To-day's Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instructions'
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION, Under Distraint No. 159 of 190... THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM }
NAVIGATION COMPANY,
VEFSIAS
G. R. STEVENS & CO. TO-MORROW,
(FRIDAY), the 14th June, at Nooft,
at their Sales Rooms, Ice House Street. FOURTEEN NEW SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES.
ALSO:
A quantity of AMERICAN LAMPS.
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TERMS:As Usual,
FANCY
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers, [6230
Hongkong, 13th June, 1901.
PUBLIC AUCTION...
ON
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1901.
BIRTH. On the 6th of June, at Burnbrae, Orange Grove Road, Singapore, the wife of WILLY HASENBALG, of a daughter.
'DEATH.
ROBERT GROOM, of the Middle Temples On 1st May, at Kuala Lumpur, SAMUEL,
Barrister-at-Law.
The Hongkong
CAPTAIN Muller of the Wongkøi leaves Hong-1 A CORRESPONDENT writes, I notice in your kong this week in order to bring out a new evening contemporary a list of prices of the steamer for the Nord Deutcher Lloyd Co. various commodities in the Central Market, THE total issue of South Afrien war medals but I can very rarely purchase anything required for the medal measures 40 miles. will, it is stated, number 300,000. The ribbon according to the printed price list. The stall keepers always say "1no, savee that thing, I speakce price, suppose you wantchee, you makes pay.
MR. Frank Clark, a New York tourist agent, Iris chartered the new White Star liner Céltic,
THE LAYING OUT OF CROWN LANDS.
The following leter from the Colonial Secre- try was laid on the table at this afternoon's meeting of the Sanitary Board
In reply to your letter No. 8 of the 3rd instant, transmitting a resolution of the Sanitary Board, I am directed to state that the Governor suggests that the following resolutions to which his Excellency would offer no objection should
song Telegraph the largest ship in the world; for the tourist A. TRANSLATION of a letter from a Chinaman be adopted viz.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1901.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Semi-detached Houses. We are very pleased to see that Mr. FUNG Wa Curs has taken up the suggestion that we made in these columns on May 31st, that if the Goveniment were, thinking of changing the form of Chinese houses to be erected in the Colony, it would be better to insist on the breaking up of long rows and making them semi-detached.
business.
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SANITARY HOUSES.
The following letter from Mr. Fung Wi Chun was laid before the Sanitary Board this afternoon
I have the honour to report for the informa tion of the Members of the Sanitary Board that I have consulted the lending Chinese of the Colony about the plan of the new houses sug tested by H. E. the Governor."
After due consideration, they are of opinion recommending camphor and laudanum as a 1. That His Excellency the Governor be that although the proposed houses will be far.. cure for plague and also complaining of the pleased to direct that, when any district has better ventilated and lighted than those THERE are temporary vacancies in the
public latrines in longkong was laid before been laid out on a plan with a view to the sale at present in existence, they can still Colonial Secretary's Office for a typewriting the Sanitary Board this afternoon. The Resubmitted to the Board for its consideration.
of the land for building purposes, the plan be improved. They, therefore, recommend clerk, salary $100 per month, and an othegistrar General believed Mr. Chadwick re..
that the scheme. of semi-detached houses be clerk, salary $50 per month, vide advertisement ported on the latrines. The .. H. said the
21 am, however, to inform you that this adopted instead, as the erection of blacks of Resolution is not to be deemed to extend to
two houses, 15 it. by 50 ft. each, with a 15 R., appearing elsewhere.
isolated areas sold, but only to areas in which lane between each pair of houses and at the present system must remain in force until the
there is prospect of considerable development back, permits of light, and ventilation getting THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial time came when all refuse could be turned inia occurring in the near future,
to the houses from the sides, and also allows and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge the sewers, but that could only be when salt
the lane to be publicly scavenged. I beg to recommend a rough sketch which I have made with thanks the following donations to the water was available for flushing.
of the houses in question. funds of the Hospitals
John Hastings.........
We draw our readers attention to the advertise.
ment in another column of the well-known Green Island Cement Company, where it will be seen that the price of cement has been ad-
A HOME paper says:-Over a hundred large logs of pitch ping timber have been washed up on the marshes at Gedney Drove End, in Lincolnshire. The local farmers have had a has never before been made upon these busy time securing the wood. Such a haul
inarshes. The coastguard authorities, however, soon learned of the occurrence, and a chiel
motor-car and claimed the whole. The farmers Ar to-day's meeting of the Sanitary Board, a fare to receive some allowance for salvage, a letter was read from H. E. the Governor asking vare item to appear in farm receipts. if the use of quickli ne in the burial of plague.
As will be seen elsewhere, Mr. FuNG WA Caux has not only taken up our suggestion, bait has got the leading Chinese to back hini up in his opinion, and we cannot see why,vanced 50 cents per cask and scents per bag with a littlepablic support, the matter should of 375 ths and 250 lbs. respectively. The in-officer promptly arrived on the scene in a
crease dates from. June ist.
cases could be discntinued with safety, having | M8. 11. 5. D'ORVILLE, Malay Interpreter of
3. The Board will be fumished at an early date with a plan showing the vacunt Crown land in the Cily.
This is, however, considered unnecessary in the case of Kowloon, as a com paratively small area has so far been sold.
CORRESPONDENCE,
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondants In this column.)
PLAGUE..
TO THE EDITOR or the “Hongkonui "Trukákarn." DEAR SIR, What does Mr. Osborne mean afternoon's meeting of the Sanitary Board? by the resolution which he has down for this
I am a European and, not being blessed with a large salary, the great rise in rents has forced me to move into a Chinese flat. Now, Sir, if Mr. Osborne's resolution goes through, I may have Chinese nursing plague cases above and
quarters without giving a month's nolice, I do not see what redress I can expect if such should
The following minutes were attached:- Mas Fung Wa Chun.--Every two houses means an additional area of 250 square feet,
Mr. Osborne. 3. Fung Wa Chun's plan is the only really effective solution of the difficulty, but it would be very costly.
The M. O. H.-The Government should provide the side lanes, and the owner the back lane..
The Capt. Supdt. of Police,-I am afraid the cost puts this plan out of the question.
QUARANTINE.
A quantity of HAY in Bales and Louse, H. May must come in with his doubts. regard to the question of ground saturation. the Police Court, says the Pinang Gazette of below me and, as 1 cannot leave my present Siam, set forth in the Schedule to these Regu
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more or less damaged.
Two large MATSHEDS erected only a few
months.
“A Steam Launch ́ will leave BLAKE's Piek at 1.45 PM. to convey intending Purchasers.
TERMS:-As. Usted,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers. [6270
Hongkong, 13th June, 1901.
THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP. COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
THE Company's Steamship »
"DIAMANTE," ·
mean
THE Undersigned have revisariat par not he carried through. There can not he from the Indian Commissariat Depart the slightest doubt that such houses would
ment in-Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION; he infinitely more sanitary than the death traps which one sees springing up on all WEDNESDAY, the 19th June, at 2.30 PM hands at the present dine.
at LAI-CH-KCK.
But here again, of course, the Hon. F
He is afraid that it will be too expen- sive. This we utterly fail to see. 1ty a little more expenditure by the | Government if they make the side" lanes, as suggested by Dr. CLARK, but surely having healthy houses would warrant this spending of public money! No doubt al. MAY thinks that the Government will lose By the lanes; for Crown land will but be sold in such large blocks. So it will, but it will brake up for this by several small blocks heing taken up instead of one large one. This too might mean a loss to some of the landlords, who could crowd more houses together un.one space than allowed by law, but we do not think that these people are to be considered when public health is at stake. They are, to a large extent, responsible for the present insanitary state of the town, for it is their greed in crowding their houses Together that has brought about the present state of affairs. They have shown not the slightest consideration for either the health or the pockets. of their tenants, but have piled on rents in a manner that would dis grace the most grasping Jew in existence.
Semi-detached houses must be the most healthy and are the best solution of our pre. sent difficulty, the Chinese, our 'official bug bear, are in favour of them and, therefore, in a case in which the Chinese hold sensible views, for heaven's sake do not let us have the matter shelved.. Hongkong cannot be pulled down and rebuilt in a day, but with sensible building regulations, a, few good typhous, and the bold condemnation of existing insanitary dwellings by an honest inspector of buildings, a few years may bring about a great change for the better.
Captain A. Ramsay, will be despatched as above, on SATURDAY, the 15th instini, at 3 PM.,
The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steamer. She is fitted throughout with Electric
Light. A Doctor is carried."
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & C«,. General Managers. Hongkong, 13th June, 1901.
Intimations.
EYE SIGHT.
Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutia, may be consultert for SPECTACLES at 16, Queen's Road Central,
·(R. HOUGHTON & Co.) Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL). Business hours:-9 A.M. to 5 P.3i.
GREAT proportion of cataracts and A diseases afecting those advancing in life
occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of *Eye Strain' ending in serius forms of disease.
Glasses specially adapted in youth to those
The minutes of the doctors pointed to the fact that lime.could-be dispeased with.
We shall be obliged if any Subscriber on receiving his paper late of irregularly will write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of delivery, etc, and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph. Co, Lid,, 50 Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will enable us to check the delivery coolies."
It may be noticed that we are publishing a gazette of interest to the shipping community generally, giving the names of officers on leave, promotions, transfers, etc. We imagine it will be found useful by many shipping people bere, who can see at a glance where their friends are at the time. We shall be much obliged for any information from our readers tending to keep the column' up to date.
the 3rd inst., has had the inisfortune to lose two of his daughters, aged 14 and 8 years, within half an hour, on Saturday night. It ap pears that the children were ailing, and Mr. D'Orville, in attempting to relieve them, made the terribly unfortunate mistake of administer ing, not santonine, as he intended, but stry chuine, with fatal results. The entire.com: munity sympathises with the father in his
bereavement under such circunstances.
come to pass.
plague case occupying the same house as I do, I should have agreat objection a to Chinese and I think that such a suggestion should never have been put forth by any sensible man. Of flat, and hence he has no idea of the incon- course Mr. Osborne does not live in a Chinese
him come and stay with me for a week and if venience one has got to put up with in one. Let he does not move a resolution to provide a European reservation at the next meeting of the Board, I shall be surprised.
Thanking you in anticipation for the insertion of my plaint,
Yours faithfully,
Hongkong. June 13th, 1901.
WHY?
FLAT.
To tu Eismo ir vRBONGKONG Telegraph."
THE Kobe Herald of the 4th instant reports that the plague patient on board the American transport intuck is a Chinaman. He arrived from Hongkong in the vessel and appeared to be in his usual health while employed on board as a frenan. The Japanese Quarantine officers, after conferring with the Commander, disin fected the entire vessel. The Commander and officers of the ship expressed great satisfaction with the measures taken by the Japanese auth-noon's meeting which you published last night, orities. The steamer is said to have brought up t4fpassengers, but their present whereabouts are unknown. A later despatch states that the patient who was under medical treatment al the Quarantine Hospital, Megami, succumbed taté yesterday afternoon."
AN Admimity Court at Victoria gave judge ment on the 19th ult. in favour of the owner of the bark Abbe Palmer, in the suit brought for damages arising out of the collision between that ship and the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Japan in the Straits of feea several months ago. The Court decidedthat the officers † of the Empress were entirely to blame for the
collision. The amount of damages will beIN the town of Poultney, Venuont, the chained assessed later.
skeleton of a young woman has been found in the cellar of an old house, long deserted, where brick pit had been constructed, holding in iron post, to which was fastered a heavy chain. The handcuffs still held the feshless wrists. The doctors pronounced the skeleton to be that of a woman. Then it was remembered that this house was once occupied by a young French Canadian Pierre Bourdon, who brought there one day a young and beautiful bride, also a French Canadian. Unhappily, her hearty made her the object of so much attention that Pierre became franti- cally jealous. and one day when he caught her, as he thought, somewhat openly flirting with a young man of the town he ordered her home, and no one but her husband' ever saw her again.
THE Tokyo Police have issued a notification that citizens must not go about with bare feet outside the precints of their own residents, Any person violating this interdict will be pun ished for misdemeanour. The veto is intended as a precaution against plague, a matter which is naturally causing much concern in Tokyo, and prompting very vigorous sanitary measures. Jinrikisha coolies will be the chief sufferers by the interdict, especially now that the hot wea-
As for Mr. FENG WA CHUN, we are pleased with the very sensible suggestions he has put forward, (even though he did forget to say that he got his idea from the Telegraph,) and we can assure him that he will receive every support from us in push-ther is approaching, says a Japanese contem ing forward his scheme for semi-detached purary.
requiring them save and preserve the sight,
Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dinness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi-Chinese houses for Hongkong. care a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Classes only to correct and care.
Mr. LAZARUS supplies, his SPECTACLES
only after testing the sight."
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE DROUGHT IN CREAT BRITAIN.
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A perfect System of Filtration is employed guaranteeing Absolute pur- ity.
amongst the fartours.
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. Lord Kitchener replying to an enquiry from Mr. Brodrick, curtly denies the report ed surprise of Beyer's commando near Warm baths, but leaves the matter unexplained.
LATER.
BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA. Lord Cranborne replying to a deputation from the Associated Chambers of Commerce, urging the extreme importance, and immense potentialities of trade with China, said that the Government felt acutely the importance of the commercial aspect, and that it was the duty of the Government to secure to traders full opportunities for trade, but traders must be prepared to take certain risks lest they be supplanted by foreigners. He deprecated any international control of China, which implied disintegration."
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says: On the 13th at 12.5 p.m. the barometer has risen slightly on the China coast, fallen in W. The Machinery used is of the Latest Japan. A depression is lying near the Loo- choos. Gradients slight with variable winds Type.
on the China coast, and S.W. winds in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast-SW, and varying winds, light-or moderate; probably
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The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence; as testi fied to by the best English makers.
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DEAR SIR,We have two full fledged Chi] note from the resolution paper for this after nese Members of the Sanitary Board, and yet
that Mr. E. Osborne is to ask that Chinese Plague cases be confined in the usual Chinese
manner. Now, Sir, I contend that if there are two Chinese Members on the Board, one or other of them should have moved the resolution and not Mr. Osborne. Let Mr. O. look after his own countrymen and let the Chinese be represented by theirs.
Yours faithfully,.
Hongkong, June 13th, 1903.
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BRITISHER.
REMOVAL OF PLAGUE CORPSES..
SIR,- see that Mr. Osborne puts a result tion to the Sanitary Board meeting this after noon to the effect that bodies of Chinese who have died from Plague may be removed from the Colony without restriction. A very good of having plague-stricken bodies dumped into ider, it seems to me, if the Chinese are so fond their country. It'rids the Colony of them, and we are crowded up here. These plague corpses ought to be burnt, whether European or native. that would sooner have a body slowly rot and It seeins to me a foul sort of sentimentalismı
be devoured by worms than be burnt and reduced to clean aslies by fire. The Hindoos are the most civilized people on the earth, as regards burial rites.
Tori ETOR ev ske “Blusukong Trungpari”
To return to Mr. Osborne's Resolution: who will be appointed to make sure that these plague corpses de leave the Colony?
Yours faithfully,
Hongkong, June 13th, 1901.
IN connection with Mr. B. R. Harrington's scheme for disposing of the refuse of Calcutta by burning it in incinerators, writes a Calcutta paper, it is worth while considering how far plague is spread by the present means of simply taking away the refuse to let it rot as a distance MR. DILLON, says the fuli Alalt Gazelle, has from the town, but at not so great a distance not a spark of humour in his melancholy com. that the atmosphere does not become imposition; a circumstance that saves him from much mortification. But even be must feel pregnated with the resulting bacteria. The germs of zymotic discases are carried far and conscious that in treating the seizure of a single sale by fly mile, padder are carted fat and number of the Irish People as a matter of high Number of cases reported (Chinese.... 1,149
is it not better to totally destroy the refuse no matter at what cost or inconvenience?
A JAPANESE paper of the 3rd instant, gives the following composition of the new Japanese Cabinet:
Premier......General Viscount Katsura.
Minister of Home
Affairs. Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu, Minister of Foreign
Affairs (pre tent.Mr. Sone Arasuke. Minister of Agricul
ture and Commerce Mr. Hirata Tosuke. Minister of Commu
nications.......
Minister of Justice...Mr. Kioura Keigo. Minister of Educa-
Viscount Yoshikawa.
tion ..........Dr. Kikuchi, Minister of War...... Baron Kodama
Minister of Navy ...Admiral Yamamoto.
A FEW days ago, says the. Perak 'Pioneer, we observed another European (an elderly min) in Taiping, who had come over from. Penang seeking employment, which we believe his BEC debarred him from obtaining in Perak, though
constitutional importance he took up a silly. position. It is difficult to conceive of a journal connected with Mr. Williain O'Brien being, in any case, a serious production. The Trish People has been attempting a gutter notoriety by publishing an attack on the King which the Leader of the House described as foul, obscene, and seditious." Such outrages can only be treated to one form of punishment. namely, suppression. A legal prosecution, which would permit Mr. William O'Brien and those connected with his sorry broadsheet to posture and palaver up and down the country, would have been a childish mistake on the part of the Irish Government.. Yet 1 Radical paper or two is disposed to gird at Mr. Wyndham as if he were a Russian press censor. They had better be careful. Their Nonconformist readers may be pro-Boer, but
NECROPHORE.
THE PLAGUE.
A 'Gazette published yesterday contains the following Stamese Quarantine Provisions
1. The Decree of 1lis. Majesty the King of lations, is hereby made binding upon und shall be observed by all British subjects in Siam,
2. Any British subject contravening the said Deeree shall on conviction before a District Court be liable to a fine not exceeding ico; three months or to both such punishments. or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
during such time
3. These Regulations shall continue in force the said Decree remains
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in operation and no longer.
4. The Regulations made by the Acting Consul-General on the 13th day of May, 1901, are hereby revoked:
5. These Regulations may be cited as the Quarantine Regulations of May 28th, 1901.
(Sd.) WM. J. ARCHER,
Acting British Consul-General.
SCHEDULE 1.
ROYAL DECREE ON QUARANTINE. Whereas bubonic plague bas' broken out in take measures to prevent its spread to this Hongkong and elsewhere and it is desirable to Kingdom, it is hereby decreed:
1. The Island of Koh Phai shall be and is
hereby declared the Quarantine and Inspection station for the purposes of the present Decree. 2. Any vessel which, having cleared from Hongkong, Hainan or Manila arrives in Siamese waters on or after the date of the present Decree shall call at the said station, and shall, before receiving pratique, stay there until a period of nine full days shall have elapsed from the time of her leaving port, or until released by the Health Officer.
3. Any vessel which, having cleared from any part in China, arrives in Siamese waters on or after the date of the present Decree, shall
call at the said station, and shall stay there until such time as the Health Officer shail bave boarded her and given her pratique,
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4. No person other than the Health officer or one of his assistants shall communicate from any port in China with the land or from the any ship coming from Hongkong, Manila or land with such ship or from such ship with other ships or from other slips with such ship, before she has received pratique.
5. The Master or other persons having the. control of any vessel in quarantie shall give the Health Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer may require, and shall answer fully and truly questions put to him by the Health Officer, and shall, if required by the. Health Officer, furnish the necessary boals and appliances for the landing of the passengers or crew at the Quarantine station, and shall, in a general way,givethe Health Officerall necessary assistance to enable him to grant pratique to
the vessel.
6. The Heath Officer may board any vessel arriving in Siamese waters and inspect every
up till noon, of the rath Other Asiatics 35 person in the vessel. He may, if he thinks June, 1901
(Europeans.....18 necessary, call for inspection of the ship's bills.
other documents Number of cases reported (Chinese 20 of health, emigration papers
Other Asiatics I which he may require to enable him to grant during the past 24 hours (Europeans...... o pratique and he shall use every lawful means
which to him may seem expedient for ascertain ing the sanitary condition of the vessel and persons therein.
Total number of cases reported to date 1,223 Number of deaths reported (Chinese...... 4,105 7. No customs officer on duty Koh-Si-Chang up till noon of the 12th? Other Asiatics. 21 or at Paknan shall allow any ship coming from June, 1901
Europeans...... Hongkong, Manita or any port in China either Other Asiatics of Bangkok without producing the certificate of (Chinese.....inal to lighten at Koh-Si-Chang or to proceed to i Europeans...... o health delivered at Kon Phai, but all said ships which shall produce such certificates shall be at liberty to lighten at Koh-Si-Chang and to proceed to Bangkok or elsewhere without any" further examination.
Number of deaths reported during the past 24 hours
Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,152 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and deaths are:-
Cases Chinese........
Other Asiatics European
Total...
Deaths Chinese
Other Asiatics Europeans
Total
99.
102
The plague returns for last weekt were:--
Cases... Deaths
...tón
The returns for 12th June, 1894, were :- Total deaths to date.. 1,629 New cases in previous 24 hours,.. Deaths in previous 24 hours....
. Patients under treatment
f
290
8. The Health Officer shall be and is hereby empowered 10 deal with all infected vessels. and persons as he may think proper to prevent the spreading of the discase..
19. Any and all persons committing a breach of the present Decree or assisting in any way in the commission of such breach, and the Master, Captain or other person having the control of any vessel or boat, on board of which such breach has been committed or which has. been in any way engaged in, the commission of such breach, shall be severally liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand ticals or to imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both such punishments,
19, Any cost incurred by the Government, in the maintenance of any person removed to the Quarantine station at Koh Phai, shall be repaid by the agents of the vessel,
1. The execution of the present Decree shall be and is hereby entrusted to the Minister' of the Local Government, with the full assist ance of the Naval Department.
they have a strong feeling of personal loyalty. A HOME paper says In the division on the 10th ult upon Mr. Dillon's motion for the ad- journtient of the House of Commaóns to cal he possessed a good physique and was a fine attention to the seizure of the Irish People, the upstanding looking man. Any person, over bulk of the Liberals present, including Si 30 years or so of age, coming to the F. M. Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry Fow States seeking a job makes a mistake, that is to fer, Mr. Asquith, and Mr. Bryce, voted with say, anything to do in Government employ the Government in the majority. The minority Perhaps this intimation will prevent others consisted of fifty-five Nationalists and nine from following the example of the European Liberals-Mr. Burns, Mr, Cameron, Mr. Labou- under notice, who, though professedly a man chere, Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. Humphreys«' of travel and experience, failed to obtain Owen, Sir George Newnes, Mr. Bryn-Roberts, employment over here.
Mr. Shipman, and Mr. Weir.. One Nationalist, Mr. Young, who, it may be recalled, was bit terly attacked in the Diamond Jubilee year for attending the Windsor Castle garden-party, which his colleagues boycotted, walked out when the division was called, as did Mr. John Morley, Sir U. Kay-Shuttleworth, Mr. Haldane, Mr.T-Shaw, Mr. Brynmor Jones, Mr-Shachoy, Mr. Caine, and several other Liberals. By way of explanation of the action of the Radicals who abstained or voted in the minority, it is Brownhill are doing fairly well and that all the We are pleased to hear that, Mr. and Mrs. stone of a Cathedral at Brisbane as a memorial doing any mischief two extra nooses were stated that their course of action did not arise other European plague patients are progressingcordingly done. * tak muda
most favourably.
some thunder showers,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Singapore F. P. says that one day last week, as Messrs. Gaggino and Co's steam Launch Fanny in charge of Captain Consigliere was lying off Tanjong Rhoo, those on board observed a huge snake in the water close by, with its head uplifted, trying to climb up the sider Captain Consigliere and his crew attenpy We have received the Customs Gazelle, statised to slip a noose round the neck of the tical series No. 2, for January-March, 1901.
snake, but the attempt failed. The second try was more successful and to prevent the snake The Duke of Comwall has laid the foundation.
to. Queen Victoria.
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THE Mortality Statistics for Macao for the week ended 1st inst. show or deaths, of which 23, were from plague,
slipped round its body and tail, and it was from any desire to excuse the language hauled on board the steam launch, and found phulished in the Dublin newspaper in question, to be a boa constrictor, measuring over 15 feel but was prompted by an objection to the long. The bon has been caged in a wooden Executive acting in such a case without a
varrant, and assuming judicial
case,
Another Indian was reinoved from Kowloon suffering from plague this afternoon.
A young Portuguese girl was reported this morning as suffering from plague. She is being treated at home in Wyndhamn Street.
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Mrs. D'Agostini was discharged from the Kennedy Town Hospital this morning. Mr. Meek will probably leave the Hospital to morrow.
12. Our former Decree of a3rd September, 1900, is hereby repealed.
Done at Bangkok, May 16, 1901.
·CLOSING OF THE CHINESE THEATRES.
The papers in connection with the closing of the Chinese Theatres were before the Board this afternoon. S
closing to take place at once, which was ac- His. Excellency the Governor ordered the
Mr. Chan A Fook suggested the proprietors should be ordered to clean, the theatres, as the No further cases of sickness have occurred in sents were very dirty.ARAN the Connaught House. Thorough cleansing, Mr. Fung Wa Chun was not in favour of white-washing, &c. is going on fo the room altogether shutting up but, if that courses sean Slately occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Brownhill necessary the owners should be compensated;