Co-day's Advertisements.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR KOBE.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"CHINGTU,"
Captain Innes, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 28th instant at 4. P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents,
Rongkong, 16th April, 1898,
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR TIENTSIN.
'HE Company's Steamshập
THE
"KWEIYANG,"
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Captain Osterbridge, will be despatched abore on SATURDAY, the 30th insinut
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents,
·Hongkong, 16th April, 1898,
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MOGUL-WARRACK-MILBURN LINE.
FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
THE Steamship
"LENNOX,"
will be despatched in above on SATURDAY, the goth lasant.
S.S." ENERGIA "..........................bout 15th May. 9.5" MACDUFF?
5.S. "AFRIDI
5.S." PATHAN "
n
15th May.
5th Jane.
rjth Jane.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL # Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 16th April, 1998.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
"HE Company's Steamship
FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL
THE
"MENELAUS," "
Captain Towell, will be despatched as above
on MONDAY, the and May
For Freight, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 16th April, 1898,
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
1569
FOR PORT DARWIN, QUEENSLAND PORTS, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.
THE Company's Steamskip
"CHANGSHA,"
Captain Williams, will be deinstched as abova es TUESDAY, the 3rd 57, at 4 P.M.
The sttention of Passengers is directed in the Superior Accommodation ossered by this Steamer, The First-class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provlslöss during the entire TDJERG.
A daly qualified Sergeon is carried and the Vessel is fiited throughout with Electric Light,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Esse
Hompkovs, 161b April, 1898
HAMBURG AMERICA LINE,
~ (EAST ASIATIC SERVICE.)
FOR LONDON, HAMBURG AND. ANTWERP. (Taking Cares at through rate to AMITARDAM, LISEO, CF ATO LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW,
NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAN POR53, "HE Company's Steamship,
THE
"ANDALUSIA,"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1898.
Intimation.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
KEUTER'S MESSAGES.
THE WAR.
suppression and future prevention of the plague is to get rid of the paralysing effects of official obstructionism, and let the work have a fair chance of being done
LONDON, April 24th. without being everlastingly hampered and
The blockade of Havana is established. Tho hindered. The Sanitary Board was cons-U. S. cruiser Washedly has captured the Spanish tituted with most complete and compre merchant steamers Buenaventura and Fedro hensive powers, to do everything that might be required for the health of the Colony; The Spaniards have captured the U. S. ship the Medical Officer of Health has alsó | Shenandoah inden with wheat for Antwerp what looks like a carla blancha, for every- President McKinley has called for 100,000 thing in regard to health must be "to the Volunteer. satisfaction of the M.O.H.,"_without which It must perish. Yet all these won- WINES & SPIRITS.derful powers somehow vanish, The Sanitary Inspectors are appointed to see that the Colony is clean; but they cannot ALL these STO selected by our Londondo this and must not do that and are House, bought direct at first hand, imported in barred from the other, till they are less use than ornament and precious little of wood and bottled by ourselves; thus saying all either. The authorities are authorised to Intermediate profits, and enabling us to supply do all sorts of things which they never do, because they are bound up in red tape. They want to be fumigated and ventilated themselves.
the best growths at MODERATE PRICES,
PRICE LISTS, with Full Detalls, to be had on
Application.
PORT after removal should be rested a month before use. When required for drinking at once it should be ordered to be decanted at the Dispensary before being sent out. SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and After Dioner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are
true Xeres Wines,
CLARET,—Our Clavets, including the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be the ganatas product of the juice of the grape and are not tifcially made from rallas and currants, as la generally the case with Cheap
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THE SHIPPING CONFERENCE.
The utmost secrecy is preserved concerning the movements of the Spanish Squadrons, Spain le still hesitating about renouncing privateering.
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President McKinley repudiates the intention of annexing Cubs. Admiral Sampson commands the blockade rquadron at Havana, Orders have been issued to lay down miscr in the United States barbour.
The war is causing a great rize in the English wheat ma›ket.
GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN CHINA,
A Blue Book on the China Dispatches bears out the reports of an extremely acute conflict having occaired betweens Great Britain and Rula regarding the cession of Port Arthur,
PARIS, April Trib, Demonstrations have taken place at Madrid
in favour of the military party, and against the Government proposals for compromise with the United States. Nomerous arrests have been
made,
The Blackburn Chamber of Commerce took the lead in England in Instituting of the displacement of British trade by exhaustive and trustworthy Investigations
(From Tonkin Paperi) foreign competition. From the statistics WAR IKE DEMONSTRATIONS IN SPAIN. published by the Blackburn Chamber it appears that from 1882 to 1985 the Im- ports of cotton drills into China came from British and American ports in almost equal quantities, and none from any other port. In 1894, the United States led the way with 720,000 pleces against 257,000 from British ports and 101,000 from Dutch BRANDY.-All our Brandy is guaranteed to ports, representing the output of Germany, be pure Coguse, the difference in price Holland, Belgium and North France. In being merely a question of age and vintage, sheetings, cotton yarn, metals, machinery WHISKY-All our Whisky is of excellent and other products, the same tale is told,"
quality and of greater age than most brand, The Blackburn report also gives some In the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY | statistics of the total exports of British and marked "E" is universally popular, and is | Irish produce and manufactures to China. pronounced by the best local connoissears In the five years from 1885 to 1889, In- to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market,
Wines.
We only guaranice our Wines and Spirits to be genuino when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the
Coast Ports.
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clusive, the annual average value was £8,302,493 In the next five years, the an- nual average was £7,678,000; in 1893, it was £6,435,000; and in 1894, £6,255,000. Seeing that the total trade of China, im ports as well exports, increased steadily during that period, and that the total trade of the British Isles, Imports as well as ex- ports, also Increased, this Individual
FRANCE AND HAINAN.
PARIS, April 13th. M: Handlaux tes communicated to the
Council of Ministers the concessions made by Chins to France. China has promised never to cede Halpan to any Poxer except to France.
PLAGUE STATISTICS.
During the 24 hours up to 2000, 25th April, 24 now cases and 24 deaths from plagua were re- parted, making the fatal since 1st January (115 days) 633 cases and 555 deaths.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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Tms 'morning, the U.S Connal General of] They squat on the side channels with a small- Hongkong and the V. S. Consut of Manlin tab of water containing about one pint of (Mr. Williams, who wrived here by the Esmer, dip a small cloth in the water, and rub thetaselves over. Now, if they wern encouraged valdo) and other officials proceeded to the Ame-
to have a proper bath free they would in my slcan året in Mirs Bay in the Fams, kludly lent | opluiss very quickly revel in the lazury. The by the Deck Company. Warn trying to ten cleansing of their living and aireping apartments Into Mus Bay she encostored very bad weather
would follow at a natural consequence, and bad a thorough dasting which obliged her
to put back to port.
THE Sebal Indipendent hat received a letter from a certain Korean guild, which is literally translated as follows—
Lofty Sir:-Wa, hope your Excellency will insert the enclosed copy of an insipilos which has been engraved on a tablet erected in boner of the Chief Commissioner of Customs sad Englishman, Brown, so that the great and small Adviser al the Finance Department, the grest people of Great Han will never forget Mr. Brown's services
grd-One other item, which I think nards im« mediate attention, is that falo the many draina and stench traps in the public streets, at least fectant should be poured every day. There nie ona bucket of water diluted with samo dixin-
hundreds of these open brick stench traps on the lootpaibe of the colony into which so rain can, STOF JUN and into which no water isevad poured which give forth at times soma of the vilest smells. No doubt in many there is no water, at -- all, while in others it must have become staguest and pauld. This duty could casily be delegated to the city scavenger. practical resulta➡I am, &c,
Hoping these suggestions may lead to some
CLMANLINESS.
Hoogkong, 25th April, 1897,
"Brown, the great Englishman, Chief Com- missionce of Daihan, He understands Chinese, long connected with the Kordun service. He is arm yet tender, he la rccurate and economic in COLOSSAL SANITARY SCHEME, Enxocial administration, Because of unfor tunata circumstances he was rekavad from the Finance Department too soon for our good. Whoever succeeds him cannot surpass this sago, His fame spreads worldwide and his deeds will be written on silk and bamboo,"
We insert this copy of the Inscription with
great pleasure. Though namble in origin and of quaint and simple style we-ballers that the message comes from the hearts of a grateful people. We bave previously announced Mr. Brown's worthy recogaliion at the bands of his government. We are glad to print this hearty recognition from the people whom he has faithfully served. Though couched in the extravagant terms of Odesini innguage we believe there is s,frath underneath which makes it an unusual tributë,--Ed. 7.]
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SPAIN AND THE UNITED STAZES;
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We take the following scheme for stamping aut the plague from Bombay from the Brfifik Realm. The scheme is equally applicable t› not be followed Hongkong, and we do not sea why it should-
·The widespread recrudescence of plague m Bombay should surely afford a striking object tesson to municipalities in the East. The Jainsi returns show that the death-rata la the City ned Island of Bombay bas reached the startling figure of 330 per thousand, mortify from plague alone reenching the abnormal total el Conalderably over a thoussed per week. The responsibility for this appalling state of things { ....
must andonbiedly be held to rast with tha Municipality of Bombay and with that hedy alone. The disease first made itell ̈manllest in the clly In August, 1896 ; but it seems to buyɑ been purely a matter of fortuitous accident bat the
drawn by the Health Officer of the Port outbreak was so long deferted. The Losanitary for years, and attention bad baco repeatedly condition ofthe native town had been notorious
The officers on board seemed to be particularly A reperior of this journal boarded the staxmer Esmeralda soon after her arrival here today, careful not to tell anything that might get them
to the accumulations of filth in the imme lato trouble when next they go back to Manila diate neighbourhood of the district-known as A gentleman engaged in the peeling of a bucket Mandvle-in which bubonic typbald first made of potatoes infor aed the reporter that the Refe Christina, an obsolete causer was in harbour there is in the theory that plague germs were Its appearance. Theismay be trath-doubtlero when the Bamaralds left, nad he also said that they had to take a torpedo pliet" when they brought fato Bombay from Hongkong ; but it must not be forgotten that the plague fi essen entered the barbour. The callcary gentleman here smiled and said he "didn't believe there tally a filth disease, and, rate or no rats, it must was a bloomin' torpado in the place." Some of
have broken out sooner or later. For the time the ship's company said they would be shot view to stamping out the epidemic seemed to
bolag, the vigorous measures adopted with next time they went back if they gave any informs have proved effective; but the sequel shows tion about tha #altuation" and other that the charge long ago laid against the Bom. said things were quite. It was said too that bay sanitary authorities of gross neglect and the Spaniards were remarkably reticent in letting delay in dealing with what was well-known to It was for this vast quantity of news that our 1E. porter got himself meat liberally drenched was amply lasted by the fact.
Тве with salt water and every two
remedy, was not attempted till the disease or three had got dres bold of the native town, and, as in minutes found himself with a good prospect of
all cases of Eastern 1yphold-for the so-called ellaging to a swamped bost or banging on to an plagas is a form of black typbold with bubinła or in a choppy sez
Mr. U. S. Consul Wildman speaking of his swellings it only required the monsoon rains to set is death-desfing germs actively a fizet representatives that he thought he was sent beginning of July, the death rale has been the old craft fairly buried hergail in the scar and the cutleg generally was far from being a smallpox about the city, and a good deal of
cholern ; and for some weeks the authorities. pleasant one. ence of the Philippine rebel leaders now here winter, the fight of quarter of a million of no doubt with the parfectly leghimate object of We learn from pilvate sources that a conferaventing such a paald as caveed is the previous and the US aniacalles was to be held this people, and the complete paralysis of all local evening. The conference of course would be a incastrice-caused the fncreased mortality to be
A. S. WATSON & CO.. Ln decrease is sufficiently significant; and, Two marine hawkere, whose weights were to anything of their warlike actions be known.be a gravely threatening candiıion of affairs,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, &ih December, 1997.
The Hongkong
while the trade between British ports and the Far East has been lessening, Antwerp {7
has progressed by leaps and bounds, chlefly because freights to and from British ports have not been reduced as have Ant- werp freights.
Celegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1898.
THE PLAGUE.
per cent abort, were prosecuted by Inspector Duncan to-day. 'Each was fined $ag, in default two months.
THE reckless diving of a truck cost two coolles ady Hitle sum at the Magistracy lo-day. They
yesterday, breaking bis leg. Captain Hastings fined them each $5 or fourteen days and ordered them to pay $15 as compensation to the fojured man, falleg which they go to gsol for six weeks. THE Salgan Assise Court bar condemned
The case is set forth tersely and effec. I had twenty caxes of kerosine on board and whan trip in the Fama this morning, told ane of ou? | again." Ever since the ra'ns set in at the tively in the report laid on the table of the ear the Gasworks they ran over another coalie for " so rongh was the sea outside. At times stendly" going up. There was a good deal of Hongkong Legislature on July, 15th 1896, by the Colonial Secretary, as Chairman of a special commission appointed by the Governor in response to an enquiry from the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to the displacement, of British goods in this
was published in full at the time, we need not quote any of the details therein placed on record; but some of the general con- clusions are very emphatic:-
Once upon a time there was a subtle, | market by foreign goods. As the report | Madame I eriche, editress of the Makong, to pay private one but it in questionable whether the } set down in those causes.
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a fius of one frane and publish apologies, for missionary, named Pere Benoit, belling There were three complaints, of which one was decided to faveur of the paper and two in favour of the padre. It was held that he had mands improper use of his powers of absolaitos, to extert $1200 from a buxom widow, and Madimo Leviche failed to prove that the priest had sise bed improper relations with bis native cook's wilt, and bad by false accusations created
Captain Schiötter, will be despatched for the terial). The old man, when told, promptly freight payable from Gernan ports. The same trouble in a native household and prevented a
above Ports on or about the 7th May.
For Freight, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co.,
Agents,
· Hongkong, 25th Apr!1, 1893
586
EAST ASIATIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR HAVRE, ROTTERDAM AND COPENHAGEN.
THE Company's Steamship
"SIAM,"
"ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Agents. Hongkong, 16th April, 1808-
Intimations.
VICTÒRIA DISPENSARY,
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sardonic satirist in France. He cudgelled His cross-grained brain for an inspiration which should typify the very nadir of noodle-dom, the very allllest and most pitiful spectacle of miserable Inanity that These has been a serious falling off in the a misanthrope could Invent. And he suc- imports of Metals from Great Beltalo, notably ceeded. He wrote a very funny and yet in that of Yellow Metal, which formerly was very sad story of a man whose son went exclusively imported from thenes. It is estimated to sea in a galley, and was drowned (or comes from British makers, the inferior German that only about half the import of this Hotel now perhaps captured by pirates; it is imma meal being greatly alded by the lower rate of proceeded not to lament, nor to do any remarks acpy to the trade in Bar Iron, Nali minge thing useful or appropriate, but to Institute Rod, and Scrap Iran, most of which is now inquiries about how the young man came fimported from Belgium, the productions of which to be in the galley. The sad fate country. ara helped by cheaper cost of producilon- of the poor boy did not concern him; he and lower freights from Antwerp. The Cam was lost in wonder, how his son got there. of evidence, which unmistakably points to the mires were constrained to accept the bilance To all condolences, expressions of sym-conclusion arrived as and, to more clearly pathy, eulogies and clegies, he could only elucidate the point, some tabulated examples of reply "Mala, que diable allait-il fair dans sctual shipments have been obtained. ceito galdre
The causes to which the displacement of British goods in this market aza to be assigned may be briefly stated :- goods
1-Lower cost of production of rival foreign
2-Disinclination of British manofecturers to
British steamship owners) which, whlia mála.
rebs" will be of any servics to Uncle Sam..
US Coral Williams (Manlin), together with Mr. R. Wildwas, American Consulat Hong ong, wil visit the Rest in Mix Bay to-morrow morning,
PLAGUE REMEDIES.
ing. The desertion of the mills at the close of
But as day after day and week after wook hath could not be disguised any longer; went on, it became increasingly obvious that tha and with the official declaration that the snor ́mous_dasth-isle of 129 per thousand was to be "partially accounted for" by renewed outbreaks of babonic plague, another exodus immediately began. Bombay was at this period very far sible suggestions from a correspondent, "Clean of busy cheerfulness. The crowds which To-day's Daily Prize has some very ten- | indeed from having rerumed its wonted aspect liners," regarding steps to be taken against the prior to the autumn of last year had hardly began swarmed the marrow streats of the nailve city recurrence of plaguo epidemics in Hongkong.io come back again before they were agala We have much pleasure in endorsing his frightened away. Enormous sumters of labu. WE have received a handsome coloured plate, seriously taken into conskleration by the Govern-bay's great colton Interests warn again fanguish. eplatens and hope that the' suggestions will be bitants led to join the already overcrowded
ranks of the agricolisral labourers and Bom measuring 33 by 24 inches, given away as April and. The plate has the somewhat clap this morning's less my "troubled soul" forces reated at two and a half millions sterling, and f supplement with the issue of The Grophic of meal. The correspondent writes trappy "One with Britain, heart and soul, one me to write, although my talk will finally be foams and spindles are again to stand idle for S12,-After reading your excellent lender In | 1896 occasioned a lone which may be fairly eslin
life, one day, one throne !" and it represents probably consigned to the waste paper basket, an indefinate peiled a condition of wholesale same aliety types of our Colonial and Indian or be pigeon-holed until the next plagan epidemla | bankruptcy threatens to-set:in. -The industry forces. These types were all drawn from Kfa
come round.
has, of course, never got back to the position (t It-The causes of the plague ard want of was in before the plagus broke out ; but tha when, on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee sunlight, cvar-crowding, and the fifiby Habits of | mejority of the binely cotion mills in Bombay Celebration, representatives of the troops in the poorer Chloess. There are probably over Were last summer elther working or beginning our colonies and dependencies were in London. mile into which are crowded every night from round, whes almost without warning a fresh out. thirty lanes within a radios of a quartzs-of-a. | to work; and prespects were brightening up all Great care his been taken to ensure accuracy: 200 to 30s Chinese, and into which isnes the break occured to prove that all the measu.com and the unifams of the different figures may be
an never shines from one year's end to another, taken by the authorities to put an sald to be absolutely correct. The picture con.
effectual What is wanted to remedy this evil is the check upon the diterus had proved fuille. veys soma idas of the vastness of the Baltish || hearly interest of one or more of our local. It was, strangely "ooough, only at this point Empire, and of the various race-Blade, meat, a block of model lodging houses with all gravly of the aliuation. To do them Justice philanthropists, who would build, as an experi- | that the local, administration awoke to the Mongol, Negro, and others who liye under the necessary, sanitary arrangements, The experi- protection of the Uston Jack.
ment has been tried most successfully in London, AT the Regular Mesting of the Victoria Chapter, breakfast for a penny, dinner for twopence,
where a poor man can get a bed for a penny, No. 525, E.C., held last evening, M. Ex. Comp. and tos or supper for a penny, or fivepenca E. C. Ray, acting for the D. G. Superlatendent results could be produced here for ten cents a day, I am strongly of opinion that the same attended by the D. G. Officers, installed the day. And the most important feature would be three Principale elect for the ensuing year: habits of cleanliness. All Chineas labburers, chels colles, cargo coolles, richsha coolies, and such like, sarn eisily twenty to twenty-five cents per day, so there is no vary great fiancotal difficulty about this * suggestion." to inceicase social habits of cleanliness amongst
and-We are all agreed that what is wanted la.
the Chinese, Hener I would suggest to the Goi vernment that free prble bathe and free strings for the Chinese should at once enter fato their policy. The question at once arises, how to ac complish this desirable object P An an experi ment,
The Hongkong sanitary authorliles are Captain C. Cold, will be despatched as above similarly anxious to know how the plague on or about the 14th May.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
came to be here. There is employment enough for their somewhat limited intellects study taste of consumer.
The steadi'y falling value of silver since In thinking that to do about the plague how that it is here; but they prefer to
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4-Lower freights outwards from foreiga as speculate wonderingly how it got here. MOLITEE was a writer of tragedy, dis- compared with British ports.
5Cheaper rallway transit to foreign pozis of guised as comedy. This Hongkong affair shipment. Is calamitous more than comic. Instead The two last named causes apply more. DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & of straining every nerve, concentrating especially to metals and heary goods, and No. 4 every effort, to the single task of combatt. The Comesittee regest to say, is due to the scion COMPANY,
ing the plague which is destroying the of the Shipping Conference (consisting clear of trade of the Colony, we fritter away our laining heights from British parts, carry cargo Lime and temper in discussing how the at a much lower rate from Continental and plague came here. It is here; that is American ports, thus giving foreign manufactores enough-far more than enough—and how | avlṛtusi subsidy to their compellifon with Bricch It came here does not matter now. It is products bere, and If It only kills a dozen coolles per make special reference to the advartages cab. H
In this connecilon the Committee wish to M. E. Z. `........................M. Ex. Comp. D. Macdonald day, a mere trifle, neighbouring ports are ferred of American cotton piece gecde in the Je
Ex. Comp. R. Mitchell as cautious about it as if the destruction Chias market by the rates of freight charged by
Ex. Comp. G. J. B. Sayer was a hundredfold greater. It is here, the Conference steamers from New York to
After which the M. E Z. invested his officer as follows - and it will stay for over if we do not clean Hongkong and Shanghai, which average from the place and keep it clean.
25/- to 30/- per ton si compared with 57/6 from London and Liverpool outwards. The IP. S. retasiks apply to the shipment of mechinery 1st A. 8. from the United States to China, the freight for and A. S. which is about forty per cent, lower than that from British parts
HONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
IMPLE AERATED WATER.
SIMPLE
ODA WATER.
SODA
INGEN ALE
GINGER
LEMONADE.
SARSAPARILLA.
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If the authorities really cannot bring themselves to move until they have an answer to the question "How came the plague to Hongkong,” we will tell them. Not from Macao, not from Canton, not
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they formulated a scheme which certainly should baye the desired result, but it is a scheme nieD into effect at least twenty years before. This which in a modified form should have been put scheme contemplates not only the immediate rale destruction of the more congested portions complation of the dralesgasystem, but the whole of the native city where, in existing circumstances no drainage system in the world could be effectively introduced. Bombay, in this respect in fo much the same position, as the the City London at the time of the great plague ƒ “kud, from the sanliary point of view, the most promis.. terrible epidemie grest in but as there are Ing remaży: would be that which followed that
no Solomon Eagles' is the Bombay. Corporatlan daring coough to advocate it, perhaps she next best thing in las project mades discussion.. Täl project creates an entirely new executive body,
Corporation and the Sanitary Board. engage a large godown somewhere to the Menteng (for this particular work) both the most crowded district, purchase one hundred To this Committee is delegated “very "larga. Secchow tubs and place them around the walls powers ever Government, Maoldipal and Port at rearozable distances, put a tap to each bath Trust lands, with sathority to this out over and allow the use of sosy, if the bather wants crowded neighbourhoods, pull down blocks of
from Chinese Kowloon, but from kong i the Conference a modification of their tariff her I connection with a recent colitary explosion in hot water it could be,casily supplied at say one buildings whero no sanitary reforms can be other ASPBERRYADE, &c. kong itself, from the legacy of four years fere cantiuuing a subaldy or other support to any New South Wales as exchange says that a should bring his own lowel and cloth with him, in short, to thoroughly cleanse the Augen sinbles cent a bucket, an at Shanghai, sad each bather | wisp effected, widen streets, sot back houses, and, abilly-shallying, from the effects of four shipping company which is a party to a compact years' half measures, from the seed sown that places Bridsh manufactures at a disadvan. small brown parcel was received at the mise Suppose you allow half-so-hony in each bather of the "City of Sunshine,!f. The sudertaking it, in 1894, and cultivated assiduously ever age with foreign rivals? DAKIN, CRUICKIHANE & Co.'s WATERS aralace. It is idle to watch the Canton
from the Mines Department, Sydney, containing thousand five hundred people being cleansed in Bombay tenement houses are sis and seven vory Liberal Ume-that means neatly four without dasht, a colusnal one. Many of the The Committee, moreover, feel bound to record about a dexin white mice, which, on the sugges- twelve hours. Say you ultimately had ten bath storeys high, and contain, perhaps, two hundred made under the constant supervision of a duly steamers; it is stupid to waste time and their conviction that several of the witnesstion of Inspector Atkinson, are to be used as a homses, that means forty-five thousand bathe in tenants. Although rents are low where tenants. qualified English Chemist and will bear compa- hamper trade by boarding Macao boats. the Shipping Conference and they are of precaution by the rescue parly in their work, twelve hours to each of these places I would are so numerous, each building is by way of
were ladisposed to speak freely on this subject rison with the best English Manufactures.
We should rather quarantine the Hong opinion that it is a question of such paramena The idea is to use these small animals as a test establish free public latrine. The starting of being a little gold mine to fit owner, and the kong Legislative, limewash the Executive importance to British Trade as it might Bitingly of the purity of the atmosphere trave sed by the such a bath Rocas world calainly cast-less than wholesale rasing of such CatATERSealy CIN Council, demolish and reconstruct the form the subject of a searching investigation on parites exploring the mine. Small animais, like certainly be less than one hundred dollars per expenditure in the way of compensation. Morg
■ thousand dollars and the up-koup would hardly be accomplished without an enormous Stullary Board under the Rezumption Or the part of the Home Government. dinance, and Institute thorough inspection Several witnesses were Indisposed to mice, it appears, show the effects of carbon month. It will be argued that the Chiasts over people murt live, somewhere, cyan in a of the sanitary staff. Search-parties should speak freely on this subject of the Ship manexide gas much sooner than mes, and the wild not visit these baib houses. I think they city which enjoy eight of mind months of pers rummage out and bura all obstructive re-ping Conference. The Chairman of the proposal is to supply the rescuers with a cage of attached. There was a man not so long ago town is even sam wretchedly ovcicrowded, now would I no objectionable regulations were fetust sunshine and blur shy, and as the native gulations, fumigate all official fossils, and leading Conference line was not indis white mice, and whenever, in the comms of their heard of taken to a medical missionary hospital habliations will have to be provided for the scak all certified pestilential property. posed to speak freely; he spoke with great work, the animals are noticed to fall down fasen. away up the coast, supposed to be haring evicted denizens of condemned" districts, a la owners In pure carbolla...
freedom, in our humble opinion, freedom, albis it will be's warning to the rescuers that from a leathsome skin disease. They put him any circumstances, the schema promises to be from proper care as to the soundness of the ale is dangerous, and that they must retiredilib and din: Any observant person will sie on regards the causes which have brought it late in a hot bath and it was found to be nothing but an almost absolutely unique one, alike ar his statements.
White mice have been selemed, as they will be going along any ale street ihwimproved tendency, being, And the anonnous powers of the Com -(To'be routinnid.)
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There is amongst the Chinese to wash themaisires, | miltos charged with iss unecation.
3 er Large Consumers,
Special terms to Houts, Couss, Mazars and 2ny complaints should be addressed to the Managre Hongkong, 18 March, 1897
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