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Short Weight and Adulteration,

Rather a curious fact struck us in glancing over the figures | regarding weights and measures and inmples in the report for 1913. Chinesa scales to the pum- LING and POWERFULLY ANTI-ber of 2,443 were examined and Pleasant to use, Clase germs which invade the mouth 50 of them found incorrect. There were fifty-three prosscations. and That is many convictions. quite good. But when we turn to see how many samples of liquor were taken, we find that there were only thirty-one. Of these ten were of whisky alóne. Jaly one sample-of whisky. was found to be deficient. It seems to us that the number, is small in comparison with that of acales examined. Short weight, is bad enough, but adulterated spirits or anything adulterated

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·Supplement. Jast week and to the fact that numerous fate orders could not be fulfilled It has been decided to reprint the story of the Tal On piracy and issue it as an EXTRA to this week's Telegraph Mail Supplement. The full story of the affair, together with the proceedings, at the Court of Inquiry and an account of the Standard Oil Company's big oll tank fire at Lai-chi-kok, will be given in the EXTRA. Attached to the cover of the Telegraph Mai Supplement is a photograph of the vessel she iles behind Stonecutter's. Istand. Orders for copies of this week's Telegraph Mail Supplement should be sent to the office of the Telegraph as early as possible. HATE AND ANGER ARE HUMAN ATTRIBUTES, BUT TO FORGIVE IS GODLIKE.

The Weather:

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 75; sunshine.

At the Pe k 8 a.m. Temp 67; sunshine.

The Mails.

KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.

Report of the British Section for Last year.

THE PIRACY EVIL.

TAI ON PIRACY.

Hongkong Chluose Merchants to || Captains Receive Thanks from

Provide "Gunboat.”

the Government.

In the belief that the existing The following official letter of The annual report of the British section of the Kowloon patrol of the waters in which thanks from the Government of Canton Railway for 1913, laid pirates have recently been much Hongkong has been sent to Cap-.

in evidence is inadequate, atain Thomas Orispin, a.a. Bai before the Legislative Council

movement has been set on foot Sang, Captain Archibald Weather yesterday was as follows:,

by local Chinese merchants for head, a.a. Shiu On, and Captain The plane for the new terminal the provision of what is termed J. P. Summerville, s.3. Shun ginning of January, and the strictly speaking, is an armed

gunboat", but which, more Lee:-) architect, Mr. A. B. Hubback, steam launch, This craft is to F.R.I.B.A., arrived during the be placed at the disposal of the month, when they were discussed Chinese authorities for the par-

station were received at the be-

with him. Considerable modifio-

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30 April, 1914.07. Sir, I am directed to convey to you the thanks of His Excel stions were decided upon and it pose of policing waters in the lency the Governor and the Gov. was not until the middle of April near which most of the recent assistance rendered by you and vicinity of the Heungshan distriot, ernment of Hongkong for the that the first foundation plan was piracies have taken place. received and the work started

your officers and orow to the pas The idea was conceived by Chi- sengers and crew of the s.e. Tai departmentally, borings and

nese merchants in Hongkong who On" on the night of Monday the |prickings having previously been

taken. The whole of the founda-district, at the head of whom is vessel was on fire after being natives of the Henngahan 27th of April, 1914, when that tions and sewer water drainage) Mr. Chan King-yue, the compra- attacked by pirates in the neigh- were completed during the year dore to Mesere. Douglas, Lapraik bourhood of Ki Au. and two island platforms built; and Company. The boat, which 300 foot and 700 feet long re-will be of the type of the ordinary spectively. It is regretted that team lannoh, is to be built in delivery of the points and cros Hongkong at a cost of some sings required for laying out the station yard was delayed which 20,000, and is to be handed resulted in the platforms not Heungshan on the strict under- being available as

standing that it is used solely to anticipated.

operate in that region, more Other construction. work con traffic from Eleungahaa to Macao especially protecting the native

At Taipo Market,

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I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant, Sd. OLAUD SEVERN: Colonial Secretary.

which reflects great credit on the staff.

Accounts.

The rates per quarter and per menyem, proportional, Subscriptions tion there were 193 casea brought Siberian Mail.-Arrived per s.8.sisted of bailding a permanent and Hongkong. The authorities 31st 1912, un Capital Account"

for any period less than one month will be charged as for

full month.

The daily jeste is delivered free when the address is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at

a

forward from 1912 and at the

end of 1913 there were no fewer

Assaye this morning.

The Expenditure to December

station at Taipo Market to a

have agreed to this stipulation, was for the main line $13.226, American Mail-Dae per 8.8. Chinese design

Chiyo Haru to-morrow at called forth favourable comment craft with quick-firing guns and 19 making a total of $13,284 which has and have promised to arm the 647,09 and branch line $57,778 from the Chinese travelling to ateo supply the crew. The 425.28. During the year ander.

noon.

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their residences without any citra charge. On copies sent by the arrears not wiped off, but English Mail.-Closes per 8.5. public; she erection of a small work of building the craft is to be report a further sum of $430,

post an additional $1.80 per quarter in charged for postage. Tue postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 Weekly, twenty-five cents (for

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914.

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

than 412 cases pending. These figures show that not only were there were substantial additions Assaye at 11a.m. to-morrow. station at Sheung Shui Halt the crossing of the to the accumulated cases. In Siberian Mail.Closes per 8.8. at

Korea at 11a.m. to-morrow. new Government Road, which Summary Jurisdiction, indeed, there were 214 actions added to Siberian Mail.Clores per 8.8, serves the increasingly popular the cases left over from the pre-

Chenan at 5 p.m. to-morrow. Golf Coarse at Fanling; the Sale of Ostrich Feathers. building of staff quarters at vious twelve months. So far au Original Jurisdiction is

Mr G. P. Lammert. is selling Shatin; and a small station at cerned the number added by public auction on Friday, next Sha Tan Kok. 98-was not so great, but a week, a fine selection of ostrich point not to be lost sight of is feathers, each lot comprising one

feather.

con-

be cleared up unless measures

Missionary's Estate.

Suspected Murder.

Women Killed on Kowloon- Canton Railway.

put in hand almost immediately. 068.30 was voted and the expen- ditures amounted to $239,680,34 for the main line which includes a debit for loss on: exchange of $107,402.13, and $4,225.94 on the Fanling branch line making a total of $236,808,28 for the

year.

The revenue statement of eárne

7 and 14 and the pier at Taipo. The locomotive running shed This storm also barst the village has been lengthened 45 feet and serious damage to the last mile ings and expenditure follows the bunds at Sha Tau Kok causing a_ram pit provided: Timber gan-

line previously adopted. Against tries 6 feet high have been of the Fanling Branch Line.

The necessary repairs were an estimate of $244,136.00 the installed in the carriage cleaning effected with the utmost dispatch, notaal expenditure was $234,722. shed to facilitate the cleaning of and recently suggestions have 29 showing a saving of $3,413. the coaches.

settlement.

from local

The gross earnings for the year were 333,833.32 a9 against $241,649.02 for 1912, an increase of $91,984.30. It is gratifying compared with gross receipts to note that the working expenses

all departments. The percentage

any of the existing taxes been remitted. The chief features of bintilised for the purpose lor which sad killed a Uhinese woman, Honourable Director of Pablic locomotives with outside gear also show great improvement in of the system of local taxation, a readjustment of the Income Tax/Judge be not permanently neces-Ling Village. The woman, who been erected and surveyed on for over to the traffic in July, 1912, \ of expenditure to gross receipts .

"Fall from Ferry Launch,

Kowloon and Yaumsti kave been:

that there were only 90 cases actually disposed of by trial, the remainder being either settled or

The. Rev. George Owen, of withdrawn before trial.

Patten-road, Wandsworth Com Suggestions.

From these figures it would mon, S.W., late Professor of

been made, and the opinion of 71. The revenue The embankments between Chinese to the London University miles 7 1/2 and, 14 were seriously the Honourable Director of Public traffic for the second year of seem as if the arrears will never | College, and for 37 years a mid-damaged by the typhoon of Worka sougat, as to the advisa-working amounts to $120,208.48 specially directed towards this sienary in China, left estate of August 17th as more fully describ. bility of providing more protecas compared with $118,824.47 end are taken. There is no doubt the value of £3,740.

ed later, otherwise all cuttings and tion for the exposed banks against for the previous year or an in- crease of $12,382.01, and it is that much time is wasted by the

banks are standing well and have heavy storms, slow and cumbersome methods of

During the year the following very satisfactory to be able to procedure in the Courts. This is of an unknown Chinese male, aged

The slightly decomposed body given no further trouble.

All bridges have been periodi-works have been carried out state that the revenue from especially so in the matter of the about 30, was yesterday found cally examined and the steel work No. 1 and No. 2 locomotives were foreign passenger traffic shows is taking down of evidence in floating in the harbour, off the painted during the year. Bridges given a general overhaal in March still larger proportionate increase, longhand, and it is high time the Harbour Office, and was sent to Nos. 6, 8 and 18 are still under with the Westinghouse air brake source only $118,572.11 were and April and have been fitted seeing that in 1912 from this. services of a Court stenographer the Public Mortuary: There was observation, but show no very were engaged. With the cona rope tied around the back of appreciable signs of farther in place of steam brako, a great received and during 1913 the res gestion so marked as it is, too, the corpse and the hands and feet

vanus amounted to $197,514.69, improvement. the Government should consider were bound together. The de- Survey of the Line.

Eight converted 15 ton covered an increase of $78,942.48 which the advisability of appointing a ceneed had apparently been stran-The continual flow of water in passengers at the time we were

Tunnel No. 2, North Ead.-goods which were altered to carry show that the Chinese Bie third Judge, a step which has glod and thrown into the harbour.the detains has eroded por short of coaches, have been dis- vantages to be obtained by beginning to appreciate the ad long been contemplated, but, for some reason or other, never put

tions of the foundations where the mantled and are available for travelling by railway. into effect. There are three Mr. F. Aslett, Traffic Inspector sidewalls rest on hard decomposed gonda traffic. Four of the main Courts in the Supreme Court of the Kowloon-Canton Rly has granite. This will be rectified line carriages have been into the From past experience we have been led to expect almost any-

ahope for general overhaul and thing from Mr. Lloyd George. Happily, however, his latest Badget building, and instead of one of notified the police that about during the present year.

A new survey of the whole line painting. is certainly not as revolutionary as it might have been. No these being used, as at present, 10.20 a.m. yesterday, the express

The two Kitsons 204 YP absolutely new sources of revenue have been found; neither have for office purposes, it might be train from Canton knocked down has been undertaken by the proposals are a comprehensive, and very necessary, reorganisation it was intended. Even if a third near the railway crossing at Fan Worke and boundary stones have and cylinders which were handed and an increase in the Death Duties, out with all his scheming the ary, one of the Government resided at No. 11 Pak Ping Wai most of the length of railway. heve given satisfaction. The Chancellor of the Exchequer finds himself a million short when it servants who is qualified might Village, was employed in the This work will shortly be, com- Hudawell-Clarke six-wheeled tank in the previous report is 85-81 comes to balance the probable incomings against the disbursements, be temporarily installed until the carrying of brioke to works about plated.

engiues have been overhauled and per cent, while for the current arrears are wiped out.

half a mile to the west of Fan The telephone poles between one repainted.

Fear the figure is reduced to and this amount he scoures by calling on the Sinking Fund..

Ling Railway Station,"

73.68 per cent." There is no need to go into the details of the proposals;

The new 0 4 0 type locomotive exchanged for a heavier clase

The condition of the goods sulfice it to say that they are based on the principle that taxation should be so arranged as to fall, most heavily on those who

Co. Northern Sur has reported wires as well as those of the underframes for the new 20% little improvement has been The coxswain of the Star Ferry which carry the Public Works for the aging Branch, and the traffic remains about the same, possess the largest available surplus over their immediate wants.

to the police that, about 8.15 p.m. Railway. The wires through gauge carriages arrived at the shown and though there is a In other worde, the theory at the back of Mr. Lloyd George's Budget is that the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest

yesterday, whilst the launch was Beacon Hill Tunnel have been one of ember when the work slight increase in the foreign burdens. That, at any rate, is sound political doctrine up to a

The following have been select Kowloon, an unknown Chinese from a heaty wirs supported on the body work of oight additional

teaming from Hongkong to replaced by a cable suspended of erection was put in hand.

A contrant for the building of goods carried it is not propór

tionate with the expansion shown » :' point, but carried too far it might very well prove distinctly harmed to play for the C.C.C. vs. male passenger fell overboard books. ful to the State. To tax the rich mau at too high a rate is to O.R.C. on Saturday 9th inst. at and was drowned. Everything

Main Line coaches was entered effort has been made during the in the passenger traffic. Every encourage thriftlessness among other sections of the community 430 p.m. on the C.C.0. ground. possible was done to try and The Eastern Extension Tele

into

with the Hongkong and point which should raise money in such a manner as to be least felt E., L., Braga, J. V. Braga, L. Aksing thrown out and the launch Telegraph Company have jointly factory progress is being made conditions will improve I cantiot should be kept in mind by those who argue that the Messra G. A. Hancock, R Basa, rescue the unfortunate man, buoys graph Company and Northern Whampoa Dock Company desear to inoresse theearnings from 14th November, 1013, and satis convinced that in a few years

this source, and though I am. by the majority of the people. Every unbiased person will agree Rose and R. F. Remedios.

put astero; but he was not picked erected a three-wire line on the that it is only just and proper, in arranging the incidence of the

up. The body has not yet been east side of the Railway from mile with the work. The underframes speak hopefully for the im Income Tax, to do what Mr. Lloyd George has done to draw

14 to the frontier. The wires are are not expected until July 1914, mediate future. The imposition recovered. distinction between incomes which are earned and those not earned.

carried on steel poles except but when they arrive the body of likin, the interests of shippers There is a big difference between an income say of $1,000 a year

After 24 years active work in through Beacon Hill Tunnel work will be practically ready for in the various Steamboat Co from money invested and the same amount from money earned.

where a cable is provided. " the Philippines, Vr. A. Young, The latter depends on the individual and may be out off of any No Getting Blood from A Stone. one of the oldest foreign residents been repaired and painted during was made in March when the

panies even when the railway can All the Station Buildings have A revision of the time table considerable proportion of it

at lower rates has transport moment and consequently

of the Islands, has left with Mrs. has to be set aside every year us provision for the future, thus

prevented any material expansion. the year.

train service between Canton and These difficulties will no doubt. reducing its not valus. The former represents a strictly net income. In the summary Court, this Young, to make his home par

The track of the Fanling Branch Kowloon was accelerated with an be overcome in time. Hence the desirability of a variation in treatment in the matter of morning, a Chinese hawker was ganently in Scotland, the land of

| additional express train in each atated to owe $300. Mr. Faith-his birth. Mr. Young went to the Line has been carefully inspected direction, the journey being re-

Accidents. taxation..

Local authorities will assuredly welcome the announcement of full who app to judgment but Pasig river ferryboat for the gested by the Caefar as 28 This has proved attractive and Chinese continue to trespass on

sud sleepers a revision of the system of taxation as it affects them, for there has thought the matter of instalmental Hongkong and Whampoa Dook ineers in readiness for the new with more settled conditions the railway and five were killed been in recent years an increasingly loud volume of protest against the burdens thrown on localities already at their wits ends to know should go before his Lordship in Company, in whose employ he engine and stock intended to be.

was at that time. In 1891, he used in 1014: Bridges have been prevailing the through piesenger during the year. No accidento what to do. The irony of it for Mr. Lloyd George and his friends is that they, more than anbody else, have been responsible for the

occurred to the travelling public Mr. Crowther Smith for the went to Cavite to live, having been strengthened and stiffened where traffic has steadily improved.

The train service was entirely or to railway servants. fancy legislation " which has made the plight of local authorities Plas Lordalis (Mr. Justice Haze daro de Manila at Cavite where The Colony was visited by a suspended during the typhoon of

plaintiff asked for judgment. appointed manager of the Variasry, metaph

Staff, so bad as it is; and now they have to come along and oure the evils land) said he could not get blood he has been employed until a few typhoon on the 17th August and Sunday, August 17th, but as soon they themselves have created. Still, things might have been worse

months ago when he retired. He again on the 18th September, as this ceqeed an inspection WAS than the Chancellor of the Exchequer propose they shall be. We out of a stone

The plaintiff was given judg. Young and his wife were almost The latter typhoon tid very little made and prompt measures ant, was granted nie onth cannot, like the respective party organs at Home, look up on the Bad- get as either" epoch-making", or reckless finance." We are pre-ment, a stay until tomorrow in the midst of the Battle of damage to the Railway, but the taken for re-opening traffe. leave and returned to data

dis December 7th being granted when the question Manila Bay, for the Spanish vay former which was from N.E pased to agree that it smoken a little of close discrimination and of instalments, will be discussed sele sunk by Admiral Dowoy were charter did a considerable amount, continue a few local trains for

vote-catching. Otherwise, it is a very ordinary statement,

in Chambers.

anchored within a stone's throw more especially to the banks ex-two days, but on Wednesday the running, in the main, along sound linos,

of their home.

posed to the sea between miles full time table was in operation,

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SPORTING ITEMS,

League Tennis Match.

HAWKER'S DEBT.

Chambers.

Going Home.

Telegraph Wires.

them.

Was necessary to

Despite

precaution.

Mr. J. Morris, Chief Accounty

B. P. WINSLOW, March 16th, 1914-

A Manager,