tober 7, 1897.]
remaining lots before taking further steps in the matter, and probably the agents would act as they had acted in the case of lot No. 1,018.
The suggestion was agreed to.
PLAGUE IN BOMBAY.
The official return from Bombay showed that from the 19th to 30th August last there were in that city 68 cases of plague and 34 deaths.
-MORTALITY STATISTICS.
For the week ended 18th September the death rate in the colony was 23.5, compared with 15.9 for the corresponding period of last year. For the week ended 25th September the rate was 17.6, compared with 20 for the correspond- ing period of last year.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Board adjourned until Thursday week.
MEDICAL INSPECTION AT CALCUTTA,
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board on 30th Sept, the new quarantine regulations for the port of Calcutta were laid on the table. The regulations are prescribed as a temporary mea- sure and were to take effect from the 26th Angust. We make the following precis the regulations
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I-Definitions.-(1) Health Officer. (2) Iu- fected ship.--Any ship with plague on board or on which any case of plague has occurred within twelve days before her arrival.(3) Suspected ship. Any ship on which there has been a case of plague at time of departure, or during the voyage, but on which no fresh case has occurred for twelve days before rival. (4) Healthy ship-Any ship, even though coming from an infected port, which has had no plague on board. (5) Observation.- Means that persons subjected to it will be segregated in a lazaretto or isolation camp till they have obtained free pratique. (6) Surveil lance. Means that the persons subjected to it will not be isolated, but on arriving at their destination will be kept under medical super- vision.
II.-Every vessel, including native craft, from an infected port, or having plague ou board, or having had plague on board within twelve days of arrival, shall on arrival at the Sandheads hoist the yellow flag. The pilot on going alongside shall direct the flag to be hoisted if that has not already been done.
III.-Prohibition of communication with shore except as hereinafter provided.
IV-If there is any case of sickness on board, and the pilot has reason to believe that it is plague, he shall telegraph to Health Officer and not proceed beyond Diamond Harbour without permission of Health Officer.
V-Stoppage at Mateabrooj if the pilot has reason to believe that there is any one suffering from plague ou board.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
may, at the discretion of Health Officer, he subjected to the measures prescribed in rules VIŤ. (2), VIII. (3), and VIII. (4). (3) Pass- eugers suspected to be infected with plagne may be detained under observation in isolation
hospital. (4) Crew not allowed to land, except on duty, for ten days from the date on which the ship left an infected port. (5) Crew and pas sengers may at the discretion of the Health Officer, be subjected to medical surveillance. (6) Release of ship. (7) None of these measures will be considered necessary when the ship has been granted free pratique at Colombo or other intermediate port.
X-In exercising the discretion vested in him the Health Officer should take into con- sideration the fact of there being a doctor or a disinfecting apparatus on board the ship.
XI.-Crowded or insanitary ships may at the discretion of the Health Officer be treated as suspected ships under head VIII.
XII. Ships objecting to these rules may put
back to sea.
XIII-If ships claiming the right to put back to sea desire to disembark passengers or land goods they must submit to the rules relat ing to suspected ships.
XIV-Supply of provisions and stores to vessels in quarantine to be facilitated.
QUESTIONS.
Now that the Praya Reclamation has supplied the colony with wide streets and
spaces suitable honour the memory of the late Sir Arthur for statuary, would it not be well to further
Kennedy by removing his statue from its present place of obscurity in the Public Gardens to a conspicuous position in the town?
Is it not a fact that a site in the Gardens was selected only because there was at the time no suitable site for the statue in the town?
How many residents of less than ten years, standing in the colony have ever seen the
statue?
Is it not a fundamental idea in the honouring of a man's memory by a statue that the statue should be placed in such a position that it will obtrude itself on the public notice instead of having to be sought for by those who know of its existence and wish to see it?
Were the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and jected to the Bank of England's proposal to the Chartered Bank amongst those that ob-
keep part of its reserve in silver?
If so, what is the policy of these institutions with regard to the white metal in the Far East ?
What is the true inwardness of the recent circular to the members of the Civil Service with regard to communications to the Press ?
When is the Legislative Council going to meet and let us know our fate as to taxation?
instead of silver?
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Will the Governor call the attention of the Secretary of State to the representations that VI-Health Officer, on information of stop-first and second loans were contracted in gold were made by the unofficial members when the page at Diamond Harbour or arrival at Matea- brooj, to visit ship and ascertain by enquiry. from the commander or doctor or other sources of information whether any person on board is suffering or has suffered from plague.. May de- mand declaration on oath from doctor or com- mander.
II-Rules relating to infected ships. (1) Ships to await orders. (2) On arrival at sanitary
station the sick will be disembarked and isolated (3) The other persons on board shall also be disembarked and kept under observation for a period not exceeding ten days from the last case, in the discretion of the Health Officer. It is also in the discretion of the Health Officer to allow such persons to proceed to their destina- tion on their giving an undertaking to submit medical surveillance. (4), (5), (6), (7). Provi- sions as to disinfection, pumping out of bilge water, and release of vessel.
VIII.-Rules relating to suspected ships. (1) To await orders. (2) Passengers and crew to be medically inspected. · (3), (4), (5), Disinfection, etc. (6) Passengers suspected to bo infected with plagne may be detained in isolation hospital. (7) Crew not to land except on duty. (8) Passengers passed as healthy allowed to proceed to their destination on giving under- taking to submit to medical surveillance for ten days. (9) Release of ship.
IX.-Rules relating to healthy ships. (1) shall be given free pratique at once. (2) Such a ship
Would the colony ever have been in the mess it is if it had possessed some control over its own finances
Is the construction of the Jubilee Road to be adjourned sine die P
What rate of interest is being earned by the Jubilee fund subscribed by the public?
Is the fund on deposit for three, six, or twelve months, or at call?
As the Hongkong Voluntes go into camp
at Stonecutters' Island on the 9th October is
it not advisable to hold the Benevolent Society's concert on Friday, the 8th Oct.2
Does not every member of the Corps hope that there will be an entire cessation of legal fights during the encampment so that Sir John Carrington may be able to spend the whole
week with his men ?
It is true that the Camp Gazette, which was such a great success last year, will be available to the general public this year?
The following movements in the Customs service are recorded by the Shanghai Daily Press:-Mr. Walter Lay has been transferred to Newchwang as Commissioner. Mr. P. G. von Mollendorff has been appointed Commis- sioner at Ningpo. Mr. Unwin has been trans- ferred from Ningpo to be Commissioner at Chinkiang.
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ATTEMPTED MURDER IN THE HARBOUR.
THE VICTIM OF A SUPPOSED MADMAN.
A most deliberate attempt to murder a sam. pan woman was made in the harbour on Thursday evening, 30th Sept. A police pinnace in charge of Police Constable Pyne was patrolling near Causeway Bay when shouts of distress were heard. The pinnace was at once steered in the direction from which the alarm was heard and just as a sampan was reached a man gave à jump, but instead of falling into the water he alighted on the pinnace. He was in an excited condition and his clothing bore many marks of blood stains. He was immediately placed under arrest and the police constable then boarded the sampan, where he found a woman, who turned ont to be the prisoner's sister-in-law, lying in the cabin. She was apparently in great suffering and a cursory examination sufficient to prove that her life was in jeopardy. She had three deep gashes, on her face, one having cut away a portion of the flesh, while her skull was also badly ent.
was
The woman
was at once conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital, where she lies in a precarious condition. It is supposed that the injuries were inflicted with a chopper. The prisoner is be- lieved to be mad, as a few weeks ago he tried to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour On 1st Oct. he was taken before the Magistrate and his behaviour has lately been very strange.
and remanded, Later the woman's depositions were taken by his Worship in the presence of the prisoner.
A FUSS ABOUT 25 CENTŠ.
Mrs. Selina Long and Mrs. Catherine Watson are neighbours and they live in High Street. On 1st Oct. Mrs. Long sued Mrs. Watson for 25 The debt was cents, the value of one chicken. the smallest in the Summary Court list, but it arrived at. For the sake of this paltry twenty- took the longest time for a decision to be
five cents thirty-seven minntes of the Court's time were occupied, to say nothing of the following list of people who, voluntarily or otherwise, were concerned in the case :—
One judge.
One judge's olerk. One interpreter. One usher.
One bailiff.
One plaintiff and three witnesses. One defendant and one witness. Two chickens in a basket,
Mr. Justice Wise tried his best to get the case settled out of Court, but the parties were obdurate and the case had to be proceeded with. The evidence showed that on Saturday last a chicken escaped from a coal house in house. Mrs. Watson went out and picked up the yard and fluttered near Mrs. Long's
the chicken because, she said, it was hers. Mrs. Long on the other hand said it was her chicken and she would want 25 cents for it if Mrs. Watson kept it. Mrs. Watson refused to give up either the chicken or the 25 cents, and so it came to pass that the vital question was fought out in the Summary Court. Mrs. Long's story was considered by his Lordship to be more consistent than that told by Mrs, Wat- son and after repeating his regret that the parties had not taken his advice he gave judg ment for the plaintiff with costs. It would be really interesting to know how much money has been expended on that 25 cents. Probably the ink and paper consumed cost more than the debt itself.
The case in which the owners of the Austrian Lloyd steamer Melpomene are suing the owners of the Blue Funnel" steamer Patroclus for $30,000 damages for injuries received by a collison between the two steamers during the storm of the 9th inst. was opened in chambers at Yokohama on the 14th September, before Mr Justice Wilkinson, H.M.S. Acting Judge. Mr. Lowder #pared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Walford or the defendants. Evidence was taken during the forenoon and afternoon, so as to enable the vessels to get away as soon as possible, but we (Japan Mail) understand that the matter was not settled.
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