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THE HONGKUNG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914.

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O. W. Holmes. of Mr. Bowley's. He, at least, is very lively and active

The Weather. member of that drowsy body. Yesterday he was on the Lower leven 8 a.m. Temp 70, war-path again and in his ples dull. for the destruction of the city's At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 61, refase he Was pithy and howy fog. to the point in his remarks. His dees ption of the ac cumulations of " stable-swcsp- ings, peptored with dead cata, bad onions and pamalo skina' which are to be found on the

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The Mails, Siberian Mail-Due per s.

Foochow to-day. Australian Mail Left per .. Kumano Maru at noon to-day,

Gone Into Dock.

The 8,8. Empress of Russia

BUX-PERKINS

FIGHT OFF

REMARKABLE UPSET IN THE THE BOXING PROGRAMME,

CANTON NOTE PROBLEM.

SANITARY BOARD.

Resolution to Burn the Foreshore -Refuse.

No Help from, Peklag,

Yesterday afternoou the mem- bera of the Hongkong Chinese The usual fortnightly meeting General Chamber of Commerce of the Sanitary Board was held We have been informed by gave a tea party and reception yesterday afternoon when Mr. D. in honour of Mr. Wong Jiu-sung, W. Tratman presided. There Mr. F. E Hall, the boxing pro- who has teen detailed by the were also present the Hon. Mr. moter, that the contest advertised Chinese C ivernment to examine A. F. Churchill, acting director to take place on Saturday into the financial conditions in of Public Works, Col. Irwin, between Iron Bar and Stoker Canton and the Kwangtung Dr. Fitzwilliams, Mr. F. B. L. Perkins will not take place the reception a meeting was held, Mr. Ng Hon-tsz, Dr. F. Olark Province generally. Following Bowley, Mr. Chan Kai-ming,

Owing to Perkina refusal to when an address was delivered M.O.H. and Mr. E.W. Hamiltion fulfil his articles. We have by Mr. Wong. The Hon. Mr. Lau acting secretary..

A letter was read from Govern- seen a letter from Parking Chu-pak presided.

The object of Mr. Wong's visit ment relative to the appointment to the promoter in which was explained by the Chairman; of Mr. E.W. Hamilton to ts se

all the way through his speech he went in to Kowloon Dock forthere is no apparently valid reason who introduced him, to those loretary of the Sanitary Board in

hit out straight from the should- er, and told the Board what he thought of the activities of the Department generally. A little

talk of this kind of

very necesory in Hongkong. The Remedy.

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And

bo

extensive overhaul to-day,

To the Yarmouth. Engineer Lieutenant P. H iMeyrell has been appointed to

H.M.S. Yarmouth.

Left for Home. Mr. Bowley's remedy for the

Among the passengers who left present deplorable state of affairs for Home by the Birano Maru the acquisition by the to-day were Mrs. Donnelly, Mrs. Government of a refuzs destructor. B. A. Hale and Mr. G. R.

it would appear to Edwards. a remedy which has everything to recommed it.

To Consignees Consigases of cargo by the s.8, Not only on the bathing beaches does the city's refuse accumulate; Pring Eitel Friedrich are remind it can set on floating about the ad that goods undelivered after harbour 'most any day. Fifteen to-morrow will be subject to years ago it was recommended rent. that such an apparatus ts erected

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914.

THE IRISH TANGLE.

It

A Student's Losa.

Sir Kai Ho-kal,

given for such a drastic step as refusing to fight. James will substitate Perkins and Richards will fight Terry Lynch.

LAUNCH AT TAIKOO.

Mrs. Hallifax Christens the

Tangchow.

rooms,

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présent, t

place of Mr. G. E.W. Bowen How- lande, on leave.

Mr. Bowley moved the follow- ing resolution standing in his name

before

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In the course of his remarks, Mr. Wong stated that he had been delegated to look into the fuances of various provinces, and he had already been through "That in the opinion of this Manchuria and Shantung and had Board steps should be taken to also visited Shangbai in connec collect and burn in situ the debris tion with financial matters. He which has been deposited by the stated that he was in favour of action of wind and tide on the. the establishment of a Bank for beaches of the Colony surround- promoting lċcal industries and ing the area of Cow-es-Chow also approved of Produce Ex where the refuse of the urban changes, of which they had none districts is dumped into the ses in China at present, though they from the Sanitary Bargen. Yesterday afternoon there was should have. The speaker declar- In doing so he said that Hong. launched from the Taikoo Dooked that he did not favour the kong was not an entirely desirable yard the finely modelled steel idea of borrowing money with place to live in during the enmmer, steamer "Tangohow." which to redeem notes, arguing but it had its compensations, one screw built to the crder of the China that borrowed money should of the most popular of which was Navigation Co., Ltd., for their always be made productive, He sea bathing, What could be more Shanghai. Tientsin trade, Mrs. pointed out that in America after desirable after a hard day's work A Chinese student living at Halliftz parformed the christen- the Civil War notes went down in the office, than to at a cost of $58,000. For the advantages which would acoue, 30, Pottinger Strest, has reported ing ceremony, the vessel taking in value even more than they had steam or sail away to the in Canton recently, and yet the nearest sandy beach and dive the eam does not esem unreason to the police that between the the water rerfectly.

The "Tangehow measures difficulty was overcome. They overboard and awim through able, and we think it would have 27th ult and the 9th inst., some been a wise expanes to have person stole from his room cloth-290 feet long over-all 40 feet ooght, therefore, to be able find clear water to sandy beaches? incurred. Esptially so, when it ing valued $62.

beam, and 19 feet moulded depth. some way out of the difficulty in Children could make castles of Built of Fiemens-Martin steel Canton. As to what scheme should the sand and older people could is borne in mind that the ap paratus would be productive in Royal George Hotel. to scantlinga approved by the be put into effect, he could ex explore the shore for shells sto. ur the way of supplying power which The band of the 8th Rajputs British Corporation, the vessel press no opinion until he had explore the neighbouring hills. could surely be used for some is to play at the Royal George is designed to carry a large made his investigations on the One could then return to the purpose, while the residue of the Hotel Kowloon, on Thursday, deadweight cargo on a limited spot. But he assured those launch and enjoy a beautiful tea reines iteelf could be utilised also. from 8 to 11. p.m. A special dinner draft. Deep ballast tanks are present that something definite or other refreshment and ride is to be hoped that eventually menu will be provided for the fitted amidships and the forward would be done in five months, home in the gloaming, having the Government will give gerious occasion and will include the and after peaks are arranged for though they must not reckon on spent a pleasant two or three

Indian ourzy for which the hotel water ballast. Tween decks are any money from Peking, hoars. Such were the possibili consideration to the auggestion.

is noted.

fitted forward and aft of machin- A discussion followed, in the ties of enjoyment in the good old Mr. Bowley's Questions.

ery spico; there are suitable for course of which the idea of times

the Sanitary The roplias given to Mr. Bow-

Injured While Escaping,

the carrying of deak passengers legalising and farming out Board was invented. Now, if ley's series of questions, at yester- There has been sent to the or cargo, and in the side of the gambling in Canton was strongly bathers set out for Green Island, day's meeting of the Board, Government Civil Hospital a man vessel are water-tight ports for dissented from.

the beaches of Lamma, Pok remind one of the platform named Leung Kwong, suffering the convenient handling of cargo. One suggestion advanced was fulum, Lsatao and Silver Mines method of the late Mr. Shirees from injuries received by jum. On the main deak are large that the minting of further sub- beach they had very likely to Will, K.O., M. P. That wily gent ping from the first floor of 31, steel houses fitted up for carrying sidiary coin in Canton should be pass through a mass of floating leman ured to have all questions Saiter Street whilst police and first and second clasa Chinese stopped, while it was also urged debris and, assuming they found read at one time; then he replied revenue officers were executing passengers, all arranged in state that many of the soldiers should a high water mark, a rotten mees yes or no to numbers one to ten an opium warrant.

be disbanded. Mr. Wong Sai-of stable awespinge, peppered or twelve; and, by the time

First-Class Accommodation. sung promised to give these with dead oats, rotten onions and he. -WAS half way through,

Amidships there is another points due consideration.

pumeloe skins, the ante- bis audience WAS well

The Chinese General Chamber steel house forming the After the meeting, Mr. Wong corded exports of one of the befogged. The President of of Commerce are arranging to entrance hall to the frat class telegraphed to the Minister of great shipping ports of the world. The long-awaited utteranes by the Prime Minister, outlining the Sanitary Board did not follow give a tea party in honour of foreign accommodation, the floor Finance in Peking as follows-Sea bathing had been the subject the character and extent of the concessions which the Government quite the same method, but at Sir Kai Ho-kai, as a recognition of this space being laid with “Arrived in Hongkong yester- of much discussion. The Colon is prepared to make on the Home Rale question, has been duly least, his replies were far from of his services on the Legislative rubber tiling. Dining saloon and day. To-day Chinese Merial Secretary had been advising delivered. It has been flashed over the wires to all parts of the illuminating. Eight of the eleven Council to the Chinese commun staterooms for foreign passengers ohants secorded me hearty the school children to learn Empire, and to-day Britishers everywhere are acquainted with its questions, indeed, are still unan-ity, It is also intended to take are fitted up on the promenade welcome. They expressed to swim, and ses scouts. main features. The occasion was a historical one, and it may be awered. But the matter of mani- the opportunity to make a presen- deck forward of the boiler casing, themselves as anxious to see bad been formed and the said that the speech, both in matter and in tone, was worthy of it. tation, now that it has been raised tation to the late Council member. each of the staterooms having

notes in Canton put on pro-shores had been explored in Mr. Asquith never shows better than when making a deliberate and in this fashion, cannot be per- Weman Robbed.

two roomy cot berths and all the

per footing, and considered many places to find that the Sani- considered oration on a burning issue. His speech of Monday, mitted to remain in this unsatis A Chinese married woman, of lataat furnishings and fittings for there ought to be better tary Board had been there which was fully covered in our telegraphic news columps yesterday, factory fashion.........

59, Wellington Street, has in the comfort of passengers. There

ways of dealing, " with before them. At one time, the again makes that point quite clear. It was a masterly utterance,

formed the polios that at 11.15 is a large and airy smokeroom notes than farming out refuse was dumped at Kennedy the more so when consideration is given to the extremely difficult The Storm-water Drains. position in which he was placed. He was faced with the task of especially interested in the ques- Koloon and Hongkong, some officers and engineers are arrang The Telegraph is naturally,,m. yesterday. whilst travelling on the same deck abaft the engine

gambling. Those present Town and then taken from there on a Star Ferry boat between casing. The quartera for the protested against farming by junk to Gin Drinkers Bay endeavouring to bring bitter foes together in concord and harmony. tions regarding the flushing of

out gambling in Province, where it was deposited at high He may not have succeeded-in fact, he himself confessed that he the storm-water drain during the person cat ber inside jacket ed in a steel house aft on the Please report this to Per-water mark and burned. This did not expect that his proposals would be received with onthusiasm dry season, for this is a point at pocket and stole 31 pieces of promenada deok, The captain's] sident. in any quarter-but, none the less, his declaration was tactful, to which we have hammered, from jewellery valued $675, as well as cabin and wheel house are arrang the point, and couched in language which could give not the least time to time, for the better part $20, in money.

ed on the boat desk, which ex- offence to any section of his hearers,

Time was, and not long since either, when Mr. Asquith pool for negle sting to flush these

tends from well forward to the Ferry Mishap. of two years. There is no excuse

Yesterday afternoon one of the aft end of the engine casing; the pooed the Ulster movement. On Monday he was in a very different drains-in-as-much as the need for Star Ferry boats, the Evening boats being fitted amidships, frame of mind. He spoke of the question of Ulster as "by far the it has long been recognised. Star, while orossing from Hong- thus giving a large space for The s.o. Den of Airlie, which most serious of the diffulties." Hitherto, according to the Minis Given that plenty of water is kong to Kowloon, broke down passengers promenade. All the arrived in port from Shanghai settlement," nothing unjut in the Home Rule Bill. To-day the driven through the drains, and and had to call for aid. In rea- latest appliances for quick yesterday, reports very thick fog story is changed. Mr. Asquith speaks of "difficulties not imaginary is the case when the draine are ning Star come alongside her and fitted. Mannesmann steel tubular on the 6th. inst.

plague is not nearly so severe as pose to her whistles, the Mor-handling of cargo have been all the way. She left Shanghai

Cow-ee-Chow it would not come but substantial, and, indeed, inherent in the conditions of an not well flushed.

back into the waters of the colony unexampled situation." At last he and his party have come to see master in a nutshell. We await the and landed safely in Kowloon usual wooden derricks,

That is the the passengers were transferred derricks take the place of the

and then the steam launches the dangers of the situation in all their grim possibilities. Looking coming answers with interest, The Evening Star was able

and steam barges wore started to for a moment at the concessions foreshadowed, we think it will be and, whatever the tenour of them eventually to make the crossing set triple expansion surface-con Among the cargo shipped by take refuse out to the spot and generally agreed that up to a point they are fair, if not indeed may be we trust that the question very slowly can g

densing engines of the builders' the P. and O. steamer Nore from dump it in the ses, and the generous. Whether they would work well in actual practice is will not again ka allowed to drop.Latest Advertisemnets,

own make, having oylinders 21", Hongkong on the 4th, inst. were department, hiding its head like quite another matter. The principle of exclusion is conceded, but,

The band of the 8th Rajputs 34" Bad 56" diameter with a 55 baies of waste silk for Man- an ostrich, failed to see the foul- obviously with a view to placating whatever Home Rule sentiment there is in Ulster, only those counties which, on a poll, favour

is to play at the Royal George stroke of 39," and aleam is chester; 182 half-obeats of tea, ing of the foreshores of the colony. Hotel on the 12th. inst. Page 6. supplied from two large multitu. 771 rolls of mats, 20 bales of leaf Mr. Bowley referred to a sugges freedom from the Dablin Parliament are to be excluded-and that, apparently, only for a period of eix years. Frankly, looking at the

Mr. G. P. Lammert is selling bular marine boilers which have tobacco and 420 bales of canes for tion once made for the erection a quantity of liquor on the 14th, also been constiaoted by the London 40 cases of essential of a destructor at Kennedy Town, question from a practical standpoint, we do not see how the pro Long feathers and ohamois inst.-Page 5. posed remedies can give any deep satisfaction when it comes to beards are the latest adornments

buildere.. The working pressure oil for Havre 1,848 sacks of at a cost of $58,000, which would dotusl administrative requirements. There is something inherently for men's felt bats-if one may consignment of boots and shoes

Mr. G. P. Lammert is golling a in 190 lbs

copra and 150 bales of waste silk not only have destroyed this refuse It is anticipated that the vessel for Marssilles; and 600 slabs but would have been productive, wrong and illogical about a system whereby one county may recog-judge from the windows along on the 14th. inet. Page 5. nise a central authority while its next door neighbour declines to do the Strand.

will attain a speed of 12 knots on of tin for Port Said.

The host could be used to gene- no. That is what would likely be the upshot of the Liberal plan: ment of Messrs. Down an in- concerning the den of Airlio and finished will be found to embody Consignees notices are issued trial. The Tungohow" when

rate electricity or to pump water to the Peak and the The whole scheme seems contrary to the underlying principles of quirer was showa a gorgeous tuft the Kashima Meru,Page 5

many improvements var

over the

residuam could be used sound government.

While all who are concerned to avoid the great domestic peril half a foot

of white feathers, quite The members of the R.HK. ueaal passenger vessels on this

for filling in swampy ground and which threatens the United Kingdom will continue to hope that a backed by a smaller tuft on Saturday.-Fage 5.

in length, Yacht Club will be "At Home" coast. The comfort of the pas Before Mr. J. B, Wood, at the places which bred mosquitoes, way out of the difficulty may be found, one cannot help feeling that with an eagle's claw." Blue jay's

sengers has been the aim of the Police Court to-day, two Chinese and other purposes. In fact they the whole problem might never have presented itself if the Govern feathers arranged fanwies are

The Old Excuse.

owners, and every detail that will from 97, Queen's Road East were would have been able to supply An Indian watchman was to-day help in this direction has been charged with printing lottery current at the rate of two cente ment had not struck a bargain in order to remain in office. As another popular creation. But oharged before Mr J. B. Wood, carefully considered: The vessel tickets. A Chinese constable per unit which was the same në things are, the Government finds itself in an absolute quandary. If for thot whose tastes do not in at the Eolice Court, with bringing is expected to take up her ran said he found chops, presses and in Shanghai. The second me Home Rale is pushed through, Ulster will be up in arms. If it is eline towards the ornithological ashore from 8.8. Kwangtang two early in May. Sépannage printed tickets on the premiess. thod that they could adopt would The launching ceremony, which The case was remanded in order be to bury or burn the refuse in that Inspector Mor Bardy might situ. All that was required obtain, the advice of Mr. T H was a couple of Sanitary Board King, Deputy Superientendent of coolies, one armed with a broom Police, on the charge, which and a box of matches, and the the defendants denied.

other with a spade. The broom

terialists, there has been no real problem to face-no need for a

Feathers for Men.

At the establish-

The machinery consists of one

abandoned, the rest of Ireland, brought so near to the fulfilment of the striking adornment of the bottles of gin and thereby at ite dreams, will be uncontrollable. That is the situation, and that beard of a chamois is available at tempting to evade payment of was witnessed by a large assem- time for in einen as toksoriously of the cutlook now. It is no a modest figure. The beard is duty. He said he had only been bly was gracefully performed by

aneering, as the Liberals were recently wont to do. For quite nice to look upon when in the Colony for a month and Mrs. E. R. Hallifax. self-preservation's sake the Government has entered into a compact the wearer has got sufficiently did not know the law. A fine of But that very compact looks like being its own undoing. used to it.

820, or one mouth, yos inflcted;

(Continued an Paga 10)

Thick Fog.

The Nore's Cargo.

Lottery Ticket Charge.

proceeding was followed until it was found that when there was no wind the dost boats did not reabh Gin Drinkers' Bay and that they emptied themselves in some mysterious manner, and that everything that floated deposited itself in the barbour. In order to remedy this it was decided that if the refuse wore dumped on