SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1894.
H.M.S. Rattler has arrived from Canton, so it may be préaumad no further trouble is suticipated in that quarter.
Our Shanghal evening contemporary publishes for what it is worth a rumour that the Chias Merchants' foot is to be turned over to the German flag.
Sevan robbers, caught plandoring various plague-stricken, bouses, were executed, re- cently at Canton. Punishmsat in Hong. kong for the same offonos is not so 'dratio
EARLY in June the embankment of Fung
bing-halen of the Nazeleg. Prefecture of Kiangsi collapsed, and upwards of two hundred people were drowned,
THE FLAGUE IN HONGKONG,
Mr F. Henderson, Secretary to the Geveral Chamber of Cʊmm-ree, courteously sends us a ongy of the following telegrami, dated 23rd June -
H. B. M. Conel, Chefuo, to Hongkong Government.
Shipe arriving from Hongkong and Can- ton subject to medical inspection; if infect-- od subject to quarantino
By the kind permission of Liest,-Colonel
Apropos of the peculiar liability of rate Harrow and Officers, the Band of the Bong to infection by the plague, it is interesting kong Regiment will play the following pro-to find primenis ate quoted in Nature au harity of Dr Alení, whose experiments" gremme in the Public Gardens to-night, of the 3rd May, that the same animal is Saturday, the 23rd inst., ommencing at 9 readily susceptible to the bacillus of Lyphoid
fever. o'deos :-
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Eons Andrew.
THIS morning at the Magistracy, Edison Crowe, Chief officer of the Nova Scotian ship Selkirk, was brought before Me H. ., Wodehouse by Detective-Sergeant Holt,
nawed John Kenaady on the high evas on 18th March last. Considering the serious asturs of the charge, it would of course, be unfair to way anything that could be construed as prejudging the case; but, from all accounts, the 13th of March must have been a lively day on board the selkirk The captain and the chief mate have both beon convicted already of committing brutal assault on another seamen, and afthough as oppost has been intimated on behalf of the captain it is difficult to see how the overwhelming mass of evidence fur the prosecution is going to be set aside. If the accounts given by the men are true-and the Police Magistrate believed thew in the brot
has been a mort point whether the foul a rising from draina was in itself an efficient cause of the favor. Experi- ints want to prove that in the ordinary bat Pan nations, aren from foal drains, fuw batculi, and shore mostly of harmless kind, were to be found; and Dr Alessi took the subject up experimentely to set result was that the question at rest be and that cap sure to nower-gas weakened the constitution, and rendered the subject much more susceptible to puisin. Of forty-nine rate expared in an atmosphere of over-gas and afterwards alightly virulent culture of the typhoid bacilius, thirty-seven died, exhibiting the usual symptoms of typhuld infection. forty-one rats inoculated without previous expusnes on y three died. Similar results abtained with rabbits and Quinea FOTO pigs. On the other hand, of those who urvived the breathing of the newer gut for more than a fortnight, the percentage f deatha was much less. The immunity of men onstandig splayed in cleaning drains, which has been frequently noted, is thus apparently accounted for, and is not to be accepted us a proof of the barmless. neas of these foal emanations.
The following are the statistic for the twenty-four hours to noun 10-day :-
the last six works.
THE CHINA MAIL.
That it should be borne in mind the Board draws, and as he lost all the games he had has never in all ita existence had so mens played with Meere. Humphreys, de Jeans responsible duties thrust upon it as it has"! heep Calthfully trying to perform daring Jurp. Cooko and Piercy these gentlemen will by deprived of the points won by them, That it must be tomembered its powers were Du account of special circumstances, it was increased in order to meet the emergener decided by a majority of the members to That the greater responsibility always rest allow Mesara, Bischoff and Brune Shepherd
ed, la ordinary times, more with the Pre
to-faish off their adjourned game in the silent than with the Sanitary Superio
*I would suggest shut sanitary regula tendent.
fourth draw.
tions should be published and that the The following draws have been made for sanitary at fehould be empowered to order! owners of property to maks necessary alteį next week :--
rations, such as the provision of additional window space, the removal of obstruc- tigos from alleys and fanes, the pavement of these and the fuors of bones, the improvement of drains, and that a law by wire that it is currently reported, both in should be made by which the orecation of Shanghai and in Tientsin, that the Japaness
penaltion.*
To affuet inegar improvements, which would
involve the expenditure of a sering proportion of the year's rent, especially when it is a qusation of remedying defects in original struction, rather than those what these conditions are, but it is under- arising from neglect or misunge, the Go-toed the Chinese will not accept them. Of vernment should, on the recommsodation
When the foreigners reached their house wards the English ideas, making too little resolutions withcut unporcseszy delay; and allowance. Lue Chinoso scuditions. Public Health Ortinangs hys down 9.0 with the proviso that the chief of the Public The ruscots requested them to go in a Tho the appointment of its own officers, but they passed in quietly amidat lie throng. cubic feet as the timu, and even that Works Department shall be the Surveyor room where they sat for an hour and has not yet hen auferoed.
to the Board, In order to abviste any divid-half, listening to the laughter and juers of should at least be grated with ales, hedded poblia eaweza.
• Earthen Boo' should be prohibited, all od rrapunaibility as to bones drains and the hundreds without, feeling, in their very helpless condition very much like concrets. That is a]
Paul, who, after describing his chama and stripes and shipwrecks, mention at lasti his being let down in a basket over the city wall-the loss of his Chelakian manhood, The next morning the missionaries had to leave, not, however, before they had obtained a copy of a very sati-Forsigu proclamation (by the Kisngrió Magistrale) which had been posted during the night on their door. The Cathelios have a large Cathedral in Kiang-yln, and 37: chapala : in the district. It would seems that greater privileges are allowed to the Freach than
before the Consular authorities at Chin their troops will not retire from Cores, ex-kiang. Will they be able to secure, the depting on certain conditions which they are punishment of Chang B-fui-Mercury, determined to enforce. It has not transpired
Then, I approhoad, we should have a On the au jet of reinedia! measures, Mr Board worthy its high and important Chadwick saya t-
so, mely, the onservation of the health of the people.—Yours,
RATEPAYER
That the Gaverctor ought to have known
that fe: before be stacked, vt iufe rentially, a public officer whose zeal for the public good has never been ques- tioned.
That the entire question of mutation has been brought into a hidecor muddle, in about the only thing which comes clearly out of the perplexing discussions that That we have ainsidy ben told by Sir Wil-
have taken pizce.
liam Robins that he knew nothing shout the rubi et, and his action or in action since then would appear to streng then the statonrent made by His Ex-| cellency.
That it may be ungenious to say so, but it
dora reem as if this Plague emergency has been almost too much for the Gov-
ernor.
That it may be doing both the Govarnar and the General an injustice, but the general feeling of the community ia that had General Barker been acting he would have shown more decision and more promptitude in action thau has been apparent as yet under the provont regime,
lu civil matters as a rule, but when, apos
SZY ENTH DRAW.
Reid Jupp. Cowen
Francia,
Moses v. Gutierrez, Howell o. Hant,
*** Blschiffe Cooke,
De Jesus' Brues Shepherd.
Humphrey, Pireg."
KIGHTH DRAW. Francis Bisa!ff," Reitv, Shepherd. Pieros o Japp.
Cuake. Cowen,
De Jesse. Howell.
Hunt u. Meas.
Gutterriz. Humphreys,
THE CRISIS IN COREA........
LATEST INTELLIGENCE. Our Shanghai sorrespondent informs us
| ibena orders could be enforced by suitable officials have authoritatively announded that to the Americans. The case has been laid
of
the
AMOY. (Mercury Correspondent)
16th June,
the sanitary authority, carry out the course, the alternative must be serious. Our At last the rate has scised, and ine wrez- accossary works shemselves, paying for the correspondent states that the position is there now prevailing.A great deal of da work out of an improvement fund, sot side critical, and we may expect soon to learn mage has been done up country by the fort- for the purpose, and cecavaring the either that a compromise has been arranged in, and bean washed away and many lisas mught's goutinuous rain, houses having fallen penditure by weans of a rate on prus perty, repaying both principal and interest or that war has been declared.
José At Kulangsoo, a native house fell in, in, oxy, 30 years, at the end of which time
killing four obildren; many waile collapsed The N.-C. Daily News of the 18th inst. and many of the roads were wasted away, There is a great deal of valuable matter it would done. The work would be wall in the Report on the Sanitation of Hougand cheaply dons, aut the annual coa to states in regard to the insurrection: Kearly every European houss on the Island the landlord would be insignificaut. It is source with reference to the recent severa
News received from a private native is leaking.
A GLANCE AT MY CHADWICK'S REPORT OF 1882.
almost every house referred to by Ar Chadwick, to illustrate his report on io- sanitation, has been visited by the plague. Let us take a few observatione from the Repert
Our tea sun is in full swing, and, since
Berived this mor-
charged with causing the death of a seamau in uxisted with a minutaqa sutity of a vary That I don't favour Military Goverment kong addressed by Mr Osbert Chadwick to understood that the Guvernment of Bongbaitle on the 12th instant, between the my last, we have had the Empress of China the Crown Ag-uts in 1889. It may be re-kong have certain funds derived from berean troops and their allier, the Chinese, and the Gaelic, which arrived on the 34th Amergency, the choice lies between a marked that, whatever way have ted this licenses of gambling houses. the expen against the Tunghsio rebels, stater that the inst. The former loaded 860 tons af, civil government with no back bone and awull-known specialist to modify his viore purposes. Surely the improvement of the ene battery of Krapp horse artillery and 750 Shanghai and Japan, The Gudic, which ditors of which is reserved for charitable Chinese troops numbered 4,300 infantry, and left the same day for Vancouver, ria Brm, decided and comprehensible rule of
o drainage several years enbeequent to dwellings of the puor is a onaritable under gavelry, while amongst the Coreane only remained in the outer harbour and the m a military man. then give me the
* of the military chief. guidanc
tha publication of this report, his observa- taking?.
In the case of some of the worst houses then had arms of precision, while press left, for wafaty, loaded 700 form of tes That I have been trying to discover whal
the Governor of the Colony has done. tions as sanitation are painfully truthful, which are not capable of improvement, the another 3,010 were so much rabble, During and left this morning for San Francisco, via the pursuit of the defeated insurgent set- Japan. The & lege York. She faries tho Corean exhibited considerably perannally or officially, and there is a when viewed in the lurid light of the past bust plan would be for the Government to
sing, and is loading for difficulty in the way all the time.
two months' experienco. Quriously enough, purchase them, for which the law providan, mars bloodthirstiness than did the Chinese i will probably lenye to-morrow.
and re-build and then of thou. With soldiers. With reference to the above letter, That, by the help of Cled and an afmixture
good management, the ultimate due to the the writer states that the number of the from the northern light-houses, and soon left On the 10th, the R.C. Pingching arrived af common sense (moly unofficial), we hope to defeat the Plague and save the
Colonial Treasury would be email, for ad ditional Recommodation might be given is roops noted above caunot be exactly vouch for Fisher Island and South Cape, after Colony even yet. That this week roust be celebrated in local
the new houses, thereby increasing the ed for, but it is a fair approximation accord-landing the Quemoy Spit whistling, busy for ing to the information received by him, its anttal repaint and overhaul. She re from various sources. Instead of being turned again to-day, and will now visit the history as the period when the Bouhsm
sulling value.
To demonstrate the advantages which kidnapped (as was rumoured), by the J-wouthern lights. Strand drain was partially cleared.
may be derived from good construction, panese, it seems that the Cureau King was That these words may not succeed in con
Both the design and construction and to show that they may be secured in hiding all the while at the Chiness Resi voying any historical notion to those who of ziating buildinge is defective without any considerable additional cost, it do not fally realize the facts.
the Building Ordinazon requires complete will be well to construct sumo model dwell-dency, and could not be persuaded to return That all the game, while a fight is being
to his own palace. inga continand whereby the Public Works revision. The omended low must be en forced with more rigour and intelligenos
Before offering new building lots for
ANTI-FOREIGN DISTURBANCE Department struggle to retain control of than at present, particularly as to alleys, sale, it is ros: desirable that the roada
AT KIANG-YIN. the public sewara, au admitted scandal itunes, and open spaces. The new law was should be laid out and graded, and the exposed which prowes their incapacity obtained, but its inteligent and rigorous drains constructed By this, mach trouble for or negligence in the performance feni reement was het asex to Ruch a duty.
The system of house drainage is radict That I do not intend to go into this querely bad. The wh to of the buildings within tion of divided responsibility, because the town require re-draining, and unl se do not think the responsibility is very ihm is done but little health-imprev381‹nt | 29977d.ng to the existing level of the the beautiful trees and the splendid views instant, to lamen that China had sent 3,000 fairly divided, if the P.W D. will choke will be made. up the drains. produce plagaes, and then
An to cost of
of re-drainage ho says-It is try to throw the blame upon the Board, unjust to compel a landlord to pay a lump or any one slee who will bear it.
virtually recuived official sanction.
Case***
Adminiona..
there ought to have been another prisonar Deathe...
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On 3.
Dischar
MADIS
in the dock by the side of the chief Undertreat- mate this morning. It appears that while the vessel
ToyzLu from New York to Japan, the gallay wan broken into 〇も
and night, piece of wood called a "firi,' worth about 10
8
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* on. Hennedy,
8 Total.
Increase
2
THE TREATMENT OF CHINESE PLAGUE PATIENTS HUMOURED INTERFORENOG OF THE TSUNG-II TAMEN.
It is rumoured that tolegraphic .in-
The Kiang-yin hills aro well known to
TIENTSIN. (Mercury Corresponent.)
11th Jans. The oxcitement about Korea is subsiding. Their Excellencies the British Minister, Me O'Cover, and the new acting Russian will Le saved. For instance, on the east of travellers on the Yangtza. Un the sides Minister, Mr G. Waohor, left here on the town the level of certain vagant build-and at the foot of those hills are thirtoon Saturday evening by boune-boate for ing love is so low, that if houses are built camps, which, with the fine rescatamized Pekin. Mr G. Waeber was very much military toads running in every direction, surprised, when he arrived here on the 8th grand, there will considerable difficuby
will be
from the heights, make them one of the soldiers to Korea, He told the Viceroy in draining them. If the linuses are erect-
that it surprised him, and asked how it all ed first, the streets and draine must best picturesque places in central China. onde to sa t ile houses. If, on the other there two months ago and received the 2nd, and bid good bye to
The Southern Presbyterian Mission went came about, as, when he left Sbal on the the King of Koret, there appeturbanos in Korea. He to be me sign of proper levels and gradients, the It will be just and expedient for the Ochotas: will naturally be built to these large number of houses were offered for any vary great with ai duo Fed-vernment to pay for their executiva out of levels, and they can then be dreined with 1th, nome of which wore unsuitable for enquired into the particular reason why
general revenue.
ceata, was stolen. Two men were accased formation has been reveived by the author-That the reply of Mr Tooker (Acting) am for remedying defects which Lave hund, the streets and drains are made fire, warment recaption from the p
of the theft-one Patrick Flynn and the lies to this Colony that the Toung-li other John Kennedy. Figan, the first to Yuen has communicated with Her Ma- |
with regard to the treatment of Chi- nese plague patients in Hongkong. The communication, if correct, and wo bave not had time to vorify our informa- tion by application to tho ment, in consequence of the informa
to spoken to by the Captain, denied sny jesty's Minister at Pukin, Mr N. O'Coner, knowledge of the theft and was promptly knocked down scuseless on the deck. Σα was kicked and abused in a grossly brutal fashion, and the mate jumped on his head to such an extent as to tear a bit put of oe of the man's ears. Kennedy was called down from aloft. Having seen the treatment Figan had received, it may naturally betion coming to hand late in the afternoon,
empposed that Kennedy did not hurry down
சக
on deck. He also denied the theft, and he
about to be
chantiand with
4
The Taung- is a enmewhat startling one.
Yamen is reported to have informed Me Conor that, unless plague patients are
Director of Public Werke) to this chart of choking druins TES, peat, unequal to the occasion.
of
That Mr Tuoker complained of on aquant
Base.
ease
Any objection that may now exist to
confering moto arbitrary pegers, for prompt and snusruary action, on the sauitary inspectors will disappear when they are placed under the management of the to- onsiblo Sanitary Ohor, without whose sanction, and, in serine cases, pera-nal in
helaying pia when he drow his knife allowed freely to leave the Colony, the Chi. Thit I adaire the way in which Hungkong mani'y were opened to the wretched system vestigation, no penal precondings will be promised a kindly interest, which he proved of troops in that country, has, apparently,
This no infuriated one of his would
be astailants that, in the interests of discipline, presumably, this officer (not the chief wate, who is now in Vic-
tese Government will not be responsible
for the safety of the lives or property of missionaries throughout Chios.
officials stand up for their brother ficers I would have admired Mr Lockhart and had he stood up for her Hush Mo Caline, the absunt one. againe the half-oondemnatory insinuations lovelled against him in Council.
chapel purposes, or not sluusted in a Chins war bonding troops into that country. The present sewers may by minor im- I bave left the consideration of ons of desirable location, but in a few weeks very He did not seem to like it.aby how.
Yesterday, at 5.30 p.m. Baron and Lady verbosity on the part of Mr Feara, prosements be made suitable for the do- the most important improvements to the Bast Gate, many of them man of of the New Astor House. The Beron mada
eligible premises were secured, outside the
in a quiet neighbourhood. The von Sechebdor!! loid the foundation and raid that iko 0.0.'s remarks cub
Hon store royance of sewage as well as stormo-water."-
Inar, towels, the re-drainage of the houses, tained absolutely, colhing whatever and Trust that even ah ald these sugges. This is an univerally, and emergently neighbours were absolutely without any practical tions be found undesirable or impracticable, required that it shoud be undertaken at digas of valeme was made by a delegation position by the architect, Mr Bellingham, rospectability-and 000 night an ad-short speech. After the stone was put in dress who declared that from the highest to the Lady von Seckendorff gave it three knocks. Gorero That this was a most marvellously shailowy report will show the necessity for strong once, and special means will be required to
and complete messure of sanitation, and eff.cl is.
lowent there was on one who was not gled Thres hearty theers were given by thoes mode of meeting one of the gravet trust that they will be undertakes for the charges that has been made in pable immediate benefit of the public health,
that a chapel and dispensary would be present, and Mr Ritter, the proprietor supplied his visitors with ample refresh sgainst the P.W.D. for some time, and withunt waiting for the necessity to he
opened in the place."
The missionarios inmediately called upon | ment. the tono (or absence of tone) of Mr demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a
18k June. Tooker's reply perhaps carried couvie ion
the Magiurate and one of them presented a Revere opidemic, [This was penned just to the public mind more then Mr Fracio' twelve years ago before the Bonam Strand
latter of introduction from the Tsatsi. They The trouble in Korns is not nearly so words would have done.
drains were shut and the eyes of the cod
showed him their rutal agreement and he muck talked about as it was. The landing
of departmental maddling for which taken.
the next day by arresting the landlord and driven Year into the hourts of the robels, large & price is being pid.]
middle-men, He was bread for some time, and they at onse submitted This, of *The Chinese, it appears, are a TEA
but the socraterien promised 40 immediate course, only the talk" amongst the Notwithstanding that O'dinances 11350 à cila people, and are accusioned for lemont of the casa ou the Magistrate's Chinese. I also hear from the same source directa that, "avory house shall be provided
coun' less gecerations to implicit sebmission with a istrine or privy and schpitto authority, Dere let them see that return. The gentry, emboldened by his that the Rebels that were in the N.W, und action, prosented a petition against the Pro West of Korea, bordering on Chics, where to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General," Gorornment is in earns & about somitataan), tostent ohurch, whereupon the Mandario the troops landed from Toonan, mot with toria Gao) laid aside tho belaying pirised if it were absolutely correct that That Mr May is always on the watch to satisfying the most modest ro-and that while viving facilities, and in issued a proclamation forbidding bailding Baddess, and are returning back. It is to
anything defend a brother odlicer, bat he seems to quirement as in such appliances, is vary terfering but little with their social on the lot. This pleased the ruling class be hoped that the Japanese troops (statad miss the real pint in the objection rarely to be found. In the houses of the east
a firm determination 10 castoma, there Mr Crack, on acunt of poorer classes they do next exist."
to number 3,000) have been as anccssain! the city. raieud *WiDok
enforco cleanliness, shere will be little or
I believe the the anomalous position he occupies.
On Monday, Jans 11,, two gentlemen in the East of Kores. After describing a number of selected resistance, especially if the orders of the called on the foreigners in the morning.
affair to be
be a storm io a to-oop, Bo That any ous who knows Mr Crook must hauses, some of which more recently rected, vernment are promulgated in the time- Tho were kindly reseived and represented that Chinese oficials might gain kados by
be a very poor jate of character if ho Me Obadwick refere to the ledg.housas honoured manner by precimations attach themselves as oil merchants living outside reporting a
Flour to be capable of
a grand vistory to the Expero. suppose that offer to
of commun labourers. There, he sayed to the walls of the houses. I aus fully the North Gate. After they left, the
Since Иr Detring, our Commissioner of anything but steight forward conduct. Care often very much crowded. In a row
with fra yot gentle ma momen: that the British Minister has ue. That the Sanitary Surveyor to the Board of eight sauli henses 428 inhabitab ́s were vinced little muideration of the mother of the middle-man informed us that Customs, zatarved from accompanying the
agement, and is, and always be boou, in a measure
found, baying that
cubic feet of space per i wants of the 230
great improvement one of these was the beadman of the neigh Viceroy on his inspection Long, he has not people, a responsible to the P.W.D. for the public he
These the cork-houtar head, exclusivo
in general Sanitary cardition might be boring village of Sinking by the name of resumed his duties. Me G. F. Montgo
bao and that they intended to call on as
mery ie still Acting Commissioner. drains, and is therfore liable to come hose were exceedingly fitby."
speedily feed; and that far from re- in collision with the Bond upon auy
in the afternoon; that the gentry had From the description given of the way in ceiving opposition, or causing an exodus paployed them to look after the place and pivan coession, ure frets which have been which public sewers have been laid under of the Chuese, it would must with their perhaps to engage forty countrymen with duly ree rded and comm ated upon in each private property, it would appost approval,"
that many of those old dratus have bean
water supply, Mr Chadwick he Would
and fortifind himself with a much more murderous weapon-a mpatan bar.
With this he strack Kennedy on the side of the head, folling him to the deck. While lying prostrate, Kennedy was very well beater and he was also jumped on to make him
Wu would not be in the least sur
a communication of that tone and temper had been widressed to the British Minister. The rent conduct of the Hongkong Go- vovernment has been wank enough to mislead even the Chiusse regarding our puissance. But we do not imagine for a
more amenable to the reasonable dissipline cepted such a communication without point of the Nova Scotian clipper. He was then ordered aloft, but was simply unable to dog out to the Teung-li Yaman the princi- mag work, and had to come down en deck plea that were involved, nor do we suppose where he was so barried by his superiors that the Foreign Minister will tolerate the laying. down al such conditions or the kulding cat
this column for years past.
be crawled off to the foro part of the ship of such threats by the Chinese Gavern- He was being chased with a belaying pin when¦
ment. If the impression has gained ground he jumped overboard saying he would not stand another 'licking. According to the amongst the Chinese officials that this
Mr Ork. Ouleny in a dependency of the Übiness Em- accounts of eye-witnesses of over a man was
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The steamer Fetching bae sustained an accident to her machinery, and has been towed down to Take The Heinys conde
your. She passed Taku at 10.30 a.m. and That while the present relations exist be lost sight of; and this fot of icen saguly remarks—I would, however, point Plan pull down the mud wall wround the the smartest rau upi from Takя during this tween the Government and the Sanitarywon be an ample justification for out that if the waste of water which || On the evening previous (Sunday) one of was alongside the Band at 3 pm. She Bard, it is absolutely sily to take as the appoinment of an independent comunis cow obtains to not prevented, by strin- the missionaries caught a pock-marked man would have been up sooner than that, had personal the objectives raised at thegion to thoroughly inveigate thia
int rent regalations stric ly enforced, all the of highly respectable appearants putting up not the Chungking and two tow-bosta de- pronouncedly divided responsibility 8.veral of the houses named, built over eld streams of Hongkong will not be able to anti-foreign placard on the front wall, tamed her. She arrived here before the
drains, are plague-stricken. Mr. Chadwick, sat sly be wants of the City,"
This was also seen in two other places-one English mail, which was landed at Taka of them on the main strest in the centre of and sent up by rail. *done to death' it was Kennedy, whoever Pire it inatsolutely a septial, not only for the Thet MirCooper was similarly criticised when in a strong advocate of the bucket system, j
he held
the city. The man, Taiang Wei tea, who pat the same position; and the in-although he strongly recommends improve- Bensats persis vucy shown by the Governments. The present o
up this abusive placard, was one of the condition of the bouve
of the gentry. chiof agents was his assailant. Apart from the arid-eake of this. Colony and the Europeans ia sode of the case itself it would be interest. the interior but for the greater interests of the British Empire, that this fallacions im- pression should be dispelled at once.
*
ing to know why delay aruss in taking op the more serious charge by the Crown authorities. If serious allegations were
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR mado, involving a charge of amurder or culpable homicide, they should have That, before saying anything of the work's
csived more prompt attention from the officials entrusted with the criminal busi- noss of the Colony. This Selkirk business is oud that requires a thorough sifting for the benefit of all concerned.
NATIVE letters received in Shanghai from Bankow state that the Yangtze has been rising to such an extent that the peasantry fear that some of the lower banks will be overflowed and a flood will result,
doings, I have been asked to define the wanning of 'flippant,' and the most apt definition wvailable is, 'pert, petalast,; waggish.'
That my readers may make what they chooss of this definition: it is taken from a lead- ing authority.
That the record of the weeks has contained very varied accounts of the Plague, bot the feeling appears to be general that wo have seen the worst of it for the present, if not for the fature.
That I believe certain Commissions have been talked of, and perhaps appointed, to consider the steps to be taken,
On the 18th inst, as the British ekip Crofton Hall was being towed to Woosung, shows | naged is someway to cellida with a large ses going jank bound up. The, junk lust won of her moats and had her upper wood-work damaged, and the Crofton Hall received That the Fermanent Committes of the Sani- some slight injuries to her rail. Both pro- seeded on their way very shortly.
ment in keeping asparate two sec ions in the infected district slaurly demo atraica of sanitary work which ought to be made that these improvements have not been dar. one is slode responsible for this frictive.ried out amongst the power uncives. Heed That the credit of having dissovergå the
CORRESPONDENCE.
Se for the community are enjoying th* best of health, and there is very litla Bickness amongst the Chinese. The spring THE DRAINAGE OF HONGKONG,
On Monday afternoon, Messrs Hudson, wheat crops have been gathered in, and the To the Editor of the 'ORINA MAIL." Paxton, and Do Bose had an appointment farmers are delighted as they hive bad a
to woot the District Magistrate at 2 p.m. plentiful harvest. 23rd Jrino,
As they went out aquads of well-drosso bacillus of tho Asiatic typhus now raging "pecial attention to the fact that the city of Victoria pays nothing goal of public funda
Sm--Why are people complaining of idlers were soon at different points, who in South Chine has fallen to a Japanese for sc-vanging, the manurial value of the and condemning the Separate Systems of dispersed at the approach of the Foreigners, scientist, named Profesor Kitasato, alter outfected being more than
logist whose nang, is not unknown in Europe.
BROWNIE.
CHES CHAMPIONSHIP.
The spore in the competition for the thesa championship promoted by the Hongkong Chess Club now stands as below:-
Hinshoff
Cooke...
Coeren
designed the sebeme er because anotbor
is same a hat prerastuce to assume t at this petition 1-Yours, happy immunity will always continue, for saturation is slowly but the process surely going on, and if unchecked cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and dissase,'
an.
THE BOARD,
it was
.. BROWN & COMPANY,
LIMITED.
pupil of Frofessor Koch, and a bac erin. the cost of performing this offqual to Drainage 1 It surely vannot be because The official was very busy and next a depaty... The following report of this Company The following note of warning is almost they know beltar than tha Engineers what Erst the three missionaries refused to will be presented to the shareholders at the prophetic: It is stated that kitherto Engineer has criticised it adversely. It is treat with him, but afterwards concluded to fifth ordinary yearly mealing, to be held at t him bear messiges to his master. It was No. 28, Queen's Road, at goon on Saturday, Rungkung ban excaped this to the not because of the terribia stiks, wund pointed out that previous to the Magistrate's which have af sted other place in the have come from the drains? If au, wald proclamation all was serene, but, f
7th July next!-- neighbourhood. The settlement is bat 40
The General Managers have to submit not the pablic have sxperienced the
ing their issue, ODA symptom of un- years old, and the subsoil beneath the
Bame amount of steuch during the progress friend:imens after another wa manifest. their Keport and Statement of the Com City may not yet be sufficiently buried of the work if any other system of drained, some of these involving a violation any Accounts for the year 1895, and, in with filth to make it a hotbad for diassage had beets adepted, and until its com-
so doing, have to express their regrets that of the treaty. The Foreigners failed they are not of a more favourable character. and a breeding-ground of filth poison, It
in avary point they made, and s ENQUIRER.
The Proft and Lous decount shown a a question of protection, they demstided, with smiles upon their faces, ad Debit balanes of 899,258.68, including Interview with the Magistrate, which was conate The proft on Sales of Timber $17.702.16 brought forward from last no- reluctantly granted after five o'clock shows a falling off is comparison with the To the Editor of the 'Cuma MAIL.'
While they were talking a messenger-ar provious year which, in a measure, may be Hongkong, Jana 93, 1891 rived and announced that there was a great attributed to the generally depressed state Elo therefore strongly urges immediate-
SI-If the matter wer not serious, it crowd at the chapel. The Mandarinim of trade, and which may therefore be made ly reform, and one of the reforms be süg gents is more careful return of the would be ateusing to read all that has been mediately ordered the secretary, who had d
it is working of the Out of all in the vital statistice. Touring Board it inst mesting of the noted on his deputy, to proceed to the place but again, juo the urbanircumstance Something has been done to that ditos Banitary Board. It has been maid that in with a number of Yemen runners, and the pany's ressols,
which includes loss on the multitude of counsellore there is win three guests took their departure. As the Penthaus wrecked, which has caused the tion, but mach remains to be
dom; but it can hardly be said that much passed out the gate, the youngest of the inegar share of low, so that it has been complished.
After giving some sensible remarks apou wisdom was apparent in the aforesaid moet party said there is our Man, and pointed decided to discutioue the
Company's direct ta gentleman with a large wen, who was the principles
of drainage, Mr Chadwicking. Not, so far as I can see, compond as I hope to show that the exising it is, coald much he expected. It is trae just returcing from the one of solion. interest in sailing ships, except as regards sewers of Victoris may be improved so as that are does not always confer ability, yet we had beard in the morning that Mr those employed locally in Manile, the work-
to-advantage o
of a favourable to fit them for the unveyance of sewage, the experiense that comes with age in Chang E Bu, the man with a wen, was to of which has hitherto given fair results: factor that ought not to be at sight of is all that afternoon. The author of
De opportunity inversi
Zacheur ho harbour to earry the scorm-water to i
as they do at present, and any Board having for its object the health Chinese Characteristics decoribe the has been taken to dispose of the Wm La village. bully," Mr Chang B Fa is the The liabilition with Company's Banker further, that the wage, during dry of the people. From what transpired, it
* city bally' of Klaaryin. He headed the and Sundry Creditors have been reduced to Vafortunately Mr H E. Pollock, one wasther, may be diverted from their lower cannot be said that Mr Lockhart, Mr
for ibe positions which have been thrust tants and is considered the lord of the the Vaine of the Stock of uno Timber their dwellings and surroundings. The That the tima has, I think, arrived when of the strongest players, has had to with. extremities, and carried to some distant May, and More eminently red petition for the expulsion of the Protes 97,719.30 against 630,208.78 last gear, and
outfall, where it will be inuocaue, puts it) is componed of meu of culture í draw from the costest na he leaves for Onok-iof1a, Mr Duzdwick. tersely ob-apon them by a Governor who knows Down The native preacher reported that has been put at a low gorede
little about the state of the Colony as not all was perfectly quiet, when suddenly this Consulting Commitico-Messrs. H. L who have pasted through all phases of Borses on burites at the end of the serves, who pass par head, he writes to be aware that there was an insanitary man, opponent with company of thros Dairymple and D. B. Bassoon relire in ac
should be sheolutely prohibited. " slady and shown themselves worthy of current month. During the present weak It Valoris I would suggest that 100 house in it. Surely there was know and also for two patire teachers cordance with the Articles of Aciation.
be hundred, who inquired for the Foreign- should be non-
oubio fest might resonably be taken found I amongst the ratepayers attuted the sole on public and he had played Mr. Bischoff who won the
Botesd 白宫 middlemen; that the but, being eligible, offer themselves for re- house drainage and sanitation,
gams, and should astasily be leading in the the minimum ochio puce where ledge and support, would be of more use on who
Board this all the offieisis crowd referred every master to him, election
Auditor,—The
accounts have bean That perhaps the report of lot mosting you
crossed to 600 cubio feat whoo the room in put together; dispose the authlaking public in favant tournament, if a competitor withdrews divided into cabine, exclusive, in both sent, is Excellency the Governor naghita evident. The leader of the mob, bror Follarton He
sume effort to induos them to
as he passed the Yaman seoralary, saluted Of such as Men; but the treatment of the before having played half his games in the cases, of the cookhouse the sanitary come forward; but he may rest asured that him, walked up olces to his ride,
FUL Busrd
latitude must be given to the sanitary by the Government in the past ex-round his swore doci uot poust. In this thority in each ease, and any repaistisen no melt-repening man will join the Board hats and wonth close to his ear whisper- That it in curiors bew" much responsibility instance, Mr Pullock's withdrawal will of this kind must be introduced gradually as at present constilated.
has been lately thrown upon the Sanitary beneft the sores of Messrs. Gutterrez, Board responsibility which has been
AS ALREADY notified by telegram E. the Tantat at Nogpo has issued provisional quarantina rules and regulations for ves- sels arriving from the south. H. E has ala taken a lively interest in the hygieno of the Bettlement, and has instructed the
Chesbien to issue a proclamation ordering the people to attend to the banitation of
tary Board are being called upon to super-Gutture view all sorts of investigations, spite of the well. Hathways fact that the Board possesses such limited unt
De Jesus powers. That, apart from the medical work, the Mons
dalies of the Permanent Committee are d being vigorously carried on by civilians,Bhepherd always excepting Mr F. H. May, who has worked quietly and effectively through-
oat,
the Banitary Board, which (as Dr Ho Kai
Board of Public Works and the police are using every precaution to keep away say contagious disease.
the trust of the
Tua Matterhorn, which arrived the other day at Shanghai from Naw York, took on to Shanghai a Malay whom she picked ng at ma. It appears, from the maa's statement, that he lófs Pulo Timor off" a fahing expe- dition, but that he was blown out to sex ș
ko afterwards broke or lost his paddle, and
on the third day his canoe expeized and be
was unable to get into it again, so be re mained in the watar Ave daya longer till he www plakad up by the Matterhorn, e in gras Eitude for his ressus de prvassted: Captain Williams with the danes.
That
Ferey
• Uniche
ay
As to
padished last evening might not pre- / "ggregate score. Under the rules of the the room is open, but this should be in. {the Sanitas, ut crisis like the pre- and were absolutely under his controladíted by Mr. Fallarton Henderson, who
well sustained so far as the actual work Howell, Jupp and Firey, all of whom he
of fighting the Plagne la concerned. bad defeated. Mr F. Browns also with
to avoid the discomfors that would be
to make sum
his
ed the news, and laughed most heartly. Let the Board be slected by the Balo- | Is it a fair induction from theso promisse, saused by suddenly sud simultaneously payers bare the command of the pane that it was well-known in the Yaman that rioting large numbers of persons. Bere eirings in so far as its special duties as the time for the disturbance at the aaspel Sir Chadwick perisps lesnt too much to concerned; the power to carry out ite gun was fixed for Monday afternosa 1
GIEB, ELVINGSTON & Co-
Gertaral Managera, Hongkong, 19th June, 1891.
Jess How do you suppose he came to propose to me? Bess: Gui tired of talke foghout the weather probably,'