Intimations:
DAKIN BROS, OF CHINA, LIMITE D, DISPENSING CHEMISTS, WHOLESALE AND DETAIL DRUGGISTS QUEEN'S ROAD.
́DAKIN'S CHOLERA ELIXIR, For Administration in CHOLERA, DYSENTERY, COLIC, &c.
HIS well tried temedy has been in extensive
Te in India, Burinath, and some parts of China for many years, and has proved beyond doubt its efficacy in arresting the rapid progress of Cholera symptoms, and in combating this fatal malady when developed.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889.
excellent opportunity aflorded by the darkness, might have pillaged many of the godowns in the dead of night, with great impunity, whilst rowdies might go on pestering the residents and practising all sorts of atrocities. Until the Gas supply is resumed, we call upon the powers that be to give us light along the darkest and the most important of our thoroughfares.
TELEGRAMS.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.) SAIGON AFFAIRS.
PARIS, May 22nd. M. Turquet de Beauregard has been appointed An infallible stand-by, no House should be, Commander-in-chief of the Saigon Naval Station.
without it.
Cholera Belts, Hot Boxes, Hot Water Bottles, etc., etc.
Sold in 3 & 8 oz. Stoppered bottles, at $1.50 and $3.
23, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
(Telephone No. 6o.).
Hongkong, 28th May, 1889..
FOR HOT CLIMATES.
WATSON'S
EFFERVESCENT SALINE.
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THE KING OF ITALY AT BERLIN. A great military review has been held at Berlin in honour of the King of Italy.
THE FRENCH COLONIAI. ADMINIS
TRATION.
May 24th.
It is rumoured that the Central Administration of the Colonies will be re-organised.
An American critic says that Mrs. Langtry's beauty bas deserted her, and that even her former taste for dress has left her.
THE Empress Victoria of Germany and the Queen of Italy are said to be the two cleverest and most highly educated women in Europe. WITNESS about to take the oath Will your lordship please do me a favour Judge: "What is it, madam 7" Witness: "Won't you let a couple of witnessca be sworn with me? I'm
so timid and nervous that I'don't like to be sworn alone:"
Y
MRS. Testy (looking up from the paper)-Isn't bis strange A, Californian, after a fit of illness, was absolutely unable to remember his married." Mr. Testy-Well, I dunno. It's
wife and did not believe she was the one be
pretty hard work sometimes for a man to realize that his wife is the same woman he once went crazy over.
THE Foochow Echo i glad to learn that the Chinese Authorities have taken strong measures to suppress all dealings in what is rather forcibly termed i tea. A proclamation, was issued 'on the 11nd altimo in which it was decreed that
whoever shall apprehend such dishonest dealers and shall seize all such tess in their possessions the Board of Foreign Intercourse shall reward him with Tis. 100; and the person who shall give such information as shall lead to the appre H.M.S. Satellite left Shanghai on the 27th usto. | hension of the offenders shall receive. Tis. 50. for Chinklang.
This looks rather business-like and it only
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
N effervescing preparation, forming when
mixed with water a cooling and refreshing We read with much sorrow that the Prince of remains for us to see what effect it will have on beverage, pleasant to the taste, and invaluable for maintaining the system in a healthy and Wales's beard is turning very grey. natural condition.
it relieves Billous Headaches, Feverishness, and Indigestion, and is specially recommended for sluggish and inactive Liver, Heartburn, Acidity, Scorbutic Eruptions, and. Blotches an the Skin, &c.
It is an excellent Aperient, and forms a capital substitute for Seidlitz Powders.
In Bottles, 75 Cents each.
WATSON'S
PURE
FRUIT CORDIALS
PREPARED FROM THE JUICE OF THE FINEST SELECTED FRESH RIPE FRUIT Make Delicious Summer Beverages.,
THE fashion of carrying a muff dates 300 years back. Courtiers wore them in the time of George 1.
A NUMBER of offenders against the Opium Farmer's privileges were before Mr. Wodehouse to-day, and fined in various heavy amounts.
THE highest position in the gift of the President of the United States is that of Postmaster at
Mineral Point, Col. It is 12,000 feet above the sea level.
'A REGULAR' meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street,
Visiting brethren are cordially
RASPBERRY, STRAWBERRY DAMSON- this evening, at 30fdily invite, precisely
BLACK CURRANT, RED CURRANT, ORLEANS PLUM,
PINEAPPLE, MORELLA CHERRY, LIME FRUIT, &c. Price, 75 Cents per bottle.
WATSON'S
SPARKLING EFFERVESCENT
CITRATE
OF
MAGNESIA
When the body is in a heated or feverish condition, this preparation will be found most goateful, as it tends to produce a slight moisture In the skin, and cools the system generally.",
It makes an agreeable Salle Draught, Antacid and mildly Aperient, perferable to any other Salion as a Fcbrifuge,
In Boules, so Cents and $1 each. CAUTION-Being prepared expressly for Hot Climates, parties requiring the same are advised to be particular to order WATSON'S EFFER- VESCENT CITRATE OF MAGNESIA, MANY 50- CALLED similiar preparations being acrid and irritating to the Stomach and Bowels.
'SALT REGAL.'
A COOLIE who has been banished a few times, and always got back again through mistaking the lay of his own territory, was caught over the border again to-day. He will cross it the other
a dishonest practice which has been going on for a number of years.
| IM France it has been shown that frozen milk the sandy bed of the torrent. The deposit varies, can be transported with the greatest ease, and a depth from three to six feet for several hun that after being kept for days and weeks andred yards, and on the North Barracks side it almost filled the compound up to the level of then simply thawed out, it retains all the charac the big bell, under which a man could previously teristics of fresh milk.
walk easily. If Colonel Anderson could only see his old garden now !
A NEW YORK lawyer named Doolittle once. unwittingly entered into partnership with a brother barrister named Steele, but a lack of clients soon became painfully noticeable, and it was found advisable to dissolve, the name of the firm proving too suggestive to prospective patrons.
LAST night a stoker on H.M.S. Rattler was robbed of his purse and $12 whilst in a house in Cochrane Street. Two soldiers in the A. and s. Regiment named. Sharp and Davidson, who of the money found on the first-named. Both were in another room, were arrested, and most
were taken before Mr. Wodehouse this morning, and the singular spectacle of an English police sergeant interpreting the questions of a Scotch man was witnessed, Sharp's dialect being quite unintelligible to the Magistrate. In the end Davidson was discharged, and Sharp sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
THE CRUISE OF THE " CARIS-
BROOKE
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
'Haiphong, 29th May, 1889 We reached here yesterday afternoon, having been detained outside, owing to insufficient water on the bar, since 10.30 on Monday night. As we leave for Hongay and the coal mines at noon I have time only to write a few lines, briefly stating the results of our voyage so far,
Hongkong.
From the Harbour no one would, have recog nised Hongkong last night. Except for a few lights on the upper levels the city was dark and still; the hotels deserted, the streets unillu. inated, except by very occasional Chinese holder, and, at the Clock Tower, by two large lanterns, put out by some thoughtful, house-
stars formed of gas jets, set up to enable the coolles to work. The few who ventured out through pitfalls, and dykes; one gentleman fell ran great risks of sustaining serious injury
down the chasm is Zetland Street, and another near Jardine Matheson's office. Pedders Wharf was unlighted, although a moment's thought put into the lamps. would have shewn that oil-lamps could have been The street-lamps were generally available up to the Hongkong Club. and a half-and that on the morning of the having only been really extinguished for an hour breakage. Mr. Cross and his lieutenant, Mr Terry, deserve praise for the activity they dis played To-night the City will be lighted by as up to Murray Barracks, and it is expected that the rest of the streets, eastward, will be again supplied in a day
The water-supply is still deficient, owing to the numerous breaches in the pipes, and the breaking-down in several places of the Tytam aqueduct. The work of repair is being proceeded with as quickly as possible, we are assured, and one or two of the Public Work Department oficials bave deferred their leave in order to help.
or two.
Telegraphic communication will necessarily be stopped for some time, but luckily the tele phone wire are almost uninjured.
Mr. Loxley's residence, "Idlewild," was struck by lighting yesterday morning, and a landslip combined effect being to render it necessary to vacate the premises.
physical examination is certainly sufficient to determine approximately the principal ingre dients of any sediment; analysis is called in to unearth organic and dissolved imparities. Would H. E. think it necessary to analyse any of the great boulders in the Colony before committing himself to the opinion that they were 'granite. formation,' or submit to microscopic examinas tion the loose earth which he passes daily at the Peak before declaring that it was not limes stones ; or having, In an unguarded moment, made such a startling assertion, condemn him- which appear to say the lesat very insufficient!? self for having made a statement 'upon grounds
H. E. is surprised that 'I should regard inspec tion alone as furnishing a sufficiently trustworthy condition...... test for condemning Poklulum' water in its then
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LAST night, near midnight, a police launch/caving a detailed report until our return to occurred almost immediately afterwards, the Suspended matter is probably the most dan
was going down along West Point when the constable in charge heard a whistle blown ashore. The sea was pretty rough, and on standing in he saw a sampan overturned, and a Sikh on the Praya, holding a man.
Thinking there night be. some men under the boat, it was righted, when to the astonishment of the police a lot of bags of opium came floating up. Some more were picked up near by, the total amount being nearly $1,200 worth. The Sikh's captive was taken to the station, and said that he and two other men had been overset, and had Bwan ashore. As large quantity of ammunition was also found in the boat it was evident that a party of deter, mined smugglers had been trying to do a small "run," and been baulked by one of the many sudden squalls. The man was before Mr. Wodehouse to-day, and was remanded..
After leaving on Thursday last we had nasty rainy weather for about twelve hours, several of our pilgrims, as a matter of course, rapidly qualifying for the sick list. The Carisbrooke made a capital run down to Cape Batangan, arriving off the inlet where the
We understand Mr. A, Levy, agent for Messrs. Caldbeck Macgregor, has been one of the heaviest losers by the effects of the rain-storm, Mr. Levy has lost books, documents, and other valuables impossible to replace, while his stock of goods have been considerably damaged.
At many of the establishments in Queen's place, in order to make room for fresh goods. Road Central sales of damaged stock are taking Great credit is due to the staffs at the various stores for the untiring way in which they worked, under the most unpleasant and even dangerous conditions, to confine the damage to the smallest An amusing incident was witnessed yesterday
extent.
afternoon. A lot of rubbish that was being swept out of Messrs. Cruickshank & Co.'s shop included pills, jujubes, &c., which were eagerly scrambled for by the Chinese urchins. A great many thin, pallid, melancholy little boys are visible in the back-streets-to-day. The seven men who were overset in a sampan They do not play-they sit and brood.
way when he has done his little twelve month THE Tea Settlements at Hankow on 18th and order to allow her stern to be moved round yesterday off the Praya wère all saved. ́ ́→
THREE weeks ago a German blacksmith of Schleswig-Holstein ate four pounds of raw meat,
washing it down with six quarts of beer, at a
single sitting. By so doing he won a wager of 500 marks. His funeral occurred three days later.
A CHINAMAN employed in Naval Dockyard turning-shop was caught by a strap this morning and whirled up to the ceiling. Before the machinery could be stopped his arms were all but torn off. He lies in an extremely precarious state.
TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the stean-launch carrying the "Bethel flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant, C, to convey men ashore to 1 a.m. service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return
A NEW & MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY | | ing about 12.30.
For the Prevention and Cure
of
FEVER, CHOLERA, &c.
A Favorits Remedy at Home and Abroad.
7
A CHINESE Dockyard laborer was caught trying
19th May were as follows:-
English Russita Buyers. Buyers. Totala
Again I must quote scientific Sanitary autho rities, Quain states unwholesome drinking water is a fertile. proximate and exciting cause of dysenteric disease," and that "in quality the great points are to ensure that the water is clear, or is casily and completely freed from sediment by now of water, generally it is almost needless to sand-filtration. Again," Pavy saya, speaking
my that to be suitable for drinking purposes it“ should be bright and clear and devoid of taste and smell, and that 'filtration contributes in a most important manner towards the purification of water suspended matters both mineral and organic are bereby removed.' 'Can'a most important manner refer here to matters how- ever disagreeable? The Rivers Pollution Com missioners strongly urge that preference should be given to spring and deep-well water for purely domestic purposes overeren upland surface water!' why? because their physical qualities render them peculiarly valuable for domestic supply. They are almostinvariably clear, colourless, trans- parent, and brilliant and Parkes, having des
albed, a water having the above qualities, goes on to say whilst according as it deviates from these characters (sit) * we shall be proportion stely justified In regarding it with suspicion. gerous. Here he evidently does not limit him- self to organic impurities. H.E. supposes that I in attributing danger to muddy water meant some thuddy water; but Wilson, in his Hand- book of Hygiene 1887, distinctly states that 'if' (on Physical examination) the tarbidity is con- siderable, or if the water is very dark in colour, It may be pronounced unfit for use, although Altration may render it perfectly wholesome. expression harmless, unimportant! when "It is true that sanitarians often use the speaking of many Inorganic impurities, because they consist chiefly of panicles of a stony patdre which arc therefore heavier than water, and are readily separated. by either subsidence or filtration' (Hassell); but no one ever dreamed of asserting that the same substances were innocuous if swallowed, else why do all sanitarians without exception insist on the absolute necessity of using a naturally clear water, or one clarified by filtration or other means, which only remove maiters in suspension ?e I quite agree with HE. that there is no evidence in character from that of former years, but I as yet that the matter in suspension differs at all
certainly maintain that the quantity is consider ably greater and the "age of mud indefinitely prolonged Would H.E. bare a difficulty in und derstanding, why an army surgeon rejected as a recruit, a man who possessed but one leg and was blind of an eye, though he had not cons sidered it necessary to use the stethoscope or test the acuteness of vision of the remaining
Ardgay is "piled up at 11 o'clock on Saturday night. On the strength of the telegram received sanguine of our party expected to find the prior to our leaving Hongkong, the more Ardgay afloat and all the trouble over; but they were wafully disappointed, and for the life of me I cannot comprehend for what reason such a misleading telegram should have been sent from the scenes of operations. The Ardgay is not afloat and never has been afloat, excepting insile the coffer-dam, and although there is, in my opinion, a good chance of getting her off the beach eventually, a great deal still remains to be done. All that has been done so far simply amounts to having moved the steamer from being broadside on to the sea to a position in which her store is almost at a right angle. They are now excavating, in
The European timekeeper at the Quarry Bay sufficiently far to get her stem pointed straight sexwards, and with good luck and favorable Refinery had an unpleasant experience on Thurs weather that may be accomplished in about a day night. The water was rushing through his office in the works so strongly that he was afraid fortnight. Afterwards the modus operandi will be to extend the Coffer-dam outwards and when to try and get out, for fear of being washed away, this has been completed the ship will doubtless and the poor beggar had to "bang out "all night get afloat; but everything depends on the on the table, with a lullaby of rushing yellow wind might float the Ardgay and it also might The scene in the Colony the day before continuance of good weather. A strong gale of water, and a mud coverlet
Mr. W.St. J. Hancock sends us the following smash up the coffer-dam—a barricade of sand- bags which looks as if it would stand firm, and yesterday was one that few will forget, but it will in the latter case everything that has been done be difficult to describe to those who are absent would have to be commenced afresh. Mr. the full extent of the damage donc. Johnston, Captain Tooms and' the other Euro Supplementing my former notes on this subject 350,000 230,000 120,900 peans are all well, but they don't "look in very
it may give a more simple illustration of the Prices these two days are again in favour of brilliant condition, which is not to be wondered forces at work to say that 230,000 tons per hour sellers, all teas with the slightest pretention to fat as the place is as hot as well, the infernal, fell in the 24 hours ending 7 am. of the 30th: not seem to appreciate the distinction between quality commanding keen competition, while the be. The Ardgay is in splendid condition all.(3 miles).
regions, wherever that focality may happen toast between Lap-sap-wan and Causeway Bayi bulk of the stock consists of coarse and smoky over, and as tight as a bottle, teas unsuitable for any market. The prices paid have been ¡-- Ningchows, low to medium...... Tls. 21 Oopacks, common to medium......... Sbentam
» 143.
Kiukiang Teas
Hankow
15,378 2,164 17.492 10,454 6,253 16,707
25.752 8,417 34-195 From opening of season to date (9th to 19th May).
Hankow Kiukiang Teas
Arrival Settlements, Block 190,000 120,000 70,000 .........160,000 110,000 50,000
On our way up here we called in at Tourane, to set the telegraph wires in motion. This is a one-horse place, about which I shall have 35 something to say later on.
We leave at noon to-day for Hongay and the coal-mines, and your Special Commissioner is
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work in visiting the Company's extensive con.
'Had. H. E. read-my letter with the most
ordinary care he could scarely have failed to see that I distinctly state that the Pokfulam water if clarified and filtered is set. Therefore I cannot believe that it contains dissolved impurities, and all this reference to samples being analysed by the Public Analyst,' as applied to my letter, is simply misleading. H. E. does negative and positivevidence. Because 'water It may be fairly, assumed, from a careful not only dangerous but deadly corresponded with it in suspension a tenth of its own weight follow that it was unnecessary to analyse it observation, that this volume of water carried characters of good water, it did not at all exactly with my description of some of the
of earth or stone into the lower levels the further, the evidence was only negative as harbour, which gives over half a million tons of regards organic impurities in the case of solid matter removed, or probably not less than, Pricfalam water the evidence was
quita one fourth the quantity of earth required for the sufficiently pestifes as the presence of inorganic water which fell over 31 square miles of the city remained, warranted me in proclaiming a
bead per day, man woman and child-for this. population of the City of Victoria for 12 monitis astonish the reader in distant parts more, than residents were astonished to find that twice as much rain fell in 24 hours as usually falls in the whole month of May,
to steal one of the cells out of H.M.S. Conquest THR steamship Zafiro is going into dock to looking forward to three or four days very hard proposed reclamation scheme. The volume of impurities, and therefore whilst this conditión An effervescent White Powder lately discovered yesterday, of all things in the world. He was morrow, far re-survey. She would not have done cession in, that locality, I have interviewed and a watershed would give 20 gallons per | dangerous; : water, which is in general use,' which changes colour and develops OZONE the simply bound over to keep the peace, to-day, as though he wouldn't have willingly kept the lot, never mind the piece. PERHAPS the bitterest jibe ever levelled at the Empire on which the sun never gets a chance to set is that of an American who has written a geography for the use of schools." He describes London as "the chief town of a small Island off
principle of life.
Destroys Parasites and Fungold growths in impure water, and directly affects Worms and Parasites in the system. Price, $1 per bottle.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, - Sole Agents for HONGKONG, CHINA AND MANILA, HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
May, 1889.
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The Houghang Telegraph
the coast of France,"
a quite so carly, probably, had it not been feared that she sustained damage by the recent earth quake at Manila, mentioned in another column. about, and all report most favorably of future These are astounding figures, but they will not king's crowd most probably may be paste, Those on board say that the river bed seemed to rise and lift the vessel high up for a moment, and then let her down again. No damage is visible, and she is quite tight. She sustained a curious accident one day about eleven months ago, when crossing over from Amoy to Manila." She was' bundreds
was really remarkable.
numbers of persons here who have been at the mines, and who know what they are talking prospects; however, seeing is believing, and days hence.
shall be better able to pass an opinion a few Haiphong has improved wonderfully in out. ward appearance since I was here last in 1683, like proportion. That is another matter with but the trade of the part has not improved in which I hope to deal later on. It is beastly hot here, but the whole of the voyageurs keep in good health. We expect to start on the return on Tuesday. Journey to Hongkong on Sunday, and will arriva
THE LATE STORM.
serious earthquake in Manila.
THE POKFULAM MUD-WATER SUPPLY:
DR HARTIGAN'S REJOINDER. The following is De Hartigan's reply to the Governor's "minuta ':-
Since H. E, however, has thought it to make public his minute, my own self-respect and the professional man and citizen has unwillingly necessity of vindicating my character both as a compelled me to reply.
It would be just as intelligent to argue that because the showy brilliants in the stage. the powder and rouge, which adorned bis Majesty's countenance could not be genuine, It is certainly surprising that H.E. and the Colonial Surgeon should quote the fact that millions of people,' including "the Egyptians," #habitually use muddy water... It is generally supposed that the latter hardly understand the meaning of the word hygiene, preventable diseases, as dysentery, typhold &c, being rampant amongst them. The admissions to Egypt in 1884 were 206.9 per 1000 for diarrhoea. Hospital among British troops stationed in
and dysentery, exclusive of cholers, the mortality from which was 17.6, a state of things, which scarcely proves, I think, that the use of muddy water is harmless. It le certainly strange that this" muddy water "which" con-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889.
For two nights the streets of Hongkong ADMIRAL. Sir Nowell Salmon presided at a have been in the most complete state of courtmartial on the Victor Emmanuel, con- darkness, owing to the breakage of the cluded to-day, and held at the instance of Captain SAYS the Foochow Echo of the 25th ulto:-Mr. Gas main, and it does not go much to the Giffard, of H. M. S. Wanderer. The defendant | J..C. A. Wingate, Consul for the United States atmospheric agitation may be expected after the bar Inclination to carry on an eleemosynary charge of the Gaol Hospital as unfit in its then
was Lieutenant Hotham, of the same ship, and at this port, and for many years doyen of the there were two charges of acts prejudicial to Consular body, took his departure for home on discipline, when off the coast of Johore last Thursday last by the steamer Namoa. With month, by refusing to navigate the ship when the the departure of Mr. Wingate the foreign Com main trysail was set. The Court imposed the munity loses one of fis most respected members nominal sentence of a reprimand.
and one who has ever been to the fore in all public matters, specially those connected W2 (Foschow Echo) hear that news bad reached
with charity, and kindred institutions, M. rendered him quite a landmark and his bene Wingate's unusually long residence here volent countenance will be green (1) in the minds of the numerous friends, be has left behind, for many a day to come. He has been in the Consular service of the United States close upon 30 years, being all the time stationed in China,
credit of our 'paternal authorities to say that scarcely any measures have been taken to remedy the evil. Queen's Road has been in a half submerged state, with obstructions, pitfalls, sand-banks and rivulets every where; yet it is generally left in a most desolate darkness at night; not a Hankow on the 13th ulta., by the steamship gleam of a lantern is to be seen for a long Klang-foe from Kluklang, to the effect that the distance, except those carried by the few Mandarin in charge of the likin station at chairs and 'rickshas that plod their way Poyang Lake, fifteen miles from Kiukiang, has through the mud. This deplorable state raised the likin tax on teas, and the teamen of things has been rendered all the more have firmly refused to pay the squesas, prefer hideous by the incessant parade of the ring to let their teas be stopped. The affair is
H. E states that I fail to make
We understand that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson of miles from land, in very deep water, and & Co. have received a telegram from London, the sca was quite calm except for intimating that the annual meeting of "share- | long, heavy swell, when her bow suddenly holders in the Indo-China Steam Navigation fell into the hollow of the wave and buckled the
To the Hon, F. Stewart, Col Secretary, pla Co. took place yesterday and that a dividend of leeward side in for several yards, breaking every.
Hongkong, May 31st, 1889, + 6 per cent. (equal to 13 shillings per share) for thing away inside the forward part, and then With the exception of a few slight showers in Sir,I have purposely delayed answering last year has been declareda
bending back again. That a long roll should the intervals between the squalls last night, fine your letter of the 27th inst. enclosing a copy oftain working to make it unhealthy or any have had such an effect on the sheltered side hours, and appears likely to continue. The baroto (for it certainly was not upon) my letter of the thing that could be considered alarmingly.
weather has been enjoyed for the past thirty-six | His Excellency's quasi-scientific minute attached metrical readings are favorable, and no further aard instant, as it was my intention simply to Board) should have been pronounced by the
Sleterious! (Vida speech of President, Sanit news of the typhoon have been received, although acknowledge the same, having neither the time Colonial Surgeon and by the mediest officer in correspondence which can lead to no practical condition for the use of the prisoners in Gaol or Very little that is new can be told, although result an much that might bave been narrated was over-
patients in the Civil Hospital: H.E. altogether looked. All yesterday, up till about ten p.m.
ignores the danger I pointed out, vis, that whilst and baskets, endeavoring to find Queen's Road
all probability containing the germs of disease crowds of earth-coolles were at work with spades
people will not use, if possible, the dirty Poke alum 1 water they, wf// carry and buy, water' in again. Notwithstanding all their ant-like work very little impression has been made, and it will besome
in abundance, all has been previously proved by soy answer to Government analysis. To repeat, the factors of time before the thoroughfare is passable again, the question what are the substances present in danger are the matters in suspension in the The sons of Shem are very indignant at the block the Pokfulam water which constitute danger 2! 1 ! on the Rialto, and declare that the Public Works have described this water, and my description Pokfulum ater which I have shown tend to working on it. Up to now we have not noticed late Acting Surveyor General, as strong will probably replace the Pokfulum supply Department ought to have at leasta thousand men has not been contradicted either by H. E. or the amittedly Impure water with which persons
produce, and therefore intensify diarrhea, the”
any of them leading a hand, although it is alleged decoction of mud and this mud, I repeat, con- that one or two of the more unprincipled have stitutes one of the dangers I pointed out during the hot weather, the lessence of been endeavoring to “de business" with the H. E it is true, taking on himself the role of the hot the prevalence more affluent coalies, Wyndham Street is just sanitary authority, boldly states that as bowl complaints at this season, the fact that we in the state. It was at the height of the storm, seen no evidence whatever to Justify the alarm-have had cholera in Hongkong, that it is now except that the rush of water has diminished to which has been created (?) by Dr. Hartigan to our vicially, and that a peculiar and special drunken fraternity all along Queen's Road. ssid to have been wired to H.E. Li Hung-chang We think all will agree with us in saying that foot-the place, where the gas, mains are water, and again that "the utmost he could randa on cholera) attaches to diarrhoea under
an inconsiderable flow. The breach at the respect to alleged dangerous qualities in the importance (vid Local Government Board memo during all hours of the night, Men-of-war's by the Tea Guild who protest against the action be bas represented his country at this port with
now found to have been broken and have learned from inspection was the presence not voluntarily enumerate these dangers, until men, soldiers, and other unrecognisable
great dignity and with the experience of the flooded-is yet untouched, pedestrians have of more or less than formerly of matter officially requested by H.E to do so, with gentry have been sporting themselves In AN llustration of the way in which kidnapping | Chinese and their officials that only a very longing to get over by the littla ramshackle which however disagreeablo" was presumably view to public warning ←H.E. has brought the the dark in the most original and objec. goes on was seen to-day, in a case investigated residence in China could acquire. The firm bridge across the sand-dykes. The work of innocuous style
clearing away the even greater obstruction' at De Chanmont, in Parkes Manual of Hygiene serious charge against me of having used my tionable manner these two nights, the by Mr. Wodehouse. Three boarding-house stand he has taken in several matters in which Murray Barracks is going on slowly, Now 1877, states in the article water? Many professional position for the purpose of creating residents on Queen's Road being the nners were charged the first with acting as the officials had attempted to encroach upon that the water has subsided it is possible conditions produce dianhões, o uspended an alarm, on grounds, which to him abpear very a passenger broker without a license, and the the rights of foreigners is well-known to our to see what the place is like. The Nullah, mineral substances, clay, inari what certain sufficient. Against this authoritative state patient witnesses of their rowdyism and others with procuring and assisting him in readers, the latest case of the kind being the for, about fifty yards up, is piled up times of the year produce diarrhoea, especially cat on a professional matter made by one, who,
level with immense boulders. These dammed in persons unaccustomed to the water The however high his literary, atta Brobdinagean mirth,
obtaining passengers. A police boat visited the attempted ousting of our residents from the health the stream up, and caused it to flow through the hill diarrhea at Dhurmisnis Is produced, appar The Public Works Department, or the Wingsong yesterday, after the Medical Officer resort at Kullang. It is seedless to say that he Regimental garden, and alongside the Female ently, by suspended very fine scales of mica, Police Authorities should have taken and Harbour Master had left, and found the has made himself extremely, popular during his Hospital. It is impossible to say, after all, Granite, of which this inland is principally Immediate steps to have our main thorough defendants keeping guard over about thirty lengthened sojourn in Foochow the numerous whether or not the bridge is broken, as composed, is, I may remark, made up of quartz fare lighted up by lanterns themoment they coolies, in a cabin aft. The first defendant orations which he was made the object of clearly the water is still running over the place, felspar, and mica. The hills are for the most but it seems likely that the arch may be simply part of granite and syenite more or less weathered, admitted that the men had not passed either testfly to that fact. It is Mr. Wingate's intention choked up. There is nothing at present, though; } in some parts it le dialategrated to a great exte were informed that the Gas supply was to
the Emigration Officer or the Health Officer, to return home for good after an extended tour to indicate that bridge ever existed there and clayey beds ire formed.” (Parker and be stopped. Immense property. Is stored bus said that there was "no need" for any men throughout India, proceeding thence by way of The railings, portions of the wallach lle about Chaumont-Q.ED. in Queen'í Road Central and the Govern. be had charge of to do so. He has now Liverpool to the United States. We wish him ment should provide for its security, Gangs engaged Mr. Dennys to help him to substan- long lease, of life' la the enjoyme his hard of robbers, avalling themselves of the | tiate this, and the case is now remanded. ́earned rest after such long year of toil,
of the mandarin..
to confusion in the roadway, helf buried to ellt, 15. Excyldently falls to gramm Ɛand in one place: four, heavy stone stepa" have, between suspended, and dissolved substances,
actually, been carried so far that they are utilised | between matters organic and inor
for descending from the centre of the rosé on to: liina alture of the gathering ground is known
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