FRIDAY MAY 17, 1907.
THE SANITARY COMMIS- SION.
Bad Administration,
majority of casos, the Government through the agoncy of the Sanitary Board in forcing ownois of property to comply with sub- Boction 1 of section 176, compel them to create a branch of section 140 in respect
kitchen space
of
THE CHINA MAIL.
As it has appeared in avidungu, tife: amended Ordinance is still found impro timble and inflicts to much hardalap on in Chinese, who feel compelled to sond their familica back to the mainlangt of Olim, owing to consequent interenso in comfort and privacy.
·SANITATION IN HONGKONG.
called upon to advise, his duties to be of « - similar cature to those laid down by the Bradford Corporation and the City of London."
Bill bsonino and to mark
Hitherto the Government Juve forced the the cost of living and want of domestic Mele; was discovered at alout'inid-nighistorical Review by Mr boing added to the Board all the unoffiçin)
In yesterday's isage we gave extraits from the Ropost issued by the Commission appointed to inquire into the Administra-whatever. tion of the Sanitary and Building Regu
of the Sessiori of
A BRUTAL MURDER,
Indian Hacked to Picoes.
The doad body of a Mabcinelas, mined compliance on the one hand and winked
Those who cannot very well soud their last night at No. 4 Ang Loong Strach at the attendant breach on the other, which in obviously a most undesirable state of families away, have been driven to use The dy was frightfully hacked about, the affairs and quite indefensible on any ground oleth, and in the case of the pour class, injuries being apparently caused by chop ruge, in place of wooden partitions to aumerous changes in our laws secure
it is sense of inuntor and from what can be changes have in many instances had the This has made the condition of sanitation gathered the crime must have taken placo Eine give extracts dealing with various uncertainty that prevails as to still harshes cloth partitions, whilo preventing ventila
values, coupled with the go from bad to worse, in so molt as the earlier in the evening
Bo far no trace of the murderer, or torical Review of Sanitary Administration laws boing On the subject - Administration, the calculations acted, render uusiastiko tion as much as the wooden ones, actiniumurderors, has been discovo od nor lims in the Colony compiled by Mr A. Sholton eventually be suggested by the
almost impossible, ungender a late dirt to a
far
greater extent, and aro
nny motive for the oriale bean uneartliod. feeling of uneasiness and want of con- more liable to cause fires. Commissioners rapori...
The Chinese touement houses are so former, is the general pression of the Revenga ar robbery, mest probably the Turning now to the terms of the Comfidence, and thus koop investors aloof
The prigin of sub-section 1 of 176 can be peculiarly constructed flat every storey or traced as far back as Ondinance 24 of 18m floor as it is commonly called is simply sized nothing end further evidence is obtain place would stoto that their empiries into 7, sub-section which Feads:
rout of cach room ranges, Every domestic building, inust be from $10 in the por districts to 800 mor the working of the Ordinance all point to
provided
with an open space in the rent, month in tlie busiest part of the city.
Very
few Chinese can afford to take n families keep a flour, together, in order to bring it within their means to keep thoir wives and child
children with
with them,
lations, and we will now from time to respecting property and the fact that these little privacy for their women pers or large knives. Froin all appearances mission which has dealt with the Ad- the Government and the unofficial members
questions.
icon, the Commis up in the first
room.
certain can be said.
The
ROBINSON PIANO
COMPANY, LTD.
THE
MINIATURE GRAND
BY
8TELN WAY
work of creative at which slaudi alone-unqualifedly THE BEST.
PIANOG
disapproval of the Biodical Officer of Health
Faxombots of the Board
dezcopte
tone resigned. Hooper.
In the
opening the Legislative Council the Governor said he regrotted" stato thero. had Attached to the Report of the Con been some intsunderstanding betweon
ministration of the Public Health and
of the Sanitary Board in
regard to the of Medical Officer of Health. appointmart some opposition had Buildings Ordianto, is an important His
S Loon offered to his views in certain quartets and it is not improbable that a compromise Hooper. It is as follows:-
Secretary of State but ne vat no decision. The earliest record of any soniitary had been arrived at. In this uncertain to assign administration of the Colony, is when the any definite position to the mowly appoint Sanitary question was taken by the ad Medical Officer of Health as tho Bubor Government, and a Committee of Public dinate of Holy, which at any time
might THE KOWLOON-CANTON
Heatch and Cleanliness was appointed' in cease to exist.
In the
on 14th Legislativa Council on August, 1843, with authority to enforce Decomber, 1806, the Honourable Mr T. H. RAILWAY.
rigid sanitary rules amongst all classes of
Whitshead 1901 (section 5, sub-section 1) the same clauso was altered to read "Every domostio
residents, but an effective measures wore Governmentcomplained of the notion of the is most unsatisfactory, both in the Admin-building must be provided by the moner
Progress During 1908.
Board, and of the word to the Sanitary taken. Those rides were subsequently Board, and of the protracted delay on istration and in many of their regulations with an open space in the rear, &c., "
formulated by Ordinance 5 of 1844.———— part of the Government in reconstructing
the Board on
on a proper basis He Bald Flis Touching on the question of the Kow. In order to fully explain what appear to The words added constituted a most far eaming is abore the average earning1on-Canton railway in hija report for 1606 inter a'i that the occupier of promises Faddros to the Council on 28th November,
Ordinance Number 14 of 1815 enacted Excellency be the dmwback in the regulations and
and radical altoration notwith the failure in administration, the Commiswhich the Attorney General in of Chinese clark. Ho must retina | sioners have decided to steal in detail with introducing the Consolidated Ordinanes (10 fairly respectable manner as his position Si Antthew Nathan say The attempts should not allow the accumulation of filth 2604, then said leat a Sanitary Board,
onco a mesting certain sections of the Ordines, pointing of 1991) to the Legislative Council asid roques it. He cannot live far away from of H.B.M. Consul at Laton and Minic or other offensive substances within his
fortnight, could
The following in au account from the properly ont where Indship exists, the case for En substituting a single Ordinance for the his business amongst the coolice. He has tor at Peking and of the Hongkong Garera promicas. This was followed in 1806 by care and direct, such a staff I do not tam uit of the taking of the Ple complaint, and the resultant injury done fifteen it sepented it had been found noces to rent a floor in the Central District, ment to get the Chinese authoilies to an Ordinance to regulate Chinese buriala, gentiones could he found who have time
believe, and that four or five independent biscite
THE SANITARY BOABY, which costs at lunst $20 per month, nocom
and inclination to doroto several hours of the Colony. prosperity
ing of some of the enactinents
etinents con
daily guage cally half of his wages is nhuurbed by the final loan agreement for the Chinese section the Colony of Hongkong as follows: Was then deal with the alterations which so as to preserve top but that rent. the renaming half boing
of language cilly half
Reall of Plebiscite. apper desirable in order to render the and prevent undue
barely of the Canton-Kowloon milway and of an "Such of the Onlers and Regulations position to inform you definitely what whether there should be an unofficial or on
possibility, I hope's
a For a considerable time the subject of working of the Ordinances morò eflicacious, nearly the whole of those amendinents sufficient to pay for his day possiblo, A210oment for the joint; wórking of that of the General Board of Health established | atops it has boon decided to take to pince official majority in the Savitary Board has It seems almost inconceivable that the of the rent per cent, to 50 por cant with the British auction resulted in four in London under Authority of the Acts of the Sanitary, Board on a new basis. been a voxed question amongst those in the "
the conclusion, viz., that the Administration sulsoquent Ordinanco, -No. 10 of whole storey, Ginerally two or three
of the Sanitary and Building Regulations as carried out under the existing Ordinances
the word.
Å'
An instance muy ba given of a Chiponat 840 mouth clerk, though 840 a
a month
which
ARA
the
Governor in his
to properly and consequently the general·į sary to make some altor consolidated modating-about twelve params. Practi-open negotiations for the conclusion of a land to prevent certain nuisances, within a to su a task than to bo, in".
and at the same time les hurssing and DRGIOUS to the community.
Of all the drastic sections of a very drastic Ordinance, section 175 probably
were purely formal and the substance of
the law remained entirely unchanged."
tremendous
of to
the bounds
effects property owners nutreneriously than blind to the by before (Ordinuco & mother, a sister or cognising the preliminary agreement inndo it to adopt, shall for such Time And to of State, but as, yot no decision has boen?
His
other.
tion
to
nity Lens
it
for, under the present law, it is for him to save 40
Parliament för the
the vent by partition lyns before.
and motings being hold at Cauton in March Public Health, ne any of them, as shall be of the Session Attorney General should have been so sharing it with another
His Excellency made i
DT explanation and and April between representatives of the from time to time, by the Governor in
is stated. Even when a better paid inan can afford. Victroy there and of the British and with such modifications thereof respective nat improbable that compromisu will Some opposition has been offered. dous significance of is defective
ective in the funds these three words
Council determined and notified, to r any
the owner.
to my views in certain quarters and it is 830 ront a mouth, the present to pay 820 to 8 mental principles of equity inasmuch as It has been shown in the evidence
it
a with undue severity on Chinese Corporation, in the Vicary 10-with each
His Excellency in Council shall think ly 29. sacrifices vosted righte without compensa the Commission that sub-section 1 of him. Ho tinte a
eventually be suggested by the Booretary tion. To quote from the of the section 175 of No. 1 of 1903 which is an
brother.
there may
-with-kim.
sit besides his own by the Corporation with the Chinese Gorsuch Extent or with such Modifications as arrived at. There are those who inve Landowners
the exact copy of
section
ion bú sub-action 1 of 10 wife and children, and one or two servants, mont 22 the 28th March, 188, and in shall be do notified, extend to, and he pretended, to see in the action of the Governor regarding
Hurt Public Health and of 1901 has cost the landlords of Hongkong The only cubicle allowed to be put his proposing arrangements which, though enforced within this Calc Building Bill, September 280s, 1900. "No very
and will if not used by himself and his gife. very large sums of
His s mother, or has aftuner boon upheld of dollars more, for which there can be no have to sleep and do everything in full Constitution. by our Courts Una the principle that debt the additims of these three words open view of each other in the remaining
G without compensation a violation of the
in the 1001 Ordinauce spice. righte of private
will tot he Al wvate property will not por.
their re
reproduction in the 1913 Oerlin
Except in the cubicle, there is no other the public good mitted even
yet woane are almost entirely responsille.
privacy available. The law does not allow find that this section, retrospective as
cused
A
of
is
principle is more bruly established in our repealed cost. thenaya thousands children and all the members of his family they differed materially from those of the Authority of this under the Government an attempt to deal » death;
the property
t several lakhs of dollars. can be no doubt that if this see- tion of the Ordinance continues to bo enforced without compensation, the losses
ity
bu
Serious.
One of the witnesses, no less an author
than the Building Authority himself, admitted that the enforcement of this four-fifths of the
the owner
of a
צו!"
proliminary loan agreement and included one for joint working, wore accepted as the basis for the further negotiations. These, after sunuy delays, were carried on
blow to the
my
intantions."
by all other Loading Makura
FOR SALE OR HIRE
A
PRICES consistent with quay and
BASED ON PRE-ENT HATE OF EXCHANGE
"(Continued on Pages 2 and 3)
SUBSIDIARY COIN.
*Comments by Sir Matthow Nathan.
"It has provel most unfortunata for pro- even a little space to be enclosed for the at Paking. between Tang Shao-yi, the cui connected with stor of the measures which would have left no doubt Sir, Matthew Nathan comments on the
such as
Under the Ordinance of Order and Clean any such motive and even had such been Sanitary Board. I disclaim liness 1836 the Governor to appoint a duly qualified Modical Proti mrsnes
was empowered
should at least have adopted In his report for 1908, just published, measures batter calculated to effect it tioner to be Medical Colony who shall
such dutíns whatever as to
as to my inta
Sanitary subsidiary cain evil. He says that "bad as: of the methods in
ethods in Shanghai and Singapors under wore the effects on trade of the insecurity as the Geramnor shall dirvel Colony as
fa Municipal Council hate the managementatory results, while of the waterways far greater evil rosulted i the Ordinace was in
ed and not without good re
the
following year, thin above nection, was ay
our
It may be argued that if the three words tenòment on offer or - sation in oblainperty upon which added to the 1901 (bilinasen were so vp-| purchase price on marigage, was equivalent wore mado until after the suction containing must be put up on the issuing a 5 per cent loan of £1,500,000 for following year » Chief Inspector was necessary work Quite recently the Hon-about & per cont. grently reduced the pour-
ол
his
pressive, how is it that no serious complaints room
tom was re-embodied in the 1908 Oulin
anco,
mor-
added to these four.
to
Mr
.
Chadwick was commissioned
3 hever known any object worthy is to the inconvenionea of
and
after, the esetbent of theso Ordinances papers in the accountant's' room, and as under the dirvotion of a Chinese managingmont was created na Sub Department of renght forward which has not of its Government who, were mishlo to get
In fail at these periods the Government encouraged bundlorda to provide lanes in almo
ed in conjunction with the losses incurred of 1933 the
Hi the
CAR
*
he
And
owners that the speech theaks of convenience, and railways, party of lossen Attorney General in the this nose director-general of an Vorty and Mr
Ordinance was
as not to arose, the amongst the wage earning classes of slightest suspicion among the unofficia!
reason, as t J. O. P. Bland, representing the corpora-re-enacted by the Amending Ordinance. has become almost unbearable.
As the
most authorities in, issuing from the provincial The Medical Inspector appears to have obnoxious and the most poisonous odours members of Council that the changes pro- The Chinese merchants and traders, too, tion. Ten metings were held between the had no direct staff under him until 1873 are to be met with in every street of the mint vast quantities of subsidiary coins possed were other than ns described by that are not left without a share of the hard- 23rd August and the 7th Novales and on wheri a Chinainen, was appolated Seaven town. The accumulations of filth discover-containing out 10 por cent, one oder learned gentleman and they were satisfied ship. The rent of their shop varius be the 10th of the latter month a final loan gor for all. Departments undoy Surveyed in the native part of the city Inst year tudo dollar of which they purported in
varies-be- with his s statement that the law remained twoen 930 and $100
ris entirely unchanged."
Himilar
construction floor.
to the floors of the agreement was signed by Tang Shao-yi and Department and this continued until 1878. were permitted by official neglect. The represent fractional parts. This over- In 1870 four European-Inspectors were blaine cannot be attributed to the Sanitary issue, bringing down the value of sacks of To meet their business Mr Bland. It provides for the corporation
appointed to Department Survey
Board, which novor hul pow : to carry.
power t requirements,
You similar coins-already in the country by ground
the construction and equipment of the
ourable the Colonial Secretary spol bec
spoke at a chasing power of the Kwangting consumer to Guvernment confiscation,
public prosent law requires it to with an open front above
Chinese section of the railway. A first the
vicoting and bore testimony to the mahon Report on the Sanitation of the of Hongkong residents. Ho of counter,
He said:
foreign goods It The mortgagor so far from finding his
incidentally brought down the dollar value of Hongkong which is unsuitable for the conduct property enhanced by the costly re-con- The reason is not far to seels. The 1810 business, requiring privacy and security.
of mortgage: on the milway is to be the Colher, change Enchis to haro been ri
far as the publio spirit is concerned security of the loan the duration of which is No structions, hods it
it seriously depreciated inaud 1001 Ordinances contained succeeding The common practice of a Chianso
Colony trading concerns in blie value, as
as tonants invariably demad lower clauses which provided that houses built thant is, to keep his safe and valuable toba 30 years. The construction is to be made until,1883, when a Sanitary Depar fants in consideration of the availab's e
received support
port in every way from the rid I of a large stock of this coin purchased conxmodation being reduced.. Flis margin could dispestise with backyards if they had the carotakos of these, the steuntant or dircter with who arret ud a Borisations of Mr. H. MoCalum who was desig: I have never come across auch n-voll into return $3,583, ond of this to England for
the Survey Department, under the direc-inhabitants of Hongkong.
in the preceding year hind eventually his rents reduced to suck an extent a land or a certain width in the rear. shroff in to
to sleep in as to leave him able to pay the interest houses having a cortin pen space at the also forbide this, for any enclosed space chief recountant. The agreement pro-
the room, but the law a British engineer-in-chief qud a Britishunted "Sanitary. Inspecto
formed community; it line been
shle as bullion. The Hongkong, In the same year Order and the unhappy mortgagor, rear could and did obtain exemption from looping purposed is a mortgago,
cubicle and
Clean oilgod
result of this lesson to If he be a man of small agents, has to relin providing backyards.
vides that a further, one for the jointliness Amendment Ordinance" was passed as a most enlightened comment decided as a
And such a standard of intelligence could quish lila property at a heavy crifice or go
refore illegal
other floors of a Chinese firm are working of the British and Chinese whereby the Governor might constitute a net lave been maintained, except oliminate from their future financial policy making profit from the supply 19 With the Honourable member of subsidiary cofas te iute Tank
uptoy..
permanent Sanitary Board consisting of When is circumstance is duly sansider. | lion of hackyards but in the old Ordinane la partitioned into so many cubicles for sections of the railway should be arranged the Surveyor Gedemt, Registrar Govora cordially agree in this instance and Provinces and then took stops, which ainee the two Kwang clecke, from the coneroting and time washing clauses contained in the 1899 and 1901 for the staff, aro in the majority of Governor of Hongkong, Negotiations for members' to be app the Board consistedvice on a properly constituted Sani ary Provinces--the imperious necessity for
which are not require between the Viceroy of Canton and the Colonial Surgeon and not less than 2. other I believe that we have in our midst men i tho end of the your five had some resul succeeling and modifying any nice
by the Governor eminently well qualified to render good ser to impress on the Goverment of those regulations,
there is small rom for wander Ordinances were eutiroly doleted with cases let to the agents of other smaller that Chinese property has, as is affirmed disastroussults to property owners. businesses outside the Colony It is thore by several witnesses, depreciated 30 to 3v Houses completed at the end of 1902.
tary Inspector Board"
The following is an extract from the checking the output from the Canton for fore
fore obvious that hardship
the
consequent por cont. in valute,
the beginning of 1009 passed Jay the upon
upon the prohibition of the erection of more.
to the Sanitary Sub-Department of Public Colonial The tendency of the Chinese to soud Sanitary Board and Building Authority as than one cubiolo on the upper floors of the Kowloon railway also ya down that it Works Dopartinent and was a member andontal Surgeon's Report for 1894, con
cerzang the Sanitary Board their families away from the Colony is being built in accordance with the law and existing houses in keonly felt by Chinese is understood that the Chinese Government
Honorary Secretary to the Sanitary Board,
As a compulsory member of the Board appointment was a Medical words aro insuficient to express my The first
disgust coming more and more warka (side consus which in fact were the very centres of the of all classes. rutarns which show an actand Chinese
In his osidenoo, the Principal Civit will not build another line competing with Inspector. Mr McCallum was appointed at, in any way, being a part of it *** population, exclusive of now Kowloon, of
The only thing I 387,583 at agninst the estimate given in Coverament who sold land in lots to suit Mediol Officer has admitted that sections this milway to its detriment." In this Sonitaty Inspector. Tie other. Tuspecious I leave the Colony for a time with regret. the Report on the Health and Sanitary blocks of houses of a certain height, with tie and unpracticable. The remarks and proposal of the Chinose authorities to build Surveyor General (Chairman), Registrar before I returns there will be some inents buhind him on the state of trade in
do not regret leaving is 104 dealing with cubicles are dras-connection it may be mentioned that a fa 1887 the Board was composed of the the Sanitary Board as Body and I hope Condition of the Colony for the year 1905 and depth and of a design with which they suggestions embodied in the statement of
a line towaris Amoy which for someof the Palico). Mosse. Mic
Colonial Surgeon, Major Dempster proyemout as to the individual Mchore." of 338,873 occlusive of new Kowloon, or is were perfectly familar) were contouned Me A. Carter, the Sanitary Surveyor, Shestage of 51,290
Mir W. Danby wrote to the Press calling Hongkong in 1900. In his annual report persons).
ilied. 119
is appended hereto, are worthy of miles must have followed approximately.
son, Ede, Ho Kei, H. Me attention to the cruando boing waged ho points out that in the Chins trade of Property in Hongkong until the last (wa Lanos were no longer to be encouraged } or three years has been one of the favourites against backyards and buses privately us, of the year 1887 new inst legal exklofts, etc., and formally Hongkong and as regards importe very
deration from the evidence before the same coures as the Canton-Kowloon Callum to).
New alleging corruption the Chinese commuarity, eived are not allowed to count as open that the revision of the law bu this direction from Hongkong where it was held that the Public Health Bill
Sanitary was introduced into the Adonistration,
heavy losses had to be faced at the aid of Berty came into the murkot, buyer. Even public ronds fifty foek or more deserves the serious attention of thoGover construction of such a line was contrary to Logislature and after the fullest discussione | The Deity vess said the Government the year owing to the large stocks of India
in width. are not allowed to count as upen ment and the Legislature. the Public Health and Buildings Ordiuntce spaces and, under sub-section 2, it would It is impossible make a hard and fast the preliminary agreement of March, 1999. extending over some months it was passed would have to suit the matter to the bottom yarn which were held at prices above their
but by a suspending clause in the Ordin
either of 1903 (section 173 thereof in particular) scent that a building with a wide public rule in this matter, but we ate of opinion While the survey work on the British ance it did not besome-law until it was his altered all that
road back and front is Sonsidered far more that cubiclos are a necessity to the Chinese
A resolution of the Sanitary Board was true value. Neither in Blanchester, nuty the custom for the vou-story than one with only oue frontage, population, and that the whole question in section of the Canton-Kowloon railway notified that it was not disallowed by the passed that tho Colonial Secretary be re-er woollen goods was business, satisfactory parting with a
a. property to If the effect all this were not so serious, the general interest fequires cafoful const was being completed in the early part of Queen which notification was fazetted in fasted to furnish the Bearl with the anil in metals it was dull. tapontations of
May, 1888 ths or 40ths of the purchase money it would se ludicrous.
opinion of the legal advisers of the Crown Australian flour continued to increase large- the your construction was proceeding on tho This Ordinance was the first which gave as to whether any legal steps can be takenly. Exporte did not do so badly. Thurs line between Tai To and Lo Fu forry under the right to the public of electing any with a view to obtaining rodress for the was a good yield of silk and fair demand misterontation made against for it and native dealers were satisfied with
investments and keen competition always existed when
ANGPA
Formerly it
dur
allow
law (being built more or less under the
direct encouragement and advice of the
to remain on mortgage, and the Govern For instance, wo woukh remind your ment would have been wise to encourage Excellency of the case of the present build. practice which stimulated legitimate entering of the Hongkong and Shanghai Rouk, prise in property, and incidentally brought which at any mumont night under the in much revenue to the Government tertus of the Ordinance be called upon to coffers, but no such transactions usually provide an opçu space A$ hack yard in
the
spell ruin, and are consequently becoming rear (as Bond to the Kowloon on the north side) although open:
rarer
und rarer.
from Les
and
to
deration and thorough revision.
SPORTING.
Lawn Bowls.
-
this further agreement were not started before the end of the year.
The final loan agreanent for the Canton
of 8 members.
bister of feet!
Mr H. McCallad was Sanitary
wore of Naisances,
in the
ya Commission or otherwise:
chy a f
mint
BAD BUSINESS.
A Retrospect of 1908.
Sir Matthew Nathum has left a few com-
the Public Works Department and by the representatives of the Bound and the app and its officers in Fr Duby's the results of the your as regards ginger. boen found not including, however, any constitution of the Bourely an unofficial letto meeting of the Sanitary Board the rise in the sterling value of the
and of April about 2 miles of bank had
bridge or heavy earth-work. On the 29rd Tomorrow, afternoon the Police and March Mr W.. C. Evet, who had been ap pointed by the consulting engineers-Sir
CIVIL SERVICE #FOLIE,
important principle was admitted in the
majority?
The Ordinnuca enacted that the Board
more than
and the
Aba
und soy.
dollar which has been going on since. Carly
thout compensation is expe- have lately been advised by its legal competition. The following will represent resident, engineered in Elie Colony hom shall be appoint ayers hold by apparently the only means not the end of that mouth and again at the end
Over and above all, the Government Civil Servico Clubs meet in a Lawn Bowls Toha Wolf Barry and Co.-to be chief Colonial Surgeon and not]·
drafted was was pointed out in the permanently jeop infuatially signed potition against it) the prosperity of the Colony progress and
work of a novice,
That the Government recognised this to
this
Tho Sanitary Department is carrying on
a moru vigoris campaign than ever as
CIVIL SERVICE GWÁMPÍOKSÍLIP.
a certain extent is certain by the fact of regards the enforcement of this section Kelly beat Mr. L. E. Brett by 21 points
boing
withdrawn and a redraft of the (176) notwithstanding that such on orce- to 14. Ordinance made. This redraft was intend-ment would;" many cases, oppont to be
for.
was, worth
and some dificulties with labour delayedbers of the Board,aagistrate's order, which resulted in favoursome withdrawal of capital from the Colony
the
in gold using countries and
for invostneciation in, the value of
of Public Works, minuted as
1903 continued. in
in 1908, the range of should consist of the Surveyor General, Director Honourable Mr T. A. Cooper, it is doubtful, apart from the question Peninsula.
Registrar General, Captain Superintendent follo of Police
"I hope t
variation in the year being slightly greater that a full and complete caquiry of equity, whether the enforcement of
175 section
members, 4 of will be made into Mr Danby's allegations than in 1905. At the commencement of dient on economic grounds. As a direct advisor that under section 176 the Sanitary the Civil Service:
by the Governor against the Sanitary Board and its off January the dollar stock] at Sy. 0 11/16d.
It foll to 2s. 0 5/löd, for a result of such enforcomment, Crown Innds Board has only pawur to recommend
short time at Messrs W. H. Kally. R. Fonton, M.nd took charge of the work, being and 2 elocted by the..
It is made evident the latter Ba
available, Assisted by an engineering staff of one diminish in valuo and the assessable value modifications and not
A Royal Commission. texemption from the Melver and L. E. Brett (Skip.)
inemabors, de
as the last part of the An action was Brought
of February, rose irregularly to 25. 3 9/160. by Yeung Shin in tho of property decreases.
section. The sole remaining safeguard of
middle non-official members Kam against bio Sanitary Board and Polica 3 9/16d, at the end of the year. The
of Novembor and The Public Health and Buildings property ownera was thus swept away with Hudson and I. A. Wheat (Skáp.)
Meski's B. Duncan, C. H. Parkinson, R.xecutivo and four assistant ongibers non-official ine
sume Rection EBYH** who arrived subsequently. During the of the Board shall hold office for 3 years," Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 as originally results which lavo
Constable Rao as a test casato fry the right maximuns of the your was the highest valuo met
Messrs P. R. Adams, G. Badcock, Aummer sickness buong staff and workmen Thereby the unofficial majority of men of the Sanitary Board to enter premises and that had boar attained tipes, as ond of jeopardis rarity
Blowey and W. Finchor (Skip.)
pull down cocklofts without gotting a 1908. The rise is said to have involved the progress of the work, which consisted In Committee of the
maust be of the plaintiff. tunnel through the Kowlum hills. By the Governor when once he has accepted Yuen against the Sanitary Board for local stocks. tho championship final Mr W. H.at first in preparing for the piercing of the
that the nominee of the wer General:
Another netion was brought by Wong Li consi
consequent end of the yon quarters for staff and Office and is a meinber of the Board is
Certainly those stocks dealt with in the labourers and workshops were completed perfectly independent, and it must be wrongful acts, and ho was awarded 8500
Will deannges
Colony which give the best indication of cousins only fou
consider Land is the foundation of all prosperity The Victoria Recreation Club will enter
cost of only four ocial members and the shares and any legislation which losscus its
Mr McEwen enid there was nothing to heursty of the officers, save the Daily of four land companies, went down on in security of tenture (as section 176 dess) upon their new site on Monday best. A4 store yard, with arrozigaments for laud-
of the hile those of be disastrons
matshed has been erected and the work of ing plant and manterink, and lean forared at the commpanity to
hampon Dock Company. connected by about 3 to Tui Kok Tini and affected by it and in the end to the Governorsticking the permane oloring, though yards of temporary metro gato railway the
* so it is not certain that appears frein the cases that have recently
Cand
namely, tried. element will pro-dominate, boun
that should t
of business brought by different phrases and words to express the interests from the community is governs the end of the year. On Monday members some 1,500 yards long, formed with part of
Babaro
Wharf and undertake a general Hongkong and With regard to the military cleansing of the town owing to the outbreak Same Hitaning Sub-section
replied "With 2 of this very We are of opinion that section 175 of and their friends are invited to be present the existing Public Works Department
The shores int Godown Company I section (175)
this Ordinancs requires to be completely at the Club lehteen 11 and 12 o'clock road
Military generally have their man, the to the north face communication Neither the Biting
from a temporáry landling place at Lok Loown Board of Health and I do not think it of filth diseases, a much clesor supervision nearly every industrin undertaking, in nor Medical Officer given under sub-section 1
armanent be held.
appoint bolonging to
to the garrison to the Whitewash Brigade by responsible Content Company and the Rope Manufac work by the end of the
such from this time.
4 Board as this.
offers than has hitherto been the case turing Company shrunk in value, had been started from, the opon at either
The Board this time consisted of 10 This
Clark mae in year Dr..
possibly exercise engolid advanced inore than 4 for for by Ordinues of 1887
personal supervision over the whole of the What will be the ultimate temunal
ed to be final but before the ink was dry illegal by
by the ign
ageing
of the proviso con-
on it, it was found to be unworkable intained in section 208 of the Ordinance. inuy resposts and wholesale attendments
had
te bo Diade.
Everrin its present form, it is a hasty
and ill considered doenment. It toomis
willà, antiguous, regulations and the con-
Civil Medical
WR CANO
mist
The V. R.-C.
the principal revised and that compensation should.bo when an informal opening, coremony will
*Cubicles.
A Smart Captura:
....
on the south but were still undor con- f Dorne in mind that this new Hoari Apart however from: any question of the state of its business doafersőd
eix
the Governor appointing, say, af Press of Aug. 26, 1800, 000 lesson aloa Hongkong and"
over: 10%-
in
000
time to
Ha in Tiaa Cove As regards Pline I won't say it is against the law-to should be exercised over the operations of cluding the two "sugar refuerit, tho
OLE
end of the tunnel.bub in somber and was constituted as provided work but he could norge of that
of Health or anyone else is able to say exactly what it does menu, but the in- ference is that houses of more than 40 foot in depth
having two main frentages in
Yesterday three men broke into In recommending the introduction of a different, streets require double as much timestic law, for the Buthe abolition of house and stoly about 8570 worth of plothes feet open spes 111 similar houses irving only one frontage the Chincag terenient houses, the advisors
the syntet e cubicles or sub-divisions of the floors of and jewellery. With little to work upon face. A shaft 30 feet deep had been sunk that of Medical Officer of Health and in It is not right that Chinese householders Road Central, under the auspices of the
inside this face at the south and feat inside t
The unworkability of this
in
been
not
et inside
290
shaft to
tho
5,100 foot from the. first and
AA
of these
In 1895 a new office was created, víz,,
vacancy on the Board to
We have boor asked to stalo that the , competent loutanants are required. Arts Exhibition, being held at 37 Queen's
MARE HAY: WHILE THE SUN
brifty farmer Ho knows that the
but which are back to back or abat against of the Government Apparently the fiolice were informed and three mon headings commenced in both directions April a Bill was introduced into the Lezin-should a plexi at the mercy Canton Nam Koung Pablia Gollege, will be
or other subordinato officer whose olif. ility of this sub-section has realise They charged before side the north fase, had been on menber of the Sanitary
question thoroughly or folly who, had booked their passage for Canton, from it. Another to be 268 feet deep, ease there was no Oficer wven if they remain proof against the and curias which lavo- just been received
slative Council autliorising the Governar in coro zeal may lead to such occurroncas closed temporarily lur two days to allow foot
the Medical
Health A of appoint
as gave rise to the case tried on Saturday of the exhibition of à now lot of paintings fast been recognised by its non-enforce proposed. This is evidenced by the passing moat in the case of nearly all the many of Ordinace 23 of 1003 and the numerous F. A. Hazeland this morning and but
anitary Board in the temptations to set corruptly that must Chinese houses in the Colony that are more minutes, whist
not yet started. At. the-end" of the
This was strenuously opposed in lucre : boon written, sug
rushled.
work wine also proceeding o
goudbridges Cotnell and in support of the opposition inevitably be held out to them, than 50 feet in depth.
south of the tunnel and ou 3 north of it in mumble Mr A. McConachic read thu "The Hustontife the Director of
gesting modifiantions. Pablic
On May 1806, His Excellency he It must be borno in mind that the only Japanese Stowaways.
the Shatin valley. Works admitted in his evidence that the
report OF A
Govenor addressed a communication to the the Colony mcans
housing possesses of
t'a mis on either. received premia and had Chinese population is bi
of the earthwork for aiderable portion Following quotution from tho Government had
tho Two Japanese, men and 12wordon of the tunnel and about of that Medical Commission Appointed by the Chamber of Commerco asking wither HERE is a lesson in the work of the
Govornorto ouquire into the working of the they adhered to the views of Mr J. J for years receiving fotonuo in the of mites asid Crown runt from sub-divisiong, without which it is impossible were charged at the Magistracy. this on TriPo and the Lo Fu ferry and Medical Department of this Colony and Keswick,bon ho was Chairman of Lint bright anesbine may isa: but a day Aud bu
- Inad for the middle and poor chases of Chinese in rong with stowing away on the completed. The reclamation for the smtion
by the Governor
Soft ab üld bo which shopkl have been devoted to wider to live comfortably and docently. Moriousthishing from Kutchinotzu. site in Hung Hom Bay had boun put in rich was ree on Chamlar, in favour of an official majority prepares for the showers: which, aro: En.
more rouls and senverging Lea
in the Sanitary Board or of the most likely to follow." "reads and more.
household. Dysonteringskora Ordinanco the Government had the erection In other words that the f
I of 1903 totally prohibited They were four d in the fore-punk, and hand. The total exponditurs that had that the Modical for should be recent views of the Honourable Mr T. Hovory of
-attack some membør cubicles and when
nctually been insured by the Slat Dacou advisor to the Governor on all Sanitary Whitebeat their Representative br the of the home without warning Chambor beat profiting by the insanitary condition
found unworkabio, it was consequently boatswain and two quartermastore wore her was $599,548, 1
mattor through the Sanitary Board, to Counsil in favour of an unoficial jority is Cole, Cholera and Diarrhoen of the Colony, That, boitie du do to pommituted as above stated to allow one charged with siting nud-letting the SPRAINS
which is should be attacked and ou
on which
The Chamber decided to take the opinion Romedy which is the bost knowe modipina pensation at
least sheild
pro- subicle to be erected on each of the upper
SPRAINS QUIORLY OURED. costly ro construc
he should ocetipy a seat. He should have perty owners for such ei tiona na come under this section (176), and floors of existing houses and none on the Chie of the man was finał 2200, the re-
mininder of tho stowaways being fnod 850 ATHE be parts freely with Chamber no vote, his duties on the Beard being of the community on the subject which fer thead disuades, should always be kept at ground floor. Under both Ordinances, the consequent shrinkage in the earning however, the ercetion of cubicles in touch, while the charges against the lain'a Pain Balm and give them purely of un advisory nature it beintoy did with the following result::
331 and datay may prove fatal Fur salo by aft boatswain and the quartermastors will be absolute rest and a quick sure is certain undesirable that he should iter into For the Unthosh Majority, It must be remembered that in the great owly built houses is entirely forbidden.
For sale by all chemists and storescopere discussion on points on which he should be For he Official Majority,
shepu
power of the property.
Wad
deelded to-morrow,
the ptorious day
May:
band, ne immentite Treatment is necessary)
31 chemists and storekeepers.