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GENERAL NEWS.

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SERVICE MATTERS.

Chief Aeronautical' Inspector.

27 Years' Service,

THE BONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

OPIUM SMUGGLING

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ONE CENT PER WORD

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A report was current the other afternoon that a large amount of opium had been discovered on the Rubi as she was about to leave Hongkong, says Manila MEIRION, Nos, 9 & 10, Peak, TO LET.-9, Pedder's Hill,

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unfurnished, 6 Rooms. newly renovated; airy and Cheap Rental, from 1st December comfortable. Apply to Laung newly painted and colourwashed. Teu San, 15, Bonham Strand

ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow- East. loon; unfurnished.

No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett. Church Mission Society Bunga- low) from 1st October, 1913, till

Cheap rent

Hongkong, 8th Jan., 1914 [1129

30th May, 1914, partly furnished, No. 1 "DURBAR VILLAS

Kowloon. Apply to:-8PAN- 1 CAMERON VILLAS, No, 60 ISH DOMINICAN PROCURA- Fosk, to let furnished for 1 yearTION. from 1st May.

No. 6 Cameron Villas, No. 59

year from let May, 1914.

"Kellett Orent" No. 66 The Poak, from 1st March, 1914, part- ly furnished."

No. 19, Shelley Street. Ono small Godown in Duddell Street

No. 3, The Albany, Robinson Road.

FOR SALE or TO LET. (From 1st November, 1913.) Bungalow containing drawing. No.1,Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. dining and smoking rooms and five bedrooms. With ground for Tennis-Court

FOR SALE.

HARTING and ROGATE, on: part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. "GLENSHIEL" 124 Barker Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram

Major J. D. B. Fulton, Royal height restrictions in. New York Field Artillery, at presnot an has reported that not uilding to instructor at the Central Flying be constructed should be more School, has been appointed Chief than eighteen storeys high and Inspector of the Aeronautical In should not have towers. Another spection Department. i drastic recommendation is that the city should be so apportioned

· Inquiry into the affair proved that business build:oga will not Major A. P. D. Surat, "124th that about Pesos 10,000 worth be put up in residential, sections, Rifles, has retired from the Army was intended to ebear these inles and that certain businesses should on completing 27 years' service. but it was apprehended before it be confined to certain nections of He obtained his commission from the city, says the New York the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the got aboard the boat. "A thorough Tribune. The members of the Wiltshire Regiment in 1886, and investigation was held at Hong- committee contend that buildings and since he has been with the kong and no one on the boat was of great height hurt rent values Indian Army he has served in the implicated, but one of the crew both in tall buildings and in Burmsh expedition. 1888-9; and neighbouring structures. taken part in the operations in turned up missing, so it was pre-Peak to let furnished for one

Temperature of South Africa. Thibet, 1903-4, including the earned that ho was the guilty According to a correspondent march to Lhasa. He has been a party." of the Diamond Fülds Advertiser field officer exactly nine years.....

Captain Miller, of the Rubi South Africa .is steadily getting colder. He quotes statis Royal Dockyard Establishments. congratulates himself on not tics showing that from 1885 to Unbounded satisfaction appears having had any emuggling on 1892 the average temperature at to have been given by the exten- his boat for over six months, and Durban was 81.3deg., which fall sion of the established list, at the now that the laws in China are to 79.7deg. in 1893-1900, and to Royal Dockyards, to a large num about as severe ne here in the 78.6deg. in 1001-08. Similar ber of the workmen who have have been recorded at Kimberley years without being selected for to keep her clean. He has notices declines in the mean temperature served the Government for many Philippines he hopes to by able and Baluwayo since 1897. At a place on this coveted list. The in Chinese posted in various Cape Town the annual moan max-recent extension has given them imam temperature for 1881-7 their chance, and now they have parts of the ship informing never fell below 71.7deg.; while a job for life," if their conduct that section of the crew of the in 1902-8 it only rose above remains correct and their duty direful results that will surely 70deg. twice. The correspondent continues to be satisfactorily por-befall them if they are in any concludes his letter by saying formed. There will be several that these figures do not prove thousands of men placed on this way, directly or indirectly, on that South Afria is about to be permanent list during this year nected with the juice of the plunged into an ive age. And next; tho total being pre-tabóced poppy. It is, however, portionately divided among the very rarely that these smuggling Anyone who will bring in a respective Ryal yarde of the robemos originate with the crow, Bill to enforce a close season for United Kingdom Foreign yards, although at times they are veed the discussion of certain topics such as Malta, Gibralter, &., will as tools by persons on the outside is sure of the sympathy and sap. also henefit. This retion on the who apply the dope and for a part of a large number of men art of the Admiralty is certainly promised reward have them do And women, says a writer in the to be commended at a time the hot chestnut sct. 31 World. Why should birde and when labour troubles have beasts be protected, and the so far delayed the pro- readers of newspapers and mags-gress of warship, building, both zines be left to the mercies of the at the private shipbuilding firms people who rush into print with and the Royal dockyards, that opinions on every subject under ellips have remained on the stocks the Ban. As things are we have after their successorein the follow- no redrese. We must needs give ing year's programme have been

grant of higher allowances to the up newspapers and magazines, launched. It has recently been icers of the Territorial Force. and flee from human society. proved beyond dispute that the But there are undoubtedly two Like the Wedding Guest, we loyal yards can build as cheaply sides to the question. It is clear must beat our breast when the and expeditiously as the best that, in too many cases, officers Ancient Mariner appears, for we private yards in the kingdom are adversely affected by corps and it is well that they should subscriptions, and by attending Berlin's Unemployed.

have as much new construction as rille, and that in other ways they The Sosialist Forwarts pub possible allocated to them, ee-make sacrifices not only of time lishes exact statistics with regard pocially the "capital" abip pro bat of money. In view of the

When the nervous system is to the number of unemployed in gramme. Established men do not professional class from which the out of order, we suffer from many Berlin as registered by the strike. as they have too much to General Federation of Trade Un- lose, and it is necessary that there majority of the Territorial officers disturbing symptoms. Headache, are draws, they can ill affard irritability, insomnis, confusion ions, after a complete census should be a reliable body of work to be out of pocket by their of thought, loss of toemory, between November 10 and 15. Of men to repair our warships dat-public spirit; and why should it mental depression, and explosive 306,000 organised members in 48 ing labour troubles, even though be expected of them, when so fits of temper are among the die- unions, 25,088, or over 8 per cont., progress in new construction may many of the leisured class give no quieting effects of the condition. were unemployed. Since the be oventually delayed by the service to the country and are Lesides these, there are sensations organised constitute almost exact non-delivery of machinery and thought none the less of? The of weakness and easily-induced ly three-tenths of the total num- other material at the rational addition of something like fatigue, with, possibly, trembling ber of workera régistered by the dockyarde.

$300,000 to the Estimates is no and convulsions.

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small matter it is true, and it is These symptoms are invariably not likely to stop there. For the due to starvation of the nervous "to be proportionately much less With the advent of the Queen officers of the Special Recarve, & system, which bas been drained amongst the unorganised. the Elizabeth as the fires all-oil driven senior service with very serious of the phosphorun it needs for total number of unemployed in capital ship in our Navy, the liabilities and obligations, will bealth.. What is necessary to Berlin at the present time must question of the staffing of the want their quid pro quo. Their restore the health is a food rich be about 83,000. On its part, stokeholds of war warships as-service is equally in want of in phosphorus The ideal pers the Municipal Statistical Office of sumes a different aspect. Not officere and require even prior paration of this king ia Sanato- Tel. 1292. 1A. D'Aguiler St. the City of Berlin shows that the only is oil fuel cleaner in use, consideration. But the situation geo, which consists of pure casein number of anemployed in Sep- more economical as fuel, and must be faced.

chemically combined with that tember was 8,000 more than last more under control than coal, bat

form of phosphorus found in the year, more than double in com-lit likewise reduces to a very large

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On this point, Dr. O. W. annually.

quired in the stakehold for fuel- It is the law of the land, in Salesby, the eminent medical A Blond Cuttlefish. ling the fornaces, cleaning the spite of the loose talk of some author, writes: "When phosphoros One of the most precious spoils toilers, and work of that descrip- people, that when the State is in is combined with other elements of the Michael Sars North At-tion. Starting with the Queen danger the State is empowered to it is a valuable food, and is, lantic Deep Sea Expedition was Elizabeth class, therefore, the call upon all citizens to assist, indeed, absolutely necessary for a blind cuttlefish, apparently complements in our stokehold and this includes the provision of life. It has been proved by a adapted for deep-sea life. Thite will probably be considerably horses and mules vehicles, vessele, large number of scientific experi- thousand metres of wire were out reduced, and this in turn will and even aircraft. It is the law of ments that very nearly the whole when it was captured. The affect the number of men to be England, and not of the War (93 per cent) of the phosphorus specimen is perfectly gelatinous saised by naval recruiters for the Office, and it is as old as the added to the diet in the form of and semi-transparent. A delicate stoker rating. Considering the seventeenth century. When the Sanatogen is absorbed." web unites its armas. The nerves number of ships in the battle Government declares a state of Banatogen can be obtained of STOP WATCHES & BINOCULAR can be seen shining through the ship and

classes national emergency the law be-all Chemists, in bottles of two whole length of the arma. The which still use coal, recruiting comes, operative, and horse-sizes. ** gelatinous body exhibits an ex-for this rating can hardly be owners must make up their ceedingly faint violet colour, and affected immediately, but it is minda to the fact that, whether only the parts round the mouth, obvious that this will be the case they will it or not, the Govern- 31, Queen' the proximal portions of the arms, at no distant date. Whether the ment can demand their horses at and the web exhibit the purple total number of men required to a valuation, and will undoubtedly chocolate cofonr pesuliar to many man the Navy will recede below do so. It is doubtful if the deep-sea animals, says Know-its present figure is doubtful, authorities even now fully realise ledge Very peculiar minute however, since the complements what the requirements of our suckers (thirty-six in number) of capital ships increase with Army may amount to in time of poised on long spindle-shaped and their tonnage, in their stamen, war, with disease, wear and tear, clumsy stalks of gelatinous sub- and other ratings, and at present an., to be considered, and the stance ocoar on the inner side of stand at close upon,000 hands difficulties attending rapid ex- the arms. In each stalk there is all told. The number of ships, pansion. They have, however, a curious structure which may ba too, will go on increasing, and so the lessons of the Peninsula, a luminescent organ and reflector. any decimating of the sloker Egyptian. (1882), and recent Boer The eye is minute, without a lens rating will probably be more than campaigns by which to profit. with a very degenerate retina compensated for in the total and optio nerve. There are deep pumber of complements neaded ses cuttlefishes with small eren, for an increased number of war: but no casa rave this one is known ships. Next year's Estimates where the structure of the eye in may partly indicate the view that involved. Ita degeneration has the authorities take of this matter, gone furilor then in many blind since the all-oil capital ships will

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