SANITARY BOARD.
were
The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held in the Board Room yesterday. Mr. D. W. Tratman (President) presided, and there also present:-Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, GAL.G. (Vice President), Dr. F. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Dr. W. W. Pearse (Assistant Medical Officer of Health), Colonel Younan (Principal Medical Offer), Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Mr. Chan Kai Ming and Mr. W. Bowen Howlonds (Secretary).
CHOLERA OUTBREAK AT SHAUKIWAN.
Correspondence was submitted relative to an outbreak of cholera at Shaukiwan
Mr. Bowley minuted-Prohibition of taking shell fish, etc,, front the foreshore would; I think, require legislation. Redlanation is the only cure. The Gov-. ernment should urged to expedito roclamation at Wanchai and Shankiwan
Colonel YoUNANI concur in the
above. Reclamation is the only remedy. The evil odours arising from disturbance of the foreshore in searching for shell lish is a public, nuisance. It should be put a stop to.
Hon. Mr. Heiver-Cholera is almost the only tropical disease which is practi- eally unknown in Hongkong. Because a one occasion developed few people on symptoms suggestivo of cholera, this alone would not justify the cutting off of a regular supply of food to certain poor people, or the enormous expense to We the Government of reclamation. should know more before making any recommendations to the Government.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 1913.
that it was not unreasonable for the Board to ask the Government to expedite reclamation schemes of unhealthy foro- shore areas in the neighbourhood of densely populated districts.
Colonel YOUNAN said he agreed with! Mt. Bowley,
The PRESIDENT (to Mr. Bowley) Do You wish to move a resolution?
Mr. BOWLEY-Might I see the circulat ing papers.
While Mr. Bowley was perusing the the Vice-President arrived.
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under
way.
The VICE-PRESIDENT said that nothing
definitely
PRA scheme had been under considera tion for R very considerable period
SUPREME COURT.
Tuesday, August 96th.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR W. REES DAVIES (CHIEF JUSTICE),
ADMISSION OF A SOLICITOR.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
REFORE HIS BOOK SIR W. RIES. DAVIES (CHIEF JUSTICE).
A.CHARGE OF MUNDEN.
Chi Tau Tin was indicted on a charge of murder, to which he pleaded not guilty, and the following jurors were sworn: Messrs. A. Ritchie (foreman), V. R. V. Ribeiro, G. M. B. D. Wolf, A. J. Florin, N. V. A. Croucher. G. H. J. Liebach and
Martin
The Attorney-General, instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Hodgson),
defended by Mr. C. G. Alabaster, who appeared for the Crown, and prisoner was
THE NEW POET LAUREATE,
DA TERT BRIDGES AND HIS FELLOW SINGERS,
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with such slashings and liftings in the skirt as may fully display the leg halfway to the knee and which show every move ont of the limba--almost of the muscles. The writer could not, when she was at **The appointment of Dr. Robert Bridges a great French dressmaker's this spring, as British Poet Laureate has concentrated discover the difference between afternoon attention on the other sweet singers of his and evening gowns so much have the Country While The Times seems satisfied former approximated to the latter. In with the appointment, it must have sur both the deliberate aim of the designer prised many people judging from the seems to have been undress. A story has result of preliminary discussion of the bren going the round of Paris in which subject in English papers.
it is told that an Englishwoman was I. P.x Weekly opened its columns to a offered a dress with the following induce- tempt her: Madame BOTA competition, and ae that publication ment to enjoys considerable favons in literary satisfaite de cette robe, car en mettant un classes the outcome is of interest Fol ruhan ros dessous, Madams aura l'eir complètement nue." As if that were the Kipling, Rudyard
absoluto ambition of every woman for the Meynell, Alice in
moment! Certainly there is an orgy of ewing was the result of the poll:
Masefield, John
undressing going on, and it shows no Hardy, Thomas
signs of abating. And what is to be the Watson, William
end? It is difficult to see; but obviously, Newbolt, Henry
when you have goas on undressing for. n Gilbert K. Chesterton,
certain time, you come to the end of what Bridges, Robert
there is to take off, and the only thing. Noyes, Alfred
to do is to put your clothes on again. Tents W. B.
But no one can foresee when that happy Dobson, Austin
There hour of sanity will be with us,
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Phillips, Stephen
Hewlett, Mauties
It is curious to note that this Bacchanal rage, has fallen upon women at a time when much is in the melting-pot, at a
But it
The Attorney-General (m. Mr. J. A. S. Bucknill, K.0.) moved for the admission The PRESIDENT informed him that the of Mr. George Norington, of York Build question of the outbreak of cholera ating, Chater Road, as a solicitor of the Shaukivan was under discussion, and Supreme Court of Hongkong. Mr. that members wished to know whether Buckmill stated that the circumstances of
The Attorney-General in opening any definite reclamation schemes with this application were a little unusual, but instructed by Mr. Crowther Smith.
two explanatory affidavits were on the informed the Court and jury that this file He wished to call bis Lordship's was a case of some gravity. The facts regard to Wanchai or Shaukiwan were. under way.
attention to the fact that quite recently which would be brought out in evidence a new Ordinance was passed with regard were very simple. The crime was alleged to the admission of solicitors, and section to have taken place on board the Fansung,
Under steamers running between Singapore and in the case of the Praya East, but he of the old Crainance was repealed, and one of Messes. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s was not in a position to say anything with a new section was substituted.
The immense gap in the vote for the time of world restlessness, of war abroad, regard to it at the present time. In the sab-section B of the new section 22 it was Hongkong. On the sight of the 31st May, case of Shaakiwas there had been necessary for a person who wished to be the aversed appeared to have got into the appointer, Dr. Robert Bridges, and the of constitutional crisis at home, of social scheme drawn up on paper, but that was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme cabin of the first officer, and when that first choice in the foregoing poll, Rudmisery everywhere. It is difficult to see as far as the matter had got at present, Court of Hongkong to give four months oflicer found hit there he reported the yard Kipling, is significant, and draws the connection between fashions and such of the latter's poetry in the same issue of effect, or to determine how much our and unless sales of land improved it was notice in writing to the Registrar of the matter to the captain. Some half-hour attention to a critique by Berhard Lintot things, or to say which is cause or what Supreme Court and to the Secretary of later when the captain saw the accused he7 Weekly Mr. Lintot admits that almost bare feet and quite hare arms and not préposed to proceed with it.
to the anarchy in Mr. BoWLEY moved that in view of the the Hongkong Law Society, of his inten appeared to be in a peculiar state, and no poet of modern times, and no English neck owe to Mr. Asquith's indifference to
had his poetic credentials so severely the political and artistic world. recent outbreak of cholera the Governtion to apply for admission. Under this the captain detailed two men to watch Peaking post since Walt Whitman, has stable goverment
we have travelled that the old-fashioned mont be requested to expedite and new section he also la to deposit with him. At about 130 p.m. on the morning criticised as Rudyard Kipling, but says says a great deal for the length of road has steeped his experiences in the people (perhaps there aro mong left) have encourage the reclamation of foreshores the Registrar his certificate of admission of June 1st, the officers of the ship there is little doubt in my mind that he at Winchmi Bay and Shaukiwa.
as a solicitor at Heine. In this case this discovered that a certain passenger had authentic staff of poetry, and declares Colonel YouNAN seconded, and the was done, but in addition under the newbeen stabbed in the throat, They made that, in spite of all the charges of hot lifted up their volors in the Press to Ordinance he had to file a certificate from use of what medical knowledge they had detractors, we are faced by the fact that this curiously vigorous singer has moved a proper officer that his certificate was to try to save this passenger, but he died by his song fore people throughout the Mr. CHAN KA MING--I agree with the
still in force and valid. Lastly, then a short time. The accused was found Empire than any other living poet. He his poetie qualities, such as the following Hon. Mr. Hewett, inasmuch as there is
applicant was required to file a certificate to be in possession of a pair of scissors, quotes same stanzas of Kipling's showing. nothing in these papers to show that shell
of character signed by two practising and it was suggested that he committed frous S
this crime by stabbing the dreeased person fish is the direct cause of the disease, In
Lord Rosebery last month presented the attornies in one of the Courts of London with the scistors. As to whether the the 'eighties cholera was well-known in Hongkong, though in recent years it has prizes at the Royal Grammar School, Dublin or Edinburgh. seldom been heard of. In the Aberdeen Guildford, on the governing body of proviso that the Chief Justice might accused was sane, certain doctors would district I remember out of a family of which he represents the Senate of London exempt any person from complying with be called, and they would give their University. In his address to the boys, all the formalities, but such exemption opinion. When the ship arrived in Hongkong accid was handed over to the half a dozen persons only a girl of ten years of age survived, and she had to Lord Rosebery said that he noticed in the could not be granted unless notice was be sent to the Po Leung Kuk. Cholera states of the school, which were framed given by the applicant to the Secretary police, but the body of the deceased was mixture was then kept ready at the vari-00 years ago, a point of minor morals, of the Law Society. The circumstances in ous polien stations for free distribution but one which required much more atten- this case were that Mr. Norington left to the public, and notices in Chinese were issued warning people not to eat uuripe or over-ripe fruits, and to be particularly careful about drinking cold and unboiled water. I should think it would suffice if similar ecautions are taken now and the Inspector of Markets is instructed to The necessity of euurtesy and good man Norington being granted the exemptions a Chinese was charged by Inspector opinion on one side, it must be admitted:
keep a special lookout on the sale of un wholesome fruit,
The MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH said he might inform the Board that there did not appear to be any occasion for alarm about these cases of cholera. There had been no case yesterday, only one case on
motion was carried,
THE DECAY OF MANNERS.
reasons.
LORD ROSEBERY'S COMPLAINT."
asked for..
There was a
His Lordship-The letter is signed by the Secretary?
necessarily buried at sea.
Evidence was part heard and the lar ing adjourned until this morning.
THE MAGISTRACY.
"LAKORNY OF BRASS.
God gave all met all earth to love, But since our hearts are smell, Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved, above all;
That as He watched Creation's birth,
So we, in Godlike mood, May of our love create our earth
And see that it is good, This critic concludes:-
Throughout the poetry of Rudyard Kipling there are verses which have the arresting and essentially the poetic quali- ties of the above quotations, but it is not so much the quality of Kipling's veree that counts as the amount of new vision he gets into his poetry. When you have stripped away from his poemas everything in the nature of jingoism, a vivid and magnificent sense of power and imagina Before Mr. F. A. Blazeland yesterday, tion remains.. Leaving all pcetica! MeHardy with stealing four pieces of that Rudyard Kipling has felt the reality and romance of Empire as they were His The man never felt in this country before, brass from the Naval Yard. was sentenced to a month's hard labour song has done more to knit together the scattered people of the British Dominions beyond the seas than any other force. Ele and four hours' stocks.
has put into verse-form the feeling, the sentiment, or whatever you like to call it, which underlies the cleanest Imperial aspiration. In doing so he has made us emotionally conscious of Empire: whether we like it or not, whether we are Imperialists er not, does not alter the
GROSS PERJURY.
Inspector Dymond proceeded against & Chinese for disorderly conduct at 1.30 The
And
tiun than was usually paid to it today. England after the new Ordinance came In the statutes they said:"Absence from church or like assemblies without just into force here. He had, however, given cause, was to be punished. Honesty and notice to the Secretary of the Law Society, cleanness of life, gentle, decent speech, and he (the Attorney-General) would put humility, courtesy, and good manners in the letter received in reply stating that were to be established by all good means." that Society had no objection to Mr. ners had been recognized by one of the great saints of the educational calendar, William of Wickham, and it was well for us in the 20th century to note the emphasis laid by their founder (Edward VI) on courtesy, and good manners.
The Attorney-General safl it was, and Why did these men of the early 17th cen tury emphasize courtesy and good man- in the circumstances he asked his Lord- ners! He took it that it was for two ship to exempt Mr. Norington from
First, they were models them Monday, two cases on Sunday and one selves of courtesy and good manners having to give the four months' notice. am, on konday in First Street,
he to the Registrar and from filing a certi defendant told the Magistrate (Mr. Haze es on Saturday last.. Almost all of the men of 17th century were, them had been on board boats, and the auspected, the greatest breed of English-ficate of character as well as from filing land) that the constable asked him for a
Cause they realized the enormous im- Two, at least, portance of courtesy and good manners cortificate of admission at Home was still him that he ought not to smoke whilst on anchored at Bhaukiwa..
duty he was arrested, He called a of the cases had been imported from in the common transactions of life. We English people, and still more Scotch
In reply to his Lordship, the Altorney Chinese woman to give evidence un his never been Canton, where he understood that cliolera was prevalent,
famous for good manners. He thought General stated that Mr. Norington left behalf. She stated that she lived at 109, With regard to Mr. People laughter), had Chan Kai Ming's suggestions, he thought that at one time there was a sort of John England after the new Ordinance was, First Street, and was sitting on the dour- that gentleman would admit that the Ball feeling in England that good man-
ners were the device of dancing. Frog passed. This was the first application for step at 1.30 s.nt. Defendant was sitting Dispensaries had now taken the place eating Frealunen, which it was our duty admission under the new Ordinance, and on his doorstep next to witness's house-
the police stations
the despis. But that was evidently a distribution of cholera mixture, and all sign of charity towards our neighbour, he moved that his Lordship should band was smoking when the constable came the sanitary inspectors at the present and they were also a sign of self-respect. pleased to grant Mr. Norington exempap and asked for a cigarette. Defendant
A man who respected himself was always tion and to admit him as a solicitor. would not give hisi one, and the constablesion not only among women, but among moment had special instructions to keep well-mannered to others. He thought
His Lordship, addressing Mr. Noring then arrested him. a sharp lookout for unwholesome fruit there had been a decay of manners-not and all food liable to cause diarrhea.
Colonel YOUNAN thought the foreshore
great majority, had been boats which I men over produced--and secondly, be the other notification stating that his cigarette, and because he refused and told fact that the achievement is only possible"
for
in
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he as
had
man-
valid.
to a poet,
DRESS AND UNDRESS.
THE FASHIONS OF JULY, 1913.
A correspondent writing to The Times
20ys:---
rebuke a generation which would have made their fathers gasp and stare and presently rest to prayer to avert a
Thunder bit.
INTIMATIONS
THE BEST
THE BREWER'S
BREW
GUINNESS'S
WHEEL BRAND
STOUT.
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA;
In the hurry in which we all live the H. notion of surprise hos probally beru dendened, or there would be more discus-
Five years ago women still wore skirts"
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Iuspector Dymond men, too of the fashions in dress this season. For it is no exaggeration to suy only in England and Scotland, but allton, stated that under the circumstances aliked for a remand in order that he might that we are in the height of a revolution over the world. It was unt limited to our own people; we saw it on the Con- which had been detailed by the learned institute enquiries. This was granted in feminine clothes, such as has not been at Shaukiwan was a positive disgrace to tinent just as much, and it was a bad Attorney-General it was quite clear that and the offer informed the Magistrate sten Bince that other revolution gave
defendant's aunt and that she lived at Directoire and the Empire, a place like Hongkong. The smell there sign. If people had no spirit of revels could not possibly have been familiar yesterday that the female witness was the sanction to the excesses of women in the
going the right way, and with the new Ordinance before he felt No. 58, Firat Street. She had never lived and bodices which covered them, stock HOWARD was so offensive that it was impossible for rense, if only of outward reverence, they
'were not
were going the wrong England. Mr. Norington bad, so far us at No. ICS, The woman was reenlled, ings thick enough not to slow the colour a person to pass the place without being possibly they simply knocked out of his riesha. Don't way.
Manners had an enormous commercial was in his power, complied with the and admitted that her story was untrue. of their skin, and sallicient stays and The wasp waist no longer you think," asked the speaker of the Pre- value life, and no one could necessary conditions, and his Lordship She stated that the defendant told her petticoats to conceal the details of their
persons lived
long
had auch pleasure in dispensing with the to come to the Court and make the stat existed, nor was there any bump on the sident, that something ought to be done have
without noticing the value of
Defendant was fined $25 or in skirt or on the shoulders. The absenro to remedy this?"
of exeressence was continually pointedl nets in the ordinary transactions of other conditions and admitting him to ment
cut as a return to nature and true art. life. In public life he had seen men by
The dressmakers in Paris only designed appearance and wanners get such a start practise in this Colony, and he had to default a month's imprisonment. of their much abler fellows that they had express the hope that during the time M-.
for la ligne, by which they meant that they aimed at producing the effect of oF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION been able to occupy places much higher Norington carried on the practice of his
youthful slimmess. But human beings in public life than their own abilities or profession here he would be happy and services would entitle them to appearance they might say was not at prosperous.
Bre never satisfied to remain stationary, Mr. Norington howed his thanks, and their command. There be did not agree.
and the men and women who direct the fashions in Paris soon found that the his Lordship concluded by sus
nature to which they had returned was Good looks were not. They were the gift of the Gods, and were bestowed on a small
that the Attorney-Genera!
not natural enough; that, in short, more of mankind (laughter), but gesting. percentage
clothes could be dispensed with and a the good appearance of a boy, the manly, should communicate with the Hongkong
greater air of liberty given to the limbs. straightforward appearance, the appear Law Society and suggest that they might
which arice without self-conciousness-
An impetus was given to this attitude was the most disagreeable feature of all be well advised to inform the Intor- appearances was within the command of |porated Law Society in England of the
But mauders wore even more every boy. unportant. Say three boys were apply fact of this new Ordinance having been
Shakes ing for some situation. Chou might be a pusd monster of learning with
Mr. Norington came out for Mr. G. K. pearean forehead laughter), another
The PRESIDENT said that the other side of the question had also to he looked at. It was by no means proved that any direct disease came from the foreshore. The complaints he had hoard were chiefly from people, so to speak, who had gone to the smell; the smell had not come to them. The only cure would be reclama. tion, and that, he thought, was much too big a thing for the Board to deal with.
Colonel YOUNAN-Has not reclamation been suggested and approved by the Go ernment?
The PRESIDENT That I cannot answer. I have no official information.....
Mr. Bowley said there were two points
of view from which reclamation was to
Good
be regarded in connection with public might be not half so good, but still able, Hall Brutton.
and the third might not have the abilities
of manners.
health. One was that it supplied greater af sither, but if he had good manners and space for building and tended to diminish instead of grunting an answer like the overcrowding. The other was that it first or giving no auswer like the second, removed insanitary foreshore areas which but gave a clear, respectful-not cringing were offensive to the public health and swer to the questions asked him it was ten to one on him against the other
Manners were not easily taught p the passer-by. He was sorry he could not two. agree with the Hon. Mr. Hewett that except by example, but he asked every reclamation should be prohibited becausboy, if he forgot everything else he had mind the enormous value There was a demand said, to bear
All through his life it it was expensive. for building space. They knew that thewould give him a value which he would reclamation of an obnoxious area at never possess without them, and a start Wanchai had been under contemplation over other boys who neither tried to be
nor were well mannered. for a very large number of years, and bo thought the concensus of opinion was that reclamation would prove a profitable- undertaking. That was now a great in Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals legs to dustrial centro, and there must be acknowledge with thanks the following demand sooner or later for land in the donation to the funds of the hospitals:-
T. H. A. neighbourhood. He submitted, therefore,
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice
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