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MEDICINES FOR DOGS.

DOG POWDERS.

Flotoria Worm Powders. Naldine's

PARASITIN.

50

For killing ticks & fleas.

DOG SOAPS.

Watson's Antiseptic Dog Soap. Watson's Carbolic Soft Soap- Naldine's Dog Soap.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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NOTES & COMMENTS.

DAY BY DAY.

Sound Finances.

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CULTURE IS LIKE WEALTH=IT| If residents of this Colony MAKES US MORE OURSELVES, IT needed any evidence of its growth ENABLES US TO EXPRESS OUR- they were surely provided with it SELVES.--Hamilton, yesterday, when His Excellency

Yesterday's health ratorn the Governor delivered his annus? budget speech. Apart together shows there were two cases of from the fact that there has been paratyphoid fever and one case a fair amount, of new taxation of enteric fever. Imposed daring the past year it is indeed significant that the re- venue next year is estimated to Mui Street, Saikwan,

wore

OCTOBER 28

1971.

THE WAR MEMORIAL. the fog line. It was easily reach jad. by molocoar, being about

Problem Solved at Last...

persons

HONGKONG DIVORCE CASE.

Shanghai's First Decree. (From Our Own Correspondent)

Shangbai, October 28.

a twenty minute run: from the Post Office,

Dr. Harston, said the nurs

home would ba vary The great problem as to what ing

appreciated. To shall be done with the money much

hia collected for the War Memorial mind, there was a growing need after the cenotaph has been paid of a nursing home in the Colony for has been solved at last. At a to-day. There had bean secasions Mrs. Lana Singer was given the mesting of subscribers held in the when they had been badly in first divores in the British Cours Board Room, at Messrs. Jardine, need of accommodation, when the against William James Singer on biatheson's, yesterday afternoon, existing institutions were filled, the grounds of orgelty and

that the adultery. it was decided that a nursing The speaker hoped Two buildings on" Mei Chau home shall be built with the Committee would be able to build Judge Stinner Turner held that present, representing knew their intention was to build with a Japanese woman in Hong- ba over two-and-a-half millions burned to ashes, as the result of money. There were about twenty an adequate nursing home. BetSinger was guilty of adultery mors than it was last year-an of a fire on Wednesday evening $132795 out of the total sum of good nursing home and up-to-kong, and also a Japanese amab $135,700 subscribed (which does date, and when he said adequate and Chinese wash amah here. estimate which the Government at 6 o'clock.

not include money paid over from be meant sufficient to meet the The wife gets the custody of the itself has admitted to be coo-

An armed robbery is reported the Peace Celebrations). The growing needs of the Colony. It three children. servative. And one has to bear in mind in connection with this, from Capsuimon as having meeting was presided over by was growing very fast and he that the revenue from opium is curred on the 26th instant. It is Mr. F. Bernard, and others trusted that the members of the the Committee would allow room for were attanded decreasing at an enormous rate, stated that clothing and jewellery bo In 1920 the Goverment estimat- of the value of 81"1 were stolea Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock. K.C., adequate expansion. With these Hon Mr. H. W. Bird, Hon. Mremarks he would conclade. The ed that the profit on working the from a matshed.

Ho Fook, Han, Mr. Lau Chu Par Hoogkoos medical profession opium monopoly would be $6,000,-

May the fact that the Frime 000 whereas for next year it The Canton Chamber of Com Hon, Mr. A. G. Stephen (Hon would give to the Committee

Col. LG. Bird their best thanks.

Minister is gradually wiping off estimates that it will bring in merce recently petitioned Gon. Treasurer).

Rev. J

The Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird asked the arrears on his list of intended y $3,500,000. That is indeed a Chan King-ming and Gov. Ma Dr. G. M. Harston,

that the strain on his energies is for the increased capacity of the on rice at Wuchow in order to Montague Ede, R. M. Dyer, E Jin the home should pay. The Chairman: It is.

becoming easier? asks a Home Colony to bear legitimate taxation relieve the shortage of rice in Chapman, G. T. Edkins, M. J. D

Mr. Bird was afraid if that were | Journal. Some months ago, when we reflect that the revenue Kwangtung province. The peti-Stephens, Percy. Smith, A

* number of towns a5 a whole has grown to the tion states that rice is plentiful Dennison, E. P. C. Horaill, the case that it would not benefit when

Hull and M. J. Breen (Hon. Sec.)a large number of the population. wished to do honour to the extent stated above. Two years in Kwangsi.

This meeting." said the Chair. There were some, he said, who Premier the ceremonies had to be ago, in his budget speech, the

might not be in Governor told the Colony that

a position postponed through difficult mat- An alarm of fire was phoned man." has been called to put be- to pay Would it not beters of State and his own indis- it would have to bear the burden through to the Central Police fore you a scheme for a wat possible 10 make 2 rule position. Loads is to confer its of the falling receipts from opium. Station at 2.10 this afternoon memorial, which I hope will meet whereby those who had served at freedom on the Prime Minister, but it has done far more than that. The firemen turned out promptly with your full support.

the front might be admitted but Bath, which has been hoping for nothing?

to do so for nearly two years, has

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Acknowledgment.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall wish to express their grateful thanks for the many beautiful floral tributes and expressions of sympathy in the

loss of their beloved son Kenneth.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1921. CHILD LABOUR.

Perhaps

If the public bad, been told three bat after a search, in which the an apology is due to you for the or four years ago that it would C. S. P. joined in they were long delay in submitting a scheme The Chairman said that matter still some time to wait. have to provide revenue to the unable to discover any real cause to you, but as you will remember, would receive sympathetic con- extent of seventeen-and-a-quarter for the panic that ensued. A

in addition to the cenotaph, the sideration. They would do Early in September 1914 millions and at the same time chimper in a house at Staunton ides was to build a club for the what they could, but it was London would have had to make up a loss Street was supposed to bare on the opium receipts of two-and-caught fire, but on arrival it w/use of the Army, Navy and civiliaiñcult to make promises. They information from the War Office 275 We have just been in

warted to make the home self [a-balf millions, we should have found that the outbreak whichi formed that the Authorities

hand supporting. in heard a great deal of protest. To was a very small one bad already

scheme

Dr. Harston said his experience day it cannot be said that his been put out by the inmates.

which has made it necessary for us to abandon this idea of a club. rather bore out that point. It was Colony is in any degree over-

The recently established Union The Committee now have in view, possible, with adequate support, to give first-class medical at taxed; in fact we can still claim

one of the lightest of Chambers of Commerce is as an alternative, the erection of tention and still admit free cases. that we RIG

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the Government there

be substantiated

have

man received official

that his brother, a private in the Bedford, had been killed in the retreat from Mons. The family went into mourning, and the fallen soldier's insurance money £100 was claimed. received and divided as his will directed.

tice.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

When ye come to think of it Britishers as a whole in the Far

bo went to the

The sight of women and children toiling up to the Upper Levels under the burden of brick and coal loads must have caused a tightening of the heartstrings to many a witness. Sometimes the plea of economic necessity has taxed communities in the world. Kwangtung will hold an import-a first class nursing home, where They could ruske a charge for a month or so later his brother

and yet the Government is eajayant meeting next Tuesday medical and nursing attention frst-class cases, which would be from a vivid dream come to the relief of sentiment; sometimes a realisation of ing a period of financial prosper-elect officials for the Union. The would be provided in the most up- the hardships has caused the mind to reject this evasion. ity. This is in direct contrast to promoters of the Union and many to-date and practical manner. It entirely relieve, the Committee night, saying: "Tim's not dead. The Chairman said it was say he is a prisoner of war, that Such a feeling asserted itself in the early part of the to the contemporary experience prominent merchants have been is felt that this would be a grea: of the responsibility of free cases. He has just been in the room to

difficult at the present juncture to present year, with the result that his Excellency the of many another Colony, of many invited to attend the meeting. It boon to the Colony, and snob an

say what the fees would be, but we are not to worry, as he is all right." Despite family scepticism, Governor appointed a commission to inquire into the country and of nearly every is reported a membership cam institution cannot be expected conditions of the industrial employment of childreu. The city and borough in the Old paiga is soon to be started by the from private enterprise nor as if there were any deficit. hese brother stuck to his vision, Country. Living as we are in Union with a view to enlist per Government proposition alone. report of the commission has now been issued. We will times of slumped commerce and chants and the diferent Cosm His Excellency the Governor has the commercial firms in the and, sare enough, a postcard

stication on a proper basis. He however, attempt a brief survey of this extremely human of general trade stagnation the bers of Commerce throughout the been consulted, and has promised Colony would help to get the in arrived from Germany with the precise wording of the message his support."

might mention that the nursing in the dream. Incidentally, the document, which contains matter to cause disquietude to position cannot be anything but province as members.

gratifying to those who will give

The Chairman then read & bome would be available for insurance company was so im temperanents not addicted to emotionalism.

themselves the time to study the A successful whist drive was In many respects it is no exaggeration to say that matter. Things might be better held at the Catholic Men's Club letter from H.E. the Governor to Chinese, and was not intended pressed that it did not reclaim the £100, which the dead (3) man The proposition was then put lived to receive on his return the inquiry revealed conditions nothing less than appalling. here it is true, but by contributing last evening. In spite of other Sir Paul Chater, which was to solely for the use of Europeans

the effect that His Excellency the inquirer hand, there are cases in which the conditions our share to-day to the develop attractions there were 111 players considered the idea a good one to the meeting and carried nem from Germany after the Armis. improve upon acquaintance but even at that the state of things ment of the Colony we are he' present. The following were the

ing to lay the secure foundations prize winners: Men: 1. Mr. and, provided that the Committee con, and this brough: the proceed. demonstrates that there was ample need for some inquiry on which our greater prosperity Hewitt (176); 2. Mr. Bawden (176), were able to get a satisfactory ings to a close. In the matter of hours, for instance, it appears that these will rest. And it is really sur-3. Mr. Rowe (176); Mr. Wild scheme he would be willing to are seldom less than 70 per week, and, be it remembered, we prising with what ease

We are (175). Booby Prize: Mr. Bayley recommend to the Council that the Government submitdollar for (123) Ladies: 1. Mra. Spanton are dealing with child labour. There is no age restriction, cow contributing that share.

(170); 2. Mrs. King (187): 3. Mra dollar for the money subscribed and the position of affairs may be gauged from the circum-Educational Provision.

Sandford (162); 4. Mrs. Rudd (161) by the public, subject to a maxi- stance that one of the factories inspected deems it a sign of

From the educationists point Booby Prize: Mrs. Harrison. Mr. mum of $200,000, and also to The provide a site if a suitable ons grace that it does not employ children under ten years of of view the financial provision Pinches acted as M. C.

which means about nine allowing for the difference in which has been made for next opportunity was taken to bid could be found. This promise age.

particularly good-bye to Mr. P... Brown of was made on the Committee's the Chinese mode of chronology. Be it recorded that there year are some works where conditions are much better. Against pleasing, and whatever other the Naval fard, to whose efforts reliance that the Government the white man's real burden in East. Recently he was in America. · this there is definite testimony of girls working 133 hours accusation might be made against the success of the Whist Drive would not be called upon to make the white man himself and some whence

cants the Catholic Men's any further contribution in the them that pass through Hong- Antipodes and apart from calling a Club is almost entirely due. M, future and that the mistitation ong need a lot of watching. et Manila his first communication day after day for thirteen days, on the expiration of which scarcely they havearned () a day's rest. And some work overtime. charge of nizgardliness in would be massaged in the lot

We still next month sad carries with bitests of the community and not Sanitary folks stopping off for here ic Hongkong, that is no Even that number of normal working hours is not the cause of education.

tiffin and from what happened counting his fellow passengers :0 special the best wishes of all the members with a view to making a profit

"Up to the present time," afterwards they must have been and the officers on the St. Albans. limit. In glass factories (where the work is done mostly lack, and oxing

circumstances pertaining here of the Club. by boys") the daily task, including short intervals for shall probably lack for many

continued the Chairman, subasing their imagination as well And no sooner does that boat tie scriptions paid and promised to as their jaws, if what they said up in our harbour than be issues meals, is actually stated to last from 6 a.m. to 11 p... in years, compulsory elementary

the War Memorial amount to and wrote about this place was a statement through the big news which connection it may be added that children appear to be education, bat by revising and

They had our Secretary service agencies to the world engaged upon night work to a very considerable extent. The extending its system of capitation TO-MORROW'S PICTURE about $170,000, or a surplus after trat.

paying for the Cenotaph of about for Chinese Afairs nearly an- press at large on this important PAGE.

$145,000. It is hoped that many noyed for the best part of a question and bolsters it up wi young glass workers just noted, at the end of a month of grants and subsidies to verascu ar

who did not care to subscribe to Saturday forenoon and some of what must be "a gross mis- tionably extending the education. working 17 hours per diem (including short intervals for schools the Governmentis ungges

the Club will be found desirous our overwrought medicos on the statement of fact. Whether meals") receive a total of-me diútur. It is well nigh in-al facilities for the poorerclasses

The number of In our pictorial section to of subscribing to what would Sanitary Board were a bit miffed be's right or wrong or merely a credible. For that volume of toil. far more than any of Chinese. convict sentenced to penal servitude has to perform, and scholars in vernacular schools morrow we hope to reproduce unquestionably be of great benefit into the bargain. Lots of folks good guesser is beside the point.

for at the Taikoo position now before you differs here

local colour, we. British newspapers in the Far undergone in an artificially raised temperature and a shows an increase year by gear photographs as follow: Several to the commonits. As the pro- in the writing trade who come As a matter of fact the majority of

and it is possibly a wiser policy pictures taken vitiated atmosphere, these lads receive one of those dirty gradually to increase the assist Bowling Green last Saturday from the original scheme, it is don't mind so much, for fiction East favour the agreement being only lithographed lies continued wi'strong modifications. little scraps of paper that you throw down when ordering ance to the vernacular schools portraits of Miss Gladys Ramsay necessary to ask the subscribers' is

Dnyway Bod everybody has Granted, mind ye, so much oʻthat to live somehow. Come might be mere tosh and written a casual drink. We are forgetting-they are provided already established than it would and Mr. J. R. Johnstone, winners permission to devote their sub- with lodging and chow." In explanation it is stated that be to launch upon a big venture of the Harbour Races: view of a scriptions to this purpose. Of the lads are apprentices, upon which the commissioners in the direction of free education. pier of the Yellow River Bridge course, if this be approved. and to think of it, it's the folks that mostly by editors wi' their tongus overburdening the and Hongkong's first concrete some subscribers do not wish their we invite here for the specific in their cheek, but even then remark that it was difficult to believe that this was the Colony's educational equipment. vessel, both the work of Estab subscription utilized for a nursing purpose of telling us about our Lord Northcliffe couldna have case. for they greatly outnumbered the adult workers. There are many who question the lissement Brossard Mopin and a home, they may either ask for it selves, our homes, our water, our been aware of it, unless, of course, Their further commentary is tragic, as they assert that the Governments parsimony towards scene at the Peak Signal Station to be earmarked for the cenotaph harbour and the like. that are he's a thought reader as well as general appearance of the boys sugggested that few mould British schools and if the Govern during the recent Chung Yang or returned to them. I therefore always the most charg of letting something else. He may well now beg to propose that the sub-open the flood-gates of informa- feel, as I say, that this same scriptions to the War Memorial tion or opinion. I need only agreement is a bit out of date. reach man's state. Apprenticeship arrangements in the mens has a fault at all it is in this Festival.

over and above the amount re- refer to the FitzMaurice So long as be gave that as bis engineering shops read relatively well. An honourable ex- and Queen's College are coming

quired for the Cenotaph be devoted harbour report which is now very purely personal opinion, I'm the ception to the lack of amenities in the factories occurs in infor special treatment during the

to the erection of a Nursing much overdue, for you to get my last man in the world to quarrel' the case of Mr. Li Ping (one of the members of the commis-year ahead, a matter which will

But when he uses his Home'. When this has been paint. Again we often find wi' him. seconded. I shall be pleased to weird tales about Hongkong and undoubtedly powerful influence sion). Concerning casual labour the Rev. Mr. Wells gives give general satisfaction. Queen's

hear any remarks or answer any China in the papers from which and puts his name under a wild a moving picture of its effect upon little children, whatever College is very badly housed and located-it needs far more fresh

questions to the best of my we borrow information, written assertion of the kind, then as Joe may be said respecting adults.

air. And our University is again

Judge's Comment.

ability."

by people who are possibly the would say, the principle of In proposing remedies the commission was con-being generously assisted, being

Referring to a case which came to receive next year the

In seconding the proposal, Mr. victims of their own imagination. honesty in public dealing has been fronted with a host of difficulties. Some of the children due

can tolerate, grossly violated, we do our owa We must then, as the judge work at the saine factories as their mothers, who, it is said, bandsome sum of $186,000-this before the Summary Court isst C. Montague Ede said he went These things we

baing all in addition to the Wednesday and which was struck last week, with Sir Paul Chater, knowing as feel that they would not be secure if left alone. Just how magnificent sum voted to it last out because neither of the parties the Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen and limitations in that same direc said in the worms' case the other day, search for motive. To my far is this put forward as a justification for employing year out of the Colony's general nor their solicitors appeared, Mr. Mr. Dennison, to try and find a tion.

But yes sir, but when I mind there's one sticking out children? Some of the employers declare that they have exchequer. Oar University is Justice Gompertz this morning suitable site. Baving gons up the

in Jast Wednesday's like a wart on a Jew's nose. We no particular wish for child labour; on the other hand, certainly costing us a lot of money said neither party had given bis new road to the Peak, and read there are works which discharge the children when they but it is still a financially starved clerk any indication that the case having reached the apex and not Telegraph that Lord Northcliffe all know that this newspaper Linstitution, having regard to what was settled. The practice when found a suitable site, they re has found that Britishers through- magnate isna friendly wi' Lloyd reach a certain age on account of their fingers being no ja University in Hongkong should & case was settled was usually to traced their steps, and a little way out the Far East ware strongly George and if this latest bit o pro- longer nimble. A contention put forward is that the aim to be. Public support is, inform the clerk before ten above the hair-pia bead, which opposed to the Anglo-Japan- paganda wasns' spread broadcast and him bad for the purpose of making our children must work to live. Conversely, their employment perhaps, more needed than Gov o'clock. That saved people coming crosses Bowen Road, they found ese Alliance

time to site which they thought would scarcely gradts though

wash his Premier's task at Washington all the into Court. depresses adult pay; but for this it is feasible that their ornment

beve A solicitor in the case: I be admirable. It was protected face in the Colony, I think the barder them' I'm as big a parents would be able to support them. The committee's Colony's administrators

given & valuable lead. Viewing intended to call upon your Lord from the setting sun and the Gap imagination of that sort is twister as his lordship himself. Ay, coarse work, right enough, recommendations include registration of the children, age the Colony's provision for educ ship this morning to explain how behind the site would allow of the strained almost to the point o restriction, hours limitation, prohibition of night work, tion in 1922, there can be gained it occurred. I will call upon you Southern breezes in Summer cool-prevarication. Whatever is bis but it's an object lesson and an ing any premises erected on the lordship's private view of that insight into the crude methods by big men attempt non-employment in dangerous trades, and a limited weight the genuine satisfaction that we after the Court, if I may.

the His Lordship. It is always ground. It was about 450 feet agreement i think he's in no-way which our for casual workers' loads. This is at least a good start are progressing towards.

|desired goal.

possible to telephone my clerk, above sea level, and was below qualified, as yet, to speak for to shape our thoughts. upon a very difficult problem.

thereby

direction.

Saizingpun

School

SEQUEL TO NON- APPEARANCE.