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JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.

According to a Japanese con aular report. l article most in demand in Longkong is beer. it is good to have official con- firmation of a point about which we had been in some doubt,

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General White has written an article for a Home pagar, headed : The Art of Calling Names." It is only fair to assume that he is well up in his subject, of "course; but if he failed to consult the London 'bus driver and the Flower Street coolie, Estora finally committing himself to paper, he was neglecting two of the highest authorities in the world.

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UNMUZZLED DOG.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUSSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1914.

Solicitor Says Police Action was

Overbearing.

This morning at the Police Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, H. Wilkinson, of 82 The Peak, was summoned for allowing his dog abroad without a'muzzle,

SANITARY BOARD.

The Pollution of Lands and Streets.

The following minute of the President of the banitary Board (Mr. D.W. Traiman) in reference to a motion of Mr. P.W, Goldring regarding the inspection of private labes, was presented at the meet- ing of the Board held this after- noon...

Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messra. Wilkinson and Grist, said that a summons had been served at "I havo hold up this matter "The Falls," The Peak, addressed because the Colony can not be to H. Wilkinson, charging him corsidered. to be in a normal with allowing a dog to be in condition at present, and any Mount Kellett Road on September observations the Committee

10 without a muzzle, Thero was might take would be liable to be no II. Wilkinson living at misleading. I think the matter The Falls," but be took might came up for consideration

it that the summons was again in November. I wish, The Daily Neses and Leader has meant to be addressed to his however, to place on record the been letting itself go in pon-partner, who at the present time fact that I consider that there are pictures again. Its latest is that was in Canada. There was a two different sources of the anxious women with drawn chow dog there and, during the pollution of our langa and private faces" stood awaiting nows. time that his partner was hore, streets. (1), domestic; (2), com- Query; did our contemporary, Mr. Grist, had frequently seen mercial. mean "painted" faces?...

the dog muzzled. From the time'] he went to Canada until his niece, Mina Wilkinson, arrived in Hong kong about a fortnight ago, the premises were looked after by the Chingee servants. When Miss Wilkinson arrived here, the dog

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water Supply for Paisley aaye a headline in a recent Home paper. What do they want with water thero, any way? We always understood that the Paisleyites draak "the morcies undiluted.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

NOTICE.

We beg to notify our cus- tomers that on and after 14th inst: our amended prices (as approved by the Food Com- mittee) will come into force.

All existing price lists are hereby cancelled.

Amended copies can now be had on application.

THE DAIRY FARM Co., Ltd. SEPTEMBER, 1914,

*by (1), I mean the abominable THE LAW OF THE SEA.voyage to America, and the habit of throwing kitchen refuse, and worse out of the nearest window. This, I consider, requiras stringent measures for its ro pression.

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'By (2), I mean the babit of was not muzzled and had not carrying on trades in private:

Rights of, Passengers.

Vossel was lost through a peril of the sea, the owner would have no 1зmedy against English onder. writers who had insured ber.

While, however, the enemy's vessels ore liable is captura, and

been since, her attention not lanes and streets eg, bag-making authorities have stopped the sail.: 80 de co board to enfiscation, it

is generally tacognized that des truction is to he avoided wherover Passengers on an enemy's ship would be liable to be disembarked at the earliest opportunity, and they would have no remedy in contract or toit; bat they would run litilo risk of more serious consequences, since it is almost unthinkable that passenger versel would resist capture by a man-of-wer. Still,į it must not ts forgotten that a vessel seeking evade capture would be liable to be fired upon and possibly sunk; and the mere fact that a state of war exista ie sufficient to deter the majority of people from venturing on a voyage where there 19 any

The fact that the German A Scotch gentlemen whom having been called to the matter. mttan splitting and paa uting of the Imperator and Vater wo have just goueulted observes Thare was no doubt that an poking, ole. I think it not un- lund, which in the ordinary asible. that only Paisley would dream of offence had been committed, incely that nearly all the worst course would have called at considering its one teetotal but ho did protest most craes of this kind could sa dealt Southampton ca their way to inhabitant to this extout.]

strongly against the police with by getting the firms them- Amerian, call attention, says the not having called the attention selves to employ one or two Times, to the position in which Says the Manchester Guardian: of the occupier of "The Falls" to boys to keep the drain jolets the merchant shipping of beili The moratorium is not obliga. the fact that the dog was stray cloan, and swept up after the gerents would be placed, whether tory. Those who wish to meeting without a muzzle, but instead, day's work is done. This a.ar go-engaged in cargo or passenger their bills may." We hear that having issued a summond forth- ment is already working in some rade. It is still generally some of the Hongkong fradesmen with. So many of those thinge places og the fruit hawkers at 10cognized as a sound principle brve made ap ́cial arrangements wore pot wilful; nine times out Kau U Fong and the vegetable of international low that an for police protection for their of ten when people hap; saed to hawkers in Second Stree.." saemy's vessel is liable to capture, premises in the event of there have their dog without a muzzle The rat returns for the week either in territorial watera or on being a stampede of debtors all it was an accident of the moment, ending September 12, are:-In the high seas. It bas been point boiling over with ongornose to If the occupior's attention had Victoria 1,417 rats caught, 3 od out by a learned writer on meet their bills.

heon called to it, it would bave infected. Kowloon-250 rats the subject that in face of the been put right immediately. A caught, sono infected: Total rats results maritime capture has pro- telephone mossage to him or the ought 1,673; total infected, 3. dared it in idle to prstend that occupier would have put the matter right without trouble at all

HONGKONG'S TURKISH

Saturday's Telegraph had a paragraph dealing with "Dickons josano carthorse." IfE ckons bad lived to see the lion sad unicorn that are painted on the notice- His Worship-I am not sure! boord at Boy View police station that I really agree with your he would have thought the cart remarks. The police would have! horas saue

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Mr. Grist:It would be very It is good news for Hongkong *Free malvation for all by the much less work. It would that Turkish baths are to be spirit of Revelation in Zion's minimise their work a good deal. or sned, inte fine central situation, marine code by which the Mr. Jastico Sarcombe Smith worke; Vola LXVI (with Mr. Wood-It is important to on the 1st of Octobar. An ad- catalogue) in Free Libraries." So the public that the dogs bo vert-sament regarding thers baths captare of mercile vessels has, at Penang, disposed of the

bostile bation by runs an advertisement in a Home muzzled. People are more likely appears to-day on page 3 and is Italian vesels of war was forbid appeal of Noordio, an ex dorso tiv police constable, who, was con- paper'a Agony Column. Mr. to be careful about it, if they worth attention. The need for Zion-the advertisement omits to know the penalty will be on such baths has long been felt indon in all cases where rociprocity victed and contenced by Mr. W. GREAT pat his initials must be a forced.

Hongkong and the promoters of was observed, and a similar C. Micbell to one year's rigorous wonderfully prolific writer. Ma Grist was walking the new scheme are to be con-

receiving an illegal gratifestion Authors of the La Queux, Garvics round the Colony on Saturday gratulatod on having performed and Prusaià în 1868. In 1870 imprisonment on a charge of of $40. Hie Lordship dismissal the appeal but reduced the Etence to nine montbe' rigorous. imprisonment.

coures was followed by Austria Prassia exempted French vessels. and Oppenheim bread will have to and I saw twenty dogs without a useful public service in provid from capture without insisting on look to their laurels. Our Lead muzzles before I came to ing theea necessary adjuncts to

Zion may out-total them yat. one that had one. I say good health in any climate. It is reciprocity, But specjal 13a8ona

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The Kowloon-Canton railway must be doing well. The other day a man, turned thirty and weighing some two hundred pounds, wezt to book bie fare Hung Hom. for Shatin and the

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clerk banded him out a child's the same offence. ticket

A fine of $5 was imposed.

Smart Work by the Montenegrins.

Harbin, Sept. 13.

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-TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. From EUROPE. COLOMBO and STRAITS.

THE Company's Steamship

"ATSUTA MARU,”

Goods not cleared by the 28th

the action of the police was an trae, of course, as we have heard may be assigned for the departure 016 of the gloominet by-overbearing one.

it said, thist the climate iu Hong-om old methods in the

stances, an important consider- products of the war is the fact Mr. WoodWhat about the kong is in itself akin toa Turkish ation being the comparative ibt it hae given some few present summons? ...

hath, and because it is true there maritime weakness of the Powers thousand newspaper men an Mr. GristWoll the summons ie the more nead for these baths. opportunity to drag Armageddon has come to the knowledge of The point is that in a climate concerned at that time. When in again. We had be in hoping the owner of the dog. Now the such as oura, where the pores of we come to more recent times, we find that Count Caprivi, Chancel- that the word was lost.

dog, I take it, is probably more the body are overworked day after lor of the German Empire, in or lesa under my or my deputy's day during a great part of the 1892 pointed out that the changes control.

year there is more nead than there which had come about in the Mr. Wood-Will you pay the is even at Home for these poras methods of conducting a maritime usual fine?

to be kept always in perfect Mr. Griat:-Certainly, on the condition by the attention of war, did not tend to favour the understanding that no other sam- masseurs who know their business protection of private property at having arrived from the above hereby informed that their Goods mons is issued in connection with That is what the Turkish Bath esa. He said in substance that ports, Consignes of Cargo are not naval battles but either in are being landed and placed al and Toilet Co., Ltd., ofera to the vanion or the destination of the their risk in the Hongkong and publie an opportunity of keep-

enamy's Commerce would in Kowloon Wharf & Godown Com ing in better health thau has ever

fetara bring a wer to an end. pany's Godowns at Kowloon, before been afforded in long-Invasion was often impracticable, where each consignment will be kong-and the fact that the and thus the destruction of trade sortedout mark by mark and deli- baths aro under the control of a The Capture of Semlin. Three columns of Montenegrina

medical man slowa that this was was the org and only method very can be obtained as soon as Harbin, Sept. 13.

to attain ander General Wukotitel the

the object of tho the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be carried the first purpose animating the

Assuming a belligerent Power. After a sanguinary battle the Montenegrin Minister of War,

on unloss instructions are given company..

state of war to exist between. to the contrary before noon, to- after fierce fighting have occupied Servians on September 10 occupi

England and Germany, there can day. important positions on Austrian fed Semlin,

The Servisns' operations are de

When the Battle was Thickest. Es little doubt that it would be territory southward of Sarajovo.

London, Aug. 31. The Montenegrins have dis:veloping with the utmost success.

The narratives of the blue. considered necessary to strike at September, will be subject to rent. the merchant shipping of the Damaged packages must be left lodged the Austrians from all the A stubborn and courageous attack

jackete who have returned to region between Fotch and Res-by infantry and accurate artillery Harwich show that the fighting actual capture the problems of by the Consigneo's and the Co.'s enemy; bat apart from the risk of in the Godowns for examination teprdich. After the rotrent from fire caused the comparatively accarred so near Heligoland that can call for consideration. representatives at an appointed Fotch the Austrians fortified quick cocupation of Semlin,

Only the Servian population The Germana pat up &

the Forts on the Island took part. vine insurance is nowadays of hour. themselves on the left bank of the

good

steamer's arrival hore, after river Drina and conuonaded the remained in Semlia. The authori

is significant that English under which date they cannot be re- British torpedo boats saw. right back, but their artillery was ties appealed to the population to fight. The crew of one of tho an international characters and it sented within ton days of the No claime will be continue their peaceful labours German cuiser sink a mass of writom deposited some time ago cognized. Germany's Call for Volunteers. and obey Servian laws. They fames, but they could not say Hamburg s andertaking, in the Godowns.

Lat the Chamber of Commerce in admitted after the goods bave left It is reported that there is an guaranteed entire freedom of the whether it was due to an explo-writing to failfil their obligations insufficiency of equipment for the people and inviolability of private sion, because the fighting at the

to German draditora at the due German Landstorm, for which property.

time was very fierce. The

Such an date, war or no war. volunteers over fortyfive years of There were great rejoicings in age are being taken. A call for Belgrade at the capture of Semlin. German shipa was appalling at law in the Courts of either destruction wrought aboard the undertakingoould not be enforced volunteers has been announced The Coming Struggle in East The steelwork was battered and

8.9." DEIKE RIOK MERS.” in Berlin.

Harbin, Sept. 13.

twisted and the condition of the country either during or at the Amongat the Germans occupy-

From Hamburg and Antwerp, ing Belgiam are you be of fifteen Suspension of passenger traffic oiewe is beat left to the imagin conclusion of war, at any date in

Consignees are informed that and sixteen years of age...

in Germany, is expected betwcension. The appestance of the respect of losses occurring while The presence of German troops September 12 and September 20 destroyer Liberty shows the ordeal war was in progress. The Courts

No Fire Insurance has.boon has been discovered in the vicinity, owing to the intended transporta- to which she was subjected. She do not recognize an alien enemy their Goods have been landed in of Gorodok.

tion of troops to the eastern front, has a gaping hole in her forward a having any locus atandi Shanghai at the Eastern Whark

whatever. Thus if; for example, effected. The German Crown Prince has to which theatre of war the funnel, and the bridge ia practical-were to break out betweed been appointed Commandor-ia- Landwehr are now being trans-ly destroyed. The deck fittings England and Germany while Gorras vool was on a Chief in East Prussia,

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Prussia.

have vanished,

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