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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Canton Samshui Railway.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER, QUA
** COMMERCE,
Hongkong, September 24th, ceipt of your letter of the 10th instant in reply Sir, I have the honour, to acknowledge re-
to this Charaber's letters of the agri and gath ultimo on the subject of storm warnings.
that the new tug boat for the Deck Company THE NEW TUG-BOAT—It is expected will be launched on the 16th instant. THE DIAMANTE had a rough passage to Manila on her last trip from Hongkong. She course, and they now instruct me to express This was laid before the Committee in dae is reported to bave lost no less than eighty their thanks for the consideration given to their various representations on the subject, and their regret that their suggestions have not met with the approval of the Government. At the same time, they desire me is reply to refer to the following points in your letter.
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THE KING AND CANNES-La Patrie says that agents of King Edward are negotiat ing for a villa at Cunes where the King contemplates spending January.
In paragraph 2 reference is made to Mr. Fig's observations with regard to the matter MRS. MAYBRICK-It is stated that Mrs, of a Flag Signal Code, which, from the Com- Maybrick is at present in charge of the prison mittee's remarks on same, appear to you to have been misunderstood by them. If the library in Aylesbury Gaol. She does the re-
summary of these observations as given in my pairing and cataloguing of the books.
letter of the 23rd August is not strictly in ac
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ACTING MAGISTRATE This cordance with what Mr. Fing desired to con- vey, the Committee regret that such difference morning, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, the successor to should have occurred, but Mr Figg's views. Mr. J. H. Kemp, who left yesterday on a four certainly were to the general effact that, inter months' leave, tonk his seat on the Bench.
ali, by reason of the necessity. for a Flag Signal Code being very extensive, and there ADELE CAILLENT, a Spanish ex-barmaid,fore impracticable, the adoptup of such forms was charged by Mis. Mackindley of No. 14 of signals for storm warnings would not in his opinion be suited to local conditions. This Wyndham Street with creating a disturbance Committee, on the other hand, have striven to at her house. The penalty was $10 or one show that such fears need not be entertained, month. She went to prison.
and, in support of this, have produced for your information a copy of a code of such signals which has successfully stood the test of many years' actua practice at a neighbour- port, and has apparently given the greatest satisfaction to all concerned in the receipt of such warnings.
EAT FIGHT EXPECTED-It is ex- pected there will be a great fight for the Army football cup this year. By all accounts, their teams lately returned home from South Africa have been keeping themselves in excellent trini.
THE DANI (it schooner Ragnhild recently took 94 days inaking Bangkok from Nagasaki. To make matters worse beri-beri broke out and to this the mate succumbed. On arrival at Bangkok the captain, had to be removed to
TRI ANNUAL MEETING of the Royal
day next at 5.30 pin, at the Cricket Club Pavilion, for the election of Committee, passing of accounts and revision of the portion of Rule 1 referring to re-measurement each
Colonial Secretary's Office, a7th September, 1992. Sir,-1 am directed by His Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your
tetter of the 24th instant and to inform you that ́should the Chamber of Commerce entertain the
shipmasters letter which formed the enclosure request contained in the last paragraph of the in your letter under reference, His Excellency will consider very carefully the statements and suggestions laid before the Committee with every anxiety be give the fullest information in all those persons for whose safety and that of their ships the Observatory was primarily established.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your abedlent servant,"
(Sd.) F., May,
Colonial Secretary,
The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce.
THE KOWLOON COLLAPSE INQUIRY.
The Inquiry into the collapse of Nos. 30 and 32 Kowloon City Road which had been ad- journed from last Tuesday was continued at the Magistracy this morning before Mr. F. A. Hazeland and jury,
panied by wind, because vertically, it did not wet the exte
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the amount of rainfall for the collapses for 1902. that the velocity of wind for the months of June and July had been highest for the last ten
lich Mr. Leigh as
years, and any one carefully perusing the me teorological reports regarding rain and wind, and comparing them with the list of collapses could not fail to see that the two were close connected. He said they bad what was practi Cally the first collapse on 14th May, and the rains commenced on the 8th May. ""The last collapse was on the 12th August and on that day the rain stopped. Since then, so far as he know, there had been no collapse. The season was what can be termed a collapsible" period lasting three months, and coinciding with the three months of rain. During those three months, "there" were only eighteen days without run and dur ing these days, there was practically no sunshine and the humidity of the atmosphere. was also great. There were also during that period three typhoons vir, on 12th and 18th July and on 17th August
quoted very extensively from the official reports dealing with meteorological Mr. 1.1. Deanys, the Acting Crown Solici- affairs from the Government Gazziir and said that tur, was present on behalf of the Government, out of the 48 collapses, po less than 66 of them Mr. H. W. Looker attended in the interests of accurred 10:25 days between 18.h July and 12th- the architects, Messrs. Leigh and Orange, August. Those twenty-five days followed on while Mr. Wilkinson represented the con- the period of rain and water. Ho further tractor for the houses (the Loon Cheong firm). stated that during his twenty-two years
The examination of Mr. Leigh by his perience in this Colony, he had never seen any advocate was continued, and in the course thing approaching this period, and he thought of a few preliminary observations regarding that five collapses would be the average for the He thought it was advisable to take With reference to paragraph 4. I am to slate the quality and price of various bricks the your. that the Committee have never presumed, nor witness pointed out that the No. 1 Canton red further precautions regarding keeping wetout of have they fell it within their province to ques-brick fetched $75 per 1o,coo instead of between the walls of Chinese houses. He knew of a tion, the accuracy of the information and and they consider it would be equally undesir able and inexpedient for them to attempt to Test the relative accuracy of those issued by the Hongkong and Sicawei Observatories. They desire, however, to record that the cor- respondence recently addressed to you on the subject has been wholly and solely directed towards obtaining some such needed improve ment in the method of publishing such informa ́tion and warnings to the shipping and shore communities, sothat these could be matle known as speedily and as widely as possible, and also towards removing what they cannot help feeling to be more or less a reproach to this Colony. viz, that the Observatory here is not in touch with, or at all events is not in sympathetic relationship with the kindred institution at Sicawei, a misfortune which the Committee consider must necessarily tend to the disadvan- age of buth, and is certainly to the detriment of navigators in these seas.
With reference to paragraph 3 the Committee desire to say that they have all along bad the dif- erence between forecasts, and the observations them, and they quite agree that the Hongkong on which they are based, quite clearly before Observatory should make up its own forecasts upon the observations and information received from other stations.
Mr. Looker:-So what do you attribute the cracks in the party wall between Nos. 6 and 8? Witness-Not to any defect in the party wall in itself, but to the tendency of the back wall to go outwards,
A few weeks back we drew attention to the fact that the first stake marking the beginning of the Camon abil Hanko Railway had been officially driven home in the presence of the United States. Consul, and Mr. W. E. Gray, the representative of the American syndicate, known as the China Development Company. We also pointed out that although it was not definitely decided most probably the line to Samshui zia Fatshan would first be undertaken. Such has since proved to be the case, and work has been proceeding rapidly of late. A large staff, comprising several Americans and hundreds of coolies has been engaged, hospital and the initial survey is now complete so that some idea can be formed of the Hongkong "Yacht Club will be held on Tues typhoon warnings issued by the Observatory, 565 and $70 as stated at the previous bearing, very large number of buses damaged by wind proposed track. The line will commence at the Wongsha reclamation adjoining the Foreign Concession, which it will he remembered was commenced some eighteen months ago by a number of enterprising Chinese, and abandoned a few months later. The reclamation is practically finished and will make an excellent terminus, From there the line will run for 10 miles in a beautifully straight track, past the village of Im-po, some seven miles away, on to Fatshan and thence to Samshui. The only difficulty which so far has presented itself to the engineers is the numerous paddy fields lying in the direct track of the line, and to sur mount this the China Development (om pany contemplate resorting to tresse bridges, which will Convey the rails above much pretty scenery, at. the same time, afford a somewhat unique, and pleasant mode of travelling. There can be no doubt that the line will be a very paying concern as there is a large passenger traffic between Canton and Faishan, and this will he considerably augmented by numerous A. S. WATSON & Co., liesst amshus the route of the
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are graduates of the Imperial Engineering College of Tokyo, while the other two are graduates from American colleges, and all have now been engaged by the Corporation. Consequently there does not appear the least shadow of a doubt that the line will soon be a reality instead of a subject for controversy,
season.
UNDER FALSE COLOURS :-Twenty Chinamen were charged by Mr. A. J. S: Alves, chief clerk to the Harbour Master, with answer" ing to other people's names. It appears that Chinamen desiring to leave the colony require passes from the Harbour Master. The twenty defendants after obtaining passes to leave by the 9. 5. Faisang for Singapore or Penang them selves, answered to the games of other persons not present. Fined $ag each or six weeks. THE CACHAR OFF THE REEF-On the 28th Sept. orders were received to land the French troops from the transport Cachar on St. John's Island, Singapore, and in consequence, about four in the afternoon the Marine depart ment proceeded to get the men oT. This was safely accomplished and some of the ladies on board were sent on to Marseilles by the French Mail. The warship Friant, which was on her way home from Saigon, and which in answer to the signals of the stranded vessel came to her assistance, has stood by ever since. At three o'clock the next morning funher attempts. were made and the Cachar came off by the efforts of her own machinery and now lies in the roads awaiting docking and inspection.
HONGKONG OBSERVATORY AND
STORM WARNING.
We have received the inflowing correspon- dence from the Hongkong General Chamber
of Commerce :--
Colonial Secretary's Office,
10th September, 1902. Sir, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 23rd and 30th ultimo, forwarding copy of the flag signal code used, by the Sicawei Observatory with speci- mens of the meteorological notices issued by that Observatory, and urging the adoption in Hongkong of a system of flag signals for giving weather forecasts.
2. The Committee seem to have entirely misapprehended the remarks of the Acting Director of the Observatory made in his Memorandum of the 24th of July, for Mr. Figg never made the statement attributed to him in the 6th paragraph of the Committee's letter of the 23rd ultimo. What Mr. Fige did state is that a flag signal code to be useful must be short and definite and that there were grave
The Committee on previous occasions have referred to the dissatisfaction entertained by mariners frequenting this post with the system of story warnings in use here, and they now take this opportunity to hand you herewith copp of a letter to this Chamber on this subject, dated 16th instant, and signed by the masters of 38 steamers trading in these waters, which spontaneous communication the Commince venture to think must be considered rather a marked -confirmation of the representations already forwarded by them on the subject. The Committee earnestly hope that the Gavera- ment will take this representation to con sideration, and consent to give what assistance it can towards holding the inquiry into the matter which is suggested by the signatories of the said letter.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant, Hon. Colonial Secretary,
A. R. LOWE, Secretary.
Hongkong, 16th September, 1902. The Secretary, Hongkong General Chamber of
Commerce.
Sir,We shall feel obliged if you will draw the attention of the Chamber of Commerce to the opinion of us, the various shipmasters who have signed this letter."
Without in any way depreciating the labours of the officials of the Observatory, we yet feel, that the existing system of "typhoon warn ings" in Hongkong, leaves much to be desired. merely pointing out that, in our opinion, the We do not propose to enter into details here, signals are lacking in sufficient accuracy and that the weather forecasts are not widely enough distributed.
It would be indeed difficult to embody in shipmasters who are addressing you. this letter the suggestions of the various
We therefore propose, that a Committee be formed by the Chamber of Commerce to in- you may select, be requested to give our evidence, either personally or by letter, so that the matter may be laid before His Majesty's Government, as representing the opinions and requests of the whole of the shipping community.
We are, Sir,
Yours faithfully, (Sd) F. H. Rolfe, s.s. Vuensang.
G. 11. Bowker, 5.5. Yik Sang, J. G. Roach, ss. Hailan.
A. W. Outerbridge, 5.s. Sungkiang.
S. j. Todd, s.s. Lai-Sang.
M. Dowsons:s-Wovsung.
H. Sleeman, s.s. Chiyuen.
In section 10 of Building Ordinance 25 of 1891 it says, "sound black bricks may be exclusively used in the two upper walls of the building." What are these black bricks? They are the blue bricks and can now only be used in the upper storeys,
What other work has this contractor done for you; that is, under your superintendence The present Peak Hotel; Dr. Rennie's house, at the Peak; "Heytor," at the Peak; Victoria Lodge and the adjoining houses just behind Queen's Garden; Fair View; three large go- downs, and a large number of Chinese houses. Do you consider that the overseer was a good class of man for this work con sidered him to be a very fair overseer; that is, as good as overseers go in Hongkong Is it possible to get a better class of overscer in the colony?—No. You may get one or two who are better.
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and rain, other than those notified in the Gazette. Outside of the Court, on which they were he said that the back wall of the cook-.. house of Victoria Gaol bad fallen down. There were European as well as Chinese "bouses," which bad crackings in the wall. He thought. if they had the same weather, with rain and wind after 12th August, hundreds of other houses would have collapsed. He noticed from day to day crackings of walls in all directions. The remedy was to protect. the external wall from ollowing the wet to gt in, apart from this the provisions of the Building Ordinance were quite sufficient for the purposes of public safety.
By Mr Wilkinson-Hoong Cheong is one of the best of contractors here. This opinion is based on the experience of work which I have hadout of him. That experience has extended to over a great number of years. Last week 1 stated that since the collapse signs of weak- hess have appeared in both Lois Nos. 1107 and 1108, but only in connection with the gable and back walls; the other walls are strong, safe, and substantial Those outer walls were built- precisely in the same manner and with the same In looking after all of these bouses do you material as the weak walls. The sound walls consider that the overseer, Anderson, bad are sound because they have not been touched, more than he could do or do you consider heIt is the custom of contractors to attend to could do his duties perfectly i consider that more than one job at the same time. The contractor is not expected to be always present he could easily supervise these houses.
on the one job. He has other duties to attend to,
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Was there work going on in all these houses at the same time?-Never.
Could you give us any idea of the genera average proportion out of this number of houses in which work was going on daily--I cannot say how many houses. Probably I could give you a guess. There would not be more than about nine or ten places at which serious work was going on and he would easily look after
Replying to Mr. Dennys, Mr. Leigh said that the party walls in Lois Noss 1,107 and 1,30 were safe, cound and substantial. The front walls were protected by the verandah; and were not subjected in the action of rain and water. During his 27 years' experience and practice in Hongkong, there had been
many miny and typhoon seasons. The rain season commenced How often did you go and inspect the from the middle of May and lasted till the end houses yourself? On an average twice of September and the typhoon season about
this.
week?
Is your commission supposed to include any superintendence ?-Only general superinten
dence.
Does an architect's commission here and at home include general superintendence-The ordinary 5 per cent, commission covers general superintendence.
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Both here and at home-Yes Was that the rate of commission you were getting for these houses? Yes."
In England what is the usual practice with
general superintendence? I think that on work of this description he would be considered to have done very well if he visited the premises
about twice a month.
What is an architect supposed to do when he goes on these visits? He is supposed to sea generally that the work is being built in accord ance with the plans, and so far as it is possible to see that the materials are in accordance with the specifications. `-
the same time. Last year, what was known as the Cockrane Street disaster occurred during the rainy season. No. 131 Des Voeux Road West, which collapsed on 2nd August was built by him, or rather under the supervision of bis firm's architects and was finished in 1903 He contended that this house did not collapse, only the top of the front wall, and verandah column fell owing to these being knocked. down by the similar portion of No. 127. He included this when he was speaking of the 78 collapses. No, 45 Playa East was also done. February 1901, as also was No. 30 Kowloon City Road. All of those shquses were built by him to stand the typhoon and the heavy rains in Honghong
The enquiry was ad burned
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
KAILS.DUE American (Hongkong Maru) 10th inst English (Chutan) 17th init."
Western Learning at Canton. On several occasions recently our Canton correspondent has drawn attention to the colleges for Western learning established in that city. In his notes, appearing in another column of this issue, he points out that the Viceroy's College is closed and there is no telling when it may be opened, while from other sources we learn that it has recently been in a great state of confusion, which it is thought may probably end in the breaking up of the institution. This is truly a lamentable state of affairs and one that must be received objections to conveying definite information by quire into the matter, and that such of us, as regard to visits of the architect to carry out this under his supervisión. It was finished in with great dismay by all Chinese who are the hoisting of a signal on information which anxious to see their fellow-countrymen en- is necessarily vague and may be misleading. lightened by the new learning. There is no The reasons for which a system of flag siguals WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. denying that at the present time the desire for is not considered suitable to Hongkong have Western learning is a marked feature among been given in my letter of the 31st of July, the Cantonese, and in this respect alone one and I ant to state that this Govemment adbere regrets that at such an important epoch the
to the views therein expressed. poor old ex-Viceroy Tao Ma has retired
3. The Conumittee appear still to confuse the from office. handing over the seals to a
difference between observations and the man whose conservative ideas may greatly enhance the spread of learning and the forecasts whereon they are based. This fact PHOTOGRAPHIC enlightenment of the Westem ways of think seems to explain the difficulty they have ing and acting. Nevertheless, many of the in understanding that the ongkong Obser- DEPARTMENT.
Cantonese are apparently determined to vatory considers that a station like Gatzlaff, continue the good work commenced and freely exposed off the Coast, furnishes better carried on by the late Viceroy, and must data (observations) for forecasting than does hail with satisfaction the most recent Sicawei situated as it is inland. As to fore. in the establishment of a girls' casis, it has already been explained that the school in connection with Shi, Man Hok (728d Tong, which appears to be doing a real Hongkong Observatory, like every other good as the attendance is satisfactory and scientific institution of the kind, prefers to the teachers are up to their work. The make its own and declines to accept the re- superintendent of this institution is Wong sponsibility of using the forecasts of other, Tsin Yau, the son-in-law of the district institutions. magistrate of Tang Kun, and his wife, 4. I aim to add that the enclosures to your who is reported to be somewhat of a two letters have been carefully examined but, scholar, organised a meeting of the lead that it does not seem either desirable or ex- ing women of Canton and as result pedient for this Government to criticise them a girls' school has been, opened with
or to test the relative accuracy of the inform herself at its head. As our correspondentation and typhoon warnings issued by the observes, this is certainly a new departure Sicawet and Hongkong Observatories. for Canton, and considering that hitherto the attitude of the nation, as a whole, with regard to the education of women, has been almost that of complete, neglect, one sees the dawn of Western influence in China beginning to unfold and smother the dark sbarlows of Eastern prejudice which has for. so many centuries barred the country from its long-needed reform.
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How do the contractors here compare with those in England? They are not so good, and are far more difficult to deal with.
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Continuing, witness said he had since in- spected the shorings at No. 6d, found one ser at the back of the building, which he thought-5th inst. were useless. Since that last inquiry he had inspected the whole of the fifteen houses on Inland Lot No. 1,107," What did you find in the way of cracks?-There was a crack in the party wall between Nos, 6 and 8 and another in the party wall between Nos. 14 and 16.
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