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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1901.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26; 1901.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Cleaning Up.
The general house-to-house cleansing in No. 5 Health District is still being carried
and filth is being cleared out by the cart: lear. There can be very little doubt that this thorough scouring of a dirty quarter will do an immense aniount of good, but it has come too late. The experience of other years teaches us that about now we may expect the plague to commence to subside of its own accord, and thus the object lesson of the cleansing of No. 5 District will be, to a great extent, lost. Commencing this very much like closing the stable "door after the horse has been stolen, and no amount of energy on the part of the Authorities will How convince the public that they (the Authorities) have done their duty."
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE BOERS IN CAPE COLONY.
LONDON, June 22nd,
The correspondent of the Daily Blail át Capetown states that the invaders are swarm- ing in the eastern and midland districts of Cape Colony, and that they number from
7,000 to 10,000 men.
The Colony from Dardrecht to Willow, more, across to Kenhardt, and in to Mana. qualand is virtually in possession of the Boers:
LATER.
THE Shanghai Mercury understands that Li | H.M.S. Hermione is sailing on Monday, July. Hung-chang has bought back the Tientsin 1st. She will call at Bangkok, remaining there Arsenal from the Russians, who took possession two or three day's, then to Singapore to meet of it at the time of the trouble at that port. H.M.S. Eclipse. Thence she will go to Colomba H.M.S. Dido's pennant came to grief this after. and Aden calling at Hodaidah and Jeddah to noon. Her topmasts having been struck, the make enquiries as to the slave trade in those pennant got foal of her main gaff with disastrous quarters, and so to Port Said, Malta and Devon, results, so that at 30 she was flying two separate pennants, one from the masthead and the other from the gaff.
A JAPANESE paper states that Baron Shibusawa, President of the 1st Bank, and Mr. Asane President of the Toya Kaisen Kaisha, have concluded the purchase of the gold mine at Shoksan. Kogen-do, from the Corean Govem ment. The miners employed at the mine will be engaged by the Japanese capitalists and the The engagement with the Boers at Water-work will be resumed from July next. kloof is now confirmed. It appears the THE Kobe Herald says:-A serious accident British were pursuing the enemy under Com-occurred on the Dodwell steamer Glenogle
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. THE WATERKLOOF FIGHT.
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SANITARY BOARD.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held on Thursday, the 27th June, at 4:15 pm.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Laiter from Government forwarding an ex- tract from a letter of the Chamber of Commerce.
2. Correspondence relative to the provisions of public bath-house for Chinese women.
3. Provision for two addition Senior Inspec tors in the Estimates for 1903.
construction of a
path to Ken- 4. Reply from Government relative to the nedy Town fra few approa
A WATER polo inatch between teams represent- ing the V. R. C. and 25th Co., S.D., R.A., will be played to-morrow at the V. R. C., Kowloon, at 5.30p.m.shatp. The following will play for the V. R. C.-Goal-L. E. Lammert; Bucks- FW. White, 11. Rapp; H. Back-C. M. Alves; Forwards C. Humphreys, F. K. Tala,planting of trees in the Kennedy Town Plague. 6. Reply from Government regarding the Andrews.
Cemetery.
5. Appointment of two temporary Inspectors for disinfection.
2. Reply from Government relative to the Inspector's quarters at Kennedy Town.
8. Mr. Ed. Osborne, pursuant to notice, will moye
to enact-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST./ necessary work so late in the day looks very mandants Malan and Kritzinger, when they Victoria, B.C. on the 13th of last month. Just pertinent message, for the Field Marslial pro- erected, of a greater depth than forty feet (as
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were waylaid at daybreak by another force pouring in a heavy fire as the column was
preparing to start.
The fight lasted 24 hours.
By now the Authorities ought to be con- vinced that plague may he looked upon as CHINA AND THE IMPORT DUTY when the large steam cap to the cylinder went
an annual scourge in Hongkong. Every body else is convinced of the fact, and, as it generally takes Officialdom a long time to
learn things, there may now be some faint hope that this plain fact, having been long "the subject of anxious consideration, by FOR ANPING VIA SWATOW AND AMOY, those whose professional knowledge and, THE
THE Company's Steamship
etc., etc.," has been duly assimilated. If this is so, it stands to reason that the Govern ment should begin to act and to take some steps whereby the epidemic which is to break out carly next year may be checked or mitigated.
"MAIZURU MARU," Captain K. Suzuki, will be despatched for the Above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 29th instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 20th June, mot,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
"CATHERINE, APCAR,"
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informer that their Gonds will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed
at once.
Cargo remaining on board after the 28th instant, at, 2 1.M., will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Gouds from alongside such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and
expense.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 20th June, 1901.
Intimations,
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EYE SIGHT.
Mr. N. LAZARUS,
Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcula
may be consulted for SPECTACLES · at 16, Queen's Road Central," (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL). Business hours:-9 A.M. to 5 PM.
though No. 5 Health District will be comparatively clean by the time, the Sanitary Authorities haye finished with it, there, can he little doubt but that it will be in just as filthy a state as ever in another six months, and steps should be taken to prevent this! It is also equally certain that other portions of the city are quite as filthy, and that they need a thorough cleansing just as badly as does the portion now in the hands of the broom and bucket brigade...
We would suggest that the. Sanitary Staff be permanently increased, so that the much maligned sanitary inspector has a district assigned to him that it will not take him more than a week to thoroughly inspect. Next that a separate organization be formed consist ing of, say, ten inspectors, each with twenty coolies under him, who shall pass their whole time in moving from one district to another and engaging in a grand house-to-house clean up, such as is now in progress in No. 5 Health District. They could take thei dirtiest districts first, and when these were completed there would be plenty of th collected elsewhere for them to attack. Notice should be given to the Chinese that such of them as kept their houses in a dirty state would have them cleaned for them and would, in addition, be fined for each offence. Then they would see that the only way in which to escape the inconvenience of having their whole homes turned out and cleansed periodically would be by doing the job themselves. We fancy a little pressure brought to bear in this manner would soon. show good results.
We also think that house-to-house visit- ation should never have been abandoned
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ON OPIUM.
Lord Cranborne states that the question of an increase in the import duty in oplin into China, has not yet arisen.
WEATHER BEFORT.
The Observatory report says On the 26th at 12.ic pan. the barometer has risen slightly on the E. coast of China, fallen considerably on the S. coast. The depression in the North has probably approached W. Japan. Pressure is also relatively low over the S. coast of Chira. Forecast S. W. and varying winds, moderaté; squally, probably some thun: der showers.
as the vessel was leaving the outer wharf her high pressure cylinder head blew off, creating a general scene of wreck in the engine room, of the big freighter. Fortunately no one was in inmediate proximity to the explosion, and the steam pressure was at about a minimum
skyward, and the packing just below flew in all directions, sticking like putty to the walls of the engine root. IT is reported that Theodore Magers, the bedroom steward of the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wihalm der Grosse, who in April last at Bremen found the three gold bars behind a comice in the second saloon, which, had been missing from the specie room on the arrival of the steamer at Cherbourg, and whe claimed and obtained the reward of 10,000 marks offered for the recovery of the gold, has been arrested at Bremerhaven at the instance with being the man who abstracted the gold of the North German Lloyd company, charged
front the specic room.
According to Indian Engineering Hoods are
LOCAL AND GENERAL. not the only obstacles with which the N.-D. Railway has lately had to contend. There is a SURGEON George Gibsun, R.N., of HM.5.unnel near Khairabad, which a few evenings Tamar left for Yokohama to-day, by the ago was bravely held for thirty-five minutes by Press, where he is to be employed in the British an army of locusts against the Bombay mail The tactics of holding defiles as practised by Naval Hospital
locusts are not at all easy for a simple engine defeat. The weak spot in the fatter was the with its one idea of frontal attack to quickly
wheels. The locusts gathered there, and go crushed beneath them, till each crushed locust became a part of a layer of soft substance which prevented the wheel biting the rail, and so rendered useless the machinery of the engine,
THE Chief Justice, Sir John Carrington, ac companied by Miss Carrington, left to-day by the Empress on a well earned three months' leave which will be spent in Japan. TRINIDAD papers state that Mr. Nathaniel Nathan, Attorney General of Trinidad, now on leave is likely to be appointed to succeed Sir John Carrington as Chief Justice of Hongkong. We hear that the Government have telegraphed to recall Dr. Atkinson, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, now on leave. As a matter of fact he should have been recalled months ago, for he will arrive too late to deal with plague this year.
WE` shall be obliged if any subscriber on receiving his paper late or irregularly will write on the Wrapper of the paper the fime of delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Lady, 50 Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will enable us to check, the delivery coolies. MESSRS. Cottam & Co. are now showing the
COUNT Waldernce, says the Japan Daily Mail, is going through quite a series of entertain. ments in Tokyo. The Emperor sent a Cham- berkain on the 12th instant to make particular inquiries, after the illustrious visitor's health, a
bably finds these doings in Tokyo as wearisome from a physical point of view, as campaigning in Chilli. Replying to his Majesty's gracious message, however, he said that the beautiful scenery of Japan and the hearty welcome he is receiving here have improved the health of his mind as well is of his body. He seems to have won the hearts of all Japanese coming in con- tact with him by bis kind and friendly de
incanour.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE HONGKONG AND WHAM- POA DOCKS.
One of those inexplicable accidents which so often shock humanity occurred at the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock this morning. Arethusa, now being overhauled, was in the It appears the United States Transport dry dock and while the work was going promptly at hand, when it was found that be as usual, a tremendous, explosion "took place inside the vessel. Assistance was
sides a large number of Chinese artizans ser iously injured (some mortally), six had been killed outright. On enquiry at the head office no information was forthcoming and the police, who were at once communicated with, could furnish no details as to the cause of the explo-
sion.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
AN OLD OFFENDER.
generally, was charged with stealing a jacket Li Tsun, having for an address Hongkong and pair of trousers.
coming out of a room in No. 50 First Street. The complainant caught hun with the clothes The defendant had the usual me excuse, He was "sitting on a bed and was arrested." Two months' härd labour."
A BARDER IN TROUBLE.
Sgt. W. Hullopp of the Royal Welsh Fusi- liers charged Kloo, a barber, with trespassing in Murray Barracks. Fined $5,
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That the Board recommend the Government
That every domestic building hereafter measured in accordance with sub-section (e) of section 56 of the Public Health Ordinance of 1901); shall be provided by the owner with
glazed skylight in the root of a total area of area of such domestic building, and every not less than one-twenty-fifth of the total floor upper door shall be provided with a well-hole, corresponding, in position and area, to such
skylight.
Provided that no such provision, shall be required in the case of domestic buildings which are, in the opinion of tre Sanitary Board, adequately it by means of windows opening into a side street or other open space of a width of not less than fifteen feet, in addition to being lit from the front
The Vice President, pursuant to notice, will move-
sert in the new Building Ordinance or other
That the Board urge the Government to in- wise enact without undue delay the following provisions
width of the street, upon which it fronts as No building shall exceed times the measured from the outer edge of the foot-path on one side to the cuter edge of the foot-path on the opposite side.
2. The width of any street which is not pro- vided with a foot-path shall be the shortest
distance measured between the main walls of the buildings on the opposite sides therent, or the building line as determined by the Director of Public Works where there is no building opposite.
3. No veraadh shall be erected in any street. which is not provided with a fent-path of the width of ro fect on that side of the street on which it is proposed to erect the verandah.
4. No balcony shall be erected in any street width of four feet six inches on that side of the which is not provided with a foot-path of a street on which it is proposed to erect the balony.
AGENDA.
i. Correspondence relative to the finding of rats in the neighbourhood of the Paride Ground.
2. Application for the erection of a urinal on the first floor of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
3. Letter from Messrs. Leigh and Urange relative to the "certificate of occupation" for certain houses on Honkong Inland Lots 222 and 223.
COAL STEALING. he has been unable to overcome, of sweeping -Tang Chung has an unfortunate habit, that up unconsidered trifles in the way of coal. He was found in his boat in the Bowrington Canalweeks ended the 8th-and-15th-June, 1901-
4. Correspondence relative to the well at No. 14, Des Voeux Road Central.
relative to precautions against Plague,
5. Minute by the Medical Officer of Health
Two British sailors from the Goliath at Naga. saki were severely handled by a Japanese crowd there on the 12th-inst, in the neighbour hood of Oura. It appears (the Press says) that the two tars, who had been drinking in a Japanese saloon, attempted to force their way into a room upstairs in which a man was lying then set upon by a Japanese mob of coolies-with-7-picuis on board. He did about T20 yards ill. They were ejected into the street, and were armed with carrying poles. Four or five Japa in record time, but was caught by P. C. 424 rescued the men from the cowardly crowd. nese policemen were soon on the scene, and One month's hard labour.
One of the tars presented a ghastly appearance, bleeding profusely from a wound on the back of his head. The men were taken to the station,
AUDACIOUS THEFT FROM THE PERSON. Wong Sany and Fong Wo, two disreput able looking urchins of 16 and 17 years old, were charged with stealing a gold chain and
GREAT proportion of cataracts and A diseases affecting those advancing in life here. So far as we are able to judge, and very latest thing in Manila straw hats, bathing where the injured man's wound was dressed, trinkets from Mrs. Frampton in Queen's Road,
occur to those having some deficiency in the
construction of the eyes-the many years of Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.
Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi- cate a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Classes only to correct and cure,
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and they were subsequently released, `
6. Mortality Statistics for this Colony for the
weeks ended 9th and 16th June 1901.
7. Mortality. Returns from "Macao for the
THE CRISIS IN THE NORTH.
we have poked about amongst the Sanitary suits, towels, &c. They have a large stack of ❘ Inspectors a good deal of late, there is not the newest fashions of collars, scarves, bootsWe would call the attention of our readers to the that immense fear of the inspector's visits (both American and English) and specially an' shown by the Chinese which their repre-extensive assortment of light seasonable under sentatives, both in the Sanitary Board and Council, would have us believe. It is only those who are trying to conceal plague cases who are thus fearls of the inspectors, and surely they are not worthy of consideration. There is plenty of aid available tou, for the Twenty-second Bombay Infantry have done plague duty in India and would, we believe, be quite willing to come to the rescue of the Authorities whenever called upon to do so.
We also want some more doctors. 'raphs from us to remove a nuisance of this must be written on one side of the paper only and said the 1st asked him to pawn the things. for a month, and any time during that month
ÆERATED WATERS keep them busy all day long.
IN THE FAR EAST,
ed with every attention to the best principles that sanitary science can suggest; and our NEW FACTORY at WEST POINT is the LARGEST and BEST EQUIPPED in the FAR EAST.
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stand without rivals believing that, in clothing, wear. As is so well-known, Messrs. Cottum the best is the cheapest in the long run. The pile of refuse behind the. Isim-isa-tsui Police Station, to which we referred both yesterday and the day before, has now been swept up and placed in the dusteart standing alongside. Apparently it requires two para-
column of the ith instant. As will be seen, offer of a prize of fifty dollars made in our leader
project for the capture of the Island by a bostile the prize is to be given for the best sketch of a
force with a view to the destruction of the Naval Yard, Arsenal and Barracks. This is a subject which should readily interest our readers, and we trust that we shall have a good batch of manuscripts to consider. Articles should not, exceed two thousand words in length; they
sort. We wish that the smell of Mr. Osborne's and should reach this office before s p.m. on bricked up urinal could be as easily removed. Saturday, 29th inst. All articles to be address We would willingly write paragraphs for a fulled to week to accomplish that much-to-be-desired end.
The Editor,
"Hongkong Telegraph."
3o, Queen's Road Central. A CONTEMPORARY say: Dunning by postcard is now illegal in the United States. The owner of some property in Minneapolis' sent out to a tenant a posicard, on which was written. "Your rent for this year is past due. It was the same last year. I ask you to be more prompt this year. If do not hear from you soon the note will be placed in the hands of my attor wey." The postal authorities refused to carry the card, and the United States Attorney. General instituted a prosecution. After an argument, in which it was admitted that the card was a usual "hurry-up postal," the Court convicted the defendant. The ground of the conviction was that the law provides very ample means for the recovery of debt; that the post office is not established that purpose; and that it is an abuse of postal facilities so to use it. THE following items are from the Tientsin Times of the 15th instant-
Mrs. Frampton, being sworn, gave her Road at 11.. 35 yesterday morning when evidence very clearly. She was crossing Queen's
two boys ran out of Douglas Lane,
Frampton reported the matter and afterwards One boy pushed the other up against her, who snatched the gold chain from her neck and ran away with the other boy. Mrs. identified the No. defendant as the culprit. The accountant of the Cheng Tai pawn shop said he was informed of the loss of the chain, and on the 2nd defendant coming to the shop dant told the accountant his mother had given to pawn it, sent for the police. The 2nd defen-
him.the chain to pawn
The 1st Defendant had pleaded guilty. The Mr. Hazeland sentenced cach to fi weeks' hard labour and 12 strokes of the birch on the place where it would do most good.
THE PLAGUE,
·TIENTSIN. ·
Affairs in the North. (From our own Correspondent.)
TIENTSIN, June 12th.
of us expected that the day the unique bom. -On Monday (toth). We had a meeting in the Gordon Hall to discuss the question of celebrating the Siege in some way, and some bardment commenced would be the date com- memorated. But after some discussion the 23rd was finally selected, as on that date the first relief column-that brought up by Jim critical danger ceased. To bear Military men Watt's despatches-reached here, and our most
speak of it you would fancy all the trouble was over by then, whereas hard fighting went on
operate and make a dash, the Settlements could had the Chinese only had the courage to co-
bave been cleaned out. The celebration will take place on the 24th in any year when, like the present, the 23rd infis on a Sunday, and is to take the form of a banquet with garden party Number of cases reported (Chinese......1,394 afterwards. It would not be surprising if the up till noon of the 25th Other Asiatics 46 banquet is abandoned in favour of a garden June, 1901
Europeans.....25 party, only as there is great difficulty now in Number of cases reported (Chinese...to getting large numbers catered for, and it is doubtful if anything like a good spread will be during the past 24 hours Other Asiatics o
It is estimated that at best iso (Europeans possible.
civilians who were here during the siege will Toul number of cases reported to date 1,475 invite certain of the Military and Naval Officers subscribe, and it is considered expedient 10 Number of deaths reported (Chinese......,356 as guests, especially those who were here up till noor of the 25th Other Asiatics 32 sented the defending force. If the affair is during the siege or whose regiments repre June, 1901g s
Europeans...... Ge Asiatics Chinese...
properly managed besieged residents should virtually form a Siege Society or Club for the purpose of annually commemorating the event. and the combination might be the nucleus of quite a strong political lever in time to come.. 4th, the day the City was taken, but as chat Many persons wanted the celebration on July
is the French National Fête that day was obviously unsuited. To some, however, it was. the most interesting of the period, inaugurat- ing the wonderful and fearful era of loot!". It is a good thing we could not have it on that day, as any rejoicing might have been so associated by the Chinese. ».
Number of deaths reported during the past 24 hours
Europeans. O
Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,405 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and deaths are
Cases Chinese
Other Asiatics European
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no use getting out one extra man. Let the Government indent for ten or, a dozen and CO., they will find that there will be aniple work for all. It has been very ably pointed out that another is required for the Harbour work, another is wanted for the Mortuary, NOA's ark is generally supposed to be the 14 couple more at least for the Civil Hospital,
a couple more for Kennedytown, and thus carliest ship of which we have record, but (says six extra men are accounted for without Engineering) there exist paintings of Egyptian supplying any assistance for our hard-worked vessels immensely older than the date, 2840 Medical Officer of Health. He could,do B.C., usually assigned to the ark, being indeed, with four or five at his disposal, and could probably between 70 and 80 centuries old. Moreover, there are now in existence in Egypt Another thing we require is a little less of boats which were built about the period the this "anxious consideration." It takes, a ark was constructed. These are, however, OUR FACTORIES are construct-great deal too long and never does anyone small craft about 33ft long. 7ft wide, and zift a bit of gond, for by the time, the question to 3ft deep. They were discovered six years has been "anxiously considered," the neces ago by the eminent French Egyptologist, M. sity for consideration has passed and the, de Morgan, in brick vaults near Cairo, and whole of the strain put upon the mighty were probably funeral boats. They are con- brains of the anxious ones has been wasted.
structed of 3in acacia and sycamore planks, We want a little more action and a great dovetailed together and fastened with trenails. deal less stupid talk and bickering. Let the Governor telt certain unprofessional They have floors but no ribs, and though near Officials that they only waste their own and ly good years old, they held rigidly together other people's time in trying to pick holes in after their supports had been removed. reports upon technical subjects by profes A perfect System of Filtration is sional men, and that they had much better ALTHOUGH the gay and giddy Sparklet" employed guaranteeing Absolute remain silent and see that their own depart does not usually find mocli favour with the
pur-
ments are up to the mark, and he will have dweller in towns it is, and justly so, keenly ity.
donc a wise thing and earned the gratitude appreciated by those whose business takes of the public. These gentlemen may be them into the leafy jungle, says the Stam The Machinery used is of the Latest Heaven-born gens, and. Cadets, and B.As., Observer of the 14th inst. But excellent as it and all sorts of other things, but even the is it constitutes in its inner sell a spice of dan Type
German Emperor has pointed out that he is ger. On Tuesday last, as an energetic official not quite infallible, and so we may take it for at Post Office No. I was stamping dates on granted that these gentlemen did not imbibe
some Parcels Fost packages, he thumped his knowledge from their teeding bottles. instrument with. some force on one ad
In fact, it is not only the Colony that dressed to Nai Yuen, of Wat Chang, wants a general clean up, but its Officials as There was a bang as of a magnified Chinese well. They too, have become stagnani.cracker and when the stampwielder had re- The Waters produced are of the Heaps and heaps of useless lumber has been covered from bis surprise he found his fingers only, nine were executed.
allowed to accumulate in the dark and mysterious recesses of their brains, and it streaming with blood. Investigation of the A Chinese interpreter in French employ with requires the broom and bucket brigade of remnants of the package elicited the fact that another man recently got hold of a wealthy man Mrs. Passmore is seriously ill but, with the common sense to clear all this refuse out.it had been loaded with Sparklets" with named Chang, and tortured him into giving other, patients,, is doing as well as could be take over Paotingsu, The Chinese do not
which Nai Yuen designed to assuage his daily them a large sum of money, Alter paying thirst. The Post Office Authorities were yes them, under the pain of his physical sutterings, terday making enquiries as to the senderfofities, who have taken his case up, and we trust he reported the matter to the French Author
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Let every man learn to attend to his own business and not to interfere with others, and a great step towards the cleansing of the Colony will have been made,
The brigands are paying particular attention villages have lost every horse and mule they to live stock just now, and for miles round the possessed. They cridently are forming strong mounted corps.
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The Chinese pinipotentiaries are endeavour. ing to get the Foreign Legations to chose an entirely new site outside the Tartar City, offer ing to pay all expenses of removal and erection of spacious legations and barracks.
The Board of Punishment, Peking, sent ten robbers to the execution ground the other day, but just before their decapitation a French guard arrived and demanded the liberation of one man, who had been falsely charged, and
Total
Deaths Chinese
Other Asiatics Europeans
Total
50
The plague returns for last week were:-
Cases..........
155 Deaths.......
152
The returns for 20th June, 1894, were
Total deaths to date ... 2,844 *New cases in previous 24 hours... Deaths in previous 24 hours...... Patients under treatment - 155)
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The great question of the day remains the giving up a retention of the native City. If the Provisional Goverment is retained, there is every prospect of the river improvement being quickly and efficiently done atlast, as the Govern- ment has the money in hand, or at least two thirds of it, and will probably undertake to furnish the balance. Under Chinese jurisdiction 400,000 TIs.. would be a long time forthcoming, and if the work is done now it will be a lasting benefit to the Chinese as well as ourselves. It seems to be the general opinion that were the city banded back to the Chinese better order would prevail in the outlying districts of the Province, and the trade develop quicker, but on the other hand works would not be carried out which are almost as important to foreign interests: as an increase of trade. I have my doubts as to whether Chinese regime would work such wonders as expected, and we shall have an opportunity of judging when the Chinese
seem to thinkpeace and security lies with their own people, as they are most anxious Beaconsfield Arcada is expected to be no that the city should not be handed (back)
There are no fresh European cases to, report in the last 24 hours.
expected.