THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1900.
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various estates situated in Maridu Bay' drawing their supplies from there.
We are not at all surprised at the news which our Correspondent sends, for we have" for some tine past pointed out to the North Borneo Company its penny wise and pound foulish policy iu net setting its foot down firmly upon native intrigue and rebellion, We had hoped to see this accomplished
LATER.
FIGHTING IN THE FREE STATE STRONG BOER FORCE, AT HANNEY.
HARRY MAITLAND, Constable, Naval Yard Polico, admitted, at the Magistracy, being wh seat 48 hours without leave. He was fined $10.
Lo Chat was this morning, at the Magistracy, sentenced to 10 strokes with the birch and 24 hours detention for stealing a picul of pepper, invalued at $31.
Col. Hamilton with mounted funtry, and Col. Smith-Dorrien's
Tuis afternoon the enquiry into the death
then, and only then, can we hopa to see the overcrowding, the filth and the plague in the Colony diminish. Of course it will take time, and investors do not care to wait long for a return on their capital. COMPOSI-Granted, but it must be remembered that we must not strive to grow rich all at once. We must not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, and that is just what the present. owners of the land are striving to do. They, under the new Governor, Mr. CLIFFORD, brigade marching northward yester of the Indian soldier, whose body was found at instead of taking up fresh sites and building (but unfortunately for him this blow has fall- upon them, prefer to stick to those whichten before he had time to get a grasp of affaits day from Thaba n'ohu were opposed the ranges, was continued. After additional they already possess, and increase the seun and commence the generd setting to rights by a strong force of Boers under evidence had been taken it was further ad-
journe tillet pm, in the tich instant. from them by running up skyscraper build- which was so eminentig needed. We are ings so as to accommodate as many human exceedingly sorry for Mr. CuFFORD as he Commandant Botta, at Hannoy. hines as possible upon one plot el ground.is now reaping the whirhind which others Reinforcements have been sent and APPARENTLY is no Toming alone who is an absent-minted beggar. His cousin Jack is The bigher the building the more rooms, have sown, and through no fault of his own. the more families accommodated and the A trust that the Naval Authorities General French is strengthening Cof. liable on occasion to forget the time his leave more profit to the landlard. Bet Nemesis will see fit send a sufficient force to North Hamilton from Thaba n'chishere expires and when reminded by the Naval is approaching. These high buildings are Borneo ensure protection
Police that he is late objects to their the force of Boers has decreased. not adapted to a tropical climate. They Europeants at the various ports and also upon
escort on board, as the pound he has to shut out the fight and interrupt the free the outlying tobacco estates, for there is General Maxwell's brigado has oc pay for the attention he considers wasted. circulation of air, and the result is that the no, knowing how far the rebellion against cupied Vlaksonters and Schamskraal This morning a couple of bluejackets were in place becomes unhealthy and the crowded the rule of the Chartered Company-may
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and other evils, breeding plague and filth “diseases until such time as the houses are
condemned, and the original outlay lost
A line of launches plying between differ, ent points on the Kowloon Peninsula and
years past many of the natives, particularly those belonging to the old piratical tribes, have held the Company in contempt. It was no uncommon thing to hear an old chief remark, "Ah, the "Company is poor
the mainland, so as to keep up cheap and now, therefore the Company fears us," and tapil communication would, we believe, do it was no jille brag on the part of the natives much towards checking the evils of high either. There is only one way to deal with rents and uvercrowding. Nobody is we the Borean lolk, and although many of the presume, particularly anxious to live in a Company's officers were convinced of this, they rowded city if he can live outside it, it were over-ruled by the Court of Directors, as many are forced to do so for want of cheap is evidenced by the general dissatisfaction and rapid means of communication, When expressed by them at the treatment of MAT | mire the Governmint and the public at large turn by Mr. Cow. The best thing that van he brought to see that the progress of the Company can do now is to give Gover- Hongkong depends upon expansion wenor Charokh a free hand. If he is allowed believe that the matter will commence to to do as he pleases he will succeed, and right itself, but so long as Hongkong is only succeed to the satisfaction of the natives. allowed to grow skywards things will go If, however, the Directors, tie his hands and froni bad to worse.
try themselves to treat with natives whom they do not understand, then the next town to be attacked will be Sandakan.
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THE FROUBLE IN SARAWAK.
The special telegram published in last night's issue, announcing the departure of Kajah BROOKE up the Trusan River of a | punitive expedition with a force of a thousand nion, although of a somewhat startling character, need surprise nobody, for to those acquainted with Bornean affairs it was well known that sooner or later something of the sort would be fendered absolutely necessary. It must not for a moment be supposed of Sarawak, Are that the inhabitants in rebellion, or that the rule of the Rajah is distasteful, for such is far from being the i fact.
It will doubtless be remembercil by many of our readers that some while ago the Rajah extended his authority to the districts of Linbang and Trusan. These districts may by roughly defined as handed by the water sheds of the two rivers from which they take their name. The rivers are the highways of Borneo, hence cach river talley is a district, and folks speak of the Limlung, Tras or Kinabatangan districts as the case may be,
our authorized Agents at the Const and the term is perfectly ineligible to those
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acquainted with country. But to return to the waiter at issue. Limbang and Trusan were until recently under the sway of the Sultan of Brunei. Iis power has been decaying for years, large tracts of his dominions have been alienated at various times and he result has been that
TELEGRAMS.
· Special to the » Hongkong, Velegraph." SPECIAL TELEGRAM,
TROUBLE IN NORTH BORNEO.
KUDAT ATTACKED.
CHINESE MASSACRED.
From Our Owa Correspondent)
Lauras, May 3rd. On the night of Friday last the town of Kudat aud its environs were
attacked by a native force under the command of Mat Sater the half bruther of the late Mat Salleh, the notorious rebel chiof. The town itself suffered severely the Government
infantry was engaged four hours.
THE "ASAKI" FLOATED. The Japanese battleship Asaki "which got ashore off Southsea has
been, floated off.
THE UGANDA RAILWAY. The House of Commons has voted a grant of £1,930,000 for the com- pletion of the Uganda railway. ARRIVAL OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN IN LONDON. The Crown Prince arrived in London.
WEATHER REPORT.
took place now and again in Queen's ́Road us they were marched off. Apparently they found it difficult to remember they were in custody whenever a place of refreshment hove in sight. Then police and bluejackets would become hopelessly mixed up in the gutter. Having
bean sorted out and picked up, the party would proceed in a most amicable manner until the next lapse of memory occursed. The patience and good humour of the Naval Police through it all, was most praiseworthy, they scened to look upon hand knocksidy all in the day's work,
and to bear ho jil wilt.
THE ODD VOLUMES SOCIETY.
Yesterday evening n most interesting and
9 Japan bus instructive paper was read by Mr. H. E. Pollock entitled "Some serious local problems and' n few suggestions for dealing with them."" The paper was read under the auspices of the Odd Volume Society in the Chainber of Commerce Room, City Hall. The Hon. F. H. May, Acting Colonial Secretary, took the chair, and among those present were H. E. Major-General Gascoigne, Officer Administering the Govern ment, Mrs. Gascoigne, Sir John Carrington, Kt, C.M.G., (Chief Justice), the Hon. W. Meight Goodman, (Attorney-General), Dr. F. Clark, (Medical Officer of Health), Mr, J. J. Francis,
The Observatory report says:- On the 3rd at 11.55 am..the barometer has risen over S. China, fallen in the extreme North. Pressure is highest in Central China, and the depression has reached the N. part of the Sea
Colony..
of Japan. Gradients slight with light variable, and nany others of distinction in the winds in S. China, and moderate N.E. winds in
The Chaingan, in opening the proceedings, the N. part of the China Sea. FORECAST said that Mr. Pollock was very well known to them all. He had kindly consented to read a N. and varying winds, light; fair,
paper on "Some serious local problems and a few suggestions for dealing with them." In a rapidly growing colony there would neces sarily be many problems which would not be
LOCAL AND GENERAL:
THE 'Night Steamers to Canton now leave at 6 easy of solution. The chairman felt sure that p.m. instead of 5.30 p.m..
PUN FUK SANG was to-day fined $25 for failing most important and interesting subject. to report a case of plague.
THE receiver of a bicycle, well knowing it to be stolen, was this morning fined $50.
THE Siamese Princes left here by the steamship Haitan, yesterday, for a visit to Swatow before returning to Bangkok. Mr. Carter one of their tutors accompanied them, Mr. Jaines will follow them to the latter placerat
The Hongkong Telegraph revenues, have been much curtailed, sangazine and a maxim gun being the date of their opening performance to Thats
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1900.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
MR. POLLOCK'S LECTURI
True, he has been paid cession money for
Now
captured by the rebels. These were, however, subsequently retaken. Two of the British North Borneo. Con- stabulary were killed and seven wounded, including Mr. G. N. Malcolm, Wing Officer of the force, Twenty-five Chinese were killed and the environs of the town were entire- ly destroyed. Many refugees have
the alienated territories, but he is not possessed of sufficient strength of character to keep his money to himself. Many of his chiefs are at the present time nearly, if not quite as powerful as himself, and the result is that they bleed the Sultan and eat up a good portion of his cession money. even a Sultan must live, and as his dominions diminished in arca, he found it necessary to exact are from the people still, remaining ander his sway in order to make both ends meet. At the same time it was necessary to economise to a great extent and, as punitive allowed his people to do as they pleased break and the attack upon Kudat is expeditions are costly affairs, tha: Saltar arrved here. The cause of the out. and also to be preyed upon by inland tribes the general dissatisfaction amongst without caring a rap as long as he got his money. This, as was only natural, resulted the natives with the rule of the in distomtent, and the advent of the rule of Chartered Company. the White Rajali was welcomed by Trusan and Limbang people alike.
We remarked the other day that the lecture to be delivered by air. Potock be fore the Odd Volumes Society would be well worth listening to, and now that we have heard it we are still of the same opinion. 1549h: Three of our local problems were tonched upon by the lecturer and h's remarks proved careful study and attention, and that the that each had received a large amount of FOR SWATOW, AMOV AND TAMSUL. Suggestions for dealing with them had been THE Company's Steamship
carefully thought out." Mr. Por Lock is the first who has publicly spoken upon the question of rents (of course we except mem- bers of the Late Companies who have stated at the yearly meetings that they hoped
The tribes of Muruls in the far interior, to see a big rise take place) and we consider that the public owe him a debt of gratitude however, have still continued their head- for the way in which he has come forward hunting raids and although the Rajah bas in support of the pore oppressed tenant. established forts and block-houses upon the "I confess that if seems to me," says Mr.rorivers, the raiders have, up to the present, POLLOCK, that, honse-room is almost as been able to keep beyond his reach. The much a necessity of life as food, and that ayans and other tribes who have welcomed 'eurner in houses is practically as great an evil as a comer in food; and remember, this corner in houses, which has come about more or less accidentally, is just as unplea sant for tenants as if it had been brought about by premeditated desiga.”
We do not think that in the whole of the Colony will he found the man who does not agree with Mr. PotiorK,
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Of course
the Rajah's rule naturally look to him for pre- luction, and is only just and reasonable for him to strive to protect his subjects from
the lawless Marots who infest the Dutch
Received at 3 p.m. Published at 5.30 p.m..
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE WAR.
THABA N'CHU.
ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE
A CONVOY.
LONDON. April 1st...... Reuter's correspondent-at Thaba
border. We do not for a moment suppose BOERS that the Rajah's action will lead to any trouble with the Dutch Authorities. He has invari ably been upon the best of terms with them and they have worked together for the re- pression of piracy and head-hunting. But n'chu says that the Ivers on Sunday Rajah for power amongst the natives. They made a determined attempt to seize rule where the Rajah leads, and where they a pass in the mountains and capture would have to bring their own troops along
the Dutch are not to be 'compared with the'
WE would call the attention of our readers to the fact that the Dallas Company have changed day next, as on Wednesday the Theatre will be required for the "Terrible" concert.
THE Directors of; the Peking Mint have tele graphed to the Viceroy of Canton, asking for the assistance of the English master of the Mint at Canton. H.E. granted permission, and he left for Peking by the steamer Kwanglee It is stated that the Peking Miat will shortly start coining copper cash.
MANY people, especially lovers of the bicycle, open, from Kowloon to Shantin. Along the rouse a strong bicycle rider would not have to may not be aware of a new road, which is now
dismount very often. The road branching off from Yau-a-ti, and leading to Kowloori City, returning, by way of Hunghom, should also become popular with bicyclists."
they would all listen with a great deal of atten- tion to what Mr. Pollock had to say on this
SOME SEXIOUS LOCAL PROBLEMS AND A YEW SUGGESTIONS FOR DEALING
WITH THEM.
Ladies and Gentlemen, propose to discuss with you this afternoon some local problem's
solution, and a full suggest cvetain remedies
solution, and I shall suggest certain desire and my chief hope is that some of you for the present state of affairs, but my chief
who are listening to me now will not rest con. tent until you have thought our and put into ination same remedies of your own, and thus
prevent matters from being allowed to drift in the future as they have drifted in the past. The pressing problems, which require to be. grappled with, fare difficult ones and we must, therefore, apply our collective wisdom to task, if success is to be secured:
I will subdivide my subject for the sake of convenience, into three headings which I will call
(1st) The Flague question. (and) The food question, and
(3rd) The housing of the working classes question.
To take these three questions in their order,
the plague question is one of supreme der
portance.
...
It causes not only a considerable, annually recurrent expenditure to the Government of this Colony and to property owners, but it also involves severe commercial restrictions upon vessels Journeying from here to adjacantine on this by the of
a
No doubt the legislation passed last year was step in the right direction in that it increased the size of cubicles and also the ventilation coming into houses, bur in view of the fact that the plague has become an annually recurrent disease here, it is obvious that no-relaxation of sanitary precautions should be tolerated for a moment, but that on the contrary it behoves us most carnestly to enquire into and discuss and examine every suggestion for the improvement the prevention of overcrowding. of the sanitary conditions of this city and for
We note that Mr. Fr. Blunck the well known lace dealer, and silk manufacturer, has had $300 worth of laco stolen from him, at his store in Beaconsfield Arcade, He has offered a reward of $500 to any one who will give him any information regarding the theft. We sympathise with Mr.. Blunck in his loss and hope that he may soon be able to bring there unfit for human habitation, but it is becom
ing a serious question whether a condemnation offender or offenders to justice.
of certain streets is, not required in order to secure a greater circulation of air in the over crowded quaffers of our City,
TO-DAY, about 1 pm, while Mr. Nolan, the Magistracy Interpreter, was passing the bottom end of Ship Street, Praya East, he noticed a commotion among the Chinese who were standing by the sea wall. He jumped out of his ricksha to see what was the matter, and saw a British blue-jacket, who in a state of drinkenness ad reeled over into the water. The man had been in the water some time and was getting exhausted. The ing at his efforts. Mr. Nolan helped the man
The Sanitary Board has no doubt done much good work in laking steps to close houses which
we except the landlords, for it is but human nature that they should wish the corner to grow closer and so force up their profits. But the tenants, one and all, agree that the right mail, huts heen hit upon the head and that the question of high rents is one that his men as he advanced: Everybody follows their flank, sending troops over pre- | out of the water and handed him, over to the report of the sanitary surveyor, Mr. Drury, in calls for a speedy remedy.
the Rajah in Sarawak and is proud to do so.
to settle disturbances, The Rajah could collect a convoy. General French attacked Chinese, instead of assisting him were laugh.
expedition.
THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memoria and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals
It is not a pleasant picture that Mr. Por LOCK draws of the manner in which the Thus it will be seen that the Kajah is serving cipitous mountains. The darkness charge of Mr. Craddock while he went to report Government employees are forced to herd both himself and the Dutch by his present cuable the Boers to withdraw. The to the Police Station so that the man might be
properly cared for amongst the Chinese for want of cheap houses, but; nevertheless, we have no hesita- We trust that the expedition will be Boer position was almost impregn- tion in saying that he has rather understated successful and will result in bringing more able. than overstated the ease. The manner in of the Bornean tribes under the Rajah's sway. which the poorer Europeans are obliged to If only the British North Borneo Company live is scandalous, and the sooner that the and the Dutch had a Rajah BROOKE apiece, the whole of Borneo would shortly be on expansion of the Colony brings about a new
order of things the better will it be for the rendered as peaceable as England, but men community at large. The lecturer contends, of the Rajah's calibre are not to be picked and with perfect truth, that it should not be
every-hedgerow. , permisible for firms undertaking large works to-import hundreds of coolics and oblige them to find house room in the midst of our already crowded city. It is compatible neither with health nor decency, and the sooner it is put a stop to the better.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, . Agents.
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TELEGRAPH have This Day been removed to No. 50, QUEEN'S ROAD! CENTRAL, Second Floor, (the premises formerly occupied by Messrs. POWELL & Co.) to which address all communications should
ETH. F. SKERTCHLY,
Manager. Hongkong, 1st May, 1899.
be addressed.
But, as Mr. Pollock points out, it is not to he expected that the coolies can live away from their work unless good means of com- munication are provided so that they can move quickly and easily to and fro. What we want is cheap and frequent communica- tion with other parts of the Colony and
of
TROUBLE IN NORTH BORNEO.
North Borneo too, it appears, has dropped in for its share of trouble, for no sooner had the above account of the Sarawak trouble- been written, than the telegram from our Labuan Correspondent, which appears in another column, came to hand.
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LOYALISTS ARRESTED.
A considerable force of Boers bus arrived at Windsorton to the north- ward of Kimberley and a number of loyalists have been arrested.
BRITISH ORDERED TO LEAVE JOHANNESBERG.
The town of Kudat is situated at the head
Owing to an explosion at Begbies of Marudu Bay, on the north-west coast of Borneo, and was, at one time, the capital of all Britishers, except. a fow, have British North Borneo. It is now the second been ordered to leave Johannesberg settlement in the Company's territory and is the centre of a large tobacco industry, the in,38 hours.
A. S. Watson & Colanti A. Rumjanipu
China Export Import and Bank E: V. Brenan
S. Stockhausen,
L. Mallory
Brown Jones & Co.
1. Ullmann Mangale Levy Hermanos,
J. W. Kinghorn A. G. Gordon wil
· Hon. ADMI:Thomson Kuhn & Co žied More & Seimund- A. C. MoreA A.Rodgery 77, Ruttonjeo za W. H. Wickhami Woonwalla & Co R. M.-Mehta
(825). 25
Even, however, if you consider the causes of plugue to be at present too obscure to justify such wholesale remedy as demolition and tion to two causes at work in our midst which reconstruction, I should like to draw your atten- the ordinary man in the street would im- agine rust for very important factors in pro pagating and continuing this epidemic in our midst. The first is the presence of night soil in our drains, and the second is the presence of decaying vegetable refuse in our drains. The presence of night soil in considerable quantities in our drains is attested by the last
which he says
Under clause No: 8 of his contract the con- servancy contractor is supposed to remove all night soil from the private houses in the Hill District, but in the city this is done by various inre ponsible coolies in places every night or every other night, according to the class of person dealt with these coolies receive & small payment from the house occupants but nope for delivery at the conservancy boat. There is no sanitary staff for the supervision of the removal of night soil during the night, thus rendering the provisions of the contract useless. There being no staff for the supervision of the regulat removal of night soil from private houses, to enforce the provisions of the con-- tract, the result is, from evidence and observa- tions, that in the case of the Hill District soil it is emptied into nullahs, and in the city I find that much of it te emptied down the stom gullies and drains, and it is not to be expected that a Chinese coolie will trouble to remove the soil to the boat: if he can safely.empty it into convenient. gully, and this after the Government have ex pended 8275,600 to divert sewage and sulfaro · from the story deuins 11:1 would, pojat buc that sterm gullies are not trapped and that the › gases from the storm drains escape at these points, which are pituated generally to feet from