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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY MARCH 3 1911

of the noise committee," and yours and over. Under the any of theso oighten were sentirosont syston about 60 por back several times until the cent of the number available reinedalile noise had been suffor duty in the stroots is required ciontly redured,

for night duty, from 10 p.m. to The remaining 40 por gent, is detailed for day duty in four roliefs in town districts, and

way, if I wished to convey a sense of Bondon's magnitude to a, correspolent at a distanco, I should not quote to him the com- monplace statisties of population, but should casually reuirk that last year 25,004 unbrellas were left behind by passengers in Lon-eyes wide opon for the protection dan gals and "Hos

of the travelling public. The ascortainment of that fact is duo not to any researches pais fully undertaken in proparing a dissortation on "Ahsoul-minded- ness in the Twenlinth Century,

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therefore ordered to bo "dotained during His Majesty's pleasure"), ono was discharged by the magi strats, and in the remaining in stunce the bill was ignored by the grand jury."

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF This includes an increase in the lar Bar interim mishaps, a very gross receipts of the wharf and of formidable crew is assured this the olectric works of about m,1,125,000.

soason. Alroady the mon aro

KIAO-CHOW.

In place of the usual illustrated report on Kino-chow publisliod Far bo it from me to east any in brochure form, which is now doubt upon the distinction Lon-only to appear in the elaborate to reliefs in country districtsdon has gained as a criminal style at longer intervals, the Cler

The report further statos that balanced woll, all appear apt the extension of the Imrhour pupils, and Mr. W. Dudley Ward works and of the road and canal is bringing thom on in very np system has been proceeded with. prociable fashion. Privato building activity increas

FREQUENT OXFORD CHANGES. President Bourne (Oxford) is

A YEAR'S WORK OF LONDON POLICE. Tondon, Dec. 16-According | to Mr. Barrio, the one thing in London that over fails to in- KEEPING EYES OPEN. pross a country.visitor with tho supremacy of the great, city is bureau has a tremendous irmount The statistics show that the the size of the letter boxes of work in the constant inspection the chief post offices. These of volielos after they have onco

the country districtse heing; of centro. At the same timo, when man Imporial Navy Dopurimont ad compared with the provious. vast slits appeal more powerfully received their permit. Fant year, course, those more thinly populat-one becomes aware that overy hus communicated to the semi-your, and especially was this the to the imagination that the con- there were 22,881 casds, in which sections of the metropolitan year there is only one murdor official "Nordd. Allgemeine Zoi case with the new Chinoso build- voltional "sights" to which the a public motor velicle was re-area which are swopt by the fur-known to be committed for ovory tung" some of the main facts ro-ings. Amongst the more import- attention of the excursionist is ported unfit for public use, whether end of the fifteen miles 400,000 of its population, it is lating to the development of the ant odilices completed during the tackling his formidable task of ordinarily directed. In the mother on recount of excessive noise, radius.

clear that there are other places in territory during the last official year was the first block of build-rew-making in characteristically defective steering gear, delective

FINGER-PRINTS. lakes, the dropping of oil or

But, after all, it is the crimi- of self-preservation from the on-October, 1910: These are, on the ligh School. It comprises room the services of a united numbor. the civilized world where the task year, viz., froin October, 1900, tongs for the Cornan-Chinose energetic fashion. Wisely, he is contenting himself with utilising groase, or miscellaneous defects. nal investigation department' einies of society offers a prospect wholo, of a satisfactory nature.

for 126 pupils, reckoning two to of recruits at this stage. Among As the total number of these volant supplies Brotland Yard with of greator oxcitement,"

In spite of the financial crisis a room, bosides eight dwellings others who have boon tried aro hielos bearing a license is. 5,136, its most anxious problems. How

H. W. II. in North China, tlio roport states for Chineso teachers. The second it is clear that the London polier science has come to the aid of the

that Tsingtau's trade has been set of buildings, which is to be.. Tinne, L. G. Wormald, R. FLIES. have been trained to keep their modern Sherlock Holmes is illus-,

practically maintained at the finished next spring, is to be W. D. Coleridge (the Etonians), favourable epmment on the fin

E. Burgess, E. Millington-Drake, trated by the commissioner's

favourable leval of, roughly, constructed in a similar style. W. S. Cushing (from Yale Uni DANGEROUS PESTS.

$65,000,000 roached in the pro- Tho German-Chinoso High The licensing of drivers and Ser-print system of identification, Hongkong has done much to vious your. Particular attention Schoul has not yet fully got john (from Molbourne University, versity, U.S.A), C. W. 1. Little- conductors is a kindred responqalified satisfaction." One of flies still flourish. Those are a

which continues to give un rid itsolf of the mosquito pest, but is drawn to the fact thint Tsingtau, through its first stage of

as the ontlot of an important rail development. The extraordinary Old Cheltonian), Ll. A. Hugh Australia), G: W. Lambert (an sibility. The first tost impused the most interesting exhibits at sorious menace to the health of way system, hus boon the princip difficulties of an organisation Jonos (from Rugby), and J. W.

an applicant concenis, is this year's. Anglo-Japanese ex-any household, and ninch can be al port for the importation of knowledge of London. Hohibition, by the way, was a series done to minimize the langer from railway material for the Tien- experience is lacking, necessitates From this list alone he should be

for which examples and sufficient

Heinominin (an Old Marlburian), annual report of the commis whereabouts of the principal | this method. such identifi-American Civic Association givesing of this railway, and not loast less, tito number of scholars has able to fittingly fill the six vacant expected especially to kapw the of specimens of the efficiency of them. A recent bulletin of the sin-Pukow Railway. The build-extraordinary effort. Nevertho- public buildings, įdars of amuse cations the metropolitan police series of rules for dealing with also of the great bridge over the incroused from 79 to 145, amongst

Boats in duo courke, tropolis, published in a foolsement, railway stations, clubs, made 9,060 during last year, an flies. The matter is of such in long, has given numerous or whom no dilicnition as regards blue-book of seventy-eight pages get the nest expeditions routes crease of over 500. nt His Majesty's stationery ollier, and from these places. Out of

His biggest task will be to find portquce that we reprint these ders to German industry and pro-discipline have occurred, and thoya-No. 7 capable of succeeding P. and presented to both Houses |

If this article should catch tho rules in their entirely.

fitable work to German engi- are making satisfactory progress. Fleming. Lambort or Tinne will of Parliament Jay cound of ch applicants who pre-eyes of any one in authority at Flicy bread in horse mamuro,

sented themselves for examination Mulberry Street, I would respect decaying vegetables,doad animals, political economy has secured works have been published, and either should couple up the work cors. The net profit which Gorman Chinese translations of various probably be finally selected, and This Majesty," Formally it is last year no less than 2,009 failed. fully invite his attention to the and all kinds of filth. Toport submitted by the com- An 'oxtensive mud peculiar know-fact that inst year the metropolitan

from this construction is to be kind of museum for all dopart-woll at that thwart Lambert missioner to the home secretary,lege of Contion is not so easy to police summoned 843 persons, posts are bred in the stable.

Not less than 05 por cont. of the estimated ut not less than monts of natural and technical showod capital form in this year's for the reason that the metruire nowadays as it was in and secured the conviction of 785

m.15,000,000. Materials valued scienco has boon established. Trial Eights race in the same politan police fores if not, Sam Weller's tione. There are, of them, for wilfully obstructing manure bin with a door at the side ported at Tsingtau in the period the Christuskirche (Church of Henley oarsman.

All stables should have a at about. m.4,000,000' wore in The Report mentions further that position, and is a distinguished the police of provincial of ones, further tests in driving footway or carriage-way by estes and a wire surcon on the top, that extending only from May I to Christ) in Tsingtau, the sito of form alone stainps him as an oars under local management, but horses or motor cabs, as the cast in gools for sale, plus unt they the larva deposited in the manure October 1 list. Apart from which was given by the Governmin right above the ordinary. directly, under the control of the j government department known commissioner summoned 207, and convicted before it was placed in the bin will this item, the total imports of ment, was consecrato: last Oc-Ho, too, inherits the ability of his as the Home Office. This forests at many applicants for Ji), for allowing barrows, ote, be screened when hatched; and non-Chinese goods amounted to tobor. The Observatory founded father-tho' over-famous Blue of

fitensesnsurator-cub drivers liave From the City folico, a fores old to be rejected altogether, befor loading or unloading, and top of the bin, thoy can bo ousity in the previous year. It is re- of constraction, and its completion likely to get extended trial is A. to stand longer than necessary as flies seck light and como to the $25,800,000 against $25,400,000 by the Navy League is in course the sixtios. Another Old Etonian about 1,000 men which is con- after several trials, they do that they summoned 101, and killed by burning paper or some murkable that those imports, is expected in the coming summer. F. Wiggins (Captain of Boats last trolled by the Lord Mayor and appear to be capable of be convicted for wheeling barrow other devico.

which in the whole of East Asia The population of the town of senson), Aldermen, and is in charge of

wowing officient.

or truck on footway. My momo- Tho y ns o Appended to this section of theries of the obstacles one had to equalled by his hunger; place from the Chinese trade crisis, borod 1,621, including 1,531 the small central City"

thirst only vo this your suffered much Tsingtan in the year 1910 num- which has already Teen unted New York streets not many years report is the paragraph from

encounter along the sidewalks of

Germans; thoro wore in addition that astounding revolution of the

2,275, soldiers. The Chinese numberni forgaful owners ofüm-

inimbitants of the town number 120,090, or a total of 101,140. 34,180, and of the whole territory

but to, the reccel insity of the

sioner of polies for the me

of

arest

covoring only almut 675 arres

ubout 170 aegus loss than Now York's Contral Park.

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Tinne's Eton

GARTON ROWING AGAIN.

But what of the more serious intolerablo nuisance and danger together with artificial indigo | CREWS IN THE MAKING. | final order has been attained, and

LATEST FROM IȘIS AND CAM.

stable and a greater part of the of a dish of poisoned water in the and the consequent searcity

The rumour that A. S. Garton Javo monoy,

in Tsing

(the O.U.B.C. secretary and Blue) not only not declined,

had gone down is, happily, only most important articles of import but lave oven rison a little. The

rumour. He will assist again, and at his old thwart, No. 8. * up to the present are uniline dyes

President Bourne will again set the work, when something like (1,10),000), voles ($195,380), and recently also milt (about

thero is no doubt that H. B. Wells $75,000). The total import of

(Winchester and Magdalon) will succood A. W. Donkin as cox, sequence of the crisis, to only It is now protty cortain that He is a son of the ex-0.U.A.0. $9,100,000, against $13,100,000 all thoavailable Cambridge Bluos, president of that name, and in the proceding your. On the J. B. Kosher, It. W. M. Arbathis ovidently an adept with the other hand, exports liavo again not, G. E. Fairbairn, F. E. Hollyer, linos. The victory of No. 1 orow increased by about $3,000,000 | R. Le Blanc Smith, and R. Davies at Moulsford before Christmas was to $20,200,000. The interested will row against Oxford again largely due to his skill and oppor- firms speak in a very contented this year. Davies, Hellyer, and tunism. way in regard to the Tsingtau Itosher occupied their 1910 For the first time thwarts during last wook at Nos, export trado. several steamers fully loaded. 2, 3, and 6, but Le Blanc Smith loft the port for the European cun- was moved from No. 7 to No. 5, tinent. The most important ex- where he is doing excellent work. port articles are, ne boforo :- Straw-braid, $11,100,000; silk, He is in his fifth year, but, as the Fairbairn is the new No. 7. $5,000,000, and hides, $2,000, four years' limit qualification doos not apply to wotbobs, his inclu- products, $300,000, and coulsion is quito in order. The old $750,000. The cattle export to Etonian is already rowing in most Manchuria has been maintained, effective style. despite many disturbances..

Any sort of critical comment at this stage of preparation would be idle. Frequent changes must be expected for a week or so yet. Nor is the president undaly hurrying March, so there is plenty of timo matters. The race is in April, not before him. Bitter experience in the last few youre has demonstrat- ad the fact that there is such a thing as overdoing boat race work. -Pall Mall Gazette."

THE DECLINE of CHURCHGOING.

I fear that the docline of church- going is a matter which will exer- ciso the minds of Christians until at lust the empty church will be. will evoko as little comment, says as common as a rainstorm, and a contributor to the "Morning Loader." No man of long and

tan ago, suggest to mo that this-fliowatched there will be killed. The metropolitan police, on the brellas. The rompining property London constable might be imit fulfilling the same function that other hand, is responsible for a found in pathlie carriages and de-ated with profit.

respect the vigilance of the

Flies are nature's scavengers, district of 7 square miles; oiled with the police by drivers.

some bacteria do, but become an bracing the whols region within a

or conductors is thus Plassified: fifteen miles radius of Charing Watches, 289; rugs, 8; oporn-flocos against property and when ontering human dwellings Cross, with the oxception of the "city" area aforesaid. It has glasses, 704; sticks, 1,481; jeperson? Take burglary, for ox-and by contamination of food.

The presence of flies is a direct welry, 1,051; purses, 3,139, anti-ple, la an area inhabited by Jurisdiction on the river Thames, elos of woman's clothing 4:315, 7,510,973 persons, there must be evidence of cureless housekeep-Chinese goods nouitted, in con- and discharges incidentally the sand of antu'selethings, 1,020, bags opportunities for some good hauls, ing and of the existence of filth tition function of protecting 6,499; and misellanens, 17,351 Ospecially as so many people seem in some form about the promisos, Leven as far distant as Davenport posited 28,002 word restored to military stations, and dakgards, Of the dotal of 65,375 articles thus to be so indifferent to the protect-al are more dangorous than and Pembroke, Excluding the

ion of their own property: No less the good housekeeper's terror the owners, and the remainder than 27,364 doors or windows were found in bedrooms. mon who are lauson duty onside, were returned after three months found open or insocuroly fasten-

Romember that wherever and others who are specially n guest by public cuts to the drivers or inductors who. Yet with all this toptation absolute cleanliness prevails thero private individuals for the pro-

to the predatory class, there were will be no flies. Look after the liad brought them in, ̧ foetion of banks, wharves, ele),

only 449 Burglarits. The bque garbage cans. See that, they are STREET ACCIDENTS,'

breakings amounted to 1673.cloaned, sprinkled with line or the forco now consistóf 27 suporin- Several interesting detailed How Alisontecism contributes to kerosene oil, and closely covered. tendonts, 538 inspectors, 2,306 tables are given respecting street these two offences is shown by Itenovoall manure from stables sergeants, and 33,001 constables; accidents known to the polien by the fact that 579 of them were every three or four days, and when a total of 16,672. The pay of the which persons were killed or in- committed in housos loft with no removed keep in a tight pit or whole fören of 18,657 amounts an-jured. The death roll amounts ono in charge. And the London vault, so flies cannot breed in it. nually to about 11,000,000,-or 306 (255 in the daytime and burglar, for whatever reason, Lye, chloride of ling, or blue000; also tallow; $505,000; egg eight million dollars. (gā 51 at night), and the roll-of other knows better than to risk thevitriol water, crude carbolic acid, CONTROL OF VEHICLES, astaltios to 16,536. The police increase of his prospective, sent-or any kind of disinfectant may The average visitor to Fowlon had the duly of taking to the once by adding assault to his be used. the average rosilent, too, for hospitals 8,541 persons injured in original folony." Violence to the Koep flies away from the kit that matter thinks of the polico-ccidents and 4,417 suffering from person was used in only seven chon. Keep flies out of the dining

Schools represented by the As regards the local offect of above are Chaterhouse, Hymer's man mainly as the walking diree other causes. Thoy prevented asos of burglary and three of room and away from the sick, the commercial crisis, this was College, Hull, Winchester, and lory who will direct him to a 590 attempted suicides. They housebreaking. It would sedin especially from those ill with. heightened by opium speculations Eton. C. A. Skinner (the 1910 missing street, or as the bene found, and restored to friends that in those days the novelist contagious diseases.

and the failure of a Cheloo bank; coxswain) hails from Durban volont despot who rogulates the 1157persons who had been lost. wlie takes this type of erimo for Seroon all food. Apply this on the other hand, relief was High School, Natal. He showed traffic at congested corners. It is They attended 2,929 fires, of his subject must depart widely rule not only to food prepared at rendered by the good crop in markod ability with the lines last soldam that the gonoral public which they extinguished 184 from real life if he is to make his home, but to foodstuffs offered for Shantung and the help given year, and experionco gained in has an opportunity of watching without the aid of the brigado, writing sufficiently sensational. him chase a burglar over the roofThey stopped 271 runaway

sule, and especially fruits, salads, by the German-Asiatic Bank at that race is ovidently stond him The most gruesome work that and all other things which do not ho Guvernment's instigation. in good stead. The Jesus man tops or arrest a disturber of the horses and, seized 40,285 dogs. any police force can have to deal require to be cooked. peace, but his display of authorityIn such work as this, to say with is, of course, the tracking of

The crisis may now be regarded is now about st., but should Prevent consumptives from ex-

as overcome, although some Chi- train down to his normal weight over cabmon and chauffeurs is an nothing of the risks run in cases of murder. If Scotland pectorating where flies can feeders firms muy possibly not beable of 8st, 5lb. (about).. everyday spectacle.

arresting troublesome prison-Yard wero inefficient in pursuits upon it. At the head office at Scotlanders, the police naturally do not ofthis kind, one might advance

to hold out. The increasing in- THE RECRUITS. To clear rooms of flies carbolic portance of Tsingtau as a trading Tho 1010 recruits so far are Yard, one of the busiest bureaus themselves chine off unscathed. in its behalf the plea that it has acid may be used as follows: Heatplace is testified to by the increas S. 15. Swann (Trinity Hall), win-extended experience has any doubt is that which deals with the During the year there were no less comparatively little opportunity a shorol or any similar article and in shipping, Special attention is ner of the "Colquhouns," C., F.

as to the causo. It is, to put it public carriages of London, than 3,310casos of injury received of practice. Last your there were drop thereon twenty drops of car-drawn in the report to the fact Barnan (First Trinity), and L. S. brutally, the absolute contradic- The report of this bureau would while on duty. Of these 2,260 reported within the metropolitan bolic acid. The vapour kills the that the mail steamers of the Lloyd (Third Trinity). Swann is ion between the profession and bo. conclusivo proof of the woro assaults by prisoners. urea only ninetoon casos of the flies.

North German Lloyd now call at bow, Burnand at No. 4, and the practice of Christions. capture of the inetropolis Among the remaining items are: murder of persons above one year by the antqnobile, even if Assaulio by poisons not appro- of ago. (This return is presum-ly poison, one which is not homoward voyage. Coastal ship of the two first-named are likely when I used to live in Florence,

A cheap and perfectly reliable monthly on their outward and Lloyd is setting the work. Neither

I remember long years ago, one's eyes, and ears and nosentel, 61; bitten by dogs, 102; ably based on the verdicts of dangerous to human life, is ping suffered during tho your to ho dropped-on latest form. receiving a great shock from an trils-did not find sullicient assisting at firos, 28; stopping coroners' inquests, so that an al- bichromate of putash in solution. owing to the crisis. The number The old Rugbeian should dovolop ecclesiastical dignitury, & cole- evidences of it otherwise, Durrunaway horses, 44; assisting with lowance would have to be made Dissolve one drum, which, can of steamors has risen from into one of the best bows of recont brated prior and titular abbot. I ing 1900 there were licensod fallon or restivo horses, 21; when for a certain number of disap-bo bought at any drugstore, in 531 to 568, or an incronse of your. He evidently inherits the was walking with him in his 1,711 new cabs. Of these only disporsing disorderly crowds, 17; poarances.) In six casos out of two ounces of water, and add a 57, whilst tho tonnage rose by rowing ability of his father, the cloister-open then, and I believe sevon wefo-hansons-alas for the while riding bicyclos, 135; and the nineteen the murderers little sugar.. Put some of this 136,674 to 800,759. Other signs famous Blue of 1883-5. Burannd still, to the public--when he was departed glory of the gondola by falling down or slipping in the anticipated the course of just-solution in shallow dishes, and of the increasing commercial im- hails from Downsido, and has approached by a of London "—and forty-one were streets or when examining pre-ice by committing suicide. In distribute them about the house, portance of Taingtau are the in-dons splendid work both on the for

poor woman folie wheolors drawn by horses, misos, 370.

assistance. Hia, answer olovon cases out of the ro All the rest were motor-ends.

Sticky fly paper, traps, and creases in the bank-note circula- Cam and at Henley. A better was not a single word, but The sick list and sick leavening thirteen, arrests were liquid poisons are among the tion of the German-Asiatic Bank successor, to C. P. Cooke (the snarla roal, inarticulato Licensus were issued for soyon- returnssliow that the daily averago made. In one case of the two things to uso in killing flies, and in the Chinose customs Australian) at No. 4 would bo snarl. In less than two seconds toon new motor omuibuses and loss on the entire force through that have not been traced, there but the latost, ehonpost and revenue, 211 now mochanical tramway sickness is 2.80 per cent. The was reason to believe that the in-host is a solution of formalin or notes amounting to $075,801

At the close of tho year difficult to find.

ho was greeted by a marquis, a cars, but not for a single new removals during the year wore as juries that caused death were self- formaldehydoin water. Aspoon- were

Up to the prosent Arbuthnot member of the old Florentino horso 'bus or horse car. Further, follows: Retired with n pension, inflicted, although a verdict of fat of this liquid put into a $003,055 in the previous wolve ing exercise. Ho rowed how v. wealth and looseness of life than circulation, against lias contented himself with scull- nobility, more notorious for his more than 2,000 horse-drawn 584; retired with a gratuity, 49; wilful murdor against some par-quarter of a pint of water and months. The Chinese customs Oxford in 1909-10, but is pro- for his devotion to Holy Church. cabs, buses and can have drop-fresigned through ill-hoalth with- son unknown was returned at the exposed in the room will be revenue increased from II. Tls eminently a stroke as demons-The difference of the reception ped off the license list during the out title to pension or gratuity, inquòst, Thirteen porsons arrest- enough to kill all the flios. year, being apparently unable to 15; resigned voluntarily, 109;od in the cloven above mentioned

1,009,278 to $1,193,021. Thestrated now in the Trial Eights was a wonderful thing to seo. To quickly clear the room where position of Tsingtau's trade com- raco before Christmas. He is to The effect has lasted mo over stand the competition of the now- permitted to resign,51; dismissed cases were tried during 1909, in there are many flies burnt pyre-pared with that of Choloo is sot the work directly serious work since. fashioned vehicles. The pedos- for misconduct, 25, died, 42; addition to one prisoner whoso theum powder in the room. This now in the proportion of about bogins, L., when the crew trian who complains of the noise making a percentage of 4.69 ro- case was pending at the end of the stupefios the flies, whon they may thres to two. The number of Chi- migrates to Ely about February of the inotor buses has, at least, movale to the strongth of the previous year. Of these fourteen, be swopt up and burnod. tho consolation that things might whole forco.

nose landowners, Jins, despite tho 11. Nor will his so doing as all

Printed and Published by soven were convicted and sont- lave boon worso, had not Scotland

If thioro are flies in tho dining-crisis again rison in the past your upset the rhythm of the eight. Richard, Irving Hope, for the Of the 18,657, mon now on onced to death, four were found room of your hotel, restaurant, or by 28 (254 against 220). The Ifo and Lloyd havo both been Proprietor, Dr. J. W Noble, it Yard boon so vigilant. Or 61 the force, including those om-to bo insane at the time of the boarding-house, complain to the regular revenue of the Kino-choir coached from the first on strictly No. 47, Des Voeux Road Central, motor 'buses presented for license ployed for special purposes, commission of the offence, and proprietor that the premises are territory rose in the year from Etonian lines; hence their style in the City of Victoria, Hong- Last year, only 18 passed the teafs 5,748 have served for fitoon one on arraignment (and were not olgan.

m2,300,000 19 m4,100,000. | and methods are practically simi-kong

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