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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 818, 1910.
DARLICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Austion Bale, to be held PARIHULASAN
hood of
the PUBLIO WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of the right to quarry Stene on the folowing Lots of CROWN LAND Vaud Kowloon Bay, in the Now Territories, and olsewhere in the Colony of Hongkong, for a period extending from 1st day of January, 1911, up to and including 31st day of Decomber, 1913.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS,
No, of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality,
Contenta in Астав.
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Ngap Shi Wan Quarry Lota No. 1,
12 and 3.
Ngan Bhi Won:
6'23
Ngan Bhi Wan Quarry Lot No. 4.
Do.
6-50
2,000
500
Ngau Tau Kok Quarry Lots A. 1-5
and 7-24.
| Ngau Tau Kok.
19-65
3,100
Sai Tso Wan.
16.53
1,000
Cho Kwo Liang Quarry Lots C. 1-30, Lyemon Quarry Lota D. 1.25.
Chu Kwo Liang.
24-56
3,300
Lesmun.
26:44
Ma Tau Kok.
670
4.60
3,800 2,600 2,003
45678
Bal Two Wan Quarry Lets B. 1-16.
Ma Tau Kok Quarry Lot No. 7,
Ma Ton Kok Quarry Lot No. 8.
Do.
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THE RE-BIRTH OF THE CITY OF MANILA.
(FROM "THE TIMES" SPECIAL COREESPONDENT.)
The plan which the Ainoricans have followed, in providing for the enlargement of the city of Manila is characteristic, At the time of American occupation Manila, possessed a population of something more than 200.000. The United States had faith that with the Introduction of American energy and American capital it would quickly expand, and it was evidently undesirable that this expansion should
have a monument r which they would desarro | to be held in grateful remembranes. Not only in Manila, but throughout the provinces, the twin acourges of the Filipins in the past-have boon almost exterminated. The great, weapon
NAPIER JOHNSTONES?
with which the former of these has boon fought "SQUARE BOTTLE”
has been the digging of arlesian wells, over 900 of which are now dowing, and the number is being steadily increased. And wherever the artesina well comes to replace the old surface" water, which furnished the general drinking supply, cholera disa team and the ratio of moriality decreases by over 60 per cent.
Bat the protecting of the Filipino against himself is not always easy. A short time ago there suddenly broke from the ground on the outskirts of Manila « now spring of water which quickly noraired a
magical healing
The water was
probead at haphazard. So Mr. D. H. Burnham. Ling oured and possessed a taste which - proputation for poss
of Chicago (than whom there is no higher authority on such matters in the United States), was invited to visit the Philippines and draw up.
heme for the sa
the enlargement of Mangonnive zoheme :
to a city capable of accommodating 2,000,000 people. Mr. Barcham's plan was ambmitted to the then Secretary of War (now President Taft) in June, 1905, and since that date all now work has been done, with some slight modifications, in accordasco therewith.
THE PLAN OF IMPROVEMENT, Manila was founded, at the point whore the Pasig River flows into Blonila Bay, by Legaspi in 1571. The hourt of the present city in the old walled town, the Intramuros" which is one of the fusst examples of a medieval fortilled town lu existence. Not only pacts of the magnificently ploturesque walls themselves with their massive bastions, but soms of the more imposing buildings within their cirenit, data from the end of the 16th century. Out- side, these walls the city has grown by gradual accretion down the shore of the bay sad along
of its medicinal value. alone was proof enough So the natives looked to drink of the new water and be oured of their various ailments: and among them, as they gathered increasing numbers, cholera began to rage. The attention of the authorities was thas called to the subject. and it was found that the new сате
spring cam
from nothing other than leakage from a sewer.
Manila Iteell now fine tha" two grest factors essential to public health "—namely, an secured pure water supply and a; modern and adequate sewer system; and- -one of the most delightful short trips to be made from the city is the 22 miles drive (best done in su automobile) ont to Montalbst, where the superbly impressive gorge of the Mariquina River is blocked by a massiVE concrete dam and the river has been diverted fat a cost of some £800,000) to furnish Manila with pure water.
THE CRUSADE AGAINST THE DEATH RATE.
For the Frat time, seemingly, in its history Manila has been furnished with a proper system of domestic sanitation. The new sewer system
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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.'
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
THE
"GREGORY APCAB;" having arrived from the above Ports, Con- signees of Cargo, are hereby informed that their goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once, at Consignees risk and exponse...
Cargo remaining on board after 4 P.M. of the 8th inst. will be landed at Consignees risk and expense
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
Bills of Lading will be ncantorsigned by
the Undersigned.
THE SAME TO-DAY
Ag
150 YEARS.
IN 1745.
IMITATIONS.
SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
the winding banks of the river. In Spanish was als completed in the summer of 1503, LANE, CRAWFORD days the walls were encircled by a wide moat, and the household connections, whi
which have breeding place of forer and malarial nicaquitoes, to be made under approved supervision, are
and ons of the first things to be done, in con: being pushed as rapidly-sa-possible deposit
formity with the Burnham plan," was to fill from houses, markets, and shops is in this most
it into completely, converting wide belt of level greensward, toplanted with in barrels and cleared away by the municipal garhags-carts at night to be used, where avail trees, which makes an admirable setting for the able, for filling in reclaimed land or burasd aucipat walls. There was at one time a consid-in the city crematories. On the whole the natires erele body of the opinion, characteristically took kindly to the use of the barrels, instead of, American, in favour of the obliteration of the as formerly, throwing their kitchen refuse out walls themselves as being an obstruction to into the streets; but the first attempt to intro- traffe and to the free circulation of air in the dues metal garbage receptacles of an official enclosed ares, Happily better advice prevailed. pattern was a failure, the material of which the The walls will remain practically intoof, with time were made being so useful for roofing or the old picturesque galos, a few breadga only building purposes that the number of thefts having
made, where no harm to the general became prohibitive. Experiment is soon to be effect has been done, to admit of the passage of made with a new type of tin, the material of wider thoroughfares to meet the needs of which will be of a conspicuous and ouaily iden
Elfiable pattern.
modern trafo.
Oror the surrounding area the great Tringo of the city which if not Intramurosthestreets. are. laid out, as, indeed, they had been in large measure in Spanish days in rectanglos, wild wider radialing eventes cutting
diagonally eross the chequer-board from one centrally locat- ed plaza to another. Now and then, when talk- ing to the men who have in hand wonderful task of re-creating an old-world fortified town into
this
A prolific source of disease, again, was the insanitary condition, of the old markets, and fow nights are more interesting than the great Divisoria Markot, whereof the thousands of stall, under-rigid supervision-and daily cleaning, are as sweet as a Bond streat ponlterer's shop, The stalls are rented by the day, each tennet paying in cash and receiving a ticket for that day, and (though rõgular sccupants are given 'a eifs, one thinks that, in their abounding proference from day to day for the same "pitch") none having any lien on his her place beyond Western enthusiasm, they speak pohapa over the 24 hours. The space is rented in blocks light-heartedly of the prospective woeping away of 21ff the rental being 13 centare (the contavo of this or that group of picturesque Spanish being scout a farthing) for cack foot, and no buildings to conform with 20th century stand-out can take more than three blocks, or Taft, ards of spaciousness and directness of
8
modern commercial
com-
iu all. On this minute scale, so large is the
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Hongkong, 2nd December, 1910.
FROM EUROPE.
HE HAL. Steamship
THE
"BRASILIA,”
L
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Captain Manas, having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and planed at their risk in the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co Ltd, whence delivery may be obtained Bills of Lading countersigned by the Undersigned.
Optional Cargo will be carried on naloss notice to the contrary be given To-par.
All Claims must be presented within ten daya of the steamer's arrival here, after which dato.
and from Aut. Winn Murchante. [46 they cannot be recognized.
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manication. But on the whole the old fabrics market, with over 2,400 stalls, that it produces NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES are being reverently treated, and Mr. Barnham an annual revenue from rentals of approximate specifically insists that the general effect of
the existing well-shaded narrow streets is pistarly £15,000.
The mortality of Manila, and of the Philip-
seque, and should be maintained."
THE NEW MANILA.
pince,
is still high, especially the infant morta-
But the essence of the new plan is the provi.lity, which is terrible. But with admirable
and
earnestness the Americans are so revolutionizing the conditions that the Filipinos will be cori- pelled to live, and to live healthily in spite of themselves; and after death they must hence- forth be buried in a spacious cemetery newly laid out, with wide drive-ways bordered with innumerable palms, or they may be cremated.
** BARBER” LINE OF STRAMEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEED.
9.8. SHIMOSA.”
FROM NEW YORK,
ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and owloon her and Godown Co- fité, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Claims against the Steamer must be pre-
kay, which will wash it on three facosinstead of, to place, exch filling ite proper position in the sented to the Undertigned on or before the
one.
whole
31st just, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chefed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 9th inst., of 2.30 Par
No Fire Tusurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will becomtersigned by
DODWELL & Co., ITD.,
Agente. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1910.
(1348
sion made for open parked spaces and play Bolds," for sites for the proposed now public and semi-public buildings, for drive ways, and so forth. In Spanish days the open-air place of fashionable amusement was the Luusta, a omparatively small, oval park, in which the band played of evenings and round which
WORK OF THE MUNICIPAL BOARD, the rank and fashion of Manila drove, rods, or
The problem is, of course, not a new one, lounged for a couple of hours after the heat of but it has not often presented itself on so largo the day. The Luxe to lica immediately, thontale, Manila is already, no mean of the old walls, fronting the bay, and is still the but the Spanish Manils will in a few years be
of fashionable promenade, as in the Spanish deys. The Burnham pins provide now town framed on mesinrements in fince no more than the nucleus, the kernel, of the
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods the fling in of the bay on the Lozeto
undelivered after the 9th inst, will be súbject front, so as to reclaim from the water an area as large and infinitely more spacious, clean, and have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining
sanitary. It is like o
jigsaw puzzle to rent of some 285,000 square metres, making a new of which one
4. Breat one the e by
e pieces are being dropped
All more sumptuous Lunois hrast out into the
picture as sketched in advance. The On one side of this new urin werk is already body inder, whose guidance the work is being going on on the foundations of the great new, subject to the sympathetic authority of the Insular Government, is known as the Manisi- hotel, towards the erection of which the Govern ment has subscribed for £50,000 of 4 per cent. pal Board of the City of Manila, a commission of seven members of whom four, including the bonds, while an additional £30,000 chairman, are Filipinos. The chairman and mortgage bas been furnished by private investors. On the the three American members divide the head- opposite side of this new tension," facing ships of t the various departments among them the hotel, with the wide open purk between, on a system which is now becoming popular in two handsome elab buildings are already half oition in the United States. In Manila the built. Loking inland across the open space, administration of the Board is, at present, un- one faces the ample site of the new Capitol hampered by the intrigues of politics,
party building (made necessary by the institution of and the various members take a workmanlike the elected Legislative Assembly), for which the Brat plans have been approved and on which pleasure in their work. Certainly there are not many municipal bodies in the world which work is now to be pushed. Around the Capitol have given to them work at once so satisfying are to stand the other public buildings, head to their energies and carrying so large an quarters of the various administrative bureaus, appeal to the imagination, and radiating from these again arv, in one direction, the sides for library, maeum, and exposition buildings and, in another, the new built laboratory, and other "sciencs including the hospitals, wherein all. branches of scientifle work and rosearch will be carried on in such mutual proximity ss, it is claimed, is not at present possible in any other
the world. In the open land to the north of the city à
The Indo-China afr. Luisang loft Calcatta for great tract is roughly laid out as the site of the the Straits and Hongkong on ibe 1st inst., and just-budding
Philippine University. On the is due bero about the 17th instant. south side, along the shores of the bay at the The 0.8.K. sir. Mexico Maru left Tacoma water's edge, running all the way from the walled for this port on the 26th ultimo, and is ex city and the Lanets to Cavite, 15 miles away,&pected to arrive here ou or about the 29th spacious boulevard is being driven, half way on instant, via Japan and Shangha the course of which lies the new polo ground, for which Manila is ehtedy indebted to the generenity of the present Governor-General of the islands, himself
player. enthusisstio.pole With the club-house facing the bay on one side and on the other the pole field, fanked on left and right by open ground planted with Royal palms and Poinciana regia, this promises to be a charming spot. Somewhat further out on the north side of the town than is the pole ground, tomataral characteristics of the south-east, lies the golf course, which the ground probably has an
an advantago over any other links in the Far East,...
BANIZATION AND PUER WATER.
Manila is already a beautiful city with many attractions as a place of residence. The bay and the river, the quaint walled city, and the picturesque Spanish streets, with some immense. 3 interesting building
in the old convents and churches, are anungh in themselves to give it both character and chario. Now, by an Aladilin
process of pure miracle, around and
Like
about
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HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA. A.S.WATSON & CO,LTD.
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at this old city of 200,000 people the new
way is, nil
**
rising, as the rewry, and i
city
ozice.
As a pre-requisite, of course, the whole city had to be made sanitary; and, if the Americans were to evacuate the Philipines to-morrow, in the improvement which they bare Trooght in the sanitary conditions of the islands they would
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE. TO CONSIGNEES.
The Co.'s 8.5, "PANAMA MARU," From TACOMA, JAPAN AND MANILA:
THE stove-mentioned Steamer having arrived. Consignees of Cargo are hereby
!
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods- have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 7th inst, will be subject to rent:
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 6th inst., st 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in any use whatever.
Ex
This Steamer brings on Cargo:
8.8. “Therem of Marie" from Bordeaux. Ex s.s." Guandiaun " from Setubal,
Ers.8. "Boneok" from Setubal.
Ex 8.8. "Branla" from Drammen, Ex as. “Broula" from Skisu,
Ex as. "Dronning Sofie" from Stavanger.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIË,
Hongkong Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1910.
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
THE
"PRINZ LUDWIG,"
having arrived, Consigness of Cargo are hereby -informed that their foods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazard.
and/or extra bazardous "Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd, Kowloon, and West Foint Godowns, whones delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left tlie Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 8th inst. will be subject to rent.
Ail broken, chafed, and damaged goods-ars to be loft in the Gedowns, where they will be ex- amined on the 9th inst., at 9 30 Am.
All Claims must reach us before the 12thị inst, or they will not be recognized.
Firs Ingarture will be effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned."
This Stamer bangs Cargo
Ex 8.8 "CABOTO” from „Feșico amt
Catania.
Ex. 8.8.STANBUL" from Smyras. Transhipped at Port Said.
NOUDDEUTSCHES LLOYD,
KELCHERS là bài
General Agents [5
Hongkong, let December, 1910.
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. -
FROM
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
ANTWERP,
MIDDLESBORO', LEITH, HULL, LONDON, AND E
STRAITS.
AIE
Stepmakip
“GLENLOGAN,”
Captain McGregor, having arrived. from the above Porta, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being fanded their risk into the Godowns of the
imited and Kerloon Whorfand Company,
Kowloon, and more at Consignee тінкапа окренно.
Optional Cargo will be carried on unless instructions aro
The HA. Linis atz, Armenia left Shanghai notified to send in their Hills of Lading for 4 P.M., TO-DAY on to the contrary before
on the 2nd instant am, and may be expected here to-morrow a.m.
The Danish str, Siam left Sabang on the lat just, and may be expected here on crabent 13th instant.
The Bank Line str. Redhill sailed from Moji on the 2nd instant, and is due here on or about the Bih instant..
sountersignature, and take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed at once at Consignees' risk and expense.
remaining on board after Saturday, the 10th inst, at Noon, will be landed and storad at Consignas risk and expense.
Targo
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the godowns, where they will be examined on MONDAY, the 12th inst, at 11 AM No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in
case whatever.
OSAKA SHÖSEN KAISHA Hongkong, 2nd December, 1910, 1349
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godownų, where they will he examined on THURSDAY, 0th inst, at 3 r.x.
All Claims must be presented within ifteen days of the Bteamer's arrival horo, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 8th inst. will be subject to rout
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES '&' Co., Agents. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1910. [1347
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