"LEGISLATIVE - COUNCIL,
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Government forces to the estates in Maruda motion was agced to,'
Bay preparatory to making an attack else; where.
REBELLION.
The Council thereafter went into committee on the Bil, and on resuming, there being no alterations, the Bill was read a third time and passed.
FINE ART WORKS COPYWRIGHT.
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held on Thursday in the Council Chamber. There were present-His Excellency the Gover nor (Sir Houry Blake, GC,M.04) Major-General- Sir Wilham Gascoigne, K.-.0. (Commanding the Troops), Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.O. The Acting Attorney-General moved the (Colonial Secretary), Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.c. second reading of the Bill entitled An Or- Acting Attorney General), Hon. Commander dinance relating to Copyright in Works of the R. M. Ramsey, R.N. (Harbour Master), Hon. Fine Arts, and for repressing the Commission C. Mcl. Messer (Acting Colonial Treasurer), of Fraud in the Production and Sale of such Hon. W. Chatham (Acting Director of Public Works. He said-The reasons for this Bill Works), Hon. A. W. Brewin (Registrar Gen-are stated in the objects and reasons attached. erall, Hon. C. P. Chater, CM.D., Hon. T. H. A complaint has been made by a photographer Whitehead, Hon. J. Thurburn, Hon. J„J. Ball-
in this Colony that his photographs are being Irving, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei A Yuk, extensively reproduced by others without his permission, and it seems accordingly desirable Mr. C. Clementi (Acting Clerk of Councils
that the provisions of the English Copyright Act of 1862 relating to Copyright in 'Works ot
* REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the
Report of the Finance Committee, and incved its adoption.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded, and the motion was carried,
BLUR DOOK FOR 1900, The Colonial Secretary aid on the table a despatch from H.E. the Governor covering the Blue Book for 1900.
COCHRANE STREET HOUSK COLLARSE
Hon. T. H: Whitehead, pursuant to notice, asked the following quest on Will the Honourable the Attorney Geacmi lay upon the table a copy of the Depositions taken by the Magistrate sitting as Coroner in the second enquiry into the deaths of 43 persons which occurred in the collapsed houses, Nas. 3 and 54 Cochrane Street, on the night of the 14th August ultimo, a copy of the Crown Solicitor's opening remarks and closing speech, and a copy of the Magistrate's decisions or finding in respect of the first as well as the second enquiries held in connection with that disaster?
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The Acting Attorney-General-Sir, 1 bey to lay upon the table the papers asked for.
PEACE AND QUIET OF THE INHABITANTS.
The Acting Attorney-General moved, the third reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinanec 'to aniend An Ordinance for the better securing the Peace and Quiet of the Inhahabitants of 'the Town of Victoria and its vicinity during
the night time (No. 17 of 1884).
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The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES,
The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend An Ordinance, entitled the Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1885, (No. 8 of 1885) He said The reasons for this Bill are fully stated in the objects and reasons attached to the Bill. In committee on the Bill I shall live ond amendment to more. In the last line of clause 5, after the word "second," I shall move that the words" or any subsequcat" inserted, so as to prevent any doubt as to the penalty for any subsequent offence or the second
offence.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motion for the second reading was carried.
The Council thereafter went into committee on the Bill, when the amendment proposed by Acting Attorney-General was agreed to.
There are three or four expeditions now operating against the natives, officially design ated as "a few marauding Balows," whereas in reality the native population in all the territory are discontented with the Company's rule and ready to take up arms in defence of their in- terests. Fortunately for the Company they have no strong leader, otherwise the Company's Yet with all these troubles hanging over them days would be numbered.
the company are courting fresh ones by trying to annex further territory, as described olse
where.
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The talent of dissimulation' has become a
fine art with the officials of this territory, the pity is it should be wasted on the desert air of Borneo instead of being employed with advant- Fine Art should be introduced into this Colonynge in "high diplomacy" elsewhere.
The Council there after went into committee on the Bill, and on resuming, there being, no alterations, the Bill was, re, d a third time and passed.
TO AMEND AN ORDINANCE.
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The Hon. J. J, Bell-Irving moved the second reading of the Bill entitied An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 15 of 1887, and to remove any doubts as to the validity of any matters done under it. He said-The object of this Bill is to rectify an omission which has arisen in connection with Ordinance 15 of 1887. By the terms of that Ordinance it was coacteil that that Ordinance should not come into operation unless and until the Officer Administering the Government notified by Proclamation that it was Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same, and thereafter it should come into opera- tion upon such day as the Officer Administering the Government should notify by the same or by any other Proclamation. By some mistake
THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR.
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place and his selection by the Governor showed much sagacity on the part of the latter. Under the former Deputy Governor the Colony had been allowed to drift into slipshod Asiatic ways,
Intimations.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHARRHOLDERS. NOTICE is hereby given IIN 11.
TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY.
held at the HEAD OFFICE, No. 1, Queen's YEARLY MEETING of the SOCIETY will be Buildings, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the toth October, 1901, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to- gather with the Statements of Accounts for the 30th June, igor, and of declaring Divi the year 19oo and for the half year ending
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specially in allowing the Celestial community to wallow in their own fihh. All this has been changed and the foreshore, especially under
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NOTICE. once a day. Chinese conservatism together with the fixed idea that they are masters here,Removal of the Piles near MURRAY PIER ENDERS are invited for the Drawing and is contrary to this change and their artifices may perhaps have worked in the wellknown recently used in connection with the raising of
the Dredger "Canton River." Chinese sympathies of the Governor in com. passing this change. Not long ago our present Deputy Governor made a raid after the mid- night hours in the market and found some scores of filthy Chinese coolies making sleep- The Council thereafter went into Committeeing apartments of the tables and stalls on which on the Bill, and on resuming, there being no our food is exposed for sale, a habit they have alterations, the Bill was read a third time and been accustomed to for some time past. Fresh passed.
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that Proclamation was not issued:
Han, C., Chater seconded, and the motion was carried.
The Council then adjourned till Thursday. The estimates will not be taken on that day.
LABUAN NOTES.
(From our own Corrispondent)
LAHUAN, September 18th. * THE "LORNA DOONE" CASE.
On the 10th April fast the Telegraph pub- lished particulars of the seizure of the Sarawak steamer Lorna Donne by the Labuan Govern- ment for having opium and chandu og board manifested as through cargo from Kuching to Limbang. The steamer, it will be remembered, only called at Labuan en route to land H.B.M. Consul who had been on official business to
Sarawak. Your leading article on the subject rightly described the incident as fit for one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas rather than a plain tale of latter day fact,
The quixotic action of an amateur judge was subsequently very clumsily attempted to be whitewashed by an equivocal letter to the Singapore Free Press singed by the Harbour
Master here an official who had not intervened in the seizure, but a subordinate of the judge (?)
On the Council resuming, the Acting A1- torney-General moved that, the Council re-containing absurdly, incorrect statements in committee the Bill, as he had another amend meat to move.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motions was carried.
The Acting Attorney General then, moved that in the last line of clause 2 the word "them" should be substituted for "him."
The Colonial Secretary seconfleri, and the
amendment was agreed to.
The Council therealler resumed. The third reading of the Bill was not moved,
NEW TERRITORIES AND COURT.
The Acting Attorney-General moved the second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordin. ance to amend The New Territories Land
• ourt Ordinance, 1960, (No. 18 of 1900) He said-Hon. members will see the objects and reasons stated at the end of the Bill. I would also propose to move, in committee on the
THE FORESHORE.
Tenders should be forwarded not later than the 7th instant.
MURRAY RUMSEY,
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NOTICE.
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BLE for any DEBTS contracted by his wife PALMYRA AUGUSTA TERCIO DA SILVA, and every person is hereby prohibited from giving ber any Credit.
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Talking of exhalations the foreshore under the town wharves which as before stated was. the dumping ground for all the Chinese refuseOOD HANDWRITING, some Experi- and night soil, emits such a perfume at low ude that steamers have been obliged to haul off the wharves at night. Complaints have reached me from the local steamers that their white
paint on the shore side has been turned black during the night from this effluvium! Thare hitherto been inclined to treat this as a "snake story" but recently the German 5.5. Kedah was here and all her boats on the side facing the wharf were actually the colour of soot in the morning, and I personally saw her sailors' engaged in the act of scrubbing and repolishing. them.
DEATH OF A GREAT ARCTIC. EXPLORER.
attempted justification of official action which
Baron Nordenskiold, one of the best-known had been prompted by that peraicious Celest al Arctic explorers of recent times, has just died influence at that time rampant and so detriin Stockholm, Sweden, in the seventieth" year mental to tise interests and dignity of the Colony of his age. We quote the following notice of his life from the Brooklyn Eagle, which says:
of Labuan.
The Telegraph's presumption that Rajah
"Baron Nordenskiold was a Finn, but, hìs | Brooke would not allow the outrage to rest has ships always sailed under the Danish and proved correct. The Rajah lately anived in Norwegian flags. He was a man of scientific England, and a few days ago the Sarawak attainment, a chemist, mineralogist, and geolo ngent in Labuan received a polite letter from gist, as well as sailor and observer, and began the Labuan Government informing him that his ventures into the North at the age of twenty- the consfiscated epium or chandy would be six, when he accompanied an expedition to returned at once for export to its original Spitzbergen--an island group that he visited destination, Limbang. Two days later the Saron several occasions afterward, pushing beyond awak mail arrived and the local Government's that point on one of the trips to latitude 28" sudden action was explained. It is a great 41. His great achievement was in effecting the satisfaction to learn that the Colonial office has Northeast passage, over twenty years ago-a condemned this Government's action on all performance that had its reward, not in his title
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of his fame throughout the world, and in the satisfaction in achievement which is, after all, the only reward of lasting consequence.
The Northwest passage, so long discussed, so often àltempted, was successfully made by
late, Deputy Governur. The Colonial office have ordered the opium to be returned and the N. Borneo Government have been ordered to the captain of the s.s. Lorna Doone, who is to apologize, not only to Rajah Brooke but also
a native and was arbitrarily arrested. This is McClure and l'arry." in the attempt to force it a bitter 'pill for the Chartered Company to Sir John Franklin lost his life. The region has swallow but they deserve it and nobody has been mapped, but it is so constantly blocked by any sympathy with them except those depenice that it is impractical for trading-ships, and
It is to be hoped that this wholesome lesson may have the effect of pult ing down the high-handed acts too frequently indulged in by some of its officials."
September 20th. SEQUEL TO "LORNA DOONE" BUSINESS, To-day the Rajah's steam. launch Gazelle arrived from Limbang bringing back the chandu which the Government here sent over the day before. The Resident of Limbang now declines to receive it, and declares it is not the.
must. hence remain of no commercial con- sequence, the Northeast passage, however, had never been forced. The land had been "plotted on the maps, and explorations to the northern coast of Siberia had been carried on from the land side, but of the sea conditions little was known. Nordenskiold solved its mysteries:
the ice all the way from North Cape to Bering He pushed the Vega through Strait, keeping wisely, near to the shores, and Thereby escaping the westward set of the pack
(1) The word "any"- "be inserted before originat article seized on the Lorna Deone but Which crushed the Jewiette, and carried the
the words "such information."
2. That in clause 3 of the Bill, in sub-section (1) of section 7A, the words, "and if he is required so to do to mark out clearly withi boundary marks to the satisfaction of the Court the limits of the land" be inserted after the 'word "land."
3. That in clause 4 of the Bill, sixth line, the word "Government" before the word "Gazette" be deleted.
The amendments were agreed to. On the Council resuming the third reading of the Bill was not moved.
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE. The Acting Attorney General moved the second, reading of the Bill entitled An Or- dinance to amend the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, (No.13 of 1901)
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MORE UNREST,
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stouter ships of Dr. Nansen and the Duke of Abruzzj.to the farthest North.. Here again he proved a geographical fact, but he opened no way for commerce from Europe to the far East. It is of use, however, to learn of limitations as well as possibilities, and his sucessful voyage saved the expense in life and treasure of others
the outlying estates have all concentrated in that would have been pasucessful. His daring,
the general managers' places, and the coolies on one estate have deseried in a body. Large quantities of tobacco, said to be worth £40,000 name of Nordenskiold.". sterling, are stored waiting shipment, and if this is fired the Government will be placed in an awkward fix. It is also said the tobacco estates have lost $100,000 owing to this en- forced stoppage of work, but this amount is doubtless much exaggerated. Possibly this threatened attack is but a feint to draw the
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