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NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST 4 1911

DAY BY DAY.

PORTS.

At Gibraltar there areonly two TRADE OF THE YANGTZE cows, and now one of them is ill. That is bad. So bad; indeed, that itcnusesons of our contemporaries

Mind is the grout lever of all to say, "It reminds one of the things; human thought is the Island of Sound, where tliere is We beg to inform our Customers and the Public generally that process by which humm ends are only one tree." There was another, but it died.' About-us apropos we have from this date adopted now labels for Gin imported and alternately answered.

you can have it: ' bottled by us...

13.

A.. FINEST OLD TOM GIN

will is future beur, the label

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SIR ROBERT BURNETT & CO.S OLD TOM GIN Imported and bottled by A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. B. FINEST UNSWEETENED GIN

will in future bear the fabul

SIR ROBERT BURNETT & CO.'S DRY GIN. limported and bottled. by A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,

A. S. FATSON & CO., LTD. Longkong, 28 June, 1910.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST'in, 1911.

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Refusing a Fare

Not Proven. ·

Suppression of Oplum.

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of the year rice was very scareo

the area

MARINE COURT.

Floods in Shail The Customs Commissioner at and sold for as muely as 9,000 Shasi states in his report that it was a pical. Fortunately, both is estimated that over 600,000 the Juno and autumn harvest poople in that intendancy alone were aboyo, the average through- In the froslily issued returns were rondlored homeless by the out the province, and the water of the Statistical Department of great floods of 1909, the majority in the Yangtze did not riso high

of whom became entirely dopen-enough to encroach upon tho Imperial Maritime Customs dont upon support from ellicial of cultivation. for the past year, the Acting and private sources. At the ut commoncement of the your 1010 The Dairy Form Company, At the Poljes Court this morn Commissioner of Customs

famine relief operations had al- Limited, sued D. Dorward in the ing a rickshaw coolie was sum-Chungking says →→ 1.

The suppression of opium ready boen actively pursued for Disobeying Orders. Summary Court this morning for moned for refusing to take a fare

Commander Bookwith had be the sum of $13.20 for goods when asked to do so. Mr. Wood, growing ordered by the Viceroy a month at the sheds situated o supplied. An assistant in the before whom the case was tried, in the autumn of 1900 was mile below Shasi, whore, about

vigorously enforced throughout 1,000 peoplo had been necom-foro him, this morning, a cabo in employ of the plaintiff company fined the man $5.

the year, and, although land-modated and money, clothing, which three Chinese Coxswains of in the absence of the defendant proved the claim and judgment | An Indian motor driver was ownors and farmers did not al-and foxl distributed to the absteam launches were concorned. was entered accordingly. also charged before Mr. Wool ways willingly submit, the resolutely dostitute-women, chil-They were Loung Yau, of thé strictions were carried out and dren, and decrepit men alone bo-Astor llouse Hotel launch, To The Ayer Panas Case with driving his motor cur in a

la conso ing admitted. During January Kam Wing, of the Brema, and It is anticipated that the first reckless manner and in excess of mot with succoss.

whom were charged at the in- hearing of evidonec in the pro- the speed limit. Mr. Wood found quence, it can now be safely snow fall to a depth of 3 inchesLeung Fing, of the Wo On, all of secution against the directors of that the evidence was not suflisaid that practicnity no opium and unusually cold weather pro-

is grown in the provinco at vailed, accompanied by hard stanco of L. S. W. Thompson, the Ayer Panas, Rubber Estate,cient and diselarged the man.

pretont This, of course, has frost, the result of this incle with disobeying the lawful orders Ltd., will be taken by Mr. Firm- Found in the Water. resulted in a falling off of the money being that a considerable of the Harbour Master on the

25th hit. stone, senior magistrate, on Wed- Last night the police at Yan-export of opium the exact number of the refugees succunte nesday next

-hd-ur folia 'floating in the water figures will be found it a sub bad to the intonso cold coupled the body of an Indian watchman sequent paragraph. Tha im with an insnilicioney of food and The Bijou Theatre. Rollicking farce is the order of employed at the coal godowns portant position hitherto held other privations. Small-pox was the day or evening at that is supposed to bo a case of by native opium in the com- also provalent in the district.

morco of Szechwan can be gaug- above. The antics of Mr. Frank accidontal drowning. Melrose are screamingly funny, while a sketch by Miss Violet Bonnetta and Mr. Boh Stephenson is well received. The pictures are all good.

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Sikh Sues Sikh-

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The rather unusual spectacle an Indian watchman saing an- other of his ilk was witnessed at the Summary Court this morning, when Manna Singh sued Sowah Singh to recover the sum of $5. At first defondant denied liability but later said he owed $50. An order was made for the payment of monthly instalments of 5,

Armed American Liners.

pounders.

Domestic Buildings. The domestic buildings of the City of Victoria number 9,694 (exclusive of Barrucks and Police

The Printers' Outds..

ed from the fact that in 1907:

Yochow.

THE SANITARY BOARD VACANCY.

No One Wants the Position.

Following on tho resignation of Mr. Sholton Hooper, over the question of the inclusion of cer- in words in the preamble of new bye-laws, H. the Governor ordered than plection. to fill the vacuoy, thus created. should be held on Tuesday next- The last day on which nomina, tions could be sent in was yester- day, and on enquiry we learn that no nomination was made on'. that day. Consoquently there will be no election.

The case for the water police was to the effect that; in defled of the harbour master's orden to the contrary, these three luuaches were seen to be alongside the Changsha

gangway of the s.5. St. Albans all When the Changshan shipping at one time.

The commander, in finisig he The five Guilds, comprising Mr. McAllum (thon Assistant- the Compositors in European-Charge at Chungking) come opened on 1st March the employ, those in Chinese employ,puted, with every reservo, of general outlook for the coming men fifteen dollars or one month's Bookbinders, Printers, &c., have course, the total yearly producer was of the gloomiest nature. hard labour oachsaid that thissors been summoned by circular to tion of marketable spium in the short crops of the provious of thing would have to be stop- nicet to-morrow night; the result provincent about 175,000 piculs year, and the heavy shipments of ped. Tho men seemed to think Of this he estimated boat rive to laukow to meet the grondhut because there had been no of their deliberations will be 120,000 piculs were constined distress in that noightmarkod, previous conviction of this kind locally and the rest exported to and sent up the price of rice to the order that he had mude awaited with interest.

Another Armed Robbery.

othor provinces. Taking the over 8,000 cash per bag, and seal was a dead letter. He had given A caso of,arined robbery is

average price of the your 1906 stocks were almost depleted an order that only two launches reported from Tai-o, particulars (a time when the price of the Prohibition against the export of were to be alongside at one time of which are very mongre. From

rico and padily was instituted and his order would have to bo native drug was not yet the information to land, ealanced by the throat of pro- from the 7th April-too late, oboyed. He did not send theso appears that a man colored a shop hibition) at the low figure of Hk. however, to have any beneficial orders round to the poople con- armed with a chopper and ter T. 200 per picul, the total value effect, and only the prompt open-ccrued, for fun. They woto for rified the inmates. While they Mr. McKenna, replying to Mr. were still under the influence of of the drug produced during that ing of the government grauaries the convenience of the passengers. rice for charitable relief could to climb over two or three craft Middlemore in the House of terror the man got away with year may be put down at 35 mil and the importation of foreign it was not nice for them to have lion tavis, and of the drug export- Commons, said the Admiralty had goods that are valuod at two ed to other provinces at 12 mil have allayed the sufferings of the to get to the launch that they

lian taals. These figures do not poor, whose staple article of diet wished. There will be no rebate to Missionary subscribers as heretofore. no official information to the effect hundred dollars.

that the Norddeutelier Lloyd and

Rough on the Ducks

claim to be accurate, but they had been doubled in price. It By Ordor

Homburg-America lines had car- "HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL"

An old woman was churgod at may be taken as probably being was generally felt that trouble was browing; but when it came [75riei guns and ammunition since the Magistracy to-day with killing woll under the mark, Hongkong, 22nd Documber, 1908.

1900, and also trained gunners;{ five dunksthat were not hor pro- It is evident that the disappear-it como suddenly and without or that Austria-Hungary had party and was bound over in the ance of such an important itemWarning, the immediato causo adopted a liko plan, and that Italy sum of twenty-five dollars to keep among its products must have being one of those unforeseen now required all large vessels of the peace for six months. It came far-reaching efforts upon the penings that are so hard to the principal lines to carry a war out in the evidence that the general commercial conditions of deal with. On the 13th April the armament, consisting of one deceased ducks were in the habit the province; a very serious de-suicide of a whole family, one 47in, gun and six Sin. twolve-of straying into the defendant's clino in the price of land suitable member of which had alrendy ground and in a fit of aggravation for opium growing line already died of starvation, led to an ex- set in and it is gratifying to note

ciled gathering deruding the Falo killed the orring ones.

Boat Population. that the seriousness of the situa-reduction of the price of rice and the immediate opening of the The Chinese boat population tion has been recognised. (exclusive of the New Territories),

In order to try to fill the gap granaries-promised, hut post Statious), of which 930 are Non- is estimated for 1010 as 48,010 caused by the disappearance of ponad for another month. Chinese dwellings, while there are and the number of boats belong opium, officials and merchants have combined in their efforts to JAPAN'S FIRST GREAT CHARITY.

The year 1010 was a compara- also 163 European dwellings ining to the Port and the villages the Hill District. The number of of Hongkong, is as follows:

expand and improve existing, and Itively poor ono, viewed from the to introduce new industries and revenue standpoint. The total col- Perhaps the first inutanes of public charity in Japan, on a largo] new houses completed during the

Pussonger boats......... 3,040

agricultural methods. Coinmor lection was 11k. Tis. 28,091, BELILIOS PUBLIC Cargo boats ...... .1,277

cial enterprises lavo beon en-as against E. Tix. 51,804

SCHOOL. scale, is the gift of the Emperor il one and a half million yen for your was as follows:-City of Victoria 15, Kowloon 15, Outlying

Storm-launches ...................... 271

couraged and facilitated by ad- for 1000. The decronso was main- the relief of the poorest classes, by the provision of free or exceed-

districts 30, and Poak3, making a

Lighters

186

vancing monoys from officially due to the absence of rice from ingly cheap medical relief. Following closely as it does upon the total of 3 as against 128 in 1909.

Presentation of Prizes. ..1,607 Harbour boats

funds, and experiments are being the export list, excopt in very Fishing boats..... ...4.180 anarchist plot, for which Kotoku and cloven of his associates suffered In addition to the above, miscel

made with agricultural products small quantity.

Some five yours ago, Mr. B. E. Trading junks.......1,000

hitherto unknown in the province. | rês

Belilios, white on a visit to this. death, it has been thought by some that there is a relationship faneous buildings such as ofices, godowns, etc., wore erected to the

Largo areas hitherto undor puppy between the gift and the unpopularity of the sontonce, which gave number of 61,-78 in 1909.

The year opened with trade in Colony, intimated his intention of cultivation are now planted chilly proving in spite of adverse con-prosonting annually to the pupils Kotoku over to death. This wo vonture to think is not the cuse, but Strength of Fleet in Hongkong, Lelioro lat, purely philanthropic motivos only underly the gift, and According to the latest returne, This givos an average of 39 with beans, ground-nuts, and itions. The wonther was phont attending the school so generously that the money was given solely for the good that it should do. The the average strength of the British persons por boat. The number of wheat, and attempts are to be mennlly bad, especially for toa, built and presented by his late follows:British boats enumerated at the Consus made to introduce the cultiva and the province was suffering father, seven handsome prizes to immediato effect of the gift was to set an example, which many of fleet was

severely from famine. Refugees be compoted for at the cloan of permanently in the Colony 410, takon in November, 1900, was tion of cotton on a large scale, the Japanese have been only tou ready to follow, and early in May British occasionally in the Colony 6,450 but this was only a month

crowded into Hankow and heavily the Midsummer Term. The sub- A prominent føstura în connec-

Laxel local resources for their re-ject was to be English Composi- it was decided at a very influential meeting to take stops for the 5,247, Chinese permanently in the after the great Typhoon by which tion with the trade of Tebang for lief, until the rice, crop Guane in. tions, and the extollones of the augmentation of the Emperor's gift till the very large sum of 20 Colony 150, Chinese occasionally many boats were destroyed. There 1910 was the advance made in million yen is accumulated for the object in view. The need of the the Colony 150-making u are in addition 9,553 boats in the steam navigation on the Caper Many of these unhappy persons essays recently sent in by the left for down-river ports and various candidates testifies to the total of 5,953. For the purpose. Now Territories.

Yangtze and the successful run- Japanese for cheap medical treatment is only to evident if the estimating the population it is Sanitary Condition of the Colony.ning of the s.s. Shutting between but the greater number have rotheso prizes in this important sub- Shanghai en route for Manchuria, valuable stimulus provided by figures of a German scientist are taken into consideration. Taking considered

The cubiclo question" has this part and Chungking. the assumption that one fatality occurs in thirty-four cases include eno-third only of those for many years been one of the

The yoor's trade was on the turned, and the rest are expected jest always a difficult one for Occasionally "resident in the most difficult problems in connec- whole disappointing, the depres to come back. The price of all youngsters and specially so for food-stuffs rose to a very high native children. This year the of illness, the annual deaths in Japan being 1,000,000, it would be

Colony; this gives 1,790 and tion with the sanitary welfare of sion which prevailed in 1900 hav- a justifiablo deduction that the number of cases of illness throughout of these 50 are Chinese.

follows:-Class 1, Emily Ahwee; the Colony, but it would scoming continued throughout the point, and on Changsha stopping prizes have been awarded as the year would be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 34,000,000.

that, at last, it has been solved in greater part of the year under the export of rice, the Chinese Class 2, Choung Fook To; 3. The following paragraphs are a satisfactory manner by the en- review. The steady influx of authorities had to import large. Mabel Chonslloy; 4 Florence Supposing only one por cont, are in needy circumstances, and Anable to afford the ministrations of a doctor, then 340,000 re-taken from the garrison orders actment of stringent regulations coolies for the construction of the supplies from abroad, of which a quire medical succour each year. These figures are not the rosult published under dato 3rd August:ermbined with considerablo lati- railway from Telong to Szechwan quantity was, in the and left on Chealloy; 5.Emily. Uarros; 6. of a vapouring imaginativo mind, but have the backing of an Extract from the London tude in their practical enforce-hart the effect of considerably ra thoir hands, as when the local rice Ng Yuen Tin; 7. Dollie laker,

crop matured it was exceptionally Unclaimed Telegrams excellent statistical journal, so that a serions state of affairs is (azutto, dated 4th July, 1911, ment. The Public Health law of ing the 1 prises of all neces- full. The early months of the List of unguimed telegrams shown in Japan which this princely gift will tend to alleviato. There is published for information: the Colony prohibits the erection saries of life, the price of rice hav aro, comparatively speaking, no public cliarities: They would not be War Oflice, 4th July, 1911. of cubicles in ground floor rooms ing risen during the summer year were also marked by gam-lying in the Great Northern Tole- graph Company's Office at Hong- very flourishing if they did exist, for at the present time the nation's Regular Forcos. Royal Iteginent and limits those on upper floors to months to the abnormally high bling in native opium. Kluklang.

kung: Keechong, Küngtien race for power, the increasing burden of armaments and the hurry for of Artillery The promotion to two in number, while it also figure of 13,000 cash a slih, (200 Gool autumn crops,

The trade of 1910 may be chang, Litnon, Shepardson, Army up-to-date development, are involving expenditure, which is proving the rank of Major of Captain limits the height of the partition catties). aburden to the tax payer. Consequently the establishment of hospi-William G. Lyddon is ante-datod walls to six feet and. regulates however, brought the price down characterised as normal, and mor- Navy Club,

thair construction in certain other by nhout 35 per cent:

eliants generally are not dissatis- Last Night's Storm- tale, which in an ideal state should be the primary care of any govern- 26th April, 1911.

This black typlioon une ré- ment, has been left over. Charity did not exist to a large enough ox- A Board of Officers, composed directions, but a discretionary The agricultural year was not fied with their year's work. The tont, and the nation's income was devoted to other channels. Yet the as under, will assemble at 10a.m. power is granted, by the Ordin uneatisfactory. Though the wheat low price of copper cool interfer-mined displayed yesterday until gift of the Emperor and the loyal seconding of his subjects in the to-morrow, 4th instant, at I and 2 anes, which lies now been vested and bean larveste at the end of somewhat with the profitable dark, when it was replaced by the matter are significant indications of the gradual change that ie Autrin Villas, corner of Chatham in the Medical Officers of Health. May were not abundant, owing to sale of goods originally purchased vertical lights corresponding coming over the East. It has been said, more than once, and Observatory Roads, Kowloon, and they have thus boon enabled snowy and hoavy rains in the early in silver, but generally sponking was again hoisted this morning. that ogotism is one of the traits of Oriental character. In the for the purpose of inspecting and to permit the erection of a larger spring, the cotton crop, the most the returns have bean satisf-During the night, a very high past it undoubtedly was true. "Wint can I get for myself?" was reporting upon the houses in number of cubes on-any floor, important one in this district, wastory, and there have been an fail-win! prevailed, accommpiod Ti the eternal question, if not on the lips at least in the mind, und, as question as to their fitness for oc- wherever the lighting and venti- the bost for many years past, Theres of any importance for which heavy rain squalls. No serious a result, the duty of one citizen to his poorer neighboura has been cupation as Officers' Mess and lation of the premises have been price of raw cation at the end of trade can be held respons- flammage tra beou reported, to the lost in the sublimity of the glorious "". The presont movement Quarters:-President: Major W. found to warrant, such a conces September was 30,000 cash a tan ble. Two or three small banks police. Some of the smill pri- is an unmistakeable indication, showing an awakening consciousness M. Pyne, R. E. Mombers: An sion. As a result uly 14 proso (130 cattles), against 40,000 cash have led to close their doors, but vate Iminches on the water, front that poverty, whether due to misgovernment, natural calamities, Officer, 1t, E., an Officer, 8th Gutions for jllegul cubicles were in the previous year. The other it has been on account of tho fail sustained slight doing go from the personal defects, or other causes, is, when it grows too great, likely, Rajputs, an Officer, R.A.M.C., Tiecossary during the your, the autumn crops-millet, mizo, and uro of their correspondents else boisterous waves. This morning nye, almost bound to produce disquieting political consequences. A.SU. Officer i-c. Barracks. Pro- nes amounting to $85. In con- sweet potatoes were equally where. Opium dealers are said the galo still continued to race Parhaps Japan is learning from the great mistake of her erstwhile ceedings to be forwardod to O.C. nection with anti-plagua measures satisfactory and, with dry weather, to have made the heaviest profits, and the harbour was deserteil bý enemy, Russia, that to ignore the poor is fatal. They are un- A.8.0. Bathing. Owing to the to ronder houses as far as possible were harvested in good condition. though the bankers have done all the sailing craft and most of fortunately in the majority, and whether the gift, of the Emperor matsheds at Tok Lo Ha having rato-proof, 324 ground surfaces The river roached its highest point well too. Sugar merebant, per the launches, scoting sholter in has a political significance or no, it must be welcomed as a means been destroyed by typhoon, bath in houses have been repaired and in September-10 feet 3 inch hops, were the least fortunate, as the lyphoon refuge. The sail 14 towards the alleviation of misery und distress, that is known to ing at that place is cancelled until 1,075 buildings have had rat-rant which is low. in comparison with their main stocks arrived on a of soms of the river steamers wo. 4

filled up with cament,

other year.

falling market. In the first half sins interfered with. exist in the Land of the Cherry Blossom, as well as in other londe, further qution,

UN

a fair average to

Garrison Orders.

12,231

Ichang

7

Hankow.