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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1914.

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Kanchow yesterday after Reuter on Friday last, England wanted 158 runs with fire wickets

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to fall, to escape defest. But we American Mail-Arrived per se. have waited in vain for the result. Siberian Mail.-Left pers.s. Indie

Chiyo Mara to-day.

missing information would have at 10 am. to-day. been much more interesting to

Siberian Mail.-Dae per 8.8. our readers than me which Reuter sends from time to time, and we should like to know why Reuter specialises in test matches for tricks of this kind. Bat we whall probably never know, Plague.

officer of the Brits last year

is a sentiment which will find

Assage to-morrow. Australian Mail.-Olones per a.e Empire at 0 s.m, to-morrow

The "Scorpions" The "Scorpione" are holding another dance at the City Hall to-morrow night.

MEDICAL

· IMPERFECTIONS.

RABIES APPEAR IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

HONGKONG.

Entertaining Lecture by Local A Warning to Owners of Dogs.

Doctor,

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Sir Kat Ho-Kal Reuring After 24 You-s' Service.

A more than usually interest-| We are informed by the police ng lecture, on a medical subject, that, following the outbreak of "A meeting of the Legislative #as delivered ta the students of rabies in Kowloon, a co-e has Council was held this afteracon the longkong Univerity on Mor-ar poated in Hongkong, and the in the Council Uhamber. day evening. Dr. G. M. Harston dog affected has been destroyed. There were present:H. E. was the leotarer and he fadt' The regulations recently put the Governor, Sir Henry May, entertainingly and helpfully with no fores in Kowloon will now be K. O. M. G. some medical imperfections local brought into operation on this The Hon. Culonial Secretary,

nd general. The following re-side of the harbour, and owners | Mr. C. Søvern, a sort of the lecture is as full as it of dogs are warned that any un- The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. vaa possible to secure in the licensed dog without s collar J. A. 8. Bücknili, ÉO.

onmstances, when the lecture wandering about during daytime was private, and should be found will be liable to he shot, as also very interesting by our rendere. any dog seen out at night.

The lecturer avid Gentlemen, I must in the first

Consignees of cargos by the s.suggested that I might like to and di

Kowloon's New Plar.

The rates of Salwcription to the "Hongkong Telegraph will general approval. But so far as with the railway and ferry pier

be as follows:

Daily issue--830 per annum. Weekly issue-$13 per annum. The rates per quarter and per m

fall month.

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The Hon. Colonial Treasurer. Mr. A. M. Thomson.

The Hon. Director of Public Works, Mr. W. Chatham, O.M.G. The Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. E. R. Hallifax.

The Hon. Capt. Supt. of Police, Mr. McIlvaine Messer.

The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk,C.M.G. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollcok,

K.O.

The Hon. Mr. P. Lindale, The Hon. Mr. E, Shellim. The Hon. Sir, Kai Ho-kai, O.M.G.

Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher,. Olerk

Financial. The following minutes, re- commended by His Excellency the Governor, were referred to the Financo Committee-

A sum of $10,400 in aid of the

ace thank you for the honour there was a roar of laughter when ou have done me in asking me he cast his eye upon fa the report of the medical

o address you. When I was ap board; he quietly however Local

To Consignees,

proached by Dr. Thomas he proceeded to rub out the '1' mot. YOD Emile. there is an interesting statement Scandia are reminded that goods ead you a paper on Radiology Sometime such rule wit is more concerning plague. It is that undelivered after tu-morrow will and bigh frequency currents, or personal still, as in the case of

in some other abstruse and high- well known professer of physi plague, which began in China in be subject to rent. 1804 and invaded almost every

Alloged Gamblers.

ly technical subject. Had I done so alogy in London who during the Five Chinese alleged to have should have appealed to a few vacation married the daughter of | part of the world, began to show

reduced mortality returns in teen gambling in a restauran f you but not to all. In search a very wealthy biscuit magu- 1013. "It may be hoped," says have been remanded until to ag for a subject therefore I facturer. The local wag wrote on to the Councils. the report, "that at last the dis-morrow.

hought I would appeal to you the board 'Professor has married Dr. Cantile.

more individually if I selected one the biscuit'; another wag prempt- esse is beginning to subside, not- withstanding the organised of known in Hongkong, has been at, especially as I was given to has married the tin too."

Dr. James Cantlie, who is well-f wider and more general inter-ly wrote underneath and he position and hostility of many off

elected president of the Aberdeen,understand that students of other the Indian people to the preven-

I merely mention these imper- tive measures which have been Banff, and Kincardine Associa faculties in the University might fees and evidence of our youth

"A sum of $200 in aid of the steadily pursued against it". tion.

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be present. I wish therefore to as a preliminary to more serious rote Public Works, Extraordin

asdical profession which bave cal profession is a all your attention to some out-criticism of our stor careers. Rapid progress is being made tanding imporfections in the

ry, Hongkong, miscellaneous, It has been said that the medi-levelling portion of West End Hongkong is concerned it cannot

narrow one, Park to form playground. be said that the disease is here st Kowloon Point Judging by curred to me daring sixteen meaning that its members are A sum of $2,090 in aid of the showing reduced mortality. For "ppearances, it should soon be

reara residence in Hongkong, inclined to allow this minds to run vote. Publio Works, extraordia- since the beginning of this year

ready for use.

The ancient Greek was fully in a groove. To a certain extent ary, New Territories, Buildings, out of 70 casos all anve eight have

Latest Advertisements, ognisant of the imperfections of this accusation is true. For in- Polies Station, Cheung Chau... Consignees notice concerning mankind, for he said-Know stages we were some of us apt to not got at the root of the pro- ended fatally. We assuredly have the thiyo Mara is issued.-Page thyself. The Scotchman, ever look upon the medical faculty of vote Public Works extraordinary, blem as yet.

nodest, but always ready to say this university as the hub of the New Territories, miscellaneous, The Mexican Tragedy.

La Hacienda E., No. 74, Mount amething appropriate, realised wheel, as the very omphalos of its improvement of Ap Lia Village. Kellett Road, is to let from April is utter inability to grapple with existence; did we not consider A sum of $500 in sid of the Mexican outrage, the clearer. Jocs Page 5.

Auch * tremendous subject the old. medical school the vote Secretariat for Chinese Theft of Clothing. the culpability of General Villa

48 himself; he become. His latest attitude is 10 Cheung, living in Queen's Road thought he possessed and proceed when I perused in the local press

required germinal protoplasm? Personally Affaire, special expenditure, books A school-girl named Kwok more insight than he however I received a rude shock and bookcases. refuse to deliver up Mr. Benton's East, reports to the police oned to invoke the aid of the occult, an account of an interview with The Hon. Mr Pollock asked the

Protection of Statues. body. And, in view of his recent behalf of her mietress that an acte, the reason he gives is worth msh has absconded with 17 zie us to see ourselves as others of the Engineering faquity. He steps does the Government pro-

"Oh! Wad some power the giftie the energetic and Nestorian head following question: -

"What more than passing notice. It is

pieces of clothing valued $55. "out of 1espect for the deat."

Fire Bars Stolen. This sounds very pretty, very

Mr. Perkins, of the P.W.D.. Bentimental and very soft-hearted reports to the police that during But had Villa shown the same the night of the 23rd, inst. several MELVIN PHILLIPS. On February 18, at the respect for the living as he wishes fire bars were stolen from the Maternity Hospital, Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Melvin Phillips, the world to believe he has for furnace of a tar, boiler, which was

the dead, Mr. Benton would still left in Bridges Street.

· CLEMENTI.-On January 10, at Georgetown, British Guiana, have been alive. The friends ofļ The New Magistracy.

the deceased Englishman are The erection of the new Magis anxious to secure the body of the poor fellow in order to ascertain Central Police Station is proceed racy buildings adjoining the precisely how he died, and the ing apace, and it is hoped that conviction cannot besvoided that the premises will be ready for in placing obstacles in their way cconpation in October. General Villa has something to hide.

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a son.

of a daughter.

By Order,

"HONGKONg telegraph."

BIRTHS.

the wife of Cecil Clementi, Government Secretary, British Guiana, PALMER-On January 15, at Bakap Rubber Plantations, Neb- ong Tebal, Straits Settlements, to Cicely Canning (nee Blackall) and MYRING. On Febuary 11, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Earp Myring Diamond Jubilee Estate, Malacca, twins, boy and girl.

and John Galbraith Palmer, a son.

MARRIAGE. ·

HAMILTON-LAVERIOK-At St. John's Cathedral, Hong, kong, on the 25th. inst., Alexander Hamilton, son of the late Mr. Alexander Hamilton; of Wallsend-on-Tyne, to Annie Laverick, daughter of Mr. Robert Laverick, of Willington-on-Tyne.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 26, 1914.

AMUSEMENT WANTED.

The more one looks into the

solder.

Mr. Willson, of Messrs Stephens and Willson, prosecuted, and Mr. L. D'Almada defended the third defendant.

*Suspected In Moji.

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Wire Stolen

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said that roughly 80 per cent. pose to take, and when, for the Now in a manner not unlike would be engineering- students, preservation of the statues in bat of the ladies, the medical 20 per cent. arts students and the Royal Squire from contact with profession as a whole is too fond remaining 10 per cent. would be the public?"

viewing its best side in the long to the medical faculty. 1 The Hon Colonial Secretary looking glass. We shall derive felt very small indeed till I'sud-replied as follows: more benefit if we occasionally denly remembered that after all Provision will be made in the strive to see, with vision some I was an engineer myself. Wae estimates for 1015 for putting what blurred perhaps, another not the human body an engine? railinge round the statues. The pect possibly less favourable, Was not the coeficient of energy Sanitary Department have been ne that is perchance more often of this engine greater than that instructed to keep the pedestale turned towards the publio gaze of any engine which had bitbert in a cleanly condition. than we in our narrow circle may been produced by the brain of man? Was it not the highest type of internal combustion en ginelyet invented? I felt exalted (Continued on Extra.)

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Foreign Marriages." The Hon. Attorney General moved the first reading of a Bill entitied An Ordinance to amend the Foreign Marriage Ordinance, 1008.

The Hon. Colonial Secretary. seconded and the Bill was read a first time.

The objects and reasons etate:-

surmise.

Minotaur's Gunnery Offcer.'

We are all of us apt to feel The new gunnery officer of the onscious of a superiority we do Minotaur, China Squadron flag-not possess. There are certain de- ship, is Lieutenant E. G. Jukes finite stages in our evolution at Hughes. This thicer has served which this effervescence is api, tom CHARGE OF LARCERY. since September, 1898, sur burst forth. It is of more frequent

Former "Court Card" Dend. got his present rank in March. ccurrence in our youth, but our 1904

old age is by no means free from His numerous friends will be Three Chinese, employed at The Bramble's Commander.

it. It is the more likely to occur sorry to learn that Mr. Weltop Messrs. Watson and Company's Lieutenant R D. Colville, whafter, some fresh acquisition of Fordham, who accompanied the By the Foreign Marriages Or

Court Card" on their first tour der-in-Council, 1913, promulgat. mineral water factory, lakes over the command of the knowledge; in this case it is

were charged at the Police Court, this gunboat Bramble on re-commis generally of a harmless nature of the Eist, died in Caloutta ed on the 22nd November of that morning with being concerned in sinning, is a lieutenant of June, and it may be likened to an hospital on the 12th inst. of year certain regulations are pre- the larceny of nineteen pounds of 1902, when he was prrmoted after evanescent mental dyspepsis. I pneumonia. This is the second ecribed under the provisions of eight years' service in hitwell remember when I was at a death in the small party which the Foreign Marriage Act, 1882, previous ranka,

public school in England, at first left London with Mr. Warwick relating to the marriage of British Trade Mission Coming Fast.

on the classical side of the school last year, Miss Marsden Owen' subjects outside the United King- The Advisory Committee to the and later on the modern side, how death at Maissarie last Augus dom. This Order-in-Council will The races are over for another year and occasion may be taken

Board of Trade on Commercial on arrival at the latter, we were being the first. The news of Mr. be pablished shortly in the to return to an observation made here on the day of their opening. After evidence had been taken, Intelligence decided that special wont to feel this superiority in our Fordham's death was received by Gazette of this Colony. It was that Hongkong is a place which does not know suficient of the case was remanded until commercial missions should be newly acquired knowledge of cable by Mr. Warwick in Penang These regulations are intended pleasure. It would be unfair to say that its people take their plea- Saturday. Third defendant wes dispatched at an early date to chemistry. We were of course

The Yarmouth's Rellefs. to facilitate the performance of Bured sadly, for they are given few opportunities to take them at all, allowed hail in $300.

investigate the conditions and imbued with the spirit of mis- The Eslipse, light cruiser, was the contract of marriage by and theso occasions they seize with both hands. We have said more

crospects of British trade in chief, and we applied our know- to be completed to full crew a British subjects outside the than once, and we are more than ever convinced that, given more

Siberia and China.

ledge of shemistry in a most Devonport on February 24 for United Kingdom and come into opportunity for merriment, Hongkong people would find life much

improper manter. When lectur trooping service to Colomb with force on the 23rd March, 1914, more agreeable than it is. We are convinced, too, that they are

Mr. Biker, of the Kowlooned to by a master from the clas. the relief orow of the cruiser from and after which day certain waiting the opportunity to prove that they can enjoy themselves as

Three foreign passengers of the Canton Railway, has reported to nical side, on a subject in which Yarmouth. The relief orew will earlier Orders-in-Council, namely, much as other people; why should they not?.....

N. Y. K. Aki-marn which is the police that on the 24th. inst. we wrongly thought we would be drawn from the Chatham de- the Foreign Marriage Order-in- Healthy amusement is to the mind what fresh air is to the lange bound from Seattle to Hongkong, 88 feet of standard wire was ont have no further interest, we pot. The Eclipse will also conver Council, 1892, the Foreiga Each restores the jaded man, and one is as essential as the other, were discovered by a gendarme at from railway property near Tashowed our contempt by manuine 10 Colombo the Australian Sub-Marriage Order-in-Conndil; 1895, The man confined all day in a stuffy atmosphere pines for a breath Moji recently while taking photo-Wai village. Mr. Everest, of the turing lodide of Nitrogon, which marinea A.E. 1 ard A.E. 2, and and the Foreign Marriages Order of pure sir. Equally the mind wants to be lifted clear above its graphs. The Nagasaki Press P.W.D., has arrested a Chinese as you know explodes on the will leave England about March 1. in Council, 1903, are repealed. menal surroundings at times. Just how thirsty Hongkong is for states that a Pablic Procurator for the laosny of 50 lbs of gal-slightest touch of the finger, We Command of the Britomart. These earlier Orders-in-Connoil Lieutenant D. B. Preston and the new Order-in-Connoil of some recreation or entertainment to which it can turn periodically was sent for from Kokars, and he vanised wire, valus $50, in the scattered minute fragments of for rest was shown last year by the success which attended the Tram after examining the suspects, or- New Territory,

this substance on the floor near Thomas has been appointed to 1013 require in some more res- way Company's bathing scheme. There was nothing ambitionsdered their release as they had Flim of the Races. the entrance of the lecture thestre the command of the ganboat pecte local legislation of rip- about that scheme, but it was wonderfully successful mainly for the proved that their offence was com- The cinematograph film of the and also on the desk from which Britomart, China Squadron, in rocal character and to meet the reason that, in some degree, it filled a great gap in the social life of mitted in ignorance of the law. Hongkong Races is to be exhibit the master was to lecture; when succession to Lieutenant and Com- requirements of the earlier Or the community. Bodies like the A. D. O. and the Philharmonic The negatives were ordered to beed this afternoon to His Excel- he entered the theatre he was daly mander W. H. Darwall, whose ders-in-Council the Foreign Mar- Society, again, play a fine part in the business of entertaining the confiscated, so the war secrets" lenoy the Governor and party on saluted by a series of explosions two years expire shortly. The riage Ordinance, 1903, was pass- community; but, in the very nature of things, and since successful of Moji's grimy street are safe. the premises of the Variety Film underfot; did he place his hand new skipper of the Britomart ed in this Colony presentation entails long study and practice, they can appear before

Exchange Company at Kowloon, upon the desk a further series of entered the service in July, 1894. By clause 11 of the new Order- the public only once in a while. There is need, for more than that. The cruiser Doris, which is later, we undersinh 1, it will be explosions followed, to our vist was promoted lieutenant in April. in-Council, 1913, it is provided We do not see why the Government might not move in this bringing out relief crows for the exhibited to the public out of amusement. We did not fully 1992, and is a guntery expert. inter alia that a law enacted by the matter. The well-being of the people is in its hands, and this is a Chias Station, was due at Bing-duors at the Wigwam Tennis realise it then, but bis silent com

legislature of any part of His In reference to a Realer's Majesty's Dominions onteide matter which vitally affects the well-being of the community. It is spore on the 23rd inst., and was Club at Kowloon,

tempt was a well merited and telegram that the P. and O, Com-the British Islands shall be deem- true, of coure, that the Government is seked to do all sorts of things to leave for Hongkong two days

dignified rebuke, though not per- which are quite outside its province, and we have ourselves asked later.

The N. D. L. steamer Maphew, haps so effective as that adminis.pany have sold two of thei ed to give effect to the regnstions before now, Why the Government ? It seems to us, however, that it

which arrived at Bangkok from tered by Professor Blackie of stesmera to bayers in Bom contained in the Order or 10 hasb right to try to drive away a plague of dulness just as it tries to Amongst the awards of the Hongkong on the 11th inst., hes Edinburgh. This famous pro hay," it is understood, says the unrepented or future Orders-in- exterminato a plagueol rate. The working life and the mental health Royal Humane Society at its first ompleted her two hundredth triple-sor nothing perturbed. A Straits Times, that the Arab Council under the Foreign Mar of the ammunity will be all the better for it. If little municipali- meeting this year was a bronze sugguk she is in charge of notice appeared on the black board the Palawan and the Sumatra, for for the execution of certain Steamers Company have bought ringe Act. if it makes provision ties at Home can ran municipal band concerts, and if Shanghai can the Hon. J. B. M. Parnell, H. M. Swell-known and popular N. D. I would meet his classes at a car The Palawan is expected in Bom-with one exception

medal bestowed upon Lieutenant Capt. Budolf Zoelner, who is a intimating that the professor the pilgrim traffic to Jeddah formalities. are a municipal band, Hongkong can aprely manage something of the king. All that is wanted is a start in this matter for life in Newcastle, for rescuing drowning captain in Bangkok. He has been tain hour. Some wag rubbed out by this mouth and the Sumatra Hongkong to brighten wonderfully,

men of his ship.

there in charge of the steamer the letter 'o' in the word classes. Msohow on eighty trips.

On the arrival of the professor

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Humane Society's Medal.

200th Trio.

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