THURSDAY, August 18; 1804.'
nomy of the original cast. The skull itself fe
of large size, the lower jaw being particular. y-mative. History relates that the King
THE WATER SUPPLY.
ber
THE CHINA MAIL.
the above
⚫ Report adopted.
TES LATEST ESTIMATE OF
· COREA,
.....
The President agreed with Mr Frsocia
RESTRICTIONS ON COBEAN TRADE, loma of rent. The first objection was met by more than 12 to represent them. This Ar the last meeting of the Medico Chirurgi THE SANITARY BOARD.
A BRITTEN DIETOTAL'S REPORT. cal Bacinty of Edinburgh, Dr Bara Murdoob
The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sa- explaining that it was not intended to Dommittee should assist the Sanitary that the report should be printed.
Agreed.
In his report on the trade of Oaren for azon. the
In the course of a notice of the newest the past year. Mr M. H. Wilkinson, Act charge a license fee, and the second was Board in exercising a general and strict showed a very interesting oast of of the hero of Bannockburu. A few years nitary Board was hold this afternoon. The met by making a calculation as to the effect supervision over the whole of the night The President proposed that Mr Ram's 1go, during some exploratory operations in Captain Baperintendent of Police (Mr F.in the rent direction of the Bye-law. It soil, carriers and abould furnish to the suggestion that a bye-law rendering tenants book on the Hermit Nation, Korea and the ing Consul General, douls with the racions the Abbey of Duafermline, the grave of King | H. May, Vice President) presided. There was found that there were in the Eastern Government full and trus information: liable to poualties for making improper assof Sacred White Mountain, by Captain A. E. causes of depression in Cureau Erade. After houso drains and areating huisances should J. Cavendish, 18: Argyle and Sutherland dealing with the absense of security poca- District of Victoris 100 lodging houses, 49 whenever called upon to do so. Robert was opened and his skull found. A
HO KUJ. be referred to a Committee composed of Highlanders, the Saturday Reviso writes:- sioned by political dissention and with the F. H. MAT. ceat of it was taken at the time, before re-were also present-Dr P. E. C. Ayros, per cent. of which were overcrowded; in
Me J. J. Francis, Mr Leigh and Dr Ho Korea is an interesting country, and prohibitions on rice he procueds ;- Kal.
comparatively title known, although our In addition to the more serious resBONG interment. Lately, Dr. Dars Murdach die Colonial Surgeon; Mr. W. Chatham, the Central Distriot 165 such houses, 36 per
Dr Hartigan seconded.
aquadron sometimes comes to an anchor in for depression, there existed at the various Dovored this cast in a hours which used to Acting Director of Pablio Werks; My gent, of which wore overcrowded, and in the |
THE CAUSEWAY BAY NULANCE.
ite parts -be uccupied by the colebrated Dr Gregory,
Western 130 houses, 81 per cont, of which
Agreed
give the seamon & ran ashers. posts hindranona to trade, some of which Dr James and Mr Leigh, the sub-commit.
The President said that the question of It is a mountainous poblanala, iutatsented were successfully overcome. At Chemulpo, and exhibited it to the Society before hand. J. J. Francis, Q.Q.; Dr Hartigan; Surgeon were overcrowded. The total number of
been dealt with by by streams, with forests of vast extent, and for example, the local authorities saden- ing itaser to the University Museum. There Major James; Hon. Dr Ho Kai; Mr B. lodgere was found to be 9474; the nom tee appointed to report on the nuisance is in existence a monograph on the subject of K. Leigh; and Mr E. A. Ram, Acting
would be allowed that
Committee of the Board last we pleius and valleys of great fertility cured to compel all Korean coasting van. Chia skall, written by Sir William Turner,
houses under the Bye-laws to be 8021, and complained of by Mr Kennedy at Caas laundries had way Bay, raported month.
sels to discharge at Man-ak-tong, the net gain in rent to be $250 and illustrated with drawings made from a Secretary.
The conjority of these squatters' homesider, and after a great deal of time an In certain contingencies it might seams Fotitions were at the same time forwarded are constructed of bamboo sugar basket Gaberato report had loan sant forward to political Importance, for it is coveted by village apwards of a mile from the outora
the coal coolies at to Garerament by died of leprosy after about ten years' illness, in the opinion of this Board the first onolia housse in Vistoria praying that the flare. Owing to their open sonstruction be woll if a letter were addressed to the the nominal suzerainty of China. sending the beans and other produce with which Mr Krancis was to have mored That Wanabel, and the inwater of the Tangkun / work, and are of very flimsy and temporary the Government; and he thought it would three powerful neighbozra. It recognizes house, instead of ab Chomulpo itself: An Government asking whether anything was must tribute to the Court of Pekin. It these crait are laden are nearly all borna there is he objection to them on the store likely to be done in respect to that report.
has successfully repelled invasions of the on Japanese account, and are ultimately Dr Aga is said there had been everlasting Japansen, who for a time had established exported to Japan, the innovation, which regulations be not put in force. The two of rentilation.
"The inhabitants of these houses are co- principal objections to the regulations (and
comm trees on this subjrat,
themselves on a strip of the eastern seaboard. added soumiderably to the cost of carriage, the only ones worth considering) advanced cupied in gardening and the keeping of
possession of
was resisted by the Japanese and - Yo in these positions were (a) against the pigs; for the latter purpose they collect
harbours in a mers genial
Another proceeding refer the matter of public latrines to the the giving of security under section 6, and suitable for pigs' food.
might provoke hostilities with England, sa
panded was the renewed attempt of the (b) the taking out of licences under station
The group of house marked A B and C Patanent Committee.
well as the great Oriental Empires. So Korean officials to restrict the number of These petitivae were referred to the
Kores is sort of East Asiatic Belgium, brokers through whom the depause and faitly high ground, and all exerata and The President explained that the Go-Sanitary Board, and the Board in No- the socompanying plan are situated on
Tho Colonial Veterinary Surgeon wrets where independence is esoured by inter- other foreign traders transact their busi Tomber 1891 resolved that the date of drainage from houses and pig-sties are col the coming into foros of the by-laws lected and used as manars in the gardens suggesting an amendment of the market national jealousies. Consequently, though ness. This, though successful for a time, be altered to 1st August 1899, in the To these groups we causes no special obje-bye-law with the object of prohibiting the all the male population are supposed to be was ultimately proces
Committee of the Board tion, as they appear sanitary in themselves sale of any meat except what bad vision disposes with a standing aray-and to The course of trade there where the Fusen userad from a similar project. meantime was appointed to consider the question of
as so much bad meat was constantly being Cavendish can say little for the quality or has been for the charteror of a craft brought into the Colony,,
Some discussion ensued as to the sweep-discipline of the few regular troops, although bringing produce from an unopened port drill them. A certain number of so-called the purchaser or to negotiate the sale
probably contrasted during his wandering",
before his victory at Bannockburn secared him the Crown of Scotland. Experts in the sabject who have examined the cast ansert that it presents unmistakeable evidence of such a diieano.
TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, August 14.
IMPORTANT TARIFF REFORMS IN THE UNITED STATES,
these Bills is doubtful.
THE KAISER IN ENGLAND,
duty of the Government at the present moment is to provide for an adequate and continuous water supply, and that
take
The President's suggestion was agreed | And Russia would galiwate than that inally withdrawn, time should be lost in taking measure furnishing of artificates of oharacter and from house to house in the city materials to, and on his motion it was also agreed to Siberia, but she known that any aggression | which for a time oaused trade to ba sun-
to securo`such a supply,'
No documente,
dwellings.
few saher and occasionally tiles; thoro, to-
IMPORTATION OF MEAT
would be excluded.
LICENCES.
ready to serve on occasion, she can afford to
atato
giril
La pioul of
(SUPPLIED TO THE CHINA MAIL']vernment had taken steps to increase the water sapply. Plans had been prepared, (Pia Southern Line.)
The work would be begun in October, and it was calculated it would be finiabed in the enforcement of the Byelawa. In May and are some distance from any permanent slaughtered under Gorerament supervision Begieat her maritime defences, Cupissa foreign traders are practically all Japanese:
1892 the Board was asked by Government The groups marked Dand E are, how May next
Mr Franciaasid it had been the duty of the for its report, and in July the Committee's
report was forwarded to Government, Inever, sitasted in low-lying ground and The House of Representatives has passed Board to call the attention of the Govern it it was recommended that the date Practigally built in a Awamp. The doors ing change proposed, and it was objected 40 stle German offloar has been engaged to for sale; to silber go direct to the wharf of Billa placing iron ore and sugar on the fren | meat to the fact that the water supply was of the coming into force of the Bye-laws beare very damp and are only composed of a that the best Shanghai and Kobe by soldiers are maintained, bagider, to swell through a native broker. The share list. The action of the Senate in regard to Inadequate and that nothing effective could postponed until a day to be hereafter fixed gethor with the pig-sties, have to fall for
bs done to complete the complete the mat. tary arrangements of the Colony until the the Board. Bye-law 17 (as a drainage and are kupl.in & for dirty state. back to Mr Ladds, with a request for any fartenf, the Court is thoroughly corrupt. sonweed to 300 cash for
We strongly advise the entire caraoral of by the Board on the 21st July 1892 and water supply had been made adequate. If
by Legislative Council of the approved
groups D and E as being unfit for habita- the Governmost was now taking active th Nov. 1892) now reade as follows Efen; at the same time we beg to recom
come force A brilliant review has been held at Aldar-mesures to ined to the Board motor These bye-laws bban ved by the Sani- mend that suitable sites near the bity be provided for this class of equatters, who there was no need for the Board moving until a day bas bean
by the Legisla bara
would agree with him that the tive Cannail and
ard town.” Board ought to have been informed that the Thas, gentlemen, gives you briefly the hie- Government were taking steps with a view tory of the question, showing how from to increase the water supply or any other time to time it has unfortunately been
with the matters having a connection
shelved. I regard it as a very im sanitation of the Colony. The Board was portant question, for thers is not the in a position to give the Government useful slightest doubt that the hold whics information and many valuable suggestions, the plague got in this colony was mainly
The Board agreed to send a letter to the
due to the overcrowded state of the city An agreement between France and Eng-Government embodying Mr Franwis' euggea and I think it incurabent on the Board to do its utmost to mitigate that overcrowding. I also think it would be wise for this co- munity to back up the Sanitary Board and the fiovernment in enforcing this byelaws strike, as it when passed. It may cause
shot in honor of the German Emperor.
THE EVICTED TENANTS BILL (IRELAND.)
The Evicted Tenants' Bill has been re- jected by the House of Lords,
ENGLAND, FRANCE AND THE CONGO.
land re the Congo question has been signed in Pario.
THE UHINA-JAPAN WAR,
in the matter; but be throught the mem-re Board, approved in the Gezetlere more or les indispensable to any largo keep catilo were granted.
tions.
PUBLIC LATRINES.
Mr Leigh moved That it is the opinion of this Board that the latrine accommoda-
would be advisable for the Government to
latrines at an early date."
The following minute was apponded:- Dr Hartigan-The housea eandemned are those of which I complained.
It was agreed to communicate with fesses Jardins, Matheson & Co., sad then with the Government, with a view to have the occupiers of the condensed houses re- moved elsewhere.
WELLS.
THE PLAGUE BACILLUS.
the
of the monarch and the innumerable the lattor varied with the nature of the Ultimately the question was referred
dignitaries. The king in a
is a heupooked
goods sold, from 100 b
weight other suggestion sa to improving the in and all the appointments
favour 89 by
biche-le-10 On au seurage, the broke ipection of dead mest.
OT family influence. The capital, Seoul, rage for exch bost would come to some says Captain Cavendish, in what Paris in to $10. These charges hare increased, it te A number of applications for licences to ve, only core so. No educated or stated, by over 20 per cent. anos the
aristocratic Korean is happy out of it, and pointment by the Government at the ambition of each youth is to enter the three years ago of two
official Civil Service, although the candidates are one to reside at Qualpart and ono at? out of all proportion to the posts. The pay To these head-brokers, whether they take is miserable, but the perquisites and op- part in the sale or not, three fifths of the portunities are many and in particular the brokerage has to be made over. Not offners of the Crown, when they travel, live content with imposing these bardses on on the fat of the land at the cost of the trade, the authorities of the capital in July people. That enstam proved embarrassing last either started or sanctioned all agency to Captain Cavendish and bie :nrel- variously known as the Association for ling companion. They had neither the right Protestion and Examination, or the In nor the will to lory contributions forcibly; agrance Association. The stowed objects and so they sometimes came near starving in of the corporation, as made kasen at Fan the midst of planly, as the villagers were itself, were three: to provide a boat hat slow to believe in getting payment. It was bour, by building a breakwater or others adding insult to injury to be kept awake all wise; to erect go-downs for the exle storage
table :-
The following letter was laid on To the Secretary of the Banitary Board.
Sir,De Yersin has just called upon me and asked me to make it known that he ie 20% zasponsible for the statement that the plague backies has been found one and a
half feet down in the soil. The following letter was read from the He is very much annoyed that his name should have been associated with what he Acting Colonial Secretary-
31st July, 1894. terme a 'foolish statement."
He states that three inches is the Sir, I am directed to inform you that to the fact that there are walls in the Oo the basitlus and that very seldom in it mast impurities or as unwholesome as to be loucface. Yours faithfully, jutions to the health of persons living near
a committee for
It is reported in Tokobares that the tion of this city la insufficient, and that it has done before, and it may causo some His Excelleney's attention has been called deepest point at which he has found the sight by the erowing af cooks, and to be of cargo; and to appoint a c Japanese defeated a Chinese squadron os build suitable and sufficiant free public!porary inconvenience and loss of mulong the water at which is so tristed with ] with bayond one and a half inches from the ably secured next morging that there the appraising of goods brought into the pert
Saturday.
with China.
P
TION TREATY.
-
No documents.
port,
аст
were neither egge nor poultry. For the for sale. The ostensible reason for the last I consider that no to some; but, gentlemen,
Kureaus ann lie with a calm suavity, carry item was to prevent the higgling so cons James CanTLIK, amount of inconvenience that it might
Ing Inevitable conviction before you come to tantly indulged in between the Korean Canse is worthy of consideration what we
oz oving such water, and which are likely The following minuto was appended --
know them. Like the West Irishauen, they vendor and the Japanese purchaser. It Mr Leigh said that his motion was in- look at the insuorenience and misery
Dr Bartigen-There was evidently a mis-Dever stick at an answer, and the English-would appear, however, more than a little THE AMERICAN-OBINESE EMIGRA- tanded to embody the idea conveyed in the that another visitation of the plague to promote or aggravate epidemic disease
I am therefore to auggest that the Bani-statement to my peternal knowlodgo: men's confidential interpreter was nover at a I do not think anybody
sanguine to expect that a purchaser of any Sanitary Superintendent's half-pearly re may cause.
Dr Ayres-1 bave an answer to maks to loss when
questioned
to matters of which nationality, and still less a Japanese, would The fatrics- acommodation of the
to them with a view to the abatement of the wait that. The statement is mine and is stated he was profoundly ignorant; and even the be custent to take the certificate of such an The United States Senato at Washington clony was sadly insufficient, as shown bought to look at the loss that a lem- tsry Board should take the proper stops
byporary strike might occasion
nors under section 16, sub-section 3 and on the facts. I spoke to Dr Yersin myself, rade hunters and settlers of the Interior association as proof of weight and quality. has ratified the New Emigration Treaty the Egures quoted. It would be best to solves when the health of the whole on of the following esstions of Ordinance No. 24 and be said that he found the bacilli in the were vaiably free with figures and statistion. Apart from this drawback, there is nothing
provide increased accommodation without munity, or at least of a very large section
of 1887--I have the honour to be, Bir, tubes that he procured a
as I shall show you. One of them, when asked the height of the on the face of the programme that is objec any charge to these using it. Also bathing it, is involved. I myself question very
These tubes were procured from the enclosed White Mountain, which towered on the tionable. Unfortunately, the plausible J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
housen in the endorsed streets of Taiping horizon bebind his hot, auswered off band exterior conceals, there is reason and washing accommodation was urgently much whether there would be a strike of Your obadient serrant,
to fear, Acting Colonial Secretary, required for the lawor class of Chinese, all; but whether there is or not, or rather
aban and this report sent me by Dr and should be given free. As Mr Ram's even if there is, I am perfectly certain that be
Lowsou shows how it was doos:- report was being referred to the Per-life and property in this Colony can
Cutamittee. manen:
this question might be anfeguarded without a great deal of troa
little difficulty mak
Blu, trosted in the same way.
will not De Ayran sacuded the motion to refer that might experience
WB the matter togothar with the Superinten- last more than a week. Therefore I rest dent's half yearly report to the Purmeneut aurongly urge that those bye-lawe be zon Committen. The Medical Department had enforced. just sent in a recommendation similar to
Dr Ayres seconded, those of Mr Leigh and Mr Ram. The plague records showed the existing la- rines to be a very great danger.
Agreed.
LONDON, August 15, 1894. REVIVAL OF AN OLD SCANDAL Sir Francis Knollys K.O.M.G., C.B., Groom is Waiting in the Prince of Wales' Household, has written * " private enquirer, do, laring the story of H. R. H. the Duke of Yoke previous marriage, to be a crust and malignant faleshood.
THE MINERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL
WITHDRAWN.
Ia consequence of an adverse nou-party vote the Miners' Eight Hours' Bill' has
boon withdr.
The Bill will be enforced inmediately.
TRE HOUSE OF COMMONS, The House of Commons is engaged on debate of the Judían Budget,
QUEMON LODGING BOUSES.
that
any
Dr Hartigan suggested to include tens wonts as well as lodging-houses.
Committes had some comprehensivo sug- gestions now bofore the Government, and the Board would at present better confias itself to lodginghouses.
Agreed
The Acting Superintendent suggested in mame, attached that well, known to ba contaminated, should be at once closed, and others under suspiciou should be sub- ject to analysis*-
eut Committce.
THE NEW CENTRAL MARKET.
Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, fath August, 1894. DEAR DE AYRES,-By your orders on
שפטי
Two hundred wiles. The few cities are forther menace to trade. opens gret Ther
very
Sithy
is and overcrowded; the wild country exaction very sparsely populated. Captain Cavendish action of fees that zebra at present but sires the very worst report of the towns-ry high, the regulations of the axantation require a all-native bogie to enter and olser folk of all ranks. Their morals are exo-
And to transact | 20th July, I showed Dr Yorein round Toratle and their manpers atrocious, Through its agency, they even contem
news through its
The matter was referred to the Perma-pingshan in company with the French Confaces and figures of males and females show plata the daily fixing of prince. Farther, sul. Ous question to be settled was whe-conspicuous evidences of hereditary rice all bente Having Fuss for coast porta ara ther the Bacillus Kitasstonensis was to be The fashionable ions and the
travellere pre sasociation takes firm hold) to provide
Central Market, was aid on this table.
The matter was referred to De Hr. Kai, Surgeon-Major James, and Mr H. K. Leigh. on the proposal of the President, seconded by Mr J. J. Francis
VATORKEN FOR SWINE DEPOT.
A letter was received from the Acting Colonial Secretary, enquiring as to the and wine Depot,
Was
A letter from the Acting Colonial Secre. found in the snil. At 68 Kai Sze Kai were to be avoided, and the travelerses called on (and will by compelled, if the The President said that the Permanent tary, sabing the Board's opinion with(Market Street) we found a lote, dar che terred to ane sheir tepts. The difficulty themselves with a certificate from the ragard to the interual arrangement of the previous day by some of the Permurcat to find a level and a clean piece of agency solling forth the amount and osture Committee of the Sanitary Braced. From stand on whith to pitch them; for the of the cargo, Thus the association would this hole Dr Tersia took soil in a test tube natives have primitive disregard fer seem to combine the functions of harbons sirilized sanitation and for deomney trust and semi-official brokers' guild with (I understood it to be storilised) Otherwise the peasantry and country people those of a native custom-house
I pointed out what soil to take. Boil at depths of 22 inches. 16-17 inches a
and B-8 inches be made a favourable impression. The coolies
The exaction in violation of treaty of in- low the level of the surrounding mud for who came as partors were sturdy, manly, and dues over and above the tarif
These measurements I took good-humoured, and contented. Once they practice as well known (both to foreigners takab
starved for ever a fortnight on ebort sad to the native Government) as it is dif carefully with an English two-foot rule.
Three days later in
| needless Next to the galled and underfed, but are to say, Berrea to obook the development of I enquired as to whether he had had any result from the food, ponies and the swarme of biting and trade. From a list of these basics Mr Francis moved that the letter be re-test tube. He answered in the fuse well as the dwellings, the great drawback age impost on cotton cloth at each of sight stinging insects which infested the fields as has been shown to me I find that the aver and thought it surprising, as he did not farred bacis to the Colonial Secretary to find out which of Mr Ladds' suggestions pect to find it so socks, and considered the to the pleasures of travel, was the universal stations in thres provinces served from the Government had approved of for discovery must important. We agreed arint. Eren under cover of the tents Chemulpo is 300 cash per pless. There
the Bboop and Swine Depot.
discover the culture tube. I requested to privacy was impossible, and bathing in the charges, and the absence of roads and na supervising the
The President said the Government bad as a microsospie specimen of the culture, the most attractive of all popular vigable rivers; provent foreign goods from
nectacles specimen. The organisms i In fact, thoso peassale have really approved of the appointment of & I was shown
The effects on the import trade of the do The rich 8911 European overseer and four Indian watch bad the same appearance to the eye as the abundance si epare time on their hands, ponetrating far island.
easily supplies their simple way ant of Plague Encillus. I asked if he had tried He suggested as &
not to here discussed, but some the difficulty of providing proper supervi-inoculation of animals. He replied he had, waste; for eight months in the twelve the preciation of silver in relation to gold need sion for the Depot, that Europear byst that tirs virulency of the disease was do nothing but arcoke and gossip, leaving should be made of the cognato question the work that must be done to the women the approdation of silver when compared overseer should be appointed at a salary of diminished.
and I children. $70 month, and he would undertake to
with the native cash. Not so long 120 I have stated facts--you can draw your
The socnery stas invariably pisturesque dollar exchanged for 700 to 800 cash; own conclusions.—Yours sincerely, supply four Indian constables at 815 each a
JAMES A. LOWSON,
and romantia. The road track lay now it is worth 3,000 to 3,500 cash. This month. This, he thought, would prevent
through wooded hills, often along perilously greatly handicaps trade in foreige goods, tion from His Excellency on the subjećte for the sensing of lodging houses for into and report upon the Bucket system estruption as the mea would te cheug |-- He took no soil at a depth of two inches. precipios ledges overhanging the rooky for the consumer estimates his insome and every month. He proposed that the Board. I have asked the French Consal to write to bed of some rushing torrent. The rivers expenditure in cash, and where the canh should agree to his suggestion.
the same year, as the day upon which shall if any are vastad in the Board,egabing salary of a watchman at the new Sheep Molyneux, I visited with Dr measure of millet with soarvely a grumble. Fanit to suppress, and this too, it is
The Captain Saperintendent of Police moved That the 1st day of October, 1894, be fixed by this Board, suder Bye-
THE POWERS OF THE BOARD. THE UNITED STATES TARIFF BILL.law No. 17 made on the 21st day of July,
Dr Hartigan moved :-'1. That the Per- 1892, and approvat by the Legislative manont Committee ae instructed to ox- Coquail on the 30th day of November in amine and report to the Board what powers, come into fore the Bye-laws for licensing it to define and declare what houses are a and regulating Common Lodging Houses ut for baman habitation, and w made under sub-section 12 of section 13 of make bye-laws for improving or closing Ordinance No. 24-of 1887, and sub-section such houses. II. To prepare and submit (a) of section 1 of Ordizanes No. 26 of draft bye-laws on the subject, if and so far 1699.
as the Board is possessed of such powers. "No documenta
IL To prepare and submit a draft letter The President I do not wish to take to the Government, asking for auch powers, up the time of members, but I think it and so far as the Board is not posesteed
I run thereof.' would be very useful if quickly through a short memorandum which I drew up the other day sa ting forth the history of this question. An attempt was made by Mir W. M. Deane, then Acting as Registrar General, to enforce section 18 of Ord. 8 of 1858, which provides
THE CHINA-JAFAN WAR.
RISE NOT CONTRABAND OF WAR
The following communication to the Chamber of Cunimerce has been forwarded to us for publication :--
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1804. 81,-I am directed by the Governor to inform you that in reply to a comunica
has received a telegrams this morning from the Secretary of State to the effect that fer Majesty's Government refuses to treat Rise
as contraband of war.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your must obedient Servant,
J. II. STEWART Lookhart,
&c., &c.
THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG.
Either-
Referred to Fermanent Committee for suggestions as a basis of future lecistalion,
CONSERVANCY METHODS.
The Sub-Committee appointed to enquire submitted the following report:
agreed to one of
Mr Leigh thought the suggestion a good one, and the Board agened to it upRUÍMOUS-
MORTALITY STATISTICS.
WATRE-CLOSETS.
tha
29.78 29.85
80
HONGKONG REGISTER
Previous On dute al On dale el [Anyst (pm) 10 km)
29:77 75
8:
E
2
D
TO
0.01
Chiuese labourers and emigrants. A strike
(1) The Sub-Committee held several
Dr Yuran bimself on this subject. I am of the colles was threatened and the matter
not in the habit of telling lies and I do not and awkward, and the ferrying was by unduly increased, he foregoes it and enLEDN wern seldom bridged, the fords were few price of a foreign article is, in his opinion, was dropped In 1870 another Acting meetings soon after its appointment to con-
Genera, Mr C. C.
C. Smith, en- sidor the subject referred to it, but the Registrar
care about being curtly told that I do
Game is said to be orank and leaky boats.
to its native equivalent.. deavoured to enforce the same provision of
of prevalence of the babonic plague during | ¡y.
After some conversation, in the course of plentiful, but the travellota new little of it; the low. A strike ensued and the question the leat few months has prevented the
The Acting Secretary (Mr Ram) reported Eich Dr Hortigan explained that there sometimes they bagged a few toal or draka, was again shelved. In 1872 a third Acting sending in of its report at an earlier date,
(2) The Sub-Committee Begistrer General, Mr Tonnochy, made the Acting Colonial Becretary.
untruthful but only desire to clear up the or black-game. The inhabitants
practise The Secretary Chamber of Commerce &c., Name attempt. Several prosecutions werefore its report was final regrets that be that the death-rate for the week ending has no desire to stats that De àyres or got pot-shota at a sort of free-partnago |
instituted, and coolie-house kespare fined. Aits members, Mr Humphreys, had ceased to tatant was 18.8 per 1,000 living, an com dublaty which existed as to Dr Yarein fy-fishing not unsuccessfully, though strike followed. The coolies were induced be a member of the Board, his torus of this ever-ponding it being understood, the matter was dropped. tackle is soared string tied to bamboo, and Barometer
of last year. For the week ending 11th
the fly a rough monstrosity of fur or feather.
Temperature to relat
to work by the promise that any office expiring on or about 17th of June instant the death rate was 196, an sgainst
Fasthermore, as they approached the famous Humidity griovanos they had would be enquired at
A latter was received from Messrs White Mountain they got among the pro- Dicastion of iate. The walter was ngala alluwad (3) The members of the Sub-Com-224 in the corresponding week laet year.
Wind The following are the statistics for the
The question
Danby, Leigh and Orange, applying on fessional hunters, who have their isolated BUY KRINTENDENT'U HALF-VELBLY REPORT. ber. mites are bad
unsimons in recommend- to drop. Hongkong Hospitals for the twonty-four to besu one of Loensing only in the ing the continmates of the Backes The Acting Sanitary Superintendent, in beball of feast D. Sassoon Sons and Co. log shanties in the desolate wilderness, and Force hoam to noon to-day :—
interests of law and order. In 1883 It was Systems with certain improvements as his half-yearly report, referred at great for permission to erect water closets i get a living by trapping sable or shooting Weather of the Sanitary Board is connection with carried and they are also in favour of Allow-Mortality Statistics, Cemeteries, Laundries, culating cover of the documents gala saited, but this time by the Secretary regards the manner in which it is to be length to Drainage Works during the six their premises on Inland Lot 514. The bear and deer for their skins. One of Cap Raineist
Markets and Slaughterhouses, followfag minutes appeared on the curtain Cavendish's two chief objsets was to get some tiger or leopard shooting, and it is overcrowding. The matter was referred to ing the present night soil coolies to remove
Surgeon Major James-I think wator certain that the woods abound with these the Registrar General (De Stewart), who the soil from private houses as they are Lodging-houses, Infectious Diseases, Special
refused to engage in a contest which two of accustomed to do, subject to now and in Street Cleanings, Prosecutions, Contracts, closets should not be constructed at pre-animals, for the inhabitants everywhers
I conditions.
Latrines, and Buf
were in abject terror of them, and the coolies bis predecessors had found to be hopeless, pravad regulations and
Dr W. Hartigan-Should stand over.
aby. Drainage Works the report
of ensamping outside the villages. Under (4) The Sub-Committes submits the In 1856 the question was once more raised
Ho Ho Kai-Should stand over. But the sportsmen never succeeded in set- by the Acting Captain Soperintendent following suggestions to the Board which, gives a cust of the houses drain.
Mr J. J. Francis-Must be refused for ting eyes on one, though they offered hand- Police (Major Dempster) in connection with if adopted, would immensely improve the ed in secordance with the new system
about 7900 in the present.__
some rewards for a mare glimpas of the the overcrowding of the ocal-evolle lodging present system of removing night noil frumtotal 897, pat of
Mr R Leigh Should stand over game. The sound object was to ansend the hauens in Wenshai. A few prosecutions house and reader it more effective sad less the city of Viatoris. The report con-
bita Monstain, but that the shortness of tinues: A certain number of complaints till the water-closet question is decided. were instituted by the Sanitary Bused under objectionable to the public at large.
The Acting Director of Public Works-Captain Casendian's leave presected his the Suggestions: (1) all existing nights continue to be made concerning
attempting. Ordiganos 7 at 1883, section 3, which pro
Captain Goold-Adams, how achieved the feat, after much toil and sided for the prosecution of householders carriers, both male and female, should be liability of the now pipa drains to get Mnat await report of sub-Commitleo.
Examination
It was agreed to let the matter sland over terable (or their agents) whose houses were over. registered and licensed (2) The license out of repair by obstruction.
privation, having Barrowly - eaped the beginning of the winter snowfall. are wded, and convictions were obtained, but fee should be 25 cents per year and no chowe, however, that in nearly overy cans panding report of sub-committee.
-Had it surprised him, there would probably
Adminions
Deaths
Plecharges..... Wader Beskasent...............
Increkse,
Defrense.
The following are the statistics of the Lai Chi Kok Hospital for the 14th instant, published in the Chinese Mail (Wah To Fat Pac)-Admissions, 1; Deaths, 0; Discharged, &; Under Treatment, 17.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED.
early date.
sent.
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bounds of probability that we may at any † sfter much correspondence with the Govern- free of cost, but the carriers would have atmes-It shows clearly the zoonsaity. Txz-very-oldast muda-The sands of el versolty of Pero du Haldo's narrative 6,142 lbs. Benated Orange Pekee, 20 pági
se the Public Health Orduance was on the mors, and the license be renewed yearly, the choking is due to grow misuse of the stocks the Board decided to take no general (3) No anlicensed person should be allowed drains by the tenants or their servants. I
A letter was read from Hr Azevado, of have been a fatal catastrophe. His final The following is the report of the action until the passing of that law. The to eat as might-soil carrier (4) No newsame difficult to impress upon the Chiness direcloze for the half year ending 30th Public Health Ordinance was proclaimed in license should be ined unless the neces mind the fact that drains are constructed Kowloon Point, oomplaining of an alleged start was from the same hunter's cabin from June last com
May 1999, and in November of the same sity for the same has been shown to the for the carrying off of liquida and bas of nuisance arising from pizsties in the vici-rich Meats James, Fulford, and Young- (5) solida, I venture to repeat suggestion sity of his residence. The Acting Baper husband took their departure a few years Gentlemen, We have the pleasure to your a Committee of the Sazitary Board eatiefaction of the Sanitary Board. submit te you the interim secounts for the was appointed to saquirs into and report Every carrier bould take care to comply that I made in the annual report for 1993, intendent reported that he had visited the ago, though they had approached the moun-
EXPORT CARGOER. six months ending 30th June last. The on the extent of overorowding which is sap with the conditions of his license; & second that the Board raight wisely amplify the place and found it sweet and clean, and he tait from the Manchurian side. Those eat-
season, for they saw the lower slopes For London, 100 bales Waste Bliks 208
Feras. Formosa, sailed 10th August profit earned so far amounts to $35,668.01, posed to exist in Victoria. On the 17th of or third offence would cause bie license to bro-laws by inserting clause rendering certainly did not consider it an insanitary live adventurers were more fortunate in the
October 1890 the Committee presented its be forfeited. (6) All night-sall carriers tenants liable to a poualty for making an Duisance.
melied
with flowers, and in all which with $10,554.18 brought forward, Oct
the gloriou On the motion of Mr. Francis, seconded base of the spring azales bloom. But Cap bales Canes. 200 pkgs. Mattings, 980 sinke saakes a total of $78,122.19 undivided seport, and recommended inter alia that should use buckets of a certain pattern to improper usa of a drain which is likely to
by the President, it was resolved that Mr tair Goold Adama, an he stood on the lip of Preserves, 15 cases Bristles, 70 carte kamene i profits carried forward: We trust that overcrowding in Coolie Hauser should be be approved of by the Sanitary Board. The lead to a
to a nuisance, under the lodging house size of the backets may sary to suit the hows figures will be consideral eatisfactory dealt with
The following minutes were apponded --- carriera. The Mr B. K. Leigh very able, report. Azeredo be informed that he is perfectly at the crater containing the lake, saw the same tial Oil, Losse Bilk Pince Goods, 10 feste
liberty to take legal proceedings in the police
magnificent and almost aarivalled View. taking into consideration the present clauses of the Health Ordinance. Bye-laws length of individus
Blackwoodware, 21 pkgs Bundries, depressed condition of trade in the Bask, for the licensing sad regulation of Common first-lot of buckets should be up. I think the question of public latrines or other courts as he thinks it.
The first to admire it, by the way, were the page. Tea, containing from which, however, it t
dramo up, and lied to them by the Government should be brought up at a special masting
Penterprising Jemnit Fathers," who made the 16,838 pkgs. Tam, contain of it is quite within the Lodging hours WARE
assent early in the eighteenth century, Scented Caper, 233 bozse Tee, containing
the Bod repair Dr time ses a healthy reaction. We have no ment finally approved as they now stand by to maintain them in good order
being now donarmed. It is true that, with Tea, o containing 1760 lim. Boring For Button special feature to remark upon and have the Legislative Council on the 22nd of May, and to replace them when worn out or for increased latrine accommodation.
Dr Hartigan--án excellent report, with simply to say that the fairs of the Bank 1891, and wers to come into fores on the 1st broken at their own expense. (7) When
maggestions.. have as all times our earnest attention and day of August in the same year. This was a sight-soil evolis undertakes to remove the roellent My J.
Francis, Q.0.-I think the stoop to pick up a sovereiga,justo contradist, he reported the mountain asaco For Bar 150 canna Starr care. The Accounts at the Head Office the sigarl for the spread of a rumour that night soil from a particular house he should have been audited by Masara J. H Cox the Governmiont was about to levy Poll-ter be required to remove runh night-zou bax ƒ paper 9980 to be printed at once, Ir seams only right that the tax collectos fue of the highest in the world, whereas thesisend. 94 bars. Samman Sondaj 60 canCS" and W. H. Posts and in London by Messrs on all coolise in Hongkong. The Regletrar in the house at least once in every 24 hours and coples farnished to every mamber and should be called a taxiderarst, so he skins altitude is condderably under 9,000 feet.
Removal
once every other day or orary to the press. We can then deal with its protybody. and by personal interviews explained the provisions and objects of the Regulations to prohibited and in no case should the night were anlatantially that (a) the loose fac agreement (8) The carrier should only hope action will be taken at the next Board The balance sheet whows that notes in would constitute a poll tax on the poolios work between the houm of a meeting, elrontation represent 181,990; and fised frequenting their lodging houses, and (b) and 6.30 in. (9) The carriers of the La cartint Aid Cher: sccount, that by the reduction in the number of the various disciots should elect yearly
lamatea
of their houses they would suffer a out of their nomber • Committee-of-not should receive early attention. $2,111,448,81,
Dainiite, Dever, Grifiths & Co., Charlorod | General (Mr Lockhart) by means of cireulah or fourth day ata. should be strictly / 40ggestions with sosie comfort.Alg
Accoutants Your obedient Servant, D. Casas, Chairman, 1894
Hongkong, 13th August,
time.
He must be a very fat man who cannot pardonable exaggeration, there being tobody am, I say Bed War Hamburg
*You wouldn't wese that primross so
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pkgs.
For Antwerp, I be
41 bales Osues, 2 CASES BUKE
and 3 hores Bondriss
The faptain Suportulendent of Police lightly if you know what it was, said the BLCBBS-What is a dead letter, please? P2000 friante, (0% The poolis-house masters. Their obisation soil varrier be allowed to make a different Meat of the points raised are urgent. I Professor to Chappie, What is it? naked Nobbs-One that has been given the Hoog. For this. Paramita
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New York, 8,480 volle Chappis. Why, in reality, it in a corolla kong Local Foet Offon to deliver.
ting, 4,376 pkgs. Fits Creokers, 2872 pkis. esopa dicotyledonons exogen,' said the Pro
Merchandise, 583 babes Straw Braid, 208 The Acting Director of Public Works-A tesson. Whereupon Ohapple went home, He-o you beliers in ouring by the lay-bales Sheep's Wool, 178 cm Blackwood very year to postions and would have had brain fever if he had ing on of hands? She (mother) Yes, in Ware, 50 kgs: Pith of Retare, 35,
had anything to have it with
the case of children,
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