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GENERAL NEWS.

SERVICE MATTERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1913.

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The Ipoh Robbery.

Major General Perrott. Additional evidence having: Major Gen. T. Perrott, com- been heard in the Ipoh Post Office manding the Royal Artillery at case, in which a clerk named Gibraltar, will retire on May 8 on David is charged with criminal reaching the age of 62. It is breach of trust in respect of $25,- anderstood on good authority that FROM 1st February, MEL OF ICE TO LET $15 per month. 000, which mysteriously disap-he will be rucceeded by Brigadier RION, No. 10, Peak, furni peared from a postal bag for-Gen. J. T. Johnston, Inte Royal shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms. warded from Ipoh to Penang, the Artillery, who for the past year The" EYRIE No. 13 Peak, acoused was committed for trial has been in command of the To let furnished. at the Assizes.

Typhold in Penang.

Scottish Coast Defences. Major Gen, Perrott was the immediate prede essor of Major Gen. Step benson in the Straits Command.

Recruiting for the Army.

A gentleman can share his well Furnished Office room with another. Free use of Electric Light and Fan, Lift and Tele- No. 21, SHELLY STREET. phone. Close to Hongkong Ferry.. SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124,

To let or for sale, GLEN-Apply Post Office, Box 3966. Poak, 5' rooms from 1st March, ROOM TO L&T $20 per month. 1913

There is at present a good deal of typhoid fever among the Chinese in Penang, saya. tho "Straits Times." Nearly all the cases are confined to children and young people, and it is assorted by a medical man that, in a great many instances, the disease can be traced to the consumption of slight increase in the number of No. 34, Peak to let furnished or Barker Road ice-cream sold by the itinerant mon .entiated for both the unfurnished to 30th November, vendors who frequent the vicinity regular army and the special 1913, 6 rooms. of the local soboole.

CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the In his report for the twelve Peak to let; fine situation; 8 months to September 30 last, rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. Brigadier General F. ROROGATE, on part of Kowloon In FOR SALE-HARTING and Carloton, director of recruiting, land Lot No. 1154. states that although there was a

Coolles and Pensions.

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and a big promenade Verandah. cannot be regarded as satis-

Can Share with a single gentle- factory. More recruits

man or an aged lady. Close to Now that the question of pen-have hesa accep'ed, had they

Hongkong Ferry. Highest and could sions for assistant plantera in Sumatra has been successfully been forthcoming, especially in

coolest place on the Lower Level, disposed of, the various planting the special reserve. The continued

being open from four sides. bodies are turning their attention prosperity of trade and activity.ed Bungalow with Tennis Court view of the Harbour and the Peak.

No. 2, Park Road. 4 Room- Commanding

magnificont to schemes for pensioning coolies. both in emigration and in recruit- The first company to make publicing additional personnel for the Harbour. For Rent, etc., please Telephone and House boy. Apply

Commands splendid View of their deliberations on the subject navy, undoubtedly had an ad-apply to--YAP HOK LING, No. Post Office Box 366, is the Amsterdam Deli Company, verse effect, and although some 4, Hipon Terrace. which intends to pongion off all improvement was apparent in the Hongkong, 28th Mar., 1913. [264 coolies who have 15 years' service umbers coming forward during

Free use of Water, Electric Light.

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"LET FURNISHED Property Office, Jardine, Mathe-

to their credit with 3 guildors 00/ the earlier months of the period DUNEDIN" Barker Road, son & Co., Ltd..

under review, it was not maintain-

ed throughout the year. The No. 135 The Peak, for six or seven for the regular army 30,316, Apply to C. T. BEATH, Mercan- actual numbers enlisted were, months from 1st June or before.

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compared with the previous on kong 10th, April 1918. twofvo monthis, and for the

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cents per month, and those with 20 and more years of service with 4 guilders 80 cents per month, The Senembah Maatschappij are also deliberating on the matter, A Political Play from the Inside

A political play entitled "The special reservo 21,301, on increase. Bill" will be produced by Mr. of 775. With the exception of TO LET LARGE substantially Wareing's repertory company at the infantry of the line and sap-water front, East Point.

built Godown, situated on Glasgow at the end of this month.pors of the Royal Engineere, no further particulars apply Proper- It is understood that the authoress illiculty was experienced in obty Office, Jardine Matheson & is Mrs. George Cornwallis West.taining a suflicient number of Co., Ltd.. Mach criticism has appeared in recruits. Owing to the compara- the papera about Mr. Stanley tively small number leaving the Houghton's presentation of politicolours the shortage of recruits 'cal life in its higher ranges in his for the infantry has not yet pro- be interesting to see how politic it is stated that the situation pro- play "Trust the People." It will duced any considerable effect, but ians are pourtrayed in their in-mises to become serious before timate life by one who was the long, unless a considerable im- wife of one Cabinet Minister and provement takes place. is the mother of another. Mrs. Cornwallis West's last play was "Bie Borrowed Plumes,' pro- duced in 1000 at the Criterion.

An Adventurous Career. Lieut. Frederick Lennox Lang dale, RN., (retired) who died recently at his residence at Straw-| Jumped Overboard. News has been received from berry-hill, Middlesex, after a Buez that the P. and O. Syria, short illness, entered the navy as which left Colombo on February cadet in 1865 when twelve years

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which is the most dangerous part for a leak to occur in because the ship is then more deeply immer There are good grounds for besed in proportion to the displace- ment lost by the entrance of water, and the centre of buoyancy moves upwards approaching the ing the liablity of the vessels to centre of gravity and so increas-

28, lost a passenger in the Red old, and few men have had alieving that the disappearance of Bea. It was a young man from more adventurous career both in Madras who joined the ship at the service and after retirement, certains ship at sea may be due Colombo, and who complained,e first served in the frigate to an unscientific division of on the voyage, of having caught Terrible in the Mediterranean watertight compartments while "a toach of the sun." He had and on the north coast of Spain, the public has all the time inno-turn turtle. (I. E.) lost his situation in Madras and during the Carlist War, and

was depressed about it. On then wont round the world cantly believed the ship to be! Maroh 10, he jumped overboard. in the corvette Cossack. He was unsinkable because it bad been just as the rest of the passengers engaged in putting down the amply provided with balkheads. were sitting down to tiffin. The slave trade on the East Coast of

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engines were stopped, and the Africa, piracy in Malaysis, and Speaking generally, a long water- ship ciroled shout the neighbour. blackbirding in Polynesia. tight compartment in the centre bood for more thin an hour, but He then served in the ironclads of a vessel may become a nothing more was seen of the Resistance and Sultan in the source

Channel Fleet, and in the cor- and cause the ship to

of danger if flooded BEST OF ANCIENT CHINESE vette Sapphire on the Australian turtle. Thus it is calculated

turn CURIOS, JADES, ORNAMENTS station. He received the Royal that if the "Titanic" had a

AND JEWELLERY,.' Singapore issued by the Registrar Humane Society's medal and compartment 262.4 feet long in 72 Queen's Road, Central, of Births and Deaths show that, clasp for jumping overboard to its centre which by a damage to during the week ending April 6, ave life in the Bay of Biscay and its side became filled with water

man....

Singapore Mortality Returns.

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there were 207 deaths (156 males, on the coast of New Zealand. He the ship would roll over although OSMAN 61 females) giving a ratio per retired from the navy in 1877, she might continue theoretically

mille of population of 33.53, this and bought and cultivated an safe against sinking in an up- MILLINERS including 15 deaths at St. John's island in the Fijian group right position. Experienced Taland. Without these 15 deaths, In 1890, during the Civil War in

modern shipbuilders on this ac the ratio would be 31.10. Malarial Chili, he accepted a commission count put in more balkheads fever accounted for 22 deaths, as captain of a corvette in the than required by regulation. phthisis 21, Convulsions 24, beri Chilian navy, surrendered the Considerations that also affect

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