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GENERAL NEWS.

Gold. In Venezuela.

So very rich discoveries of gold have been made in the Interior of Venezuela, according to the American Consul. One, in the municipality of El Callao,

DODGING DEATH IN LONDON STREETS.

10,000 Persons Knocked Down

Lives in áYozf......n/...]

The increasing peril of London

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY JULY

HERE AND THERE

The Mighty Humble Refring.

Although at times herring can be bought for three a ponny, many London restaurants olargo as much as a shilling or fiftoon penco for two grilled with a littlo

not far from the Yuruari River, stroots is drawn attention to by a has, it is calculated, yielded over remarkable advertisement, head-mustard sauce, 35,000 oz. of fine gold. During ed "The Reign of Terror," which

Fow of us realise the vastnos

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Prepaid Advertisements.

ONE CENT PER WORD

for eachineo:tioz.

TO LET.

the month of March; more than appeared in the "Times,"from Mr. of the herring industry; yet it is TO LEFine walk; formielied house!

TOL

OLET on 2nd Floor No. 2. Fed-

dar Street.

"Que roomed Offlos. Apply Property

38'

Banfurly," 11 -Conduit Bond, from

in good locking a Bedroom with highly important in many places, verandah. Privalo: Introoms, Electric 6,000 oz. arrived at Ciudad Bolivar, and in the first two John Lloyd, J.P. It says that he including Now Brunswick, Nova Light. Suitable for two frios da for wooks" of April the arrivals is the victim of a serious motor Scotia, Quobeo, British Columbia, married couple Apply English, " amounted to more than that, and accident, and asks for the forma- Newfoundland, England. Soot-co" Honghong Telegraph. the gold is coming in all the tion of a strong society to protect land, Wales, Iroland, Norway, Hongkene, 20th July, 1018... (634 time. Near the Caroni River, life and secure safety in the stroots. Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Ger- and also in the Paragus distriot,

many, Holland, Belgium, France, gold has been taken out, but not It adds: "To-day's "Timon, Juno Japan and Siberin. in auch large quantities. The 18, racords two quite young child- So long ago as 1720 some Office, Jardine, Mathosa & Co., Ltd. extremely low level of the water ran killed and a third injured to 2,000 of the principal gentle Hongkong, 22 ad Ma-. 1912. in the Caroni Rivor caused a the point of death." The pedes-ren of Scotland" formed a com- small island to appear in its

woro quickly disrupted, leaving course, and from this some gold trian has the first right to the pay for herring fishing, batFFICES Ja King'e Boilding. was taken; but the river is now road. But the enormous increase à mournful lot of stockholders. rising, and has covered the is in the number of motor vehicles, Thirty years later the Prince of 18 Juno land, so that work there has combined with the all-round no

Wales became president, or governor, of a horring fishery, nocousarily consed.

celeration of pace, leave him very with a capital of half a million Tronoh Extended, Ltd., start little room in the busier streets. pounds. Efforts were male to ed work with their new instal-And he does not have that little fearn the secrets of the Daitoh lation on July 13th. It consists long. Moro and more the mid-methods of ouring herrings, but of two low speed puddlers, and dle-aged aud elderly are finding the company soon collapsed. two haulage lines equipped with that their one chance of getting The spawning and feeding anywhoco is to dive through the grounds of herringe have deter- 12 hp. stem winches.

narrow gaps between fast-moving mined the location of cities, and voiclos, across roads that are in several instances the actual wuler than they used to be

Tronoh Extended.

The work of removing the over burden has been going on steadily while the plant was in course of erection, and rich tin-boaring "karang "is now expusod. How ovor, Mr. Coeil Rao, the general manager, doo not expect to

another two months. Meantime

In London alone we are by 10 year to see other 2,500 motor buses added to the present steam of 2,000 of these peculiarly.

destiny of nations and the fate of monarchs appear to have been involved in the horring fishery

Quaint Army Barracks.

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Board of Trade Figures.

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1912

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handle t're rich bod of karang terrifying vehicles. The cloupen the Duke of York's Soliool build of Trade (Od. 8928, ls. 6d.), lies It is an interesting fact that issued on June 19 by the Board which is really the objective, for ing of motor care and the taxi-cab

habit will swell the mighty tido ings at Chelsea, which have now says the Daily Mail," in tho of the stroots, and it is estimated been taken over by the London evidence which it affords that the Territorials as headquarters, wore that we shall have 5,000 more of in the old days occupied by the increase in the cost of living and them. How grave the problem of the streets is to the public can be orphaned daughters as well as the rise of prices are continuing. Fons of soldiers; and there The figures given for wholesalo soon from these facts:

are other barracks with interest-pricos show thant 100:3 ponce were ing records or histories to their required in 1911 to buy the same HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. quantity of articles wholesalo tint

he oxperts to get satisfactory sults from the stuff at present going through the puddlers

'Singapore, Free Pross."

Mungollan Aggressiveness. Telegrams from Peking stato that the Hufuh, or the Religiaus Potentato, of Mongolia, has al- rondy annexed Uiasutai and.. Koodo. A special order has been issued by President Yunn for the Ministry of Finance to raise funds: for military operations. Ho, has also requested Prince Na-yen-tu to wlart post-husto with his forces for Mongolin, und General Huang Ilsun to load, a military expedi- tion to the resone of Tibor, and to provilo bi solf with as much money as he is able to raiso. Urgent tolugrams wore sent to Szechuan, Kanau, and Yunnan calling up n the three provinces to despatch troops to the front and to take up the offensivo in Daily

.Concert.-

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Last year over 400 persons

wore killed in London streets, 155 by motor-onra and taxicabs, 107 by motor-buses, and 20 by electric tramway-cars, .!.

Ton, thousand porsons were knocked down by motor vehicles in the same period.

The loath roll quoted was higher than that recorded from the same causes in twenty-four other counties and towns with a total population of 16,000,-

000.

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Notices

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St. Mary's Barracks at Chatham could be obtained for 100 pence PLUNKET'S GAP were once used as a convict pri-in 1000, or for 88.2 ponce in 1800. son. Mount Austin Barracks, at Thus in the last fifteen years Hongkong, on the other hand, prices and the cost of living formerly sorved ne palatial hotel, generally have advanced 25 per and thus afford vory unusual com- cont. What cost Is: in 1898 cost fort to Tommy Atkins; and al-La. 3. in 1911, or, to put it in though the usual military bun another way, rather more than galow in India is a one-storyed 2.1-21. by an invisible process affair only capable of accom-was deducted from every shilling modating 100 mion, there is one of wages paid...

In foodstuffs the rise in prices Up to the present the number such at Fort William, Calcutta- of traffic victims in London queer-shaped, three-cornered has been remarkable; 113.4 pence building that can comfortably wero required in 1911 to buy the show a considerable increase

house a whole regiment.

kane quantity of foreign corn in the same period of last year.

The Artillery. Barracks at that would have been bought for For yours the London County Woolwich, however, are consider 80.3 pence in 1894. Potatoes and Council have tried in vain toed. to have by far the longest rice have altered little in price in induce the Government to create frontage in the world. The recent years, but the advance a trafic board, which Royal Germans house their troops in in the price of hops has been Commission recommended. Since the first appeal was made 3,000 portable huts, made of felt more than 100 por cont: In stretched over wooden frames; 1911 181.4 pence, would only persons have been killed in London but at the other end of the scale buy the same quantity that stroels.

is tho famous "Boar's Deu"could have been purchased for Barracks at Dover, lying deep in 71,3 pence in 1800. Boof and the ground at the bottom of a mutton have changed? but apiral shaft,

alightly in price; bacon and Primitive Patent Medicines. eggs, however, layo soared. Every year the United King-Bacon touched its lowest figure dom sponde no less a sum than in 1800, whon 82 7 pence would £3,000,000 on patent medicines. buy that quantity for which 142.3 Indeed, the English people have pence had to be paid in 1911. always had a liking for anything Eggs were at their lowest in "patent."

1897. when 96.9 ponce would

Big Rubber Theft in Johore. Aforious theft of rubber took place as Batu Annum, Johore, the other day, when the factory of the Johore Rubber Lands,:

Dislike of Subways. Ltd., was broken into and about.

The London City Corporation 150 lbs of sheet takon. We are has docided to spend £16,000 on informed that the thieves are constructing a subway aurass believed to be four Chinmon, Cannon-street by Mansion House who are reported to have travelled Railway Station. Mr. Morton, by the night train to Cemas firstM.P., said that if over a subway cluss, taking the rubber as lug was wanted it was at that point. gago. The Customs have thus newspaper representative who boon robbed as well as the Rob-visiter four of the City's busiest bor Company.

Some F.M.S. Motor Cars.

1 Years' Increase.

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Taking the figures for the wholesale prices of the chief ar- IN TENN18, DAY, TUNIC and England they were as follows: 1800 (lowest recorded) 88.2 1900........................100.0 97.6 .104.0

1905.

1010... 1011.

....108.7

traffic contres has written his im- These kind of medicines are buy as many as 130.4. peace pressions. One is that the Lennot of modern origin. So far in 1011. In 1911 there were 110 privato donor does not love street sub-back as the days of Henry VL a motor cars and 18 cars plying ways. In ten minutes at Black-cortaia gentleman, on behalf of for here in Negri Sembilan, says friars, where £17,000 lias been the medical professors, was com the "Malay Mail." The damage spent on those facilities, fewer missioned to search all shops for done to laterite roads in the than ten people crossed by the "falscorsophisticated medicines," State owing to fast and heavy subway from Blackfriars Station and he was further ordered to pour motor traffic is very great nad to the north side of the Emall quack remedies into the gutter. motor lorries: have had to ba bankment,

Later, in 1748, a lady of high

tar-1 In two minutos a newspaper birth wrote that she found temporarily prohibited on certain | roads, Singapore's First Divorce Case, representativo counted from a water botter than Wards' drops. 1009....

The first divorce suit heard in spot on the north side of North-It is possible," she added, "to

The Board of Trade figures Singapore catne up before the umberland-avenue. 24 motor believe that the English are more Chief Justice the other day, empibuses and 58 taxicabs pass infatuated thin any other nation when William Hoodlin petitioned in no way or another through by the pursuit of universal cures, atop with 1911. But from the have been more, and the rest of where quack doctors reap such Sauerbeek, the statistician, it isl

known that the riso in prices has Hoodin. The petition was un- the traffic was certainly three huge sums of money."

continued nt an even more defende 1 and his lordship grunt-times as great in volume One

disquieting mata during the pre- inan who assayed the journey Barring the mont from the refuge at the Charles I. perfumes, scent is made from sent year. Thue what 80 pence statue to the Churing Cross Post anything rather than flowers, would buy in 1911 cost in May. office progressed something in the Formerly fruits, spices, and 86.3 penca, a further advance style of a Tyrolean dancer. He vegetable products were materials during the five months of nearly skipped out of the way of a taxi- from which sesut was extracted, 8 por cent. Thus it is certain cab, to find himself obliged to but since 1876 various chemical that the cost of living has risen that one shilling to-day only avoid the charge of a motor oinni- eubstances have been regularly since 1898 by about one-third, so bus. Dodging under a horse's employed."

Lily of the valloy, lilac, jsasa-buys what could be obtained for head, he then effected a circular sprint to escape the two streams mine, for example, are made up 9d in 1890,

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