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As reported in our issue of yesterday, His Excellency the Governor in the afternoon laid the foundation stone of the Tung Wa Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedytown. His Excellency arrived at Kennedy Town in his steam launch precisely at four o'clock, and accompanied by Sir Thomas Jackson, and his private secretary, Captain Warren, at once pro ceededed to the large matshed already well- filled with ladies and gentlemen, including the
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N follows
Your Excellency.-On behalf of the Com-
REINFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. All the available men from the following mittes of the Tong Wa Hospital I beg to regiments have been ordered to be in readiexpress our gratitude to you for having con- ness to sail for the Cape on the 15th seated to lay the foundation stone of this building. In so doing, Sir, you will be marking with your approval one more stage in the progress which under the beneficent rule of the British Government the Tung Wa Hospital has been encouraged to take during the last Eight years. It has fallen to us, the members of the present Committee, to have the honour of welcoming Your Excellency to-day; but we do not forget that we owe the honour in great part to the labours of our predecessors. An institution like this is not the work of one day, and on this occasion the efforts of all who have contributed to it deserve to be remem-> bered. It is as long ago as the winter of 18 that an epidemic of small-pox induced sunie members of our community to take up scri ously the idea of starting a hospital for infectious diseases, but the time was unpmpitious. Next year; emboldened by the interest which Your Excellency displayed in all matters which affected the welfare of the Chinese, the Com. mittee of the Hospital, acting through their Chairman, Mr. Ho Tung, made another appeal to the govemment, and a ready car was turned to them. The sympathy of the government and the gift of a site stimulated the liberality
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GOLD COIN the amount of £150,000 was brought from Japan by the s.s. Kasuga fare surely enough to make the celebrated Captain Kidd and Koxinga turn in their graves!
THE COMMUNICALE DISEASES reported as occurring in the Colony during the past week are three cases of diphtheria, all Portu- guese, and four cases of enteric fever, all Euro- pean, two of the latter imported from Shanghai by the s.3. Adana.
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'total revenue of this Colony, No person who has gone through the trials of the last three yoars, during which "this Colony has been scourged with the phuc, can fail to appra ciate the great benefits that will accrue from such a hospital as this, I know with what care the unfortunate victims of the plague were treated in the mutsheds that were erected closs by. I know from personal inspection, how. carefully those matsheds and this hospital were conducted, and I saw how patiently those poor creatures bore their sufferings and awaited"
their fate; but no matsheds, however care- fully-maged, can be as efficient, "28" such a hospital as is about to be erected here by the generosity of the Chinese popula tiun of Hongkong, and I can only hope that the time will never come again when the 68 beds to be provided, here will all be e quired at the same time. In this connection would like to say something to you, gentle. men, and through you to the Chinese people of Hongkong, upon the work now being per- formed by the. Sanitary Board. I know that many people are discommoded and irritated. by the precautions that are being taken, but I ask you to remember that these precautions
are not being taken as an experiment, but as the result of experiments made elsewhere, and which in other countries have been found to be efficacious. Pingue is not a new disease. It has ravaged all the countries of Europe hundreds and hundreds of years ago; it las
swept away half the population in certain countries in Europe, and during its last visitation, about three hundred years ago, it literally swept away the entire population of many town and villages in England. Smallpox has also caused terrible mortality in years gone by. It took many, many years of this dreadful disease in epidemic form from our thought and experiment to succeed in removing midst. All those diseases have been controlled by the same measures that the Sanitary Board are now attempting in Hongkong. There is nothing being done in Hongkong that would not be done in London or Edinburgh or Glasgow, or in any town in England, if the same condi- tions arose. I know that people.who perhaps have not thought over the matter may be irritated at the lime-washing and cleansing of their houses, which to their minds appear to be perfect. ly clean. I want to explain to the Chinese people... that this disinfection and whitewashing of their houses is not an assumption in any way that their houses are dirty; it is simply done because the Kerms of disease may exist in a house that appears to be quite clean, but that has not been gone over by disinfectants. I know how great. the discomfort 'must be, and I would ask the Chinese to remember that this duty which is being perormed by the officers of the Sanitary Board is not a pleasant duty to them, and has been performed in many cases at the cost of their lives. I know-I believe that the Chinese
population of Hongkong give me credit for being anxious to do anything I can to improve their comfort and to improve their position, and I think they know that I would not either accept or propose any measure with reference to them did not consider was absolutely necessary for the that I.considered needlessly difficult or that I
At St. Brannocks, Eastbourne, on Oct. 18th, singles. To-night will be devoted to billiards, stone of the former building two years ago. safety of their lives. Over four thousand men.
chance:
will be resumed on the Hongkong Cricketing an annexe to the main hospital and an Club's ground to sparrow morning at 10.30, institution for the treatment of infectious when Hancock will play Ramsey for the diseases. Your Excellency laid the foundation It is now nearing completion, and we trust that you may preside over its opening. Lack of funds has prevented the Hospital from pro- ceeding with both works simultaneously; but an invitation for subscriptions addressed by us this years to the Chinese community has been answered with such liberality-a sum of $42,800 having been promised already--that we have felt justified in setting to work on the second building. The plans have been prepar ed by Mr. Harker and have been approved by the Director of Public Works. I beg to submit
On the 19th instant, at St. John's Cathedral,
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for Your Excellency's inspection a drawing of the building. It will contain six wards and one convalescent ward capable of accom modating 68 patients, and simple provision hás been made for offices, stores, and attendants quarters. We shall now do our utmost to meet You Excellency's wishes and hasten its com-
THE RETURN OF VISITORS to the Citypletion. (Applavac) Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 17th November, shows:-
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His Excellency then inspected the plans of the new building, and was presented with a silver trowel and a malle: suitably inscribed. He then proceeded to lay the foundation stone, and while it was being put into position a string
women, and children have been buried in the plague cemetery within the last three years.. I by human agency. I believe, if the Chinese want to stop this scourge, if it can be stopped
thought over the matter, they would think with me on the subject, in spite of the inevitable discomfort. And when I tell them that nothing that has been done by the Sanitary Board has been done without my approval, Tihink they will understand that every thought has been given by everybody connected to the interests said that the European and Chinese population of the Chinese population of Hongkong, I have of Hongkong within the last two years have subscribed very largely for the various purposes of charity, and otherwise, but nevertheless I
take this opportunity of saying that once more I shall be obliged to come before the public of Hongkong and ask for yet another sub- scription in addition, to the large amount. already given. I have had a letter from the British Consul-General in Shanghai' telling me that in the Yangsze Valley, in consequence of the late tremendous inundation, over one million of the poor Chinese inhabitants are
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of crackers was fired at the water's edge. When starving. They bave formed small foreign the noise ceased His Excellency said-Ladies committees to distribute the money, in conjun INDISCRIMINATING-French Anglopho- and gentlemen, in the name of human charity,tion with the Chinese authorities, for the pur bia is apt to be indiscriminating. The Marquis the best of all the virtues, I declare this stone pose of alleviating the distress as far as possible: de Sommery writes to the Paris Press indig-to be well and truly laid (applause), ́-
The money is to be distrbuted by paying for nantly complaining that his mother, his wife,
the daily labour of raising dams against future and himself were greeted at Calais with cries
inundations, and an appeal has been sent to of "A bas les' Anglais !", hustled and stoned by
me to ask the community of Hongkong to assist a large crowd, and forced to seek safely in a
in this great work of saving some of these poor shop. :
Chinese people. I do not believe that that. appeal will be made in vain, and l'intend to appoint a committee in a few days to approach the people of Hongkong once more and to ask item to assist in raising this fund for the Chinese
His Excellency then addressed those present, his remarks being interpreted by Dr. Ho Kai... He said-Mr. Lai Chuen, congratulate you and the directors of the Tung Wa Hospital en having so far advanced in your arrange
We trust that when the Commission `on Sanitation arrives here the question of our water supply will receive due attention, for THE DUKE OF BERWICK and Alba, who ments for the building of this hospital as to
yacht Erin during the international yacht You I do not forget the pleasant duty of lay races, died on 15th ulto. in New York Heing the foundation stone of the extension of was a lineal descendant of the natural son of the Tung Wa Hospital two years ago, and it of the Yangisze. I have no doubt whatever that James the Second, a distinguistied soldier, who will be a great pleasure to me to assist at the in this, probably the wealthiest corner of China, won the battle of Almanzas The late Dake opening of the hospital on its completion in the a satisfactory addition will be made to the fund. was in his sand year.
near future. The experience of the past two And now I can only say-God grant that this years has but deepened my appreciation of the hospital will be the means of ameliorating the liberality and charity of the people of this condition of those poor victims of disease Colony. For whatever purpose subscriptions whose wants have excited your pity, gentle- were called for--the Tung Wa Hospital, the meu, and that in the satisfaction of the contem- Typhoon Fund, the South African Fund, the plation of this hospital and its work in the Queen's Memorial Fund-the application has future, I have no doubt that one and all will always been responded to with a liberality that realise that it is more blessed to give than to has not been exceeded in any part of the world:ceive
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it is a most important factor in the health of was a guest of Sir T. Lipton on board the have justified me in handing over the site to the Colony and one which it would be folly to neglect, On the 1st instant the Hongkong reservoirs held. 276, 137,000 gallons of water, and the consumption during October, was 124,372,000 gallons, which shows very plainly that jinless the supply be diminished the reservoltfailing further rainfall, will be empty early in January, or long before the spring rains are to be expected. Thus it has FOOTBALL :-To-morrow afternoon, at four been found necessary to curtail the supply o'clock, the Hongkong Football Club will play in order to take out our scanty store. a rugby match against a team, from H.MS, The Goverment is, it is true, thinking Oceán. The following will represent the Club :- about constructing
another dam at Back, Gray; three quarters, Smythe, Beattie, Tytam so as to increase the storage Wilshire, St. Clair; halves, Jordan, Knox; for capacity of the reservoirs, but that wards, Johnson, Bishop, Hallifax, Clark, Wolfe, will take a considerable time to construct,. and in the mean while we are left to face / Sandford, Wilson, and A. N. Other Referee, I remember well how the people came forward Mr. Fung Wa Chun, on behalf of the direc situation which presents a shortage of water Captain, Waymouth,
in reponse to the application for the South tors of the Hospital thanked His Excellency African War Fund, and from that time
every dry season, which shortage is increased.
yearly by a growth of about 5,000 in popula. COOLIES FOR NOUMEA A Paris paper tion, representing a monthly consumption of states that he has obtained the author 93.500 gallons of water. Should the new.
Madam take three years to complete it would
Silver Plated, Glass and China Wates, Iron Bedsteads and tresses; Cutlery and Dinner Services; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &c.
mean that In November, 104, given like conditions, we should have but some 250,000,000 gallons of water left to see us through the dry weather, and this with the
Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions, and monthly consumption of water increased by Hotels in Hongkong,
Hangkong, 25th Taly.
nearly three million gallons.
But even with the new, reservoir we are told that another ten years will se
Just
to the present this community has contn- buted to three, various funds no less a sum
of coolies in Indo-than $433,000. A short time ago I had
for performing the ceremony, after which Sir Henry A. Blake toasted the Hospital, as followsThe new Tung Wa Hospital, and
nia. Each steamer occasion to look over the figures, and the best toast I can think of in connection with of rice, for Noumea found that within the past year the people of After His Excellency, and Mr. Lai Chuen
it is Empty wards (Applause) two every year) will Hongkong had contributed to charities outside and the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital emigrants. The recruit- the great charity that is always going on 10 had been toasted the guests left amid mure firs the authorities in Indo-connection with, the Tung Wa Hospital-hading of crackers and the expression of all good New Caledonia.. contributed a sum equal to 5 per cent of the wishes for the success of the Institution. NEW-SCARVES and KERS
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