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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

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inherent to us all. The sole question that the cherished am

fantle, wirelon cervico is remains Is How shall wo keep it within Now thut a trans

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MAD PCKISO OF US TRANSPORT, reasonable bounds? Legislation spelling an accomplish total suppression has been tried and has not able to shape the idea of an imperial system.

Bids for dry docking and repairs on the trans- mot with success When the gambling into a definite scheme, which at the present divans were peremptorily closed in Hongkong moment is considered by the Colonial CfEce Pro more speed at Manila on kg halt

by tho chief quailormsster. The Talken A. S. WATSON & CO., it certainly was found that a great deal of Here are a few ways in which the Empire Dockyard and Eégicosing Company bid corruption existed as between the Police and could be connected up-Montreal to Syd-33,56 (gold) includlag Si,000 for insurance and the gambling-den proprietors. That evil ney; Montreal, to Glace Bay, Glace Bay decking: Hongkong and Whamps Dock

adicated by wholesale dismissals. But to Vancouver Vancouver to Hongkobg; Company offered in repair the ship for Sa,716 being the fasocent griffine fresh from home, doubt that again her efforts Ear did not stop gambling. A Chinaman Hongkong to Singapore; Singapore to Perth; exclusive of Insurance. Boil firms guaranteed is a gambler inherently. In whatever Perth to Adelaide Adelaldo to Sadasy the work to be completed within three days

The Crock will fall from Manila on the coublay he may live, the gambling England to Wellington, New Zealand; Instinct dominates his actions. Which England to Gibraltar Gibraltar to Maite Secretary of War and upon arrival at Hongkong morning of September 4 with the party of the brings us back to the argument that it Malta to Alexandria Alexandria to Aden will go into drydock, the will then sail for is useless to endeavour by legislation to Aden to Bombay Bombay to Colombo; Haiphong whats saw will take on 10,000 barrels

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THE AVERTEN BLOW,

What a relief. The much dreaded typhoon for all spared the Colony i's uswilcome at tentions, That strange feeling of exɔtchener which usually precedes a prob ble vitiision of the storm Bend hung like a pill on the spirits of the good folk of Hongkong, the exceptions we cry on such occasions is for at real, live syphoon of a particularly fiendish vasily Strange to say, lo ulus ceser unt of ten, if the raided, they would be the least likely to slaister desire of these same people were to be become enthusiastic about the matter after hair experience. It is noteworthy chit na far the Colosy has fortunately escaped coming

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cut out a thing which is part of the nature Colombo to Singapore; Singapore to Terth; of cement and xaluru to Manila. It is estimatinio too close a cɔntact with its annual visitors may mako towards sodeeming | heiself? Item

Yaiphong and that she will mike iba astire trip from Manila and raruso lo about a days.

Castle Bros Wolf and Company representing

tract to drydock and repair the transper: Crock

upot het arrival at Hongkong about Sep'en ber 5, for $560 (gold) including insurance add docking. The repairs will take about three days. The contract called for cleaning and painting and the repair of soa valves and other

wo ke an may be found pecessary,

THE HONGKONG H0466 COM

PANT, LIMITED,

od at in 193 to reduce by cno-te tadian plan sant to China, to a similar reduction of t supply, becames conditional country being able to prove that she out her share of the bargain." TAL genuise than our own, and refuse, on behalf of our planters, 10 to exclude the Indian grown drug able to nullify our part of the bord by afmply so long the Indian merchants will shipping their consigament to non-Chiness ports, from which they easily make their way to China self, and frustrate all the efforts sho which has very magernimously confined its this den ading habit. Euch, ther, in the thians pagtinations for the mat pitt to less, for that a Home paper cap anmeʻimen turn out, tuos'a vicinities contiguous to the Colony And not caly this, but men of the Exstry Hall While on this sufject, one fact which was typo feel themoves quite equal, by a highly brought to my notice on Thursday morning, subtle form of quibbling, to countenan 1000 after sunrise the harbour simply swarmed For of all forms of human injustice, bat e with inanmerable sampins which looked like shiting the blame on to the shoulders if an many anga fi co studding a gigantic water. Tuorcest party when it is deatived ese white hasla, The fact we mentioned to me by a in the most obnoxions. We who sie is the 'ghbour, who, in describing the emersion of Far East perhaps know a thing or two ap to the small craft from-the shelter at Causeway who is the real party who is attempting to Bay after the danger algual had been removed, frustrate China's efforts.

the the ranks spread out like & fan&t all cause to congratulate themselves for having very spily expressed bis Ideas by saying that oplum babi But the purple at home hava

evants, the sight appeared to him in the nature eyen and refaslog to see and possessing wa of a novelty and it is very probable that and fusing to hear. Such a campai ̈a an ambitions anlat bad ke baad there would of deliberate perversion of tin:h, may have pt.mply painted the scene-not forbe good enough for the Home people but its artistic merits, for it could hardly be said to by those who are acqsalated with'iikatiue

of human kind. The closing of gambling Perth to Adelaide Adelaida to Syd-ed the Crok will remain about eight daya lo shops forcibly simply leads to worse ovile.cy. Sydacy to Wellington (New Zealand). Sly gambling quarters spring into existence, England to China; England to Gibraltar; subject to no suparsision, whereas under the Gibraltar to Malta, Malta to Alexandria old conditions they were under the direct. Alexandria to Aden; Aden to Bombay; Bomike Taikoo Dockyard en Enginearing Coin control of the Police. It is true that in the bay to Colombo; Colombo to Singapore; Pay of Hongkong have tens awarded the Con* | which is too good to pass unnoticed, way that what can only be termed drivel for the dregs old days the Hongkong Police winked their Slugapore to Hongkong. England to Africa eyes in the direction of dubious practices in England to Gibraltar Gibraltar to alden; these place, but things are not now as they Aden to Mombasa; Mombasa to Durban; were then, Our Police Force is one of the Durban to Cape Town. Alternately-Eng best in the King's dominions and are like land to Bathurst; Batural to Sierra Leone; Cesar's wife above suspicion. Therefore Sierra Leone to St. Helena; St. Helena to they can be trusted to see to a proper super Cape Town: The number of whiclesa alaligus vision of gambling shops if such things were absolutely necessary to connect the British Instead of that, however, we find to our possessions need not be more than about midst hundreds of nominally legal gambling twenty, and an expenditure of a million deas which are under no authoritative juris pounds would be involved in building them dicilon except an occasional Police raid and about £100,000 involved in operating generally resulting in the death of some poor them. It has been suggested that either the fellow who jumps over the verandah in order Government should work this Imperial ay to escape arrestment. In the native clubs, it tem of wireless stations themselves in con- is notorious that heavy gambling goes on. Of junction with the various Colonial Govern course this concerns only the wealthy Chin-meals and pay the company who crecled the est. Referring to this matter of gambling in stations so much a year, or agree to pay the clubs, the Superintendent of Police in Shang. contracting company so much per station in hal says: Hitherto it has been the custom addition to a reasonable margin of profit. for natives of business capacity, often of thould the scheme receive the necessary fluential friend to apply to the Council for adeau not only a rezolution in the cost of corresponding period of 1979, being an increase it be a desire to show a spirit of bon com what an apihority at Home has to try an' the questionable character, to request some in encouragement to bring it into effect it will

licence under the name of president. 1 he promoter having secured the president, then invites some friends to place their names on the list of prospective members, and in GUINNESSSTOUT veral instances the promoter has pul

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in PINTS and SPLITS.

names on the list without the knowledge

telegraphic communication, but probably in time the introduction of as cheap a rate as a penny a word; <

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

KALY YEARLY REPORT,

The report of the board of directors to be

at

prestated at the ordinary meeting of shares bolders, to be held at the Company's Hotel, 12.53 pm on Saturday, the ith inst., is as follows:

Googlemos, The directors beg to submit

have possessed ang-but rals, to impress one without the aid of words what a busy bive of humanity the Hongkong bost population (s.

A STRANGE EXPERIENCE,

I fear I have been digressing from the rest their report for the half-year ended 10th Juzo, sutjiet, but the only other remark I wou'd like to mate is that if the typhoon monster deems 1910,

it iccumbent on himself to thrust his attentions on us at this time of year by way of demonstrate

ACCOUNTS.

The profit on working account amounted to

of $16,834:46; ***

The preft and for acconat, including the sam. of St,177,91 brought forward from last half your show's credit b.lice of $89,479, which the directors reco,amoad should be ap- portioned as follows ---

To pay a dividend of e-

$1.00 per share on" Inco

old shares

$1.50 per share on 8,000

tem shares.qumumin. 1'50.0

of the person or persons named. After the | A NUMBER of Dutch planters have arrived-nt licence is du'y issued the promoter as Kuala Lumpur to study the rubber tapping sumes the role of Manager, apparently and collecting methods. paying a monthly pecuniary consideration AWS WATSON & CO., for the use of the licensee's name. The manager having taken over control of the LIMITED,

club levies a nightly subscription on the members for the use of the tables and in one instance the manager obtained a certain percentage of the winnings, books found in four clubs went to show that hundreds

TEE Taikoo Deck is at the present time con- To transfer to repairs and re-. trusting barbour launch for the Qasitek master's department at Macils,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

· Hongking, 7th July, 1910.

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of dollars were obtained monthly in this way." There is little doubt that a similar state of things exists in this Colony, and it would be to the advantage of the Police to take cognisance of such rather than to raid

coolie shelters. ··

EMPIRE WIRKLESS,

A FINE of $50 was imposed on a Chlaess in the Police Court this morning for selling dross eplum lo. Qzona's Road East...

RULES made by the Kowloon Railway Admin!. tration, with the approval of the Governoria Coudell, are published in the Gorkle, adı ald

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ir is stated that Prince Taal Isun proposes to regotiate for a loan of Tis. 5,000,00 during bis present missloo, for the purpose of re- "orgenising the Chinese Nevy,

Six months' bard labour and four-heors' stocks ́was awarded a native by Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy this morning for stealing a brass crucifix from St. Anthony's Church,

The above caption had better, be explain ed at the outset. It does not imply that the British Empire has suddenly become dis. FOR the first time since Deli became a colony possessed of means of communication by (about half a centory), a woman was hanged wire. It denotes that a new term or word et Medan. This happened on August 16, the has entered into our household vocabulary, crime being the murder of a Chinese child un-

In these latter days, we are prone to abbreder atrocious circonstances. viation of words: hence the correct expres.

newals SCCODE... To write off furci ure and fix-

To carry forward to new ac...).

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position of affales, it cannot be treated one whit better than what to actually dessve

silast contempt,

FOOR MANDARIN.

WOMAN'S EMANCIPATION.

Baing wall acquainted with the fact that aking is greatly laterested in serokuties And that rumours are bruited ¿but thai a certain native of Canton is trying to paffect an ar pline without the aid of Europain skill $33.000.10 as compared with $71,484.54 for being the fact that he still remember us. (or con m'git be of interest to my renders to

arudde (?) let him do so by all means, but don't abject. It appears that Chink was well let us have such a tremendous fuss as serious in advanced in aeronautics when Britain was illis terference with shipping, unceremonicas down in the Neolithic age. Tradition asserts that pours of rain and other little whimsefa playful 4,000 years ago there lived a Mandarin camed ostore which are calculated to be most depres:Wang Tu Wo, who co;structed an: seroplica sing. For instance, a griffin related to me a to carry himself. He tried au uschat in the most melancholy tale of how he ventured out: presence of the Emperor with the aid of 47 into the very heart of the harbour on board a rockets, but the rockets exploded prematuraly, launch on Thursday morning Just to ste what and Wang Tu was in bidly burnt that item a syphoon was like. He had tried to secure Emperor ordered him to be biheaded, How the services of a coxswaiɔ to steer the launch hortid i one is inclined to ask one's self. $18,000.00 through the harbour but somehow or other Howey r, it is to be devia:ly wished that such. John felt convinced that his vulgar'carcass was peremptory treatment will not be meted out to 10,000.00 it fisitely more secure on firra firma.. So with present-day aerial entkua'aste.

out a single companion to Gil him with courage, 10,000.00 our friend the griffia got his heroic self into the Will it surprise you, dear reader, to be told vara i and forthwith started out on his inves that in gay "Paros" there are no less than 21,12691gations. After having patiently waited for a shirteen lady barristers qualified to practise at matter of about two hours, in the course of the bar of the French C: p'tài?' The thirteeth which he incidentally get drarched to the took the path which enrolled her ass member skip, owing to the assiduous tentions of of the falsic body only recently, Incident.). go of a typhoon and on the authority of the courage is allowing bertelf to be scrolled in diparticularly vicious downpour, there was.noly, one is somehow bought to admite the lid a her himself he used cestaío expletiver la preface of the unlucky associatiora sugges ́ed by sence of which golf language of the most the number. If the Lordɔn suffragtites only approved variety paled into insignificance. At, followed the footsteps of their. French cousina the end of the brief but exciting vigil, the and } sin the bar lustead of politics, it would be thirver' after knowledge landed on the wharf- a most happy circoms'ance for all parties cons not give up hops. If he continues his quest of ty said to Lovely Women's temperament and, awolferárda'wherman. Bateur friend should'] cerned. The nature of the profess'on is strange. typhoonish adventure, it is more than likely besides, the Premier, having been a barris'er- that one of these Bae days success will crown himself, will most probably appreciate and bis efforis, with fart this little poz:[bility-ibat understand their feelings and frame a Bill be might never live to tell the tale. But that with a low to its ultimate paienga by is by the way.

Parliament, thus throwing cong the profession to the lady with a mascoline turn of mixdə «İ” wonder how many of the gastier sex in tha Colony are laclined to look with faroer upos a measure which is cafculated to turn their site ters into twentieth can pay Pórtias Premie OʻLDAL CRITICA

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$29,476.91

DIRECTORS E Mr. W. H. Polls has been granted lehre of abience. Mr. Pet's retires by rotation, but offers himself for re-election,

·AUDIT,

In the absence of Mr, H. U. Jeffries the accounts have been audited by Messis. A. R. Lows, CA, and A. O'D. Gourdio. · Mesir H, U, Jeffries and AR Lowe offer themselves for re-election.

·J, W.- Noutaj⠀-

Chairman,

Hongkong, 1st September, 17 a

POLUNTEERS.

Hongkong Celegraph conl's world-famous discovery. A de-, tiffie on the Auteng-Mukden Railway was No. 4 Comps03,

KONCKONO, SATURDAY, SEPTENDER 3, 1910.

GAMBLING.

Most of us are aware of the suppressive measures taken by the Hongkong authorities in the matter of gambling. In the earlier days of the Colony's history gambling war a licensed pastime, just the same as it is in Macro or in Canton at the present moment. de limo weat, on the "goody-goodles" of Exeter full discovered or pretended to dis cover that in Hongkong the authorities were harbouring a peinleatial evi by drawing portion of their revenue from such a source as gambling. They appeared, to be quite upmindful of the fact that on all the race. courses in England gambling is recognised as being within the law, whether it be conduct ed fo the Ring or on the Fint. In the same way, at our race meetings or gymkhanas in Hongkong gambling goes on in a licensed form and not even the Governor thinks that he is traversing and gambling laws when he puts a Laidollar bill into the Parimutuel Yet the poor coolie who cannot read and who long for some foral of excitement where with to pass his hours of idleness away, and cash a throw,

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sion "wireless telegraphy" has been short-EVERAL big mines bare shut wb in Ram ened into the dissylable "wireless." Insignipar istely, but quite a cumblr ef amulief busi ficant To far as philology is concerned, we are are springing up and robbie li making vest all acquainted of the circumstance that streiches. It looks as if rubber in the end

wireless is the term by which it has be would supplant tis miolog entirely. come common to describe the operations of Owing to the collapse of a bridge on August cade ago such a thing as telegraphy with loteropted. Heavy rains were also responsi ont wires would have been laughed to scorn.ble for the flooding of the Japanese Consulate **Sufficient unto the day, is the evil thereof;" in Hsiamiatun co August 22,'

and the skeptics who formerly scoffed at the seemingly outrageous idea of transcend ing space by means of a puny wire have now to sing dumb when confronted with write Why, the advent of the dawn in toli system that discards wire communication Connection is not yet beraided I' altogether and transmits its messages through | Page

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To those who have got hold of the quint de fusion that plantation rubber as an investment. has had its day, a commentator in the Financier,

is granted leave of absence for us months with. Corporal W. M. Felling of No. Company

effect from the 3rd Feptember,

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„ND INTERPORT SWIMAI.O CARNIVAL,

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The telegrams quoted below were tace vod from tha" Manila Observatory at the American Consulate General —

Mauil, September 7, 643 P‚miz Cyclone ar Typhoon South of Meiscosima, direction unknown.

Manila, September 3rd, 11 nimi: Cyclone or Tipkood 8.E. öf, Meiac:ink

I was glad to antice that the local exponents | his Excellency the Officer Administering of the ratatorial art have been distinguishing the Government has been pleased to promo'etben uivre in the waters of the Monthero port, Lieutenants Mowbray Stafford Nonbcote and Smilactly gloomy predictions were made William Metray Scat to the sank of Captain as fist as to the alleged handicap which would in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, vice Capt. beliflice Jos the local experis by reason of the T. Skinner resigned and Capt din V. Nicholson fresh water in which the contests were to be resigned, with effect from the 4th March, 191, curied out in the settlement, as opposed to the and the 18 h August, 1970, respectively.

calty.conditions cbtaining locally, to which our

Company, Captain W. H. Sccti in posted to —Captain M. S. Northco'e is pored to No. 1 | representatives have always been accustomed, But a fiend of oise, whọ, from his thorough kaow eign of these matters, is certainly colitied to sprak with authority on the subject, assured ma the other day that there was absolutely no foundation in (bess fears, as although f.esb ____X_r. G. Ligión sined the Corps on the 16th-water-was-not-quita-so÷buryaul-an>-tall-

Aegas, assigeed Corps No. 152 and posted to the difference between the two when applied recarv.az paribeastwards No. 3 Company, an

to expert swimmiļa amoosted almost to

perfectly sound oor, fór, Jadging from the manis (Bedam) Cs, Mr. J. P. Michael siked nit. And that view appears to us to be A2 the recent menjing of the Straits Satila.

cabled scecnois of the coutéria, the local whether, as the prfis from-taplocawers 10 flop. It is only to be hoped that the succem of the bosko. He thought the directors Eight speris have certainly not belled their reputa: small; it was worth while to continue that part of the aquatic cirolval bis zot bear marred br. consider whether would not bowlsa, toʻtaka any premature disagreement between the conadvantage of the present stata ef iba jabbne" testing teams, as, this sort of thing ben en un market to sell forward at gn, Bi, 71, 01.EVEN BI happy krack of asterling (helf as occasions to secure their profi Tha Chaltman said that - such as theas. For the rest there sporting as regaided tapioca he had alrès de pointed cut msttings forth and South so a long way in they did not start toe branch for ste purppient. Hager tx las, and should be continued by all the Chinese queiten who were very unr{ql= promo.ing good follow ship betware Far making a large probe, but for keeping together

mears,

In cleaning ard weeding, With QIN THE TOILS/CHAN

ward tales the shareholders most Under the above caption, 1 cams scross a matter to the discretie paragraph in an esteemed Home prper the would no doubt agres that in the past thaj da s other day arest the opium roblem. The creion had bros witely exercited." pirigraph. In question is

26th August, assigned Corps No. 1853 and Mr. S. C. P. Yerdell } Jord the Corps on the

pasted to the Eagloser Company, August, rasigeed Corps No. 4 and posted to Mr. C. Mackay joined the Corps on the 26th No. 4 Company

Trooper A T Walker of the H.K, Volunteer, Troop is permitted to feriet with effect from the 16 h August, A Tropar-P. Potts of the Rik Volunteer Troop is permitted to risige with effect from

ether unaided by the baser appliances of Fine which swept one side of Maguiletes, human construction. If one were required the principal street at Cebu on 27th ult, and. to show an example of the vast change that burned two sides of ons block, ct used a pres that has come over the scene since the adperty loss estimated at P350,000 on which vent of "wireless," one could not quotes P235,000 insurance is understood to

to have beed better instance than that of Dr. Crippen carried.

provide for, the sea eguing and tags. ment of lepsis.

the agră August,

1,3a SECRETARY OF IVERS

-EX-EGIED IN HONPAND ON MONDAY

and his paramour Le Neve, who, the HIS EXCELLENCY the Officer Administering correquence of a horrible wife-murder by the Government has given his autent, Te (heTrooper E. Howard of the H.K. Volunteer the former, tried to hide their guilty tracks name and on behalf of His Majesty the log. Troop 11 permitted to songs on lesving its but were relentlessly brought to earth by to, the following Ordinances passed by iba Colony with effect from the 21st August, means' of "wireless, Tennyson writes of Legislative Council -An Ordinance 10 secním: the fierce white light that beats upon « the better training of Midwives and to regulato throne." Marconi's lavention has made the their practice an Ordinance to amend it's fierce white light of "wireless" capable of Kellet Island Ordinance, 1898, and an Odin. being thrown upon individual or communal action spart from kings or princes. - Its uzsö as a factor in crime delection has been fully demonstrated to the Crippen case. Its em ployment in the mercantile marine is already recognised extensively; and in this Navyalmost every ship of every nation is equipped with wirclets" apparitur, An Imperial system of wire cap telegraphy making it possible for very British possession to be linked up by mine: fastures of th

tions is one of the fascinating quet of pain white e dens

A ZAUTIFULLY appointed cloner was given with the Secretary of War and

The transport Creek sailed from Manile, at Manila on Wednesday evening by Commism, torda, and slower and Mrs Newton W. Glibert. in bot out ember 11-1. p.m. 17. Dick

fit, and Mre, Venry Humphreys and kiga | nang will then continue north by Humphreys of Hongkong," The table contain remsinleg passengers who #1

statenterpiece of soft light,groam silk riplo with small electric lights emerg

shades the same co.cur. Que -

transport, 3.30 on the

mole, as it throws un latareating aide-light on the Crata 1,UMEDUS WITHT tem prevailing among other

ividualk. In order to kvold

possible attempt at gerblir g in question in fall The Chinsan Göyeremaal's

iva them'3K9se of, thir

Dip for the E

Mãe W. Mec god, managing Sydney Dulistin, bru just retu