A. S. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,
GENERAL OHIDMISTS,
AND
Manufacturors of the following AERATED WATERS, viz: SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA,
́ ́AND POTASH, LEMONADE, -GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13TH, 1881.
nate wrote:-"It seems to me that all may be omitted from this. We have the special report, and action will be taken so soon as means and circumstances permit." And in ac- cordance with this view the Admini- strator, without further troublo or
investigation, suppressed the entire report by instructing the Government printer to omit from the usual printed returns the whole of the references to sanitation, which was accordingly dono. It would appear to an unpre- Deliveries in Town and Harbour from judiced observer as if Mr. Cecil C.
7 A.M. to 7 P.M.
Satra' MEDIENG CHESTS, REFINTED, PASSENGER SHIPS SUPPLIED.
Prompt Attention given to Coast Onlers.
TRONGKONG DISPENSARY.
[LONGKONG. SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
SHANGTIAL
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE ISPENSARY.
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CANTON,
FoocHow.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Hoxogosa, 13TH DECEMBER, 1881.
For reasons which it is rather diffi- cult to understand, the disclosures contained in Dr. Ayres's elaborate re- sport on the sanitary condition of the Chinese quarter of Hongkong in the year 187-which we published on Saturday last-did not meet with the approval of the Administrator, Mr. J. Gardiner Austin, and his Act- ing Colonial Secretary, Mr. Cecil Clementi Smith. As a matter of fact, the whole of the Colonial Sur- geon's official communication, which included special reports referring to the Police, the Garrison, the Govern- ment Civil Hospital, Tung Wal Hospital, Victoria Gaol, Lack Hos pital, the Health of the Colony, and Sanitation, was very severely not to say discourteously-handled. Both the Administrator and the Acting Colonial Secretary applied the prun ing knife with unsparing hand, until what was certainly an ably written, and we should imagine à complete and truthful, record of what actually existed at the time in the above-named departments, became a mere skeleton, misleading in many respects, and quite the reverse of what the Colonial Surgeon evidently meant to convey. For this practice of mutilating what was supposed to be and ought in all cases to be- the independent official report of the head of a responsible public depart ment, we can find no valid excuse, and it not unnaturally strikes us as passing strange that our enterprising contemporaries-always so ready to use their strongest invectives when reviewing the policy of our present Governor-should have proserved such a complacent and convenient silence at these extraordinary and unjustifiable proceedings of Messrs. Gardiner Austin and Cecil C. Smith, of which, it is fair to presume, they were not in eutira ignorance. Can the Colonial Surgeon be held alto- gether blameless? We leave the public to judge for themselves, merely observing that we have heard a good deal through the local press of sub- sequent official reports emanating from the pen of Dr. Ayres, which are said to have been suppressed or withheld by Governor Hennessy, but not a single whisper of the important revelations which the Austin Admi- nistration so summarily “burkod" reached the community until the publication of the Administrative Reports by Sir John Pope Hennessy
in 1879.
We observe from the Indian Daily News that our ancient acquaintance Mr. Dave Carson is at present performing at Calcutta. We wonder whether we
shall have a visit from the irrepressible one during the winter,
A telegram dated London, Decem-
bor 11th, announces that President Arthur in his annual inaugural message to Congress, on assuming office, stated that the Panama question was one of great national importanco.
approaching a crisis. The French, after Affairs in North Africa are rapidly occupying Tunis and, Koirwan are, according to a telegraphic mesango re- ceived from London yesterday after- noon, now in pursnit of the Arab insur- ronts who have retreated towards
Tripoli. Should the Fronch enter Tripoli there can be little doubt that Italy will consilor the movement as a
casus belli.
Sir Garnet Walsoloy as writton à letter, in which he says that about 90 per cunt. of the crime in our abay R owing to drunkenness, and that when
Smith had good reasons either for personally disliking the Colonial Surgoon, or for placing a very small amount of reliance on his professional opinions. This is evidenced by some of the Acting Colonial Secretary's marginal notes. Dr. Ayres in his report on the Lock Hospital' states that "Owing to the number of cases of fever of a Typhoid type being. brought to the Civil Hospital from the Chinese licensed brothels, I received a request from the Govern- ment to inspect and report upon
or men are removel from the tempta- them. [This I found had never been
tion of intoxicating liquor, crime is done by any of my predecessors.]" Practically unknown among then. He
This is hardly correct," comments
says:-" During thatoparations. I con- dnoted in South Africa, in 1879, my the Acting Colonial Secretary, and
own personal escort the Administrator follows suit with almost exclusively of teetotallars. They
was cumps "omit," which of course settled the hal very hard work to do, but gram. business. Dr. Ayres in the last para-bling was never heard from them; and graph but one of his report on sani- tation compared the sanitary condi- tion and position of Hongkong with Port Louis, Mauritius, where he had been during the fever epidemic of 1867 and 1868, when the death rate at one time exceeded 600 daily. As a rejoinder to this comparison, Mr. Cecil C. Smith wrote the following minute: It is a little surprising to find the Colonial Surgeon, or any professional man with a knowledge himself Caliph, and has liberated Mil- of the position of the two colonies, hat Pasha, for the purpose of entrust- comprising ( comparing) the oueing him with the direction of civil affairs in the now Arab Caliphate. All that the correspondent can state confi.lontly is that certain tribes in the neighbour. hool of Mocca are in a state of insur
with the other."
There can be little doubt that the
present sanitary condition of Hong kong is far from being so satisfactory as it might be. But will any person who has taken the trouble to make himself acquainted with the subject contend that the state of affairs de- scribed by Dr. Ayres in 1874 has any existence at the present day? We think not, and we are disposed to credit Governor Hennessy for having, in the face of a most persistent de partmental opposition, effected many much needed improvements without injuring existing interests, or wound- ing the susceptibilities of the Chinese community, who have been princip ally concerned in the movement. The Chinese have a perfect right to be consulted in all matters affecting their own material well being, and although we are not inclined to allow antiquated prejudices to stop necessary public improvements, it certainly appears to us that the introduction of sanitary principles based entirely on the customs of Western nations would not have proved suitable to the special require- ments of the Chinese quarters of this colony. We propose to deal in a future article with the sanitary necessities of Hongkong,
We regret to hear from Shanghai that the Into sub-editor of the China Mail has disappointed the expectations of his many friends and well wishers. He mysteriously disappeared from the Model Settlement the other day with- out even wishing his friends good bye. He has been anxiously enquired after, but without any satisfactory result. Like Romeo, "parting" was evidently
a sweet sorrow which the "artist,” did not believe.in,
The following is the list of Officers of the lately established United Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons:-M, E. Z., Comp. W. H. Addiscott; H. Comp. J. As we stated in a previous article, Keating; J., Comp. G. May; Scribe B., Dr. Ayres's report on Sanitation was Comp. J. Parker; Scribe N., Comp. J. suppressed in toto. Mr. Cecil Smith Windram; Treasurer, Comp. J. Brew. briefly disposed of the whole ques- Wiadram; First Assistant Sojourner, ster; Principal Sojourner, Comp. W. tion by the following minute to the Comp. R. Fraser-Smith; Second Assis Government printer appended to the tant Sojourner, Comp. 8. Corben'; firet paragraph "The report should Organist, Comp. W. Goulbourn, Ste end here." Mr. Gardiner Austin in ward. Comp. J. Beattio; Janitor, Comp. supporting the views of his subordi- J. R. Grimble,
a better behaved set of man I was
nover assisted by, a fact which I attri buto. to their being almost all total abstainers."
According to the Constantinople cor- respondent of the Times, much anxiety is felt at the Palaco about affairs in Arabia, and great secrooy is maintain- as to what is taking place in that portion of the empire. Many wild rumours are current, the latest of which is that the Grand Sharif has proclaiðnád
rection; that the Grant Sherif, Abdal Mattabil, is suspected of being in con.. nivance with the leaders of the move- mont, that instructions have been sent to arrost hit, if necessary; and that the Turkish garrisons are boing roin-
forced.
An Emergency Lodge of Zetland No. 525 will be held this evening at nine o'clock precisely.
Commander Louis Kompff, arrived The Amorisan gu-vessel Alert, 4,
here yesterday from Nagasaki.
Treasury has urged the suspension of The Secretary of the Units. States the asinage of silver dollars for the
present.
We regret to hear by tologram that the Vionan Theatre has been completely hundred lives." destroyed by fire, with a loss of three
The Boletim of the 10th instant pub. lishes a notification, ro the application of Mossra. Li Ong Guing and Loong Von Ing for a liennes to establish á manufactory of firo crackers at Tanque
de Mainsto, to the effect that Sr. D.
Says the N. O. Duly No-Tho strong fires of disciplined and well arnol Hunan troops which the Chô: klang authorities sent recently' to 'Tai- chou seerns to have had the effect of
That force, howover, is none too large, overawing the wond-be insurgents.
for arm being smuggled into that dis- triot to an extent that occasions much
anxiety to the mandarins. To add to tho discontent already existing, the man. darins, in a panic, have executed a large number of villagers who were perfectly innocent.
THE RECENT CUSTOMS' SEIZURE.
Information has arrived in this Co-
Chinese bontinan who was recently lony that the woman, the widow of the
shot whilst in the act of steering his Schmidt on a shooting excursion, has craft when taking Messrs. Rapp and
boon flogged in Canton, in order to make her confess that opium was in the Hakka boat at the time the attack was made by the Customs' officers. It will be remembered that there were threo men in the boat beside the de- consed, who were his sons, a fourth re-~ maining in Hongkong on that trip.--- This man has now received a lettor from friends in Canton informing him
Jonquim José da Graça, the Governor that liis mother has been flogged by of Macao an! Tinor, has been pleased to authorities in order to make ber to grant the application, since thoraconfuse to the possession of opiam, were a protosta ile by sh, different but without effect, as the woman hon Is of dop artigonts or by persus intently donios that there was any opium the neighbourhood of the proposed fac-
in the bout. In all probability before tory.
this appears in print the fonds who would fly a woman on a tramped up charge will have proceeded to put other tortures into operation to extract a confession from the unfortunate boat- woman's lips, especially as they have so mach at stake in obtaining an admission that the drug was found on board. The whole thing hinges upon this. If the Customs' officers prove their case, they have made a good capture; if they do not, they have committed murder for we are assured that Mr. Travers and will be nicted in heavy damages, has told the Viceroy that compensa- tion will have to be paid to the woman The Shanghai Mercury of the 7th for the loss of her husband, he inst. has the following: The Hong. boing at the time he was killed in on Telegraph of the 19th to the 28th the service of two subjects of the Em- of November came to hand this morn: peror of Germany, to say nothing of ing. We are very glad to get this the case of the two gentlemen who papor, but as it is nearly always a wook were taken prisoners to Canton. There or two later than the other Hongkong never was a granter piece of rasoality papers it becomes almost useless; and
than the attempt by the officer at the we trust this gentle hint to the pro-bond of the attacking party to fix the priators will be of service to them. opium charge by "planting" opium We have already received other Hong- in the boat after its arrival in Canton, kong papers of the 2nd instant, and and "finding" it then. When the boat our own papers are forwarded to the
was taken off Tin-moon, it was searched Tolograph every steamer."-Wo regret thoroughly, ovary corner being looked to hear this complaint, bat have into big enough to hide a walnut, and to express our thanks for having every article of the boat's gear and the hind this matter pointed out to us. crew's belongings turned out in the in so pleasant a manner. Our deli-ondeavour to find opium, but none very clerk assures us that the papers are regularly forwarded by every steamer. We shall, howovor, person- look into the matter, so as to avoid further complaint.
The Pioneer, in an article ander date
Admiral Ting, now Naval Coinman-ally der-in-Chief of the Northern Division of the Imporial Chinese fleet, has pre- sented to H.E. the Viceroy Li, who was pleased to accept the gift, a tea ser- vice of ornamentod and burnishel steel, anl shavings. of the sheets of Siemens The service was formed out of clippings Lindore steel, made by the gas-furunes process for the two new Chinese cruisers built and fitted by Mossrs. Sir
W. G. Armstrong and Co. of Now- castlo-on-Tyne. The steel is at once" pure, soft, ductile, close-grained, and exceedingly tough. The service now possessed by the Viceroy was stamped out by dies, embellished, and highly polished. It has the appearance of silver. The quality, finish, and beauty of the service is very remarkable.-N. C. Daily News.
of 23th October, draws attention to the steadily increasing enlistment of Sikhs and other British stations in the East. for policemen in Singapore, Hongkong, Complaints are being made as to the recruiting officers from Singapore, Hongkong, &o., getting the pick of the mon, and thus reducing, the value of the districts as recruiting grounds. That this should be so is not a matter for astonishment. The pay offered by the army authorities is Rs. 7 per men- sem, with compensation for dearness of provisions when the scale of dist exceeds R+. 3 aanus 8; Rs. 30 kib al- lowance on calistinent, and after eigh- toen months' service Rs. 4 yearly to keep up establisheI kit; anl peusion Francis Wyley and Robert Whitley. privates in the Royal Inniskilling Fa-thirty-two years' service. The induco
at the rate of Rs. 7 per mensam after siliers, were charged, oa' remand, at men's held out by the police enlisting the police court yesterday, before Dr. agents are manificent compared to Stowart, with having assaulted Mr. D.these, the agent for the Singapore Police Byramjee and others, with intent to This was the drunken freak of one of commit a felony on the 8th instant.
a party of four soldiers, who amused himself by skylarking with the Parseo gentlemen on the Kennedy Road the other evening; an incident described by the blatant thunderer at the top of Wyndham Street as "an atrocious act
was found.
Of course, the officer in charge saw 'what a stupendous blunder he had committed, and would stick at nothing to got out of the mess. He even charged the Europeans with firing upon him. first-a likely story.
We
can state authoritatively that in the independent examination of all tho witnesses in the case last week by the
the German Consul in Canton, the Customs people involved themselves in such a network of lies that it is simply impossible they can extricate them- Selves. On the receipt of the letter in Hongkong referred to above, the Co- lonial Government was communicated with,, and we hope His Excellency the Governor will find some means of bringing influenas to bear (that is if he has no legal claim) to obtain the release of this unfortunate crew from the clutches of their inhuman compatriots. The four young men forming the crow of the boat, and sous of the deceased boatraan, were all bora in Hongkong, an it is high time, having rogard to any similar cases that may orop up in the fatura, that the Chinese born in places where the British flag flies should have so easy means, by registry or acknowledged British subjects.
ther method, of becoming properly
Force offering Rs. 22 par mensen; a free with passage paid to and from their kit; one year's farlough in every five,
homes; and pension allowed after ten, years' service; and the only way to
We hear from American sources that which these men can be induced to join in the first batch of entries for the the Indian army is that the army must principal races next season, the great offer terms sufficiently liberal to coun feature is the large support awarded to terbalance the advantages to be gained two-year-old events by Lorillard and of violence." No actual assault worthy elsewhere. A correspondent of the Koeno. In the Ascot and Goodwood of the name was committed, no real
same paper proposes to raise the pay races, the American entries greatly violence was attempted. The Parsee to Rs. 8, the shortest torm of sorviço exceed those of the season jast olosed. gentlemen wore not hurt in the slight- to bo reduced to seven years, and to The fifth great Challenge Stakes (New- est degree, although they were no grant pensions at the end of twenty-market race), in which Iroquois was doubt à little bit frightened. Our one years' service. Wo doubt whether defeated a month ago, contains eight worthy contemporaries devote two this will be considered by the Sikhs American entries, including Foxhall, columns to the report of a case which commensurate with the benefits to be Broker, Gerald, Sachem, and some two- can be disposed of in a few words. derived by going to the police in Siu-year-olds. In the former Lorillard bas There was no evidence whatever pro-gapore, Hongkong, and other places, four and Keene three, and in the latter good characters in the regiment, and the duced against the two men, who bore The men are quito entitled to give their Lorillard has three and Keene none. magistrate, after patiently listening to
services wherever they can get most The Newmarket, St. Logor, and Derby for them, and in the circumstances we also contain a number of entries, Loril. a lot of unecessary evidence which did cannot see that the Indian army has lard is tbo principal contributor to both, not affect this prisoners in the slightest any legitimate ground for complaint, having in the former-five, and in the degree, vory properly dismissed tho howover much the injury done to the latter six entries. Keene has two charges.
Punjab regiments is to be regretted. entries in each.