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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

25,

1914,

DAY BY DAY

NOTES ON THE CRISIS:

"URVEYORS AND

A Sanitary. Matter. Some time book we made reference in this column toà matter of vital importance to the

WORTH MAKES THE MAN, AND health of the Colony-the removal WANT OF IT THE FELLOW-Pope.

We revel to of night soil.

The Weather. the question because there is

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 80; ample evidence that the coalies who carry out this work continue, in many instances, to ply their clear,

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 75; calling, not at night at el, but

clear. during the foreroon, This wo are qasured, in the case in several

The Malls, districts in Kowloon, and the an- noyance to people who happen to Siberian Mail.Arrived per 9.8.

Salsette this morning.

be about the streets at the lime

kong tomorrow.

to say nothing of the danger is French Mail-Due per s.8. Hong beas left to the imagination.. This is a matter which needs English Mail-Olccd per ..

Salsette to-day at 4 p.m.' thorough investigation, and it in to be hoped that thaitary Canadian Mail; Closes for 9.8. Nikko Mara to-morrow at 11a.m.

authorities will institute u arch- ing enquiry into it.

The cheapest and best "in the market. They give a froo and last-1" Outside" Coolles.

ing lather, and impart a soothing feeling to the skin. and sonsitive skins they are unsqualled.

For dolica'te

The fact of the matter is that

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. tione under which night soil is

Hongkong Dispensary & Kowloon Dispensary.

Count the Columns,

The Dollar.

demand to-day is 1s. 9.11-10d.

The rate of the dollar ou

i

BRITISH AVIATORS' FINE 'WORK.

A Fine Response from Canada' and Australia.

?

THEIR FEES.

Interesting Case in the Summary Court.

OBITUARY,

Mr. C. 3. Lesbirel

bore

We regret to announce the death of Mr. Charlee John Francis Leebiral, who died at his residen This morning in the Summary 00, 4, Victoria View, Kowloon, yea Court, bafore Mr. Justios Haze-, terday, at the age of 64 years. land, an interesting case was tried The deceased, who arrived in the The raiding of he Zepelin concerning surveyors and their Oslony in 1870, was a native of

, it being set up by the Jersey, and mado the trip ehed at Oologue, which is su nounced in to-day's telegrams, dont that the amount charg as a carpenter in sailing vessel, the plaintiff fm of For a long time Mr. Lesbirel was was a daring bit of work. British ad by aviators were congratulated by rchitects and surveyors was connected with a firm of arobifecta General Joffre, some little time unreasonable. The Plaintiffs were in Hongkong and was sterwards age, for the excellent work they Messrs. Palmer and Turuer of associated with the Hongkong were doing and it is quito evident Alexandra Buildings, and the Saw Mills. For po 14 them that they are keeping it up. defendant was Mr. C. Bissey of twenty-three years he has been Britain was slow to take up "Stillingdest," Peak Road, and steward of the Victoric Recreation aviation, in which the French did the claim was for $200 for work Club, where he won the estrom of splendid pioneer work, but her done as surveyors and valuers. the members, and was highly Mr. Preston, of Messrs. Johnson, regarded by the Committee for Yesterday the Telegraph pub advanos, from the time when she lished: 37 columns of solid seriously entered into competition Stokes and Master, appeared for the earnest way in which be

The 20 terport contestants in the aquatic the whole queation of the condi! reading matter. To-day here with her continental neighbours, the plaintiff, the defendant con carried out his duties,

was rapid. Up till now, in this ducting his own case. war, German airmen have done Mr. H. W. Bird, in the box, world will feel the loss of an oblig will be 35 published.

most of the offensive work, with said that he was a fellow of ing friend in the death of Mr. removed needs looking into," Apparently the contract is let

only moderate success, but this the Royal Institute of British Lesbirel, and local sportsmen will out and a considerable sum is

latest bit of work on the part of Architects, and a partner in the feel the loss more keenly atill. secured from the contractor who

British aviators should give them firm of Messrs. Palmer and For about twenty-eight years takes up the work, or who is

omething to think about. The Turner: "On July 17, he was the late Mr. Leabirel was pro supposed to take up the work.

attack on the shed at Dusseldorf requested by the defendant to moter of an independent sweer Wo say "supposed" because there The band of the 74th, Pan-

daring, but whether it met with 107 108 and 109, Connaughs stated that he was the origisator are requested to observe the rule which appear to be numbers of our jabis is to play at the Peek Olub was also carried out with much make a valuation for him of on the Hongkong Derby, anditis

the same success Correspondents,

is not yet Road Central and 213, 214, 216 of the independent sifeeps. addresses with side

coolies who make a living to-morrow night,

known. The main thing is, and 217, Des Voeux Road Central. About three months ago tüber requires thom to forward communications' addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for by removing the night seil, and who collect regular monthly sums

Company Meeting.

preciable inroad on his physique, The meeting of shareholders in however, that our men have not No agreement was made as to calosin of the throat made an up- publication, but as an evidence of their bona fidės. Pa

will from residents. The point to be 14

contented themselves with drop fees. ike rates of Babwcription to the 110ngkang Talegraph

made here is that the public has the Douglas Steamship Co. takes ping hombs on to was, but hore On July 18 he visited the and he took a trip to Vancouver be an follow-

done something towards render premises and made the valuation quite recently in order to consult ing the enemy airabips less and he was engaged on the a specialist in the dissage On od whole work for about two to examination by the specialist the Mr. B. James, of Queen's Col-Darling Work. three hours. He charged, two one was pronounce ne pou hundred dollars as bis fese, and and the deceased rotated to One cannot refrain from re- had rendered an account to the Hongkong: Deceased "lenyos a marking that, whatever may be defendant who had not, however, wife, and four daughters to mourn said of the bulk of the Germish flect, one boat at least has done paid after his loss. Three of the daughters

His Lordship-You consider are married. fine work, from the enemy's point ad $200 a reasonable fee ?--I did. The deceased was for many ve Freemason, being For Money Due. of view. One refers to the Emden, Mr. Preston-Were your firm years an active adgment was given for the Yesterday we were informed by at one time acting as surveyors a member of St. John's Lodge. coolie should be engaged This plaintiff at the Summary Court, the Press Bureau that only twelve for the Credit Foncier D'Extreme The funeral will pass the was done and for a few days the this morning, in a case in which British merchant vessels had been Orient ?-They were monument at 5 30 the afternoon. now coolie put in an appearance. Hurnam Singh saed Li Fat to taken by the enemy during the Is that an insurance company ?... Very soon, however, the old hand was back again and has continued recover $80, money due under a war; and of these the Emden -A company which advances; ever since. It is conceivable that promissory note. "squeeze

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DEATH.

LESBIRELAIA Victoria View, Kowloon, on Sept. 24, Char- les John Francis Lesbirel, aged 64 years. Funeral will pass Monument to-day at 5.20.

The Bangkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1914,"

SEX EDUCATION FOR BOYS,

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no control over these coolias, aa

it would have over contactors' coolies, and it is too obvious what an desirable state of affairs

Band Night.

place at noon to-morrow.

Returned from Leave.

might spring from that atoum lege, returned to the Colony this.. stance. We know of a case i morning from leave. Mr. James which the "outside" code was has been touring in Australia failing in his duty, and on com- and Now Zealand for several plaint being made by the house- months, holder, the advice of the unitary

authorities was that a contactors

entered into the

question. Anyhow, it is impossi-' Alice Memorial Hospital,

The Hon. Treasurer oft the

ble for the average houbhalder

Thefts from Steamers.

Important Arrest. Four arrests have been made On successive days a paragraph in connection with the recent in our Day by Day column has armed robbery at Kowloon, and, reported thefts from the same at the Police Station, this more steamer, and both were fairly ing, all four of the accused me good baals. The first included were identified by those interested two gold watches and thesecond a in the affair. gold watch valued at $250 and $380 in money. The thief or thieves evidently knew their or bia

Nubia's Cargo.

way about aboard that stemer. It The cargo shipped from Hong. is actorious, of course, that articles kong by the 8.8. Nubia on the

of

alone has accounted for alx. In the long ran she is bound to be laid by the heels. There are not many coaling ports at which she

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money upon properties.

Those prices which you say are And in that connection did a charged in London and. Ahang- scale of fees come to your know hai, have they ever been made ledge P-It did.

here? That is not the point. We say we might have charged those prices

Can you tell me from memory

Mr. D & Ram, whose evidence had been isken before Mr. Bird's,

to get at the bottom of these Alice Memorial and Affiliated can call, and she is fairly certain Chinese puzzles. Therefore we Hospitals: begs to acknowledge to be caught one of these days the usual charge in Shanghai for any let the rathorities order a with thanks the following dona- when she runs for coal, But at valuations up to $300,000 7 close investigation into the whole tion tothe funds of the Hospitals: least her officers and men can They were paying in Shaughai,

congratulate themselves that they one eighth per cent. Ho Wing-bing, $10.

said be also was a Fellow of the have done their share in this war. His Lordehip How much Royal Institute of British matter in the public interest.

The firing on Madras shows that would one eighth per cent. of Architects and, bad practised in she is out to do as much damage $200,000 be?-$250,

Hongkong for the last twenty-five de she can before ber day of Mr. Preston :-And active Life is ended, and up till $400,000 they suggested for you the report made by the plaintiff, up to years, Witness, after inspecting now she has done well. It is not in Hongkong?-One eighth per said that if the foes had been pleasant to read of the mischief cent. obe is doing, of course, but,

charged on the scale suggested whether enemies or not, daring charged for your work, what amounted to $700, about There The fees which you have by the Institute they would have of this kind in any men elicits do they amount to ?-Rather less was no fixed scale in Hongkong admiration.

than one ninth per cent; practical and the charge depended upon ly one tenth I call it. A Fine Response.

the property, the amount of the The defendant You Love valuation and the care which had The response from Canada has been connected with your firm to be taken. been magnificent, and has exceed for a number of years? Twenty His Lordship Ia a case like Under the abovo beading wo published, last Monday, some of value have a way of disappear. 23rd inst. included 100 bales of even the expectations of the two years.

this, you would charge $2057-I remarks by the headmasters of Eton and Elairow, contained in their 2ng while a vessel ties in port, waste silk, 140 hales of pierced most optimistic. There men from During that time you have think it is a fair charge. - evidence before a recent Royal Commission. By a coincidence, in but two instances of the kind cocoons and 1,540 half-chests of the last Philadelphia paper recived, there is an article on the same or the same steamer, are tea for London; and 123 rolls the Dominion, too, are splendid made a number of valuations for But you don't say how yout

men who, from the very nature of me from time to time ?—Yes. rather remarkable. At the same mats and malting for Port Said. their life and training, may be And I have always paid you would any one-tenth to one-sighth charge the fee?-Roughly I subject, written by the Principal of the Friends' Select School, Mr. time one has no great sympathy Walter W. Havilland. The latter's contention is that fathers and

for passengers who do not keep

trusted to give a good account of the very next day ?--I don't know por centendent There are Judgment Oblained.

themselves at the Front., Austra about that.. kala mcthere are the cataral and proper teachers of these things, but if

The defendant:There articles of value and soms of

wave of they do not teach them to their children, society has got to sesume

At the Summary Conrs, before lia papera speak of a

Can you show me a valuation areas and measurements, you get money safely under lock and key the parents responsibility." This may be the American, and the lock, that is, suficiently Mr. Justice Hazeland, Puisne enthusiasm sweeping over across upon which you have charged me those by paying one dollar at the ultra progressive English, way of looking at the matter; but we rather fancy that the average English parent would strongly dissent strong to prevent its being forced Judge, this morning, Mr. J. H. the Commonwealth as strongly as $2007-I can show you extracte Land Ofice? I don't know about

in the limited time a thief on Gardiner, appearing for Messrs. that which has been raised in from the books from 1908 to 1914 the facts of the case from the second part of Mr. Haviland's argument. Not many board ship bas at his disposal. A. B. Moulder and Co., Ltd to show a solid front to the to $150.

Canada. All parties have united and the amount varies from $35 In any oзse you get your, areaÐ monthe age, in a Dome town, a schoolmistress took upon herself to And the man who has not a secured judgment against A Pang

from the Load Office?-Not as a. give ser instruction to her pupila; with the result that practically! all the parents in the place protested, and even demanded her baron leek on his cabin trunk for $700.51 for goods sold and seen. The Leader of the Op. The highest report, except the rule, t

has always the purser's infe at delivered.

position in the Commonwealth present one, is for $105,000 and Do you always measures them? dismical. That is how Foglish people regard undue interference his disposal. But some people

Parliament announced that hence the fee you charged me was Sometimes we measure them forth there was "No Opposition," 8160. You have charged me and sometimes we have by outsiders.

Woman in the Harbour. to neglect ordinary the circalation, among

eplaas. lade

and that is the proper spirit. Not $150 for $195,000 and for two the office. Malgrat Mr. Havilland proccede to urge and girle, of books dealing with this matter. This is a favourite, precautions when travelling.

only have the amy and navy of thousand more you charge me You obtain your rent from the dovico with some of the cranks at Home, and one, needless to say, A Fact Worth Remembering,

the Commonwealth been placed $507 The valvation you refer Assessor's offic? The actual cul cuisted to do much more harm than good, inat much as such We know of no paper which eiting few moments on the Praya, at the disposal of the Home conn to has been made several times rent we get from our clients and books serve, only too often to pique unhealthy curiosity. We can say so much in short ompass this morning, when she jamper 15, but the whole of its resources by our firm. That was some the assessed rent from the asces- should have thought that schoolmasters, of all people in the world, as the Globa. It appears to draw into the Harbour from the pier at have also been offered. The people line age and probably Mr. Turner or 'office, should be the first to realise that no hard and fast rule can be laid toward it men who can toy pithy Government wharf and made, it of Canada and Australia are a deal charged him that sam beginss Suppose I asked you to value down as to the age at which children should be told the facts under things day after day without is alleged, an attempt to drown more loyal than they themselves he had valued it before. Of the premisee, on what basia discussion, seeing the enormous extent to which both physical and

growing stale. But we have herself. Sho was taken from the perhaps realised before war bruke course one very often makes would you do it?Experience pental development vary in different individuale. In any class of seldom seen the Globe pack so water with very little wrong with

arrangements about valuations and also rent, the state of the wonly boys of the age of fourteen, some will be almost men, while much into two phrases as it did her, except feels of immersion, Uneasy Lies the Head.” and one does not always neces properly and the conditions un

Barily charge the same. others will still be babies.&n

der which it oculd be rebuilt, A paragraph in a contemporary Bis Lordobir-You had to go You bave always a fired ides states that Prince Wilhelm of through the whole thing no pre-of a locality at so much p

a per foot? Albanin has escaped from his vious knowledge was brought to Certainly, that is a matter of threne to Germany and has joined bear? As far as I know I have not experience which takes years to the German army. Just at the had anything to do with the pro-cquire moment the state of Albania doea perty before, The defendant, in the box, said not greatly matter and it will pro- The defendant But your that he was a broker and disputed | bably get along very well without firm most havo records of it ?--I the i amoant of the bill because be its prince, as well, at least is it hove not gone back in the books thought it was too heavy. He had has done with him. Evidently, for ten years; we may have had reports, from & other firms which were more reasonable. All-

seem

police

A Chinese woman gave the an interesting and an ex.

TYPHOON WARNING.

recently. These were addressed and was taken to the Central It is interceling to compare with Mr. Havilland's nations, those to advertisere, at the top of the Polios Station, of the Leadmasters of Eton and Harrow. They are evidently back page, in the left and right- unreade to commit themselves at all, though they go so far as to hand corners respectively. That by Instruction in school shou'd be given with much caution, on the left eaid "The Morning and it should be the special responsibility of the headmaster to Paper goes out of the done," and They add A propaganda the other ran "The Evening give it or to see that it was given," based solely on bygienio principles would not bring in the obivalrons Papor goes into the Home. or pral which was necessary. To our way of thinking the path le There, in a dozen word, is pre- ancus diff cult and that the "schoolmaster should not, savo in septed to, advertisera o gest trail The telegram qanted below who individual cases where a word—jat a word in sssson? may be which they should lay to heart, received by the Ameron Con- absolutely called for, risk making bad worse by disenssing each The paper which goes into the sulate General Hongkong, from matters with bis pupils. Even a lud's own father, be he never go home, the paper who is of the Manila Observatory, at 10.15 ansions for that lnd a physical and spiritual welfare, is often hard most value to thum fra jud last sm 10 day put to it to know whether he thould speak or be silent. The

and all the time. It is le paper Cyclone or Typhoon-1. of} dvoorte tellin, children everything which the mistress of be home Northern Luzon less than 300 is that ench frankness would parify the face by doing away with the roads and it is the matress of miles distant, filling main argument of those who advoorte mystery which forme, as they say, the chief attraction of vice. But the home who does the bulk of Celine or Typhoon among the Chinese and the Arabs, and in thousands of French and the spending. That hade alike Ocean, boni, halfway betw Jewish Lonepioids, olildren are told everything we have, how in London and Hongkong, and it the Mariana Islands nada Laz yet to learn that English morality is any lower than funt is always worth beaxing wind moving WNW NW, of other nationalities.

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dy on which he could You know the property Mr. Bird bad to do was to pay 1 In any case, a man know the position of the pre- to the land office to get the arass

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the party ind

And he got the rents free. The You have had something to do plaintiff had computed his latour go with the property, either repairs $200 for

which most men

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