were found refreshments, which were lavishly dispensed by the officers of the steamer and the | Agents of the line. The Band of the Hongkong Regiment, stationed on the fore-hatch, played a excellent selection of music during the afternoon, and added harmony to the toasts to the ownery, officers, and agents, which were most beartily drunk, while the builders came in for their meed of praise for the excellent piece of work they had turned out. Loud were the hapes extressed that the new venture would prove successful, and that li might lead to an expansion which would in the not too distant future result in the doubling or trebling of the trade in which all present were more or less
directly concerned.
The following la description of the steamer: The Maria Rickmera is finely moulded steamer of 3,000 tons register, 437 ft. long, so feet 6 inches in breadth and 30 feet 6 inches moulded depth. She has a large poop aft, and a most capacious bridge-house amidships, 100 eet long. The poop, as well as the bridge-houses, are fitted to be used either for cargo and steers passengers. On the upper bridge deck are four large boats, the two lifeboats belog of scam. less steel. The officers', engineers', and syst sixte-rooms for about twelve passengers, and the saloon, are lo a steel house ballt on top of the bridge-deck. The mess-rooms are very nicely fitted up, ail in polished mahogany and maple, and both are la connection with a large pantry. There are separate bathrooms for officers and engineers, besides a third one for the caplain. The saloon and captain's private room are most elegantly fitted up, equal to any first-class passen ger steamer. Steam is supplied for the triple expansion engine by four malditabalar boilers, working at 180 lb. pressure, and all the most modern improvements in propelling machinery are fitted, including a patent ash ejector, by which all the ashes are blown overboard through a pipe, Instead of the old bolsting gear. Another novelty is the arrangement of the watertight door This is an invention of the superintending englacer of Messrs Rickmers, and só constructed that the commanding officer at the beldge Ca at any moment, by turning a lever, shut all the watertight doori at once, without any farther assistance. There are nine powerful steam winches and nine steel derricks fitted on deck. Water ballant is carried, in a cellular double bottom from stem to stern. The sister ships of the Maria Rickmers are the Ellen Rickmers and Elisabeth Rickmers, which will follow in the monthly service.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896.
ge, a netted quilt of motion, not one of which was even partially clean, most ofthem being black with dist, covered by a sheet but thile cleaner, while a roll of straw, enclosed in dirty shectlog, formed the pillow. To say nothing ofthe larger forms of animal life that must find a snug refuge In this bedding, the material is certainly an ideal one for harbouring bacteria of every description, and so it is passed on from one pallent to another, the consequences may more erally be Imagined than described. They can- not be washed, and no attempt is made to disinfect this Sithy material.
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not admit of that. He had nothing to say. neither did he take much notice of any one, and appeared perfectly quiet and harmless. In another cage there was a min who had for his blanket to shreds, and who seemed very much annoyed at being confined in such a dungeon, None of the hapless, inmates had beds to lie on, clean bedding to cover themselves with, or proper commodes, and the air in the word was fold to a degren."#
In continuallon of the inspection of the Tung Wab, wherein the above mentioned dungeon is now turned into a clean," wall venillated reception ward, a visit was paid to the Lunatic Aryiam adjoining the Govern- ment Civil Hospital. This is divided into two distinct balldings, ons for the reception of foreigners and the other for Chinese. The arrangements to each are practically the same. Fer purposes of comparison the Chinese ward will be taken as representing the whole, as there are only three persons in the foreign ward, A large wo-storey building, with wide verandahs and Iron bars, looking out on a large lawn, and averlooking the grounds of the Civil❘ Hospital, Is occupied by these unfortunates, the upper storey being for men and the lower for women. Each ward consists of a long room opening on the verandab, while at the back are the cells or dormitories of the inmates, Earb cell, with a heart door and grating, is fitted with a comfortable bed, the large room being the dining room. One cell is thickly padded, but this is rarely used. At one end of the verandah is commodious bath-coom with a clean bath and retiring room. The whole is scrupulously clean, the cement flooring being dry, the chairs and tables white, and there is an
freshness air of brightness hardly to he expected in such a place, Tee Inmates, of whom there are at present aise men and six women, all look clean and are all dressed is spotless white deck clothing. Although of necessity the unfortunates are confined, they looked happy despite the mental derangement with which are all afflcted. Every afternoon when the weather permits the patients are taken on the lawn in front, wher they are given exercie. The treatment
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lack of discretion, comes within the pale of the law. It is, on the contrary, usually some of the "small by such as petty traders, shopkeepers, bill-collectors, domestics of every description, and half-starved urchins who go Inta "retire. ment" owing to the fact of their being such dollards as 10 be unable, apparently, to comprehend the difference between the simple terms and fuum. It must be admitted, however, in fustice to all classes of Chinese, thai many a hapless onderling, a member of some high officials salto or of the staff of 'n' wealthy compradore, is now lingering in some felld city gaol, owing to the sins of his high-toned There is another class of ward, however, employer being visited upon him, the em. which by one of the canons of hygenic law ployé having become, molens volens, a can be called' parsable, These consist of veritable scapegoat.
"And why,
the double rows of brick bulldings, entered by a stranger will ask, "should the innocent brick paved court about eight feet wide and fifty asfer? Why do not those who could save feet long. On either side of this count is a build him from the horrors and torments of a Chinese ing of the same length, about ten fest deep, and dungeon come forward and speak the truth, the divided into five rooms by brick parililonu whole truth, and nothing but the truth? It is reaching to the enof. In nelther the back wall certainly strange that this lack of straight not the partitions is there any opening, a door forwardness should be in evidence, but it is six feet high by three wide and a venti- owing to very peculiar and fataleste charlator in the root being the only means of light acteristic of Chinese justice, or rather of the and ventilation. Each of these cableles is whole Chinese nation, which will be dealt intended to accommodate two persons, and in with later on, when tho peculiaritics many of them two persons are at present of commissions à la Chinelis have been placed, though many of them are unoccupied. carefully analysed, for the due appreciation of There are six sets of these cubicles, giving the intricacies of Chinese justice is dependent places, in case of need, for 120 persons, although upon a isir knowledge of the ramifications of at the present time some twenty only are
These wirde or cells commissions as exacted and paid in the Gorgeous occupied.
the East-s system of raising money which in the Government physicians have been trying for a language of Western people is neatly defined long time to have removed and replaced by as "slas of commission and emission." In the large and properly ventilated ones, which could matter of "squeezes" it will be found that to the be easily done, but this the Commilice, it is said, house-boy, or butler, the mafoo who puts up steadfastly refuses to da. with an occasional horsewhipping from his master, the despotic Veerey la his gilded yamen, and others, must be considered doe the credit of converting the procurement of com- missions-which in some cases are the only means of subsistence-into one of those "Locvilabics" which WE tolerate for the alficient reason that, being invariably outwitted at all points, we are cable to eradicate it. And, be it noted, that this state of affairs, for the existence of which we are not altogether blameless, inasmuch as wa have countenanced it in one way or another frez since our oplum schooners, sailing, aimed to the teeth, from Calcutta with foll cargoes of the seductive, drug, led the way for the enablishment of commercial relations with the great "Middle Kingdom from which the fall benefits, both to the Chinese and to ourselves, have yet to be reaped (probably in the near future) is the oate me, or natual sequence of wide knowledge, strange as it may seems in a-backward Oriental state like Far Cathay, of the application of a high art to the requirements If the term "commission" is better under- of trade, the procurement of the means of bate sabalatonce by the toiling masses, and to the stood and has a wider and more slate signifi. maintenance in luxury of many, but of course cation in one part of the world than another, the not all, who like the fair Ufles of the valley country that carries off the palm is unquestion "off not neither do they splo," That art is ably the ancient, Il-governed, and populous the system by which commissions of every empire on the fringe of which the despised conceivable and laconceivable description are obtained and it to commonly called "ian Ewal" are graciously permitted to earn "squeezing. But all commissions are not ivelihood. Referring to his well-hated ants- "squeezes any more than it would be right to gonists les Anglofs, the Great Napoleon, sa say that all squeezes are, sirictly speaking, the οπο is well known, described them as "a nation legal. The distinction between
which cats off all light and ventilation, while both ends of the verandab are piled up with and the other may, however, best be classed of shopksepers," and it is highly probable for the present my one of these things about furniture, the interstices being utilised as the that had the gallant little Conican known which it is impossible to convince the hyper-sleeping places of the attendants, and their dirty as much of the Chinese as he had good critic, for "be who is convinced against clothes or half-washed changes are there hung to reason for knowing about resources his will is of the same opinion silil" It may be dry or alr. Incide this ward is to be found every and vitality of the United Kingdom, he would well, therefore, to leave the question of sins of clias of wound or fractere. Innumerable sores, have been the last to deny that the "Flowery Commission and ótalmion "in the Q..E, D. stage festering rud suppurating, emitting the foulest suggestions contained in the letter addressed to
odoars, are treated only with pitch plaster seldom washed, the Ides of antiseptics and clean bandages being, apparently, utterly foreign to the institution, The walk through the two rooms farming ibis ward was enough to sicken almost anybody. These rooms are little better than pest houses, where gangrene and other horrors to far too much evidence.
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS,
L-THE CRAVING FOR SQUEEZES,
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Lazå" is, par excellence, s model nation of shopkeepers, for not only do the vast majority of the teeming millions of Chins engage in trade of one kind or another, but the Chinese mandarinate, ibat is to say, the Chinese gentry, from the bigbeat to the lowest, thrive upon commissions of various kinds (like commission merchants) which the sordid and uncharitable Westerners actually style "squeezes." Indeed, to general has the use of the latter term become that in seleriing la "deals" effected à la Chinoise foreigners rarely or ever speak of the profi's netted by Chinese as other than "squeezes," pure and simple, a fact which of course conveys to the mind of the uninitiated the idea that the "sqzcere," or commission, is sa il-gotten if not altogether legal gain closely bordering on an adroit swindle, the perpetration of which would be tolerated
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**La from Bigh 115 Eigh characters are drawn y Assist in crape is twice a salat in lawn,
THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL,
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ITS PRESENT CONDITION.
of the recent prevalence of plague, and the opening of the Lalchikok Plague Hospital, in which, according to Chicks accounts, such wonderful results are shows in the treatment of plague patients, member of the staff of the Hongkong Telegraph lately sought and was granted permission to inspect the Tong Wah Hospital. Application was made to the Registrar-General, who
In addition to these wards, there in the large pharmacy, where a wonderful stock of Calanse medicines is kept, and where Innumerable draughts and plasters are prepared, a large cookhouse, where, under the usual Chinese chefs, the food for the patients and attendanta | to say nothing of the Committee-men and their friends, to prepare whose frequent banquets it isalso used-is prepared, and the large assembly-hall, which is the best portion of the premises. This completes the buildings known as the Tang Wah Hospital.
Turning now to the manner in which the patients are imated, and especially to the surgi- cal ward, a condition of affairs that is very discreditable to ibis British Colony is found. In
all the wards not the slightest effort is made to keep the palled!s, their clothing, or rooms, in the least degree clean. The body of a woman, who had died of consumption, was lying in the martuary, black with dirt, her hair being a living mass of vermio, The stench in nearly all of the wards from the commodes war almost overpowering, although every effort is made by the risiting physicians to hare this remedied. Nowhere is a disinfectant of any description used. Here are to be seen women and children with plasters on theit heads and backs for levers, every kind of wound belag covered simply with the universal pitch plaster, which merely aggravates the tumours. Bat the surgical ward is indeed a.chamber of horrors. Situated on the ground Asor el the building to the right, an entering, it has at the back the wall of an adjoining shop,
In the middle of the smaller and less ventilated
of these two rooms is a case that should not be tolerated a day long. This is a man with a frac tured thigh. Instead of the bone being put into place and bound up in splints, so that the fracture can heat, he is suing up, with the broken leg in a wooden trough, and with nothing but a fexible leather band on his thigh, fastened above the base and at the top of the thigh by leather and cotton straps / Absolutely no effort is made to keep the bone in position, the man is his sitting position continually moving the leg and the loose ends of the bone, and so preventing that junction which Nature, if given the least chance, would speedily effect. As a resalt the thigh Is numb and soft, the knee joint la badly swollen,
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accorded them by the warders and attendants la most compassionate, all being regarded more as children than as men or women.
Immediately after the expose in these columns in 1994, the Government took steps to prevent
the detention of maniacs in the Tang Wah❘ Hospital, with the result that the government physicians now have power to order the remo- val of any of this class found there to the Asylum. The benefits thus conferred upon this helpless class can be readily seen from the compartion. Is there any valid reason why, for the benefit of the sick and wounded, the Government physicians should not have the power to order any patients improperly treated, or receiving no benefit from the treatment at the Tagwa Hospital, to be taken to the Govern ment Civil Hospital?
DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE AND
INDUSTRIES IN JAPAN.
Sir Ement Satow has transmitted to the Foreign Office & report drawn up by Mr: Long. ford (Vice-Consul) on the Foreign Trade of Japan during the past year. Sir Ernest in his covering despatch states -----
"An endeavour bna been made in drawing up this report to comply as far as possible with the your Lordship by the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdoms on Dec, and Last. Hitherto the annual reports on the trade of, Japan have rarely been furnished till the summer was far sdvanced, sometimes even later. This report, however, has been pre- pared in time to admit of its being des. patched by the Canadian mall of Feb. 28ib, so that it should be in your Lordship's hands about the end of March. The great expansion which has taken place in recent years in the volume of the foreign trade of Japan, the increas- ing wealth of the people, the rapid development of manufacturing industries, and more especially the growing demand which the next few years are likely to produce for all kinds of metals, machinery, waz materials, ships, &e, in addition to the ordinary staples of trade, combine to render the present period of commercial activity in this country one worthy of the interest and attention of British manufacturers,"
should be devoted towards the promotion of that end is now being constantly urged upon the people both in the press and in public addresses by leading statesmen and officials. How much has been achieved already a very superficial comparison of the trade returns of 1872 and 1895, and a few statistics as to mana- fecturing lodustries already in operation quickly
show.
The shortest glance at the returns will show how much the whole character of her foreiga trade has changed in the short space of treaty four years, how, while developing largely the export of her original agricultural and purely raw products, she has become also a great exporter of manufactures, and how she has at the same time became a most valuable pur. chaser of raw produce from other countries.
SEIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE: American (China) to-morrow;, Indian (Lightning) 16th inst. Tacoma (Tacoma) 17th instant. Australian (Oroso) 19th Inst Canadian (Empress of India) aged instac}, Tacoma (Victoria) ist prox. American (Belgie) 21st prox,
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THE Agents (Mesus. Dodwell, Carill & Co) Inform us that the Northern Pacific Steamship Co's steamer Tacóma left Mojì this morning for this port, and is due here on or about Wednes day evening, the zyih lust.
SHIPPING KITURNS. From & fœm. yesterday to 5 p.m. to-day.
Glenfarg Hattan...
ARRIVALS.
....steamer, from Singapore.
While, la 1872, the whole value of manufac tured articles exported by her very slightly exceeded $450,000. In 1895 It attained to no less an amount than $37,195,200. Textile fabrics, which had no place among the experts of 172, in 1895 reached value of $19.386,632 *********** Matches, matting, glass ware, and straw plalis, now all, like textile fabilcs, important and increasing exports, were then entirely unknown Strathallan.........
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In 1872 the whole Import trade may be sald to bave been of manufactured articles. Done It is difficult with the material avail-Glensar
Cris able at the moment of writing to give an exact and comprehensive statement of
Savona ship Cardiff. the value of the whole import of raw produce in
Semarang. 1895, bat among the articles that may be classed Sachs
Aggregating 20,131 tons register. under that heading, or at least under that of
DEPARTURES. semi-raw, are the following:-Raw cotton,
Cheung Hye Trug...teamer, for Amoy. $14,833,097 1 raw wool, $1,136,191 ; metals uced for manufacturing purposes. $7,018,230; drugs|| Frogner mus Piskawur ..................... used for manufacturing purposes, $1,354.7793
manufacturing perposes, Benalder name. dyes used for $1.483,344 hides used for manufacturing Memn purposes, $695.984; flax and for manufacturing Maria Rickmers
The value of pig-dron | Zyderkorn samstun purposes, $645,840, imported in 1872 was $1,338, and its quantity, 30 tons against 35,000 toms, valus $673.795- 1895; while bar, plate and sheet, pipe and tube too had no place at all among Imports in 1872, and lead, steel, and tin only the most insignificant
ones.
Another extimate may be formed of the locresse in the imports of raw produce from the figures of the growing value of Japan's imports from Asiatic countries. These Imports, which, among other staples, Include the bulk of raw cotton and all the sugar, while not exclusively, mainly consist of raw material, and their deve- lopment is a fair index of that of the import of the latter.
The import of machinery also furnishes a falr criterion on Japan's progress in manufacturing industry. In 1873 Japan purchased machinery of all kinds to the value of $181,000. In the following year this amount grew to $376,000, but so late as the your 188y ver ille advance on the latter amount was ever shows in any one year, nor was the import ever considered to be of such Importance as to merit more than the merest mention in any of the trade reperin of Her Majesty's Consola to Japan. In 1888 the prospects of the spinning Industry first began to attract serious attention, and in that year the value of the import of machinery rose to $1,794,389
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The British steamship Formosa left Tamani on the oth Instant, and Amoy on the rtth. From Tamsul to Amay hid strong and variable winds with confused sea, decreasing to light northerly winds with overcast weather and dialing rain. Nearing Amoy had thick and rainy weather. From Amoy to Hongkong bad light winds and smooth sea with fine weather, In Amoy the steamships Tamsul, Hasting, Ran, Empress of China, Hong-liong, Hatman, exchow, Normandie, Tatartes and Sadine
Richmart.
The Britisk steamaħlu Haltom left Foochow on the roth festant, Amoy on the rrih, and Swatow on the rath. From Foochow to Amoy bad light valable winds and overcast weather with occasional rain and smooth sun. From
Amoy to Swatow had similar weather to Rees, Islands, thence to port had calm and clear weather. From Swalew to Hangkong had south to sooth-west winds. Is Foochow the steamship Hankis.. Is Amoy the steamshipa Hasting, Wenchow, Tamsus, Ran, Sabina Richmärs, and Cheong Hock Kian (dock), HONOLONG AND WHAMPA DOCK RETURNE, Talchow, i Kowloon Mathilde ...... Exting.........
During the succeeding seven years down to and inclusive of 1895. Japan has purchased machinery from abroad to the aggregate amount ol $18,492,262, including:-Dynamo elettric
Thates..... machinery, $1,473,971; planing machinery,
Wandering Jo.......................... $9,460 9391 wearing machinery, $681,667; paper-making machinery, $478,7393 mising Framnst... machinery: 8589 403 was imported the Japanese have, it is to be remembered, already learned to make great deal of machinery from foreign | models for themselves. Numerous foundries are now in sctive work in every ladustrial centre in the empire, and while elaborate spinning and electric machinery are still beyond their power a great quantity of simpler forms is produced, so excellent in its general tuin out as to make il very little Inferior to the foreign models from which it was originally copied,
(To be continued.)
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
--HONGKONG-KHARE-MARKET.
Hongkong, June 13th. Mr. Erich Georg in his Wukly"Shari Liff issued at noon to-day states
The market has"ruled much firmer since date The report le silks exhaustive, voluminous, of my last, and I have several Important and interesting. It is obviously impossible to changes in rates in report.
BANKS-Hongkong and Shanghals have
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NEW REGULATIONS YOR EXAMINATIONS OF MASTERS AND MATES. New regulations will come into force on the 1st January, 1898. The principal additional subjects and tests for second mates are writing from dictation, defaliions with figures, addli Honal problema in navigation ; and vivă voca
1 examination. Construcion and principles of the barometer, thermometer and hydrometer.
Coly and fint mates will be required to work any three problems from the second mates pavers, and problems in navigation by the slam. Féod voce examination, keeping a log-book, find« | Ing the cubical capacity of holds or coal bunkers, calculating ship's freight and its commissions, how to placs cargo and dead-weight in a stiff and in a tender vessel, the ventilation of holda, and stowage of explosives.
Additional for a Master :—To work any
is none other than an ill-governed Orlentar banded our representative over to Dr. Atkinson, the,ahin is flabby and wearing away, and giva it in axiangs in these columns, but the changed hands at 186 per cent. prem, for cash, three of the problems for second mates and any
state. Well and good, bat it is merely charac teristic of the rice. This vlew of it may be true enough, but it must be borne in mind that "custom makes law " and that what-
ever is done in accordance with law is lawful, Moreover "habl),"it is generally conceded, "is 'second nature," and we are therefore bound to admit that as far as concerns the general run
of commissions obiained in Chloa they are deemed by the natives, of different grades of society, and by many foreigners, to be the lawing outcome of what may be apily described as
• old custom," and that the very' worst con- struction native officials, of whatever rank you please, care to put upon them is that they are eliber the natural, and reasonable emolum ents
of office or elas fair perquisites. Of course, when aven the worst, construction le pat apon com- missions of the "squeexs" order it can bat ba admitted that the accoptation of such gains is only further evidence that the noble Roman of old bed good reason to exclaim, "Aumanum eit, arrare 1" And was it not Pope, too, who in a moment of inspiration exclaimed
"But Natsura from this gracious enő,
From burning sons when livid Geetha deacand ↑ " Meaning, of course, that trough errors had been committed, yet they were the result of the matural bent of his subject's inclination and the enormity of the offence ·referred to waJ lessened by the measure of responsibility attributable exclusively to his nature, or, as Shakespeare puts it :----
ia and
This latter gentleman most courteously made the man is in a fair way to linger la agony until blood-poisoning sets in and he dies 1 Unless
following extracts leave no point that is likely to and more shares are wanted at the rate; on twelve for only and first mates, latitude by pol
time transactions have taken place at 193 and star and by meridian altitude of the moon 1.0 an appointment, and kindly escorted the laquires this man be at ones treated by a forelow I be of valua or interest uncovered :-----
194 per cent, prem. for August. Nationals aru
to know the prevalling winds and currents of on offer at $20j without business.
the globe, tida ar i traða ronten. MARINE INTURANCE have all ruled quiet,
Additional for Baira Master-He will ba and beyond small sales of Chies Traders,quired to work out and show the construction Cantons, and Unions at quotailons I have nothing
over the whole of the institution, pointing out at the same time the alterations made at his request and the still greater improvements which he had recommanded, but which the Chinese Committee have not yet carried out.
Entering the compound; the receiving office is non reached, and here is stationed European officer who takes a record of the cases, this being, however, merely a temporary arrangement during the prevalence of the plague. After being registered and assigned to a doctor (the six Chinese doctors attached to the Hospital draw lots as to who shail treat each fresh patient ) the sick person is rent to the reception ward, there to remain until seen by Dr. Atkinson, who visits the place twice a day. This ward is in the bullding formerly used as the lunatic ward, farther men ties of which will is made below. After being reen by Dr. Atkinson, If the case is diagnosed as plague, the patient is sent at once to the Kennedytown Hospital. If doubtful, It is sent to the observation ward, where the temperature Is regularily taken, and in a few hours tho caso can be diagnosed. If not plague, the patient is assigned to the requisite wird, and there remains under Chinese treatment until cured or till death releases the victim from his sufferings. In case of death occuning, or of dead bodies being brought in, the bodies are taken to the mortuary, which is built at the south-east corner of the compound, and can be entered from the street without passing through the Hospital This is an innovation dus to Dr. Atkinson, the mortuary formerly being in the centre of the hospital. Here the bodies are viewed twica dally, and after the cause of death has been ascertained, the coined bodies, are taken away and burled.
surgent-lo which case his cure and discharge in fall health and vigour will be only a matter of weeks-be will surely suffer the most agonis log of deaths in the near future. This is an argent case, and should be at once attended to.
By order of the Government, the Hospital has to be visited daily by one of the Government physicians, who is supposed to have the super intendesce and general supervision of the Hospital. As a matter of fict, he has absolutely no power except to make suggestions, which are unless the Committee feel not carried out Laclined to do so. With the exception of insane persons, be has no power to ased say one to The Civil Hospitst. The patients may be asked or recommended to go to the Hospital, but unless they with it they cannot be taken there, Last year, with a different Committee, large number of patients did go to the Civil Hospital, and as a consequence a larger ward had to be put aside for their treatment, But this year only twenty-nine patients have so far gone there; a fact which should be duly con- ||iidered.
attained to
to report.
FIRE INSURANCES-Hongkongs continue neglected and quiet at $335. Chicas have been in good demand, and axles have been effected at 894 to 895 cash, closing firm at latter rate. On time shares have changed hands at $98 for September.
The year 1895 having witnessed the couple tion of Japan's triumph in the first foreign war undertaken by her alace her swergence from her old seclusion, and the spread of her renown throughout the world as a military power, it may not be amiss, when reviewing the trade, of that year, to faralsh particulars which will show. that, great as has undoubtedly been the develop mast of her military, that of her commercial resources has been no less marked during the last quarter of the century, and that the success which she has already achieved in commerc
SHIPPING-Hongkong; Canton, and Macaos and industry, though less brilliant and striking, ta no less substantial than that which she has have been dealt in at $34 and $344, closing with won in war. Her political importance and value sellers at the latter rate. Indo-Chinas have are now fully recognised in Europe. Slowly, found buyers in fair quantities at $66 cash and perhaps, but surely, she is winning an equal the end of the month, also st 857 for September, recogaltion for her commercial and industrial market closing steady. Douglasses have further importance, both of which have not only Improved to 364 with sales for cash, and on an eminent position in the time shares have changed hands at $66 and $66) present, but give the fairest and fullest for September.
more marked advances In REFINERIES-China Sugars are weak with promise to the future. As an active compellter with shares offering at 8115 and no sales. Losars European manufacturers in branches of Industry have improved with sales at $64, B55, $56, and which the latter hawa hitherto been accustomed - #66% cash, closing steady,
MINING-Punjoms have continued dull with THE TREATMENT OF LUNATICS IN HONGKONG, to consider peculiarly their own, she has already
Istimately connected with the present condition made her infames felt, and her fature progress | small sales at grji and Srgi; the result of the of the Tong Wah Hospital, and forming another as such is viewed in many quarters with no cyanide clean up is not yet to hand. Balmorals proof of the absolute necessity for immediate small alarm. But aku has, at the same time, have remained unchanged with small salos at interference in the treatment of patients, is the become and continues to be a large purchaser 31. Olivers have changed hands at A $81, treatment of lunatics in the colony. In the of costly European products, and the hope that ≥ 84, and B §1 paid up at $2.90. The Anglo columns of the Honhong Telegraph on the grafske will condians to increase as such is far Australian Co.'s expert has reported favour- July, 1894, one of the staff of this journal greater than any alarm which need be felt over ahly on the two properties, and the outer reported
stale of sffairs then thus described the
her present or prospective competition in other in my last may be considered "as accepted. existing in the Tung-wah Hospital, which bratches of industry;
Raubs have been dull at $5.30 with small sales. termed he
bosited In the space of 24 years the sliver value of Falchus have changed hands at 83.30. civilization" and a "chamber of Eorrors 1- Japan's importe increased nearly five-fold, har "The doors thrown wide open, honible exports over five-and-a-half-fold, and her total sight presented itself to the spectator: esged trade over fre-fold, Her population during the within thick hardwood bars, like ferocious same period increased fallows 1872, wild animals in a menagerie, sat half-a-dozen 33,110,835 3882, 36.700,118; 1893, 41,089,9401 alleged lunatics, four males and two adult 1893, $1,388,313. This increase still continues
them appeared perfectly at the rats of over 300,000 per annum j females. All of
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LEGAL INTELLIGENCE,
SUPREME COURT.
SUMMARY JURIDICTION. (Bafora His Honour Mr. Sercombe Smith, Acting Putine Judge), "June 13th.
FIXTURES.
The following cases have been fixed for the respective dates
Monday, June zgth.
Ba4-Ho Tam v. Li Müä............... Boy wo. F. 1. Stella...$ 104-30
Tuesday, June 16th.
23.77
There are of two separate and distinct classes of wards. One class consists of large airy rooms, in which there are beds ranging from twelve to rooms (after much pressure from Dr. Atkinsos) KLU bath rooms and lavatories, which are, however, very rarely used. Between each pair of beds are placed commodes of a very rough type, which are not, despite every effort made by the Europese physicians, kept as clean as they should be, and are kept in place regard he stood amaxed at what he saw in a cage in the newly acquired island of Formoss but
twestyin 'number, Attached to most of these harmless, especially the unfortunate women, one / In sama recent years, amounted, to considerek / $58, after sales at $51, 85%, $56, and $571 the 815-Mahomed Meer v. Sunder Singh$ 30.00
Wednesday, June xyih. 791-Cheung San Yan v. Ho Show
Shin & criminai$ 300,09,
Docks, WHARVES, AND GODOWER-Hong kong and Whampoa Docks have ruled very quiet and neglected with small sales at quotation, ***Was wroughtby Nature, not by ele cffence,"
Kowloon Wharvas, with a scheme for amal Seeing, then, that the incentive of the thility,
gamation with or the leasing of the Wanchal ever-tolling Chinese is, in common with the object
Godown Co.'s property, suddenly jumped to to life of almost all tollers, the acquisition of
scheme has not yet been accepted by the Kow. weslik-not so much the coveting of the power which is co-existent with wealth-then why, t
of whom was completely nude and amusing over 500,000; and it is estimated that in the loon Co., but the question will be decided by the may be asked, should there be from time to time
herself with the remanants of a thirty-cent course of another century Japan may well look Directors today at a special meeting called for hac and ery salsed about the "squeezing " of
blanket, the edge of which she imagined she was forward to being in a position when she will have the purpose. In the meantime the stock has astats Chinese officials, of Celestial com
hemming. There this poor emaciated creature is provide for a population of over 150,000,000 weakened with sales at 856, 355, and $53,
closing firm with boyers at the last rate. CHILDREN starring to death en account of thale pandoras, or of Mongolian domestice ? Presum
sat close to the rails of her den, perfectly willing souls.
An outlet for some of the increase will be found Wanchais have been enquired for in sympathy inability to digest food with finds most maresllowa ably it is because the Chinuman too often leaves.
to carry on a conversation with our reporter as the paths of wiring and justics and once having
with Kowloons, but I have heard of no transfers, food and samady, in Soou's Emulsions of Fin come under "the influence," av Spiritualiate pat less of the ability of the inmates to leave the exactly opposite and in full view of the even allowing for the most successful cofeniss LANDS, HOTELS, AND BUILDINGS LAK Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphilies. Very it, makes money honestly Ifikat medus operandi warda. The sexes are kept separate, and the
woman referred to. This contained a man tion of that island, and for a very extensive havs baca enquired for and small sales effected palatable and easily digested. Read the fallow. had been BOTA time in confine emigration of Japanese people to lareign at 8718. Hotels. Wast Foints, and Humphreysing testimonial zouk 1. kare, prescribed Scott's is not too troublesome, but anyhow he makes it, various classes of diaanse xin kept apart. The who
Raisio in cases of children safering, frum And it is because friend John makes money any tiled floors are, according to tas attendants, ment. He was dressed in filiby rags, and had countries, by far the greater part of the neglected.
MISCELLANEOUS ---Green Islands kavo further and and report, haw that ha off times finds himself on the horns washed once a week, but did not look as though in front of him a tin pan fall of very second-rate increase must be provided for within the of a dilemms, as the records of the colonial and say had been wished as stated. Taken all in all, bolled rice and a fia, pannikin of cold water-fimits of the presem, empire. Tals can best Improved to: 1739 after males at fry and 6173 mbly of his good electa as her mo consular law courts are found to demonstrats, though, this class of ward, with the exceptions his afternoon meal, which had been pushed in to be done by the gradual development of Japan Electrics have changed hande in fals lots at 871 | cuRNU EARN A mon a readily Che Way Prizren, As a rale, houerst, it is set the sleeks wall-to-de mentions: Lat are falsiy wall adapted for their him between the bait of his cigs He showed pre mantarlag: country, by her and 37 Ropes have dealtad had 3.C6 Melled Experimendeet, Badele compradors (though there are doubtless some use. The bedding is, however, ka sesont disgrsos no inclination to partake of his luxurious reput conversion from a purely spricultural country asins afected at 9195, B184, and 8125 qugh, and Hospital. Any Chamaan people, for exceptions), the exalted official, the naval com al codician. On piala piapolank bed tention on and indeed he coulda's had he been ne disposed, interone whose chief stairs will paddor end of theiridian Ware Aspen Bay Fingang mati Chap mmander, or Vicerigal soovovary whey through the | treaties, la di otaku mal, hinds in most chedd with | for the quantity and quality of his ratións would | minutdaturing / nad 120 fiới ryan avary overgy | Laund buyers ni Baðfṛ B17, and 829/