THE HONGKong telegrAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892.
whether or no the Government officlsle, includ-aight to correct me. But I propose to put the ing myself, are overpaid, or, on the other hand, amendment in general terms in each vem and are under paid. They are in the enjoyment of then submit to the Commite Do you see any Certain salaries which Have been sanctioned by
objection to that? the Secretary of State after having been passed Hon. Ho Kal--No. by this Council, and the official members will in. parsuance of that sancilon of the Secretary of State, matter of farm, rote sgainst the Amendment if it is put to them to-day. Do you wish the neendment p?
Hon. C. P. Chater--Yen sir.
The Chman-The q calon le whether the Item $17 339 stand part of the Bil, An ameed ment has been proposed and seconded. Will the members now vote on that amendment ?
Hon. T. H. Whitehead-May, I draw your attention to a decision in skis Council an ́5th December 1890, when the Chaliman of the Finance Cominlitee ruled that he had no vote unless there was an quality of votes, that he had only casting vole. The Hon. W. M. Denne was then Acting finlonial Secretary.
The ChairmYu are speakin; proforma, Hon. T. H. Where d. Yes,
The Chairman-Your point is that I have no To'?
Hon. T. H. Whitehead-That has been held so on a similar occasion formerly. 'The question _was_in_connection with gail ex'endon, on the.
ive un fficial members 5th December, 1890. voted for an amendment and four offi:ials agalust. The Acting Colonial Secretary said: "I have thought over this matter before and as I read the Standing Rules and Regulations the Chairman In Council ban his own vote and a casting vote, bu 1 do not see that that power lo extended to the Chairman of a Committee, and I think I must iple 1 have only à casting vote in case of an equally and not a double vote."
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The Chairman-T e peint is new to me and it wu'd be inconvenient ai impossible to dec de 't, but I may meet the difficulty by abatsin- ing from vo leg. The opinion expresset by the res of the Finance Committee dres not carry any final decision in this matter and possibly the most convenient way w ud be for me Dot to give any vote. I rerard no vale,
The members then vated on the amendment with the fallowing result :-
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Hen. C. P. Chater,
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The Chairman-Then we will do so Then when the minutes go before Council it' will app-ar that the offictile are in favour of same amounts and that all the profficials are in favour of a certain reduction. As regards Item 3 then. *Governor and Legislature $41,339,” an amend- ment has been put that the item stand part of the Bill subject to such reduction as will bring the salaries into accord with the estimates for 1890,
‚Ítem passed subject to amendment.
All the other items were passed subject to a aimilar reduction.
The proceedings concluded shortly ́ before 5 pm
THE RECENT TYPHOON,
THE "THALIB' "' REPORT,
H, M, 8. "PALLAS "AND THE TÜC "BAMSON" ASHORE,
Captain H.Bathurst, maater of the Douglas Co's steamer Thalis, which arrived here to-day from Taiw nfoó (Formosa) rẹp its having been obliged to pa: into the Pescadores for shelter from un exceptionally heavy N. N. E. gile and seeing H. M. S. Pallas (which left here on the 17th for the Pescadores, with Instructions to do what- ever seemed necessary with regard to the burlai of bodies recovered from the Bokkara and Normand), and the Shanghai tog-boat Samton ashore on sand spit off Ta-isang Island in the Pescadores group. The report ruas thus :-
20,000
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more ban a sisth is vall b'e 'for house| Glenfalloch ‚ure due next week but they will hold purper's; say 10 million gallons at the take no larger quantity each, and the month's outside. Now thing the present population at | export will be complete. It is curious that 1,500 and allowing 20 gallons per head per day shipping should be going on in this desultory way we have a yearly consumption of 10650 0-0 at the last, but it does not alter the fact that gallons, or just about as much as the entire the season bar vinually come to an end waler sur ply.ut this is not all; as a matter unprecedently early. The following, figures are of fact we have exceeded the link, and many latereng. have to go without their theoretical 20 galloni. Stock on
Arrived after and many pet their water by-brats from outside 19th November sources. Nor does this exhaust our troubles, 1880......5′′,000 chests. 26 000 chests. for the above quantity of water is only availat le 18873,00
16,000 in seasons of average rainfall, and when that rain || 188237,000
16,000 folla vermally. Let me quote fiam Government | 188ƒ..............31,000 notification Ña, 24 of 892 Hongkong Gosetta, | 188450,000 16th January, 1893, p. 26:- After the ent of 1885 5,000 April there is a waya plenty of rain un to the 189655,000 end of August, but then the rainfall decrenses | 1887..............88,100. quickly as a rule, and sait is, merenver extreme- | 1888...+£5,000 Iyveri ble during September and Oct ber, these 1889135.000 menthe should be watched. When rainfall is 1890280 0 defective in both months drought may occur 189145,000 during the following six monts, though 'ft is (18970 8,000 sem jimus prevented by he vy winter rains? |—Beko, Now let us see how our rainfall account stands for this year. Dr. Döber khas kindly given me the following figures, and the above pregnant words are from his report pekan gatakan
-Mean- Rainfall-1953-01 inclusive. July..................... 94 factes August.......................14.85. September....265 **
October
July... August.
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Sp ember... 7' 05. October............... 0'020
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CO-OPENATION IN CHINA.
THE BULLY. (Continued)
In the numerons Cases in which persons aro imposed upon by a bully who is too much for them, their earliest thoughts are bow it may be practicable to collect a band-of-men, expert in The fit-and-foot practices, and make an attack upra the aggressive party, by which means he may be suppressed. The waiter has recently met a man whose, home is in a village noted as the headq" arters of a darlog and unscrupulous band of thieves. Having been robbed by them wib no prospect of any redress through legal channels, this man Collected a band of athletes, village where they made their home, and so and attacked-the-thieves in the vicinity of the belaboured them that the band removed its headquarters elsewhere.
It is useful, but by no means a necessary qualification of the bully, that he should be a poor man, with nothing to lose...
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Darkness and Shoes of Swiftness, Such cation which he may possess, alther with or agencies defy all foes except those similarly without that of learning, which makes him an equipped. And as in the "Arabian Nights" alm at irresistible enemy. If he belongs to a there are many stoles of magicians warning family, one or mom members of which are la with magicians who also "did so with theis official life, and bave a cert, in degree of power enchantments," in like manner when Chinese with the official clus, such a man is a dangerous bullles meet in a fight at a yaman, it is a battle for. Instances are constantly coming to light, of giants,
not only in the rative papers of China, but also in memoilals in the Peking Gazelle (tɔ which we have so frequently had cccasion to refer) showing how difficult, or rather how sitojo’her hopeless it is to deal with ruch offenders. Even in cases of the most wanton murder, there is always some way by which the matter can be adjusted, and there is no assurance that the influential culprit gets any real punishment
The most expert of all this dreaded class is the bully who is also a literary man, perhaps a halutral, and who thus has a special prestige of his own, securing him a bearing where others would fail of it, guaranteeing him immunity from heating in open court, to which others are liable, and enabling him to prepare accusations for himself or others, and to be certain of the bear- log of these documents up^n the case in hand. These advantages arɑ so great, that it is not uncommon to find persons who inske no secret of the fact that their main motive in submitting to the toils requisite to gain the lowest terary degree, is that they may be able during the rest of their lives, to make use of this leverage au ́a means of rating themselves, and of harming their neighbours. Any Chinese bally a greatly to be feared, but none is so formidable as the literary bully. One other typeof Chinese bully we must not fall of mention, for it la in some respects the most unique of all, to wit the female bully. Her traits are, mariff mandis the same as those of the individuals already mentioned, but her mere existence is so great a depasture-from our ordinary conceptione of Chinese social life, that it ne-ds a word of explanation. She is simply an evolution of her surroundings. Skill in speech, physical
executive talent,
violence in act, and 自動 are her endowments, and her usefulness to the perennially hungry “walves and tigers” of the yamin is such, that she is called their draught-horse to draw victims. Like her male underlings of the yamex to conduct a lawsult of compatriots, she is able from her value to the her own, without any of those sumberless and vexatious expenses which suck out the life-blood of ordinary victims. This makes her a terrible, if not an Invain rahle, foc, and those who are wise will beware of her. It is a saying of A certain humorous philosopher, that one borne can break up whole camp-meeting, when be ferls well How much mischief one Chinese bully can accomplish in an average life-time is impossible to estimate.
at all.
The following instance which occurred 'mora than a generation ago; in a dialet near to that in which the writer 1lved for a long time, kuntrates the nature of proceedings of the kind to which reference is made. During the 18th century there lived in that country a family named Lu, one of the members of which strained to the lofy eminence of Ro Las, or Grand Secretary, A family of this class, especially if it should be the only one of the sort in the district, exerts a commanding Influence, and it is accessory for the "local" m:gistrate to conduct himself discreetly, in order not to win the.
will of such a powerful corporation. It is well if he is able to collect from them even the. ordinary land-tax" which all the soil of the Empire is supposed to pay. It is relmed of this family that upon one occasion the district magistrate, having ordered the local contrable to see to it that this tax was produced, the can- stable being helpless, was unable to do as be was told. Having been repeatedly beaten for his delinquencies in this respect, he presented himself at the entrance of the premises-of-his- berged the gatekeeper to intercete far him, wealthy neighbour, and with ear, est prestitions and get the tax paid. The elderly widow, - who was the manager of the establishment, having been informed of this plea, de ed her cart harnessed, and procceded to it a dict magistrate's yames for an interview. Tar offi Poverty in China is often a synonym for the
cial perhaps entertained a wild hope that the had come in setile up her arrears of tres, and sions of great numbers of the people would not
even planned to borrow a sum of macs of her, smount de value to five dollars, and thousands of
but she soon dispelled this idea, by telling him persone never know whence the next meal is to
In so many words that she herself required a ceme. Such persons would in European coun.
Inan-of-a-certain number of thousands of While the government of Chlok appears to classes. In Chine, unless their distress is tries constitute what are called "the dangerous have elements of extreme stability, it is at the tels, which the magistrate was obliged to some time often practically weak in the very
promise to get for her, at the earllest panb'o seldom wage war against society as a whole. extreme, they do not mass theruselves, and they Folate where it most needs strength, namely in
moment. As she rose to lake her leave, sha But individuals of this type may, if they have ff. Whenever any uprising of the people lings who hung about the premises un er pre capacity to put forth powerful and sudden been much annoyed by some of the yamfa under remarked lucidentally that her gatekeeper had other regu site abilles, hecome village kings, rakes place, there is generally nothing to prevent according to their own will, Sach persons, to the incapacity of the he1 au harlies to cope with and order the course of corrent events much its gaining a great momentum, owing to thence of wanilega graines, adding that she figurative language of the Chinese, are called it. The save phenom-:
abould expect to hear no more of such pice-ed- Ings in future tipon another occasion, while is seen in any barefoot men, in allesion to their desillute personal affray between single individuals.
the A Leo himself was alive, we com;-laint was ): condition, and it is common saying that "the There are no 'police to arrest the one whe
made to the district magistrate that a son of the barefoot man (otherwise known as "mod-legs) commits a breach of the peace, and it is only by feet," for the former can at once retreat into the principals, that order is restored. is not afraid of bins who has "stockings on bis the intervention of third parties, friendly to the mud, where the latter dare not follow. In other elther of the parles is able to bring a large the man who has property to lose, by an open words, the barefoot man is able to hold in terror force to bear upon the person whom he atticke, he is almost certain to be victorious. It is at or an implicit threat of vengeance against this point that the organi ation of the followers guard himself. The forms which this vengeancef Chine e society. Let us suppose that a man hich the man of property can not safes of the fully proves formidable fos to the peice will take vary according to circumstances, ne has a violent personal quirrel with an enemy which in a thickly inhabited village, where there of the most common is that of incendiary fires, | An outbreak of their feud occurs at a great fair, such as bound sť ́all sessona of the year. One is often a large accumulation of fuel stacked dup,
of the men is intimate with another man who le is mede of attack particularly to be dreaded
"Left Taiwanfoo on the 2 st lestant at 5 p.m. Had fresh increasing wind and falling barometer 29-74; at midnight barometer stif falling and howing strong, so anchored in Battery Bay (Pescadores Island). On the 22nd heavy gale and barometer 29.54. Shifted berth to Water. ing Bay, and these found H.M.S. Pallas and sex-Up SAMIONx. On the morning of the Fallas stating that she and the steaming Saman were on shore on a sand spit cffa Tang Island, then stood by them un bigh water at 1 pm, when, they The Chairman That amendment having been safely. Weather beix fine and barometer ceeded in getting off carried, Mr. Chater, I suppor, sticle spakiting, proceeded on trip to Amoy and arrived that the original q: auton would fall to the ground there at 2 pm, on the 24th. Wind firm north. and we should be unable to proceed further with north-east to north-north-west during the gale. the estimate, fut I take it that you have done From Amay to Swiow had heavy gale and righ what you wanted to do by placing your protest on record ?
The Director at Public Works 1 23rd received a letter from the Commander of the population suddenly doubled this danger is meat abject misery and want.. The entire possES-
Hoo. T H. Whi:shaad.
Hen H K
Jon F. R, Pellas
Hom J. J. Bell-Irving,
The Colonial Treurer,
The Registrar General.
The Harbour Master.
Hon. C. P. Chater-I think we can proceed
with the estimates but we shall have to do the satehing at every vale.
The Chairman-Certainly, there is no objec
tion to that.
Hon. C. P. bater-I think that le the right thing to d, as I understand 4.
The hairman-Don't you think the most (convertent way would be to take that amend- ment as applying to every item-I mean to those which it naturally aptlla tomand to vote op the estimates as though you agreed to them, t being understood that when the items, are so passed, as far as the gorfficial members aie ern- cerned, they are subject to the reservation that the various salaries he reduced as you have sug- Rested. Otherwise we shall have so May vo:ings
on, C. P. Chater-As long as it is under- stoot fo, that is all that is wanted. But there are other polais wh ch, we desire to go into-not only the reduction of fries.
The Chairman-Nathcally, but that polot ned ant be mentfoard
Har T H Whi@hi»d=Perksprit-would-be- well to send nvere chi tem q it appears. The next is for the Coro #1 Secretary's deperiment,
The Chatmya-That is, wh«? Im doing, but we are til at h quesiton, of $11 339 for the Governor ned Levis bre The que non is that this stond part at the T H. 24 1. be undersjord that *'l the woh vaxt asd be opinion jus tetrad us in the side of te mol which they are the uơh the senius un ffic at meme-end non vote, subj ci to that
expla melina
HoH K −1 der 't see, how we can do
The Cha man-Yu don't?
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Pan. KI is rather travelstent, bre-use we a vaseg on a refinite murion and If we are cojdeng" say the $41.339 I do not upper Kralj eru myrblig, I think wel bin we met if we we°C bound down. I tak we oħra d propose the an end end every po along.
see how we ca
The Chimaj - Y..., wit fid that særer, fogly difficult. Wshru hvat celculate on iray Item wit the increase td been.
H.CP. Chater-1 tak perhaps under the clicuistareen the best c urge wou'd be in adjourn until the item a hove bran feco adevert. The Chairme You mean the yɛu wou'd zake rest in de fieste redeations.
Ron C. P Cher-V g, hu I eculd'nt do that at the moon, and therefore I sked you whether we should prstpone this meeting until a liter,day We only anved at this decision late, at right, in fact I might way early this more ingnd t the meri g was postponed 1 thought at nd he make more definire proposals than we have. "But as 'you ruled, sit, that we should have the me ting (o-day I have put our pri poral in the frm of a reduction of
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Harbour the Pallas was going out, carrying As the Thaler was entering Talwanfoo the British Consul, Mr. Warren, to the scene of neither the Pallas nor Samson, was damaged to the Bokhora.....disaster. It is probable that
any appr clable extent.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by
Correspondents in this column)...
THE KOWLO ́N WATER SUPPLY, TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Horacona TatuoraFT,” IR-Eret sed in a copy of the Prution to H E. The Governor respecting the water supply of Kowloon. It was sent in yesterday with the signatures of every hope holðir and property owner (so far as we know), except those of two or three ficials who thought I best not to'sign though they agreed with the memorial.
Total deficitu We then have abendy a deficit of newly 19 inches. The mean rainfall from November to Aoil inclusive is only 13, inches, or 7 inches short of the norm. It is true June was much overth mean, (18.56.) but it must be remembered that all this is already lost to us by evaporation, It is the latter rain, before the cool season, that sives us rur supply. Another sad fict also faces us-the conteminztlan of zur wells. With our
imminent, and the bighly porous nature of the water-bearing sirvia will rerder the deterioration r pld. At present I am glad to
*** what water contamination grows greater. Under these we do get is pretty pure, but e ch day the risk of circumstances I think we are justified in making a strong appeal to the Government to hasten the completion of the Monkek waterworks, on the grunds that we are alreayshort of water, bat we are likely to be seriously Incensentenced this cool contamination. To be effective such an-ppeal season, and that our present supply is in danger shou'd be unanimous, ad I beg to popose that a peritian be printed, sen round for signature and presented to the Government as sperdily as possible.
If Colonel Barrow made a few remarks regard. log the adequacy of the waterrupp'y, partly due to the Military in ease in the population of Kowloon.
M for Fajhfall concured that an adeqate supply of water was a frissing necessity which shall no longer be de' y'd,
Covation, the following
"The Committee resolved to meet at an early date, and, husing drawn up the petition, to ask the gnatures of K winon householders.
M. Auken 7posed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and 'In deing so commented upon several inconvenien es which re peculiar to evidence in Kwon, and the extra xpse On the 7th November 1891, a circuler under, was issued all hu cholders at the which, in son rap cis, such as the carrying of
quest of many of the inhabitants....................
water, householders we su j c
"The proceedings then terminated." Cons quent pot this the cutained retion was drawn up, and is now raspestfully aubmitted that any attempt to drag the carts out to Your Excellency.
4. Plume, of the Hangkong Observatory, pointed ut ht the deficiency of rainfall was not likely to be mide goud by unura winter ralus, for the soil wat present a parched that a much larger d wall than is likely to addition to the war upply.
ccur would be necessary om ke any material
"After some
It is always easy to set a fire, but difficult and Faithful rura.
Committer was app-inted to draw up a petition frequently impossible to extinguish it. We have SYDNEY B. 1.. SEERTCHLY. embodying the feeling of the meeting for pre-despite all diligence, no one was ever detected in known numberless instances of this sort, in which tion_Sup_tate Committed,~~~entating to the Gwari mant-Colonel BATON, Kowloon; November 24th, 1892.
setting the fire. The terror which such fees in Major Fabhfuil, Mr. A. G. Atken, and Mr. Spire is so great that the man who is thought to THE WATER SUPPLY OF BRITISH KOWLOON,
B. Sk richly (Hon. Sietary)
he specially liable to them may be marked and To His Excellency Si William Robinson,
avoided for that reason alone. It is considered K.C.M.G., A., Governor of Hongkong
unsafe to have anything to do with him, much SIR-In submitting the following Petition to Your Færellency we beg to draw attention to the
lead to aid him in extinguishing his fires. In repeatedly wished with Incendiary fires, and on ore case of this sort, the same individual was ccompanying acerurt of the proceedings which led to the drafting of ra d-cum-et.
the last occasion all his carts were to ally des- oyed, no bing remaining to the tires of the wheels. It was afterwards found that strong leather straps had been used to bind the wheels to the framewerk of the shed in which they were
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"THE HOUSEHO ·LDEP'S I:- KOWLOON. Gentlemen-In view of the defi-ncy of
the rainfall this ven, the lng, and sudden increase in the popola inn af K wiɑon, and the imited supply of water, it in popot d to call an Mering of Householfers to consider the hear - means of sugler the Government to comple's the? waterworks in the Morg-kok Vley, and give a centi prun and adequate supply of water to this part of the Colony, -
*Mr, A. G. Aitken has kiedly -ffered the une of this house Nov 1 and 2 · Kont fo ́d· Teirce and your attendianer is, ega mood at 6 o'clock on Wedɛgnday, November 9th,
"SYDNEY H. J. KERTCHLY, 3.0.5. "Kowloon, Nyveni bir yah, 1891"
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I have the honour to remain, Sir.
Your Excelency's bedient serv¬D",
SYDNY BJ. SK RTCHLY, Han See to the Cmieen the
Water Surply of Koml
PETITION OF PROPERTY-OWNERS AND
·K_U÷PHOLDERS
KOWLOON-Nov-mhog 18g
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Zao had a maid servant, who was visually imprisoned in the family mansion. She was But figinally hired, but had been betrothed and although it was time for her to be married, her employer refused to let her go. The distilet magistrate sent for the son of the Ko Lao, mada known the charge, and desired the release of the pe son detained. He even went to the length of beating the attendent of the La family, who himself too Infly a subject for punishment, had accompanied his master, the latter being
went to his home in altowering gr, and wrote a latter to his father in Peking
The son
a profesional bully and who has within call detailing the circumstances. Soon after this, number of associates who can be depended upr
the magistrate received the news of his proma- in an emergency. The man who knows the bully tion from the grade of chik-chou to that of chi asks his help, The bully lets it be known among The Journey to be put is okes-a-most goes to bin and-tells him of the grievance and perfect, in the province of Szechuan. werlous matter for an official, and where, AE bla comrades that a friend is in need of sist ance, and that their services will be called for.
In this case, he has the entire empire to croms, the trouble and expense are very great. The party warembled goes to that section of the fair-ground where congregate the dealers in
He had no sooner reached this distant past, sticks used for suppert for awnings, etc., and
than be received a notification that he wa each man borrows a stout sapling, promising premated to another in the province of Yannaa, to return it later. With this lawless band, like again invoving an expensive and tedious journey. the forces of Robin Hood, the bully sets upon
When be had at length taken up the duties of his vichm and wins an easy victory. None of this office it was only be informed that he was the spre alors will interfere in a brawl of this promoted afreak to the high rank of Tacta! In some region beyond the Great Wall. He now sort, for the consequences might be most serious. It does not follow that there is any regular began to perceive the significance of this strange organisation among the rough members of the series of events, and wholly unable elther to dangerous classes who use assembled, except bear the fils which he already had, or to support that they are ready to unite in anything which the prospect of perhaps greater ones yet to come, promises the joy of battle, and a probablereward he swallowed gold, and thus escaped farther in the shape of a complimentary feast,
promotion and rain 1---N. C. Daily News.
Cases of this sort, which are by no means of Infrequent occurrerice, exhibit the weakness of the Chinese government; but they also exhibit its strength. It the millions of China were not satisfied with the existing rule, nothing would be easier than for them to unite and overthrow But the security of the government is based mainly upon the well-understood and well-ascer. tained fact that the people as a whole bave no wish to overturn the system under which they live, as well as upon the equally indisputable fact that with the Chinese, effective com blaation is an excredingly difficult matter.
THE SUCCESS OF LABOR
Anther method by which the bully signifies his dissatisfaction with his enemy, is by injuring ha crops. In country where the faims are subdivided into mere fragments, every farmer's land is contiguons to that of. great number of other persons. A large farm will often consist of cares of different pieces of ground, which have hern b tight as popunity offered. When the land is plented, and again when the harvest is To His Face 5 Welm Rande pates The lule bashre which serve as gah red, mellent eppertunity is afforded for KC.M.G, G vernos of Hon. kang. Str. We, the untraign d peryownrdaries of the fields of different owner, in and householders in Brush K wino, spect
igions where stone posts are too expensive, are, fully beg to call Your Fæer lency's altention to artly destroyed or removed, and in any case the unsat of cory state of the water supply in
the boundaries are mo e or leis inexact, leaving this part of the Colony.
Form for a certainty as to the precise point at The assemblage of bands of men ander the latter had but one alternative-starvation-they 2--Water has always bern, and still is, which one piece of gmund ands and another virtual direction of a leader is a menace to the ware compelled to be thankful for what they could supplied by private polled hurting population that the bully is at his heat. It is well under and it is not strange that magistrates of the fact that mankind could enjoy mach wore begins. It is in such situations this peace of the whole region in which they live, get. But now educaifon la opening 'men's eyes to
which is not
On the 9th a meeting was hrid at No. 1-1 Knutsford Terrace, of which the subjoined is » *. prist ¡----
A meeting of householders of Kowloon was held last night at the house of Mr. A. G. Inadequate to the supply rfa growing population, stood that do wiit suffer no less, and that such districts live a
Alken, - Högtsford Terrace, to comider the best means of urging the Government to com plete the waterworks in the Mo gk Valley, and give a continuous and adequate supply of water to this part of the Cilony, in view of the deficiency of the rainfall this year, the large and
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At the present time great changes are coming now-a-daya considered a God, because bis father was abent in the social status of mankind.-- A man is not
a clover userer or merchant. It is becoming a recognised fact that all men are equal-as men—and have each the right to enjoy life's blessings to an equal degree. In the past it has always been the aim of the rich to grind down the poor, and as the
salarka to the stromnis at 1Ɛga in order to cover | sudden increase in the population of Kowloon,neighbours. Moreover, a cortion of even this one but bully cop'd cuitivate at all, | trained athletes, who shall be able to meet add to these great interests it is also essential to take
•G(water,
what we want, I say if the meeting lead) suened and the limited supply A. G. Aliken, Mr
we can give the exact figure.
Hon, T. H. Winched-It is on record what the salaries were in 1990,
Hon, C. Chater-We could not get at the Bernat figures; it is a difficult matter to get that off hand.
The Chairman-You would have to get number of details il you wish to do it in the way you propose. Do you not think i would be more convenient, have you any strong objector, to do' what 1 proposed, Mr. Chuter? I thought you seemed disposed to concur.
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Sydney B. J. Sketchly, F.G.S., was called to the
3-Fr gerlogical rexions well- cannot be turk with any reasonable prospect of obsining waler save over a cortion of the arca-Inhabited by Fureneane. Hence, many single houses, and at least one whole tertece, are dependent entirely for their wateronthe wells of their mare Lirtunate
| limited supply is now becoming contaminated,
4-The pegulation has been suddenly more Regiment in Kwloon, This has caused than doubled by the quartering of the Honkong sericus drala, upon the already limited rescurces of Kowloon, and a water fam un to more than possible.
S-The rainfall this summo (189) is below the average, and the consequences during the enguin dy season I kely to be serious,
6-We therefore respecially urge that the water from Morg-kok Valley be laid op in Kowloon as speedily as possible. If fends are not immediately available we sabrils that the urgency of this work may be taken into consideration, and that precedence he given to it over ober public works of less vital and immediate importance
7.---We believe much work has already been done towards hleging the aforesaid water to
completion of the water-works is urgently re-
Inds of the town Jato, a kind of predatory army and compelled the shopkeepers, to submit to a tribule of apples and half-pence, in consideration of which he guaranteed the security of the win dows." Young Robert Chye had hit upon the maintzire bimself in perpetual sule; a principle, precise principle by which the Chinese bally indeed, as old as the race :-
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The existence of such small and inwless forces
fall into a mountain ravine. This means, that beat doctor 50 tizimi, weakness. I tried all
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never happens to be his neighbour will to be envied. As plander is often the rest pleasure and comfort if such large shares of the lierally.bavella, hard row.te hoe. Thers are object-of-these-combinations the yamen of world's wealth were not manered by the few. The sometimes sections of ground, such as these the magistrate is a likely to be the point of day of a great industrial revolution is at hand, and a belonging to public uses, river embankments,
attack as any other place, which makes li neces- brighter and better future is in store for us both the land of certain temples; and the like, which sary that the official shall provide himself with socially and financially, and whilst paying attention hecruse the crops must be defended against repel suits made at night. Cases are.ecca- furnish the necessary skill and forcely to protect In spite of this precaution, the yamda was robbed, seeing providence basso constituted the human invasion from aliquaiters, and only a bully can slonally spported in the Peking Gaseite, where particular care of our physical well-being. An all-- himself. In his essay on Lord Clive, Macaulay and the seal actually carried. tf, to the sain of frame that the brain is immediately Informed of any mentions: the chicumstance which was still the meglitrate, upon whom perhaps the people organic derangements a simple headache la a sign The Chairmen sald-Let us commence by
remembered In Shopshire, that to his boyish ate glad to be revenged. clearing the ground and def lng the nature of
days the great. Indian soldier formed all the
weakened, which, if neglected, continues to daolines, that the liver is deranged, or that the nervous system this meeting. It is in no serse an indignant
in the midst of Chinese social life, quiet and the nezvous lines waste away and completaly gathering of people with a grievaner, called in
orderly, as that life ordinarily is renders it cex. collapse, and a fatal terinination frequently results. Indulge in the gratifying pastime of baillng the
Lain that outbreaks will continually occur. But Herr Otto Franzen, Adelaide, BA, writes I was Government, but a quiet iriedly meeting whore
these aliscks are not all from ane side taken with a adden fit whilst dressing one morning offcon is to strengthen the hands of the
There are in Chinese many proverbial last February, and fell on the iron bedstead, and / Guternmani in praying out the good work
metaphorical significanes, and really dongthe hours. My family procured medical assistance, and sayings referring to the deer, which have a cut my temple open which bled profusely, the fall of supplying as with water from the Mong
stunned me, and I was unconscious for. “ kok valley, and to urge upon them the
person whom we have named the bully, who is necessity for completing the undertaking s
The good old rule, the simple plan speedily as possible, to avert serious consequences
regarded, as a saying le, to the effect that a tiger got somewhat better. In about a fortnight; but ever That those should take who have the power, who has wounded too many men, is lable 16 since the socdant. I sofered torturos
from RETTODE la the best future. At present Kowloon is
And those should keep who can,”.
•headaches and neuralga supplied with water from wells which come
The means of enforcing these exactions in the holly who has made earmies of too tbe
acity and Melbourne for these under the classification of shallow wells which
alware at hand, and is expressed in one fateful many people, will last himself fall into robics, all to no purpose. I was almost distra ted
trouble are always precarious in their supply and more
to another andesstands his business is well acquainted with bare their revenge upon him. Cases of this Tatem was prostrated with the. enthe area over which it is possible to gink even
one of their best customers, or rather the man consequences bave resulted in one or more
constitution... I. and is quite faad quate to the wants of the
was rather doubtful, but procured a bottle, and felt who brings theps their custom, The yamta is murders which must be reported, these cases community, Many houses, and at least one
better with the second loss. I continued to dies, and the spider's web, and the bully is the large in- | #rezometimes given in doall in Peking Garettes, and thankful I die, for I truly believe I should have whole terrace of algizga houses, have no water
fret which drives, the dies into the nat, where it is not uncommon to hear of Instances in supply whatever, and depend for every diop FOOCHOW TEA TRADE.
born in nadbouso long ago if I had sol vor 15 will goill with them are they escape, If biswhich buillies have been attacked by large and I am really grateful for my sufferings were wysi sipon the generosity of more favopred
adversary ja rich, the bully may adopt the plan bands of men, many of them formerly the intense, and doctors could not cure me, bet Clements are good well know only too clearly that come upon us unpr pe ertedly carly this year. of the rich man, at the same time jaking care to and sometimes he is killed outright, neighbours. Those who are so fortunate #15 The beginning of the end of the Ten scaron þas of leaving a bag of smuggled satta ile doptray, victims of the bully. Sometimes he is kidnapped, Tonle did, therefore it deserras my gratitude": The Chairm, Nalurally, but as each lie is unicas precautions were taken the bale supply there is an insold stock of Congre left of 9000 baye ni jaspecten ready to seize the salt method by which the village, wars and can SCOTT'S Eniolsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
The E brought up-taks tuls item now of $11,339 for would be cartat of br ontaldera, the Governor and Legislature. The question I supposing every drop of water were available expected to arrive. This, in the ordinary costrae means to defier of the law The kit tre conducted, probably boss Gloss analogy sil wasting disbiders of children, is very remark chests and we understand 7,000 chests more is and britg an accusation against the man of Sghts of the Fukien and Kungtung provinces Hypophosphites, for Rickets, Marasmus and should put to the Finca Committee wefill be the apply onloot be equal to the of business, would take a week caly to dispose inspectoratasteraselves amugglers, selected for to the prepandings They appear to be trisis in the results. The rapiary, with which the firm stand part of the Bill subject to the damiand, and now that the Hongkong Regimentis of, but is weld seems that the actual close their expertness for the art; and like all other of frength between neighbanag rivals, con children gain flesh and ratresgih upon it is very amendcheat moved by the senior sencial meme quartered with and were very glad to haro of the sasson is not to be yet, en the underlinge to chinese officiat fo they are quite durred upon the plan of warfare during the wonderful. Read the following I have tiled. ber that the amount of salaries be brought in | them--something suspiciously like a free sight Is || foreign buyers do not cars to buy and the free from the trazimsis of any sort i f
if conscience, middle ages, in which the feudal grajem reigned. Scott's Emulsion, la casca of wasting in young accord with the figures!
pearing in the estimates by no means se unwanted spectacle at a well teamen are in no hurry to sell. It pack of the kind oo rich man would be the local magistrates take care not to interfere children, and I am of opinion, that it is
Benda The mean annual retofall is 00.17 inches, feature in this month's business that: & follikely to escape without the series of many, too soot or loo far, lost it be the worse for them. valuable preparation for such cases, The Hon: Ho Kal That would be the proper staffy all of which falls between May and Sep. fortight slaped without so much as the change thujand arings of cash being how improbably, When the debt is over, the oficers put in an children take it and ask for more, and the good course, but I do not think we would say By ember, ble gives us a total of abosi dge of shipping to Europe. Binge the departure of forced to furnish the funds for repairing permode, arrests are made, and the machinery effects are apparent. I consider it tar superior, to the term of 43,339 without the understanding milion gallons per year. The greater part of the Danfe on the den insigni no stiamer arrived all for rebuilding empi or some tiber of govemment recover from 11 temporary to ordinary Cod Liver OllMARCHALL that our opinion is against it and that we want this, however, if lost one-tabib, or 65 and even after this long interval" she leaved I joka vain China, what in Hagdid
- by evaporation and ether to take lag beth gntil "hhi Priam on, the 1865. pable weg). Tas sapacity to induct succese paralysie pas de
M.R.C.S., 20, 141, Granes K Bermondsey it to be reduced is a certain amonetases, so that only the permanent on the spin with loss than quarter of Kopier hd qne of (ke Caliph Haroun Alkan ora of those mest to be dreaded Watson & Co. (Limited agents in Hongkong
The Chairman.If I expressed myself in sich million gallons, gone laly or a million 154-16 to 1998 that tha
We have spokes of the literary bully S., Any Chemist can supply. ItĄ. Ši a way no to ganig thað misnaderstanding you are. I water supply, nad of this, agalby us
Ching... But there is Another qualide) and Chinn-Airte
H.00. C. P. Chater--We arrived at the con- | liable iban deep wells to contamination. The Kowloon, and we need hardly point out that the and comprend soun, lawp-suit. The bully who: trouble, and then his enemies 'will be able to with pain, mente Tonio, mying that my nervou voted upon, but if there in any way out of the i these shallow wells in under half a square mile qafied for the purposes of bealth, corofort, and every one at the district yan do, and Is, in fact) | scṛt are constantly occurring, and when "the | Ciemanta Tonic would rabullock; and that--
Hou, C. P. Chater-My hon, blend on my right (D. Ho Rai), who is a barrister, kas raised legal question. He does not seem to think it would be legal to proceed as you propose, The Chairman-It weld save a great deal of tine and trouble, and would not affect the princi. pls at all clusia to that each vore should be brought up and difficult, we are prepared to go ou now, I am sure, Hos., o Kul-Do you think Ji is consistent How could we vote for a certain sum, how could we for ins Auce say Aye" to this item $41.339 when wo &to not know by how much it winku have to be reduced? Reducing the vote we be the subject of d'apote
of 1890.
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