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GENERAL NEWS.

last month for the first time, when

SERVICE MATTERS:

Promotion from the Renks. A War Office return shows that

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1913.

Prepaid Advertisements

ONE CENT PER WORD

TO LET.

FOR EACH INSERTION,

To

TO LET.

"O LET on 2nd Floor No. 2,

Peddor Street.

New : L. C. C. at Work. The newly elected members of the London County Council met eighty-two promotions from the Mr. Cyril Cobb, M.V.O., was this being the largest number ranks were made during 1912, elected chairman. Mr. Paince the years of the South Pildito vice chairman, and Mr. African war, when the figure of W.O. Johnson (who has not miss 108 was reached in 1900. ela meeting of the Council for

FROM 1st February, MEI- Property Office, Jardins, Mathe- -fifteen years) deputy-chairman, Lieutenant Colonel MacFarlan' RION, No. 10, Peak, furni-son & Co., Ltd.:

Lieutenant-Colonel MacFar-shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms.

Another "Trust" Affair.

One roomed Offico. Apply

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rooms in good contral loca

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The EYRIE No. 13 Peak, OFFICE TO LET One or two To let furnished.

I No. 35 CONDUIT ROAD, 6lity. Immediate possesion. Ap- | Light, from 1st May, 1913.

unfurnished, Electrio ply to:-" Bota" c/o "Hongkong

Telegraph." No. 21, SHELLY STREET. Hongkong, 6th Mar., 1013. To lot or for sale, GLEN. SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, TO LET LARGE substantially Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March,

built Godown, situated on water front, East Point. For 1913. Peak to let, fins situation; 8ty Office, Jardine Matheson & CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the further particulars apply Proper- rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. Co., Ltd.

Dissolution of the Coru Pro-Flan, who commanded the the 2nd ducts Refining Company, au Battalion Queen's Own Cameron alleged starch, glucose and syrup Highlanders during a portion of

rooms "is sought by the Federal their tour in the Far East, bas trust,' Government in a civil anti-trust just gone on half pay from the auit filed in New York charging battalion at Bangalore on the the $80,000,000 combination termination of his four years. with entering into conspiracies and contracts to destroy competi- tion in violation of the Sherman the Dreadnought battleship Con- law. It is alleged to have kept queror have been removed to the the prices of corn products at hospital ship Maud in Plymouth unreasonably low figures to harass Sound. Three of there, it is and discourage independent

stated, have been definitely diog manufactures,

nosed no suffering from smallpox. The other tiro were taken off the

Sakl and Champagne, Tokyo, April 3.-At a binquot

Smallpox in Battleship. Five members of the orow of

No. 52, Peak, 5 rooms,

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No. 3 DES VŒEUX VILLAS,

FOR SALE. HARTING and ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- land Lot No. 1154.

1689

THE HONGKONG LAND IN- VESTMENT & AGENCY

CO., LIMITED.

given by the Premier to the Puere battleship for the purpose. of No: 34, Reak to lot furnished or UHAGE of the COMPANY

observation....

"LYEEMUN," Barker Road

unfurnished to 30th November, 1913, 6 rooms,

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913

3rd Floor, Alexandra Building. [211

on April 1, Princa Tokugaws pro- posed that in fature no champague Imperial Defence Committee. should be served at such functions

It is understood that tho recon- with a view to setting an example struotion of the Imperial Defence. in checking foreign imports. This Committee is in contemplation, was onthusiastically supported. and that an important agnounce Yesterday evening the Premier at mont on the subject may be a banquet with Provincial officials shortly anticipated. The con

"OLET—" BREEZY VILLA,” and others announced that he stitution of the Committee, it is To

No. 2, Park Road. 4 Room accepted Prince Tokugawa's pro. anil, will be made more elastic, ed Bungalow with Tennis Court. posal, and therefore he requested and both the navy and army will Commands splendid View of the guests to drink saki.

Singapore Mortality Returns.

The mortality returns for Sing- apore issued by the Registrar of Births and Deaths show that, during the week ending March 20, there were 180 deaths(137 males, 43 females) giving a ratio per

be more strongly represented on Harbour. For Rent, etc., please it than hitherto, and the self-apply to-YAP HOK LING, No. governing Dominions of the 4, Ripon Torrace.

Empire will be represented. Hongkong, 28th Mar., 1913. [264-

Promoted.

Lieutenant II. G. O. Fowler, South Wales Borderers, attached

FURNISHED.

THE NEW CABLE.

to the 1st Battalion at Chatham, T. LET

Gulosend" 1088, The mile of population of 20.16. has just been promoted to the Peak, 6 Rooms, for 4 months froni Malarial fever accounted for, 20 rank of captain in that regiment. May 1-Apply C. H. Gale." deaths, phthisis 20, convulsione Captain Fowler gets his company 8. beri-beri 17, bronchitis 11, after a subaltern service of nearly dysentery 14, pneumonia 11:12 yours. He was appointed to the Twenty-three children under Borderers from the embodied three months of age died. The militia in May, 1901, and has the nationalities were represented as Transvaal campaign of 1002 to follows:-Europeans 2, Eurasian his credit, for which ho holds the

Queen's medal with clasp.

Fleet Surgeon Head.

"From England to Hongkong.

&

tors.

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I have THIS DAY resumed

By Order of the Board Direc

A. STELTON HOOPER,

Secretary. Hongk ́nr, 10th April, 1918. TO LET on 16th inst. A com fortable bedroom with board. Private bathrooms. View. TURE c/o Hongkong

Higher Level. Apply FIX-

Hongkong, 10th April 1913. graph."

WANTED.

Tele-

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W JANTED at once Nurse con- veying two children to Trieste by S. S. Koerber, Sailing 13th inst. For Terme apply to SANDER / WEELER & Co., Agents Austrian Lloyd S. N. Co. Hongkong, 10th April 1913, " [201

By a curious coincidence Mr. Lodge always crossed to America on the liner on which Miss Jones happened to be typist.

Miss Jones had offers of marri- age from officers of the line, but declined them on the ground that her husband would always be away from home.

"And that

would not be much company for

wife," she said. -

Healthiest Spot la the Far East.

Kedah must be quite the healthiest According to the lateststatistics, place in the Far East, for the

The preliminary work in con- , Chinese 137, Malays. 30, Ind-

nection with the laying of the new Eastern cable, which is to ians 8.

American's Tour.

Fleet-Surgon Richard Lovell run from England to Hongkong, Mr. F. O. Koch, who has nows- Bluett Head, who died last week was advanced another stage on paper interests in America and is at Wimbledon, was one of the March 24 when the Eastern Tele- a considerable contributor to a few naval officers who have fought graph steamer Electra, a smart number of journals in other parts against the Japanese. He served little vessel of some 1,300 odd of the world, bai been travelling in the Barrossa (commanded by tons, dropped anchor in Co- through Japan, China, Formosa, Captain W, M. Dowell, who lived lombo harbour after completing Cochin Chine, Siam and Borneo, to become "Father of the Fleet" soundings from Aden to Colomb). He has taken several thousands in the attack upon the Simonoseki The work has proved entirely of photographs, many of them of batteries in 1804. He subse- satisfactory, and the vessel has

death-rate works out at about 18 an unique character, and no quently went as surgeon of the mapped out the track of the new

his doubt in course of time some of Britannia, and

present cable without any difficulty. A per mille, which is extremely low them will appear in various of the Majesty and the Inte, Duke of representative of "The Times of for this part of the world and illustrated papers. Mr. Koch Clarence were under his medical Ceylon went on board the compares most favourably with may make a tour through the charge during their term of cadet- Electro, but the staff were unable other places. In the old days, the F.M.S. After that his itinerary is

population of the little State was and small-pox, but both, these periodically ravaged by cholera Australasia and New Guicea and thence to India and back to the

fell diseases-have-now-been-com- States vis Europe

pletely stamped out. The birth- rate is about 24 per mille.

Trader Unions and Labour Saving.

ship.

to add very much to the informa- tion already known with regard The late Colonel Cleeve. Colonel Stewart Alexander to the new cable. They stated that Cleeve, who died of 79, St. all the arrangements had been Aubyn'e road Hove, on the 24th completed as far as Alexandria, ult, aged 87, was a son of and that from that point to Suez. The old trouble with Tradea the lato Lieut. Colonel William the cable would fan overland. Unione over labour-saving tools Cleave, IL.A. He served as ad- They had no definite information has arisen as a result of the use jutant of the 51st K.O. York as to when the laying of the cable of the oxyacetyleno flame for cur- abire Light Infantry throughout from Suez to Aden, and from ting boiler pluies, etc., in home the Burmese War of 1852-52, be thence on to Colombo, would be shipyards, says an exchange. Aing on board the H.E.L.C. steam begun, but they imagined that it large amount of labour natural frigate "Feroze" during the would be some time shortly after ly has to find some other field of naval action and destruction of the the next monsoon. It was learned activity where the new system is enemy's stockades on the Ran that the actual laying of the cable employed and the English Boiler-goon river. He was present at was a comparatively easy matter, makera Sociely has made strict the storming and capture of Ran and that the work between Suez rules respecting the number of goou. He received the medal and Aden should not take longer men that must be employed be with clasp for Pogu. He served than a week, and between Aden fore these machines are allowed. on the headquarter staff of the and Colombo not longer than about This Trados Union has also issued Bombay Army from 1858 to 1861. nine days. Within a few days, a mandate that no overtime shali Ho leaves two BODS (Brevet- we understand the Colonia, one be worked by members using the Colonel F. J. S. Cleave, retired, of the vessels of the Telegraph device under pain of penalties IF.A. and Lieutenant Colonel maintenance company, will com- No greater evidence of the eff. S. Cleave, RF.A.) and two monco laying the new cable be ciency of this system, associated in India with the Linde Com- pany, could well be forthcoming. Accident to Singapore Official,

Captain Elwarde, the senior Barding Officerat Singapore, met

daughters.

tween Colombo and Penang, one The Naga Expedition.

of the sections of the new line Delbi, March 22nd-Theofficer from Aden to Hongkong. commanding the Taniok column] reports from the Shipiong river

camp on the 20th instant that ROMANCE OF THE SEA.

with a pasty accident-last-week Chongyi was captured and de-

Howse driving in his gharry stroyed on the 18th. Longmieng Girl Typist on "Mauretania" to when one of the tyres snapped. was visited by the Political Marry Wealthy Cotton Operator. The pony took fright and bolted, Officer with the Sixth Rifles

throwing the Ryce from bis on the same day, but, as the in-

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Hongkong, 23rd May, 1918.

EMBROIDERY AND RARE LACES SWATOW DRAWN WORK:

AND

LADIES TAILORING, SWATOW TRADING COMPANY, HONGKONG, OPPOSITE THE OLOOK TOWER.

The Advancing Prices THE FRENCH STORE

which prevail in almost every line of business should

Well known in the Colony for

Beat. Captain Edwards, in the habitants were not implicated in New York, March 2.-A real exoitoment, jumped from the the recent attack on the Mily romance of the sea will soon lead produce alertness all round. As a business house of many years, have removed to their gharry and fell very heavily on police, the village was not to wedding bella, when Miss his head, says the "Straits Times." burnt. On the 19th sixth Mario Jones, typist on board the wide operations we are watching for every available new shop, where they are prepared A motorist, who was passing just rifles from Chongyi were sent to Mauretania," leaves that vessel opportunity of bringing to the public generally the to offer customers the latest DE- as the accident occurred, at once meet the party from Longmieng to marry Mr. W. W. Lodge, a stopped and assisted Captain Ed-nt Ngang. Both the Ngang vil wealthy cotton operator, of best possible value. This efficient service is made pos- LICACIES DIRECT FROM PARIS,

warde into the quarters of Mr. lagos were completely destroyed Liverpool.

Elgar Guliston, where his hurts and the enemy is reported to have Miss Jones announced yester-sible by the fact that we are large buyers and sellers and the continent. were attended to. Afterwards he lost sixty killed and many wound- day that she is making bor last

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was taken to the Port Health Office ed. Our casualties were ons voyage on the Mauretania" for cash. We invite the enquiry aud court the com-

whore his wounds received fur- Sepoy slightly wounded. Twenty prior to leaving for her wedding parison of the keen-buying householder. ther attention. Captain Edwards guns and much live stock were in June,

was cut about the head and hands also captured. This completes Miss Jones first met her fiancee and very badly bruised about the number of villages to be dealt on the "Caronia" three years the breast and arms. The pony with. The forse returned to ago. Afterwards when she was continued down Robinson Road Shining comp on the 20.h, and transferred to the "Carmanis" and eventually collided with a was to preosed to Anyrang river and later to the "Lusitania" she poor. The gharry was completely on the 21st. The health of the again met him on voyages to and

mashed

(roopa has been g702.

from America,

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