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1883
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1
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So far as we are aware the serious scarcely probable. Where then are the IT is rumoured that there are strong differences danger to the public health incurred by many applications for sites for manufact of opinion setting the opposing factions of the the boat-people being allowed to establish ories, &c, so confidently predicted by Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Corps fairly by the themselves permanently on the shore of Mr. Price to come from? With the ears. Interesting, particulars of the amusing Causeway Bay, was never pointed out to gigantic godown enterprise on the Kow-That busy gossip "Beplan has a deal to onwards the house, if you please.
asclandre will doubtless be forthcoming later.on Governor HENNESSY by the Surveyor loon shore, now rapidly approachingwer for. General, and we are justified in believing completion under the all powerful" aus- that no official records exist to show that pices of Mr. C. P. CHATER, he would. Mr. Price protested in any shape or form indeed be a bold man who would invest against "the direct action of the Governin godowns either at Bowrington or ment" which, it is alleged, was the sole cause of the prevalence of fever and other diseases in that locality. If such records exist we should have seen or heard something about them long before this. However, our present object has more to do with the present than with the past sanitary con Sdition of Causeway Bay. What has been done since, to remedy the grievance so glibly handled by Mr. J. M. Price in his report of June last? The boat people at the time Mr. PRICE wrote had all been turned away, but it was pointed out that each boat had left behind it a four years accumulation of putrid refuse cause every time the tide receded an effluvium sickening beyond descrip- tion.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1883.
In his celebrated report on Causeway Bay, date June, 24th, the honourable the Sur veyor General makes the following state-
ment:-
I think it but just to the Sanitary Officers of -the-Colony-to-record-the-fact that_the_present. foul and insanitary condition of Causeway Bay was brought about by the direct action of the Government in 1879, in forbidding the Sanitary Police to interfere with the boat population when the latter began to establish themselves per manently on the foreshore and to form the boat village which has been only recently dislodged. These boat people have now all been turned
but cach boat has left behind it all around the berth which it so long tenanted un- disturbedly, a four years accumulation of putrid refuse. When the tide recedes and this expanse of fermenting organic matter is exposed to the direct rays of the sun the effluvium is sickening beyond description, and I have no doubt that it is the cause of the fever prevalent in the neigh-
bourhood."
In dealing with the questions raised in the foregoing extract in a leading article which appeared in our issue of August
to
These accumulations have also been removed at least in part. But where have the boat-people gone? Well, instead of being permitted to accumulate filthy refuse around their permanent abodes on the eastern shore of Causeway Bay, they have been turned out of their old quarters and allowed quietly to settle down on the beach a few hundred yards further to the eastward, on the most, fre- quented portion of the Shau-ki-wan Road. A few days ago a personal inspection re- vealed that the boasted improvement claimed to have been effected by the sani- tary authorities in this district had no tan- gible existence. The boat-people have formed a snug colony along the shore from a short distance east of the telegraph station, and extending for two or three hundred yards beyond. A long array of boats are drawn up on the beach, the ukizi Industries of this class of people are being actively carried on, and the putrid refuse referred to in the Surveyor-General's report is being rapidly accumulated around each boat. So that practically we havÄ the road skirting the eastern shore of Causeway Bay almost as objectionable as ever from the offensive odours constantly arising from the cess-pools and other abomination's connected. with the small Chinese village adjoining Whitfield Sta- -tion, while a stretch of beach to the east of that well known landmark, the rock that divides the road, which previously formed one of the prettiest and healthiest promen- ades in the colony, has been suddenly transformed into an evil-smelling and un- healthy Chinese settlement. From this-it will be seen what a huge debt of gratitude the community owes to that admirable creation of Sir GEORGE BOWEN's fertile brain, the Sanitary Board, and above all to its argus-eyed chairman, the honourable Joux. M. PRICE.
With regard to the proposed reclama- tion of the swamp at Causeway Bay, which we expect will shortly be taken in hand, we have already expressed our opinion that, under all circumstances, this work could not very well be avoided, That hideous structure, which was designed and built to afford safe and convenient shelter for Chinese craft in rough weather,
THE Cricket Ground was formally opened for the season on Saturday afternoon. There was a fairly large attendance of lovers of the national game, and a goodly number of votaries of lawn Causeway Bay. Besides Mr. Patez seems tennis were hard at work across the nets. From to have forgotten that on the southern side all we can hear the opening match of the season, of the road, directly opposite the "harbour First Eleven v. Next Twenty Two, promises to of refuge," there is a large tract of vacant prove unusually interesting, land, suitable in every way for building SERIOUS disturbances have taken place lately at purposes, which has been lying vacant for Luton in connection with the processions of that years, and there are numerous other ex- pious fraud, the Salvation Army. Notices had cellent sites in the immediate vicinity been issued by the Mayor appealing to the in- There appears not the slightest chance of habitants to assist in preserving order, and a great rush being made to buy up the several special constables had been sworn in, but reclaimed Causeway Bay swamp; in fact, in spite of these precautions the Army was very unless the Government should see it.W9Xded not to let any public buildings to the roughly treated. The Town Council having de- to providing the poorer classes of our Army, the latter have purchased ground on which European residents with sites for dwelling to erect barracks. houses at a nominal rate, the ground will either remain unoccupied or be utilised by the Chinese fishermen. Had the scheme of reclamation included the whole of the bay, right up to the Breakwater, that portion of the land nearest to what would be a con- tinuation of the Praya wall would probably have been of some commercial, value, but as matters stand, instead of being likely to produce 884,000, as estimated by the Surveyor-General, we should consider the Government exceptionally lucky to ob- tain a return of $30,000, which is the sum set aside to defray the cost of reclamation.
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Wr observe that a serious subsidence of land has taken place at Bovobest, near Guisborough, Yorkshire, through inining operations, when between fifty and sixty houses were wrecked The occupants cleared their furniture out very quickly, and many of them, threw the articles into the streets. A number of houses were wrecked by a similar subsidence a short time age. Portions of some of the houses have fallen, whilst others are in a tottering condition. It is generally expected that a further subsidence will take place. The total damage is estimated at pot less than £10,000 --
THE following appears in the L. & C. Express of August 34th-Seldom has any overworked Legislature had such a week of toil as last week fell to the share of the House of Commons. Here is the diary of six days - Afonday sitting began & F..closed 40A.M...so hours
ALL QUIET IN CANTON.
CANTON, 1st October.
3.30 PM - Rumours of fresh disturbances unfounded...... Everything is quiet.
CHINA STANDS FIRM,
LONDON, September 28th.
It is reported that the Chinese Government have declined the proposals of France for a set- tlement of the Tonquin difficulty.
TYPHOON IN THE PHILIPPINES. The Harbour Master courteously forwards the following telegram, received late on Saturday
MANILA, September 29th.
direction cannot be ascertained for the present.
A typhoon is raging to the north of Luzon; its
(From the Saigon "Independant.") FRANCE AND CHINA.
PARIS, 17th September. by England, conferences have taken place in In accordance with the offer of mediation made London at the house of Lord Granville between Monsieur Waddington, Ambassador, for France in London, and the Marquis Tseng, Ambassador for China in Europe. It is hoped that an amicable solution will be arrived at. --
REINFORCEMENTS FOR TONQUIN.
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In the Post Office, Cleveland, Ohio, was formd a letter with the following plainly written addresse
"To the big-faced Butcher with a wart on his nose-Cleveland, Ohio. The clerks in the Post Office all knew the man, but were afraid, to' deliver the letter of RA
of
were 100, five 101 three 102, one ios, two 104, three
AMERICAN authorities calculate that there are. How many comets did you say there were?" in the world 3,985 paper-mills, producing yearly inquired the Magistrate of the prisoner who had 959,000 tons of paper, made from all kinds of been locked up over night for deranging the substances, including raga, straw, and alla.
symmetry o
a neighbour's features during an About one half the quantity is printed upon, and astronomical controversy Three, av it plate of these 476,000 tons about 300,000 tons are used yer hanner," The court smiled incredulously, by newspapers. The various Governments con- upon observing which. Pat added:--** I'm nåher sume in oficial business 100,000tons; the schools telling ye the thruth Mickey Farre) he saw take 90,000 tons; commerce, 120,000 tons; in one: Mr. Dianfs she saw another, an it was another go,000 tons. The paper trade employs THE mortality returns for England in 1881- dustry, 90,000 tons; and private correspondence mesel that saw the third ? 192,000 hands, including women and children which have, just been completed-second the The latest innovation in the way of suicide add death of 91 persons who were registered at 100 murder comes from New Zealand. A man years old and upwards when they died. Of these named Stephenson, formerly a clerk in the Hanked persons as were men and 66 women. The of New South Wales at Cromwell, who has been ages of the men are recorded as follows:--Nine drunkenness, waylaid her in a street in Dunedin, in Norfolk had attained i 12 years. Of the women separated from his wife for some time through 105, one 108; and one, who died at Hockham, New Zealand, on July 7th. He seized her by the
24 bad reached 100, fifteen 101, eight, 102, five breast and held a lighted dynamite charge to- ward her head till it exploded, blowing both their heads completely off. The headless bodies fell on the pavement, which was strewed with brains and blood, presenting a most sickening spectacle throughout the country to follow the example of Some impatient and merciless Frenchman has trade dollare also upon the laborers and work. proposed that the use of the following hackneyed ingmen's union to act. It adds: The fight against phrases should be strictly forbidden, in all trade dollars will take a wider range, before it is political debates in France" appeal to the finished. All hound arguments against making and attention of the Assembly "A voice the trade dollars of azo grains, a legal tender ap full of peril? "The impassioned attacks of the ply with increased force against the coinage of Opposition;" "The arena of parties;""The the recognized dollar of 4128 grains. The latter importance of documents "The rising wave is a wrong already legalized, the former a wrong
103 104,9,195, three 106, and three 107. ↑ The New York Journal of Commercecalls upon all Boards of Trade and commercial bodies
the Merchants Exchange there in the war on
of anarchy and demagogy;" "To state the in contemplation. question is to answer it "The current which leads to the abysses," "Reconcile, order with liberty; "Let the country judge," &c., to say nothing of other stock phrases of French par liamentary jargon. The idea is not a bad one, and might be adopted in other countries. After a certain phrase has been used, say one hundred thousand times, its further service might fairly be dispensed with. And this might pave the shes way to that great want of modern writers, an
Index Expurgatorius of quotations. An official report on the Italian Press, lately published, furnishes us with the following statis
SUS AM, 133.
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Altogether the House, after allowing two hours' interval in the Friday's sitting, sat 69 hours last week, prolonging the Saturday's sitting till twenty minutes past two o'clock on Sunday morning. IN the Supreme Court this morning a long and elaborate judgment was delivered by Chief Justice Sir George Phillippo in the Fenalder v. afhell case. After the summing up, which lasted nearly an hour, His Lordship delivered the following judgment:-"In the result I hold that the Atholl was wholly to blame for the collision and that although she had a compulsory pilot on board, yet that the collision did not occur through any default on his part, but was caused by sothe default on the part of one of the officers the Benolder against the Askoll for the damages of the ship. I therefore pronounce in favor of sustained by the Benalder and for her costs in this behalf"
We understand that Professor Doberck of the Government Observatory, who has lately been on a visit to various of the coast ports of China
E sea-going Geman merchant navy - Com Prised on January 1, 1883, 4,370 vessels, 3,855 were sailing vessels, having a registered tonnaga of 1,126,650 tons.” 'Of
with 311,404 registered tonnage. As tonnage 915,445 tons, and 515 were with the figures of January 2, 1882, decrease of 139 vessels, but an increase in the tonnage. The number of sailing vess had decreased by 196, while the steamers had increased by 537 The total number of sailors in. the German mercantile January 1, 1883, to 39,031, against 39, rine armour
tical particulars. About 1,378 papers and previous year,being a falling off of 78. Classify periodicals are published in Italy, Lombardying the vessels as to size, there were on Janua has the largest number, 217, and the province 1, 1883 1,366 per cent of the whole number o of Romecomes next with ato. Tuscany, Piedmont, vessels, which were of less than 50 tona § 21 weze and Campania have each a little over 150. The of more than 2,000 tons register, of which three other provinces follow in a declining scale from "Were calling ships and 18 Beamery. too downwards. The Basilicata, a province of German sailing vessel is registered the former Neapolitan kingdom, has only five tons, and the largest German ateamer as o The City of Rome itself publishes 200, Milan | thes. 141, and Naples szo. In all-Italy 160 papers argir's Magasine publishes an inter appear daily, 172 twice or tice a week: 537 ticle on American horses, in are weekly periodicals. There are 200 purely ring to successes on the religious, 196 deal: principally with economicalk! filtre other foreign varieg political journals, 58 politico-religious, Go purely We have every or agricultural subjects, and 83 are fuitorous tained by our sportsmen. Wo The oldest paper in Italy is the Gaszita di Ge the best blood in the world year 1881 166 new journals and periodicals were than the British Islands, we have nova, which was established in 1797, in theures; we have a better clim started, 323 in 1881, and 34 since the beginning - ond to
#their art and owners second tandi
of the present year. Naturally, many disappear in their enterprise. The performance of Iroquois Several battalions of Algerian tirailleurs wit/making investigations for the purpose of reports fast as they come into existence; often the and Foxhall ing on the advisability of establishing meteorol first number is the last these points, ogical stations at these places in connection with
leave for Tonquin on September 15th.
LOSS OF THE AMERICAN SHIP WCHOCORUNE
The Superintendent of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company received the following telegram yesterday:
BOLINAO, September 30th. The American ship Chocorua, Captain Locke,
from Hongkong to Iloilo, was wrecked last sight on a reef about half way between Balingsady and Bolinao. Ose man was drowned. The ship is going to pieces.
© no longer any room for cayl: en
quere the speed of cun trots horses cannot be approached by the animals of any other country. It has been obtained, quote from Hiram Woodruff's book,
upon the
the Imperial Maltime Customs, will shortly APROPOS of the forthcoming publication of the proceed to Formosa on a similar errand. Some Duke of Saxe-Coburg's private memoirs, a ludic ten years ago the necessary instruments for crous story was set long since being circulated meteorological observations were obtained from in Germany in lilustration of the fancied reip. Ing, traming, and-driving trusting horses, aided home by the Chinese Government, it being tions of his Royal Highness towards some other by the enterprise and ingenuity which provide then intended to establish Observatories august personages. A younger son of the Dicks | vehicles, harness, and all the paraphe at several of the open ports; however, of Argyll, so ran the legend, who wished to marry the some difficulties appear to have arisen and the anuntitled lady, not unnaturally asked his father a results were that the project was shelved and the consent to that step. The Duke replied that instruments stored at Amoy and Shanghai. personally he had no objection to the matchi These instruments have lately been examined | but, in view of the fact that his eldest son and tested by the Hongkong Goverment Astron. had espoused a daughter of the Queen, omer, and found in perfect order. Later on we thought it right to take her Majesty's pleas,
The all absorbing determination of the Chinese Government to take formal approval. Her Majesty, thus appealed has been these for úpa prominent position in meteorologicalscience, to, observed that since the death of the
ong and the mil prise which promises to prove of so much We and in the meantime heartily commend an enter- | sort she had been in the habit of consulting the Chinesow-if not by
practical value in elucidating the inner mysteries of typhoons and other phenomena common to
LOCAL AND GENERALA
this part of the world.
Duke of Saxe-Cobourg on all family affairs. The matter was therefore referred to Duke Enem who replied that since the unification of German
he had made it a rule to ask for the Emper opinion on all-important questlook) now came before the Kaiser, who as a constitutional sovereign, he was
well together versation at the m
sing theme of present time That fours and great ones too. Inant in the
The bas reasons for such, when the verdict and judgme in the trial were made: own to the publi Chinese and foreign “lean, but seen from- one of 1-4: the circulars posted in the Club within half an
hour afterwards, and which reads as follows
cise
and, we endeavoured to show that Mr. has very effectuallyabolished the facetiously THE GORMAN gunbost file which arrived from may have something further to say, anent this | sure...on; the subject; before expressing #ble" PRick's adroit attempt to shift the respon named "harbour of refuge" by transform Shanghai yesterday, left for Canton early, this sibility of the disgraceful sanitary conditioning what was once a useful sheet of water moming of Causeway Bay from the shoulders of into a sea of mud, On sanitary grounds visitors to the City Hall Museum for the the department of the Surveyor General to therefore, and on sanitary grounds alone, week ended 30th September, were-European "the direct action of the Government (Sir we consider the alterations suggested by 181, Chinese 2.537; total 3,708, dar JOHN FOPE HENNESSY) in 1879," was a con- Mr. Patca and approved by the Government temptible expedient, quite unworthy of a a very desirable improvement. At the The steamship Polyhymnia, which amived in man of his (Mr. PRICE's) admitted ability. same time we totally disagree with the and six 6-ton guns and a quantity of ammunition of raising money, was that employed by an un- Shanghal the other day, brought out two 10-ton An original, but by no means a creditable, way In the course of other observations we Surveyor General's opinion that the re-for the Chinese Government.
principled Frenchman, whose modus operandi clamation is equally desirable as a means
is revealed in a París paper. His fixed idea was
BP "Who are the Sanitary Officers of the colony of obtaining a large tract of building land/ FOR, snatching a pair of earrings valued to obtain a matter of 200,000 francs to stare dily for the now anxious pair of lovers, the Tros referred to ? Who were they in 1879, when the Government (read between the lines Sir John for warehouses and factories. Mr. Faice $19.50, the property of Li Alan, a married himself in life, and for a period of four years he Chancellor had no wish to consult anybody, and on Pope Hennessy) by forbidding the sanitary po- in his report says:-
woman, Lo Tun, described as a coolie, was this)) axed his. ingenuity to discover how this..was in decided that the marriage might take places: lice to interfere with the boat population, brought
morning sent to three months hard labor in the be done without risk to himself. At length he AM incident showing great presence about the present foal and insanitary condition late for sites for godowns and industrial establish
"There has been a considerable demand of **Retreat.***
Shit upon a plan, which has succeeded beyond extraordinary muscular streng
1 great
Cat portion
said:-
certain the views of his Prince, Minis
of Causeway Bay ?. A few weeks ago a Sanitaryments of one kind and another to the east of the THE Austrian Ladies' Band gave a vocal and his hopes. His first step, was to hire, on very pened at Cranachan, Farm, Sept
to direct and regulate our sanitary affairs, of
and to
Beard was appointed by Sir George Bown town, and these have now taken which Board Mr. Price is chairman. Is it in of the vacant Led a Bowrington, astumental concert is the City Hall on Satur justice to the members of that Board that the overcrowded condition of the city. It would day evening lust, under thE FADDERPY OF 15 3 the above quoted special defence was penned? have been better to have reserved the Bowrington Major-General Bargent, Colon, Parnell and t
sites for private dwelling houses Certainly not as it is plainly apparent that gentlemen who only assumed responsibility a
sent intending builders of warehouses and factories oflours of "The Buffa." The audience was couple of months since, cannot be held to blame to some suburb like Causeway Bay, This, but so large as might have been expo for a state of affairs which has been in existence ever, may still be done in respect of future ap they seemed to thoroughly for many years. In 1879 "the Sanitary Officers plicants (of whom I have no doubt there will still efforts of the various performery of the Colony consisted of one great autocrat,
be many) if the contemplated reclamation is the bigh and mighty, the honourable the Sur Carried out, and what remales available of How.olo of Her Iguai Pischel and veyor General" himself Mr. Price is quite well rington may yet be devoted to dwelling houses. song: "La Stella Contic aware that the only physical difference in Causes At current rates land at Causeway Bay may be applauded: The company will way Bay during the past ten years at least, has valued at $4,000 per acre. Deducting five grand performance to-morrow been caused by the erection of that monument of acres for roads and cross-streets the mining benent of Miss Berths, when a official imbecility, the white elephant that for 2 acres reclaimed may be fairly estimated as
programme will be performed. lack of a better name is euphoniously and ele representing a value of $84,0057 20
gantly styled Breakwater. Before the It is much to be regretted that in the construction of that unsightly wall, what is now above statement MP4 aswamp was almost always at high tides covered
with water. Owing to the wall by some strange considered it requisite to deal blunder having been erected three hundred yards | with the truth, What is actuall
too far inside the bay, the flow of water was top-alderable demand for ped and instead of having a large expanse sulli-
cient to float, bundreds of zanre craft, in all dustrial establishments referred
salt weathers, more than half of the bay was trans-Lee Yuen
Works Is the on
d have
formed into the wretched condition in which it industrial establishment we know y now in If any person is to blame for Causeway Bay being a diagmce to a civilised colony from the vicinity of Bowrin
a sanitary point of view, that person is unques the publication of Mr. Parca's report
ang nationably Mr. J. M. Price. For the past ten years
By he has been Surveyor General of the colony, and site has been secured for a Washing
raw such, responsible that every precaution should 'pany. There are, not
be taken, and everything that kill and science more sugar refineries started,
could devise and suggest should be adopted for
the protection of the public health, a
position to the proposed steam
cheap terme, and in a quiet village in France, Archibald Macdonald, One of five
a house which he announced his intention who occupy the above farm, was
of utilaing as a family boarding-house; his over the farm, accompanied by the shepherd, next, to; insert in the papers an advertise- and, when they, wern, passing through, Garment, stating that a young man with two which cattle, were grazing, a bull that had on
hundred thousand francs at his disposal was previous occasions shown an inclination anxious to marry, and would accept a young people gave them chase. The shephe lady with a portion of only 10,000 francs. The alleged, ran and left his mass day after this advertisement appeared there were Macdonald could not run, he fifty answers waiting at the post
ast office for the good, dent from sheumatism advertiser. He now mude inquiries concerning | obliged to use the position of the writers, and ultimately selected, and began eighteen widows with daughters to marry as his to keep him, THERE BIG Tange lot of minorwaying about undergo a test of character and amiability. He John Macdona
dupen." He suggested that 'ench widow should | crutches.
"town this morning, all: more or less tending
confirm, in a miRREITO, OFF special coresponde|TH enl'aviews anest the fear of anothér óúth
-It is reported that two s
and
had two- aunts" who kept, v boarding
ght of y character and experience:
that he placed absolute rell
ould-his-future
roof, taking
pasa month under
not to reveal
was there vão condizion
was accepted by the whole eighteen... thể lng honse una started, and before, the end of the trial month was so prosperans that it was dii- posed of 208.000 francsThe di turer, "me and we after pocketing the money,wrote to tell the, hina
had eighteen widows that “he had changed his mind, It
(and no longer uscant ÉS MASTIA NANO
at one time
In the event of day databas