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Intimations.

· LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY JUNE

NATURAL CAUSES was the verdict of an in- quest held at the Magistracy, this afternoon, on the death of a prisoner in the Victoria gani which took place to-day,

BARON Goto, president of the South Manchuria Railway, returned to. Tok you the 15th innt from his mission to St. P. teraborg, which has proved an unqualified success," A RICKSHA coolie was fined, one dollar at the Police Court, this morning, for refusing to complete a journey, yesterday. Mr. Belmont B. Moore, a' passenger by the steamer Tremont was the complainant.

being generally malarious although there are LOCAL AND GENERA districts which are notoriously dangerous to those who may be subject to malaria.✨✨✨ But on the mainland and along the route of the Kowloon Canton railway ample proof is WATSON & CO., forthcoming at a moment's notice that one of the most insidious: fevers known to me dical science has obtained a firm footing The number of hospital patients drawn from the rank and file, of the railway workers owing to the contraction of malarial fever is immense, and not a few have succumbed to the scourge. Uther causes may, of course, have been at work but malaria was the prime factor in the death of the victims. It was owing to a knowledge of this characteristic of life on the mainland that the late Mr. A H. Renoic resolved to accommodate the principal employes engaged at the Junk Bay Flour Mills va a fluating house, and for that purpose acquired a bulk which was wreck-

ESTABLISHED A.D.

CHEMISTS

BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE

Governor and HOUSEHOLD.

WATSON'S HYGIENOL

AND

BUBONIC PLAGUE.

It has been proved by repeated experiments that "WATSON'S HYGIENOL" is the most potent agent for the destruction of fleas especially rat feat.

VICE-Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambios, with the China Squadron, arrived at Weihaiwel on 16th fast. The ships in harbour are H.M.B.S. Ring Alfred, Bedford, Kent, Astrasu, Alairity, Clip and five destroyers,

1908.

CALAMITOUS FLOODS.

WEST RIVER DISTRICTS UNDER WATER

WUCHOW, SHIU-HING, TAK-HING SUBMERGED.

SAMSHUL IN DIREFUL DISTRESS.

plan is worthy of every consideration by the for boarding the steamer Camela yesterday hundreds of the West River floating popula-fäbove zero, the date on that occasion being pecting the worst.

SCENE ON THE RIVER,

Another of those tremendous freshets seventy to seventy-two feet, which, if we are smaller class of buildinge the final dissolu- which periodically overwhich the riverine not mistaken, is a record for previously ton of things. Some managed to drag with cities of China, leaving ruin and desolation known floods on the Fu. River. The two them articles of clothing, after foraging for in their track, and utterly undoing the tins which marked the height to which the bread and the means of subsistence, In order labours of years, has occurred, the centre of last great flood had attained beside Mr. to guard against the inevitable exposure the catastrophe on this occasion being the Banker's residence were discovered by two which attended a lengthy stay on the house- 1HREE weeks' imprisonment was the sentence

alence important trading city of Wuchow, which, Europeans, one of whom was Mr, Gunning tops, but many only succeeded in escaping ed in Hongkong harbour and fitted it up imposed on a coole at the Police Court, to day, with the exception of the walled city, has ham, of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd. with their lives. A few managed to erect as a convenient residence anchored off the for laically. Aceased was charged with steal been practically wiped out of existence, while That is to say, the strength of the water had improvised shelters from the rains with the wills. That being so, it is obvious that ifing thuty-six pounds of cement from the first all the treaty ports along the West River snapped them off. in its course, in order to aid of ricketty bambog poles and preposter any plan is presented whereby reasonable floor of the new post office building yesterday. have suffered enormous loss and damage. make room for a new and greater reous awnings compofed of anything that hopes may be enteriained that the anopheles

It is impossible at the present time to form cord. In 1907, the food, reached the came to hand. Men, women and children mosquito will be exterminated after a term LI FUK, a cublic, was charged before Mr. J. R. the slightest conception of the death roll, height, according to the Acting Commis. were huddled together in their miserable of years, at a minimum of expense, such a Wood in the Police Chart to-day and fined $.although it must beyond question comprise sioner of Customs at Wuchow, of 61.9 feet plight hoping for the be but doubtless ex- Government. And it is in this respected on Ng Wing for going aboard the Salio.

without permission. A suuler fan was impotion, and hundreds of residents in Wuchow the 23rd of April, which was the highest that we prrive at the analogy of the

itself, The West River, from all descriptions, point recorded during the previous 67 years, Before them the river was sweeping. stock the reservoira with THE Chinese Engineering & Mining Co, Ld, has overspread its banks for miles around, When that is compared with the 70 or 72 along on its bosom numerous bongs, proposal to trout.It would seem that in certain counces that the total output of the Com- It is a well known fact that Plague is con- of our West Indian possessions the medical Pany's three mines for the week ending Juan carrying with it a constantstream of wrecked feet attained last week, the extraordinaryur pies as they are called in Wuchow, and a voyed to human beings by means of fleas from fraternity has noted with interest the nob. 6, 1y08," amounted to 14,995.39 luns and the junks, upturned sampans, demolished build. character of the sudden "spate" will be some of these floating pontoons are lying sales during the same same period.to 15,893.05 ings and all the flotsam and jetsan, which are more vividly realised. And when we state thirty miles away from their erstwhile un existence of the anopheles masquito and the tons.

to be found on the banks of a waterway of the that the 6 feet tide of 1907 resulted in chorage. Dead bodies and coffins were consequent absence of malaria. The con- LIEUT. Joha C. Tovey has been appointed to commercial consequence of the West River. general distress among the inhabitants for being whirled down by the current and it is" All risk of infection can be avoided, by ditions were entirely favourable to the spread the King Alfred, flagship of the China quadron, from an observer who was on the scene of three weeks, the probable effect of the pre-believed that many cemeteries must have washing the floors, etc., or sprinkling whereof malaria and the propagation of the io- fhis officer has served afloat since May, 1901, the disaster which has befallen the people sent cataclysm will be the better appreciated. been crased by the violence of the freshet.

"fecting mosquito, but neither the one when he was appointed a midshipman, he of Wuchow, and other villages we have been the flows are likely to be with a dilute solution the other was known to exist, or, at all passed for his aug-lieutenancy in 1931 and was able to secure a graphic and thrilling descrip.

Some few of the greater floating" honga - of "WATSON'S HYGIENOL" A tea events, if they existed at all the instances promoted lieutenant in july, 1956.

tion of the terrible occurrence. - spoonful to a pint of water, or a teacupful to traced were infinitesimal. In these circum Tax Toyo Kisa Kaisha's str. Tey Moru is three gallons, makes a solution of the strength

stances. it was obvious that there was carrying fur purposes of trial a new automatic sdive hitherto undiscovered reason why the apparatos designed to indicate in advance pos. required for this purpose.

anopheles mosquito failed to produce its sible dangers arising from the buttom of the kind in such an island as Barbadoes for sea. The apparatus in the invention of Capt. example. Dr. Herbert Bindley, in writing Makimura, of the Japanese Navy, from that West Indiau possession to the Zimes on the subject, qupted a report made by Major Hodder, R. B1 to the War Office somethree yearsago in which it was stated that from his observations the anopheles could, or did, only breed on the ground level; none of the larvae being found in tanks which were raised, a few feet from the earths, or even in

rate which have died al this disease.

HYGIENOL IS A POWERFUL. DISINFECTANT AND, GERMICIDE.

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THE Wanchai police were responsible for three gambling raids yesterday. Two of the raids wars exccated at Quarry Bay, eighteen men belog caught. The next raid was at 29, Mac gregor Street. There, ¡welve arrests were effected. In all thirty men were captured They were charged in the Polica Court, this morning, and punished..

AFIR the mancavres the Charybdis will con-

yey the relief crew for the Artner on the China' Station, the Gibraltar reliefs for the Challenger, Australian Station, and the Crescent reliefs Prometheus, and the Sydany Reserve bo the for the Alacrity, Cadius, Glla, Kinshate, and Tamar on the China Station,

ground. The cuch: can, on the other hand, breed in the gutters on the roofs of high buildings as easily as in the low lying swamps and pools. The writer proceeds to state that Mr. C. Kenrick Gibboos, who had given a good deal of attention to the matter, pointed A HOUSE "boy-Chan rock Hong, of 50. out at once that all the pools and swamps in Elgin. Street, Kowloon was arrested by the that island were stocked with swarms of a tiny fish (known locally, from their vast larceny by bailes.. Defendant, it was alleged, Tam-tsa-tsui police yesterday on a charge of numbers, as 'millions' and, that their obtained on hire a bicycle from Nazir Mabom. favourite food was the larvae of the mosquito.med's cycle store in Arsenal"Siréel, and did It is obvious that any species of that not return with it. The bicycle was valued at insect which is unable to breed above the 162. He was charged in the Folice Court, this ground level must fall a prey to this enemy, morning, and remanded. - The fish has been identified by Mr. Boulen- The ratos per quarter and per mugnem, propozinoil. The daily mug in delivered free when the addroger, F. R. S., of the British Museum, as accessible to gaswenger. Un copies sent by pet in Girardinus paccilaides. Sume specimens were successfully got to England, and flourished for some time in the insect house at the Zoological Society's Gardens. Mr. Gibbon's suggestion that the 'millions' should be imported into malarial districts in other islands has been acted upon-and-with- felicitous results. Antigua, being con- vinced of the useful part played by these

arranged for their systematic distribution throughout the ponds and streams of the Island." Similar news comes from Jamaica, whither a consignment of the fish was sent in November, 1905. The secretary of the Agricul- tural Society has written that the tanks at the Titchfield Hotel arc full of them, and that he LILUT. J.. R. C. Heathcote, Queen's Own had been informed that "there has been a Cameron Highlanders, the senior subaltern of marked diminution of fever round about, the the 2nd Battalion, Tientsin, has been gazetted "millions' evidently accounting for the aide de camp'te Major-General R. G. Broad- mosquito larvae." They have also been sentwood, C.B., commanding the troops in Sodi to Colon and to British Guiana -Dr. Chica. The new galloper has worn the scarlet Herbert Bindley adds: "One cannot help as he got his commission in July, 18,9, and tarian of the Camerons fo close on aina yents, wishing that these useful little fish were from February, 1992, 10 January, 1903, was em given a trial in the deadly districts of Africa, played with the Imperial Yeomanry, if, like the malarial mosquito, the insects which convey the terrible diseases which are

On June 3, 1007, at Ichang, the wife of R A. Otsen, 1, M. Costomy, a 100. (Chulalopher Alfred.)

Up June 1, 1908, at Shanghai, the wife of

E. M. FRENCH, & BOO.

THE Messageries Maritimes report a net profit. of 17,543,005 for the year 1957, against The Board of Directors will recommend the [8,851, co for the preceding twelve months, shareholders to write off f. 5,266,000 on the fleet, fand, which suffers a reduction practically equal and to appropriate f.z,200,000 for the insurance to this amount by the loss of the Lags. The balance of £,177,050 is carried to pew account. EARLY this morsing, a Chinaman was found by the police lying in a gultera-Des Voeux Road Central, bleeding freely from numerous was unconscious. On inquiries it was learnt that the coolie had fallen from the top floor of house 206, where he was employed. It is not koown how the accident, if accident it was, came about. The police are investigating the

„On June-13.-190l, at Shanghai,-the-wile of fish in consuming mosquito larvae, has wounds about his head and body. The man

E. G. LANAS, a kan,

a

On June 17, 1908, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. E. I. M. BARRETT (S. M. Police), of

On the June 17, 1908, at Shanghai, to Mr, and Mrs. G. THORESEN, a daughter.

600.

MARRIAGE

On june 16, 1908, at Shanghai, DELIS 'youngest daughter of the late Matthew Harris. M.F., to WILLIE Blyth Osborne, eldest son of Osborne Middleton of Shanghai, '

DEATHS,

On June 14, 1908, at Shanghai, l'ETER TAYLOR, late Dock Master of the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld, aged 40 years

Oa-june 15, 1908, at Shangbal, MORTIMER SEELEY-HUSTED of the 1. M. Castoms Service, son of Major E. Seeley-Husted, U,S. Aimy (retired) at East Norwalk, Connecticut, U.KA., aged 34 years.

*The Hongkong Celegraph elegraph

Hongkong, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 19.8.

endemic there pass the larva stage of their

existence in water. ne may add in this connection that the Swedish" Consulat Frankfort has discovered a small fish (the blue eyed') which feeds on mosquito larvæ, and that, at the request of the Italian Gov ernment, some are to be, or have been, sent to the Campagna, where so much has been Some weeks ago it may be remembered done in recent years to diminish malaria." that His Excellency the Governor made the By this time, it should not be difficult for suggestion that the various reservoirs in the the Government to ascertain whether the

MALARIA IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

matter.

A-LADY'N 'GLAIM,,

ACTION TO RECOVER $10,000. This foredron, in the Supreme Cout, the Chief Justice (Sir Francis Piggott) presiding, Me. Choy lo Shi, of 63, Wyndham Street, brought a claim against the Wai Hing Hong Bink and Chan Ton Pn, the managing pirtner, to recover be sum of $10,000,

Mr. M. W. 1ade, instructed by Mr. D.V. Steavenrön, of Mesire. Deacon, Losker and Deacon, appeared for the plaintiff. The d-- fendants were not represented,

Mr. Stado stated that he had received a letter.

Colony should be stocked with trout with theory in question is correct ni otherwise, | firm. Mrazes. Hastings and Hastings stating |

the object, if we recollect aright, of keeping and if it be found that there is reason, to

that defendants wou'd not be represented in

of Siasco with the

the water pure and fresh, and he called for believe the absence of malaria is due to the Court. They would not defend the case. opinions as to the best method to be adopted destruction of the larvæ by the fish mention-

Elaintiff, a middle-aged woman, dressed in towards securing this end. Whether anything|ed it might be possible to secure their in-fas silk clothing, was called to the stand, further, has been done in the matter we are troduction to Hongkong The Kowloon and admitted that she was the plaintif in the undware, but the scheine certainly had the Canton railway will prove such a costly un-case. She said she was the fourteenth wife of approval of all those who pretended to have dertaking in the end that everything possible Chor, Chan Oo the Gh January, 1500, the

knowledge of the question. In the should be done to advance its interests, while deposited the sum same connection it may not be inappro the development of the New Territories defendasi back, and got a receipt. She had not received any part or portion of that sum” priate in consider the possibilities under should not be in any degree retarded by the since, although the defendants had been asked Tring another scheme to which are attributed prevalence of proventible disease. The to refund virtues calculated to lead eventually to the question is at least as important as that of

* MY. Sizde kad proved that Chan Ton: _malaria. ~~ The Colony of the stocking of the reservoirs with trout and: Fe was managing panger in the back, judge. itself cannot be described at, apparently la'equally fooxpone ve

15. An eptered for the plaintiff with costs

THE FU RIVER FLOOD...

By Friday the junction of the two rivers withstood the strain on account of the extra

ENTIRE HOUSES SWEPT AWAY

was a heterogeneous mass of wrecked moorings provided for them, notably those

WUCHOW.

BRITISH. CONSULATE BAFE, .

Owing to his position on the bill the British Consulate at Wuchow-in-safe and the Consul has not been obliged to change. his quarters. But the Wuchow Club, is within the range of the inundation. It is im possible to convey, in words the actual extent

material which was almost as destructive to of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., On the afternoon, of Wednesday last, the anything withstanding its direct passage as Butterfield and Swire, and that of the 17th inst., the witness, to whom we have re. the furious currant itself. Entire Chinese Customs. The greater number of the flower peared to be on the verge of distraction, fear- never a sign of their former inhabitants to many can be seen between Wuchow and ferred, arrived at Wychow. The people ap wooden houses were rocking violently, with boats have been carried down river and fut that the tapidly rising river would engulf be seen: Four together were observed from Dosing them. Wuchow, it may be stated, stands at the deck of a steamer anchored at Wuchow, the junction of the Fuor Kuei River and the sweeping their way down to the Canton West River, the former falling duecity from dela. It is believed that these houses came Kweill the expirat of Kwangsi, into the all the way from Kweilin. greater waterway at Wuchow, the trade en-

REFUGE ON ROOF TOPS, repot. It was perfectly obvious to the least

Meanwhile the inhabitants of Wuchow, observant that the Fu River was in flood, outside the walled city, had long since and even on the afternoon of Wednesday, the abandoned themselves to despair. The of the calamity which has overtaken Wuchow, 17th, evidences were not wanting that the river rose with such extraordinary rapidity except in the most general terms, and not city was in danger of being submerged. The and spread over the adjoining country so only Wuchow, but the entire territory right torrent was coming down the Fu-ho, as it is completely that almost before they had time along the river banks as far as Eagshui and locally termed, at the rate of eight or nine to think of escape, the deluge was upon Sainam. koots an hour, the seahorses cresting the them, overflowing the lower rooms and waves and striking fear into the hearts of mounting higher and-higher with every-When seen by our informant the watern those whose lives were speut alongside the minute that passed. The unfortunate of the conjoined rivers at Wuchow had risen river. The force of the water was terrific, people were gathering their household goods for above all but the highest building seen and already wreckage of every description together and removing them to the higher in the background of the first illustration was being washed along,

storeys until they "found themselves finally which we publish, Where there had been

VIEW OF WUCHOW AND THE EU HO RIVER,

|compelled to relinquish their rides and the river had risen forry, climb up in the tools in order to await wiki

it reached " heigh must have been

RECORD, FRESJIET,

HEIGHT OF THE FLOJD, II

and junks, and/

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