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on Thursday, when he personally congratu- lated Dr. Ho KAI before the Goverment Officials, the Members f Council, ad the
The next Coronation Committee, and also announce the honour to Mr. CHATER.
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THE CARRYING OUT OF PROFESSOR SIMPSON'S
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(Daily Press, 24th June.)
(Daily Press, 26th June.). That it was with feelings of consternation
Among the papers laid before the Legis that the news of King EDWARD's illness was received in the Colony yesterday morn-distinction to be announce was the cou
on Sir THOMAS lative Council yesterday was one dealing ing require no statement. As far as we ferring of a baronetcy know, it was REUTER'S agency which first JACKSON, who has so lately gone from our with the way in which Professor SIMPSON'S our midst. Our special telegram, which arrived recommendations, as contained in his two received the intelligence, and, as readers will se
in another column, on Thursday night too late for publication, memoranda, have been carried out. It will the information contained of a very led the information that Sir ERNEST be of some interest to our readers to know grave nature, even if the latest inessages SATOW, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, what has actually been done, and we With regard to the de- were pore reassuring. Private telegrams; had been created Knight Grand Cross, and accordingly propose briefly to summarise
of which we published yesterday Mr. PELHAM WARREN, British Consul- the document. morning, did not so clearly intimate the General at Shanghai, Knight Commander of struction of rats, the number of rat- the Order of S. Michael and S. George. Our catchers has been increased from twenty-two seriousness of the situation. It is now
Four Japanese doctors, known that the Coronation ceremonies correspondent's despatch also confirmed the at the end of 1901 to one hundred and which were to have been held, over the nature of the honour bestowed on Dr. Ho thirty-two now,
We have therefore a short list of five engaged for a period of six months, have
i whole British Empire to-day have beeg KAI
China Coronation Honours before us, three been appointed for the daily bacteriological The prisoners are postponed until some date at present unsettled. What this means will be readily of which intimately concern Hongkong. examination of rats. understood from the upset of arrangements The news, it need not be said, has given sent daily to the plague infected districts, in Hongkong alone. The official programme general satisfaction. There is no element poison and traps being freely used, while for to-day and the two following days has of surprise in the selection, for all three carbolic acid is poured into the rate-runs. been cancelled, with the exception of the who have been rewarded have been before The Chamber of Commerce was not ip
L children's tea on Saturday. All that re- the Hongkon public for a long period of favour of the suggested treatment of ships, mains to mark the originaldate of the years. It is but the other day that we were which has not therefore been adopted, but, Coronation is the fact that the Banks writing of Sir THOMAS JACKSON's eminent as is well known, the Police are engaged in and most large firms will observe the services to his own Bank and to the Colony | administering a special Ordinance with a in general, and it will be acknowledged view to the prevention of rats landing from already published holidays. This, appears, is in accordance with what has that a baronetcy is bat a fitting recognition ships. It was recommended that Danysz's In all of these on the part of the bone authorities. virus should be prepared by Dr. HUNTER been determined ou at home. other respects the projected festivities have That the talents of Mr. CHATER, who has and distributed by the Sanitary Board; been postponed until such time as King done so much in the building up of the unfortunately, however, all Dr. HUNTER'S With regard to EDWAL D's health is restored, as all will hope City of Victoria, would be recognised in apparatus was lost at sea, and duplicates
some such way as they now have, has long have not yet arrive. it speedily will be In S. John's Cathedral to-day a special service of intercession will been a freely expressed opinion, and we humnu plague itself, attempts to secure the be held, and the Roman Catholic body and take the opportunity here of joining in the early discovery of cases are made by the congratulations which have been expressed. employment of seven Chinese senior students the Parsees have taken a similar step.
Naturally there have been times when the' of medicine, who are each accompanied in schemes of Mr. CHATER have not been able, their work by a British sapper and a to command the approval of all, but none Chinese constable. The removal of the sick - the less we are glad to be able to wish him is being done by officers of the Sanitary a long enjoyment of his new distinction. Board and the cleansing and disinfecting As for inoculation, Nor can there be any doubt that when is performed by a special brigade of the Major-General GASCOIGNE on Thursday | Board's officers. spoke of Dr. Ho Kar's long and valuable the general community has services to the Hongkong Government and to it at all, the local community, which now are cognised by the bestowal of the C.M.G., he was voicing the opinion of the Colony. The other two honours, which concern Hongkong both as part of the British Empire and as very near neighbour of the Empire of China, are also heard of with rejoicing. Sir ERNEST SAT w, in spite of his scholarly and social qualifications and his record at Tokyo, was not looked upon as an ideal man when no doubt bear with regard to such ques-appointed to Peking. But he has shown tions very shortly, but the impossibility of judging the duration of the King's indisposition may render a decision difficult.
As we have said, the most recent news is of a reassuring nature, tull it is earnestly to be hoped that no complications will set in to retard the King's recovery. Such an illness as that from which His Majesty is at present suffering is not the lighty regarded in the sixty first year of life, but the patient has the best medical attention procurable, and while his advisers speak hopefully of the case the situation is encouragin. It is to many, no doubt, a very great disappointment that to-day's cere- mony has been thus indefinitely postponed, but all personal feelings will be sunk in sympathy for the actual sufferer. What is to happen with respect to be presentative contingents which have gone home from the Colones, etc., it is impossible We shall at the present moment to say.
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(Daily Press, 28th June) In spite of the fact that it has been announced in REUTER'S telegrauis that the Coronation Honours have been postpone- until such time, it may be presumed, as King EDWARD is able to stand the ordeal of the Coronation ceremonies certain awards of interest to British residents in China, and in particular to those in Hongkong, have been made public. The first intimation, we believe, was received by H.E. the Officer Administering the Government very late on Wednesday night. This was to the effect that Mr. C. P. CHATER, the senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council here, had been kuighted, and that Dr. Ho KAI, one of the two Chinese repre-
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in many ways a firmnuess which has long been wanting in the British representatives at the Chinese capital, and has won for himself a regaril which he can hardly have expected among British residents in China. On Mr. PELHAM WARREN's eminent merits, displayed during crisis of utmost gravity in Chin, there is no necessity to enlarge. No British consul eime better out of the ordeal than His Majesty's present representative at Shang- ha, and it will be hoped that his present honour will be a precursor of others in the future. Whether the China Honours list will receive additions, it is not possible to There are some other names which
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will occur, no doubt, to many as deserviag recognition, though it would be somewhat invidious to attempt to point to the most deserving. There is nothing to cavil at in the list now before us, as far as it goes.
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the rat-catchers as well as the and disinfecting staff, Medical Officer of Health, bave been inoculated. The Chinese, it seems, are very. ́ averse to inoculation with Haffkine's pro- phylactic.
The pick of the permanent officers of the Sanitary Staff have been detailed for plague duty, but it is hoped that next year there will be a special plague staff. Turning to the question of district inspection, as is already known, the Japanese doctors who were engaged in default of available Indian medical men turned out failures owing to their ignorance of English, and only two out of six have been retained, in bacteriological being employed now work. We gather therefore that the division of the city into districts, each under a medical man and a sanitary inspector, has been abandoned, the inspection being carried on by the Chinese students above mentioned. Professor SIMPSON recommended a medical inspection of arrivals from Canton and Macao. This is carried out only as regards Macao, the less important place. Finally, several private hospitals, with Chinese doctors and nurses, have been sanctioned in accordance with Professor SIMPSON'S advice.
We come now to the recommendations of the seco::d memorandum, which deals not with plague alone but with the general san.tary condition of Hongkong. Naturally we cannot expect to find much already done of the Building Ordinance soon before the Government in the Bill which- we discussed recently. Much work is in- volved in the recommended separation
sentatives on the Council, was made a Presbyterian Church give total contributions to meet the view of the expert. The revision
Companion of the Order of S. Michael and S. George. The news was published by His Excellency at a meeting called immediately after the service at S. John's Cathedral'
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