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INTIMATIONS.

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By Order,

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,

E. J. NATHAN,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION,

IN THE GOODS OF WILLIAM "DUNEAR, LATE OF 1602, Bock- ZAND AVENUE, VICTORIA, IN

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THE HONG KONG DAILY

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore case and remarks, saved by the Royal Observatory at 4.43 p.m., stated.

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JULY 8, 1929.

News and Views.

Funds are being raised for ä Confucius memorial hall in this. Colony. A meeting was held dur ing the week-end by the Committee On Friday one Chinese case of in charge of the scheme and a num- ber of prominent Chinese merchants were selected to solicit contribu- tions.

diphtheria was reported.

PRESS, MONDAY,

unwanted, but because their mothers are grossly ignorant. of Chinese

enjoy normal power of vision because neither the mother nor the midwife realises that a baby's eyes must be washed Pressure is highest in the Pacific after birth. Thousands are doom. in the vicinity of the Bonins. Aied because their mothers know typhoon is situated about 150 miles aither how to feed themselves nor

Aparri, moving!

their children. DYER BALL spenks of balls of rice being pushed down the throat of a day-old infant

But probably ane of the most common causes of ill-health, bad eyesight, and 'general debilitation among adult Chinese, is the habit of carrying babies, and especially

north-east. of W.N.W, or N.W.

Local Forecast:-Light variable winds, fair.

A typhoon warning from Manila received yesterday at 11.30 reports a typhoon in about 125 deg. Long. E, and 90 deg. Lat. 3, moving N.W.

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DEATHS. BECHASAN.-Or. July 7,

French Hospital, JACK BUCHAS as, C.A., of Messrs. Thomson & -Co.

Funeral will pass the

monument (Sunday).

at

5 p.m. to-day

[8077 Cossan-On July 7, at the French Hospital, from typhoid, L. A COSBART. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to- day (Monday).

[8078 MACKINTOSH-In England, on July 4. 1929, IAN. younger son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. MACKINTOSH, from diphtheria,

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Editorial and Business Offices: 11. Ice House Street. Tel. Central 12. " Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

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The Daily Press.

The name of Mr. Wilfred Milla,

Ltd. has been added to the local New French Cruisers, of Messre, A. S. Watson & Co.,

register of chemists.

The name

The building has begun of two small French cruisers of a new type belonging to a set of 12 specially designed for service in the Colonite and the Far East. These ships,

DEATH OF MR. J.

BUCHANAN..

We regret to announce the death of Mr. Jack Buchanan, Chartered, Accountant, of Messrs. Thomson & Co., which took place yesterday at the French Hospital, Causeway.

Bay.

The funeral will pass the Monu- ment to-day at 5 p.m.

MR. L. A. COSSART.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg,

His many friends will be shocked M.C, to act as a Police Magistrate

provisionally named Al and A4, are in addition to his other duties.

to be armed and tested by the to learn of the death of Mr. L. A. of Dr. Au King, Lorient Naval Arsenal. They are Cossart, of the Asiatic Petroleum boy babies, on the back. The first Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of 2,000 tons each, with a very small | Company ofice staff. Mr. Cossart thing which is impressed on every of Surgery of the University of draught, in order to enable them died yesterday at the French Hos- English person who handles an

to steam up rivers, and to skirt pital, from typhoid. infant is that the greatest care

banks. They will be armed with three 5.5 guns, four anti-aircraft guns, and six machine-guns. Each will carry a seaplane with its own armament Their machinery con-

Hong Kong, has been added to the must be exercised in supporting their of local medical practitioners.,

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending June 22 amounted

The funeral will pass the Monu- eat at 8.30 p.m. to-day.

child's head. A baby's head is proportionately very heavy, and the jerk with which it falls, if net properly supported, gives a jar to the whole spine. Jarring the spine to 99,000 tons, and the sales during aists of two Diesel motors of 3,000 paid at London auctions for gems.

the period to 85,849 tons.

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The Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, intends at an early date to apply to the Legislative Council, for Bill to extend for a further period the powers granted by the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordi. nance 1911 to the Bank to make, issue, reissue and circulate notes in the Colony. The objects and reasons for the Bill state the power of note issue comes to an end on August 13, 1929, and it is now can sidered desirable to extend the duration of this power up to and including the 18th July, 1938.

means jarring the brain and the nerves which are connected with the spinal cord. The great nerve ganglion, the telephone exchange" of the nervous system through which every call" from the brain' to a musele must pass, is at the base of the skull, just at the point where the unfortunate Chinese the baby's head falls back over upper edge of the earrying square. This most delicate and important apparatus is thus subjected to pres ress.sure and strain from the first day the mother straps the child to her back. Another warning invariably given in the West with regard to the handling of infants is to guard

As soon as Japanese visitors reach their eyes from direct light, or even

London they want the best tailor- from a surface which reflects the ing in English style, with a pre- rays. The unfortunate Chinese infant ference for morning coats or short MANY hard things are said at in the carrying-cloth is staring right black jackets and striped trousers. times about the foreigner in China,up at the sky and burning sun. It But to fit an Englishman and a but it cannot be asserted with is hardly necessary to quote the Japanese is not the same problem. to guard the A London tailor, whose work is al- truth that where he rules there is third injunction, no care for broken bedies and un-soft skull from any blow "lest the most exclusively for Japanese, says How their backs are flatter and longer: tutored minds. Here in Hong Kong brain tissues be injured.

portion to their height they are more "deep-chested and much broader across the shoulders.

HONG KONG, JULY 8, 1929.

BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING.

|h.p., with 'n water ecoling system. They will be able to attain 15 knots, with a range of 9,000 miles at 10 knots. Their cost in estimated at 36,000,000 francs (about £300,000).

Thunderbolts."

Chinese Art Treasures.

Astonishing prices continue to be

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of ancient Chinese art, and so plentiful are the pieces and so fre- quent the sales that one wonders. where all the material comes from. No doubt the hardships which have. followed the revolution have led to the dispersal of many family treasures, yet notwithstanding the years that have elapsed since the It was reported in The Times overthrow of the Imperial Manchus. and the Viceroys, the supply, in- recently that a school near Newport stead of diminishing, continues to was struck by a thunderbolt, and increase. Chinese works of art. that "a thunderbolt struck a farm which were rare in England not so long ago, writes an art critic, at Deering

finally burying

continue to arrive in comparative itself in the garden. To call a abundance, and this is especially flash of lightning a thunderbolt the case with pieces belonging to the earliest periods dating from the may be permissible, but the sugges-Chou (B.C. 1193-938), to the Ming tion that a solid heated mass passes (A.D. 136-1643). Notable also is along the track of the discharge the fact, as evidenced by the sale of.

the Princess Paley collection, that, until it reaches a building or the

this increasing supply does not lower commercial values. Indeed, ground is a relic of the days before Franklin proved that lightning is the prices of the rarer and more beautiful specimens become higher and higher. It is all, very tempt ing, no doubt, to those who in the old days in China, when the craze had possession of them, acquired a few pieces and still have them, and it inust be distressing to many more who had equal opportunities but were not attracted Recent ship- ments comprise just such examples. of bronzes, pottery, porcelain, jades bought comparatively cheaply in China a

number of years ago. These, when they come under the-

will doubtless fetch Laumer, guineas, where dollars would then have sufficed.

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A.S. WATSON & CO., we have hospitals and schools in many Chinese babies, with their their legs are shorter, and inpro- they may be meteorites, but they are and the like, as might have been

LIMITED.

the end.

heavy heads Bopping from side to side as they are carried on the the backs of tiny children at work or at play, can possibly avaid a dozen knocks a day?

plenty. But that is beginning at The Sanitary Services spare no effort to prevent disease, but they are only beginning in the middle. Until money and thought are spent on the beginning of human That this appalling waste of life, lile, the work is half-done, and the and crippling of mind and body, Colony is piling up debts, which which is undermining the stamina

1929 Edition need never be incurred. Statistics of the nation should be going on in

OF THE

DIRECTORY

AND

not

are not generally very accurate, but China proper is regrettable, but it go unchecked in n the figures given by DYER BALL should in relation to infant mortality in British Colony whose Governmen: this Colony are appalling. Accord boasts of its care for their Chinese ing to the latest edition of his subjects. Hong Kong is badly in book "Things Chinese" (revised by need of an infant clinic where its that great expert Mr. E. C.

social service towards its people can be begun at the beginning. If

CHRONICLE WERNER), out of every 1,000) Chi- there were such an institution to

The 67th Annual Issue

OF THE

nese "babies born in Hong Kong only 72 live beyond twelve months. Cause and cure are equally clear.

Directory and Chronicle China, as

OF

HONG KONG,

THE TREATY FORTH OF CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS

PHILIPPINES, Etc.

on the part of parents. Modern

which Chinese mothers could take their babies and leave them to be

The Trustees of the British Museum have received from the Ustasiatiska Samlingarna at Stock- holm a gift of Chinese neolithic urns, of the third millennium B.C., excavated by the Director in Kansu, a find of great importance, for the relations it suggests between the neolitbit culture" of North-West China and the contemporary arts of the Near East." There is also a chalcolithic vase from the same district, perhaps a millennium la- ter in date, which has also been ac quired.

electric discharge. Nothing solid has ever come out of a thun- derstorm, though many people think they possess evidence to the contrary. What are supposed to be fragments, sometimes fulgurites are, due to the fusing of sandy soil by an electric discharge striking it, or

never produced by the electricity in the air which gives rise to shun- derstorms and lighting flashes. When the next thunderbolt is seen to bury itself in the ground the observer should try to recover it, and if he succeeds in securing some-Locking Back. 25, Years. thing distinct from a fulgurite or meteorite he will possess something unique.

The Ross Appeal.

With regard to the prepared opium tax, which is entirely under the direction of the local officials, the Canton authorities have déput- ed some officers to make enquiries: and report the number of prepared apium shops and divans in Canton. They are divided into three classes-fret, seccad' and, third,

Of the first class. according to the amount of business.

there are about 100 shops; of the they carry on. second class, about 150; of the third class 250, selling in all about 18,850 taels a day. A tax of six can- dareens is imposed on every tacl of opium sold, realising about '1,348 taels a day. The quantity of opium sold in different districts in Kwang- tung is twenty times more than List of Canton. If the proposed tax is carried on sucessfully, an enormous sum will be added to the revenue. Hong Kong Daily Press, Looking Back 50 Years,

The response to the appeal for a one million shillings fund to re- cognise the work of Sir Ronald Ross, the conqueror of malaria, has been rather disappointing, says a London paper. The appeal was launched by friends of Sir Ronald on the occasion of his seventy-second Rear-Admiral Charles Butler Me- birthday, and a statement publish- A high rate of infant mortality in cared for and fed while they were

at work there would be for fewer Yay will pass through Japan about ed on June 11. shows that out of elsewhere, "is due to

to relieve Rear Admiral Mark so far been received, this amount poverty, ignorance, and superstition applicants for admission to free September 2, en route to Shanghai the £55,000 aimed at only £4,400 had hospitals, and to the Blind Home. Bristol as commander-in-chief of including anonymous donation of research has fully analysed the and fewer employees of the type the Asiatic Fleet of the United £500 and substantial contributions July 8, 1004."

who can notice an obvious irre- States Navy, according to informa from a few heads of tropical in gularity and not think it necessary tion received by the United States Justries. Unfortunately, the appe to inform their superiors of the Naval Attache in Tokyo Admiral al has been overshadowed in Eng- fact, ever though most serious con- MeVay is well-known in the Far land by the National Thanksgiving sequences may be involved. "Chi- nese mentality," with all that it East, having served as commander Fund and other claims upon the at- implies, would within a couple of of the Yangtse Patrol in 1923. He tention of the public at the present decades no longer be put forward will be entertained by Japanese time are numerous, but the whole As a plea in our local Courts of Justice. There is admittedly little nayal officers during his short visit.world owes a tremendous debt to to be gained from giving lectures to Japan. to working women. In Hong Kong, as elsewhere, they would A Quaint Farliament. neither attend or understand, but when a mother sees that her baby.

amazing jumble of good sense, harmless nonsense, and down right injurious practice

contained in

what are generally termed old wive's tales" about babies. The INDIA, BORN EU, THE creche and infant-welfare clinie provide valuable, antidotes both to infant mortality incurred in early even before birth This Large Volume of approximate-childhood," or

ly 2,000 Pages gives, in additionWe have now got to the stage of to the Umal Lists of Firms, an development in Hong Kong where Alphabetical List of Residents clinica at which mothers, and ex- in the Far East containing the pectuxt mothers could be left daring working hours, have become an

Names of Hearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS. Arranged, with the initials as well as Surnames in strict alphabe tical order so that any Dame can be found instantaneously.

CLASSIFIED LIST

urgent necessity.

Probably the quaintest Parlia

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the self-sacrificing work of, Sir Ronald Ross, and it is unthinkable that an effort intended to relieve him from financial anxiety in his declining years should not be sup- ported. By his discovery of the transmission of malarial infection Sir Ronald Ross has saved in-. umerable lives, averted untold suf- fering, and made habitable and prosperous regions that were wont

We have received from the Post- master-General a copy of the Hong Kong Postal Guide, which bas been revised and brought up to date. It contains a mow of useful in- formation, and if people would only consult it when in doubt on any postal matter it would no doubt Save innumerable inquiries. We willingly comply with a request to reproduce paragraph 130, which. reads as follows:-(a)-Distribute possible between the two mails your correspondence as evenly ha (English and French). The practice is healthy and contented, she is ment in the world is the lonely out- willing to listen and learn how that, end was attained. Even if post in the North Atlantic. The

of posting by the English mail only perpetuates inconveniences to the public which might otherwise be got she is doubtful at first of these St. Kilda Parliament is a

rid of. (b)~Post all correspondence To say that the Chinese would foreign ways, she will not be blind elective assembly, and is essentially

to the fact that her own earning:

a gathering of the wise men of the

as early as possible;, and if there is much of it, do not keep all for not make use of such institutions; powers are increased when she i

the last moment, but send off as that they are ignorant and super-freed from the burden of the child island. The Parliament consists of on her back. The immense im no more than a dozen members, and

much as can be got ready, and keep etition ridden, is as poor an excuse

provement in the physical standard meets every day of the year. The to be death-traps to the white men, back only what must be kept back. as is want of money. If that were of wealthy Chinese can be traces subjects discussed range from the More than that, his discovery has (0) -Do not attempt, when one true, the schools and hospitals here the readiness with which they would be empty instead of over-have learnt the lessons of care. In lussoing of the fulmar birds which given impetus to investigations register correspondence for the early infancy. Now that may make their homes on the island's which are bringing other deadly next. (d)-Serd circulars, news crowded. Modern medical opinion Chinese girls are studying at the rocky

coast to the digging of tropical diseases under control. papers, or prices current, to the..

post with the addresses all one way, ie certainly unanimous that a Hong Kong University, it candot

far As proper understanding of pre-natal be long before they will demand potatoes. Every day the male Sir James Barr, who issued the ap-right way up, and as

jotz of an infant-welfare clinic for the population of the island meets out peal, remarked that "Preventive possible divided into care and infant welfare would cut benefit of their less fortunate com side the house of Ferguson," the medicing never pays the individual; the United Kingdom together, for different routes, ie, ́all those for the cost of maintaining hospitals patriots. It may be built and and asylums in half, and there is equipped with Chinese money as postmaster, and, sitting in a circle, the public always reap the benefit.”

private enterprise, but it would discusses the day's work before Sir Ronald Ross's case is an ex-Forts, etc. Do not mix up letters and printed matter in one confused be better if a clinic were part of them. The Parliament consists of ample. His health has been im-

mass. (e)-Do not post masses of also apply to Hong Kong.The the public social service, and did seeds not only of debility but of not wait upon the demand. There men the majority of whom have paired and for some years he has circulars, for different steamers, all are many women of all natipa. nover left the island's shores, and had to draw on capital for family mixed up together. (f)-Do not disease are sown in the earliest alities in the Colony who have both whose notions of what is right and necessities, while governments, com-

pat off the purchase of stamme till ; mail day. As a general rule, they MAPS & TREATIES)... $12 days, and where ignorance is dark- money and time to spare, and give what is wrong spring from an in-panies and individuals are reaping might just as well be purchased

both in many forms of charity.

some days before. (g)-Do not SMALL EDITION $est and most pitiable, the duty of But an infant clinic is a necessity, nate love of fair dealing. The untold benefits from his disinterest-

Several contributions send coolios with money at the last offering every opportunity for en- not a charity, and ita institution decisions arrived at concerning have been sent to us for trans- moment, expecting the Post Office The Required Information should be HONGKONG DAILY PRESS Ltd..lightenment becomes the most press and upkeep should not have to among other things, the loss of some mission to London, and have been to

that "they stamp depend on private or religious

James Barr.respondence properly, and to return ing, Out of every 1,000 Chinese enterprise. Let Hong Kong give sheep or the shortness of certain forwarded to Sir

& memo of the change-Hung Low Lin Hong Kane 28 dijadikan Inge la mapkinm Lin articles of food are accepted by the Needless to say, we shall be glad to

I island's inhabitants na Inviolable. **** sẽna Thoro xiom nang nong.

Koly Darty z text, July 3 TUTU. not in the main because they are vestment in health.

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