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Ferry Suggestions,

DAY BY DAY.

Beuthey.

A remark wes made in this column on Saturday that it would he well to turn the old ferry pier

WHATEVER STRENGTHENS OUR into a public landing place ft LOCAL ATTACHMENTS, IS FAVOUR DOCILCH rous bowever, that it ABLE BOTH TO INDIVIDUAL AND ANTI-might be just as well to keep it NATIONAL CHARACTER

as it is until the new pier has mouth atood the test of a typhoon. To DECAY suggest that is not to cast any

disparagement upon the stabilty dull. of, or workmanship on, the struc ture; bat it stands to reason that fog. such a building must undergo

Highly recommended by the Medical Profession for the Bath and Toilet in three strengths: 20 per cent., 10 per cent and 5 per cent."

F

A Bevero strain

during

The Weather.

Lower level 8 am Temp

At the Peak 8o.m." Temp 69;

The Mails,

chow to-morrow.

RATS AND PLAGUE.

Important Statement-

'Dr. F. Clark.

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| ALLEGED STOLEN COPRA THE SCOTT EXPEDITION.

P. and O. Company's Loss. '

Before Mr. Wood, at the Polico The fluning report on Tate Court, this morning, 4670D and plague by LT.F. Clark, M.O.H. Chinese were charged with steal was submitted this afternoon ing fifty bage of copra from a P. at the meeting of the Sanitary and O. lighter as the cargo was Board:-

To the President of the Sanitary Board.

Sir,In the spring of 1909 Siberian Mail--Due pers.s. Ying-wholesale rat poisoning campaign, Tasting about a fortnight, was instituted in Kowloon with a view to seeing what effect it would have on, the incidence of plague, same scheme was extended to the City of Victoria,

typhoon, and no harm would be done in giving the new pior a horough test before discarding the old. As à pabllo landing place the latter would, of course, French Mail, Left per and in the Spring of 1910 the

be much lower than it is at pres-

ont.

Just while we are about

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., possible to have some connect.

CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS & PERFUMERS

BY APPOINTMENT TO H. E. THE COVERNOR.

The object of this paper is is publish correct information, to serve the. Truth:

and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong,

Felephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.. Western Union.

BIRTHS.

BELL-On April 15, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai the wife of A. D. Bell, of a son.

VIEIRA-On April 15, 1914, at the Shanghai General Hospital Angelo Francisco Vieirà, ageti, 24 years.

LEICESTER-On the 9th fast., at the Assistant Surgeon's Quarters, General Hospital, Singapore the wife of Mr. G. B. Leicester, of a son.

MARRIAGE,

DEATH.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1914.

makes men comedians."

Peking's Stringency.

A.

meet current outgoings, evidence

is continually leaking out that

the financial etsingency in Peking

is becoming more acute every

day. That, indeed, may be one

to Becure

American and Canadian Mail.- Left per a.a. Shidzuoka Marn at noon to-day.

Atlantique at 1 p.m. today.

Medical Hall.

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Early last year and again this

Wonderful Motion Pictures at

the Theatre Royal.

Thore was not a very large audience at the Theatre Royal last night when the cinemato graph pictures of Captain Scott's being shipped into the cargo.. famous South Polar Expedition Mr. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson were shown for the first time in Stokes and Master, prosecuted, Hongkong. Now, however, that and Mr. O. F. Mason, of Messrs the wonderfully vivid visual ao- D' Almada and Maron, defended count which they supply has three of the mer.

Evidence at length was taken to-day as well as on Friday last when the case was first heard.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

been demonstrated there should be packed houses for the "re- mainder of the week. Frankly, the pictures are without doubt the most remarkable ever seen in the Colony, if indeed they are not the most arrestingly interesting. over abown anywhere: The films, discussed with Dr. Pearse and prove effective and I am sorry to as is known, constitute the official yourself the very inadequate say that there are many tenants pictorial record of the expedition, results of this method of procedure in the City, European as having been taken. by Liont and pointed out that it involved all ав Chinese, who Borbert G. Ponting, F.R.G.S., taking the staff away from house make no attempt

whatever who was a member of the noble FI.M.S. Hampshire leaves to-day cleansing work at a time when to render or maintain their pre band of explorers to the great their services in that direction mises in a rat-proof condition, Silent South. The opportunity for the North.

were of most value. I had pre- There are ten thousand hodess of seeing these wonderful films viously organized a system of in the City alone, and the present should therefore certainly not be dealing with infected blocks and staff is only able to visit and missed. areas, for as soon as a plague rat cleanse each house about once in The films deal not only with

discovered the Inspector of the six months; at these visits tous the

Hampshire Leaving.

Langkat Output.

Mosare, Wright and Hornby inform us that the Langkat output for the current month is 1,800 tons, or ons tog more than last

month.

A Rogue and vagabond.

Boots Stolen.

Contractor Fined.

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I stated at a recent meeting of the Board that there had been in my opinion a very large increase, of late years, in the rat population of the City of Victoria, and I hased this opinion on the increas- ing returns of rats collected and examined. The figures are of

followe

CITY OF VICTORIA, Rate collected and examined. 1910, ...............56,001 1011,..............65,027

1012,

.70,633

2

Terra Nova...

it, and reverting back to a matter The Medical Hall has just on which we commental the received a large consignment of other day, are those signals to be vichy water which they are now raised so that they can be seen selling at reduced prices. from some distnuce away ? If that is impracticable would it not on with the signals on the old pier which would admit of" their being operated? The present position is most unsatisfactory.

sotanl The Unconscious Truth.

work if the Schoolmasters in the Colony

District is instructed to distribute of rubbish are collected and carted members of the expedition, but can, if they will, tell some racy

rat poison in the vicinity, inspect away, rat rans are filled in and also provide a striking insight stories regarding peculiar answers

all neighbouring houses, fill up defcets are noted for notice on the into the habits of the strange given by Chinese boys to queв- A woman charged by Inspectorat runs, attend to missing grat-owner or tenant, as the case may suimal life to be found in the tions set to them, but we doubt McHardy, at the Police Court, ing and generally to see to the be, but without greater assistance region. in which the party whether anything funnier was this morning, with being a rogue protection of the people in that from the community as a whole operated. From the departure of ever perpetrated than the reply, and a vagaboad, was sent to gaol infected area, and this method of we cannot hope to secure the the Terra Nova from New Zealand given only the other day, that for fourteen days."

procedure has Leen pushed as far eradication of plagae.

we are shown the progress of this politica is "the science which Alice Memorial Hospital. as the limited staff of the Depart-

Wholesale rat poisoning as little vessel to the Polar Seas in The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice ment will allow...

a plague preventive measure a manner which is the nearest a piece of sarcasm it hos Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals

has failed, not only in Hong, possible approach to being its points, bat. the answer bego to acknowledge with thanke

kong but in many other infected actually on the expedition ship.. was made in all seriousness. One the following donation to the

districts, owing to the enormous A great storm through which the would give a deal to follow the funds of the Lospitale-Promo

fertility of the tat in the presence vessel passes is strikingly por working of this young man's tere of The Liols Eye" $100.

of an ample food supply and a trayed, but most wonderful of all mind. No doubt he had 'some

Old Wellingtonian Dianer.

recent official pronouncement con- is the illustration which is provid- kind of hazy and mistaken ides

ained in one of the Reports of ad of how the It has bean suggested that an

the United Staiss Public Health plunged her way through the in it. Anyhow he spoke more CAMPBELL-SLATER-On April 16, 1914, at the British truly than be know. Of a verity O. W. dinner be held on June 18,

Service reads: "Deratization as great masses of pack-ice which Consulate, Shanghai, and at the Union Church by the Rev. C. E politics, of late days, has pro-next: any old Wellingtonian's

general measure is act rational. he encountered on approaching Darwent, M.A., Percy Campbell, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Colinduced quite a many more or less who wish to attend are asked to to Captain

The warfare against rats should the Great Barrier. Then there Campbell, of Bolton-le-Moore England, to Georgina Sealter, third

unconscious comedians, but we and their harnes

be made by the improvement of are the beautiful scenes of daughter of W. J. Sealtor, of Horwich, Lancashire, England.

housing conditions. Habitations huge. iceberge and the panoramio THOMPSON-GOMME-On April 15, at Holy Trinity Cathedral should hardly call it a science. Bourchier A. P. D., at Command

should be kept free of garbage views of the ice country seen by Shanghai, by the Rev. A.J. Walker, M.A., Dean, assisted by the Rov.it is not even an art and is be-Pay Office, or 80 the Peak.

1913, .........86,033

and offal which sitract rate and the light of the midnight sun. W.H. Price, Elsie Emma Harriet only daughter of the late Alfred come something like a rough-and-

It might be argued of course serve for their nourishment." In Later we are shown the scones H. Gomme, Esq, and Mrs. Gomme, of Englefield, Ramsden Road, tamble.

At the Police Court, this morn that these figures merely indicate this opinion I entirely concur.

at the disembarkation of the Nightingale Lane, London, S. W. to Alfred Eric Sheppard, younger

ing, a Chino who broke into

more thorough and efficient

We have in Hongkong the Mus several parties, the landing of son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Thompson of St. Martin's, West Side,

Though in the negotiatione 122, Praya Esst and stolo five methode of rat extermination, but ratius, commonly known as the the Siberian dogs and ponies and Clapham Common, London, S. W.

with the Quintuple Group of pairs of boots valued $13, was I am sorry that I cannot accept English black rat, with large the equipment, and from then Snanciera for a further loan the sentenced to thres months impri-hi explanation. ZEHNDER.-On April 5, at Kuching, Sarawak, James William Chinees Government has been sonment and four hours' stocks.

I have stated elsewhere that eat, shap muzzle and a tail onward the attention of the longer than the head and tody audience is gripped by the opera- Zohndor, oldest son of the late Revd. J. L. Zehnder.

posing as if there were ample Inspector McHardy proved the this rapid increase in the rat combined; also the Mus deca- tions of the Expedition and the lunds available with which to jcharge,

population is the natural resaltunnus or Norwegian rat, grayish-pictures of the strange of the large augmentations of the brown in colour, with small ears birds and animals in their native native population 'during 1911, and a short thick tail; and many haunts. The leading figures of A fine of $100 was imposed on when some forly to fifty thous-gradations between the two. In the party are easily recognised at Chinese contractor at the Police and Chiness poured into the the presence of an ample food work and play, and all throngh Court, this morning, for failing Colony, and in 1913 when an *apply, rats will commence ono gata so impression of the of the reasons why the Central to take requisite precautions when even larger number sought refuge breeding when they are about absolute goodwill and happiness Governmentiemaking endeavours blasting rock Ma-ta-kok- here. Apart from the question 5 months old, will have three to which prevailed among the little first call on the Several pieces of rock were stated of migrations en passe and of five litters a year and each litter band of intrepid explorers. The Provincial recsipts, though, as to have been blown into the devastating epizootica, the num will average 8 or 10 young. It Bcientific members of the party are we took occasion to note the other laughterhouse in that neighbour ber of rats in any area is almost is not surprising therefore that seen at their investigations, dog- day, it is a very wise and neces- hood.

wholly dependent upon the within a very few months after a drawn and man-drawn sledgea sary step that there should be a

available food supply for these general slaughter the rats are are observed trailing their way In connection with the animals and the most obvious found to be as numerous as ever, greater measure of control of the

across the dreary wastes of snow It would appear that at last there is some serious movement Provinces, in financial as well as YM.C.A. Tennis Club a spoon result of human overcrowding

Such general slaughters cannot and ice, while the motor sledgea in Peking towards dealing with the all-important question of ther matters. This is of the competition has been arranged when carried to excess is a mark moreover be repeated indefinitely, are also seen in operation. One

for Saturday next... Entries ed increase in the amount of for

of a football match Q wary pioure domestic finance. Of late President Yoan Shih-kai bas plainly shown almost importance if the country

wilde is most s very live and active interest in what may rightly be termed the is to be governed as it should be. close on Thursday: A singlet waste food both in the houses and that they avoid the poison laid on the icy

bandicap is lastairg arranged in the yarde and lanes adjacent for them, and a the entries for which will close thereto, and the crowding of the Table I append hereto will life, the pictures must be soon to glance at remarkable. As to the animal financial problem, even aside altogether from the [loan question. He has perceived that a sweeping reorganisation of the system of One of the pointers revealing on Saturday,

much annecessary furniture and show that the effects of past caro-gain anything like an adequate raising and collecting internal revenues is of the utmost moment, the trug state of affairs is the

The Bandmann Opera Com. aggage into the houses, thus paigns have been insignificant impression of their consuming an interest. The final picture of the and as a result of his consideration of the situation he bas evidently fact that the proposed "reduc-

The problems which have to increase of a few hundreds of members of the expedition jast come to a sound and sensible conclusion, namely that the tion of salaries of Government peny to returning to Hongkong providing hiding places for rats. the weekly figures how Government benefits far less than it should from the ordinare officials is likely to be put into and opens for a short season, of be met are

extra deaths, as the result of the before their last tramp is must operation very soon. It is, of four nights, on Wednesday nex

(1) the limitation in the distribution of over 350,000 rat impressi VO number of rate, and sources of revenue. High officials are at one with him on this course, recognised that the mess-weak. They have paid a visit t

pills, and occasionally a falling As we say, no one should miss (2) the exclusion of rate from off in numbers for the following scoing those wonderful recurde. point, witness the recent recommendation of the Financial Con-Jure cannot be applied to the Manila and have met with mark-

dwellings and workshops. week or two, but then the num. They impress one with the hard- farence relative to a larger measure of control over Provincial use of foreigners in the Governed success in the shape of big

ment service, though it is said houses during the visit.

The only feasible method of bars resume their normal range chips which the explorers had to receipts by the Central Government.

to be the intention of the Premier Billards at the Y. M, C‚Ƒ‚.

limiting their numbers is to limit and the effects of the campaign, endare all beit oheerfully-and By far the most important outcome of the President'e investig" to draw up fresh regalationa The following gentlemen have the food supply available for go far as total rate and infected the endurance of the gallant ations in his suggestion to the Political Council that the Land Tax whereby foreigners engaged in been elected to a committee for them; this consists mainly of the rats are concerned, cease. There party. And one rises from a food from dwellinge, is another danger however con-eurver of them with a feeling of should be reorganised along lines advocated ten years ago by the the future may be paid salaries the promotion of billiards at the late Sir Robert Hart in his famous and most exhaustively prepared more nearly approximating those Y.M.C.A., and to carry on bugi- markets, factories, etc., and rats nected with these attempts at having been brought into actual received by native officials, nese daring the orming year will enter houses at night to wholesale slaughter, when the contact with the men in their Memorandam. It may be recalled that the main proposal of the There may be room for some Mesure. A. F. Drigge, WB search for food and will also feed limitation in numbers is not per great and serious work. Memorandum was the imposition of a Land Tax at a uniform curtailment of expenditure in Cawsey, W Er Douglas, D. in the yards and lanes surround-manently maintained, and that rate of 200 cash per mow at a fixed rate of exchange salaries, though we should have Me loud, Mycock, and R. G. ing them, if garbage is to be is that a considerable proportion of 2,000 cash per tael, and wir Robert Hart calculated thought the wiser step would be Southerton.

found there.

of the rate so killed off havo that were this collected merely from the eighteen

The Board have recently or acquired immunity to plague 36 to attain this end by reducing Provinces of China proper it would yield a sum of 800,000,000 the number of officials, for it is Last evening Wanchai was the .it would produce at any rate half that eum annually. The scheme common knowledge that many scene of coneiderable excitement ganized an evening collection of the result of having, survived an olude rate from these premises

rubbish in order to remove as attack of the disease, or are us tels, while, after reckoning for waste land and other deductions

departments are overcrowded with among the Chinese populace when much as possible of this refuse turally immune; these are rapid- did not stop here, for after apportioning sums to the Army, Navy, astive underlings. Fat Falaries a procession was made through before the rais venture out from ly replaced by young susceptible arsenale, salaries of civil officials, education, postal development, have also been paid to members the streets with fich lanterns, their runs and hiding places, and rats, and consequently the attempt sto, Sir Robert showed that there would romain a surplus of some of the body which now performs free and musical instruments for householders are required to koop at eradication is a failure. No 120,000,000 taels. How great a benefit the putting into operation the functions of Parliament, and the purpose of frightening. By the day's waste in covered metal doubt in time and after many of this scheme would be, may be gathered when it is borne in mind, here also the pruning-knife could the devils responsible for the pre bins, until it is coarted away by generations the immune rata as the National Review points out, that at present the total revenue

valence of plague in the district. this Department.

will be able to produce com-

5,000 Year Old Pen. Latest Advertisements, of the Central Government is not more than 300,000,000 taole from very well be applied,

In addition to this, we have paratively immune progeny, The Bindmenn Opsta Co, opan

A Bill authorising the United a short season here on the 29th, various Regulations aimed at and this phenomenon accounts for States Government to construos

securing the exclusion of rols the gradual dying out of many thousand miles of railway in. inat,-Page 53, 1

Oon igness' notices regarding

from dwellings, such as the guard-diseases, which formerly wore Alaska at an expones of £7,000,- will be distinctly wise and politic. The scheme, of course, would Over A Hundred Cases-last Week. the en. Ferain and the ad. Ben- 100ll openings by iron grat rampant, a maiter which is refer 000 was signed yesterday by inge, the prohibition of ceilings red to in a recent article in The President Wilson: A special pan, mohr are issded-Page 5. require some modification.no, after a decade's internal, but as a

The 8.8. Thongwa leaves for and hollow walls in the new Times on Rate and Plague... made of pure Alaskan gold, was basis upon which to work it suala be found of great use to the

Straits and Unleutta on the 24th. infected blocks, the concreting of advise that all our efforts, and all corresponent, was mounted on a baildings and their removal from To sum up, therefore, Istrongly used. This, sage the Chronicle Republic at time when care and caution are needed in dealing with

inst-Page 5

The loss of a ladies gold brooch ground surfaces and coon, but the efforts of the community, holder made from the task of an all these matters require the should be concentrated upon the Alaskan mastodon, believed to be watch is advertised.-Page 5

Half a house at Kowloon is active co-operation of the indiv-speedy removal of refuse of all 5,000 years old.

idual bedreholdere if they are to: kinds from the precincts of dwel- advertised to let Page 5.

REVENUE REORGANISATION.

all sources, or a hundred million taels less than could be secured

from Sir Robert Hart's Land Tax scheme. "

Whether the Political Council will recommend the President's suggestion for adoption, it would be hard to say. If so, the atop

Cutting Down Salaries.

· PLAGUE CASES.

the nation's finances. One point is, at any rate, reassuring--- There were 116 cases of plague namely, that with all the anxiety for modernist which is manifest-notified daring Itat week and 88 ing itself in the Republic, the President does not hesitate to learn a deaths. Two of the case were london Itoia the past, a lesson, too, which is set by a foreign Japanese and one was a Malay.

The rest wore Chipsės,

Y. M. C. A. Tennis.

Bandmann Opera Company.

Frightening Away” Plague.

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Linge and offices, and that no measure which will help to ex-

should be neglected.

FRANCIS OLARK,

Medical Officer of Health. Hongkong, April. 15, 1914.