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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 111te, " 1926

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY," LTD.

Tel, Central 246,

AGENTS FOR

7, Queen's Buildings,

BRIGG'S BITUMINOUS ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

"UNION"

ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTI-FOULING

COMPOSITIONS-

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.

ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE.

"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST."

MARINE ROPE

TRANSMISSION

OF POWER ROPE

CABLE LAID

HAWSEES

WELL DRILLING

CABLES.

ESTABLISHED 1854

YNCHAUST

ROPE

FACTORY

MANILA

69

RUPER OF ALL, SIZES FOR ALL -PURPOSES

MADE FROM PURE MANILA FCEMP

-MANUFACTURED

„BY THE MOST.. MODERN MACHINERY.

STOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES) ENQUIRIES SOLICITED,

HONGKONG OFFICE:

FACTORIES:-MANILA, PL

TELEPHONE CENTRAL 3165.

KING'S RUILDING.

A.P.B.

THE NAVY'S CHOICE

Coates

ANORIGINAD

PLYMOUTH GIN

· OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

Horlicks helps to make fine healthy babies and strong and ̈ ̈ vigorous children

In 4 sizes

of all Chemists & Stores

Selected cereals and pure milk

are the basis of Horlicks Malted Milk-and skilfully blended as they are- they. Supply the young growing system with the necessary nourishment in the most easily digested form

THE ORIGINAL

MALTED MILK

ASAHI BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED FOB EXPORT

DAI NIPPON BREWERY CO.

LIMITED.

TOKYO JAPAN,

BOLEM AGENTS-

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA' LTD.

JEONGKONG

410-

·FINANCIAL --VOTES.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE AND-CARS,

ADDITIONAL SUBMARINE CABLE.

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'SQUITO.

THE OGRE OF MIDGETS.

A CHINESE POET'S PLEA FOR MERCY.

(Contributed.)

At the meeting of the Finance Com mitter of the Legislative Council to particularly in the East they count a great The Little things count in life, and morrow a sum of $12,000 will be asked deal Take the little buzzing, blood- for to defray the cost of internal re-thirsty, pinging, stinging, manikin-fly-the pairs to Government House,,

mosquito. As elusive as a will o' hat, of course, not as high-toned, and wisp, as musical as Gray's droning beetle,

with a bite sharper than the sting of nettles,

the

Coming out East for the first time, per sons are in holy dread of this little de- anon. They have learnt beforehand that it is the harbinger of malaris. Some doze themselves with quinine, some lave their bodies with citronella, whilst others burn Japanese joss-sticks.

CATS COMPARED WITH TIGERS.

Extensive renewals of the electrical wiring at Government House are neces sary, and, as this cannot be done with out damaging the walls, it is consider ed expedient and economical to carry out the general overhaul internally of the building which is due this year. The electrical engineer reports that the existing wiring is in a dangerous con- dition and should be renewed at once.

Aaam of $2,000 will be required for the upkeep-and-running expenses-of- H. E. the Governor's "motor cars. This sum, being approximately two-thirds of Captain, if you have neta, better put ***They swarm in Singapore," said the the estimated cost of running and main-them up." taiping His Excellency's private cara during the current year is asked for huge lumps on some people a skin

Ho further emphasised that they raised with the sanction of the Secretary of Sinte, as representing the cost of transfer, they caused malaria-a, dreadful, port of the Governor and staff in their

shivering tever.. official capacity—

CABLE BETWEEN TAIKORTSUI

·AND, STONECUTTERS.

When I voyaged East years ago, I was timon hour before arriving in Singapore, companioned by a young Irishman. One

we discussed mosquitoes.

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More-

My companion was as fair-skinned as a faxin-haired girl.

"The gnats at home," he said, " used to raise lumps on my face."

Said the Captain as blandly as if he additional aubmarino-cable-be-were-speaking the truth." Goats you tween Taikōktsul And Stonecutters, might as well compare tame "cats"with estimated to "cost" 83,000, is regarded as tigers, as goats with mosquitoes. You necessary (a) to replace the existing are in for a bad time, my friend." cable connecting the Royal Observatory to Stonecutters, which is in a very poor condition, (b) to provide land line com- munications between Post Office and Stonecutters Wireless Telegraph Station. The cable is at present in store. It is suggested that it is advisable that this work should be put in band as early as possible in order to ascertain whether the NavalAuthorities—at Stonecutters. can deal satisfactorily with the Govern ment traffic with which it is proposed to entrust them.

The cable when laid will enable a par- tion of the wireless telegraph trafic to be passed via the Naval Station, az- rangements having been agreed to whereby • Stonecutters will relieve D'Aguilar of some of the point to point trafic. and D'Aguilar will undertake the duties of the Naral Guard Ship and all work on 600 metres wavelength.. Should these new arrangements" prov satisfactory, it is anticipated that fur- ther co-operation may be effecteth en- abling an improved service for the Colony to be established at a minimum expenditure.

PEAK HOSPITAL,

COST OF MAINTENANCE.

ESTIMATED LOSS OF $14,000

"A YEAR.

When the Peak Hospital was taken over financially by the Government at the beginning of the year it was thought possible to make payment of salaries and other expenditure out of receipts. It has, however, been decided that gross receipts must be paid into revenue and expenditure must be charged against the votes for such expenditure passed by the Finance "Committee of the Legislative Council.

At their meeting to-morrow the Finance Committee will be asked for a vote of $9,000. The estimated expenditure of

It is a long time ago, but I recollect that both my companion and I each bought a bottle of citronella. By the way in bottle is halful this very day. Next morning my friend's face was awol- len. I asked him if he had toothache. "No," he said, and how he twisted his poor mouth, "the mosquitoes must have got me "

A LOCAL SUEFERER.

That sounds incredible? Well, the other day I met a friend whose face was badly swollen. No, he had not had tooth- ache; merely a mosquito bite. He, too, is fair-skinned, and only recently arrived. I quoted him the following verse from Coleridge :-

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"He fareth' best, who loveth best All things, both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.'

He atormed.

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I then quoted him the poem of Yan Tu, a Chinese poet of the 9th century, A.D., a man of a kindly, humane nature." Here it is:

Ob-spare the busy morning fix Spare the mosquitoes of the night! And if their wicked trade they ply... -Eet a partition stop their flight

Their span is brief from birth to death; Like you they bite their little day; "And with the Autumn's earliest breath,

Like you, too, they are awept away. kle raged against eta..

But at least I shall not quarrel with them. I have ceased even to quarrel with the fear little mosquitoes. I have be come hardened against them, even as I did against the canings in the village school. And when I get home to the cottage-I-am dreaming of every: pay-day, of an evening as I watch the sun sink, shall miss the lyric they sing, ping- ping.

M.

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. CLOSING QUOTATIONS,

Дом

- AUGUST 10TH, 1920. ongkong Bank $1,100 buy. the Peak Hospital for 1996 was 834,782,Chartered Bank £201 buy. London.........£125 nom. and it was anticipated that the revenue Mercantile Bank, A. & B... 30 nom. would amount to 825,000, thus showing a

Do.,

0......213% xo. deficit of 30,789 The result of the first P.&O. Bank..

99 buy. six months working shows that there will East Asia Bank.

$81 bay. probably be a saving of $1,000 on this Canton Insurance mon $830 Bel estimated expenditure. At the same | China Underwriters

$1.80 buy. time, however, the receipts have not | North Uhina Insurance reached expectations and these are now Union InsurancO put down at 820,000. The revised esti mate of expenditure for the year is $33,610 and with the revenue $20,000, the anticipated deficit at the end of the year. U. & M. Steamboats.326 buy..

is $13.640.

The detailed figures are as follow:

Personal Emolu.

Estimate.

Expenditure

for 1st half

y'car 1926.

Revised

Estimate

for 1926.

Tls. 145 mom4.

.$989 Bel. Yangisze insurace ......

$38 buy.. China Fire Insurance $200 buy Hongkong Fire lasurance ...$620 nom, Dongines..............$25. buy.

Hongkong Tags........ Ludo-Chinas (Prof.)

..$1 nom. $30 nom. $40 om.

Shell Transports marke

Da (Def.),

Star Ferries..sieers Waterboats.carrrrne

thina Sugara...ne Malabon Bogars Bengueta....

ments....$20,902 810,336.50 810,000 Kailan Mining Ad........

Other Charges. Bedding And

Clothing Cleansing Mate-

rials .... Conveyance al

lowances.

I Matron'.

6 Nursing Sis- ⚫ters at $120

cach

Fuel and Light...

Furniture Repairs Furniture

and ...to

700 3,208.60

300

94.35

Langkate (combined) .......

Mo(single)

2,000 Shanghaa lixplorations.. Changhai Lowa

250 Bauba...**********

Tronoh Mines

Urai Caspiana

240 K & K Wharts..

530 New Lagineurings..

H.K. & B. Hotela

$87 wel. ..$151 nom.

24 sel

$35) bay. $i+nom

.40/« nom,

Tla, 23 buy.

Tla. 12 nom.

Me.bt nom.

Tin 7 now.

$41 nom.

..d7/buy.

..8-com

$120 sal. 354 bay..

Tia, 170 buy.

Tls, 5.90 bay,

Tla. lus buy.

..$10 buy.

..6631 nom.

nom.

:15 cts, sel.

$134 bay

800 Hongkong Realtys (£.p.)......? bay, 8 sel.

HK Territoriais re

H.K

Developmentsines

240

113.33

HK & W. Docks Hongkows

720 1,600

224.01 -1,052:64—2,100-

Shanghai Docks..

Hongkong

Lands

Incidental Ex-

ponaes Medical Com-

·forts

600

400

1,000

400.00

8.00

11410

.100

Humphreys Estates

Prince's Buildings,

350

Bural Lands

Medicines, Sur-

gical Appli-

ances and In- struments

1,600

Provisions for

Patients

·6,000

Washing

4700

Revenue.

Medical Treat

ment

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY ONLY,

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15.

MAE MURRAY

IN

BLASCO IBANEZ

SOATHING INDICTMENT OF MODERN SOCIETY

CIRCE,

THE ENCHANTRESS

A METRO-GOLDWYN

PICTURE.

WORLD

TO-DAY Till SATURDAY.

A Great Melodrama of the Railroad

THE LIMITED

MAIL

Ninety Minutes of Sustained Thrills.

CAFE RESTAURANT

PARISIEN.

"The Rendezvous of the Elite."

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME:

WEDNESDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. - $1.25 per cover,

SPECIAL-Guoguis au Gratin). -

TEA DANSANT -5.7

p.II.

DINNER DANSANT-8-12 midaight. $1.50 per cover.

THURSDAY:

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. $1.25 per cover.

SPECIAL-(Chicken Pie).

TEA DANBANT-5-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT 8-12 midnight. $1.50 par cofer

FRIDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. $1.25 per. cover.

SPECIAL—(Choucroute Garnie).

TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT—8-12 midnight.

$1.50 per cover.

SATURDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1.2.p.m. 81.25 per cover.

SPECIAL(Bouillabaisse),

TEA DANSANT-5-7 pm.

CARNIVAL NIGHT

SPECIAL DINNER-$3 PER COVER.

NOVELTIES.

KINDLY RESERVE TABLES IMMEDIATELY.

NOTE: The Cafe and Lounge are Open Daily

From 8 am to Midnight,

TELEPHONE C 1676 FOR RESERVATIONS,

Fora Cations Oriental zhanghai-Bottons (phi)- 639.13 1,300.

Do, China Buses 3,369.50): 6,500 /Hongkong Tramways

108.53 450 Peak Trama (old)

de Do,». (now),

$34,782 $17,785.77 823,640 | Singapore Traction

Estimated

Revenuo

1826.

Revenue for

1st half year

1926.

Estimate Revised

för 1026.

$25,000 89,787:40 $20,000.

Amusements

Canton Loes" Uements (combined)

$90 nom. $14 buy.

:.9 buy. Ms. 2 buy. Ma, ba-bay.

...$7.00.nom.

$3 sel

Ms. 27 bay.

Tis. 101 buy.

31244 buy,,24)/34.60 mm

$10 buy.

10/8 buy, 12/- sch

China Provident.

Constructions cherest

Dairy Farms.

Der A Wings

$5:30 bay, & m

$163 ham.

$661 Bal.

$35 not,

$10 sol.

W

Til bay,

..$/à nomi

#lak nam. ...$12.

(new)

...$1 nom China Taghts (combined) #19 buy.

Do, (old) ($14) num.

(LV)

Djo,

Hongkong Electrica minin Macio Electrics .........

H.K. Ropes (combined)......$26 sel.

Do (old) in

Do...

(DOW)

Fane Crawfords..... Mackintoshs.......... Blaneren.....P

Birited asbestos. Wató (old)

Powells

[128

$19 mum.