To-day's Advertisements.
VICTORIA PRIORY,
REGULAR MEETING of the
A VICTORIA PRIORY, will be held at the FREEMASONS HALL, TO-NIGHT, the 14th instant, at 8.30 for 1.3. precisely, Visiting Sir Knights are cordially invited to Attend.
Hongkong, 14th November, 1899.
DELIGENTIA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1899.
Intimation.
A. S..WATSON & Co.,
LIMITED..
WING AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
LODGE OF
SCOTCH
INSTRUCTION, REGULAR MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS! HALL, Zelland Street, on THURSDAY, the 16th instant, at for 5.30 pm: precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 44th November, 1899.
A LECTURE
will be delivered in the
CITY HALL
by alm. CUTHBERT LAYTON, from England.
N THURSDAY, November 16th.
The and confing of the Lord Jesus
Christ, Signs of the Times, and m pending Judgments.
WHISKY.
A-THORSE'S BLEND, White
Capsule B.---WATSON'S
„ÁBELOUR-
GLENLIVET, Red Cup
GLENORCHY MELLOW BLEND, Blue Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark
C.-WATSON'sTM
sule, with name and Trade Mark
--WATSON's H.K.D., BLEND
Libid
OF THE FINEST Scoren MALT WHISKIES. Vio let Capsule E-WATSON'S VERY O1 L
QUEUR Scoren WWIISKY. Gold Caps
The Unity of the Church: What is
it, and why necessary for the days in | D). which we live?
Lectures at 5.30 PM. Doors Upen 5 o'klick. All Seats Free. No Collection. Hongkong, 14th November, 1899
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
WING to Bad Weather the INTERPORT
DAY, the 18th instant.
The following will form the Team: Messrs. BLAIR, BOWERY, CARLYLE, CLARKE, HILLS, MARSHALL, MCLENNAN, SKELTON. WALLACE and WATSON.
Reserves :---
STACKWOOD'
Messrs. LAMMERT,
TOLLER.
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All Members of the Team, Reserves ani Umpires are requested to be on the ground at 2 F.3. Punctually.
MOWBRAY S. SORTHCOTE,
Hon See Hongkong, 14th November, 1899.
SHOW OF CRYSANTHEMUMS.
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Mote in his Friends and the R. DORANJEE NOWROJEE begs to General Public that his fine Collection of CRYSANTHEMUMS will be on show in the Gardens at Kowloon Hotel for me week, commencing THURSDAY, the 7th instant.
Entrance by Chater and Elgin Roads. Hongkong, 14th November, 1899.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ-CANAL,
THE Company's Steamship
"HECTOR,"
Captain Barr, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 15th instant.
For Freight, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 14th November, 1999.
Idoi.
$10,80
10.50
12.00
1447-10
15.00 THORNE'S BLE
Warsox's GLENORCHY are high class Foda Whiskies, of greater age than most brands in the market.
ABELÖPRÜGIEENLIVET is a very old Peat Whisky, (smoky) and could not now be replaced in strek at the price
Dis well known for its fine flavour.
E is of superb quality and pro- nounced by leading local connois- seus to be the best brand in the Bangkong market.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARE
BIRTILI
On the 14th instant, a Windermere," Kowloon, the wife of FRANK SMYTH, of a [14254
son,
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MARRIAGE.
At the Peak Church, on the 14th November, 18, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, Wit11AM NEWTON, Hongkong, to EDITH MARIAN [83, daughter of the late Henry Pound, of
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
-"HAICHING,"
Captain Davis, will be despatchel for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 45th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, sub November, 1899. [iya SCOTTISH ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR NOHIOW AND SINGAPORE,
E Company's Steamship
"LOOSOK,"
THE
Captain Jackson, will be despatched as above an FRIDAY, the 17th instant, at 10 AM,
For Freight or l'assage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 14th November, 1809.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA,
THE Steamship
"CATHERINE APCAR," Captain J. G. Olifent, will be despatched for the above Poris, on SATURDAY, the 18th instant,
a: 1 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co,
Agents.
(1420a Hongkong, 14th November, 1899. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, ADEN, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, PENANG
AND SINGAPORE.
HE Steamship
THE
VINDOBONA” having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This vessel brings Cargo:
Upper Clapton and Eaestbourne, and of Mrs. 11enry Pound, of Linkwood," Tooting Bec Conimon, S.W.
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A CARD
R. and Mrs. HATHERLY desire to
press their HANKS to their
Friends for the great Sympathy shown on the Occasion of the Death of their son.
Hongkong, 4th Nov., 1899.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,
Arrival of Re-inforcements. Three troopships have arrived at Cape town, two of which have proceeded to. Durban.
The War-The Skirmish at
Belmont.
LONDON, November, 13th. Oficial details of the skirmish at Belmont state that Col. Gough, with two squadrons of Hussars, a field battery and 150 mounted infantry engaged 700 of the enemy for three hours and then retired. Lieut. Wood, who was wounded in the skirmish, is deail.
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The General Attack on Kimberly.
An official despatch states that the general attack of the Boers on the 4th inst, was chiefly with the object of listing cattle. The Free Staters attacked on the south side and retired. The Transyaalers subsequently attacked on the north side and retired under fire with probably heavy losses.-- Our losses were one killed and two wounded.
Mafoking.
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An official from Mafeking states that the town was safe on the 27th October and that the Boers, after two days bombardment, nt- tacked on three sides and were repulsed by the Maxim fire.
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Ladysmith.
Reuter's correspondent at Escourt, 9th instant, says that there has been heavy firing in the direction of Ladysmith, and that the sounds indicate heavy naval guns.,
General Buller has now 5,000 additional troops at his disposal.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:- On the 14th at 11.53 a.m. the barometer has risen on the China coast and over Japan, fallen in the Philippines. A depression seems to be situated to the of Luzon, and pressure is highest over the N.E. coast of China. Gradients
moderate on the coast, rather steep with very
strong monsoon in the N. part of the China Sea. FORECAST:-Strong or fresh N.E. winds; rainy at first, probably improving later.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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A GREAT gai holder has just been completed for the corporation of Birmingham, England, which is 254 feet in diameter and 160 feet high when extended to its full height. Its storage capacity is 8,250,000 cubic feet. TO-MORROW afternoon on the Happy Valley, the Hongkong Football Club (A) will play .H.M.S. Endymion, under Association rules. Kick-off at half-past four. The Club team will beT. J. Wild, goat; T. W. Homby and H. Pinckney, backs; C.-H. P. Hay, S. L. Jenkins and A. Beattie, bakrés; H. A. Holmes, J-E. Kee, A. F', Williamsan, P. A. Cox and E. J. Libeaud, forwards,
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AN aquarium will be one of the attractions at
the Paris Exposition. A dark incline will lead visitors to it, and suddenly they will feel as if transported to the very bottom of the sea, in the midst of marine landscapes and inhabitants ut the ocean. Immense glass tanks will form the aquarium proper; the buttresses, pillars and girders, which will form the frames of the tanks and hold the glass together will be entirely
concealed under rocks.
THERE is a small station on the Chesapeake und hie Railroad, near Cincinnati, called California. The town had developed away from the station and the railroad company has moved it to the center of the town: The build- ing measured 60 X 25 feet and was one story high. Tron shoes were fixed under the struci. ture which was raised by jacks. An engine was then hitched on, the rails were greased between the engine and the building, and in exactly four minutes the station was conveyed a third of a mile and the men were rolling it on a new foundation. The work of changing the location of the station necupied only one hour and fifty minutes.
A NATURAL curiosity consisting of a mountain of alum is described in the Le Tour du Monde. It is found in China, 124 miles from the village of Lion-chik, and bears the name of Fan-chan Mountain. It has a diameter of not less than I miles at its base, and a height of 1,940 feet, For cemuries the inhabitants of the country have exploited this natural source of wealth digging from it yearly hundreds of tons of
alum. To ubtain it they quarry blocks of stone, which they first heat in great furances and then in vats filled with boiling water. The alum crystallizes.out and formis á layer 6 inches thick. The compact layer thus pro- {. duced is afterward cut intri blocks weighing
to pounds.
11.M.S. Centurion leaves on the 24th inst, fox | THE road from Hunghom to Kowloon City Bangkok.
and on over the low pass to the north-east of that evil-smelling collection of hovels is pro H.M.S. Undaunted, now at Manila, has beengressing apace and when the bridges, now in painted black.
course of construction, are confleted, will make an excellent bicycle ride. We note with M. A. Doing has assumed the duties of French regret, however, that the shore battery, which
Consul at Foochow in succession to M. P. Chandel.
ILMS. (phigenia may be expected from Shanghai in a few days as she is to be relieved by the Benaventavr.
THE Foochow ice harvest has commenced and the crop is reported to be fairly good on the average. In some districts the growing crops have suffered severely through want of
rain.
THE return of communicable diseases occurring in the Colony during the week ended on the 11th inst, shows one death from diphtheria and one case of enteric fever, from the steamship Hotline.
is at historical interest as having fired upon Captain Elliot's boats, is being demolished and the granite blocks used as a facing for the road as it skirts the shore. The battery was at least clean and it seems a pity that an old landmark should be destroyed. Gould not the road have been run through the City?. It would then have let in alittle light,atal air and would have entailed the destruction of many filthy hovels instead of the shore battery. We suppose the old guns will be plized as drain-pipes next, and the wall running up the hill at the back ut the City broken up for road metal. But what can one expect when even pretty Glenealy was allowed to be desecrated?
The Grand Variety Concert advertised in our columns takes place to marrow evening at the Theatre Royal. The programme is the fullest and tnost varied we have had placed before the public and patrons will certainly receive their
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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL
The Colonial Secretary-1 do not see any objection to the adoption of the proposed amendment. It practically amounts to the same thing,
The amendments, wero-accepted:" The Hon. 'I H. Whitehead---I would msg. gest that after the word "The "at the com Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Hong-inancement of sub-section & the words "The kong Legislative Council was held in the Sanitary Board with the consent of the Council Chamber at the Goverment Offices, Governor in Council be inserted, there being present His Excellency the Gov ernor (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G.), His Excellency Major-General Gascoigne, C.M.G (Commanding the troops), the Hon. J. H Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary), the Hon. II. E. Pollock (Acting Attomey
Hurray Rumsey General), the Hon. R. (Barbour Master), the Hon. F. H. May, G.M.G. (CaptainSuperintendent of Police), the Hon. A. M.. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer), the Hon. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, the Hon. T. 1. Whitehead, the Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., the Hon. Wei A Yak, the Hon. J. J. Keswick, Mr. R. F. Johnston (Acting Clerk of Councils.)
FINANCIAL MINUTES.
The Colonial Secretary laying on the table the financial minutes Nos. 20 to 24 moved that they should be referred to the Finance Com- mittee. The Colonial Treasurer, begged to second this motion which was carried.
FINANCIAL RETURNS.
The Colonial Treasurer laid on the table "Financial Returns accompanying the draft estimates for 1,900 and said he had to request the honourable members to accept this amended- statement in place of one laid on the table some weeks ago. There was an unfortunate clerical error which made the estimated balance of assets at the end of this year larger than it should have been. I may say however, that indications show that since this statement was made out, the original balance of $413.000 odd will be more than exceeded at the end of the
year.
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead-It is extremely unlikely that the Governor would not approve of what the Sanitary Board had sanctioned.
The Attorney General suggested the insertion of the words "of this section" after the word "requirements" The amendments were accepted also the latter suggestion, and the Committee. passed on to the consideration of Sec. 8.
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The Acting Attorney-General-After the the word domestic building" in clause I propose to insert the words which were cir
culated to honourable members after the words Part of the domestic building"; and also at the end of clause a. I propose that the words, just added to clause 7 on the suggestion of the Director of Public Works be added instead.
I woult suggest also that in the 3rd line of the 4th paragraph the words both end-should be substituted for either end and in the second line instead of street to read thoroughfare.
The amendments were accepted.
The Acting Attorney-General-In clause 14 think it would be an improvement if after the word "person" in line one the following words were inserted" And the secretary or manager for the time being of any company or corporation". "I think that will read better, as it appears to read now, that the company or corporation is to be sent to goal. That will in- volve as consequential amendments that in line
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instead of "the offender auch person secretary, or manager" should be substituted and, that in the last line but one instead of "the offender" "such person, secretary, or manager" should be substituted, Then the clause will readEvery person, and the secretary or manager for the time being of any company or corporation commit
offence against this Ordinance in respect of which no penalty is otherwise pro
The Hon, T. I. Whitehead-said it appeared from the statement dated 13th March that the balance of assets on the 31st December last year was $213,000 odd, but he saw by the statement dated 29th September that the balance of assets for 1898 was increased to $251,000 odd. The
ting an There could not be two ba- statement as it stood was unintelligible and in- comprehensible. lances of assets on the same date. Either one to the other must be incorrect. An explanationvided by this Ordinance shall be liable, upon. should be given; there could only be one balance summary conviction, to pay a fine not, exceed- ing fifty dollars and in default: of payment thereof to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one month, and in any case where in the opinion of the Magistrate the offence is likely to be continued, the Magistrate may require such person, secre tary, or manager to comply with this Onlinance in within such time as he may direct and may flict a further penalty not exceeding five dollars such person, secretary, or ninager shall fakt so. for every day after such date, during which to comply.
of assets.
The Colonial Treasurer said that, this was the form in which it had been published in former years. However he would have the matter looked into
The on. T 11. Whitehead-In the statement of the 13th March there is a deduction from the balance of $123,000 (1893 loans). It would be a matter of very connection with the estimates for next year a great interest to members of the Council if in statement were provided giving details of the expenditure on cach public work for which the money was borrowed, and whether there is any balance of the loan remaining on hand.
The Colonial Treasurer-That shall be given,
The Questions of the H. H. T. Whitehead having been answered as given in our last night's issue the council resolved itself into Committee on the Insanitary Properties Bill.
The Acting Attorney-General-The amend ment I have to propose first of all is that the following words he added to sub-section a of clause 7" A window or windows, having a total area clear of the window frames of at least one-twentieth of the floor area of the principal room or rooms of such baiding, shall be pro- vided, opening into such open space." That, sir, is the amendment which has been circulat ed to honourable unembers. I think, perhaps, it would be improved if after the word "provid ed" the words "upon every floor" were insert ed. I think, sir, that will be a very desirable provision to be introduced into this Bill. I un derstand that there is going to be a good deal of discussion upon it. I understand it is going to be contended that this would be too great a provision to make at the rear of some of these buildings, but I would point out that in cases where there would be any hardship caused by such a provision as this it is open to the Go- vernor-in-Council, under sub-section c of clause 7, to modify the requirements where such mo dification may appear necessary;
The director of Public Works had looked into this question, and thought that what was proposed by the Honourable Attorney-General would provide for a much larger window than was necessary, and a window which sometimes it would be impossible to put into a wall. Take a room of quite an average size--30 feet by 13 feet, or 405 square feet. To provide a window one-twentieth of the floor area would mean a window five feet by four. The wall abutting on to this open space would only be 53
These amendments were accepted and the Council resumed.
The
1 THE ESTIMATES.
next item on the agenda paper was- Committee on the Bill entitled, an Ordinance to apply a sum of $3,681,651 to the public ser vice of the year 1900,
The Col. Secretary. It was originally in tended to have a meeting of the Finance Cont mittee at 2.30 but it was postponed as the members were not ready to consider it. I beg to move that the end item in the orders of the Day be discharged.
The Colonial Treasurer proposition was carried.
seconded and the
The Council then adjourned till Thursday week after some discussion it being decided to hold a meeting of the Finance Committee on Wednesday week
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
A meeting of the Finance Committee was then held, the Colonial Secretary presidinge
The Chairman said the first-miquie was one in which the Governor recommended the Council to vete a sum of $1,400 in aid of the following votes-Provision for Prisoners $900.00 Fuel and Soap $500.00 Total $1,400.00.
Carried
The Chairman said the next minute was one in which the Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $44,01995, in aid of the following votes:-Provisions $2,800.00, Medical Comforts $200.00, Fuel and Light $300.00, Washing $60,co, Incidental Expenses $400.00, Coal for Health Officers Launch: $130.00, " Repairs for Launch $129.95, Total $4,019,59 He said that the Principal Civil Medical Officer had explained that the excess -in provi- - sions and medical comforts was caused by an increased number of patients, there were 120 more up to the 31st October than in the corresponding period last year. Then more
ning from the barracks, in course of erection money's worth. It is certain that the créme of feet six-inches- In-many cases it would money had, had to be paid for milk owing to."" on Gunclub Hill, Kowloon, to Bunghom. They the singers of the colony have been secured, only te six or seven feet, and to put a window the outbreak of rinderpest-having obliged the
We note that three lines, of underground tele- pepemproseclical all communicabies relating to Sub-
riptions Adset-tests, la diserthe-graph cable are being laid along the road run- Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" and not to the Editor. Torres on Editari: matters to be sent to "The Editor and not to individual members of the sa
Communications inmemfed for puldication must be com panded by the name and address of the writers, not necessarily for publication; but as evidence of copil faith.
w of the ffangkané Telceraph will silway - Whilst the lunas e been for the Lút disetision by correspondents of all quese tion affection poiki- interests, in part be plainctly enderr stud that the Talion shoes as in Loy way, huld himself responsible for minigus thus expressed
are doubtless to be connected with the behind the Docks.
forts
UNLESS the present damp weather quickly comes to an end there will be a good opening for an enterprising person to start a few fenies across Queen's Road by means of and punts!
and there are a several of the artistes we can vouch for. We notice that the programme includes Messrs. G. Lammert; C, Crispin, Corp. Siammers, the RE. baitone: Sergt. Viggers, the well-known comic in military circles; Sergt. Bowell, the Royal Welch Fusilier comics Mr. Harry Franklin, a tried -actor; Mr..Wiltshire, a master of the banjo. Mr. A. G. Ward four Church oranist), presides at the piano, and the band of the Hongkong HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1899. | Ar the Pasteur Institute in Paris, 1465 persons Regiment has heen engaged for the orchestra, were treated in 1898 and all but three were
The concert concludes with a smart and en- cured. For the thirteen years from the found-joyable fires, entitled "The Handy Man,"
The Hongkong Telegraph end Relat appears to be of a rome
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
The New Division for South Africa.
LUXDOX, Nuvember 12th.
The Reserves for the new division for South Africa have been called out and ordered to join the Colours before the zoth.
The War.-Operations in Cape Colony.
Reuter's correspondent at Aliwalnórth, 7th inst., states that the Boers have cut the tele- graph to the southward of Jamestown and are in strong force eight miles off. They have also cut the hawsers of the ferry at |_ Daltonspont, and the Orange river is now
impassible from Zouthan to Norvalspont.
General Butler wires on the ith that a reconnoitring force from the Change River station had a skirmish with the enemy four miles to the eastward of Belmont in which
what soluble nature.
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ation, of the Institute to the end of the year 1848, 13.18 persons were treated in Paris, and out of this number only 99 died.
WHEN are the Kowloon Ride Ranges to be moved There is a large area of excellent building land on the site now occupied by the Ranges and were they removed to the foot of the hills this might be made use of and the overcrowding of Hongkong relieved to some
cxtent.
Tis weather, as we anticipated, did not clear sufficiently to allow of the meteoric shower being observed in Hongkong and we shall have to patiently await the next display, due thirty-three years hence. It is to he hoped that at other points the weather has been more propitious.
By a fall of rock which occurred recently at Niagara Falls the Horse-shoe Fall has again
From Trieste, er S.S. Imperator transhippedCol. Keith Falconer of the Northumberlands restored to its proper shape from which it at Bombay.
was killed, Lieut. Wood of the Lancashires derives its name. Of late years the Fall has From Venice, rr 5.5. Massimiliano and
and Licuts. Besan and Hall of the Norbeen nearly V-shaped, destroying much of its Carlotta transhipped at Trieste.
From Levante Ports, ex S.5. Thalin.
-natural beauty. From 1842 to 1880 It is stated thumberlands and two men were wounded.. Optional Cargo will be discharged here unles
A British outpost to the southward of that 275,000,000 cubic feet of rock bad fallen notice to the contrary be given immediately.
No Clains will be admitted after the Goods Kimberley reservoir has been missing since away. have left the Godowns, and all claims must be
which will be staged by the now famous Royal Engineers Variety Club. The booking is going on apace, and we would advise all our readers who can possibly manage to get to the Theatre to go to Robinson's Piano. C'empiny and book seats at once.
THE finest pineapple cloth comes from the Philippines, but very good tissues are turned out wherever there are Malays, and of late years by Mongolians and other communities. The thread is obtained from the pineapple leaves in some curious way which separates the fine filament from ali the other vegetable tissues. it is then partially dried and bleached in the sun, and is then carded and spun. After its spinning, and before it is thoroughly dry, it is woven onthe old fashioned looms which are busy 10-day in Asia. The technical skill possessed by the spinners and weavers is truly admirable. Men are too clumsy for the work and women have a practical monopoly of it, but even amongst them there are many whose eyes and fingers are not quite delicate enough to distinguish between the thickness of one thread and another. The weaving is done within doors and usually in a Malay house, whose bamboo framework walls made of leaves and heavy thatched roof, keep the interior quite-dusky-und-dump When pra
the 4th and is supposed to have been capped-element-duced the cloth is plain in colour or cle Noor on the 21st instant, or they will not be tured. The Boers have opened a regular which should give to the Philippine Islands made according to an order, or Malay tastes.
sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before
recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the zist instant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SINDER, WIELER & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 14th
November, 1899
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attack on and bombardment of Kimberley.
Mafeking. Reuteurs correspondent at Mafeking re- ports that a general attack on that town was repulsed on Tuesday and fifty. Boers were killed. Our loss was slight
self-government under a profectorate of the The finest quality of the cloth is so fine as United States would not serve the spoilsmen 10 be practically translucent, and some tissues and speculators in. Washington. Under such which are worth more than their weight.in. a plan of peace the prospective booty in Philip silver would stand successfully the test of the pine rice; tobacco and sugar plantations would Indian rajah who would accept no cloth unless disappear, Hence there must be some more he could draw the whole roll through his signet Killing
ring
five by four in such a wall would be scarcely possible, he meant there would be hardly sufficient wall hold the window. It would be all window and no wall, In a room 40 by 13 it would be more difficult still, and there were ham Strand 40 feet deep-He thought it was any rooms in the colony--in places like Bon- not desirible they should have an immense number of exceptions to this rule and appeals. constantly made to the Governor in Council or to the Sanitary Board for exemption. It would be much better to have a general rule. With that in view he had prepared the following amendment:-That at the end of sub-section
of
cinuse 7 the following words be added "And must be provided on every floor with a window of at least ten square feet superficial area opening into such open space. The area of such window shall not be included in calra. fating the window area required by subsection 4 of section 8 of Ordinance 15 of 1894." A window of ten square feet means a window of four feet by two and a half, which is a very respectable window indeed to a bedroom-quite enough to admit light and air into a room. In his opinion it would be big enough win- dow in all the cases where such windows were required.
The Hon. C. P. Chater-1 think a very big window would be a great mistake for the very good reason, that the chances are a big window would never be opened. It would be per manently closed whereas if you put in one the size mentioned by the Hon. Director of Public Works there is some chance of having it kept open nearly all the time.
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead-1 propose that at the end of sub-section of clause 7 these words be added: "If the entire depth from frontage to frontage exceeds 50 feet" The provisions of sub-section as it stands would be unreasonable. I think that anything under 50 feet should not be regarded as two domestic buildings..
Hospital to go to a fresh place for milke
Carried.
The Chairman said the next minute was one. in which the Governor recommended the Coun cil to vote a sum of $7,700, in aid of the vote for. Telegrams sent and received by the Gover by telegrams sent in connection with the ment This increase had been chiefly caused Kowloon extension, the West River, and other
matters....
Carried.
The Chairman said the next item was ons in which the Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $14,000 for the parchase of arms. and other stores for the Folice Force. It had been considered desirable to re-arm the Police Force with the Martini-Enfield carbine
Answering the. Hon. T. H. Whitehead, the. Captain Superintendent of Police said the old carbines were practically wom out and would not realise much if offered for sale.
The Chairman-l-am sure if we can you a
good price for them we shall do so.
The Chairman said the next item was one. in: which the Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $27,000, in aid of the following votes in the Sanitary Department: Incidental Conveyance Allowance $250.00, Uniform for Staff $650.00 Electric Lighting of Central Market $1,200.00 Watering Streets, $600.00 Total $2,700.00,
Carried.......
he was all the business.
PIRACY ON THE WEST RIVER.
The facts of the attack on the river steamer
Cheong Kong flying the British Bng, are briefly, these, as told to our representative by Messrs. Tung Kee the Hongkong, agents f Kong Wan firm
for the
The Kwang Wan firm have three steamers Me running letween Samsbui, Kopgmoon Kam The Acting Attorney-General-Would not chuk, and Hongkong flying, the British flag with sub-section & meet the case? I think the houses and built in the same mannët, referred to by the honourable member are the an upper deck with cabins for passengers! houses between Jervois Street and Queen's the lower or main deck being used for cargo. The site of the boats is rouglily The Hon. T. H. Whitehead-Said they were, about 150 feet in length and they are under 60 Road, but I do not know how many there are. the houses referred to.
tons register, so do not need to carry European officers, but carry arms for the protection of
The Hon. C. P. Chater----If it is laid down in
the Ordinance it will be better. Architects will
Then know what they have to work upon.
His Excellency the Governor-On yes; 1 think it will be better to have it in the Ordinance
the crew agains, pirates saber
Codery
The Harbour Master-Would it not be belide to have the words other than comer housed
they are? after the Grst building" instead of where had
His Excellency the Governor I think i would be s
chlick
the
search the passengers any concealed weapons. Ito be done before the bution this espe
stponed