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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 27

SIR ROBERT

BURNETT & CO.'S

CELEBRATED

OLD TOM GIN

DRY GIN

IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

ESTABLISHED. 70 YEARS.

Hongkong, 6th January, 1912

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DEATH.

DAY BY DAY.

To be effective one must" unaffected.

To-day's Paper.

Another instalment of the series 53;

upon Directors appears on pageb On page 8 will be found the Short Sormen and so useful hints in

connection with the Photographic

Competition.

The next Criminal Sessions will be held on Monday, Feb. 12.

-The-list-of-Justices-of-the-

Thirty-sight Chinese were banished fromthe Straite Settle- ments during December.

On Wharf, yesterday, with a A man was found on the Ping revolver and 150 rounds of ammunition, and at the Magistracy this morning, he was fined $100

or six weeks' imprisonment.

CITY OF THE POET." revenue of $7,000 from Crown NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Bent and taxes, with, every pros-

Great Housing Scheme,

peot of a substantial inoresse The Medical Congress.

with the development of this dis- triot.

Finance.

Twormen bamed So-Ka♬ and

Today the Medical, Congress We have been favoured with Chung Kaw were bharged at the

finishes its wook's labours. That an advance proof of a "Proposed

On the important polut of fin-much good will result from the Magistracy Jorday afternoon Pottuguese Housing Scheme"auce it is estimated that the interclinge of lease and x- in forging the hop. ofhich has been prepared by Mr. C. soheme will, in round figures, periences is undoubted Apart Western Marketasteshan, and

Montague Ede

cost $735,000. The net rentals altogether, from the formal road- were remanded."

In the introduction is le pointed would produce $58,700, a not re-ing, of papers, highly valuable out that the housing of the middle turn of 8 per cent. on $734,500, though that has boen, the b oneofthe most serious problems of an initial payment of $40, $50 the hours of social relaxation classes in Hongkong has become Subsoribors would have to make formal comparison of notes in the time, owing to natural growth and $60 respectively and a month- must also hayo had its uses. It of population and the recent largely contribution of $5, $7.50 and is a mattor for extreme regret influx of Chinese. The better $10. To provide for the capital that the weather has been on class Chinese from the neigh required to put the scheme into such bad behaviour. Hongkong houring province-have-been-pur- operation it is proposed to raise we assure our guests, For being in unlawful posses chasing properties in the district the sum required upon a mort- often indulgo in climatio antion guests, dosa not Poace has been published in the sion of rice three women were comprised within Caine Road

Brad $3 or seven days each, at Care, north and Conduit Road gugo of the whole property. An of this sort out of season, shd It is notified that the name of One of the women, who offered in value of all the properties in be made and three trustees would However, we trust that in other the Magistracy, this morning on the South, causing appreciation $1,000 bearing 8 per cent. would usual oe it has been unfortunate. issue of Mortgage Debentures of their experience has been as un- Mors Brothers & Co., Ltd, as the constable a bribe of twenty the area. The enhancement of bo appointed as been struck off the itegister of conts, was fined $1. Companies..

rents has led to the tenants, who tives of the debenture holders. found anything lacking, and that ropresonta- respects our visitors have not A fine of $50 or a month's in-are mostly of the Portuguese 900 The trustees would scrutinize the they will take away with them The name of Mr. Lowis Guy prisonment was imposed on a placed in a condition of grost scription to the schemo and fortunate that they are to have tion of the community, being eligibility of applicants for sub pleasant recollections. It is of Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., revolutionary soldier nt tho Ltd., has been added to the Re Magistracy, this morning, for perplexity. They are, compelled would have a determining voice an opportunity of seeing what gister of Chemists and Druggists, being in possession of a sword. by the inoronse in rents to seek in the control of all matters the Hongkong A. D. C. can do

Defondant said that the word housing elsewhere, but there are relating to its financial affairs. Mr. Francis Bulmer Lyon Bow- belonged to hid muster.··

no suitab'e properties elsewhere loy was duly elected a Member)

which offer identical or even simi- of the Sanitary Board at the

"Government Gazeite."

In an article on the Hongkong lar conditions to those which At Woolamai, Kowloon, David Bonre, the infant son of Mi, and Mr. Election held on the 19th instant. University which appeared in our bad grown to consider as their "prevail in this locality which they

Frank Cranford.

Hongkang, 27th Jan., 1912.

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The object of this paper is to publish correct info-antion, tu serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Tolograph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition.

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The Hongkong Telegraph..

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1912.

MR. EDE'S HOUSING SCHEME.

&

LADY LUGARD.

The following bulletin was

to-night. We are proud of our A. D. O., it has traditions, and we feel 'sure that the visitors will adinit after to-night that we have. reason for our pride.

sue of Jan. 10, by the dropping own special reserve. The scheme issued by Dr. G. P. Jordan at 11"

His Excellency the Governor of a figure, the writer was made has been pleased to appoint Mr. to say that the cost of the building Thomas Henry King to be a was $40,000. Such is not the Member of the Board of Ex-case, the cost being $340,000.

aminors.

$

Dr. Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitz- williams was duly re-elected, Member of the Sanitary Board at the Election hold on the 19th instant

The watchman at Quarry Bay though in the first place ho cap suspected six moq-last night, but tured the lathe wasoverpowered, and four got away. A search was made by the police and knives and Regulations with reference to wire were foulid decreted in the the importation of dutiable nightsoil tius. At the Magistracy, liquors and donatured spirits by this morning, the two men were land are published in the remanded. Gnzelte.

is to provide a reservation for the housing of the members of the Portuguese community employed in olerical work in tho Govern- ment service, the Banks, the Insuranco Officep and mercantile establishments of the Colony.

Pasentials.

It is laid down as an axiom that three things are required:- (1) Suitable location, (2) scono- mical operation, (3) Government co-operation. The site proposal

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.. to-day

Her Excellency Larly Lugard maintains steady progresS,

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

The Final Day.

The last sitting of the Medical Congress was hold to-day. The proceedings were again in pri-

---- Government House Dinner.”-

is a large plateau above the Soo- vato kunpoo and Wongneichong valleys, to which access would be His Excellency, the Governor, The master and coxswain of given by tram: It is proposed entertained the members of the To-day is the 53rd anniversary the steam-launch Kwong Nam that the Government should re: Medical Congress at dinner last

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Biggest Show on Earth.”· refers to the Philippine Ex A telegram in today's issus

position at the great World's Fair to be held at San Francisco in: 1015. That is to be the biggest how on earth." We read that tho people of San Fransisco liavo thrown their modesty to the winds and instead of placing the show in San Francisco they have put San Francisco in the show The plans adopted for the exposition insan" that tag the l exposition buildings have been the city, the guest within the placed hero and there throughout rity gates who wishes to visit them all must traverse the entire In another column we give the skeleton of a scheine prepared of Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm It's wore sharged before the Harbour serve a block of 150 acres in the night. His Excellenor received his them all must traverse the entire by Mr. C. Montague Ede to relieve the pressure caused in the city birthday. The British men-of-Mnater at the Marine Court this first instance and lease 20 acres guests in the entrance hall, after San Francisco itself will be, the by the rise in rents. The schome is intended for the relief of an honour of the occasion.

war in luarbour" dressed abip" morning with failing to register as building land for a term of 75 which they proceeded to the din- nt the Harbour Office the engage-years renewable for a like perioding room. Thore they wore sent-

Panama Exposition. It is a single section of the community, the Portuguess; but the principle,

most of the coxswain. The at. I cant per fout.

od at four round tables, whichnique and original plan which would be applied to a much more grandiose project. Rightly, we The engagements of the Bishop cabo against the master was dis- Conditions are laid down to were simply, but beautifully de-

deserves to be ancrossful. think, Mr. Ede has, for the present, confined himself to devising Morning, conduct service at the find $3 or 7 days. An inquiry is obtaining lenses and to prevented from the hills and blue and The Katser.

of Victoria for to-morrow are missed, while the coxswain was provont others than Portuguese corated with wild flowers gather- means of benefiting a section of the residents of Hongkong which Eyre. Diocesan Refuge. After to be conducted by the Harbour speculation. It is proposed to white china. Those decorations is feeling, the prevailing pressure more. heavily perhaps than any ngon, deliver an address at the Master into the circumstances sot apart 30,000 of the 871,200 wou general admiration; they day celebrates the birthday of ita

The great Garmin ntion to eiber. The Portuguese fulfil useful and important duties in most Children's Service at the Poak attending a collision between the square feet available for build were most actistio. and effective great rulor. The Kaiser vo of the largo concerns in Hongkong and the responsible and con- Church,

steam-launches Kwong Nam aud inge, etc., for a school-house and and showed the touch of a deft born in 159 and has occupied Yeo Leo, which we recently re-play ground, and to erect on the and experienced hand. A moet the Imperial throne since 1888. fidential character of their work necessitates that they should be

The Governor-in-Council has portad. able to keep up appearances" as the popular expression has it. declared the following shall be

remaining area bungalows, do- enjoyable evening was spent by His Majesty's personality has tached houses, semi-detoohod all those who were privileged to always held the attention of Eur The rise in renta has rendered this increasingly difficult, and if deemed to be dangerous "goods Several new stamp-istuing houses and houses in torracos, to be present.

qpe, and he has demanded and the cost of living advances, threatens to become impossible. One under the Dangerous Goods Or-countries, says a correspondont suit varying incomes. Contribu-

received recognition of the fact way out of the difficulty would be an increase of emoluments, but (in quantities exceeding 1-41b), had to be introduced into our categories, those paying from $30 Medical Congress the report is a great accomplishment in de dinance Oblorate of Potassium in the "Daily Telegraph," have tore would be classed into four At yesterday's cossion of the that is a personal ruler. That with stagnant trado and uncertainty, for the future this can not be

any other Chlorate, Acetone. albums during last year. Trang-to $40 per month; $40 to $50; of the committee on beri-beri was mocratic times like these and. expected. The directora of large concerns and private employers

ganu actually issued its first $50 to $00 und 860 upwards, received and the following roso stamp William, Il as a man cannot be expected to reduce returns to overcome an economic At the Magistracy this morn-stamps at the end of 1910 (De-respectively. · To encourage lution was passed:That the whose pre-eminence has not been difficulty which has arisen through developments beyond their con- ing a revolutionary soldier was comber 14), but they did not thrift it is proposed that lestees accuracy of the opinion of this dependent upon the right of

charged with being in possession reach London till the early part should become theirown landlords Association, recorded in 1910, birth. Under his rule the Em trol. Some other solution had to be found and to this task Mr. Ede of a sword and was fined $50.00 of the year. Kelantan is the only by a system of providont purchase, has received further and more pire has been consolidated and-U has devoted himself, and the result is the scheme that we outline or one month. Defendant and other of the new British States A detailed design of the proposed complote conûrmation by investi-strengthened, and it now, speaks elsewhere,

that the sword was the property transferred from Siam by the buildings is given, but the sub-gators in Japan, China, French in the councils of Europe with ant It must be said at once that the object held in view is in every Superintendent of the Choung has yet issued stamps, but into consideration as far as proc: Jands, Siam, Netherlands India, with respect. To a great extent of his master, who was the Bangkok Treaty of 1000 which ccribers' wishes would be taken fado-China, the Philippine Is voice that must be listened to way laudable, and that the soleme has been worked out to a sur-

Kedah's issue may be expected ticable. Special provision is the Straits Settlements and the this has been achieved by the prising degree of completeness. Almost every possible objection

at an early to Tibet pro- made for an elementary school Federated Malay States, namely fervent patriotism of the Emperor has been answered in advanco. Frequently in matters of this kind

A number of lots of Crown vides arother interesting now and for religious observances, that "beri-beri is associated with and we can easily understand, in excellent ideal has its success ondangered by a lack of attention Land are to be sold by public page in the collector's album. both these matters being gone the continuous consumption of and feel every sympathy with, to detail and to the small material obstacles which the idealist, bis Taipo, on Feb. 3 and Feb. 10 and auction at the District Land Office,

Peak Temperature.

into with the careful thoroughness white (polishedy rico'ns the, staple the enthusiasm with" which our eyes being fixed on the heavens, does not see-until he stumbles several lots will be sold at the this morning was down to 12 Government Co-operation,

The temperature at the Peak that marks the whole achoms, article of diet"

Garman friends colebrato this It is therefore again désired to nuspicious day, over thom. This certainly does not apply in this case. Mr. Ede's Hongkong District Land Office degrees, which is, we believe, os Great stress is laid upon the bring this opinion to the notice scheme deserves and will receive the serious consideration that is on Feb. 12. An auction of a lot at low as it has been this season. necessity for Government co- of the various Governments The Mark of the Beast, the due of any plan for the betterment of conditions in the Colony Public Works Department on It is announced in the Gazette leas it be forthcoming the scheme international-action

Taihang will take place at the Mount Austin 'Theatre.

operation, as it is held that un-concerned and to recommend

Thero is perhaps a certain ap which has been wall thought out before being submitted to the Feb. 5. criticism of the public, Briefly the idea is to get the Government

to failure. • Thè that the licence fee for the is doomed

The following is the resolu-plicability in the following verses, Mount Austin Theatre, shall be Government will be asked To tion which was adopted in contingent now in the Colony, In view of the strong medical to reserve an area of land, above the Wongnoiolang Valley, which His Excellency the Governor$1 per annum and not $120 as/reserve the district of 150 acres) 1910" That in the opinion They are from the “ Dhilj Chróni.. is said to possess exceptional advantages, nв a reservation for some has been pleased to re-appoint, previously provided.

Portuguese Reservation of this Association sufficient ela," which intro luces them District; to annction at as early a evidence has now been pro quoting a remark from the “Re--

by 150 Portuguese families; and upon this area would be built a model provisionally and subject to His Ladies': Recreation Club,.. settlement. The silvantage to the Government, in addition to the able Mr. Hourry Edward Pollock, the Ladies Recreation. Club sub building purposes at 1 cent per the continuous consumption of descent have been perpetuated Majesty's pleasure, the Honour- We are asked to denounce that in the district, of 20 acres for that beri-beri is associated with that birth-inarke proving, poble date na practicable the sale with-duced in support of the viow ruto Scientifique hioli, pays indirect benefits that would acorue, would consist chiefly in an area K. O., to be an Un-official Mein-seription dance, which it was of ground which is at present unproductivo, earning revenue. Other bor of the Legislative Council for proposed to give on Jan. 30, will square foot and to animerton the white (polished), rice, as the staple from the chafing of nested things being equal this is an argument that must appeal, to the further period of six years with not take place........

use free for building purposes of article of dist, and the Association etone in the district, Crown rent accordingly desires to bring this Government at a time when our revenue has to be very carefully

effect from the 17th instant.

Oplám Ordinance,

$100 per acre per annum, term matter to the notice of the azried.

The current Government Ga- of lease 75 years renewable various Governments concerned." At the Police Court yesterday zette contains the conditions of for a like period at the termina- One of the chief merits of the scheme is that it aims at cul-afternoon, a Chinese woman who licence, for importing for sale or tien thereof; to sanotion the sale cating a spirit of thrift. The persons who become subscribers have had given evidence told another use within the Colony, preparing, simultaneously of an additional There are various ways, more the opportunity of becoming their own landlords while paying con- witness about to give evidence manufacturing or dealing in mor- plot not less than: 25,000 square or less, correct, of determining siderably less in rent than they would pay if the scheme were not "not to fear." Later she com-phine and compounds of opium, feet to the Catholic Mission in chars oter. Character from the carried through. Moreover they would be living in infinitely more menced assisting the witness healthful conditions, and the children in particular would find their with her evidence, The bench

Miss Marjo Hall, Hongkong upon like terms and hand, character from writing, young lives made brighter and happier. The needs of education had to insist on the witness time age statements appeared in grant the site for a nominal con- Perhaps character from hand- In view of the fact that some conditions, or in the alternative to facial expression and deportmont. and religious observance are duly provided for, and it can be said telling her own story. The the local Press that lies. Marie aideration as, in the cases of St, writing is the safest of all the Without mental reservation that the scheme, if carried through, will incident amused both bench and Hall, the famous violinist, was to Anthony's and bertainly open up a happier vista of life to those who participate.bar.

St. Joseph's tests above-named, but to those a The rock upon which many schemes, altruistio or purely commer-

visit Hongkong, the following Churches; to include the proposed Paris contemporary adds charac Dial, split is fasuos. To this point Mr. Edo has paid especial atton-

notion froine an?! Indian; con- soltool in the category of 'grant-ter from the pipe. The cigar, wo tion and we understand that his proposals have, after careful scru- has been pleased to appoint the readeta It is announced in 1910; to lay out a gardon, 50,000 cosmopolitan, so no deductione His Excellency the Governor temporary may be of interest to in-aid schools nador the code of are told, with the cigarette is tiny, been approved by one of the highost authorities in the Colony, following Members of the Board London that Miss Marie Hall, the square feet in area inore or less can be safely made. The activity We commend the soleme to the careful consideration of our of Examiners to be à Sub-Com-sminant violinist, admitted on after the style of the Poak Gar- of a people may be gauged by readers, not only of the Portuguese community, but all who are in-mittee for the Examination of all hands by presa and public to den and to provide in the Colonial the length of the pipe stem. The terested in the greatest problem at present facing residents of Indian and Chinese Police in be the greatest woman fiolinist Estimates an annual vote of $240 shorter the stem the more in- limited means, as the principle, as we have already suggested, could English and Cantoness:-Mr., the world has ever known, towards its upkeep. The advan-dustrious the race. Inversely, later on be applied on a larger scale. Mr. Ede is certainly to be Philip Peveril John Wodehones, make a star tour through the tagos scerning to the Government the longer the stem the more in Congratulated upon his public spirit in devoting himself to the solu- (Hon. Becretary) Mr. Thomas Indian Empire next season, ao from the saliems are 88,712 pin dolent the people. The more tion of this pressing problem and we trust that his scheme will be Henry King. The Tint Assistant Kiren the consideration it deserves.

companied hy, her own concert chase money for land that he soonomic the race the shorter the Reglitrar Genara!"

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O hush thee, my babio,

Thy site was a knight, Whose corselet was, may,

A shade overtight The circles of red on

Your arm, which we see,

In some Armageddon

Won kuightly degree.

O fear not the itching,.

Though cruel its throes; Your forebear is pitching

Again into fors;

No warrior was bolder,

But where, he was wait, Just under the shoulder, Big mail didn't fit.

O hush thee, my babie,

O nurse, wherefore laugh? The mark of the Ualf! It miny, as you say, be "ding In Booth, to the glanos it

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