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graph. The Japanese Consul, the Chief of Police, and a Major, who had been warned of the movements of the Cossacks, took to flight. "From information received by the detachment, there are 50 Japanese troops at Pouktcheng (Peukchyong), 500 at Hamheung, and 2,000 at Gensan. There are до more in the north. From correspondence seized at the telegraph station it was learnt that the approach of our troops was announced from Shongjin to Gensan, and they were reported to be 5,000 strong. During the night the enemy's ships approached and lighted up the coast with their projectors. The Coreans are thoroughly well. disposed towards us, and render ns every possible service.-(8d.) Major-Generel Floog.'
Tokyo, 29th April.-The first contingent of foreign military attachés, including General Sir Ian Hamilton, leave Tokyo to-morrow.'
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Tokyo, 29th April-It is reported that the bulk of the supplies at Liaoyang are now being transported to Fenghwangcheng. The trans- portation of supplies between the above two points in carts requires five days.”
"Tokyo, 29th April-It is reported that Admiral Alexieff has ordered the men-of-war at Port Arthur not to change their present positions until Admiral Skrydloff's arrival. Special instructions have been given to fully cover the men-of-war in the harbour, and two torpedo-boats in rotation are keeping a lookout at the harbour entrance.'
RUSSIAN CAUTION AT NEWCHWANG,
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. only one trapped inlet, to an underground drain for the purpose of receiving all the slops Queen's Road West were submitted under 2 (a). Drainage plans of Nos. 487 to 491, and other foul waters, that may be thrown on the back yard, as well as the rain water from
Ordinance 1 of 1903 and comply with No. 35 of one-half of the roof and from the roof of the Drainage plan of Nos. 174 to 190, Des Voeur the drainage bye-laws of that Ordinance. (b) kitchen of that building, will the President be Road West were submitted previous to 1901, good enough to state whether the plans above but comply with No. 38 of the drainage referred to are in compliance with the require-bye-laws of that Ordinance. (c) Drainage plans ments of Section 38 of the Drainage Bye- of 14 or 15 houses on M.L. 22 were submitted laws contained in Ordinance 13 of 1901 ? under the Ordinance 13 of 1901 and comply (Section 38 of the Drainage Bye-laws of with No. 38 of the drainage bye-laws of that Ordinance 13 of 1901 corresponds with Section Ordinance. 35 of the Drainage Bye-laws of the present Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, and reads as follows:-"Open surfaces, such as back-yards, court-yards or other spaces, on which slops are thrown, or from which foul waters flow, shall be provided with trapped connections to the house drains, for the removal of such waters as well as some of the rain water.
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the affirmative, will the President be good 3. If the answer to the above question is in
which slops and other foul waters (permitted as enough to quote the authority, if he can, under aforesaid by virtue of the above quoted drainage bye-law to be thrown on back-yards) are allowed to be conveyed from house to house, by means of an open surface channel, as adopted in many blocks of buildings, lately erected, instead of being emptied into a trapped inlet to an under- ground drain, as instanced in the blocks of majority of the buildings in the Colony? buildings mentioned in question I, and in the
the Drainage Plan of Nos. 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 4. Will the President be good enough to have 14, Robinson Road, situate on a portion of Inland Lot No. 578 (recently erected) also cir- culated and laid on the table.
It is notified at the Hongkong Harbour Office that incoming steamers to Newchwang, arriv- ing at the bar after dark, must anchor outside the bar, and in no case cross the br before daylight. At daylight pilots will proceed to meet the steamers and bring them in for examination by the military authorities off the East Spit and subsequently to their berths.
5. As it is contended by the Sanitary Surveyor Outlying steamers must leave the port in
in his Report dated the 22nd February, 1904, broad daylight in order to have time to crossings in Des Voeux Road Central and Caine that the surface channel in the blocks of build- the ba without stopping in the river. Stea- mers which for some reason are unable to cross the bar must return to the harbour and are not under any circumstances to remain in the river below the fort during the night.
Pilots must not under any circumstance: re- main with their boats or steam-launches near the bar below the fort during the night. They must return to the barbour before dusk.
FROM JAPAN.
The Japanese Foreign Office has received advice that it is stated in 8. Petersburg that one of the five submarines destined for the Far East was packed in sections on the 19th instant and despatched overland.
The Osaka Mainichi publishes the following despatch dated London, 21st April:-General Kuropatkin, Commander-in-Chief of the Rus- sian Army in Manchuria, is determined to await the arrival of a hundred thousand addi- tional troops before taking the initiative.
HONGKONG SANITARY
BOARD
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held on the 5th inst. in the Board Room. Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson presided, and there were also present Hon. P. Ñ. Jones (Vice-President), Hon. A. W.Brewin, Registrar-General; Mr. Fung Wa Chun; Mr. Lau Chu Pak; Colonel W. E. Webb, R.A.M.C.; Mr. A. Rumjahn; Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Mr. E. A. Hewett; Dr. W. W. Pearse, Medical Officer of Health; and Mr. T. A. Hanmer (Acting Secretary).
QUESTIONS.
Mr. RUMJAHN put the following questions standing in his name :----
1. Will the President be good enough to have the Drainage Plans of the following blocks of buildings circulated and laid on the table (a) Nos. 487 to 491, Queen's Road West situate on a portion of Marine Lot No. 126, (recently erected); (b) Nos. 174 to 190, Des Voeux Road West 9 houses, situate on the Southern Portion of Praya Reclamation of Marine Lot No. 58, (recently erected); and (c) the blocks of build- ings, situate on Marine Lot No 22, (14 or 15 houses, now nearing completion) ?
2. As on reference to the plans above referred to, it will be noticed that in every block, each building is provided; in its own back yard, with
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Road is only intended for receiving the rain houses), and that the system is being misused by water (from one-half of the roofs of these the tenants, by their throwing foul waters on the back-yards, which thus flow through the surface channel from house to house along the to the drainage bye-law quoted above, such whole length of the blocks, whereas according waters may be thrown on the back yards, and every back-yard to receive such waters, as in therefore a trapped inlet should be provided in stanced in the blocks of buildings mentioned in question I, and in the majority of the buildings in the Colony, and as regards the contention of is provided solely for the purpose of carrying off the Sanitary Surveyor that the surface channel the rain water from one-half of the roofs, such statement having been pointed out by me as incorrect, as such rain water is received into a trapped inlet, will the President-should be still be of the opinion that the surface channel in the blocks of buildings in Des Voeux Road and Caine Road is in conformity with Section 37 of the Drainage Bye-laws (Section 37 :-"Rain water shall be diverted from house drains by means of surface channels, or otherwise to the fullest extent practicable ")-be good enough to state Bye-laws has the Drainage Plan of the block under which section (if any) of the Drainage of buildings in Robinson Road referred to in question 4 been passed, on the face of the fact, that not only all the foul waters from each house conveyed, from house to house through- out the whole block, through an open surface channel, but all the rain water from one-half of the roofs of the whole block of buildings are emptied into one solitary trapped inlet, provid- ed at the end house of the block?
the systems of drainage adopted in the blocks 6. As it is now an incontrovertible fact that
Road, and Robinson Road, are dangerous to of buildings in Des Voeux Road Central, Caine public health and contrary to the provisions of our Drainage Bye-laws-will the President be good enough to direct, under the provisions of Section 192 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, that steps be taken to remedy the defects in the drainage of these three blocks of buildings and any other building whose drainage is defective?
ANSWERS.
The following replies-prepared by Mr. H. T. Jackman, Acting Sanitary Surveyor, were laid on the table :---
1. Drainage plans to be circulated and laid on the table
be thrown on the surface of backyards under 3. Slops and foul waters are only permitted to drainage bye-law 35 of Ordinance 1 of in that bye-law. Drainage bye-law 43 of 1903, when certain conditions are fulfilled Ordinance 1 of 1903 together with section 193 of the same Ordinance gives authority by which slops and foul waters are allowed to be conveyed from house to house by means of an open channel under certain circumstances.
4. Drainage plan to be circulated and laid on the table.
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is only allowed in surface channels under certain 5. As already pointed out in No. 3, foul water bye-laws and conditions (see bye-law 43 and clause 193 of Ordinance Ì of 1903), therefore Road I contend that to compare the system at Caine they have been made with the bye-law 35 of
and Des Voeux Road Central Ordinance 1 of 1903, under which bye-law the system was not made, but under bye-law 36 and 37, is wrong. The trap referred to sketch). in bye-law 36 is the one in sketch (here follows authority as to whether foul water may or may The system introduced gives the not be thrown out to the surface of a yard, for it is impossible to say if either one or the other will take place before the plans are passed and the buildings erected and occupied, unless the Sanitary Surveyor's statement re rainwater, system is taken as a guide. As regards the he should have mentioned rainwater from water the surface of the yard as well as storm. from the roof. This blook of buildings in Robinson Road mentioned in Question law 43, but this is difficult to say owing to the has probably been passed under bye-
ings are built on the side of a hill and the yards absence of the Sanitary Surveyor. These build- may be on made ground, and the probable settle- the Surveyor be less desirable than an open ment of a covered drain might in the opinion of channel which is exposed. I can find nothing on the deposited plans of Robinson Road with regard to the trapped inlet at the end of the block.
Road Central, and Robinson Road in my opinion 6. The systems at Caine Road, Des Voeux are not contrary to the bye-laws; if the bye-laws passed are accepted. There may be great cause and conditions under which they may have been of complaint through the systems being wrongly used; and the remedy under the present bye- laws is to stop any nuisance that may occur under clause 26 of Ord. 1 of 1903.
Mr. A. Rumjahn minuted:— "The Acting Surveyor practically admits that there are various systems of drainage adopted and each members of the Board will inspect the houses. system complies with the law. I hope the
next to Caine Road nearing completion." in Robinson Road, Caine Road, and the block
HOUSE DRAINAGE.
Mr. RUMJAHN, pursuant to notice, moved consider whether the various systems of house "That a Select Committee be appointed to drainage adopted in this Colony are accordance with the law, and provided the above in
is the case whether it would be advisable to
force." amend the drainage bye-laws at present in During the past few years, he said, there had been introduced into the Colony at least seven different systems of house drainage Surveyor as being in conformity with the all of which had been certified by the Sanitary drainage bye-laws. with only two. In the block of eight terraces He proposed to deal houses in Caine Road built last year, although each yard had been provided with two trap inlets and an underground drain, a surface channel ran over the covered drain carrying with it the sullage and other foul water from the houses and emptying into a trap placed at the end of the block. That system caused a great nuisance and endangered the health of the occupiers. Mr. Bryan