthy persons affect revenue

лен, Or perhaps for for the simple reason that though a

months, but we shall be surprised if it does not do so ixfore the end of the million of franch sounds a big sum it is

The Morning. False comments on hut £40,000 in English money Neverthe financial year." less, the number of French who can boast the "bullish spirit which recalled the of enjoying such a sum, who style them-speech of the Chancellor, who seems to selves "millionaries," is considerable.he applying the principles of the Stock From figures which have just been publi- Exchange business of estimating the national income, and to be indulging in shed no fewer than 666 "millionaires"

a daring speculatim on the chances of a passed away in 1931 in this country.

large increase in the yield of existing large proportion of the total, 301, to be taxes.

"Sunny Jim is the new name bestow text, lived in the Department of the

first.

Your will remember that the suggestion of forming an association of this kind came from our friends in Hongkong, and it was their idea that the formation of an association similar to this at all the Treaty Ports in China and Japan could not but help to improve the conditions of the export trade. As a baby learns to waik so must we gradually feel do not think it will be out our way, but

the

If the

cheaper rate. Suspicions being aroused. as to bring the goods within the the steamship company demanded the weights from the invoice and the railway notes. At that time the bill of lading. in question had not actually been signed. When the prisoner called at the offices of the sanship company and was asked

the same, "an be added that it had been his reply was that "everyone else is doing going on for years. With that reply the company's representative went to Wingate

notes for

Mr. previous transactions. Allan saw the prisoner and Wingate and and Johnston's and obtained the shipping

Johnston's mannger, who said it had been

TRADE EDUCATION.

CITY LIVERY COMPANIES AND A BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

has

INTIMATIONS.

ECZEMA IN ITS VERY WORST FORM

One Mass of Horrible Running Sores.

Life a Perfect Misery. thed Cu- ticura Remedies. Not a Sign of the Trouble Since,

60, Ringear Ave., Munster Rd., Fullani, Lentoh, 8. W. Eug My daughter haa been a great suiteror from oczens, fu. I

id thluk, its very worst form over since tho was

about three years old, and abe is now fourtes and a Šof age, In flest lalf years started as a small bolt on her arm which spend and bocama ono miss of borelblo running sores. Shjused to bavo it on her hands, arms and foot bad has often been lafé: up and and sbsent from school for weeks at a time, quite helpless, with overy flager on botli hands tied up. Hor life at the tienos was a perfect misery, and the Iriation of the affected parts was terriblò. Als could not get any stoop or account of it.

"I then saw the Cuticura advolisement of a free sample and I sent for Well, the sample tin of Cutler Ointmeal somed

do ler

good

to

and to

to allay the itchlog, so I get a large tin, ake a cake of Cuti- cura Heap and a bottle of Catiara Pols and ber hands got better quicker than they bad ever done before, and she harnot and since." (Signed) the alighat sign of Mrs. J. Oakley, Mar. 21, 1912.

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#Trader-faced roon shonid alvo with. Cuticurs Soap Shaving Stick, Barolo free,

96-19

HOWARD

WATCHES

THE AMERICAN WATCH

ADJUSTED FOR TEMPERATUROS AND

FOSITIONS.

suggest that Messrs. Wingate and John OF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION. Another matter which the provisional ston had any cognisance of the matter, Was given and the ease committee discussed was that of obtaining Evidence standard souples of products exported adjourned. from here for determination by arbitra- tion in cases of dispute. It is hoped that when this association possesses standard samples of quality of the principal pro- "inferiority of duots exported we shall hear less of that. well known phrase

The question of the attitude of the older THE PRICE OF THE BOWARD pro- Universities quality." This phrase appears so often

towards education

WATCH an always been a delicate one, and in many

IS FIXED in arbitration awards that your visional committee suggests that in

It is said that

AT THE FACTORY. nouncing the birth of this Association to recent discussions trade and education produce brokers' associations and Euro- have been considered to a large extent pean, American, and Australian Cham- mutually antagonistic. bors of Commerce, attention should be the attitude of mind towards business drawn to it with the indication that it prevailing in Oxford and Cambridge has would be fairer and would tend towards undergone no change, and what is a great improving the quality of exports were the necessity is a University where the culture would be of the highest order, and arbitrators roquested to give a fuller ex- planation of a term which is too general where a business man could send his What an exporter son without fear of his coming home with in its application. wants to know when an award goes a certain air of disrespect for his father! against him on "inferiority of quality" and his trade." show is it constituted? and this we consider should be fully set out in the award.

I liavo said we have got. to feel our way gradually, but my idea of the ideal will be when wo have established at all the shipping centres of the East associations of this kind which collectively will be able to have their interests watched over in ed upon the Chancellor by the Taily the Home markets by an inspector who

An interesting suggestion is that such should be established with the aid of the a University a Business University Livery Companies of London. The wealth of the greater companies is enormous; the aggregate income of twelve of them, exclusive of trust money, is, according to Whitaker, £292,298, and their halls are said to be of a rateable value of about £55,000.

The idea of a business University,"

could not be drained. It is useless to Seino, of which Paris is the capitale Mail, which observes: What business knows the conditions of the East, and has said Mr. Alfred Bowen, Sheriff of the

until we know about the drainage."

The Hon. Mr. BEWETT-Discuss at next meeting

The re-

representative,

Write or Send for Catalog ne

to

THE SOLE AGENTS.

Chs. J. Gaupp

the discussion value of their estates amounting

is altogether an admir- to 387,270,510 franes. One hundred and George should have faced his deficit fairly this end-one who would ordinarily he

ablo one, but I think it would be as well not to rely too much upon the Livery eighty-two out of the 301 left from one and squarely and have met it in straight-termed an Old China Hand."

Referring to the term "Old China Companies for the means of founding to two million franes, 89 from two to five forward fashion. By trusting to guesses and shifts be has rendered a further raid The VICE-PRESIDENT, in reply, said millions, 24 from five to ten millions, on the Sinking Fund almost inevitable Hand" calls to my mind the formation one. They are already extremely liberal "Old annually to education, many of them To enable the connection to he made from three froin ten to fifty millions, and next year. For, it will be noted, he has of the Far Eastern section of the London in their charities, and give a huge sum

three moro than fifty millions oreft no margin whatever for supplement Chamber of Commerce, with an the urinal ou Site à to the public sewer

ary estimmtes, yet such there must cer- China Hand" as its chairman, although having, of course, their own particular the floor of the structure must be aft. £2,000,000 in English money.

being called old who is well-known not School, in Holborn. Nor does their in for the Navy and insurance, above the level of the surrounding waining deceased millionaires" were tainly be for aircraft, and probably also probably that gentleman would resent schoolsas, for instance, the Mercers' In business circles, remarks the Daily here hut in all the Treaty Ports, Hong- terest in education stop there. When a ground. Of the two pavilions adjoining distributed over the greater part of, the Site A, only the Western one has connec- country, the most favoured Departments Telegraph, it is Imlieved that the crest of kong and Japan-I refer to Mr. Henry promising youth from one of their schoole tion with the sewer. The connection of being the Nord with 23, the Seine-et-Oise the wave has been reached. The plain Keswick. In print somewhere the other progresses to a University ho does not

him a helping hand the Eastern one cannot be made, because with 21, Rhône and Pas-de-Calais with fact is that, at a time when the country is day I read of the work that this Far lose touch with the Company, who take 15 apiece, Seine-Inferieure with 14, and heavily burdened with taxation, we are Eastern section had taken in hand, and an interest in his career, and if he is in the flcor was not sufficiently high.

a future and vers doubtful increase. Weed that action should be taken with the Gironde with 11. The same statistics a future and we have got, and mortgaging mention was made that it had been decid- need of assistance and deserves it give STUDY show that during 1911 a total of 371,851 deplore very much the treating of this view to obtaining standard samples of wills recommend that the arinal be erected on

were proved. The aggregato year's Budget in a spirit of irresponsible Chinese products. Before concluding I The position is much too would like to ask you all to use your optimismi. site A.

were 6,140,482,1000 serious. There is a very pressing need influence in persuading firms to join, for be remembered that the calls upon the The Hon. Mr. HMLDAX seconded, and amounts involved

francs, of which 5,781,794,700 francs and THE the motion was agreed to.

Mr. Bowley proposed that the Board

Batky.

M.

Mr. G. P. Forster seconded, and, there heing no comments offered, the motion was carried unanimously.

The next business was the election of

"Besides, although the income of the and certainly very considerable, it must Livery Companies appears so enormous

grants of 50 a year and similar stims to Liverymen who have fallen on bad times. These may not seem large amounts beside

income the figures of the total income of, for instance, the Drapers Company, who have £50,000 a year corporate (that is, entirely at their own disposal). But every part of it is portioned ont for a particular purpose, and for such a vast achenie as the foundation of a University the money would not be forthcoming simply because it could not be spared.

As a matter of fact, I am trying at the present moment to get a few hundred a permanent Executive Committee, and pounds for some Territorial rifle ranges,

I say that matters taken up by an associa pass to which we have now come; but the were liable to duty.

Chancellor's speech reveals not a trace of tion of this kind are more likely to receive KLONDE T. BRUNETTSÉ "Are the majority of dramatic authors it. His way of regarding the immediate consideration from Home associations future of the nation's finances is a charm and Chambers of Commerce than if the THE LATE MR. PIERPONT

asingly simple one.

It consists in essum matters were taken up by individual justified in closing dark women

firms. I beg to propose that the rules, This ing that nothing will go wrong." MORGAN'S BENEFACTIONS.

villainesses and adventuressea ? "

The Daily Chicle and Daily News regulations and bye-laws as printed be Under the late Mr. Pierpont Morgan's perennial Parising question has once

of the "rare and refreshing fruit" pro- "For a will, every employee in the Landon and more been revived, and is again forming and Leader both enlarge on the abundance adopted New York banks receives a year's full a burning topic of conversation in social duced by the 1909 Budget.

My efficient librarian, Miss circles. Interviewed on the subject, some Chancellor of the Exchequer to introduce gets £10,000, her authors have been more reluciant to four Budgets in succession without a single new tax would at any time be a Belle Dacosto Green,

remarkable record (observes the former); assistant £2,000 and his sailing janster express an opinion than others. Captain F. Porter, £3,000. His private secretary gets £5,000, his valet £3,000, Sacha Guitry belongs to the latter cate

nen were unanimously elected: Messrs. task is an extremely hard one. However. Miss Margaret Henderson, his house gery. While not exactly saying whether ture leaping up by something like seven

C. H. Arnhold, of Messrs. Arnhold, the business University is. I repeat, a fine the blonde or the brunette is the more millions a year is little short of a keeper at Prince's Gate, London, £500

anuum; Henry Fendry, his London dangerous M. Jules Claretis points out miracle."

The oily Aers declares that: The Karberg & Co... K. Blickle of Messrs. idea, and deserves to become a reality"

It is now definitely announced that Mra. King, tion £950 per annum;

taxes which he imposed in the Budget of Slevogh & Co.; G. P. Forster, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.; W. Kien, of housekeeper at Roehampton, £250 per that on the stage, just as in life, all the

19 have achieved success beyond his the Holland China Trading Co.; Lord Kilmarnock, recently at the British annum; and his Rochampton gardener, notorious female characters are not dark.

Also he catab More communicative still is. M. Heuri highest hopes. The history of finance con- MeLeod, £250 per annum. lishes a £120,000 fund for the New York

nock are expected to reach Japan in the Episcopal Church of St. George's, and Lavedan; according to whoni, the brunette tains no brighter page than this, for the Lorioz, of Messrs. Racine, Ackermann & Legation, Stockholm, has been annointed a single farthing to the burdens of the Ltd. and Ad. Widmeng, of Messrs. Tokyo. His lordship and Lady Kilmar

Melchers & Co.

course of the present month. bequeathes £20,000 to a house of rest for adventuress is really an anachronism, it result has been obtained without adding Co. A. Peterson, of the East Asiatic Co., Second Secretary of the bassy in

is the blonde who is the genuine femme poor or of the middle class." consumptives.

on the motion of Mr. E. Kale, seconded etc., in which I am very much interested

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