THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1891.
tion copy of a telegram an the subject received granite. On the whole, however, where the this morning from Lord Knutsford.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Sgd.) F. H. May, pr. Acting Colonial Secretary, [Telegram.]
"Chincae Consul proporal withdrawn, see my despatch of 7th July, therefore not necessary to lay correspondence on the table of the Legisla tive Council."
THE SUNDAY LABOR BILL: The following letter has been forwarded for publication:-
June 18th, 1891. SIR,-Consequent on the passing of "the Sun day Cargo working Ordinance at Hongkong, which prohibits loading and unloading ships on Sunday without a "permit" which costs from £15 to £40 according to the size of the ship, the enclosed letter has been addressed to Lord Knutsford.
Yours, &c.,
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COMMANDER W. DAWSON,
Royal Navy.
THE MISSION TO SEAMEN,.... 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, Landon, W.C., 18th June, 1891, My Lord, I am directed to convey to your lardship the most cordial and grateful thanks of the Mission to Stamen for the passage by the Legislative Council of Hongkong of "The Sun- day Cargo Working Ordinance 1891," which concedes the petition of seamen that an Ordi. arce similar to the Bombay Government Order of 1893, atould he enacted at Hongkong, placing restrictions on the working of cargoes in that harbour-on-Sundays-as-in-England and in most.. of the larger Colonies.
The great boon to seamen is mainly due to your lordship's patient and careful consideration of the great injury ificed on seamen, and
The difference in quantity of food of prisoners, who undergo punishment diet for breach of Gaol rules, and of those who are under fourteen days' Imprisonment, is only two ounces less of rice. Some cunning convicts prefer to bave a little less rice and to lie down quietly, rather than to pick the full task of oakum.
Many of the men who are sentenced to work in this Gaol, are more fit to be inmates of hospitals for aged and lnfirm. This class of prisoners in an expensive and troublesome one, as they often require better nourishment and special attention,
above limits of altitude have not been exceeded the plantations have made very satisfactory progress, and in especially favoured localities the growth of the trees has been every thing which could be expected or desired in any place. As regards the average sixes of individual trees of which plantations are composed I may say that trees planted 18 years ago, near the Peak Road, are now 30 feet high, and 43 inches in circumference at 3 feet from the ground; trees, planted: 10 years at Causeway Bay are 29 feet high, and 24 inches in circumference, and trees planted to years ago near the Pok-fa-lam Road The discipline of this Gaol is very strict, as it are za feet high, and 20 inches in circumference. should be in an establishment of this kind, and The first-named plantation has been thinned I consider the labour usually assigned con- twice and the two latter once each, the trees invicts during the first six months, above all if these places now standing, without gaps, at dis- they are old offenders, very severe. But tances of about 12 feet apart.
appears that it has not a very deterrent effect on a large number of them.
The plantations already made are composed of chiefly the common pine, Pinus sinenris, - K tree which it was found to be the best kind to commence the work of affrrestation with. In the first place, it is better suited to the various con- ditions, under which it had to grow here than other trees yet tried, and its management being simpler than that of many other trees rendered
General Gordon, the Superintendent of this Gaol, has directed, at my request, the following information to be supplied to me. In 1890, 472 old criminals were adraltted to Giol, and 19 men were sentenced to hard labour for having returned from deportation.
The number of offenders of tender age was ft possible to deal with it in 'vast numbers-smaller than it had been for the last two years; zboot half a million trees being added yearly-nevertheless it amounted to 107. One of them ordinary raw coolles only. Even now the same A young man who had received six strokes for with a staff that, in the early days, consisted of was convicted three times and twice whipped, may be said of the staff of foresters with the larceny was sentenced, within a week afterwards, exception of one man who has been trained to to six months' hard labour and to get twelve "strokes, for earring-snatching from a Chinese bea foreman.
The number of trees planted and reared on the hills was 556,982 as compared with 601,211 In the previous year. The statistics are given in the appendix, Actual planting operations were performed with the usual success, but a few weeks after the planting was Avished Tristaner and
Cryptomeria trees were attacked and suffered. considerably by white ants; these attacks lasted for a few weeks only before the trees had reco vered their usual vigour after having been dis- turbed in their, removal.
Fires were exceptionally numerous, and the commands our most grateful and cordial acknow-destruction of trees by them was greater than in ledgements.
British shipowners may possibly compisin any previous year, in fact the reported fires were that the restrictive ordinance has not been made me numerous than the total number of fires The equally applicable to native vessels, which will recorded for the previous to years. be placed at a supposed advantage in competing number of fires recorded in 180n is 64. After Tay return from Japan I visited the scenes of with ships of European build or design.
In the Overland China Mail of May 6th, fires where trees had been destroyed or damaged 1891, it is reported that the Governor of Hong- and made a rough estimate of the quantity des- kong said "I am perfectly certain the amounts troyed, the total number of which is 107.000 (of the scale of fees for grants of Sunday permits) varying in size from foot up to 8 feet high. are considerably less than what are charged in Mount Dvis about 49000, and on Mount Bombay for the Sunday working of the Customs." Kellel 47,000 trees were destroyed, the remainder. We shall gratefully hope that the low scale of 11,000, were in nomernus other places scattered over the island. Although it is impossible to leca adopted at Hongkong may suffice to stop det et the originators of the fires, except very the working of cargoes on Sundays.
We are much gratified that this ordinance rarely indeed, there is no doubt whatever that the concedes the principle of restrictive regulations system of ancestral wo shipping at tombs by the on Sunday labour:afloat at Hongkong as eise natives is the main, or almost exclusive, cause of where, and we are deeply grateful to your lordship these fires, no care whatever, apparently, being personally for this most important and invaluable exercised to prevent the fire used from Igalting the grass. The large burial places on Mounts Kellet and Davis were the reason of the excep- tionally heavy losses on those hills, the smaller fasses being also caused by the existence of isolated graves on smaller cemeteries near to villages. Nearly all the fires took place in October, when the autumn ancestral worship takes place, and the exceptionally numerous and extensive fires were the result of the very combustible condition of the low vegetation brought about by the excessively dry weather in September and October.
concession.
I am also directed very respectfully to point, out that It appears from Parliamentary Return -6348 of 1891, that unnecessary and avoidable Sunday labour in coaling ships and working enrgnes is stili, carried on in fourtees of the smaller Colonies, viz: Singapore, atrising Labuan, Western Australis Ceylon, Mauritias, St. Helena, Gambia, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Barlindoes, St. Vincent, Jamalca, and Malta.
The Committee of the Missions to Seamen would venture to express their earnest hope that year lordship will be enabled to adapt auch measures as will lend to the passing in these cases of enactments similar to those in operation in the more important Colonies, or to that about to be enforced at Hongkong.
With the very cordial and grateful thanks of the Committee of the Mission to Seaten. I bave the honor to be, my Lord,
Your abedient servant,
(Signed) WM. DAWSON,
Commander, R.N.,
Secretary, The Right Honorable Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Downing Street,
S.W.
THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTA- TION DEPARTMENT.
In the course of his report for 1890 Mr. C. Ford, the Superintendent of the Botanical god Afforestation Department, says;----
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There is a considerable increase of requests preferred for the loan of plants to decoralé ball- rooms, concert-rooms, &c., &c, and there is a tendency to extend their use for furnishing to private parties. It will be necessary, however, to somewhat restrict the concessions and confine
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in addition to the ordinary precautions adopted of stationing men in the vicinity of burial rounds all over the island, to extinguish fires which may occur at the spring and autumn tomb ceremonial, to post during those seasons notices cautioning the people to exercise core in the use of crackers candles, &c. and to lacrease the number and extent of fire barriers in plantations near large cemeteries, so that the plantations will be divided up into smaller blocks to which fires that may arise within them may be con- ficed. Nothing connected with the origin of grass fires or of objects to be gefned by them is known which might occasion any suspicion that they may have been acts of incendiarism.
In 1876 I planted the old Chinese Cemetery near Belcher's Bay, and since that time I have planted lands wherever practicable close up to the boundaries of cemeteries, but on account of seme real or imaginary objection of the Chinese to trees being planted within the grave-vards none have been placed there since 1876, How ever, if proper, places could be found, for trees, there would probably not be even sentimental objections to them. Therefore in any contem- plated improvements or ex'ensions of cemeteries it would seem most desirable to include in the schemes das provision for the introduction of of assimilating uabealthy matter and of screen- Ing the grands from view from without their limits.
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I could quote other instances of juvenile relapses in crimes. All these offenders belong to the very poor class, are illiterate, and have. received but little or no moral training and arc constantly exposed to great temptations.
The quarter at present occupied by debtors is altogether too limited. It-is-necessary to build- a new one, for the proper accommodation of the inmates.
The overcrowding in this Ghol is due to various and complex causes, some of which, however, could be prevented without much difficulty.
In this Colony with an overwhelming Chinese population, there are very few benevolent societies for assisting those who need it.
Many men are in this Gaol because they have to means of supporting themselves. An old criminal who knew well the rules, regretted that he was not condemned to a longer term of imprisonment, probably because be was longing for more food than is allowed to short-sentenced prisoners.
The convicts, whom I have asked, expressed their willingness to emigrate, provided they would be sure of getting a living.
Those who are deported are generally sent only to the neighbouring mainland where they wander about with scarcely any prospect, or none at all, of finding employment, although some of them are skilful artisans. They could casily return to this Colony. Most of them for want of means cannot reach their former homes.
If some inducements were offered to these men to go. to newly explored countries, to places which are not very salubrious, there they could under Government supervision or that of a private Company, he engaged in filling up swamps, cutting roads, or do other useful work which ordinary labourers would not undertake, unless highly remunerated.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 27th. An order has been issued prohibiting the Russian Press from referring to the treatment of Jews.
ALLAHABAD, June 27th.
The sentences on Alya Parel Major and Samoo Khan Colonel have been commuted to transportation for life, and their property has been confiscated; they will be confined during the pleasure of the Government,
MADRAS, June 27th,
export of grain from that country has been officially prohibited.
LONDON, July and. Mrs. Grimwood paid a visit to Windsor yester day, and lunched with Her Majesty.
ALLAHABAD, July 2nd. The Commander-in-Chief has recommended. the grant of the frontler medal with clasp for the Samana and Manicur expeditions; a similar re commendation will presumably be made for the Black Mountain expedition on receipt of despatches.
PARIS, July and.
There is growing irritation in France over the renewal of the Triple Alliance. The papers regard England as being associated with it.
M. de Lesseps' health is seriously affected by I the action which has been brought against him for illegal issues of Panama Stock.
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No. 311.
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Planquette's Romantle Cemile Opers, (Composer of "Les Cloches de Corneville.") "RIP VAN WINKLE,"
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the loan of plants to purely public entertainments, } trees, &c, which might terve the double purpose I then went to the temple, where the feast was ATLANTIC AND OTHER CONNECTIU | and is situated in a cool and breezy'spot.
or to make a charge sufficient to cover the cost of growing plants for these special purposes. 24 requests for plants were complied with, 2,136 being the total number of plants lent. I should not be inclined to recommend any extensloo, but on the other hand, would restrict the loan of plants, as there is already more work in the department than can be managed to my nails. faction with the assistance I have.
It is not not generally known what a large number of visitom make use of the Gardens. With a view to affording an ides of the number who frequent the gardens, I have made arrange ments for having the visitors counted on two average days each month throughout this year, the result will be published with the next annual report. In the meantime I may say that the average number of visitors on one day in each month this year, so far as it has gone, has been Europeans 362, others 1,807, total 2,169. The greatest number was on April 8th, when there were 781 Europeans, and of others 3,541, total 41323. The least number was on February 4th, when there were 313 Europeans, and 779 others, total 991. The Chinese are those who attend the gardens in the greatest numbers. It appears that the number of visitors using the gardens is constantly increasing. The above numbers. do not include children and their nurses,
The portions of the island on which planted trees have attained to sufficient dimensions to catch the eye from adjacent or distant roads on wbich the public travel have effected i most marked and beautiful effect compared with the once barren and naked appearance of the bills. Only the older residents who are of an observaat nature can fully appreciate the great change which has been effected, but even those who are now to the Colony cannot fail to form a most favourable opinion of the enhanced beauties of scenery when they imagine what the treeless aspect of the hills was before re-afforestation was taken in hand.
Besides the trees near promenades close to the town walk of three miles from West Point out to Pok-fa-lam is sufficient to demons trate to the most casual observer the very successful result of tree planting. All the trees to be seen from that road have been planted within the last 15 years, and most of them with- in so years. This is one instance out of number
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THE BILL OF HEALTH' AT VICTORIA GAOL.
Dr. L. P. Marqués, Medies! Officer at the Gaol, in the course of bis report for 1890 says:-
During the past year 398 men were admitted to hospital; 32 of whom were, by orders of Magistrates and for other reasons, kept under observation,
At the first medical examination 44 men were put in for treatment. The number of prisoners at the Gael was 3.444.
Sir deaths have, occurred from disease. Is addition to these, an old convict (who had. returned from deportation) and a prisoner on remand committed suicide by hanging them selves in their cells, All be deceased were Chinese.
Not less than 100 prisoners had scables, 28 were suffering from ringworm, and 63 from superficial abscess of plantar surface of feet. Many prisoners had also abscess about the ankle foluts, caused by rubbing the rough edges of letters against the skin. I have recommended that all the short sentenced men should wear alue canvas-girdles for protecting their ankle joints.
We bars continued to vaccinate the long sentenced prisoners, without meeting with any serious accident. In some rare instances, small abscesses supervened, but they healed up very quickly,
A serious riot hetween Hindus and Mahome- dans occurred on Tuesday at Katur town in Coimbatore District; where the Mariamman. festival was being celebrated. On Monday several Hindus obtained permission from the tahsildar to dress up as tigers. The Mahom" dans objected to this. As soon, as the taheildar learned there was likely to be a disturbance, he cancelled his permission to the Hindus to dress up and publicly notified ft. Some young Hindus objected to the cancellation and made preparations to avold the order. On Tuesday afternoon the tahsildar with a few peons went to the tope, where several tigers were preparing their tollet, and persuaded them, as He he thought, to desist from their purpose, being celebrated, and while there a procession The tahsildar headed by tigers came along. went to meet it to expostulate and was received by a shower of stones, He was struck twice and was obliged to take refuge in a house. About this time the Mahomedans attacked the proces- sion, shouting "deen, deen, deen.". The Hindus drovethem back and then entered the mosque, and it is reported smashed everything breakable and desecrated some graves, subsequently attacking will be despatched for Sar. Francisco, vis the houses of the Mahomedans and wrecking Volnbama, on TUESDAY, the 11th August,
It is also alleged they beat some women, some.
at FM Connection being made at Yoko tore up the Koran in the mosque, and committed ham Steamers from Shanghal and Japan serious damage to houses. The police were Pora unable, owing to the paucity of their numbers, to quell the disturbance. No lives were lost, but many serious wounds and much damage to property was caused,
LONDON, June 28th.
A serious strike has commenced amongst the grain trades in Dublin, affecting the dockers, millers, bakert, and railway miens the grain ships now lying at the port remain unloaded, and a scarcity of supplies is feared.
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The Times states that at the present moment there are thousands of educated Jews in St.lines of steamers, Petersburgh who are reduced to absolute beg gary, all the professions being closed to them. Baron Hirsch is proceeding with his scheme for founding Jewish Colonies in the Argentine An exodus of four Republic and Palestine. thousand Jews from the South of Russia has commenced.
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Owing to the closing of the tin plate works in South Wales upwards of thirty thousand hande engaged in the works have been thrown out of employment.
MADRAS, June 29th,
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*Owing to leprosy, six Chinese men and one woman were released and sent to Canton squn after they were sentenced for various offences, One of the men came back and was subsequently three times conviced and committed to Gaol.
Influenza made ita appearance in the month of March, and caused as admissions into this
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LORDON, June 30th discount of so per cent. This allowance dou from gastric derangement, pain in the lumber region and in the joints, were greatly depressed, Preparations on a scale of great magnitude are not apply to through fares from China and and in many cases, the symptoms resembled being made for the State visit of the Emperor 746an to Burope. those of small-pox in fia premonitory stage, William to England on Saturday next. Imporing All FARCEL PACKAGES 'should be marked to 1 was often able to recognise this affection by ceremoniais, extending over nine days, have address in fail and same will be received at looking at their tongues, which were generally been arranged, and, at His Majesty's own the Company's Odies until FIVE PM, the day
It is reported that a Hindu Priest of great repute has been invited to Mysore to decide the question whether the Maharajab can cross the seas without breaking caste. If he gives a Passengers, who have paid fall fare, rs-em bark- favourable answer the Maharaja's trip will-being at San Francisco for Chlox or Japan (or accomplished.
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Hongkong, and July, 1851.
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NEW YORK, June 30th. tined to Points beyond San Francisco, la the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices, addretend to the Collector of CHONGKONG TIMBER® San Francisco,
For further Informallon' as to Passage o YARD WANCHAI Freight, apply to the Agency of the Company,
REGON PINE 6PARS and LUMBER No. 9a, Queen's Road Crutral,
J. S. VAN DUREN,
Always on Hand.
∙L MALLORY Mongkong, 18th July, 1891,
Hongkong, 24th June, 1881,
· Quing to the ravager of locusts in Farsia, the
Agent
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„SPECIALLY 'SELECTED, EX PRIME, PORK and BEEF in Barrels,
Ako AMERICAN PRIME SUGAR-CURED
HAMS and BACON. CHR, MOTZ & Co, BORDEAUX CLARETS. CEMENT from the celebrated Factory of Hein-
Moor.
FLENSBURG STOCK BEER, 'ENGINEERS' AND BLACKSMITHS! MACHINERY AND TOOLS, EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES
ALWAYS IN STOCK
AT
REASONABLE PRICES,
ALL KINDS OF
CO AL
SUPPLIED AT THE SHORTEST NOTI
Hongkong, ajth March, 1891,