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ABOUT LIGHTHOUSES.

LOCAL SPORT.

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C.CC. v. H.KCĊ

An Interesting Paper..

Ad interesting paper ou Light- houses and their construction was read laat evening at the

In the match played this after Engineers and Shipbuildings noon on the H.K.O.O ground Institute by Mr. T. Grant, who the following represented the prefaced bis remarks by pointing 0.0.C.-H. H. Taylor, R. A. out that the first mention of a Carvallo, G. A. Hancook, L.A. lighthouse of which they had Rose, J. V. Braga, E. L. Braga, authentic information was the W. II. Viveash, R. Fostonji, J. D. famous Pharos of Alexandria, Noria, O. Johnstons, and R. Basa, built about 285 B. U. Provceding to sketch the evolution of the lighthouse the speaker said that during the Roman period they become more important as commerce expanded and the marinors ventured further afield. The oldest oxisting light is at Corurna, which is still in use and was erected in 100 A.D. After touching on the time when

RUOBY.

Army v. Navy,

The Army and Navy teams mot yesterday afternoon, in a ugby encounter, on the Hong- kong Club ground. The match was particularly interesting from the fact that had the Navy won it would have upsol all the provious matches in the triangular com- petition. The Army were the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1912.

CHURCH SERVICES.

YARN MARKET.

St. John's Cathedral, Hong-

Maasra Polishwalla and Kot- kong, 31st Maroh, Bunday noxt wall's report dated Hongkong. before Banter. Holy Communion March 20, contains the follow- 8.15 a.m. Matins 11 am. Resing

ponses: Ferial; Vonito; Mac Our last report was, dated the forron; Psalms: Chants of the 15th instant, per 8.8 India 30th Morning; Benedicite: Arn-There is no change to report in old, Armos, Arnold Benedictus: the stats of our market, which Langdon. Holy Communion remains utterly lifeless, and, s 11 45 a.m. Kyrie Somervell in far sa the importers are concerned, minor; Hymas: 207, 108, 98; another blank fortnight has to be Preacher-Rev. W. W: Rogers, recorded..... Evensong 5.45 p.m. Responses: Ferial; Paalms: Chants of the 30th and 31st evenings; Magni- fiest: Nuno Dimittis: Wesley in

F. Anthem: "Come unto Him" -Gounod Hymns: 00, 94; Sevenfold Ameu; Voluntary: Good Friday Music from Parsifal --Wagner.

50.cents

On the other hand, a small retail business has been done among the Chiness themselves, 50 per fin of principally for the Yunnan plain or gold tipped. narkot, at prices $1 to $3 bolow our present quotations.

As disturbances are still of daily occurrence in the neighbour- ing provinces, the outlook for the immediate future is far from being bright.

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Unsold stocks 26,000 Sold but undelivored in the godown and to arrive 21,000

St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon. -Sunday, 31st March 1912. Palm Sunday-Morning Prayor, 11.00a.m.; Hymns, 08, 00, 320, 201; Venito, 31st day Macfarron; Psalmis, 31st Morning Panlin, bales. OXLIV Boyce, OXLV Battishill; Arrivals. The mail atr. Delta Benedictus, Garret, Kyrie No 2; and extra air. Tossa Moru from the lighthouses were frequently fret to score through the agoney Sunday School will be he'd as Bombay, and str. Nansang from parts of other buildings such as of Liout, Bagnall who manungo usual at 3.00 p.m. in the Boy Calcutta have brought in 0,121 churches and sustlos Mr. Grant tocross the line after some brilliant Scout's Headquarters. on the bales for Hongkong and 11,223 passes between the three quarters. Church ground; Evening Prayer, bales for Shanghai. Shipments

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dwelt at struggle that the builders of the Lator the Navy secured a penalty 574; Psalms, 31st Eveninger, amount to about 1,500 bales. Eddystonia Lighthouse had to con-goal and at half time were mastera Palin, CLVII Battishill; Psalm. tend with, giving a detailed ue-of the situation by the odd point, UXLVI Turtle; Faalm, OXLIX count of the various towers that In the second half both teams did were from time to time erected. good work, the Army eventually

winning by 13 to 7,

K. O.Y L. 1. MARATHON RACE.

timbault Peulin, CL Hum- phreys, (let and last Versos and

the Gloria in Unison.) Magni- ficant, Baltishill; Nunc Dimittis, Barnby.

Garrison Divino Servico.-

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report.

Shanghai---No change. Japanese Yara.-Ã fortnight again..

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Raw Conton, Beugal.--- Nothing doing, no stock.

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Hongkong, 16th January, 1912,

In connection with this the point- ed out that with apparatus of his own invention Mr. Stevenson had

Chinese-Ono parcel of 100 regislorod a wave pressure of

Church of England, Victoria, bales was booked at $33 to $35 0,083 lbs. to the square foot,

Yesterday evening the K.O. Y.-Cathedral, 9.15 a.m., Chaplain perpicul, being $2 below.previous Barrack, Detention quotations. Quotation Bengal at After describing one of the L. 1, held the first Marathon Race Detention lights on the Ubina coast the for 1912, the competitora pro- Barrack, 8:30 a.m., Chaplain; $20 to $32, Chinese at: 831 to sponkor dwelt on the natural cooling by special train to the Stonecutters, Barracks, Under 35.. circumstances that sometimes tion. The course was from the Hospital, Bowen Road, B p.m., starting point near Shatin Sin-Orders, Benior Ollicor; Military made the creation of lighthouses Bills overlooking the Frontior Chaplain Lyemun, Barracks, impossible and then they had to Road near the 8th Mile Stone, Under Order, Senior Otficor;! resort to light-ships and busya, round to Yaumati, and the 320 Kowloon, St. Andrew's Church,

one saving feature, and that is though one of the disadvantages starters made a fino show as they 11a.m., Offg. Clergyman; Mount

that they do not mingle much that attended the use of the Int-came headlong down the stoop Austin, Barracks, Undors, Senior

with the shore people. Their Baptist, ter was that they were often run hill to the road. The long pull Officer;

Congrega- into by junks and fishing boats up to Enichikok Reservoir, com- tionalist, Presbyterian, Union. The following is from the boats are their homes, and their social life does not appreciably thus disongaging the fine ar-bined with the host of the even-Church, 11 a.m., Offg. Clergy-

Wesleyan, Wesleyan There were born from July 1, extend beyond their own kind, rangement of lovers which re-ing soon made the competitors mm; gulated the intermittent light and string out, the line being healed Charoh, 10.15 a.m., Offg. Clergy-1910, to June 30, 1911, in the except when they go to try their consequently produced a fixed by Pie, Richardson, who won the mon; Mount Austin, 0a.m., Offg. city of Manila 9,180 children, luck with their fighting chickens, beam. The lanterns on the buoys Cup presented by H.E. Sir F. Clergyman; Roman Catholic, and in the same period 934 little which, too, are water dwellers. are fitted with beautifully mado Lugard at the last Regimental Victoria, St. Joseph's Church, 10 ones who had not reached the lenses which give a vory cloar Marathon.

a.m., Offg. Clergyman; Kowloon, age of 30 days died, 3,070 light at a distance of four miles

Pte. Richardson again iron last Rosary Church, Offg. Clergyman; struggled to the age of one year, The first great improvement over the unsteady light of the old night's raca in the exceptionally 9am.

good time of 33-mina. 10 secH.

fashioned beacons was the Argandover the course of 51 milos, oleso-

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(From Various Sources.)

Interesting Travel

lamp, the principle of which was ly followed by Pte. Pearson and NEWS OF THE WORLD. used in all modern oil burnere and Webb, L/C Cobb and Capt. Rigg, powerful lampe, sometimes these who finished in this.order.. having as many as ten concentric Twenty four of the starters wicke with the uenil air spaces finished within five minutes of between each. Gas and electrics the winnor, and 178 within the ty had also como very much to next eight minutos. the fore, though in the speaker's opinion the illuminant with the biggest future was acotylene gas. Possibly the most important invention in connection with il- lumination was the Dioptric ap-| paratua, which consisted of a huge compound lonso shaped some- thing like a beehive which could throw a beam of light to an im- mense distance.

One of the most interesting

sections of the paper dealt with

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590 passed away who wore between one and two years, and 517 between two and five younTe joined the great majority. These are the terrible figures which MOT make it possible to say than the infant mortality in this city-and at AH KING'S Ship Yard, Wanchai, in the Philippines generally-is every SUNDAY, trom 10 am. to fifty per cont. of the total born.

For further portionlars apply to The figures are to be found in

CHAN THAM, the annual report of the bureau at floor, No. 17, Queen' itd. Central. A collection of costumes, im-

of health, and they are the Hongkong, 80th Mar,, 1912. (475 plements of war and other arti-saddest thing in a volume which, cles large enough to equip a happily, is also able to plate, that small museum has been taken to the year under review, ng boon Now York by Frank Edward one of the most successful in the Johnson, an explorer, who spent history of the bureau. The state six months in Southern Tunisia, of the public health said the and visited many places in that writer of the pages which intro- 87 Company R. G. A. and the region whore white men had not luce the statistics, was more

Dapartment Army Ordnance

set foot for centuries. commenced their games in con-

satisfactory than at any time TNTEREST dan end draw bonds of Mr. Johnson, interviewed, mid

the past ten years, during

while nection with the above tourna that the war in Tripoli is a mat-on a later page he remarks that, fe of the Corporation on and after this Loan will be payable at the ment on Friday evening. Teter of very little interest to the while epidemics of dangerous the 80th March, 1912. first to meet wore Gunner Blater inhabitants of the southern pro- cummunicable diseases may occur the bearing of atmospheric con- and Private Volan 1. Slater had vinces, and that in Tunisia many in the future the days of panics on alleating to the undersigned, ditions on the ability of the the lead throughout the game of the tribesmon did not know it mariner to pick up the lights and beat his rival by 85 points, The dense fog was naturally the

was in progress. He declareil The bureau with its organiza- terror of the sailor and it was here: his highest breaks being 10, 13 the country offers great opportion and experience"he longer Poland made 10 andunities for development, and fears invasions of epidemic that the ball. had proved of great 12. The second pair were that French, German and EnglisCD8*6. use while a doparture was the

Small-por can be newly invented system of sub-Major Lydden Co. Glish capital is interested and is provented by vaccination: hori marine signalling in which the Gunner Qhian 87 Coy. R. G. A.

The Gunner won by 36, making making, preparations for the beri, can be cured neveil ball again played a great part, the breaks of 22, 11 (3 times) and 10, country's exploitation.

avoided through the "en opf The Troglodites, who inhabit

NOTICE TO, CONSIONFES... signalling being effected by Major Lyddon compiling 17, 20, this region according to Mr. John-poi rics; cholers en be means of a mechnical striking 12 and 13.

8.8. BENAVON,”- restricted by proper Manitaly | ***** armagement. Tho sigasle were

son, are an extraordinary people, measures; plague can be prevent ́ÍTÓM. MIDDLESBRO, without a trace of any other racialed by rat extermination. "The| picked up by a receiver similar to

LONDON A. STRAITS. blood among them. He describes condition of things in Vuile 1913, them ne men and women of per was such as toencourage the state"

“UNSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby fect physique and great stature. mont that the energy and re infozmed, that all Goods are being They were the enemies of the sources of the bufeau, which had landed at their risk into the hazardous ancient Egyptiane, and the armies hitherto been neccessarily spent d'ar crime basardous Godowns of the of Rome sought to conquer them in combating dangerous.comma Boogaand Kowloon Wharf and in vain, Centuries later they re nicable disease, may now be Under Co., Ltd., whines and/o at the arbore, and for the directed toward the improvement from the wharves delivery, may b fast fow hundred years have bon of general and special conditions. ~ No Clima will bg sdulikud allärck. loft alone.

Among much else that is in-Goods have left the Godawme; and all tereating the report contains a pode remaining undelivered after the Near Liverpool-street, London reference to the boat population 8th Apr); will be subject to rent. a young man, neatly dressed, Manilay like other oriental' dities. All claims galost the slimer must walked slowly along with a card has a boat population that is be presented to the Undendgued on or attacked to his back. bearing the separate and apart from the people before the 18th April, or they will not, words: Good general clerk wan's of the city. They we continually le recogulised. Wonder employment, Apply here. slufting from one placato inother All broken, shafed, and damaged. with their boss lonies, thil Fare food are to be left in the Godowar Relics of Eugene Aram sold as to be dealt with, separately iner they will be examined on th

06 Apk 11- Sotheby's included the memoirs sanitary matter. These people Fire Insurance has been effected, and The Dream" by Hood, belong to the poorer elous, and are ~ Billa of Lading will be connt sigil

water autograpli letters, a book sigued not careful of ibejr fod

that used in a telephone...

An interesting debate followed, in which Mr. MoCabbin joined issue with the author of the paper on the relative penetrating power of gas and electricity asserting that in a fog gas was the better.

DON'T FORGÉT,

Saturday, Mar. 30. Bijou Theatre 0.15 p.m.

Mr. II, Walton agrood with this The Balkan Princess: Bind. contention in a measure, but mann Opera Co. Theatre Royal pointed out that the electrie 9.15. light diffused more quick-

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Tuesday, April 2. -Organ Recital, 5,30.

Inspection, Voluntoor Res., 5.45

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ly and it was consequently moraj difficult to locate the origin...

The discussion Inter turnod on the question of the us of wireless installations on lighthouses to General Meeting Hongkong ships in distress and it was agreed Gun Club 5.30 p.m. that it would be of no use if a ship

Friday, April 5. did know its position as a wireless. Volunteer Res., Rifle Mooting, call in itself gare no indication Kings Park, 10.30. of its origin

The meeting terminated with n vote of thanks to Mr. Grant

The meeting was presided over,

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v1.0, Boring Tournament.

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said to be they of his victim Clark, ing meance during, epidemi and a bone from Aram's foot. | communicable disenso,

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