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A mesting of the Sanitary person of a priest, resident Board was hold yesterday after Professor Gregory, DS.C., Min-Chins, who, as recorded noon, when there were present F.B.S., in a lecture on "White Les Nouvelles," "claims to Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, the president, Labour in the Queensland Sugar used it most successfully as Col. Irwin, Mr. W. L. Caster, Field" delivered before the E and Typlth. Iferences Apply blord cure. The rev. gentle Chan Kai Ming, Dr. F. Clerk, Economic Science Section of the

administers the liqueur to M. O. H., Dr. H. Pearce, Assist, Royal Philosophical Society of stating salary required to XXX, fo cladis patients in "fall wine M. O. H., Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifa, Glasgow, said that it was at one

Hongkong Telegrapli.?*** "He then waits a few Mr. F.B. L. Bowley, Hon. Mr. W. time believed that manual 06-

Boogkang, 80th July, 1918. (552 , and if the pulse does Chatham, Dr. Fitzwilliams, and cupation was impossible for whiteEQUIRED at once a Bookkeeper bw a proper response, he the secretary, Mr. Bowen men in the tropics. Recently, with a thorough knowledge of repe... the dose until the desired Rowlands,

however, the opinion has been doc.unts. Good Testimoniale essential; Jié attained. Wonied; old. į me, nd children of from 12 to lative to

A minute by the president re-growing that this view, was Non workers good not apply. Box

the departmental fallacious. The most daring A.B.O.. "Hongkong Telegraph. 15 years of age have been treated scavenging scheme for the City modern experiment in the Hongkong, 'th July, 1912. ; [86% in this way, some patients taking of Victoria, to be inaugurated on cultivation of the tropice by white

absintho minufacturers,

Electrifying the Canadian Pacific.

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Ady ne saved glasses before Jan 1, 1914, was road.

Inbour had been made in the Typit (Male) for Sulcitor Offs very

“OMPETENT Cimographer and state of their pulsa' was con- The president said he did not sugar plantations of Queensland. Apply Box," A., of The Hang- dered satisfactory. The author know whether they all had had Sugar cane cultivation had gene-kong Telegraph." this treatment claims to have time to go through the soleme tally been regarded as the least Hongkong, 80th July, 1912. sured 78 out of 75 oholera which had bood in their hands suitable of all work for whito patients in one parieb alone by for somo little period, but he labour. Sugar canes in the means of absinthe. And that is thought the better plan would tropical coastal districts of East- why, remarks our contemporary, be unless any member had any ern Australia wore originally FURNISHED or UNFURNISH- the Governmdat has decorated thing to suggest to appoint a grown by Kanakae, from the ED, " Lewkoor," No. 116, The select committee to investigate South Sea Islands. Owing to Poak. Possession October 10th, 1919. the proposals. They were some- the "White Australia" policy, Fall particulars of price or rent can be what lengthy, but that was in Kanaka labour was prohibit-obiained from Mezer, Johnson, Stakes

sinto.. 1000 avoidable. The only point, which od; and It is announced as quite pos- should be settled quickly, was plantations had depended on ride. 25th July, 1919.

the and Master, Bolicitors, Princo's Build-

Inge, les House Street. sible, says the "Globe," that when the Canadian Pacific Railway whether the scheme was to come white labour. The climate of carries out the big scheme an-into force next year or the year the sugar-growing districts was nounced By Sir Thomas Shaugh. after, because, should it come hot and extremely humid, and it nessy of double-tracking the into force next year it would be was predicted that the abolition main line between Calgary and necessary to make provision in the of Kadaka labour meant the roin Vancouver, plans will also be estimates for 1013. He pro- of the Australian sugar industry. taken into consideration for the posed that a select committed be The sugar plantations, however, electrification of this line. The appointed to consider the scheme. had not only survived the change The Registrar General, the but had produced much more company has already made tentative start on a portion of its Hon. Mr. E. B. Hallifax, secondled sugar sinos she Kanakas had gone. Crow's Nest Pass line, and this and the proposal was carried. In 1905-8, the last year when proved so successful that power

Mesars Bowley, Chun Kai Kanaka labour was available, the plants are said to be under con- ming and the president were ap-amount of sugar was 172,242 atruction for the electrification of pointed to the committão. the Columbia and Western branch of the line, from Castlegar to Rosalan, B.C. The overhead wire system is to be used, as it is

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considered that the third rail would not be so reliable under the conditions that are met with in the Rookies,

tioned.

South African Lunches.

Removal of Céilitíga submitted a minute relative to The Medical Offloor of Health

the removal of ceilings in top

floora,

The Hon. Mr. Hollifax proposed that the Board approve of the payment of 80 cents per square yard for repairing ceilings on top floors, where they were approved by the Building Authority.

Mr. Bowley seconded, and the motion was carried.

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For the past year the amount was estimated at 232,555 swiftly beneath us. It is quite there was a serious. fall in the it is not deep enough for naviga- tons. In 1908-9 and 1900-10 trus that above the Perth Bridge sugar production. This was due tion; but it may interest some to

to the unfavourablo sasson of hear of an industry which, like 1907-8, and not to land going out the ebb and flow of its tides, is of cultivation.

carried on quietly and often un- Death-rate Less Among White observedly, and, which gives om-

ployment to not a few.

than Black

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The amount of sugar produced

Pearl-fishing is still. extensive Chinese paper, the People's

by black labour in Queensland ly caried on in this river, and, Rights, ox-Colonel Wang Teong

had drooped from 62 per cent, toko all games of chance, proves Chung, who, it will be recalled, A draft of the new proposed per cent. It was sometimes said to be so alluring that those who demanded an explanation from bye-laws for the removal of that the survival of the industry follow this calling seldom give it Ex-Premier Tang Shao-yi for his ceilings; etc., was submitted. was due to the so-called bounty, ap for any other trade. Like flight from l'eking under cover of The President said that a select which was only a refund to the those who dig with the hope of two revolvers, was not a member committee had been called upen growers who employed white finding gold, so the pearl-fisher of the Tang Ming Hui which had to report on the amendment of Labour froth the Excise tax on tails on, ever with the hope of issued a notification to that effect. bye-latre with respect to the pre-sugar. During the past nine finding: "the" pearl which is It was said that the daring colonel vention of epidemice and the year that Excise had con- to make his fortune. Any sum- had in the name of Tung Ming removal of stair linings. That tributed to the Australian revenue mor evening, whilst órossing Hui dispatched telegrams or in select committee consisted of £2,000,000 more this was repaid the Perth Bridge, or wander- the guise of its membership done practically half of the Board, and in sugar bounties and sugar during ing by the riverside, one may something which it nover anno- they had drawn up the proposed the present year paid a higher see him peering through his bye-laws. He proposed the re- contribution to the Excise than strange little wooden box which peal of the necessary motions of any other article. The abolition he holds in one hand. It has a A novel ides for encouraging the Public Health and Buildings of the sugar Excise would relieve glass bottom and is roughly made, the use of South African manu- Ordinance, and the substitution the industry of a tax from which for the pearl-faber cannot afford factures of an edible character is of the proposed bye-laws. other agricultural industries were expensive implements. In his "the institution of what are call-} The Hon. Mr. Hallifax seconded free. The development of the other hand he holds a stick which ed "Bouth African Luncheons. "I and the motion was carried. Queensland sugar industry was is split at one end like a clothes These are now advertised at most An application was received remarkable as compared with its pin, and with which he picks up of the principal hotels and res- from the Hongkong University decline in most other parts of the the shells. He may lift hundreds taurants in Johannesburg, and for permission to erect water British Empire. The change from of shells, and yet fail to find the have met with gratifying success, closets and 4 urinals at the black to white labour had led to The menu is exclusively confined students' quarter.

the breaking up of great estates gem for which he so patiently seeks. I should say that the vir to South African products.

The President remarked that into small farms, and the number tues required by pearl-fisher are Tutuhs' Promise.

the application had been referred gar cane farms in Queens patience and perseverance. As the Tutuhs of Canton, Hu. back because they could not get land had increased from 2,490 in

The question may be asked, HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. nan and Kiangei are the strongest any water, the use of the nullah 1002 to 5,421 in 1911. The death- in opposition to the loan agree not being granted. Permission rate amongst the white labourers says Mr. W. Dow, writing in ment, they promised to contribute has now been granted to use the much less than amongst the "Chambers Journal," how is a PLUNKET'S some more substantial funds to nullah, and there seemed to be black. The Queensland sugar pearl formed? On this subject industry, in fact, demonstrated there have been various ideas. the central government tresaury. no further objection raised.

On the motion of the Director that white labour could be safely, The theory long generally accept- The total sum of contributions amounts to tools 2,200,000; Can- of Public Works, it was decided employed in tropical agriculture ed was that it was due to the ton, 1,200,000, Hunan, 800,000, to recommend that the applica in arose where there was no dease lodging of a foreign substance, coloured population, and the oh a bit of grit, a speck Kiangsi, 200,000 respectively, as tion be granted.

White Australia policy seemed of gravel, or a reported by the Chinose "Daily

grain of 271 possible.

Rand, inside the mussel-aholl, Nows

Now the cientific view is that in most, if not all, OLSEB

ses the cause of

North Borneo Chamber of Com-up for consideration, the pre

the dead body of a minute merce it was decided to address sident said that the great objec

parasite trpiatode or cestódo within the feance of the molluso, the Government with a view to tion to the proposal was that the getting some temporary reduction water should be taken from the

Though not having the power in the export duties charged in mains, and not from a private Few who have visited Perth to remove the irritant object, has another and view of the procedingly depressed water supply. It had been the that city which is so charmingly the mussel atate of the timber trade in rule to refuse these requests situated of both sides of the for more Wonderful pow Chiha:

owing to the fast that there was River Tay; and which has been | er--that of being able to cover the Chinese Paper Money. not sufficient water for potable immortalized by Sir Walter Scott inside of its house with a lovely The Chinese Ministry of Finance purposes for the Chinese, and if but can recall the magnificent iridescent substance. So now it has caused an investigation to be they used it for water closets, the landscape which is presented proceeds to cover the intruder made into the emot amount of sapply would be still smoller. whilst one is looking north from with this same hosuty, and layer paper money, in circulation, rH- Dr. Fitzwilliams': We are the Perth Bridge.inf

after layer is added till a most ports a Peking paper. It is now promised very shortly a large Far away stretch the Grampians exquisito, pearl is formed This learned that the paper inoney supply from Tytam

in majestic grandeur surely fitting can clearly be shown by cutting oifonlated by all the Chinese The President They can back-ground for such a pano-through a pearl, when the circles banks in this country amounts to make their application again. ramid scans. To the left in the are a visible as those on the, something like 370,000,000 Dr. Fitzwilliams Perhaps North Tool, famous as the scene cross-cut link of the upto 8,000 tras diplomas, profiling conditions

this will have the effect of of battle between the Clans The value bi nekrl depends F.M.S. Banishments.

hastening this supply.

Chattan and Kay (1896), and upon its size, ape, colour, Chinese and one Pathan Finally, on the proposal of Col. now as one of the most beauti- lustre, and freedom from blisters been banished from Irwin, the application was refis. ful and lar playgrounds or marks. The peak of highest

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An Insufficient Supply. On the application of the management of the Peak Hotel to be allowed to orect ́à `water

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