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WALKER'S

"BLOCKETTES

REGISTERED,

THE

(PATENT "CARBOLACENETM" DISINFECTING-PERFORATED

BLOCKS.)

1. They ensure Healthy Homes and a pure, pleasant and

beneficial atmosphere,

2. They purify and sanitize the air, and are a safeguard

against infectious disease.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

After the War

DAY BY DAY:

Mr. Arquith a statement of the reasons for the holding of the Paris Economia Conference-to IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO BAT convince the enemy that the Al-WHICH COURSE OF CONDUCT HAS

DONE MORE HARM IN THE TREAT lies are resolved to wage war with MENT OF EASTERNS-DISCOUR the same unity and determina- TESY AND VIOLENCE ON THE ONE HAND, OB MAUDLIN BENTIMEN tion economically sa militarily"-

TALITY AND NAII CREDULITY ON embodies a refreshing reminder THE OTHER BOTH EXTREMES SCRUPULOUSLY that we shall not have finished SHOULD BE with the enemy when he is beaten AVOIDED.--Lord Cromer. on the field of battle. Knowing the

-The-Werther. At the Pask 8 am, Temp. 77; Germans' reputation for organies tion and commercial adaptability, fine. (1915, 76 fine.)

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 86; preceded by the clash of care, fine. "(1915, 84 fas.) the trade war, bad it not been might well be more severe and

3--They last MANY MONTHS, cost very little, and require protracted than the present mili-

no attention.

.“ BLOCKETTÈS" PRODUCE THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PINE FOREST |||

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA.

The Malls.

tary conflict. As it is, we ail know, as the Prime Minister re- Australian Mail.-Bas per se.

Taiyuan to-day. marked, that Germany is already organising her industries for the coming commercial combat, and though she will necessarily be handicaped in consequence of the eocnomic exhaustion caused by

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., the war, we may depend upon it

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"HONGKONo telegraph."

MARRIAGES.

By Order,

that she will use the whole of her remaining power and energy regain her position in the world markete. In the Far Est, espe cially, we may anticipate a sharp In view revival of competition. of that almost assured certainty we hope that even special co-operative steps will be taken by Allied interests on the spot to cut the ground from un-

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The Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day was 28, 1.3-16d,

To-morrow's Anniversary.

N

Te-morrow is the anniversary Tennyson (1809). of the birth of the late Lord

Notice to Mariners.

The Harbour Master of Hong kong notifies that it has been reported that the Lightship off now some Simber Cape, Tanjong Pagar, is

missing. Masters are warned

navigate with oзntion.

Land Sale.

Murder Charge."

Remanded.

:

to

1891

1916

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVB YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending July 29, 1891.)

The Dollar. August 5.-" The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 3/21.

The Hongkong, Canton, fod Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.

1891.

PORT OF HONGKONG.

SHARE REPORT.

Annual Report by the Healthy

Officer.

The annual report by Dr. G.P. Jordan, Health Offour of the followPort, for 1915, states ****

in Port."

The quotations which

During the year under review are from the Hongkong Telegraph

Dr. Jordan returned, from home for August 5, 1891.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank | furlough and resumed his dutien New Imae-$199 per cenf on the 12th July, 1914. The work of the department has therefore premium sellers.

Union Insurance Society of been carried by Dr. Jordan, Dr. Jantom-$95 per share, buyers. Keyt and Dr. Lindsay Woods.

China Traders' Insurance Com | Daily Inspection of Ships Arriving pany-$64 per share, sales and

-- Between the hours of 8 am, buyers.

North China Insurance-le. and 6 pm. all vessels, entering July 31.-"The fiftieth bell-275 per share, buyers,

port ars boarded and partionlara yearly meeting of the shareholders Canton Insurance Company, of the voyage, su to any sicknow of the above Company was held Ltd.---$107

from the last port of departure. per share, sales, at noon to-day. There were Yangtase Insurance Associatios and during the voyage, are duly

P. present:--Messrs. Byrie, T. 102 per share, buyers.

recorded on the approved forms Hongkong Fire Insurancs Com and certified by the master or. (obairman) E. B. Belilior, F. A Gomee, L. Poespecker (directors), #310 per share, buyers. ship's surgeon if the vessel carrion R. A. Gabbay, HJ. Gomes, B. China Fire Insurance Company a surgeon. Versele coming from N. Elias, G. E Lory, A. T. G.-885 per share, sellers."

any infected port have all passen- Silva, EJ: Moser, A. S. Cohen,

gor and crews undergo special F. Henderson, H. Bumphreys, A.

examination in qusmatine. J. B. Soares, M. J. Michael, S. L. Darby, Wong Ping-lam and T. Arnold (Secretary). The Chair man said that the report was not particularly brilliant, the earnings China and Manila Steamship of the feet, through the great Company-$65

share, competition, being much less eller

than they were în pravicus years, One of the reasons was the extens of tonnage on the Canton River, and another that a great portion

pany

Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company-199 per cent. pre minm, eales and sellers. *

During the year 1915-there' Hongkong, Canton and Macae were 7,881 arrivale in port. Of Steamboat Company-$32rd per this number 3,998 were under share, buyers.

the British flag and 3,879 were under various foreign finge.

per

+

Hongkong Gas Company $151 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Hotel Company-

cent. Debentures-$501.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per Indo-China 8. N. Company- $30 per cent, dis, bayers.

**

Douglas Steamship Company $40 per share, sellers.

Chins Sugar Refining Company Ltd-182 per share, esics and aller

เ

River steamers are 'only board-“ ed when any infections diseases cinded in the above figures. are reported; there are not in-

}

Medical Examination of Emigrants. "The total number of emigranta passed this year were 67,982 and there were 820 rejections,

Of this total, 41,873 prosseded to the Straits Settlements, while the remaining 26,109 left for other ports, such as San Francisco, British Columbia, Java, eta.

The rates of Bubscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will der the enemy's feat. Hongkong,

se the premier commercial centre Rural Building Lot No. 189, be as follows:**

of the Exat, and" a British port above Findlay Road, The Peak, of the paying cargo which the $65 per share, buyers,- withal, might well give the lead is to be sold at the P. W. D. Company used to get was now by summoning some kind of Offices on August 21. It consent down by janks. The P. and Allied Conference, enjoying off-taine about 16,460 square feet. Company, for instance, had cial support, for the express par and the opset price is $1 975.

́sent one steamer up to Centon lo load, several thousand 100 of poss of advising the Allied Go- vernments on the general situs- tion cat East and of making In connection with the murder oargo direct for London. The

Quarantine Duty. concrete proposals for inclusion which took place at Hunghou repaire, they would see, had been

Under this heading" must be killed in his house, a Chiness was were in hopes that they would be Lason Sugar Refining Company, included the special examinations in the general scheme when it recently, when a man was found very heavy, but the directors comes to be framed.

charged before Mr. J. R. Wood lighter in future, especially now Limited-83 per share, sellers, which are required for the medic- Hongkong Ice Company al inspection of ships which come this morning with the offence, that the Back Reach had been

opened, as the boats would not $87 per share, sellers. A remand was ordered.

into quarantine from infected Alleged Murder.

have to drag over the bar, and

Hongkong Rope Manufactur-ports, or having suy suspicion of At any rate, the local Govern-

A marder is alleged to have repairs to their bottoms would

tom would ing Company, Ltd.--$113 per infectious dieenes on board. ment and the General Chamber

share, buyers.

Daring the year five ships were Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf detained in quarantine for the of Commerce might, sa s begin- taken place in Stanley Street last not be required. ning, put their heads together evening, when a man aged 38 Heungehan, the claim on the and the whether or not some such was stabbed so severely that he builders had been referred to and Godown Company-82 per following disesses:-Small-por,

3 calen; cholera, 7 essen. idea is within the range of pract. died. Another man was charged arbitration, and it would be out ical politice. Now is the time to at the Magistracy this morning in of place to say anything about share, sellers,

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. Mr. connection with the affair and a the matter at present. The op-$7 per share, buyers. act. The WAZ, 11

position, as they were aware, still A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.-} SINGApore taxatioN. Asquith stated, has certainly remand was ordered.

continued; there had been reports BARRIE-BANKS.-June 17, at Greenock, R. F. Barrie to opened our eyes to the full meen-

ing of the German system of Inspector Wilden made a search from time to time that it had been $19 per share, ex. div., bayers.

Hongkong High Level Tram- Thomasina, daughter of late T. Banks, Hongkong.

way Co., Ltd.-$85 per share CRAWFORD-TOMES.-July 1, at London, Major R. D. economic penetration,and the uses of a cubicle at 2, First Street yea-withdrawn, but somehow or other Crawford, D.8.0. R.A., to Gertrude Margaret, daughter of C. A. to which it is put in war-time. terday and found fire tuele of it didn't come off. It had been bayers.

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co. We know something of what that opium in a box ander the table. suggested by several large share- PAYNE HOYLAND. June 17, at Dore, Capt F. G. Payne, policy of" peaceful penetration" A women was charged before Mr. holders that the field of the Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal. of Shanghai, to Birdie, daughter of late G. E. Hoyland.media

WILLIAMS-GRANT MACKENZIE-June 24, al Harrow was doing even in Hongkong, F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court Company's operations might with Weald, Gordon Williams, Captain, the Welsh Regt, to Phyllis and no doubt much that is illam and was defended by Mr. Otto advantage be extended in the

prion by the retailers is to simply idating along the same lines Kong Sing, who applied for North, and unless mattere im- Janet, daughter of late J. Grant Mackenzie, of Shanghai.

could be revealed from other remand. The case was fixed to proved in the Canton River the

of the Far East. At any be heard on Tuesday morning question would receive the merions enough satisfaction to the rate recoup them for the Cuty, or is consideration of the directors. payers of Hongkong to be com-used to put on an ex'ra £queese,

On tobaccos the duty is either- The Hongkong Telegraph., now is the time for Allied next.

He then invited questions, and, pelled to stand by and witness interests in all parts of the world

there being none, moved the the expenditure of some quarter 40 cents per lb, or 75 cents. The the report and of a million of dollare upon a rates on each smoker's partionlar adoption of

building, the design and srrange- brand will therefore be either ten counts."

ment of which was condemned centa the quarter ib; or 184 cents. b. th by our late Governor and by The complete list is too long to..

epecial professional expert publish but these are some of the August I." Who can dispute, selected for the purpose; while a more popular brands.

Day 18 conte per lb.- after reading the debate in the comparatively futile structure, Legislative Council yesterday hideous in appearance, is sub- Ardath, Ospatan mild (and mix- upon the Central Market, that the stituted in its place, and whilst ture), John Cotton, Craven, strictures we have made lately the contracts, except for the shell Garrick, Grapnel, Glasgow Mix regarding the general disorganisa. of the buildinge, are purposely tare, Player's Navy Cat, Spring. tion of our Colonial Executive left to be subsequently made, so box Selections, Sweet Chertons

Three Castles, Three Nans,

Tomen, of New York,

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916.

HONGKONG AND EDUCATION...

י

Rear Admiral Ward,

War Lists.

.an

The Central Market Scandal.

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Tobacco and Cigarette Duties.

The elaborate table of the new tobacco and cigaretts duties published in the Gentile of“ Friday, will soable consumers

to judge whether the increase of

Daty 10 cents per lb-Bond

of Union; Capstan medium and fall, Golden Honey Dew (Ardath), Log Cabin Cope's Navy Out, Richmond Mixtare.

* Chiness, Indian and Japanese tobacco pays $10 per pikul, i.r. a tahil, of which the retail price ten cents a ostty, less than a cent

is from 5 ot 8 cents,

tɔ aim si securing the control of Rear-Admiral Neleon Ward, the products of their respective M.V.O, who has just bean ad- countries, and to make it impor-vanced to flag rank, was an officer sible for the Germans to regein of the old Barfear when the China the bold which they formerly on War of 1900 broke out. He served joyed in this and other respects. with the Naval Brigade landed. from the China Squadron, and The "Report of the Director of Education for 1915," which in just to hand, is what most of such masterpieces are, in that it tells Pulmonary Diseases.

took part in the expedition. He ne a good deal of what we know and a good deal of what no one

was navige ting cfficer of the Ophir wants to know—and, incidentally, omits much of what we really We have recently commented, when Their Majesties visited the should like to know. From the present Report, we learn; among on more than one occasion, on Colonies some years ago, other things, that the Colony spent $242.359 on education (after the alarming prevaleros of pal-

The Gazette publishes deducting school fees received) last year. If the Colony on sfford monary diseases among the Chin- to indulge its passion for education for educating the Chinese, to the ees community in Hongkong. A additional list of firms which areware not fully deserved? The that ample elasticity for the extent of laying out that amount" the largest spent in any year" remark in the annual report deal- being wound up under the TradCentral Market, having been stretching of the estimate to the or lewe source of pro- utmost endurance the public will in war time, our local finances must rarely be in a much better ing with the Tang Wah Hospital ing with the Enemy Amendment more condition than we bare imagined. The bulk of the pamphlet con-impels us to return to the subject. Act, 1918. There is also publish fessional trouble to the Sur. submit to, is left open." sists of excerpts from the examiners' reports of the different schools. It is there stated that there were ed, an amended list of perona veyor General's department of

The Pence of Europe. Beyond there, there in little, save the above-mentioned financial 472 cases of pulmonary phthisis and bodies of persons incorporst this Colony, our present Surveyor-

August 1" Lord Salisbury, statement and the very interesting announcement that two masters admitted to the hospital during ed sad anincorporated, with General, Mr. Samuel Brown, on from Government schools were lent to the Postal censorate and were last year, with a mortality of no whom trading is prohibited by the ples, we conclude, that at the Marsion House, stated that thur lost to the department, and that the Director of Education him- less then. 60.05 per cent. Dr. the Trading with the Enemy architecture was not his forte, he had never known European self has been largely occupied with Censorship dalies, and several McKenny, in making the report, (Statutory List) Proclamation, requested the Government to politicano tranquil, and dwelt upon obtain from England a specially the importance of the pacifis mzatera have been similarly engaged for various periods."

says that much improvement Hongkong, 1916, No. 3. One of the things which we should have liked to know is cannot be hoped for from any Snatcher Sentenced.. qualified professional man to sentiments promulgated by the whether or not a schcolmseter or Director of Education who form of therapy st present in use, F. A. Haseland at the Police Court expener, gentleman of high Guildhall."

A man was charged, before Mr. assist his department. A great Emperor of Germany at the leaves his school work for cansor dutine, draws both school and "ander auch general conditions censorship pay. This is not the place in which to talk about cenas must inevitably be found in a this morning, with attempting to repatition in his profession,

Melchers and Co. worship arrangements, but it seems to a rather hard on parents who hospital situated in the centre of anaich half-c-sovereign and a member of the Institute, and one are paying for education that their sons' schooling abould have to a densely populated neighbour.anmali yesterday. It appeared Institute to the Crown Agente house of Melcher & Co. celebrat-ordinary brands work out.

August 1.—The flourishing silver dollar from a woman in strongly recommended by the] safer merely for the convenience of this temporary department. If hood," That observation deserves the censorship dation are paid for, one would think that there are serious contemplation by the that the woman was walking along was sent out, and daly entered ed the twenty-fifth anniverary of many men in the Colony, not in Government employment whose Government, The alarming with her sister when the man upon his duties. Mr. Samuel their establishment here to-day. need of extra money is greater than that of the average Government growth of tuberculosis and allied rushed at her and attempted to Brown, in the meantime, had Open house was Espt at their servant, and who are quite as well-qualified for the duties entailed dinersce amongst the Chinese of take the money from her pocket, sesayed to fost in architzetaral office premises on the Frays and Abdallah's Virginian No. 1 20.63 se the average schoolmaster. But that by the way.

the Colony demands thorough She grab ed him sad he was realme and produced a design for many were the toata drank to the State Express Do Laze. 31.125

His the Central Market, the iden of Erm's continued anocera,”;. The main thing is that whether the Director of Education is investigation, and it is the duty arrested by s constable. absent or present, matters seem to go on pretty much the same, and of the apthorities to take special Worship sentenced the man to which seems to have bump taken the proportion of Chinese boys who speak and write intelligible mens, both parentirs and other two months' hard labour. English pretty magh what ji always has been a very wall one, wise, for combating the evil con

A quarrel took place between cities of Yokobsms and Tokio Angust 4-“Why is Hongkong It appears to me that our Education Department is very thorough sequences thereof, Sooner or in the things that do not matter and that it absolutely refuse to later, the establishment of some the engine stad and the deck wherein the frail Misterhood con- so utterly devoid of any provision Capstan Medium. apply itself to the two educational points that are of first importance: kind of sanatorian will have tots of launch which was at gregate. No sooner in the Govern for bathing? Why is the bleak Oyole**** The teaching of English and the providing of a middle-class school be taken into consideration.

The Palisade.

partly from the Gaol here, and Quarrel on a Lagach, partly from that quarter of the

Why ?

The duty on cigarettes is pro-- portionate to the amount of tobacco in them and their őza.. The table bere shows daty per thousand, easily translatable in 100% or 60s whichever size 'tin the castomer takes. A few of the

Brand

Duty

·per 100

do

5550911, 20.63 · Cope's Bond af Union 18.76 OM's Extrafing “Largo ́-

Egyptain

25.80%

19.35

9.52

Taikoo Dock and during the fight oe's back turned, thas Mr. Samuelsen beach and the golden strand Hebrau for boys of purely Europesa blood. These are the two things that

which ensued one of the men pro- Brown quarrala with his subord. all closed by rigorous penalties? Maspero Specials the Calesy sake of the Department, and that the Department inexor-

duced a very dangerous looking inate and makes the position, Why is all the water; in the inny ably decline to grant The result, of course, in that the business

weapon and stabbed the oozewain unbearable, that Mr. Wills has to colony, salt or freak, forbidden to i sa man who takes an office boy direct from soboal has to begin by

in the side. The man stabbed was leave the public service, to his the baked and swelterigy inhabit? kalpo ling la pub teching him English or else to put up with the annoyances that

so seriously hurt that He still serious inconvenienos, and ayant and stranger, wilkinsladi fro arise out of the youth's ignorauce thereof; and that the married. This evening at the Palisade, remains in hospital, Hin annuilset great peoquiary loss to the rate- gates? Way in it that the only also be man with a modarske, income must sabmit to the constant drain on Kowloon, the famous string band was charged before Mr. F. A payers. Salise It to Mr. fresh water obtainable is that supplied to householders through hispurns which she sanding of his boys Home to be educated of the Empress of Asia will attend. Haseland at the Police Court this Wille has since found no difficulty and pipes, and the only

plies When the Government can turn its augnet mind in the This, with the very fine pro- morning with causing grevious in ipining one of the leading a bath in the colony in

of plotures, should, bodily harm and was. remanded Civil Engineering Ernia in the direction of these two arying disgrisée and endeavour to abolish gramme

for s. week,

Colony. Thin is, however,« pod . it may begin to win the confidence and respect of the Chiness attract many patrons.

Toho answers, Why ?

toba

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