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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislativo Coaneil was held yesterday afternoon in the Council Obamber. Fresent:-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, Sir HENEY A. BLAK", G.C.M.G.
HIB EXCELLENCY Sir W. GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G. (Commanding the Troops)...
Hon. F. H MAY (Colonial Secretary). Hon. Sir HENRY SPENCER BERTELET, K. (Attorney-General).
Hon. A. M. THOMSON (Colaial Treasurer) Hon. Camander R. M. RUMSEY, R.N (Harbour Master).
Kon. W. CHATHAM (Director of Public Warlis).
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
ENQUIRIES INTO COLLAPSES OF
BUILDINGS.
PEATA EAST.
Yesterday afternoon, before Mr. F. A. Haze- land and a comacu jury, the official enquiry was resumed into the circumstances tending the fatal collapse at 45, Praya is, on 2nd August last, resulting in the death of thirteen Chinêso, Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, appeared on behalf of the Government, Mr. H. W. Looker of the urokitects, Mesars, Leigh and Orange, and Mr. C. D. Wilkinson of the tractor, Maa Wo. Mr. A. S. Hooper watelied the case on bokolf of the owners, the Land Investment Company of which him in secretary.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
NEWS VIA MANILA.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
THE PHILIPPINES.
New York, 6th Decomber," General Wright appeared before the House Committee on Insular à fairs and spoke at some longth in favour of the Constabulary Bill. also urged the e mmittee to report the Conant Bill at the earliest opportunity, setting forth the financial conditions now existing in the Philippines The action of the committee will probably be favourable.
•Lafor.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16г.1. 1502
The raft was terribly overloaded with 18′ men
and one woman. The cylinders were more than CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR CARDS
balt-awash, with the result that we were partly in the water. The räft wae so low in the water and so heavily Inden, that we were quité unable to propel it against the current, which ran vory strong, and we could not cover the short dis 1ance between us and the shore. We drifted about all night, and when muralag broke wo were out of sight of land.
Hon. Dr. F. W. CLARK (Medical Officer that on the day of the cullapse there was a deller, with necessary n introdused in the wont through that night. The weather waS
of Health.
Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G.
Hou. WEI A YUK,
Hon. C. 9. SHARP.
Hon. G. W. DICKSON,
Hon. ..SuLWAN.
Lator
We
ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS OF
HONGKONG AND CHINA,
EASTMAN'S
KODÁKS, FILMS AND ACCESSORIES.
GOOD WORK. PROMPT RETURN.
WE HAVE AN ESTABLISHMENT SQLELY DEVOTED TO EXECUTING WORK FOR AMATEURS, AND WE HAVE LARGER AND BETTER FACILITIES
FOR DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE COLONY
strained our eyes through the fog, hoping ACHEE & CO.,
PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS STORE,
That day (Monday) was a terrible one. We had two apples on the raft, but absolately nothing else in the way of food, and there was not a drop of water. During the day we divided the first apple, keeping the other apple for future necessities. it was maddening for us, in a condition of imminent starration, to re- member that when in the vicinity of the wreck | DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN. Mr. Brewster Cameron, representative of the
on Enaday, tory of fruit drifted prat us, and wa The jurymen were Edwardo Toreira. Munila Chamber of Commerce, has arrived in did not secure any more than two apples, Albrecht Wilhelm Schelhoes, mid Thomas Washington. Ha, in connection with Vion.exporting to reach land almost immediately. Foyen.
Governor. Wright of the Philippines, is actively On Monday night, Mr. Dickson, one of the Fredarick George Figg, Acting Director of sugaged in arging remedial carroney legislation. passengers, died from uxboution. We kept his the Observatory, examined by Mr. Bowley, said A bill providing for the coinaga of the Count body on board mat morning hoping to sight a
safeguards to preserve its
boat or land. It was a fearful experience we typhoon in the vicinity of the Colony. The purity with gold, bas bigbost recorded velocity of the wind was House and referred to the Committee on Insular
fair but foggy, and the sen moderately smooth, registered between 10.16 and 10.45 p.m. and Affairs. Govornar Wright bas already appear- bat there was a bit of a well on. The night was 87 miles un hour; about ten o'clock, theed before the Committee. Mr. Cameron will
was very cold. We were terribly hungry, but wind blow, in typhoon gaste,
probably appear before it to-morrow. It is not
the agonising thirst was even harder to ouilure. Examined by Mr. Looker-Witness should anticipated that action on the bill will however, say it was probable that some momentury gusta finally be taken before the reasserably of Con against hope to pick up a light,
gress after the Christmas holidays. Mr. C. Curanti (Acting Clark of Councils), had a velocity of 10 miles an hour.
Robert Kananny Leigh, examined by Mr. PEBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS, BIL Bowley, said that after his return from home General Wright of the Philippine Commis On the motion of the ATTORNEY GENERAL, on 16th March, 1900, he assumed charge of the son appeared before the Ways and Monas seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY, the badding of the houses on Marine Lot-117 and Goumittee of the House in behalf of the bill Inland Lot 431, and was in charge of it until introduced to reduce the Philippines tariff Council resotrad itself into Committes and its completion. The deviation from the original sobolute to twenty-five per cent of the Dingley resumed the consideration, clause by clause, of plan Lu did not report to the Fublic Works rates. He testified that the present Philippines 10 Bill entition an Ordinance to consolidate Department, because he did not require the schedules were prohibitive, that the islands were and and the Law relating to Pub Health permission of the Department to sa devinte, suffering in consequence of the same, and he the alteration having been rendered necas strongly advocated to present conditions to a and to Buildings.
Clause 153 was as follows in the Bill Neary by a now Banitary Ordinance. Under large extent, that it would give an impetus to In the islands and window of any tonement house shall be that Ordinance the provision of a back: business enterprise
yard was required, and although it would asked that the bill be passed na religi qbstructed by the erection of any structure or itting whatsoever or by any household goods has been possible to construct a backyard measure. The General is labouring bard and ut the same time build the s.de wall es for the peasage of the turriff measure nud law establishing a originally planned, the measures adopted were for the passage of more sanitary. Another requirement of the same stable currency for the islands, and is in drawn up the following in substitution -"Evertok wall, which accordingly were constructed, supported by the many calle from the islands myself to consigo kis body to the son in such an THE 20TH DECEMBER, 1302, AT 11 AM. SHARP, AT OUR SALES ROOMS
Ordinance was the providing of windows la the hopes at the present time that his requests, As built the houses wore stronger thail and the position taken by the Press on the originally designed, because there was less con- subject, will be granted, and that the future tips area exposed to any forus from wind for the Philippines will be brighter than it has and rain. Witness rectxamended the appoint-over baun in the past. ment of Maher, the oversaar, who be bulicred. had had previous experience is the building of Chinese houses.
or merchandise."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that as the result of a consultation cousa quant upon eriticisms offered on this clause be ad window and ventilating opening of a temoment bouso sail to kept at all times free from any obstruction which prevents the free entrance of light or air thercat unless such obstruction is avcessitated by inclement weather or by the lness of auy person occupying such house." It would be remembered that it had been point et aus that the clouse as it appeared in the
I would prevent shutters. H.E. THE GOVERNOR asked if this new else meant that windows must be kept open always,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that is
would have that effect.
H18 EXCELLENCy remarked that that would be rather hard sometimes, as, for instance, when a bitter wind was blowing during the winter
month.
The HARBOUR MASTER proposed the deletion of the words or atting whatsoever" from the section originally uppouring in the Bill.
Witness- himself visited
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS,
Now York, 6th December,
When morning dawned two mors ef our little band lay dead beside Mr. Dickson, one a man whose name I do not know, but who is connected with the steel trust, and another, with whose name fatso am unfamiliar, but who told
me that be lived in Auckland, and that his futher owned a yacht. I took the cost worn, by the man belonging to the trust and gave it to the fireman who had got off the wreck with nothing on his body but a singlet and trousers. I myself had only a shirt, coat, and trousers. but the rest were fairly well clad. We kept other articles of clothing belonging to all the bodies for the purposes of identification. Thora were three dead men on the raft, and Dick-on's body was alrondy in a stuto
putrefaction. There Feing no land or vessel in sight, it was decided to push the bodies overboard, Dickson had been a mate of mine. I could not bring
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Hongkong. 15th November, 1902.
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unceremonious style, but pushed the other two bodies overboard. Someone elss pushed Dick- son's Lody into the sea. Our experiences on Tuesday were aggravated by a repetition of the sufferings we oudured on the previous day, That day the desire for water was overpowering and some people on the rait began to drink salt VERY water. Despito all that could be said of the terrible consequence that must ensate, it was very hard indeed to resist temptation, with the times I had to shut my eyes and bide from my decan all round us, and dying of thirst, Saveral
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The Secretary of Wax besisaned instructions for the return to the United States of the First, Fifth and Sixth Cavalry, First. Second, Fitth, Touth and Twouly-sixth Infantry, fivo com pauies of Coast: artillery and three batteries of Field Artillery. The Sixth Band, Artillery torps, will accompany the ampak os of Loast Artillery. The movement will begin in April, During fuesday night we saw the light of a
liese troops will be relieved by the registeamer, and raised as loud a sbout as we conf ments having the longest tour of home service. They must have heard us, because they lowered This is to put into effect the new arrangement
a host and put a masthead light in the bows, and whereby the Philippine Army will have's two palled in our direction. The boat passed within years' tour of foreign service with four years at 20 or 30 yards of us. Although we again his home.
shouted as lond as we could, they did not hear ua, and went back to the steamer, which even- tually disappeared, leaving as to our fate. After this occurrence ons of the passengers who had een drinking sali water become insane, and jumped overboard. His Christian nome was Herbert, but his surenme I am not acquainted MONDS, RUBIES AND THE VERY FINEST QUEENSLAND FIRE OPALS OF
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the houses twice a week, and inspected the different materials, but he was ant sure if he found inalt with the quality of the bricks and mortar During their erection, parts of the houses were blown down by typhoons-ouco in September, 1900, and once in November, 1999; the damaged portions were pulled down sud rebuilt. Considering the raina that were fall- ing at the time, witness was sure that the clanss in the specifications requiring the bricks to be wetted before being used was complied with he did not know by the contractor; however, whence the latter obtained supply of water. The water was cut off from building services abou: Christmas, 1900, This course was unanimously agreed to. Open but that was after all the brick ou. theas or area between new building and, hill houses was ot uploted. Witness thought that eido, provided that a clear space of the with the thickness of the sidewall at 45 Praya Past of not less than of the height of the building when finished, was 22 inches on the grond Tunst be left between the buiking on the ground finer, 18 inches on the next two floors, and the following will be the order of precedente: with. No attempt.could be made to stop bim level and the too of the hill-side; and sach 14 inches on the top floor; he was but sure, His opinion was that the collapse intervening space must is no caso be loss than 8 however.
was due to the continuous wind and min foot.
which were in evidence months before the typhoon of Zud August, which typhoon ms terially aided the collapse. It was very likely that the wind got into the houses. The effect of the bad weather would be to soften the
Clause 174, of which the rubrio was space
Hon. C. S. HART thought this section might bear very hardly on some lessees of Crown land..
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL remarked that the law as it stood required the intervening space
[The arrivals of these organisations in the division were so close together that if is impos- sible to predict the order in which they will go home. If the rule is followed, as previously, that the organisations are to be sent home in the order in which the rat unit arrived here; First Cavalry, Second Lefantry, Fifth Infantry, First Infantry, Field Artillery, Sixth Cavalry, Coast Artillery, Twenty-sixth Infantry. Teuth Infantry, Fifth Cavalry. The troops will be moved-us rapidly as transportation facilition permit. The regiments which will succeed them will be nearly ali veterans of the Fli-
going, because he wont quickly overboard without giving the slightest inkling of bis intention. numbers reduced to 12. Before night it
"Wednesday morning came in with our
was destined to be further lessened. Most of the party ad now become very despondent, but Wetherell did his best to sheer thous
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to be 4 foet. The new Bill proposed that it mortar joints. Even if the mortar was good/ippines, commencing with the Fourteeot up. I was like a bypourito.. I told them. 18th and 19th December at par Sales Eooms, Ice House Street. should be the height of the building. In the thetrain would soften it, and be did not think Eighteenth and Twenty-third Infantry and the everything would be all right, that the Auckland
case of any hardship arising it was further provided that the Governor in Connsil could modify the requirements of the station.“
The section was upproved.
In connection with cluso 186 (limitation of height of buildings, sto).
Hon. Mr. Sabar mid he understood that number of European landlords hnd addressed some petition to which H.E, Governor had not yot replied.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR said the fast was not in his remembrance.
The ATTORNEY-GENREAL in the same co- nection said that when the time como he proposed to introduces clanse providing compensation.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR stated that the English laws provided two alternatives in a case of this kind. They either got compensation or were allowed a certain length of time. It seemed to him a fair subject for consideration, whether
or not they should adopt that prinsiple
flint ordinary shell lime and red earth mortar could be soaked in water for any length of time
Fourth Cavalry.]
A: SURVIVOR'S GRAPHIC STORY.
without softening it. To a certain extent it WRECK OF THE “ELINGAMITE. was the ease that the better the mortar the less liable it would be to the softening influence of the min. At the time of the collapse the age of the side wall would be about 2 months, and the mortar would be set as hard as it ever would set in reason.
The enquiry was adjourned until to-morrow at 2.15 p.m.
POLICE COURT.
Monday, 15th December.
BEFORE NA. F. A. HAZELAND (POLICE
MAGISTRATE.)
The Sydney Telegraph of the 15th ult. gives from the narrative of a survivor from the wrecked steamer Elingamite who was brought to Auckland, N.Z., by H.M.S. Penguin the following particulars. As might have been expected, the survivors were found to be very weak and exhausted, bat the reporters wore ablo to obtain a connected story of their experience and sufferings.
Steven Rabono Neale, one of the motor mou, brought over by the Electric Tramway Com pany, was the most advanced towards recovery, Henry Harmeg, a Stazah on the German He was sitting in an easy chair in a sheltered
ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.
people were not going to allow us to drift abont there without doing everything in their power to rescue us. I told them also that Steve Nenla (mysoll) was not going to die. We managed in this way to cheer up a little. During the day we divided our last apple evenly among 12, bat it did not go for to stay the pings of our hanger, as you may guess. I showed and ate a handkerchief, which though not a very diges. ible morsel, for the moment somewhat alleviated the pange of hunger. When we firat got on the rast, which was a very small one, there was not suoient room for all of us to lis down. We were siting in all sorts of cramped positions, with our fast and portions of our bodies under water. The deck of the raft was actually under water, consequently we were never dry." To this fact I believe we owe our lives, our bodies acting as a sort of condenser and absorbing a little of the moisture, Wo could have found omparatively dry places on the cylinders of the raft, but there we would
washed off. The raft was much lightened by the throwing over of the dend Pretty, one of the passengers. Facsma tight and consequently the dook rosu headed before nightfall, and ended his suffer ings by jumping overboard and disappearing without a word, The same night we lost He said I parted from my wife and child Muirhead, a passenger. I had noticed that he before I left the wreck, Assisting other women was becoming lightbended, and spoke to him, and children, I did my duty as a ton, sail am saying we would be all-right, that we were sure We left the to be picked wreek on Sevday night. Since
rae; and assured me he would. Ten practically no food of water. There were 16 all told. We existed for four days and four nights en two apple-ne-eighth of sa apple each, in fast. All I had was a sixteenth of an apple. There was a keg on board but it did not con/sin a drop of water. We kept it on the raft for three days, the stewardesa using it to sit on until she was not able to sit up any longer. We then threw it overboard.
TERMS-AS USUAL.
Hongkong, 15th December. 1902.
HUGHES & HOUGH.
of us managed to struggle to our foot and got into the whaleboat with the assistance of the sailors
AUCTIONEERS.
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the elements. And so the season has rau its course without any appreciable detriment to the Our delight was unbounded when we found game The number of tournaments is still on in the boat, hot bovril and brandy. Anything the increase, as is also the number of tourna no debicions we had never tasted in our lives.mont playera, and for evidence of this we need We were quickly transferred to the warship, to look no further than to the statistica. where we were received with the greatest of the Eastbourne tournament, which were kiudess. Nothing was left undone to secure our given in the Field only a few weeks ago, comfort and retarz to health. All through the experience was a terrible one, which few men
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. have to go through, and none would desire.
The O. & O. steamór Goelic, with mails, &n, left Shanghai for this port on the 14th inst, at 8.p.., and is dus here to-morrow, at daylight.
The Imperial Gorman mail steamer Prinzess frene, carrying the German mails with dates from Born of the 25th ult., left Colombo on
THE VITALITY OF LAWN TENNIS.
The ATTORNey-(eneral proposed in sub-man-of-war First Bismarck, was charged with part of the main deck of the warship, `while all have been in imminent danger of being principal features of the past lawn tennis season, the 13th inst.. p.m., and may be expected hora
*stitution for the third proviso of sub-section 3 behaving in a disorderly manner on Murray the other survivors were in the "siek bay," of this clause: "The amount of compensation Pier and assoniting P.C. Gries in the execution Noale wore a very weather-beaten appearance, to be raid to the owner of any building re- of bis daty. He said he remembered nothing his face boing very much fanned by exposure to erected within- -years after date of the about it. commencement of this Ordiunson for the loss of any story or storeys necessarily resulting from the operation of this sub-section shall be determined by arbiters na hereinafter provided." If they filled up the blank with 5 the senso❘ the time, of the Council might be taken.
4.
DEPARTURE FROM THE WEBOK.
In his evidence, F.C.Grice mid the defendant the sun and salt spray, while his hands and foot and other German sailors caught hold of him ouwers all swollen. Murray Pier and endeavoured to throw him into the sa The accused was very drunk at This oridenge was corroborated by another Germans in the party that attacked Gries.
His Worship fined the defendunt SLO, with the option of three weeks hard labour.
s
on the 24th ist.
The Imperial German mail steamer Bayern left Kobe, si Nagasaki and Shanghai, on the 14th inst., p.m., and may be expected here on the 23ril inst
The Imperial German mail steamer Konig
Albert, which left here on the 11th inst., p.a.,
arrived at Shanghai on the 14th inst., s.m.”
In the course of an article describing the correspondent of the Field remarks that there is probably nothing more trying to the vitality of a game or pastime than the experience of what is vulgaris known 18 a boom. It is, of coarse, not the boun itself which is to be directly feared so mech as its consequences; the trying time comes when the inevitable, reaction suta in, and the subject begins to sink lower and lower towards obscurity and perhaps extinction,
The CF.B. steamer Athenian arrived at but because it has been run almost to death. Kobe at 8 am. on the 14th it, and left again Then it is that the struggle for existance begins at pm same day via Nagasaki, for Shanghai, in earnest, for the game for whatever it may be), where she is due to arrive at 10 a.m., on the shora of its popularity, must depend for its 18th inst.
The C.P.R. stoomer Tartar loft Yokohama on livelihood solely upon its own qualities Lawn tennis had its boom in the days before that con- the 13th inst., p.m., for Victoris and Vancouver. renient word bad been added to the language.
TELEPHONE No. 135. It Insted for a considerable time, and the period of depression which followed was, of course, correspondingly long.
Hon. Mr. SHARP proposed that the whole constablo, who said there were about twenty thankful now that they are then wo but hands wit up, and to stick to it. He shook not through any inherent weakness of its owa,
matt-r be reserved; they had already left over several sections for subsequent discussion,
The section was re-committed.
On the motion of Hou, Mr. Sharr, d'ause 201 was amended so as to take away from the Building Authority the power to prescribe the class of buildings which shall be erected on any land not occupied by buildings at the date of the commencement of the Ordinance,"
Hon. Mr. SHARP put forward an objection to o suso 222 with respect to its requirements re plans and drawings. According to the con ditions, he said, the rural districts of the Colony were not exempted, and any ona desirons of building a small house worth $100 or so would have to go through all as formalities of em- ploying an aolitect and lodging block and drainage plans,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it might be bo possible to exempt such houses as Hon. Mr. Sharp bad indicated.
A BIESET PERFORMANCE.
A private in the Derbyshire Regiment, excited by numerous drinks, gave an entertain. meat in a certain street in Wanchai at a late hour on Sunday night. Hastronted and danced, and when P.U. Brown attempted to point out to him the error of his ways, he resented the constable'a interference and knocked him down.
The fae was $5 or 14 days,
BEFOER Mn. J. H. KEMP (ACTING CU PULICS MAGISTRATE).
That Fe
minutes later I heard a faint voice raying from the water. I'm going. I threw a lifebelt, which foll within a foot or two of his hand. He pushed it away. He was singing a tune us be drifted away to his death,
TRADE
vane STILL LEADING
MARK
"On Thursday morning Mis M'Quirk, the stewardess, died in my arms from sheer exhuas Lion. She bore up very bravely, and was placky till the las'. Ells, the second saloon steward,
During that time the daily papers were The Elingamite struck between 10.30 and 11 was the last to go. Four times I caught him on Sunday morning, and immediately began to attempting to drink salt water, and had great particularly--and what inexplicably— sink. I was the last, bar Captain Attwood, to difficulty in preventing him from going the hostile to the game, and, as one of the functiona leave the sinking steamer. No one knows mora way of Muirhead. I had to hold him back of the Press is to provide opinions for those about it than I do. A couple of foreigners several times. When he thought I was dozing who are too lazy or too stupid to bold opinions of caused some trouble in one boat. i helped to get he attempted to get the water. He died in my their own, it follows, whenever the sanonnes. Lieut. Dalrymple, of the Ocean, summoned a the women and children into one of the boats, arms with his head on my breast. So n after wont that lawn tennis was on the
it did with consider- putting my wife and child in one.
that his body was committed to the deep. Had appeared, which
good many people the hardest part of it all, to have to go away be lived a few hours longer he would have been able regularity,
were to be found who and leave them. There were about eight of the picked up alive, for four hours later we were
shrewdly pre. on the raft when she first got away, but we
picked up.
dioted the same thing. And indeed for a while H.E. Major-Geuen! GABCDIONE pointed out
picked up others and altogether we had nineteen. In the afternoon we sighted the Penguin, the gams, to all outward appearances, had s that such a course would be dangerous with A similar fine was imposed in the case of a Ths parser's boat came up to us through the I was standing on the raft and saw her yards very bad time. But th se who were acquainted A SCOTCH WHISKY OF EXCELLENT regard to the matter of compensation,
chair coolie who declined to accept as a passenger fog and took off three men, leaving us with 16. vise up over the sky line. I could see no smoke, with its jbnor life knew that it was leading a Hon. Mr. SHARP anked if the Governer in Mr. G. J. W. King, land bailiff, Public Works The parsor's boat could take no more, being then and thought it was a four-masted ship. I said steady and unobtrusivo oxistence, gaining fresh
His exo ge was that he was very full. Wetherell was Council could not exempt curtala specified Department.
the raft and acted to the others that she was a wool vessel. Wild recruits year by year, and retaining, by its districts?
already ander engagement to a lady who was like a real man. We made him captain of the hope throbbed within us, and when we found inherent good qualifies, a strong hold on their The COLONIAL SECRETARY remarked that shopping.
raft. He remained in charge until he lost his we were sighted and the vessel was making affections. Very soon the publie, too, began to the Building Ordinance of 1889 spplied equally
memory for a short time on the morning before towards us our joy was unspeakable. It was to the whole island us well as this Ordinance did,
was picked up. I tell you this is like heaven
The DIRECTOR of PUBLIC WORKS stated also that the operation of these requirements had nover caused any inconvenience. The section was approved.
risksha-coolie for refusing without reasonable excuse to take lám us a passenger. The defen- dant pleaded not guilty, bat was convicted in the evidence of Lieut. Dalrymple and fined $4; which ho paid.
the opposition of the Preas, in the faco
It is hardly necessary to state that the game
“CLUB”
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QUALITY AT REASONABLE
PRICE.
PER DOZEN
$13.50
LIQUEUR WHISKY
It is far from safe to endeavour to emulate we were picked up. Then we had to take the about 4-o'clock in the afternoon when our boat: killed; that the game had refused to be of obvions facts, was discreetly withdrawn, and Hon. Mr. HARP thought that was wrong in the celebrated foot of William Tell. An inquest command out of his hands. principle.
was recent bold at Cold Spring Harbour, "When the pursor's boat came up I asked aboard this ship after the terrible experiences a gentle patronage substituted. The COLONIAL SECRETARY said it was very N.Y., on the body of Jehu Volkarar, a barber, what we should do. He told us to try and get we passed through. They were like what we Convenient at any rate,
who was accidentally shot and killed on the to the les of the island. We then had one car, red in fiction, but I never expected ench has suffered, in common with all other outdoor IF YOU REQUIRE A PERFECT stage of the Thespian Hall by Charles Meinir, and one scull, but only one rowlock. We im-ady rsity to fall to my lot. The horror of it sports, from the waywarduess of the weather a member of a travelling medicine show. One provised another out of a pious of rope. With wit: ever pass from my memory, though I do during the past season, but the rains of the lute of the features of the show was Meinit's feat of these it was altogether impossible to make any not want to think of it. As the Penguir aud little lamented summer have served at auy shooting an ap: le
from the head of say person headway, and to add to our misfargues the steam up to us we were heartily chored rate to show its hardihood and to illustrate the who would volunteer to become a target, scull broke in half. We had then only one or by her orow. All assembled on the deck devotion with which its regular followers pursue Volkman had offered to allow the apple to be and half an oar loft to propel the unwieldly to get a glimpse of us. Weak and exit they have damped their raiment but not KING EDWARD VII placed on his head. Meinit began shooting at craft. What could we do with these. We soon hausted as we were we raised a responsive their ardour, and the tournament player has FOR TRAVELLERS, MINERS, AND SOLDIERS à distance of about twenty foot. The first two lost sight of the purser's boat. We then aw cheer as the Penguin came level with us, which come to look upon a wetting as one of the no food is a portable as Lemeg the genuine shots falled to hit either the apple or the man, another boat and besought their assistance, but would have done no disgrace to eight hale, ordinary incidents of a match. Sooner than Liebig Company's Extract: The product of but the third struck Volkman in the forehead they did got respond, though it seemed to me hearty men. The warship's whole boat was forego hit favourite pastime be provides him. 18,000 bullocks was supplied to the forces in and he dropped to the stage and died within an that they had room. "Weighted the island lowered from her side, some 30 yards sway, self with relays of clothing and any number of South Africa Lameo is the most concentrated hour, Meinit was arrested and held for a several times and on one occasion passed it with The delight of the rescue put new life into us, spare rackets, and endeavours to extract as form of Meat known.
[2674-2 bearing on a charge of manslaughter.
in 100 yards or 150 yards, but could not reach it, but all were terribly weak and emaciated. Most much amazement as he can from the defiance of
The Council afterwards adjourned until to-day, at 3 p.m.
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