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public, waterworks, Tylam and Kowloon, and the Harbour Office are putting aside every other work of the Public Works Departmeu!. very large. The cof these works is oret $3,000,000, and you caujot expect them to be done in a day. I co not think. myself, as far as these plans are concerned, that there has been any delay we could have avoided. There has been a slight delay in the Law Courts for this reason that in preparing the foundation it was assumed that piling was nnurcessary excet on the portion recently reclaimed, buf. it was found that the whole of the foundations at the south end had to be piled. There was no ! delay once the piling had been done, beyond the inevitable delay of trying to get a teuder which could be accepted in the interests of the Colony; and as the tenders were hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the Director of Public Works thought that we ought to pay for that kind of work, I think the Director of Public Works was very right and prolent in advising the Government not to necept the tenders received at that time. AN regards this ground in front of the Club which the hou. member speaks of, I hope that nothing will be ever built on it. 1 propose that that ground shall be made a public garden as as the site near the Law Courts, and we shall have opposite, the garden which at the present moment extends from the Bank to the s a. (Applause.) My idea is that the ground shall be preserved as an open space entirely and add to the panty of the place. I· suppose the hon. member withdraws his motioa?
Hou. Mr. STEWART - Yes. H.E. the GOVERNOR-The Council stands adjourned sine die.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
HONGKONG SANITARY BQARD.
ALICE
A meeting of the Sanitary Bond wis held on the 20th just, in the Board i oom. The Hon. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Givil Medical Officer; (Fresident), presided, and there were also pre of sent Captain F. W. Lyons, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police: Colonel W. E. Webb, RAM C.; Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. Lan Chu Pak, Mr. H. E. Pullock, K.C. Mr. A. Rumjabo, Mr. F. A. Hewett, Dr. V. Pearse, ! Acting Medical Officer of Health, and Mr. | G. A. Woodenck (Secretary).
CATTLE DISEASE.
minute by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon to The meeting had bean called to consider a the effect that foot-and-mouth disease had broken out in the eattle-shed he'ou, ing to the Dairy Farin Co, at Kailungwan.
It was decided to declare the shed an infectol ares, and to apply for authority to engage a watchman to prevent the removal of nay thing from the shed.
BUILDINGS AND OPEN SPACESS
tiou from the provision of op n spaces as
Three applications were rec-ived for exemp required by section 175 of the Public Health and Building Ordinance. 19 3. tions were in respect of Nos. 7 and 41. Berkeley
The applica Street: No. 13, Cochrane Street; and N. 17. Wing Wa Lane.
the
It was decided iu all these cases to recommend Governor in Council.
aplications for the approval of the
This was all the business.
ILE. SIR HENRY, BLAKE'S TERM OF OFFICE. We have received for publication the
Colonial Secretary's Office, 23rd June, 1903.
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held immediately after the Council-the Colonial | ing two letters :- Secretary (Hon. F. H May, C M.G.) presiding.
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATERWORKS.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,34230 in aid of the vote for City and Hill District Waterworks under Public Works Extraordinary."
'The vote was agreed to.
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ESTIMATES FOR 1902.
The Committee then considered the Supple mentary Estimates for the year 1902, and approved all of the it has contained therein.
The Hon. R. SHEWAN took objection to the grouping of so many items under the heading "Miscellaneous Servic and said miscellaneous services mightcover a multitude of miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
The HARBOUR MASTER-I don't think it would be possible to put Services" in any other form.
Hon. R. SHEWAN don't see any reas.n why not.
The HARBOUR MASTER-I am speaking to the Chairman, sir.
Hon. R. SHEWANƐo am I. The CHAIRMAN-Order.
The HARBOUR MASTER-I don't suppose it is possible to put all the Miscellaneous Services" in this part (bolding up the paper). and I suppose that is the reason they appear in the form they take.
Hon. R. SHLWANI don't see any reason against it, but what we want are more details. If the hon. member will give us a reason I shall be glad to hear it.
The discussion ceased. This was all the business.
At the Town Ball, Penang, on the 7th iust. the local Amateur Dramatic Club gave a successful performance of Dandy Dick.
I wo former Hongkong residents took prominent parts, Mr. E. F. Skertchly playing the Dean of S. Marvell's and Mrs. Skertebly Hannah Topping.
The new rule for the admittance of Chinese exhibitors at the St. Louis Exposition, issued by the U. S. Government, being found to be too harsh and calculated to increase the disabilities of Chinese entering the United States, says the N-C Daily News the Waiwupu has asked Minister Conger to remonstrate with the U. S. Government on the subject, while on the other hand, the Chinese Minister at Washington has also received intructions from the Waiwupu to
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Stn. With reference to your letter of the 30th March last addressed to the Governor's Private Secretary enclosing a petition to the Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies praying for a prolongation of Bis Excellency's term of office in this Colony, I am directed to inform you that a reply has been received from Mr. Chamberlain in which he states that ho hus read great pleasure of the appreciation with which with His Excellency's adinis ration is regarded. He adds, however, that it would be premature to consider at the present time the question of exteuding His Excellency's term, and is there- fore not prepared at pr. sent to t nder any advice to His Majesty the King on the subject. 2. I am to request you to be g od enough to convey this information to your colleague on tories of the Petition.-I have the honour to be, the Legislative Council and the other signs
Sir, your obedient servant.
Hon Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G.
F. H. MAY.
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MEMORIAL MATERNITY
HOSPITAL.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE. The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone the new Alice Memorial Maternity
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Loudon Missionary Society, was performed Hospital, to be built in connection with the
on the Bed inst. by Lady Blake iù presence of a large assembly of spectators. European, and Chinese. For the purposes of the ceremony a large matshed had been erec ́ed over the site of the new building and underneath its shade the company witnessed the function with every HE. the Governor, Sir Houry A. Binke, degree of e mfort. Just before five o'clock
Captain J. B. Arbuthnot, A.D.C., in attendance. G.C.M.G., Aud. Lady Blake arrived with
Among others present wore Lady Goodman, Hon. H P. May. Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, J. C. Hoare, 1).D., Rev. Archdeacon Banister, Hou. Dr. Ho Kri, C.M.G., Right Rev. Bishop Rev. T. W. Pearce, Rev. C. H. Hickling, Rev. W. J. Sontham, Rev. W. Clayson (Canton), Dr. R. MacLeau Gibson (Superintendent), Dr. J. C. Thomson; Mr. J. Goosmann, Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. A. Ramjabu, Mr. Li Sin Ting, Mr. S. W. Tso, Mr. Uhow Sni Ki, Mr. Chiu Mr. Kwan Fong Kuk, and Mr. Wei On. Yu Tin Mr. Hu Shun Chuen, Mr. Li Pak,
Before the proceedings began Hon. Dr. Ho Kai presente Lady Blake with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Addressing the gathering prior to tho performance of the ceremony by Lady Blake,
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Rev. T. W. PEARCE said—Your Ladyship, your Excellency, my Lord Bishop, ladies and gentlemen-It is my privilege to open the proceedings that have brought us here to-day by telling why the London Missionary Society followiu Hongkong and the friends and supporters of the Alice Memorial aud Nethersole Hospitals ventured to make the request to which Your Ladyship graciously acceded and were able to issue the invitatious to which this audience has so kindly responded. We are met on a plot of ground adjoining oue hospital- the Nethersole--to lay the foundation-stone of another hospital-the Alice Memorial Maternity-a
that will connect the new institution closely with a third hospital, the Alice Memorial in the Hollywood Road. To many who are present these facts are suggès- tive and instructive. They are facts that speak: of well sustained medical work among the poor of the Colony, of continuity, of growth and ex- pansion in the direction of charitable healing, The interest that some take in this ceremony will perchance be quickened and enhanced if I remind them from what small beginnings these hospitals have rea hed their present usefulness as benevolent institutions. Nearly
pingshan area immediately below us and not twenty-five years ago, in 1879, on the old Tai-
more than a stone's throw from whe e we are standing, I saw the rise of a movement that has given as the Alice Memorial Hospital, the Nethersole Hospital, and is now to give us the Alce Memorial Maternity Hospital. Dr. William Young, a practitioner in this city, was wont to come early in the morning to a Christian Preaching Ball, on Taipingshan, there to dispense medicines to poor people who gathered to him from that and from other parts of what was then Chinatown. I recall the circumstances quite readily, for I was newly arrived in the Colony and r. Young's medical efforts on Taipingahan impressed me the more clearly and strongly. My friend of twenty-five years ago has had many anocessors among the medical men of this place who have given and who continus to give ungrudgingly time and skill to aid the work which he initiated. From the Dispensary in Taipingshau to the Alice, Memorial Hospital, from the Alice Memorial Hospital to the Nethersole: these are clearly marked stages by which this Western medical aid to the poor and suffering has gained ground and become what it is to-day. The work has not failed to enlist much practical sympathy on the part of both Chinese and non-Chinese resilents. Among the former is one whom I feel bound to mention even at the risk of incurring his displex- sure-the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, (Applause.) ↑ For sixteen years the Alice Memorial Hospital has stood for the alleviation of suffering and as an object son to the Chinese in Western
Colonial Secretary's Office, 16th July, 19:3. SIB. With reference to my letter of the 23rd ultimo. I am directed to inform you that the following extract from Mr. Chamberlain's des- patch was inadvertently omitted :---"I have felt my duty to lay your despatch and petition before His Majesty who has been pleased to express his gratification at the confidence which is felt in your Government of Hougkong."—I | have the bonour to be, Sir. your obedient servant,
R. F. JOHNSTON. pro. Col. Sec.
Hon. Dr. Ha KAI, C.1.G
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The NC. Daily News says of the intention of H.E. the Viceroy of Canton to use foros upon the Kwangai irreconcilables and kindness and help to thos who are willing to accept the Imperial bounty, "It is believed that Viceroy Teen's scheme will be quite successful and that he will be able to restore peace and order to the province within a couple of months.. But there is a good deal of consternation in Kwangsi and Yanaan lest Viceroy Tsen should be tempted to adopt the pacificatory methods of his well-remembered father, the late Viceroy Teen Yü-ying."
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