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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1903.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. The New Building Ordinance. The new Building Ordinance, which was HARRY COGILL AND JACK SUTTON'S read a first time at yesterday's meeting of
AN IMMENSE SUCCESS. LAST NIGHTS! LAST NIGHTS!
ENTERTAINERS.
TO-NIGHT, LAST NIGHT
OF
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INTENSELY AMUSING MUSICAL COMEDY,
IN THREE ACTS,
"A TRIP TO CHINATOWN." TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), 13th March, ANOTHER OF Hoyr's SUCCESSES,
14
A STRANGER
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AND AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO BUILD IN
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the Legislative Council, should be wel comed by everybody, with the exception 'perhaps of the, jerry-builder and some few unqualified persons who pose as, architects. The Bill consists of no less than one hundred and six separate sections and bears evidence of having been very carefully pre- pared to meet every contingency that could be passibly foreseen, and this is hardly to be wondered at when we note that, in adilition to our Public Works officials, Mr. OSBERT CHADWick and Professor SIMPSON are jointly responsible for it.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. CANADA AND JAPANESE IMMIGRATION,
LONDON, March oth The report of the Canadian Commission on Japanese immigration advises legislation on the lines of the Natal Act unless Japan enforces its inhibition at preventing emigra tion..
LATER,
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. LORD METHUEN CAPTURED
BY THE BOERS. General Lord Methuen who was wounded,. also two hundred officers and men, four guns, à pora-pom and baggage were capture ed. by the Boers under Commandant De larey on the 7th instant.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
FOR STEALING CLOTHING to the amount of Sago, Chan Laung is now doing six months hard in the Victors Gaol,
INSPECTOR C., ROSS, of the Sanitary Board, summoned the owners of houses, No. 1 10 27. Ship Street, for not carrying out the orders of the Sanitary Board re limewashing. They were fined $25 each, which was paid. VOLUMES OF SMOKE are still issuing from the mins of the late fire which occured in Musso's Godowns yesterday," Streams of water are being played on the ruins, whilst gangs of coolies are engaged in removing the debris and damaged goods.
POWELL'S BARGAIN SALE' commenced in earnest lo-day, as was made evident by the constant stream of purchasers who walked into the store empty handed and came out heavily laden. We are informed that at least 500 people have already availed themselves of the great bargains.
BAR SILVER has risen a sixteenth and i FOOTBALL-Tomorrow afternoon on the Happy Valley, the Hongkong Football Club!!A" Team - will play the Officers H.M.S. quoted at 25%. THE BUYING RATE for sovereigns has Goliath. Kick-off at 4.45 p.m. The following fallen to $11.03.
will play for the Club :-Mancer, goal¡ Davies' 'and, Hay, backs; Codling, Worcestes (Capt.), and Grant-Smith, halves, Seth, Hay, Benneth, Rutherford and Kerr, forwards..
EXCHANGE has risen a sixteenth and now stands at rs, gd
OWING to the increased taxes levied by the Government in Szechaun on all goods, there is a feeling of unrest, and a'rising is expected. THE HON, JOHN THURBURN, a member of the Legislative Council, is shortly leaving the Colony, and it is understood that he will
The first six sections of the Bill deal with the tile, etc, and are not of great moment. Then comes section 6, divided into 28 subsections, which defines the various terms used in the Bill, which might otherwise be hable to misconstruction. Section 7 pro vides for the registration of Architects, a very necessary measure when one takes into consideration the fact that at the present time any man who can draw a plan can send it in for approval and proceed to crect a building upon, it, masked whether he CITY HALL.
has any knowledge of architecture of engineering whatever. According to this HENRY DALLAS MUSICAL section all Architects must have their qualifications approved by the Governor in Council, a list of such persons will be published in the Gezeite, and the power to add or remove any name from the list is A COLLEGE davoted to Western science reserved. This is as it should be. It will has just been opened in Hupeh hy Governor prevent unqualified men from endangering Tuan of that city. Professor Ibara has been the lives of the public by vouching for work engaged as the Chief Inspector of the College. which would never be passed by a pro- fessional man. Further on in the Bill, in THE CLERK OF THE WEATHER made a section 85, it is provided that all plans sub-noble effect, to turn on the rain this morning, mitted to the Building Authority must be but the whole affairs ended in dismal failure. The following pieces will be played during signed by an authorized Architect, and a What will be the result if the rain fails as much
penalty of two hundred dollars is to be im longer we do not like to imagine. posed on the author of such plan in the event of any inaccuracy. This undoubtedly places the responsibility on the shoulders of the proper parties, and should do away with scamped work such as was revealed in the Cochrane Street collapse enquiry.
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Sections 8 to 84 deal with buildings and building materials generally, and go very thoroughly into the subject. We note that all walls are to be built solid and not, as is so often seen in our jerrybuilt structures, with a layer of brick on either side filled in with odds and ends. Mortar is in be composed of not less than one part of fresh lime to three
not return.
FOOTBALL-The final for the Hongkong Football Challenge, Shield will be played on Saturday next, the 15th inst., at a quarter past four.. After the match the Shield and Medals will be presented to the winning team by Mrs. Stewart Lockhart.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE The return of cases of communicable disease reported as occurring in the Colony during the week ended 8th instant shows-Cholera, one fatal, case, Chinese, in the City: Diphtheria, one case, Portuguese, in the City; Enteric Fever, one fatal case, Chinese, outside the City limits; Small-pox, four cases and two deaths, two of the cases being European and two Chinese, three coming from the City and one from the harbour, having been imported from Sandoa. There were no plague cases reported during
the week.
MR. WARD'S CONCERT.
A GREAT SUCCESS. ··
Last night Mr. A. G. Ward gave the first of his subscription concerts in St. Andrew's Hall before a large and appreciative audience. The prograinme opened with a duet by Mr. Ward and Mr. Galluzzi, a waltz by Scharwenke, which was admirably executed. Mr. George Lam-" THE NEW BUILDING ORDINANCE-mort's charming and familiar voice was next An advertisement appearing in another column heard in Barnard's "Bid me to Love," sung announces that Architects, engineers and others with his accustomed skill, and with a violin interested in the new Building Ordinance can obligato by Mrs. Ough. Mrs. Badeley follow- obtain copies of the Bill on application to the ed with "Love the Pedlar." Her voice has not deteriorated at all since we last heard it, but: Colonial Secretary's Office.
A FAREWELL PRESENTATION by the
was as true and sweetlas ever, the
The next item on the programme" was a
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, | panied by the name and address of the writers, not necessarily ority, The friable blue brick, against the will be made as the 29th inst. to the Hon. J. H. duet for violin and piano by Mrs. Ough and Mr.
Hongkong Office.
Hongkong, 12th March, 1902.
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Intimation.
parts of red earth, and the quality of the fatter must be equal to that of a sample de- posited in the office of the Building Auth-members of the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society free use of which we have so often protested, Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Messri D. Gillies is relegated to the uppermost storey alone of and Fullarton Henderson, past Fresidents of
building, where of course great strength is the Society, who are leaving the Colony. not so essential. Nothing seems to have LORD METHUEN'S CAPTURE by the been forgotten, so far as the layman can judge. Walls of certain heights are to be of Boers is certainly one of the worst of the minor certain thicknesses, the depth and materials reversea we have suffered during the war, but of foundations are provided for, floors are to it is, after all but one of the fortunes of war be of sufficient strength to carry a specified and will doubtless but serve to stir our troops weight per square foot and are to be rendered to further efforts to bring the matter to an end. as far as possible waterproof, roofs, verandahs, balconies, arches, windows, skylighis, kit- chens, fireplaces and chimneys, cubicles and
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Dangerous Buildings have not been for gotten, and the Building Authority is em powered to order their demolition, recon- struction or repair, and, if the owner is absent or neglects to obey orders, the. Building Authority may take steps for the public THE OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATION: safety at the owner's expense. Section 88-We are informed by Dr. G. H Hateson provides, that no alteration or addition shall Wright, the Honorary Local Secretary for the be made to any existing building until Oxford Local Examinations, that 8r candidates an authorized Architect has given a cer from the Colony have entered for next July's We take this opportunity to state tificate in writing to the effect that such examination. Sixicen, of whom two are girls, have entered for the Senior, forty for the Junior and twenty-five, including one girl, for the Preliminary.
that our
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Ward. We think that this must have come as Mrs. Ough's has not, we imagine, been heard. as a surprise to many last night, Such playing
in Hongkong for a long time. Her technique is excellent and her playing most sympathetic. Mrs. Mudia followed with Watson's “A Wayside Pasy" which she did full justice to, though we should bave preferred something. more calculated to bring out the full beauty of her singing
Mr. C. P. H. Hay then sang two short songs by Mr. Ward, which were much appreciated
The
THE DALLAS CO-Owing to the late ar rival of the steaner by which his Company is travelling from Shanghai Mr. Dallas will not and was followed by Chopin's beautiful Polo- be able to commence his season at the City naise in C. sharp, which was faultlessly ren-
dered by Mr. Ward Hall on Saturday, as was originally intended. The next i em, was an Aria from Massanet's but will open with "The Toreador" on Mon«Le Cid, by Mrs. D. E. Brown, whose voice has day. Consequently all booking for Saturday acquired increased power and range during night has been cancelled,
her absence from Hongkong. Her execution was worthy of high class opera and her voice is as sweet and true as possible, the upper register being particularly pure and full. She received a well deserved encore. Mrs. Badeloy then sang Beach's beautiful song "Ecstasy," which is peculiarly suited to her charming building is capable of bearing the weight
voice. She sang as encore an old favourite of her's and our's The Snowflake." The and strain of such alterations or ditions. Needless to say such a clause will
audience was then treated to two solos on the violin by Mrs. Ough which alone were worth go far to prevent the scandal of extra storeys
guing along way to hear, the Scherzo being. being added to jerrybuilt houses, for it will CHAIR AND RICHSHA COOLIES-The wonderfully rendered. On being recalled Mrs. mean that in the event of a collapse the Bill "for the mare effectual control of chair Ough played a pretty solo which we did not Architect will be brought to book. For pur and jinricksha coolies in private employ," in recognize. Mrs. Mudie followed with Somer- poses of inspection the Building Authority is troduced at yesterday's Council Meeting, pro which was heartily encored; upon which, abe villes When Crocuses upon the Green" empowered to enter and examine all build- irigs, and the owner is to provide him with vides a fine of fifty dollars or three months sang that old favourite "Over the Sea to Sky
imprisonment for any coolie who shall be absent. After an interval of ten minules Part II., every facility for such examination.
Penalties are attaclied to contraventions without leave, disobey? any reasonable order, Daisy Chain" by Liza Lehmann, was rendered.
The words are by several well known authorS of various portions of the Ordinance, and use insulting language, to his employer etc.
and are all songs for, children. The music is we are pleased to see that it has been ar- When it becomes law the coolie will have to worthy of the composer of A Persian Garden," we can hardly say more. We were ranged that they fall upon the shoulders of mind his P's and Q's!
again, treated to a surprise. Miss Ramsey's voice are made solely with the water procentive to honest as opposed to scamped RIES neatly packed in a little box found their public before. Miss Ramsey, possesses of those really responsible, thus adding a further LUSCIOUS AND JUICY STRAWBER vo think has not been heard by the Hongkong
Taken on the whole, we consider that the
contralto voice of the first order, sweet of Bill in question is one of the best and most
great compass and extraordinarily pure her, rendering of the and the tu songs, of the complete which the Government has brought
cycle was beyond all praise. Mrs. D. E. Brown. forward for a long time. Jerry building has
was heard to great advantage in the 4th and in Hongkong grown to be a standing re
the 8th, which she sang with great taste and feeling Messrs, Lammert and Hay, the proach to the Colony, and we are pleased to
other members of the quartette, also sang most see an honest effort being made to crush
pleasantly. The rest of the songs were for the it. Doubtless some interested parties,
quartette, the first and the last being particularly as the unqualified architect and
By pretty and tuneful.We take the opportuinty, the speculative builder, will have objec- SQUEEZE OR WHAT?-It has been pointed of expressing our hope that Mr. Ward will sea tions to make, but it must not be for out to us that since the establishment of the his way to performing Miss Lehmann's other gotten that the Bill is put forward in the Frozen Meat Depot a number of compradores song cycle, In a Persian Garden... interests of the public and is intended to
have reduced the price of mutton two ceals
COGILL AND SUTTON'S Our Aerated Waters are thus Abso-safeguard them against the sins of these
ENTERTAINERE, people. It is the public who suffer from Fer pound and made a corresponding nse in jerry building, bad material and scamped the price of beef. Can it be that the compra- lutely pure and consumers of them work, and anything which will tend to pro. dores are already feeling the pinch of competi- tect them from the evils arising there. tion and bave been forced to adopt this means from, as this Bill, if rigidly enforced by the of combatting it? Beef is not supplied by the may feel themselves quite secure Government undoubtedly will, should be Frozen Meat Depot, hence the conclusion is
welcomed. We heartily congratulate the obvious. Government upon the new measure, and against contructing cholera by liquid trust that, when the Bill is put into force, THE CORONATION-From-Chinese they will see, that the staff of the Public sources we learn that China is not to be our Works Department is placed upon such a done in the forthcoming coronation, as regards footing as to render the carrying out of its things naval, Admiral Ip Chow Kwai of the Pei- provisions capable of accomplishment. This yang Squadron, has been ordered to commission will no doubt be taken into consideration the Elswick cruisers, Hal Chand Hat Tien, by the Commission now enquiring into the staffing of the Department
enred from the Government Tytum
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way this moming to the offices of this paper They were fresh from the Kwong Chick Plantation at Happy Valley where they are raised from American seed with chemical fertilizers and kept clean and fresh by well covered straw beds. An order sent to the Mutual Store, No. 8, and H. Tie Shop, No. 10, D'Aguilar Street will receive prompt attention.
Notwit
проге
standing the counter attraction in St. Andrew's Hall last night Trip to Chinatown was performed again before a very The piece was gone. throug
ore case and grace than that ised the first and second nighis:
Esp ally, making a decided
York is billed.
which
to mo
CHOLERA IN HONGKONG,
Two cases of Choler have occurred within
both of 4,300 tons to represent Chirn in the naval the past twenty four hours, the victims being review. The Japanese cruisers Kashidels and a woman and a ma bath Chinese, or the cases Matsushima, ol 4277 tons, respectively, have discovered
already been commissioned and will shortly THE NEW BUILDING ORDINANCE was leave for England to represent Japan, at the published this afternoon as a Goretlé Extra-Coronation, be ordinary:
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