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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1914.
„" HIGHER THOUGHT" AND DRUGS.
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 82; sunshine.
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 75;
The Malls.
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West Polat Reservoir.
Tenders are being invited for the construction of filter beds and ervice reservoir, etc., above the Pokfulam Road, West Point,
AUGUST S
1914.
One of the happisat and wisest steps which the Ministy has taken is the appointment of Earl Kit shioner se decretary of State for War. When Mr. Asquith assum
position as Premier, there was nO war oloud discernible in Europé; he had a purely domestic problem with which to deal. And in any event it was certain that his tenure of the War Secretaryship would be only temporary: Now that the greatest crisis in Euro
Declaration Withdrawn. pean history has come to a hend it ia essential that Britain should We are notified by the Colonial be served in this post by a man of Secretary that the declaration experience in matters of warfare. by Japan against Hongkong No man has better qualifications as a plague-infected port fise for the task than Earl Kitobener; been withdrawn. as an organiser and as a soldier of enormous experience be is second to none. By sheer merit he has made his name, and he has been called to the helm at the crucial moment; and rightly so,
too.
Aviation and War.
Property Stolen. The police hare ressived report from a Ohinese living in boarding-house at 116, Con- naught Road Central, that some one has stolen from his box, $137 worth of property.
Notice to Mariners.
188.9.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph files for the Week Ending August 8, 1889.)
CANTON NEWS.
Bad Trade Conditions." [Contributed.]
THE WAR.
To-morrow's 'Services at the Cathedral
Owing to the war in Europe, trade in Canton is practically gil. Special prayers for the sucoses Such exports as tea and silk, of our forces in the war, for all together with mataand silverware, who are fighting, for their familiea have stopped; while, with regard and for tas blessing of peace, are to imports, most of the foreign being offered at all the serriosa merchants have been obliged to in the Cathedral. The services cancel their agreements,
on Sunday will be of a specially Journalistic Amanities.
The Floods. August 2.—“What is the matter It is stated that the Clovera be a choral colebration of the holy patriotio character. There will with our morning contemporary? ment has appointed twenty commanion at 8.5 a.m.; !mstins In its report of the meeting of deputies to make s toar of and sermon by the Cathedral the shareholders of the Steam inspection of the three rivers Chaplain at 11 a.m.; the Litany Launch Company held yesterday, Tang Kong, Sai Kong and Pak at 12 noon; and evensong and we are told that there were pre- Kong with a view to preparing armon by the Venerable the sent, in addition to the Directors an exact statement as to the Archdeacon of Hongkong, at and Becretary, -two of the recent floods. This statement will former, not being shareholders, be referred to the Board of baving no right to be present-A Finance, with the request that number of Ohinese gentlemen." the duty which is derivable from Why didn't the Daily Press state the flooded districte shall be how many Chinese gentlemen remitted on behalf of the flood- were present and give their aufforere. Local officials have names? The report of the been directed to give fall protec- Yesterday afternoon, inthe Sum meeting of a public company tion to the deputies.
mary Court, before Mr. Justice should at least, be accurate; the Taoi Chun-hang, the officer inlazeland, an Indian money report we are referring to was chargo of the Canton water police. leader, named Mular Singh, roed grossly misleading. This sort of has handed over his month's a Chinose clerk in the Hongkong thing may be diplomatic, but it salary-8400-to the flood relief and Shanghai Bank to recover the is not honest journalism." fand, and has ordered all his sum of $120, dne sa money lent
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FORGED PROMISSORY
NOTE.
A Warning to Queue-wearers. subordinates to contribute on a promissory note. August 3. An inquest was small, percentage of their held this morning by Mr Wode wages to the same object. The and Grist, was, for the plaintiff, Mr. Dixon, of Messrs. Wilkinson honse touching the death of a amount totals to $2,208.04 and and Mr. R. O. Faithfull for the coolie at the Taikoo suger this has been forwarded to the defendant. refinery. Evidence was given that relief department. his queue was caught in the machinery and be was dragged op to the shaft and torn to pieces. A finding of "Accidental Death was recorded.
Admiral Li Wo.
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The defence set up was that
the signature to the note, which Admiral Li Wo, Vice-Minister purported to be that of the of Marine in making close in defendant, was a forgery, and Lis vestigation into the condition of Lordship found for the defendant the river forte; and the officers in with costs. charge of these have been in-
SANITARY BOARD.
Hongkong Rifle Association. August 6. Only seveu com atracted to send in a full state- petitors from the Hongkong Riflement concerning them. Admiral Asscoiation braved the elements Li has also appointed four river on Saturday to contest the first ganboats-the. Po Pik, Kwong around for the Faki Challenge Cup Kam, Kwong Li and Lai Tai-to meeting of the Sanitary Board on The orders of the day for tho presented by Dr. Noble, The patrol the Ki O, Kung Kok and Tocaday next are strong wind and frequent showern Kap
V.R.C. Sports.
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to the increase of staff of the Sanitary Department,
Letter from Government relative
Minute by the President of the Sanitary Board relative to the transfer of Inspector Hynes to the Post Office.
Minuto relative to a plan of certain two storied village houses. erect & water closets at the Helena "Application for permission to May Institute, Garden Road,, ca Application for permission to
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made good scoring impossible, (through which Macao and Hong Chan neighbourhood and, after seven shots at two kong boats must pass) in searab hundred yards, standing, and at of pirates. three hundred sitting or kneeling, Rebels in Tung King. Quarantine Withdrawn,
Lieut. Carlyle, R.A., headed the The authorities are informed We are informed by the list with 54 points out of a possible by the Central Government that Colonial Secretary that informa-70; PO. Carson being second, information comes from a detec We published, in our yester- tion has been received from with 51 points. day's issue, some remarks by an Newchwang that quarantine has
tive in Japan to the effect that American who is ataying in been withdrawn in respect of
some of the leading rebels have August 8 "The annualaqustic now moved down to Tung King, Hongkong, on the subject of arrivals from Hongkong, aports in connection with the with a view to stirring up trouble aeroplanes and their use in war.
Victoria Recreation Club are fixed in the Southern Provinces. The Among other things, bo pointed The Harbour office notifies that for. Friday and Saturday the 23rd message further states that the instal a water closet in a certain out that the aeroplane must on steamer or river steamer is to and 24th instant. A good pro rebele have also formed a branch house to be erected on Kowloon inevitably bring about universal use the channels south of Lantao gramme is being provided.' pence, if only for the reason that, when approaching or leaving the Darvel Bay Trading Company. direct operations connected, with
office in Hongkong from which to Inland Lot No. 1260. as it nears perfection, it will Colony. The West Cap Bing render war too expensive a mat-Man Channel is to be used only meeting of this Company was held authorities are ordered to take
August 8- The
statutory the two Kwong Provinces. The ter. There can be little doubt as
this afternoon at the offices, every precaution. to the truth of this statement. It The name of George Harold Queen's Road. Mr II. Heyn goes without saying that it will Thomas Tang Wa Hospital, presided and those present were take some years to bring about Bachelor of Medicine and Mesere. Dodwell, O. Brandt, F.
Hongkong Hotel Company- that state of perfection, for, even Bachelor of Surgery of the Eapp, R. O, Wilcox, R. Fuhrmann $240 per share, nominal. in times of peace, the number of University of Hongkong, hoe and F. Hohake...
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per deaths among firing-men, in the been added to the list of Medical The Chairman, said: "The
cent. Debentures,-$501. course of a given month or year,
Practitioners,
work is going on satisfactorily. 5 per cent, dis., ex div., sellors.
Indo-China S.N. Company is still lamentably great. Never-
Released From Quarantine. but the results have not been very theless, perfection is very much It is notified, with reference to great yet, as the coolie houses Douglas Steamship Company-
New Doctor...
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July Weather.
the average mesa temperature for Observatory returns show that suly was 81.9. The highest tem perature recorded was 92.2, or the 25th, and the lowest 74.4, on the 30th, Thors were 180.1 hours of sanshino and 20.305 inches of
for 30 years was 12.555 inches. rain. The average mean rainfall
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pliss for the month of July, 1914. Analyst on the public water sup Report from the Government
Limewashing return for the fortnight ending 21st July, 1914, Mortality return for Hongkong for the weeks ending 19th and 26th July, 1914.
Mortality return from Macao for the weeks 19th and 26th July,
Rat return for the weeks ending 25th July and Let August, 1914.
1914.
COLLISION CASE.
The N.Y.K.-Indo-China S.N. Co. Action.
Yesterday morning, sitting in Admiralty Jurisdiction, the Chiet Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz,
with Commander O, M. Beckwith,
Cothes Jinsea Mara,sued the Indo- China Stoom Navigation Company
Ltd.
to recover the sum of $30,000.00, damage alleged to have been
$10 per share, buyers.
A. S. Watson and Co., $22 per share, buyers.
prem sellers.
Hongkong High Level Tram-sustained in a collision between way Co., Ltd.-210 per cent. Wing Sang in the Tathong the Jinsen Maru and the 8.4. Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., on February 17, 1914, There Channel, near Lamtong Island Led-$25 per share, nominal,
Green Island Cement Co. (old defendants against the plaintiffa was also a opunterolaim by the for damages,
issue)-$45 per share, buyers. 10 of 1014, An Ordinance to Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
on the way, and the time in Government Notification No. 8. have first to be built, and almost $83 per share, sellers. coming when one or two aero-10bf49th April, 1914, that all the wood has been required China Sagar Refining Com- planes can work as much mischief information has been received for them. The greatest difficulty pany. Ltd.$281 per share, We have before had occasion to mention the practices of the whole army of a few years ago Shanghai, to the effect that long-of the last batch deserted here,
to a country in a few hours as a from H.B.M.'s Consul General at has been getting coolies; several sellers.
Luzon Sagar Refining Com "Higher Thought, healere" in London and elsewhere. From the would have done in ag many kong has been released from and we were sending fifty more pooy, Ltd.-$113
per share, latest mail papers we learn that one of these "healers" has been | months. With this in viow it quarantine.
sellers. by the Memnon, but she went smartly censured by the Hounslow coroner for letting his "higher stands to reason that there will
before they arrived: We are Hongkong Ice Company- thought" descend to the administering of drugs in spite of his not between peace and world-annihi
bat have been unsuccessful in our be nochoice for our grandchildren
ready to ship a cargo of wood, $124 per share, sellers. being qualified to do so by medical diploms. The facts are these: lation."
Hongkong Rope Manufactur attempts to buy a steamer, anding Company, Ltd.-$150 per A lady of independent means asked the healer in question,
shall have to charter one."
share, sellers, whose name is Miller, to tako her into his home and see if he could
Hoogkong and Kowloon Wharf, as assessor, resumed the cure her of paralysis—for the trifling sum of five guiness a week. The Rights of Newspapers,
and GodownCompany.-$180 por Nippon Yasen Keisha, owners of heering of the case in which the Miller admitted, in the witness box, that he had no medical degree,
share, ex, div. sellers. and that while he believed in the laying on of hands and giving Telegraph that two judges in the It was mentioned in yesterday's the right heart," he had, nevertheless, administered salts and bad King's Bench Divisional Court
Ordinance Approved. given inj-otions. A doctor who was eventually called in, stated in had refused a rale pisi for a writ
His Excellency the Governor, court bat, had a qualified man been sent for sooner, there was pristors and editors of two East King, to the following The quotations which follow of attachment against the pro-
has given his assent, in the name
SHARE REPORT. avory possibility that the deceased lady's life would have been saved, Coast papers. The applicant bad
and on behalf of His Majesty the Finally the jury returned a verdic: of natural death, but added a stated that these papers had Ordinance passed by the Legis are from the Honghong Telegraph rider to the effect that the Coroner should severely, consure Miller printed garbled accounts of lative Council:-Ordinance No. for August 8, 1880. for having administered a dangerous drug (ecopolamine) which maters concerning an action of amend the Military Stores (Ex-182 per cent. premium, buyers, might have accelerated death. The Coroner having given Mr. favour and setting out in full poristion) Ordinance, 1862.
"leaving cut what was in his Miller a piece of his mind and having pointed out that it was everything favourable to his
Union Insurance Society of Canton.$100 per share, buyers. clearly his duty to have sent for qualified medical aid much sooner opponents." If the applicant
China Traders' Insurance Com than he had done, added: "The only extraordinary part of this case could make his story good with
pany-881 per share, buyers. is the evilence it affords of the easy way in which the public are substantial proof, and presum
North China Insurance-The taken in by these quasi-religious faith-healers."
ably he could-we are bound to
330 per share, buyere, and Coroners and magistrates usually speak pretty own that the judge's decision
Canton Insurance Company, plainly when cases of this description are brought before them; seems to ud regrettable. Everyone
Ltd.,-$140 por sharo, buyers. the pity is, however, that legislation is not brought to bear which knows that an editor oan, within
Yangtaze Insurance Association His Excellency the Governors. 100 per share, will prevent human life from being riskedand, in some cases, reason, publish as much or as has been pleased to approve 2nd sacrificed by these "healera" of various nomenclature. Some two little of the evidence in a court Lect. John Kidston Swire, Essex Hongkong Fire Insurance Com or three years ago, we believe, a bye-law passed by the London County case as he may choose; but ne Yeamanry, being attacked to the pany $335 per share, sellers Universities for the Provinces.
Mr. Sharp-Why did you not Council made fortans-talling an indictable offence; with the result selfrespecting British paper would Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
China Fire Insurance Company Education is contemplating a plan you heard the Wing Bang? I It is said that the Ministry of drop your anchor directly after that the tricksters who had been making a fat living in well ever dream of suppressing evid furnished offices in and around Band Street, out of "casting hore-ence that might prejudice a man's has been pleased to appoint Dr. His Excellency the Governor
-885 per share, sellers scopes" and other such blarney, found that they could be as readily case, or of giving at full length Charles William McKenny to be Company-84 per cent. premium, the Ministry's present scheme, she was coming
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock of establishing five universities did not drop the anchor because in the provinces. According to wanted to find out which way punished as the humble gypsy woman who tells a fortune for evidence in favour of another Supernumerary Surgeon-Lient. sizpeace. Why cannot something similar be done where the party; nor do we understand why in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps. Steamboat Company-8208 r third at Tai-pan-fo, the fourth In saawer to a suggestion by
sellere."
Hongkong. Canton and Macao the second one at Canton, the into her to find out healers are concerned 2 The man and still more the woman this is not actionable. When an His Excellency the Governor
the first one will be at Nanking, Mr. Sharp:And so you ran who is sick in mind or body is regarded as fair game by these editor loses his sense of common has been pleased to appoint share, sellers. help which he would see through and laugh at if he were in normal threw up his job and tried sly Garrison Artillery, Retired, to be Company $1871 per share vized to keep the expenses of these Sang from passing under Lie gifted beings, for at such a time he listens greedily to promises of fairness it is about time that he Captain C. E. Lawder, Royal China and Monila Steamship on a Cheng and the fifth one Mr. Sharp that by reversing bin at Foochow Means will bo de engines he prevented the Wing. bealth. The community should be protected without more ado book-making or other black-leg Supernumerary Captain in the Hongkong Gas Company institutions at de low a figure as stern, the witners can farm all such fraude,
Hongkong Volunteer Corps, 4185 per share, sellers,
acted in accorriacoOS
C
up
bis,
work instead,
GOVERNMENT APPOINT- MENTS.
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Green Island Cement Co. (now isene)$14 per share, buyers.
Hongkong Land Investment Co., Ltd. $136 per share, buyers,
Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. $7 per share, sellers.
West Point Buildings Co., Ltd 853 per share, bayers.
Doraïble.
Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by son and Grist, appeared for the Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkin- plaintiffs and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., instructed by Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings and Hastinge, appeared for the defendants.
The captain of the e.s. Jinson Maru was underorogs-examination by Mr. Sharp.ME
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