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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1894.
H. G. BROWN AND COMPANY,
****LIMITED
The ordinary anoual meeting of share holders in . G. Brows & Co., Limited, was hold at soon today, at the Registered Offcam, in the Hongkong Hotel Mr A. Q. Wood presided, and there were also prosent; Messrs H. L. Dalrympie, D. R.
• Sasscon (members of Consulting Com mittes), J. B. Coughlrio, G. C. Cox, S. L. Darby, W. G. Darby (shatoholders) and C. 8. Sharp (secretary),
*
but the absurdity of any such iden may be imagined on refecting how many million gallons of water are used daily, and how large a shipload of poison would be required to make even the slightest off et on it. toes of anything up to the filter beds or thin Nobody is likely to convey thiry or forty mouth of the Taitam tunnol; and that is about the only way in which the water, supply could he touched.
The following are the returns from the Hongkong Hospitals for the twenty-four
to-day :- bare to ogn
Hyycia.
Admissions ọ 1 hostin Dlecharco
Alice M.
Undertreat-g # 31 94
City.
- Total..
Increase.
|-{Decrease:
The following are the statistics of the Ini-chi-kok Hospital for the 5th inst published in the Chinese Mail (Wah Tez
THE CHINA MAIL.
The dangers may be shortly summarised thus-
(1) Proximity to Hongkong of placo saturated with the poison.
(2) The great number of visitors to the hospital who come and go fresly.
Burial rossons. (3)
as
(a) Danger of atmospheric poisoning aconnat of insufficiant depth.
(b) Want of quicklime:
(c) Uostamiestion of water supply. (d) Promicancu burial with almost absolute certainty of disinterment in the future.
(4) Discharge of convalescents before proper time.
5. The lack of all essential scientifio des- truction of lethal germs.
If the Chinese authorities will provide against these dungerander European supervision, then but no till then should the Gurernment countenanos thu existing establishment at Lai-ohi-kak.
The Chairman maid-Gentlemen, the ro port and accounts for 1899 having been in your hands for some time, with your por minion, I will take them as revdl, and I will explain how it is that they were a late in being put befure you, and why conse quently our meeting has been so much do
We would humbly and respectfully ro- layed. On the fich Merch we regrived telegram from our manager at Leguimano
queat that, first, the present order for the to the effect that the accounts and letters
romoval of patients from Hongkong to Lai chi-kok be
ones counteraanded; wore posted; but they failed to reach on,
secondly, if from a political or trade peint and in ausver to our enquiries about them
of view the removal be considered necessary wa maro sdrised by wire as the 11th April
f matter that should not have too much that the accounts and letters had gona es
The following oarious advertisement ap. weight now) then arrangements shouli he tray in ontres of post, but they had been recovered and were being forwarded. Is gear in the Sydney Morning Herald, made with the Chinese authorities on the
lines suggested by us.
Fat Pol:-.
Admissions Duniba
Discharged.
Under Weatment.
12;-
TRẺ Buck
8 2
4 69
was early in May before we recaired them, ❘ of Jane DEATH AND ITS ANTIDOTE. and then our Me Wheeley had left for Manila in connection with the Company'. It seems strange at this end of the Nine- affairs and we had to await his return before teenth Century to bear that the dreadful known as the Black Death, which
If the plague should roour here during the next few years we shall again have quer autine regulations at other porte in force against ut s we have
110
prepating our report. any into thini wa | "ated Loudon in 1665, and several Eu- trade in the long run will be much more
damaged by present incomplete measures then it would he by a careful and strict attention to simple public health laws at the existing juncture. It is only by this policy that we can ever hope to provent future outbreaks of the prosent public calamity.
We have the hozone to be, Sir, your ahedient servants,
Jas. A. Lowson.
H. E. Jamta, Surg. Maj. A.M.S. H. 8. PENNY. Surg RN.
J. J. MOLYNEUX, M.ROS., L.R.O.P.
W. F. C. LOWSON, M. B.
E, HL MEADE, Sarg, RN,
H. J. BEARBOOK, Surg, R.N Forwarded to the Acting Culonia! Becro-
That sither Mr Stewart Lockhart falled mont bopelessly in acquainting himself with the foolings and opinions of those gentleman, or be was clutching at a straw
when he cited their names. That the tone adopted by the Presidential Q.0, when he informed Hla Excelleasy that the law had to be carried out by the Sanitary Board, and not by the Governor, may be open to censura; but, all the same, Mr Fransis was absolutely right in his facts, as the law standa.
That this would not be pleasant reading for
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. The score in the competition for the chess championship promoted by the Hongkong
Chess Club now stands as below:-
Francia.
Cowell
Hant...
Bones
the Governer and his advisers, to be told | mucher that they did not know the rudiments of Denke the art of governing; but, so far as this incident was concerned, it was quits true Gattres Doverthelans. That people have been wondering and arbreye..
puzzling this week over the problem, what Japp.. the Governor and his advisera are driving at; and in asking this question this timo, Shepherd. I do not expect to get any lengthy Q.C. 'explanation from the worthy as to what it all means.
Messrs. Bigshoff and Brac Shapherd That the letters written by the Permanent
Committee, in reply to the action of the played off their adjourned game during Government, seem to me to leave the the phat werk, and as the former won what Executive not an iusti of ground to stand had all the speten record with three games appearance of a drawn game he
found, it necessary to despatch this gentle. man twice to Manila, once in January and ropean Oition a few years later, bas mude again on
on May last, in conroquence of dill its appearance so wear our shores as Hong. culties which bad arisen with and among kong, to which it has come, according to the Company's eraff here-and which were reports, from Canton, Exactly what this prosing seriously detrimental to the Gomdisease is does out com quite clear yet, pany's interus' Bu We had made arrange- thongh probably, when some High Priest of ments for ■ change in the management Science, Pasteur, a Koch, or a Carpenter, from which we hoped very good results, but has thoroughly investigated it, we shail at the last moment they fell through. learn that its origin is due to sepacific forms MC Wheeley, however, ancaeeded in of Bacillon or Disease Germ which
tabacce making
moks can kill. One point, howater, Bli other arrangements, for, you will easily understand, much of Doctors are agreed upon, which in.
is. that the success of our business depends on cleanliness of person and general neglect our manager on the apot, so that it is of of the most rudimentary sanitary preciu- When we consider grost importance to s to have the manage- tions are its best allies.
of
in Filth and Nastinees ment in good hands. Referring now to the the oondision
which the lives of eren well-to-do people year's operations, these 28 not been a satisfactory could have been wished. wore passed a couple of cobraries ago, it is
De Lowson and Dr James have consult- witter for surprise that, when The profits on sales of timber are some almost a 28000 Ls then the previous gear, but then us the Black Death got a fair start ad me over the draft of this roport, as I was some large contracte hore and at out-poris among them, it did not make a clean akaens from its when the meeting was were completed. We have however, locally sweep of the human raus an did the Blood held on Saturday, June 30, and in what and in Manila an effective demand for our of the Bible. But nowadays we can go they have said I entirely concur. Dr timber, and I think that the company bas at Bugera at such traan plagues, thanks Border is his remarks at the meeting of
Df
and inerative to a fence and sanitation, soap, water, and medical men in the Council Chamber lately doing a *tery prospect
a good Increased duties and charges in good tobacco, especially the later, which, said distirety that the trouble at Pakhui business. Manila, with a very unfavourable rate of when introduced into England by Sir was from the outlying villages, where the exchange, are making the laying down cost Walter Raleigh in Queen Elizbeth's Raign, plague was continually breaking out, and it higher, but we bope to cover this differenza accounted specially valuable as an An-was over and over again brought into Pak in the prices we can obtain, and our pre-tidote to ferers and other infectious di-hoi and a became endemic.
The only thing we ca dr le to Beat stock is valued at a low figure. 10 Bunth renders the Leger Proprietary's Offer possessions dan aad is good order, and
The sees, The near approach of the Black
keep our year has agalo proved itself unfortunate as regards our shipping, there being the loof £10 in 180ash Prizes, from £26 to £5, now is our opportunity to make all the through wrecking of the Penahaw with for the 12 Largest Collections of Tags taken necessary arrangements and to specially on. working of the Wm Le Lachete to provide from Oakes of their Famon Leger Tobeco, force them. Certainly my things will for. After thin fresh untoward experience specialy noteworthy, These collections not be proved by the Chinese that are I trust you. will approve off
of the decision must be want to the Chie! Agent, Mick absolutely Lesestry, and one is strict hours. come to, and to which I referred at our Simmons, Haymarket, Sydney, on or be-to-house visitation; but the question we them t lest meeting, to give up ship-owning on our fore June 16, and the prize-winners' names is are they to rule us or amn moodust, except a rogarde the small will he advertised in the Preas, as well as Up to the present the Building vesels employed in Macils and which have the souditions under which another sum of dinance, the Health Ordinance, thus far been worked profitably. The Wet. £109 (the third) will shazily be offered in others all weduwledged to the Le Lacheur has therefore been sold, and at 12 prizes from the telegraphie despatcher Colony and parted years ago, have ing utmost importance to the welfare of the what we consider a good prices, though there will be a loss on the sale which will from London to the same reputable journal to Chinese prejudicos pratically bean dead fall,on this year's accounts. I am glad that balf the Chinese population had left latters, and the laws a subject of ridicule, from which we are now suffering the con- that the report of the loss of this vas-our shores early in June.
sequences. I no nothing to add to the enclosed report on the present state of affairs, except that from observations made daily the hospital at Lai-chi kok in daily becoming more Bithy, and in fant resembles what the Glass Works became under Chinese superin endence. We merely winh to place our opinions on repued, in which all the medical professors in the Colony concur,
Ph. B. C. AYLES,
We learo
sot turns out to be without foundation. The steamer Chinga, which arrived at You will no doubt have noticed that Melbenron on June 11, auchored in the bay. considerable increase in the As one of the crew had rickened and died thera is items for salaries and chargea, which est in daring the toyge from a sepioiose form a great measure be accounted for by what I of disesso, the Board of Health directed bare already had to say about th changes that the crew and the parengara should be in our staff in Manda, and they will be ma-arefully exained before pratique was terially reduced under oar prosent artangu. granted. Dr M'Lean, the port health meat The only other matters to which I officer, granted pratique contingent upon think I gead
gead refer are the satisfactory re- the cargo in the holda boing thoroughly Luetion of about $22,50) in our liabilities disinfected, to our Bankets and Sundry Creditors, while Sundry Deboss accounts are lase by some $13,650; and that, owing to the unfortun ata result of the profit and loss account, the consulting, committes and general man- sger with them are without the remanera tion p ovided for in the articles of associa-
tion.
MEDICAL REPORT ON LAI-CHI- KOK HOSPITAL
Hongkong 3rd July, 1894.
10 be
Or-
and
FRAGRANT WATERS' BURMUR
The following is the report by the medical That it is more in sorrow than in anger I
mea referred to is the Permanent Com-
have to nota a wook fall of administrative modding which will become historical with the Plague records.
пров.
THE ANARCHISTS, London, June 11.----The French anarchist, Contact Meunier, who was arrested in London in April last, charged with sumplicts ty in the Café Váry explosion in Paris, is 1882, has been extradited to France,
June 12,-5 quantity of explosiven bas- been seized at Algiers. It is believed that the anarchists intended to every out outragen on a gigaulio sozle.
rans, I had to go on to bowl at a very (£72,00) to provila for the despatch of critical time. The spectators were very reinforcements to the French poets, on the
When Me Oubunghi River; in the French Congo, quiet and very auxious. Murdoch gave the ball to me, I heard
TÜM BRITIH LABOUR COMMISSION somebody in the crowd say, "Great Beats! London, Jene 11-The Duke of Da Humphreys going on! Well, we may as vonshire and several members of the Labont well shuck it up. This was not parti Commision have issued a supplementary cularly encouraging certainly, I gut a report. They propose feat the trades unions wicket, and, then another, and as wicket and the mastare associations should be re- after wicket fell the crowd became more gistered as corporate bodies, and that trade and more interested. You could almost disputes should be settled by legai groomed- feel the silence, and it seemed as if there ing between them. was not a soul about the ground. After it was all ove Wais OVER A gentleman came up to me and said, “It was all very well for you cricketers, who wore in the fold, for you bad something to do, but it was terrible for es spectators, who could only hope you wouldn't make a mistake.” But all the aam, I shouldn't like to have many mat- obes of that kind, even if I had bowling to occupy my attention,"
'How do you account for your great
against Australian teams?? It fobable that when I first met them they thought that lobs were hardly worth troubling about, and were only meant to increase averagos. When I was first time, he went into the pavilion to about to ge ou against Mr Bonnor for the change bis cap for a wide hate-appar atly withdrawal from the competition, and as he because he thought he would have ench had played more than half the number of lot of running about to do and would get games in the first renod a point is award to warm. He had a tremendous swipe at the the playara he failed to meet. It is to very first ball, and goodness knows where be hoped there will be no more withdrawals it would have gose if he had hit it. As it
Jugs 12.-The memorial drafted by the The following draws have been made for happened he missed, and had to retire. I the remainder of the round:
wad amosed last year when I was bowling Colonist Committee appointed to draw up a against Mr Giffon. I had given him a hall protest to the Chancellor of the Rxchequer
(against the】 which pitebed en the wicket and broke
e proposed Estate Duties
*** Applied sway to the log and a bye was scored.to the colonies has been forwarded to sit
де, When ho reached my end he said to William Harcourt. "If I had only known which way that bali June 13, Speaking in the House of Com waging to break-I'd have given himmons last
Sir William Harcourt said night, Jehung up the orchard, I can tell you," that it was chly proposed to tax property in
DOW
* To play.
That if the precious Proclamation remains to play. Mr Howell has now announced his
in abeyance until the Li-chi-kok Hospital becomes unitary and pesuss to present a danger to the port and eity of this Island, it will be a long time before that doca- mont serves any other purpose, then that of a warning to shifty administratore. That I am informed the Chairman of the Sanitary Board at lust meeting showed no catural tendency to be flippant, bat seemed so if things were not going so smoothly as they might do
by questions elicited much information That Dr Hartigan was on the war-path, and
which
it was well the public should know, That Mr Leigh insiete on poking his nose into that drain nuisanes at for House Lane, and the neighbours hope he will be able to traps the cause and put an end to the offensive and dangerous odour, That one never quite knows how to take Dr Chatlieto distinguish between his purs argy-bargling mode and his endea vours to seriously dimoues a girea ques- Lion.
this
Pieroy
ELEVENTE DLAW.
Frasoje.
Cowen v. Jupp.
Shepherd v. Humphreys. Bischoff r.
Hast.
Cake . Gutierrez.
10.
TWELFTH DRAW, Shepherd Gutterrez. Piorcy Cooke, Humphreys. Bust, Bischof. Jupp.
*
THIRTEENTH DRAW. Bischoff Bomphrey. Gutterrez. Jupp. Hunt . Cooke,
Shepherd. Piercy.
FOURTEENTE DRAW. Gutterrez v. Piercy. Hunt. Shepherd.
CHATS ON THE CRICKET FIELD.
Биссека
FOODHOW NOTES,
June 30,
The Provincial Treasurer ban ismed a
the summer months.
A COUP D'ETAT IN PARAGUAY, London, June 11.-A coup d'état har taken place in the Republic of Paraguay, South America, Dr. Maringo has beca Ap- painted President.
THE DEATH DEMIES," London, June 11.-la commeating upon
the death duties as embodied in the Budget proposals, the Times advises that the rela Lives of colonists dying in England should be allowed to dad got the catate duty whe it has already been paid to Colonial G vernment. condemas Sir William Bar ceart's joonlar insolence.
the
colonies already taxable under the Legeng and Succession Duties, but a higher rata of taxation would be imposed. Howsa perfectly prepared to osme to a good under- tanding
with the colonies. The Goreno-
Legislatures.
FORGED BANK MOJEJ IN GERMANY.
motion to the effect that the usual punishment had no iden of forcing taxation spos ment of prisoners in the prisons within his the colonies independently of the Colonial jurisdiction will be somewhat modified dur- L-In-Hok, retired Mandarin who lately resided in Foochow, was summoned last month to Peking, and we hear has since received some important military appoint
Talwanfoo.
ment
મ
A sampan woman, while trying pick up A writer in the Cricket Field gives a vary me firewood that was floating down the intereating interview with Walter Hum.river, fall into the water and was drowned.
The body was
was not found until the next day phrage, the great loo bowler for Santex, when it was taken on shore and buried. from which we give the following ex-
bridge
moar the East gete of the city · acllapsed · en Monday last and of these tract
who happened to be crossing at the time seyen were killed while come few others Bus- tained very severe injuries. The body of one of the victimas, probably that of a stranger, remaining unelaimed, was buried at the public expense.
What was the first performance by which you attracted attention?'
London, Jane 11.Some extensive for gerlas of bank notes were recently discovered in Germany. The police havé apertained that 25,000 forged £6 notes have been ment to England from Germany.
Jane 21-The person who forged the large parcel of Bank of England notes is believed to be passenger for Adelaide by the German mail stearter.
JUZFOC/ TED BY VAB,
London, Jude --Five persone havg been suffocated in Glasgow by an sarape of gas. A RACEHOREN, POISONED.
That the Dooler is nothing I not original, in style, in matter, and in attitude; and his letter on the Plague suggests tha question, What is he after now? That Dr Canthie's motives nerd never be questioned, save that he has a 'natural tendopoy to eny anything to provcks a dicousiou. That afortunately for the Ductor, we have time got ahead of him in the disse con, as the drains have been proved to disgracefully inqanitary, and deaths (if not epilamis) have been caused by them. That as the Duster has been must outspoken
London, June 11-General Owen Wil on the drains in the
paat, hi defenses of looked
liams, owner of the racehorse Pensionar, these insanitary conduite is now
which fell deed while taking part in the De upon is a sort of challenge to discussion.
Trafford Handicap at the Manchester Os Wednesday last at 8.30 p.m. a fire Whitanatide Maedag, and which was believed That any one who has read the reports of
Ayres, Chadwick, teCellare, and others;
broke out at a plase called Pong-chow above to have been poisoned prior to the race, hàn during the lust twenty years, and knows
the long bridge. Conimenning in a mat- offered a reward of $1000 for the detection how the subsoil of this Colony is soaked with towage, oan sely smile with incrada. are required, and our captain, Mr F. M.shed it spread to two or three others and of the offender.
with Barry Philips, completely destroyed them, but fortunately, lity over the defecies of our drainage who said that the only chance qe had was through the prompt measures taken, the
well set. I, of course, kueW how was done. That public opinion is still in doubt as to to put me on. Ephraim Lockwood was in flames ware got under and no farther damage
the immediate capse of the Bubonleextremely food he wen of making a hard Plague, and said opizion would have been cut of the middle stump, and I bowled more open to influence by the letter from him a ball to suit him. When he ww it Dr Cantlis on that phase of the subject, coming ho at once placed himself in a poai had the other portions of his communication to make bis ganal four, but it hap tion been mare in accordance with reasonpened to bu surprine to break back, and and experiencs.
before he could alter his stroke he was
system.
That the proposed plan of utilizing surfaces drains for blooks of Chicers houses, with a couursted seuitary lane 14 feet wida between each block, such durface drains fading an ostrance into the main newer in the street only, wall, I trust, prevent this death-dealing oskage of the
for the future. Thet
I should think it was in the match against Yorkshire at Sheffield in 1886, or thereabouts. Whas luncheon time came they had lost a wickets, and only wanted 17 runs to win. When the game was re- sumed the score nuated until only 8 runs
were
A thief managed to carry away two pisals of tea from a dealer's godown at a place galled Chui-pa, but the theft was discovered in time to chase and overtake him before he bed gone very far. He was caught and handed over to the authorities who have on- tensed him to 2,000 blows with the bamboo
and three months' imprisonment.
bowlad. Then Jose Hido made a splendid catch in the long fald which disposed of And nocident occurred to a native acrobat Frank Bugg, bo now playa for Lancsabira, while performing in a theatre in the city last and then Hunter as wall caught at square week. He was executing a somersault from 6. This unde my third wioset for darse the height of three tables piled on one another runs. An over at the other end followed, when his foot slipped in the take-off, and, and my turn on
tura estas to bowl to Louis Hall instead of landing on his feet, be fell against who had been in the whole time. I felt the sharp corner of atool which resuited many of the condemned houses must that he would play me oreoly, and would in his breaking one of hit ribe. The by demolished and re-constructed before probably make a four, which was that fellow died the next morning. such a wholesome system can be intro-
was required. So I tomed the ball to
A party of duced.
Arthur
poor
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA LOAN. London, June 12-Tonders for the 4 par
by the Government of Western Australls pent loan of £640,000 placed on the market were opened to-day,
The loan was subsoribed nearly threefold, the total amount tendered being £1,330,000. Tenderers at £103 3s ed will recsára 40 per osat, of the amount applied for, The minimum was fixed at £102,
Later.
The loan averaged £103 Gs Id.
EARTHQUAKE IN SPATE. Lendon, June 13.-Severe shooks of a b
qaake have occurred in the south of Spain. Much damage was caused to property in the provinces of Granada and Aimeria,
THE TRIPOS AT CAMBRIDGE—SUCORES OF
LADY STUDSET. London, June 12.-At the Mathematical Tripss examination in oonnection with the Cambridge
has gained the highest
of noisy young native scapegraces Newnham Cersity, Miss Johnson, of
That I orderstand the City Hall Com. Hide, and told him that he bad passing through one of the streets in the city,honours, beating all the male candidates,
mittee have met the wishes of war Amateur Dramatic Club, and that 'Babin- A Crusoe will be with us on Boxing Night.
THE VIRT OF ME STODDANT'S REGLIBH ELEVEN,
15.ta
We have just received informationmittee's letter to the Government yesterday Tast the only gleam of hope is in the fact That from the latout available the piece festly straight, and was guntiy played book they set upon the guard and belabonred played next summer between Mr Stöddurt's
that the Veradora Sharer mold at a price
which will more than cover their cost in our on the Lai-chi-kok Hospital difficulty-
books. Before proposing that the report
and
I accounta he adopted, I shall be glad to ADswer any questions.
There being no gurations, the Chairman proposed and Mr S. L. Darby seconded the adoption of the raport and account.
Agreed.
Mr Coughtris proposed the re-election of they retiring member of the Conanlting Committes. Meeste Dalrymple and Buseoon,
Mr W. G. Darby seconded. Agrond.
Government Civil Hospital.
Bongkong, 2nd July. 1894.
Sir. We have the honour to report that on Saturday Suegoon-Major Jimes and Dr J. A. Lowson were made aqua nted at the meating of the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board with the Honourable the Unionial Secretary's letter anent the re- movel of Chinese plazas patients from Hongkong in Lai-chi-kok Hospital.
We
resp ctfully request you to forward this protest against such a course being
Mr Cox proposed the re-election of Mr followed for the following reasons:- F. Henderins as auditor,
Mr Congatrie seconded, Agreed.
The Chairman-That is all the business, gentleman. I am much obliged to you for your attendance, and I hope that next year we shall have a better statement of account
to put before you.
This coucladed the proceedings.
Led chi-kok is only a short dia race from British Kowloon, and we have no power to insist upon sanitary precautione both ss re- garde hygiene of the Hospital and its sur Fundings and burial of the dead. It is within our knowledge that bodies of those who have died from plague bare been buried almost within yards of the
British frontier, and also that the inter
atants in the Hospital Cemetery are not properly carried out, the graves being only THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG. about two feet deep. There по НазитноСе The number of deaths per day is that the dead will not be buried elsewhere than in the prgaout cemetery in which
again satisfactorily small, and at the pre-thors is litale epics for future burial, and Bent rate of progress we may almost ex- we know that budies are being deposited pect to be ent of the wood' next week. about the neighbourhood in considerable ber. The Hospital is only capable of But there is no telling whether the im
accommodating 80 patients with proper prosament will continus, for there is no regard to hygiene." Any considerable certain knowledge what has led to it; it may addition to the number of sick
it, Buch as would occur under the
be the strenuous exertions of the cleansing
ia
arrangement suggested will make its prenatst corps under the Permanent Committee, highly insanitary edition more deplor
chi-kok is and will be
or it may be the weather, or it may be the able. The presence of this hospital at Lai
to CROW.
* standing menace to special * joss-piïgin,* or it may be the floods the health of the Colony for years to come, of debate, or it may be Dr Canille himself No proper steps for efficient burial in quick. -soyhow, the daily returns, which a The valley in which they are now burjad lime will be allowed by the Chinese there,
month ago had managed to reach three drains into a watercourse the water figures, have since dropped to two, and now from which runs through West Cheung-sha wan, and there is no guarantee that they will only a 'single" is left. When that figura is not commence burying in the valley in the wiped off and only a duck-egg' is on the west of this, which drains into the water. scoring-board-bat perhaps it is early yet cures from which all Her Majesty's ships Disinterments will be fre- are watered.
Blogue quent after the
has practically stop HE, the Governor, accompanied by Dr ped, and certainly later on. The place will Ayros and De Lowson, went out in a surely remain focus for the production Jaunoh yesterday afternoon, not to Lai chi and disseminations of the disease. kok, as sinted this morning, bat to all the Frofessor Kitaasto, on being asked his
1. this Colony-he *the now
the ad arrangement as a bad one and cer joining matshed where the Alice Memorial tainly a grave
is backed. up Kennedy towa police station, sad the Tung as a cartajuly will receive the approval We branch at the new
Cattle
A Deput
of every
scientibo authority. For the con visit was also paid to the temporary lab sideration of HE the Governor a would
ware Dr.Yersin is hard at work
that. the oratory
nt Lai-obi-kok be hospital at the microbes under cultivation were in only used, as a matter of f convenience, for the epooted, and explained by the French temporary lodgement of patients from the scientist, together with other objets of surrounding villages. As it is only oxpable Interest.
of accommodating a small number of cases
that the disease itself is decidedly on the wene-yesterday's gores being the smallest, as lo admissions and dealbs in the City, since the Plague appeared. That is le difficult to fathom the game of sbilly-shally which has been going no in Government airclea
abould be uo less accessful than the previous Xmas pantomimes.
BROWNIE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
DRAINAGE OUTFALLS.
go ou and keep Ball quiet. Of on Sunday last, late at night, was socosted coures I am aware that the captain ought by the guard patrol and called to ansonst to have been consulted, but in my storfor disturbing the public quietness. It ap Ben I never thought of that. As I had pears that the rowdy crowd were in no Melbourne, June 13.-The question expected, Hide bowled the four balls per hancur to be interfered with; at any rate whether five or three test matches should be oach time,
Then from the other end the poor welches socstituting it most an- English Elovea and an Australian team is Juniper had in bowl to Herrico, who was mere fully, afterwards making of to their exciting some interest amongst cricketers. in the babit of biting at anything. The homes. We hear that the detectives succeed. Major Wardill has teen in communication first ball was * wide-almess the only one
ed in discovering and arresting two of the with the cricketers of the other colonies tha: Juniper over bowled but with the delinquente the next morning, and these two to whether they would be wiling to play last ball of the over Harrison's leg stump were to be severely punished, but the ethers in five matches if chosen. Meters Manne, was knocked out, and we won by three were not found or, more probably, bought zuun. While the last for overs were being themselves off. borled, Tom Emmett was walking up and The following in the Tea Export sings our down in front of the pavilion, in a great ine of 16th instant as per consignees ra. excitament, and kept on repeating, This turne
is a rate argument between bat and ball "*
Did you always bowl anderhand!'
That if this Island had been a Dependency of Kwanglang Province, and under the
To the Editor of the China Mam." wing of the Viceroy of Cantos, we could
Hon Long, July 7. not bave dosa mora than we have dare! tu. shift onr administrative responsibili
SIR,--Le fice of all this discomion as to drains and smells it would be of interest to sies on to China. That this Calory is, however, a British corsiderable section of bepablic, whose
amuil boy I was once in the old Queen's Vicinity of Ped- Colony, and is to remain so; but it would business takes them in the
ahore Park ground, when Mr Adams, the captain be
to know whether, in the dar's Wharf and the part of the forestore interesting event
of an alarming ingress of the now being reclaimed, to know what course of the Queen's Park team, was going to Plague in Canton, we should be prepared is to be adopted it
with how much to him. In a very short time I sent hing 6
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to renaise & few jonka'-fall of Plagoe isto deep water? It ding the draine have sume practice, Beesd me to bowl Per .
a yard from this patients soul down by the Viceroy to truth I know so, that the foreshore will ball which broke in half a That the principle of 'give and take would, blocked, and when the filling-in is gem
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In Victoria,, B. Trott, J. Blokhem, and A. Tarrant bare also intimated that their ser- vices would be available for the greșter number of matches.
AKTY-GAMBLING GRUBADZ. London, Juan 13.-—An anti-gambling dru ande is being carried on with much vigour. Grest meetings have been held in London and the previness with the object of taking
auppression of the evil.
mesures for
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Benkestere Bombay Bayerk For Slugapore- For 5.8. Kintuck For Canada I'm afraid, be more honoured in the peted the trench for the dratus will be cut penoa." I wasn't sure whether he meant
and lined with dressed stone, or pipes will to make the ball brank back like the Fer 8.8. Victoria brouch than the observance That I had fancied, and so had many other be laid. Now, it sens to ordinary minds first one, or whether he meant me to bowt For Odess
residents, that the cup of concession to that this will lead to a repetition of the hin, to make sure, I did both things. Fer s.s. Eagern
bis bat down on Chinese had overflowed, when the poor Boakim Strud octbreak, and the better e ben Celestial patients were shipped or or pan rotid ha z lesk, spes from the and asid "That will do," sud walked away,
I never found out why he did so.
How do you like bowling to a big hitter into deep water before the foreshore is filed in. There is no doubt this can be like Bir Hewett, for instance?
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like it vory. done, bat, probably, may cost some money- there is
cons much indeed, becante out about it.
Canton in jooks.
mouths of the drains leading the sOWARD
That the m-laphorical growth of the queue amongst the higher officials, however, had farther surprises for Hongkong re- sidents. That a few of the members of the Cunit pool is formed in front of the principal of the Chamber of Commerce with bongs in the Colony and more disease is
tes of
The fact is, however, certain that if á cans.
STLICH IN TIME,
an eye, perhaps, to locate the pingue al the result, there will be an doubt as to who together on the Chinese mainland, and caused it this time.-Yours faithfully, thus make Hongkong a clean port all the Boomar decided to recommend the vend. ing of plague patients to Li-chi-kok, Dear the Kowloon frontier.
PRAYA BECLAMATION, That with a fetal readiness to act upon
To the Editor of the Chiwa Matt." ontaldo advice (infalligent or otherwise),
Juiz which has produced the shilly-shaliging policy of the last
BI-Why cannot the drains be made two mouths, the Governor resolved to act upon this frat, before the filling in of the space between Fedder's Wharf and Ips House brilliant anggestion, That na treable or pains were taken to Streat?
There is surely not say engineering dif- and out whether this course was legal
advisable; and the spectacle was wit- ficulty about a small a matter os nessed of a proclamation in Chinese being posted throughout the town, to effect that a certain course of nation the was to be permitted, or even recon mended, which was neither legel, pos Bible
nor advisable.
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ANOTHER ROYAL BETROTHAL London, June 13.The World annonces that Prioss Christian, eldest zon of the Crown Prince of Denmark, is about, to be betrothed to a daughter of the Prince and Princess
of Wales
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN | York, has been destroyed by fire, and 3000
THREATENED COLLIER ETRIZER. London, June 8--The Scottish puslavinern
JERSEY CIFT DESTROTZD London, June 16.Jersey City, near Naw
doath. sheep were burned to
ZAINS AND FLOODS. London, Jase 16-Beavy rains and £oods.
to be careful when a very hard hitter is in, are in favour of a strike against reduction in Hungary hare done great damage to the
I sometimes forget, and go as far up as to is wages, rotifed to take place on the 24th wheat crops.
a atoady player. Imst year at Hearborough instant, I did this when Mr Jackson was in, and he
, my handą, und 1.2icket, the ball stuck in of Le per cent. in the hewing rates,
COMPANY.
Plagio REARSE Works ela, opinion on this subject, stated that the That all the correspondence which has been thins in that city ta ba taken out of the so-day." For I had not been able to choose | setion will be taken against the late directors]
ores. They are bold to be gambling do
vions.
COLLIDES. WITH AN ICEBERG, London, June 16.-The steamship «Kikio».
a came into collision with as fotberg. In the Atlantic, and had a narrow scape. Îmw foundering..
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London, June 11,-An extensive stelks. came out too, and sont the ball back straight of sal minem in England in feared owing to to me. By one of theas freaks which some the masters having demanded reduction times happen at
I tried to look as though it THE SUGAR DUTIES IN AMERICA. were quite the ordinary thing to make a London, June B.--Germany threatens to back of that sort. Me Jackson hardly impose retaliatory duties upon American seemed to realise that he was out, and we products in the event of the anger duties stood looking hard at each other for an sp. being anformed in the United States. preciable time. As he woul away I sald FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE ARGENUINE
'his' exa You incat kindly
little harder
Barometer...t REPUBLIC zhan that, cir." While we were waiting for
Temperatura London, June 9.-The Finance Minister another mean to care in, Mr Hewett came of the province of Buenas Ayres, in the Ar Direction of
Humidity up to ms and said, "That must be the gentine Eepublic, has declared that the pro
But since in bankrupt. hardest twich you have ever made.”
Wind... | I zaid, " No, there was one harder than The Chief of Police of Indianapolis bes or that. It was one you gave me at Taunton,
Force X.Z LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENOT
Weather.cq dared every nickel and penny in the let ma- and I carry the mark of it on my thumb, London, June 9.It is anderstood that no
Rais!
the exact spot where I would put my of the New Zealand Loans and Mercantils produced by this colossal blander is a small affair when compared comparatively st
handa, owing to want of time, and it was Agboy Company in respect of the thu most furtunate thing that I was able to af dividends alleged to have been improperly with the ridiculoan atiljude in which the by
paid out of the funds of the company. issue of this precious document placed Carr. Wood, who arrived in Bydney lately pot them anywhere at all.'
What is the most severe treatment you ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN INV
INVENIMENT COMPANY. the Government
of the Colony after taking to Newestle-on-Tyne the ship
London, June 9.-Laiture - have been That the ignorance, or professed ignorance, Riseratale, tells a tall story which it is diffoult have ever received from a hitter 7
it was from Me Challen, tant published of the fovernur and his altisere was to hellove," "During the voyage the Bigera-
Prouton,
nowepapers
demanding & once more pleaded by these connamed dale was struck by a squail that nearly year at when he made a century. judicial inquiry, with regard to the collaps the Anglo-Australian Investment, for this incomprehensible piece of fatuous capsized her, Had she not been a vessel of At one period during his innings 30 is of fooling, was not La be wondered at, for exceptional strength, and all her upper wore hit of me in five orers Bugg has hit Fissons, and Land Company. he one knows what to expect next while works in gread order, it is probable. Inat me very hard at times, and so has Mir the geins of government are held by those she would have foundered. She lay on her Howell. In fact, that Mr Howell pute who are now at the head of ;
beaca-soda, lee rail baried the ans, for more power into his airokes than anybody That I have a notion F. E. May sad of hours the cargo of shale barleg shifted.
Are you much fected by the altitude Surg. Mejor James hare en strong an Captains Wood girse vivid soount of his
yes are opinion ad any other two men in the Co-experiense, da well as that of his loyal crew of the crowd tomada you wher lony against the sdoption of Li-chi-kok who worked day and night below under bowling?
I don't think so, though there ses dimen ana domping ground for the Hongkong extraordinary, dificulties and at the rink of nick; and yet they were quoted (Basvan, their res to trim the wisel. Eventually when it is not easy to help feellen unpom- save the mark 1) as in favour of the pro- the ship was navigated in safely to berfortable. In the Glaupararire match clamation.
destination:
has ils besnich, the Government branch at his valuable onder to Hongkong," and
Me May was busy this morning strang, at present from these places, we would sug ing to open a new plague cemetery beyond gest that efforts be made to at page get tha Sandy Bay, on the way to Aberdeen, for Chinese authorities to arrange for the draf. the better-class Chinese, whe assurally ting away of as many cases as possible to Canton, and also to request them to re- wish to be kept apart from the sooties.
The polise sous days ago had special more, without exception, all the dead feors instructions to keep a close watch for any the hospital (as the deaths occur) to sous attempt to caper with the water supply of ground much more distant from Hang- sho ulty, ne share mare parfistant rumours koog, and also arrange that an diazter- that something of the kind was intended; ments of bodies should be allowed.
Tags paar så Brighton, when we won by 3'
recovery
GREAT BRITAIN AND FLANGE,
June 8.-The London press treats
London the French outburst of|
with
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