THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902.
JERRY BUILDING IN HONGKONG. His friend ought to appreciate the act, as a $100 fine in the Police Court to-day was the result.
BUILDING BY ORDINANCE 4 BUILDING DV ARRANGEMENT.!
In the month of August last year the whole community was shocked by the news of the building disaster in Cochrane Street and at the enquiry held before Mr. F. A. Hazeland
evidence was brought forward showing the cause of the collapse was, mainly, through faulty walls. It will be remembered that 'a well- known local architect was fired as the outcome of this enquiry, also a Chinese con. tractor. We again draw the attention of the Government to what is still going, on in our midst.
Our contention all along has been that retten workmanship is still being allowed, that unsafe walls are still being erected itamediately under the notice of the P. W, D., that wolls disclosed by older buildings being pulled down and seen to be unsafe are passed as good and allowed to stand. If any of our. readers think this to be an exaggeration will they kindly visit the places mentioned below and judge for them. selves. It is not necessary to be an expert builder or architect to see if a wall is six inches out of plumb-even the highest of our Incal responsible authorities can see that-bat pulling the same down, or making good, involves dollars, and vested interests hold up their hands and shoddy rottenness is allowed to pass. We speak not from the view of the man who only looks at the buildings in his mind from the seclusion of his office, but rather as one who has to walk and work in a state of glorious
$25 A BOTTLE.
Suturo Sawadal, a grocer at 13, Praya. East, fell into a trap set for him. He has been sus pected of selling beer after the prohibited hour, midnight. W. A. Morgan, of Carlowitz & Co entered his Store at 12.15 am. on the 16th, and bought two bottles of beer. His testimony convicted the Japanese store keeper, who paid a $go fine to-day, being at the rate of $25 a bottle. Expensive beer l
SOLD THE STOVE.
Mr. F. Coleman, the light-house keeper, re siding at 50, Leighton Hill Road, possessed a very thrifty cook. Finding he had one stove more than he needed, he proceeded to dispose of his master's property without any authority. The $3 he received is very poor compensation for 14 days' hard labour, his sentence to-day.
THE "INDUS" COLLISION. CASE.
JUDGMENT FOR THE DEFENDANT COMPANY. The further hearing of this case, in which the owner of a Chinese junk claimed $1,000 from the Messageries Maritimes in respect of damages alleged to have been caused by their mail steamship Indus off the Island of Pedra Blanco in September last was continued this afternoon in the Supreme Court before the Acting Puise Judge, His Lordship T. Sercombe
Smith.
The foreign Ministers are said to have held two more conferences with the Plenipotentiaries with regard to Tientsin City, and they have instructed the T. P. G. Governors to send in a full report of the exact state of affairs in the city and express an opinion on the matter of handing over.
Entertainments.
THEATRE ROYAL,
The stories current as to the behaviour of SPECIAL
the Court eunuchs all tend to emphasise the estimation of these worthles long since formed. and the people are chafing under the national curse which they represent. Certain of the class are sent; or claim to bave been sent, és nhead of the Court to sea that proper and suit. able preparations are made, and the verdict they pass on the arrangements is regulated by the quality and quantity of gifts, showered on themselves. Even under the most favour- ably circumstances they despoil many of the room's prepared for the Court. Should the presentations made them not prove satisfactory they either report badly of the pre- paratibus" made, or arrange it so that the Court remains a days or so longer than anticipated in that place, with the result that the officials are put to much trouble and expense to meet the unexpected demand, The Chihli officials
them of the eunuchs conduct, as only four sets are much concerned at the reports reaching |
furniture for the Imperial use were provided. by them, which were to be sent on alternately to the various stopping places, and it seema' probable that much of the supply will have been misappropriated before the Court reaches Papting.
trying to get the salt heaps appropriated by the The Salt Commissioner is now in Tientsin
French and Germans restored to the Chinese, and also the salt fields near Taku, which are in
Before opening his case for the defence Mr. T. Hastings pat in a letter written on the 25th uncertainty immediately beneath a twisted, September by Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and bulging apology for brick work,
The first case under notice is the western of the alleged collision which they said occurred German and Russian hands.
wall of No. 6o, Second Street. Nos. 56, 58, And to have only been built about eighteen months and, up to a short time ago. butted on to some old two-storey Chinese houses. These latter have been pulled down
and disclosed the wall of No. 6o, and we defy any practical man to say that it is built well and
Master making a claim for plaintiff in respect
off Tung Lee, Swatow, during the early morning of the of the 224d instant. He then proceeded
to put the case before His Lordship and said the sole question to be decided was whether the collision occurred at all. The
evidence was enterely contradictory, and the onus of proof was on the plaintif He
January 1st,
wish my readers a happy and prosperous New Another cycle completed, and once-more I
Year.
Locally the New Year has ushered in a new
publication in the shape of a German paper, edited and published by military officers. It at least
truly according to the Ordinances. This wall is pointed that It was not solely a money claim will probably be short lived, but not party to the new places to be built, and if bad being made against the Company, but the indicates that the German population here does work is not going on, how came this to be passed when the whole of the buildings have been erected during the last eighteen months? It can be seen that rows of bricks are on edge, some with no mortar between them at all, that
serious allegation against the Captain and crew. of the Indus in not slackening down and attempting to assist those in the junk. It was an allegation of inhumanity on the part of the Captain, and one which he felt very
cracks extend in places for six feet in length strongly. Mr. Hastings then proceeded to deal that bricks are on end, and no attempt at bouding has been made. Now the question arisas how is the contractor going to remove the remaining portion of the old wall and then excavate four feet so as to get his foundations in when already a crack is appearing because
its weight alone. There is still fifteen feet of old wall to take away and then another four feet and, with the front already commencing to open, there is a grave responsibility in taking away the crutches from this cripple. * A worse instance is that of the Western wall of No. 144 Hollywood Road. Here we have a sheer wall in the shape of the letter S. Where the shoring up comes, the brickwork bulges in, and in between the ends of the poles it bulges aut. The top storey must overhang some pinces of the second at least ten inches, and this is allowed to stand. The contractor
not expect to decrease, even in the spring. Providing the Reichstag continues a liberal vote, it seems likely that the German occupation will not be transient. They have built beth extensively and substantially, and there is every indication of their operations continuing.
News was to hand the other day that a
with the evidence of the plaintiff, and in the course of bis remarks, submitted that the plain missionary and a number of converts had been tiff was entirely ignorant of the steamer which murdered in Kansuh, but no particulars are ALS yet known, and it is only believed ran into them and of any details connected with it. When he arrived in Hongkong he did that the victim was a Protestant, and pro- not go direct to the steamer, but went else-bably a Scandanavian. An Edict has, however, already appeared concerning the outrage, which
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this wall does not appear to be able to carry where, evidently with the intention of making is probably realized as a very unfortunate NOTICE is hereby given that the THIR. further enquiries. He submitted that the accurrence at a time when the Court is maat evidence of the plaintiff was highly unsatisfac auxious to lull all suspicion and mistrust. The time, while on the other hand from the state- tory and that he contradicted himself time after Edict is dated 17th, 11th moon, or Dec. 27th, Buildings, on THURSDAY, the 23rd January, ments of the defence it appeared that the Indus could not possibly be in the position stated at the time of the collision. After dealing with the question of the current running at the time of the occurrence he put it to His Lord. ship that the Indus was at least 16 miles to the West of Pedro Blanco at 3.49 on the morning of the 21st September last. The Indur was not the only ship arriving in Hongkong from the North that, morning, and the probability was it was one of those ships which ran into the junk. After dealing with other evidence submitted by the defence Mr. Hastings con- cluded by contending that the plaintiff had nor made out his case and had not proved to the satisfaction of the Court the Indus was the ship which collided with his client's junk,
for the new buildings will presumably erect a plumb wall against it and fill in the hollow spaces as best he can, and in years to come, when something happens, the result of the
enquiry will be "hollow walls." We insist that now is the time to prevent the further perpetra tion of these death traps.
It has lately been discovered that No. 7 Cochrane Street is literally failing down
through senile decay and we compliment the Inspector an discovering this before the
next typhoon did. At the back of this house is a horrible little den, open to the air and evidently used as a cook house, wash-up place &c. &c.
The back walls are bulged at least six inches and cracked from top to bottom. What is to be done with No. 2 we cannot say, but we shall watch that rottenness shall not be covered with a thin veneer of good work and hence súp.. poged not to exist.
In Wyndham Street is to be seen a building with the corner walls falling out into the streets. There is a difference of opinion as to the cause, one holding that it is only through the natural settlement of the foundations, yet considering that the original walls on the ground floor were retained and the new top structure built up from them, either the old part should have been done away with and new foundations put in, ot, if retained, a grievous error of judgment has been made according to results. Is it possi. a thorough inspection it will
ble that on
Mr. Morgan Phillips, on behalf of the plaintiff, submitted the sole question for the Court to decide was what steamer was it which collided with the junk. It seemed to
Indus being the vessel. He proceeded to deal him the evidence pointed most strongly to the
with the evidence of the plaintiff and said it was entitled to credence as was that of his witnesses.
لله
Judgment was eventually given for the defen- dant company with costs..
A full account will appear in to-morrow's issue.
TIENTSIN DAY BY DAY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
TIENTSIN, December 31st.
and runs-"Prince Ching and Wang Wen Shao have reparted to the Throne by telegraph that the Governor of Kansuh, Sung Fan, reports the presence of disorderly people in his Province, some of whom rose in the Ping Lo district and caused trouble to the natives, seiring property belonging to the mission and killed the missionary known as "Mel" and several converts. Native troops have been already sent there and a telegram dispatched to the Governor of Shansi to assist in capturing
no we make the rascals, for between foreigners and Chinese, and the Court has issued an open Edict ordering perfect protection to all missionaries. The reason this trouble has occurred. is be cause the local officials bave failed to give proper protection and Sung Fat must notify Governor Shen of Shansi to ascertain the really responsible officials and punish the guilty within a certain date, that the foreigner may be assured of our good intention."
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A further Edict on the 18th, 11th moss, states: The Governor of Shansi and Sung Fan, Governor of Kansuh, have been already ordered to report the magistrate of Ping Lo district for his neglect, by which the missionary was killed, and, the acting', magistrate Wang Shu-hui, the magistrate proper, Li Han Ching, and military officer Yi Young-isai are hereby deprived of all buttons and rank immediately and must not hold office again if they fail to guilty rowdies within the capture, the
of the kind ever are, and some wretched defan seless coolies will certainly be hauled up sooner or later and decapitated.
The American Minister is stated to have re-
turned four gold water kongs, reserved for the
be found that those old walls, although pieca was most admirably staged and mounted Imperial use exclusively, to the palace, and
thick enough to support. a church, are the same kind that are being made new, That on breaking into them they will be hollow and little more than a' mass of rubble, It seems to as there is little difference between passing a new wail bullt in such a fashion and allowing fresh weight to rest on an old one of the game sort. - A question we should like to
nak is were the foundations originally put In and the old lower wall built to stand the weight of a three-storey house with the added leverage of cantilever balconies 7
The above facts are put forward in no carp- ing spirit, but because we think it in the public good to make known what is at present being done. If a building Ordinance specifically lays down that such and such a thing shall not be, and that same thing is allowed to be, then we insist on making je known.
AT THE MAGISTRACY:" January 17th.
AN EXPENSIVE LETTER.SK Yeung Kan, to accommodato a friend, car- ried a letter from Hongkong to Kong Mun, without passing it through the Post Office.
a special official was deputed to receive them.
The Empress Dowager made careful enquiry of Prince Ching when he was at Kaifengfu as to the number of foreign troops still in North China, and he appears to have reported quite correctly, but told her that, though there were about 10,000 there was nothing to fear if she acted for the real good of the country and made friends with the Powers.
specified time. All civil and military. On Saturday the T. A. D. C. gave, an excel-officials in the district must hereafter give lent rendering of "Our Regiment" the strong proper protection to all missionaries. The caste including such veterans on the amateur above are worth as much as the usual edicts stage as Major Cleveland, I.M.S., 3rd Bombays, Capt: Fane, and Lieut. St. John, the two latter being the best amateurs up here. The caste also included Mrs. Bellingham, who has not been on the boards for some time, and the
throughout, and a bumper house testified loudly to the excellence of the performance. A second performance will take place on Saturday, for the benefit of the local hospitals,
On the 30th the ladies of Tientsin gave a smoking concert to the British Tommies in the port, and some 230 mustered in the Gardon Hall at 8.30 to discuss unlimited tea and cakes, with a goodly supply of cigars, while an excellent programme was gone through, the first part consisting of songs by mem bers of the force and civilian friends minstrel show. Though somewhat casual in the second
first class christy
preparation, the results were capital, and with Capt. Fans as one of the corner men the game was kept going without a sg, and the per formance appeared to be much appreciated It was almost 1 o'clock before the audience broke up, and it is to be hoped that the ladies' hospitality, involving as it did much labour and thought, was appreciated.
Eight camps of foreign drilled troops have encamped outside Poatingiu ready to act as an escort when the Court puts in an appearance.
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