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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1916.

LAVENDER TALCUM

Cruelty to Animals.

DAY BY DAY..

NOTHING OF WORTH OR WEIGHT CAN BE ACHIEVED WITH HALF A MIND, WITH A FAINT HEART, OB WITH A LAME ENDEAVOUR.

If there are any people in Hong- kong who are interested in the question of the prevention of cruelty to animals, they will bej glad to hear that the Shanghai, Bociety which concerns itself in this matter is still very much alive. The report of the Society's activities for the month of Septem- dull. ber shows that, in all, eighteen Camba ware" brought into Court, {dall..

IS REAL VALUE IN THE FINEST & PUREST convictions being obtained in

LAVENDER TALCUM

1 lb. Size for $1.00}TM

ANTISEPTIC. SOOTHING. HEALING. KEEPS THE SKIN COOL AND HEALTHY.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Telephone No. 16.

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As to the nature of the offences, these included overcrowding of geese and chickens in orates and baskets, currying docks head downwards, working ponies whilst in an unfit state, tying pigs on to wheelbarrows and skinning frogs whilst alive. From the recital of

In Hongkong,

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other instance a coolie was fined

The Weather.

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Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 77;

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To-morrow's Anniversaries. To-Lorrow in the 501st anni- Tersary of the Battle of Agincours and the 62nd of the Battle of Balaclava,

A Preventive Officer. «

HONGKONG WAR LOAN.

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THE BRIBERY CASE,

One Prisoner Found Gullty,

CORRESPONDENCE.

with its huge population, İstitutes one of the greatest

în Asia to the planter, manns facturer or miner who deni The opinions expressed by the cheap labour to compete with correspondents are not necess- local conditions. Tonking, an is arily those of the Hongkong well known, requires China

passing either in or out-even

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It will be seen from car ad- vertising olemas that the pro- INDO-CHINA'S POSSIBILITIES, when en route to Tuznanio

have passports, and by the im pectus of the Hongkong Govern-

called a Trantit Tax. (whereby all ment Six Per Cent. War Lan (To the Editor of the Hongkong position of a most inquitous tax has now been issued, and that

Telegraph.)

goods destined for China entering subscriptions are now invited.

Sir, The extremely interesting | Uniphong for transit up the Yun- The proceeds of the Losa are to subject brought before your nan railway pay twenty per cent. be handed over to the Imperial Go- verament as a war contribution readers by Mr. Moore-Bennett in of the import tax into Touring for guaranteed by the Government of dealing with the extension of the as a port of entry) has done from the Colony. The Loan in your issue of October 13 last, the privilege of using Haiphong entenis between France and Great much "to irritate both Chinses Hongkong and is secured by the Britain, deserves notice at the and foreigners, whilst the sliding revenue of the Colony.

hands of British and French | sosle of taxation of importa based. The Loan is being issued in Chambers of Commerce, and, if on the ues of French abips most, denominations of $100, 800, you will permit me the use of so long as it is persisted, in; $1,000 $5,000 and $10,000, and your valued columns, I should affectually prevent Indo-China is fres of local taxation. The price like to enlarge on a few points from ever actively competing of issue is $100 per cent. and missed by Mr. Moore-Bennett in with colonies which are adminis these facts it will be gathered

tered on broader principles. that the Shanghai Society, unlike

interest is payable half-yearly, his article. the first coupon being payable on Indo-China is undoubtedly rich, Provided that a broader policy our own deceased organisation,

May 1, 1917. Applications for potentially, and the French of administration be entered upon, realises the obligations which it

subscriptions must be made to Government has undoubtedly and adequate shipping facilition has undertaken to discharge, and

University of Hongkong, the Hoogkong and Shanghai done a very grest deal in certain established, there is no reason. is systematically engaged in

A Congregation of the Univer Banking Corporation and must directions to aid its nationals in why American and other foreign rating out customs which, made light of by the average Chinese sity of Hongkong will be held in be accompanied by a deposit of establishing industrial, mineral ospital should not be interested in which of the lower class, are essentially the Great Hall on Thursday, 25 per cent, of the amount and agricultural works, by the the country, and it must be building of roads, railwaye, obvious to everyone who studies December 14, at 5.30 p.m., at applied for. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule

names and addresses with repugnant to sayons possessing which the Chancellor of the Uni- forward their

The subscription list closes on massume, eta, but, at the same the question that it might be requires them to communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for a scrap of fesling.

veraity, Bie Excellency the Gover or before November 15.

time, the Governments both of better for France in every way to publization, Sut as an ovidence of their bona fides.

nor, will confer degrees. Admis

Frares and Indo China have, by have British and American capital |sion will be by invitation.

their policy of szolosion, done mainly responsible for the de M. C. L: Bazaar.

much to drive existing foreign velopment of this Colony then to We are glad to see, however,

Lady May requests us to stale

ospital from their colony and have Chinese and for Japanses that, though the Hongkong that the Ministering Children's

much to prevent foreign capital capital. Society is still content to let

entering.

To-day, with the abnormal To name a case in point, freight conditions prevailing, things slide, our Police are League bazaar will take place in

Cochin Chins hus, as is well Xado-China is prevented from occasionally minded to take up Government House Garden on oruelly prosecutions. Last week Saturday, November 11. It is in

known, some 260,000 hectares of being 68

great an aid to there were two cases brought to aid of local charities for children

land eminently suitable for the France Er would otherwise the notice of the Magistrate, and and the "Obildren of the Empire Fand for disabled and blind

cultivation of rubber. Eight be the case, as neither beans nor convictions obtained. In ons

The conclusion of the case in years ago, the General Rubber maise can be exported nor oam case it was shown that chickens soldiers and sailors" and the messenger. Paak subscribers can have their copies delivered at were packed into a crate which "Belgian orphans in Belgium." which two Chinese were charged Company of New York, wosking| cargo space be obtained for many As the Christmas parcel post closes with offering a bribe to Inspector to commence plantation opera- other exports. Maise, which in had no matted base, the on November 16, an excellent Wilden of the Revenue office, tions, sent its Vice-President, Mr. produced largely, and which costa the result thai, when

for whilat he was making a seizure Hotchkiss, to investigate the re-on to the opportunity is provided

average fifty dollars crate was dropped on ground, some of the chickens got residents to purobase their pres of opium, and which we reported lative merits of different rubber (Mexican) per ton f.o.b. Haiphong, st some length yesterday, wAY reached before the Paisne Judge growing lands in the Eset; and the costs 260 francs per ton to ship Straits, Cochin Chins and Sumatra from Haiphong to Marseilles (say their legs broken, whilst in the eats at this bazaar.

Before Mr. Hazeland, at the (Mr. Justice Gompertz) late last were all examined by this gentle $85) and China beans which can for carrying birde by their wings, Police Court this morning, a evening. a custom which, he said, was com-Chinese was charged with striking

man as possible sites for their be put fo.b. Haiphong for sixty The jury, having retired to estates. Whilet the land and dollars per ton cost 290 francs mon in Canton, It is common

a Revenue Officer while in the consider their decision, returned olimatic conditions in Indo-Chins per ton to deliver to the enough here, too, but the Magis execution of bis duty. It was a verdict of not guilty against the were found to be good, the gor same destination (y $98). trate made it quits plain that stated that complainant had been firet prisoner, who was according: eramental conditions were found Hence it would seem that there Hongkong does not approve of it! Instances of the kind quoted can searching st Jardine's Wharf, and ly discharged. With regard to to be impossible, especially as re are two things necessary in order be met with simost any day in the was walking down the street the second man, they found him garda export taxation, company to make Indo-China, attractive to when he saw defendant end a guilty by a majority of 4 votes to formation and labour, with the re- foreign capital-krat, a broader Colony, and yet prosecations are very few and far between. When all boy, the latter having some 3, which could not be accepted. salt that the Company took up adminstration, and, secondly, the will the Hongkong S.P.C.A. rise thing ander his cost. Complain- After another consultation, leat 90,000 acres in Sumatra, on which establishment of adequate ship- ant went up to them to searching for half-an-hour they found they DOW hava planted ping facilities. Given these again?

the boy and defendant stopped the man guilty by a unanimous | firs million air hundred essentials, then I bays not the and strack him. Defendant now vote.

thousand trees, which yielded four least hesitation in believing that THE PORTUGUESE AND MUTUAL AID.

denied that he had struck him.

Sentence of nine months' hard | hundred and seventy thousand Indo-China will, within the next. A fins of $15 was imposed.

labour was passed and a fins of pounds of dry rubber last Sep- two or three decades, receive the Hongkong and Alcohol. When the Portuguese Mutual Aid Society was inaugurated Frankfurter Zeitung

Bays Kelly's Monthly Trade $100, or another three months, Lember, and which will yield attention from outside. capital double that in the near future. that its potentiel richness war- last year, wè ventared to prophesy for it a speedy and undoubted cassing the German censorship success. The association has now been in existence since the begic-and demending that political cri- Review:-An the result of the Was inflicted.

This estate now employs twenty rants; but if present methods are ning of June 1915, its membership is in the neighbourhood of four ticism should be permitted by the war, Great Britain has not been

Americans in its technical depart persisted in, then Indo-China hundred, and there seems every likelihood that snother year or so overument on broader linee then able to supply all the alcohol used

ment, one hundred and eighty seems destined to fall into a back- will see that number donbied. As its name more or lean tolla e, possible in England," says the stores, etc., where alcohol of

is at present the case. "This is in Hongkong in hospitals, drag

Europeans in the plantations, bas] water, parsed by for countries the Society exists as a means of enabling the Portuguese of Hong Biche journal; and nobody high quality is required, and

over fourteen thousand coolies on affording greater oppertunities. 7 kong and the China Coast to help cas another. The Portuguese of should try to make us believe Japanese merchanta ha vestepped

its payroll and constitutes a valu-| Frazos might well copy Great this part of the world are an amiable people; industrious, patient,

sble asset to any country in which Britain in her colonial adminstra loyal, and anxious to live si pace with all men; and, in a general behind the English in political trade. However, we hear now

German nation is in and taken a good part of the Impending Retirement after 38 it is established.

tion, so the latter country has a way, they have but one failing: they are not rich. Bach a crime is

maturity. At a rough guess that severe complaints have been

All that Mr. Moore-Bennett aay's greatcolonial tradition behind her, on that mankind is very slow to overlook, and, in this instance, it!

we should say that this is lodged against the alcohol which

regarding the potential richness of and, equally, Great Britain might bae caused the Portuguese to be held, to some extent, at arm'e

just one of the many directions the Japanese merchants have been

Indo-Chins, in regard to the well copy France in the service length. Many of them, we know, here an idea that it is race pro wherein Germany is very decided-sapplying, and it would seem that

im which her officiala personally give We understand that Mr. Francia necessity of establishing jadice which is responsible for this semi-banning; but they are. quile wrong. If they were a wealthy community they would have behind us. Britain realised many now is another opporianity for Arthur Hazeland, First Polios proved commercial and political her nationals. In the general more British friends than they would know what to do with.

exportera of high-class sloohol to Magistrate, will retire on Decem-relations between French and argument Mr. Moore-Bennett sets Plodding though they may be, the Far Eastern Portuguese, the people's strongest weapon, enter into friendly competition ber 1, sfter serving for 38 years British colonise, is admitted by forth, everyone interested in the more often than not, lack initiative and "push": they will work well as the finest tonic that any with our friends the Japanese. in almost every judicial capacity everyone who knows anything development of the Eset, and in An Impudent Coolle. the Colony bas to offer. He will about the subject; but unless the the retaining of European and harder for another man than they will for themselves, and thus, while

Indo-Chins American Colonies in the East- ernment that dreads publicity is. "The defendant sold complain not retire on pension until Febru-power-that-be in their Chinese neighbours grow rich in their own peculiar manner, generation after generation of Portuguese go to the graze without lo altogether straight, and ant that if he had not money ary next, but, as there is a certain change their viewpoint and ra- must be in agreement with him: The cut-throat policy exercised this the Germans of all people enough to pay coolies he should amount of rication due to him, move the many disabilities which ever having made more money then will suffice to keep them in res should know. Prow censor not engage them,” said Inspector he will relinquish his duties in now exist in that country in re- during the nineteenth century that much, and it was in view of this melancholy fact that ship, like spying, interfering with Sullivan, at the Police Court this December, as stated, and will gard to employment and imports by European politicians has done

private correspondence, peeping morning in the case of a

man leave for Home, where he intends tion of anteide labour, export much to lower the prestige of the some of the more enterprising of their race conceived the through keyholes and eavesdrop. alarmed with disorderly conduct, to reside in London, though tazee on finished products, im-white man and little to aid him in idea of saking them to band together for mutual help. ping, is in the blood of the Ger- The Inspector said complainant Devonshire man with Devonshire pork taxes on machinery and cementing his position; and any Many a man who will not help himself will very readily ocms to

plant, company formation by agreements that could be brought the saintance of another; and, bearing this excellent trait in mana; sad only a small percent (a Eurasian) was in a rickahs connections.

age of them. is ever likely to going to Baiyingpan School. mind, the promotere determined to give it an opportunity of bringing realise the enormity of these When he was in Salt Fish Street, and was appointed as clerk to the American capital will show say joint coordinated policy for the Mr. Hazeland was born in 1861 foreign capital, etc, it is to be about between France and Great feared that neither British ar Britain for the establishment of a itself into fall and useful play. They founded the Ancien things. With the Britisher it is defendant chased him and helped Paine Jadge in November 1878, great eagerness to forsake lands protection of their colonial inter- Portuguesa, by joining which their nationals make themselves different. There is something to push the ricksha. Complain later (in 1882) seting sa Deputy where conditions are more equal, esta deserve the #apport eligible for certain benefits and at the same time pledge themselves in his blood that in hostile to any ant never saked him te pash, bat Registrar. Since then be haz og er Indo-China, where insularity of everyone who has the welfare to establish a like eligibility for others. Every now member increases sneaking interfereres, and nothing when Saiyingpan School was capied the following positione:is carried to a higher pitch then of Asia at heart. To Americans the power of the organisation to do good, and thus it is greatly to could ever make him reconciled resched complainant gave him Clerk to the Chief Justice 1883; in any foreign-governed country not less than to British or French be hoped that all those Portuguese who have not yet enrolled will to it. Oar war censorship has five cents. Defendant was very soting chief clerk Colonial

subjects the matter is one of real a laughable failure angry and ecised his cost, at the Secretary's Office, 1890, noting The association is a benevolent society in the cospted sense; throughout-and that vary factis came time saying "If you alerk of Councils, 1890, Deputy China and ita conditions, not only amount of interest America is Americans have examined Indo- interest, in view of the increasing but it is also something more. In addition to enabling its members indirectly great compliment to cannot afford to pay cumshs you Registrar and Accountant 1898; in regards to rubber but also in taking in Asia and the amount to draw money when in distress, it has established Industrial, Edaca as as a nation. The very men who ought not to ride in a rickshs." Acting Registrar, Superintendagards to minerals, and if equal of attention that is now being tional and Miscellaneous Fonda-the last-named "for the promotion were told all for the censoring His Worship inflicted a fine of ent of the Court, Official Trastes, opportunities had been permitted given to industrial opportunities of any of the objeola authorised by the Society's Memorandam, other did their work half-heartedly and $3, or, in default, seven day's Registrar of Companies and Land to foreign capital in this Colony, as requiring outside ospital for their than the objsate for which specific fonds have been provided." The abstractedly, for they happened hard labour." object of the Industrial Fand ie" to promote industrial undertakings mostly to be gentlemen, to whom Portuguese community," while the the ides of reading other partons"

The Hongkong Telegraph-

HONGKONG. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918.

sonable comfort. There are times when they do not even achieve

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likely to benefit

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Our “Political Maturity, "

Yesterday quoted the

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COMPANY, LIMITED.

Educational is sub-divided into three: "School Fand", "Portugose correspondence, whether private HONGKONG TRAMWAY School Fund", and University Fand". The expenses or for publication, was extremely at the Hongkong University are exceedingly moderate, it is true, distastefnt. The British cannot so when compared with those often incurred at Hom; but it is on sensor pidgin-and we are proud. ceivable that they may still be beyond the parses of naderpaid of the fap "parents of large families, especially since, while young man n studying there, be cannot-as is the case with London University be earning his living at the same time. The only foros that can raise the majority of Portuguese lads above a life of perpetual clarkdom is higher education; and «inow there is a univarsity slmost at their doore it seems a million pities that they should not have the fullest Road opportunity to profit by its existence.. Ia shin direction alon

Bagging Nuisance, memasQant, who mude Queen's Kost his hunting-ground,

charned be

The following is the approxi- mate statement of traffic receipta for the week ending October 21, 1916

MR. F. A. HAZELAND.

Years' Service,

in Asia.

Officer 1895-96; Acting Police Mag is permitted in British poussions development.

intrate 1990-01; End. Police Mag-in the Essl, extensive miners! Thanking you, sir, and enclos istrate, 1901; soting Furst Police rights would have been taken up ing my card. Yours etc. Magistrate and Coroner on several and worked in 1908 and 1910, me

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cossions; 1st. Police Magistrate well as at a later date; but all and Coroner, 1909; Acting At investigations have so far proven Shanghai, October 19, 1916. torney General 1900-10; Acting at Indo-China sovine, ramarvad Fairs Judge, various dates from by the Government of Venace for 1910 to 1916, and Chairman of the Squatters Board, 1910-11. |

Receipts Aggregate Mr. Hameland was called to the for week. Receipta

Bar Lincoln's Inn in 1900. Ha

The Colony's return of for the