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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 1905.
The Hanghong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In the additions made to the Zao during Joly was a leopard from near Hongkong, presented by Mr. J. A. Bullin, THE French torpedo vessel Foudre, which is carrying two new submarines to Indo-Chios,
left Toulon on 16th ult...
SECOND Lieutenants W. Wilberforce and G. G. Yates have been appointed to the Royal West Kent Regiment from Sandhurst.
THE following modification in Native tufastry Reliefs is sauctioned: 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, China to Poona, and Ahmednagar
WHISKY. instead of Bhuj.
CELEBRATED
BLEND
OF
THE FINEST
WHISKIES
IN SCOTLAND
IS CHARACTERISED BY ITS
FINE FLAVOUR
AND
A TYPHOON passed over. Honoi, the capital of Tonquin, on the 31st August. No lives were lost. The damage done ashore and afloat there is set at $300,000,
THE system of wireless telegraphy with the Andaman is now working so well that recent- ly signals were exchanged between. Port Blair and H.M.S. Proserpine over 100 miles out at
sca.
THE following telegram has been received from H.B.M. Consul, Newchwang, dated, soth September. Free pratique granted to arrivals
earth, etc. continues.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
THE ESTIMATES.
MINUTES.
FINANCE.
The Colonial Secretary moved that the report of the Finance Committee (No. 7) be adopted.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded Carried.
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 35 to 38 and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded. Carried.
THE ESTIMATES. The Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the bill estitied an Ordinance to ap ply a sum oot exceeding five million seven bun dred and seventeen thousand two hundred and seventy-six. dollars to the public service of the year 1906. He said. Sir, it is usual for the
coast. There is another matter which the Government if it wishes to assist the trade of
(1) During the last five years how long dur- ing each year has the whole Colony had a constant water supply?
(1) What progress has been made with the rider main system, and what saving doen he
service of this nature.
DESTITUTES.
pension, otherwise the good men leave while the the figures in the Estimates and to publicly clean, new face so that it could pass the time of indolent and incompatent remain with you only state that we view the whole project with dis day to every ship in the harbour a busy street would be relieved of a long standing conges to swall your pay, roll and pansion list. I am Lavour.
--RÉGARDING PUBLIC WORKS.
tion and a considerable improvement would be sorry to sea that the Government has done. A meeting of the Legislative Council was nothing to stop the influx of Chinese coins You will pardon me if I'appear exacting as to effected.
1 note with gratitude that the requirements held this afternoon. Present-His Excellency from the mainland. It is little short of a dis- the demands for public works, but you will the Governor, Major Six Matthew Nathan, grace that the people of a British Colony should remember this for to solid years from 1894 and | for improved typhoon shelter have your Excel- K.C.M.C., LE, His Excellency Colonel Dar-have to use a debased foreign coin which the onwards all our spara money want towards loncy's support and sympathy, may good wisher soon be translated into action, and it will be ling, C.R., Hon. Mr., T. Sercombe Smith. Banks refuse to accept, and which even the fighting the plague, and it is only now that we (Colonial Secretary), Hon. 'Mr. L. A. M. John-rickshaw coolie will only take at a large discan.undertake many useful works, which have a joyful day to folk afloat when they see the ston (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Sir B.
been unavoidably held over. An immense in foundation stone of a new breakwater iako jta' first plunge into the waters of this storm-swept Spencer Berkeley (Attorney General), Hon.
crease in the opium revenue coincided with a
harbour (hear, hear).
One of the smallest items of expenditure- Mr. Basil Taylor (Harbour Master), Hon. this Colony might look into, and that is, the great improvement in the public health, and we Mr. W. Chatham, (Director of Public registration of Chinese partnerships. The pre- are naturally desirous of utilizing to the full the at least with the exception of Queen's College Works), Hon. Sir C. F. Chater, C... Hon. sent system or want of system only plays into strong position we are in at the present time, fans-is on page 55. It is the Ecclesiastical vote Dr. Ho Kai, CMG, Hon. Mr. R. Shewan, the hands of bank compradores and others and do everything in oar power to make up of 53,800. With regard to this item, I respect. who try to make money by guaranteeing the leeway we lost in the tea plague years a State aid to religion. Although I do not the opinion of those who think there should be Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart, Hos. Mr. C. W. Dickson, Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, and Mr. A, G, M. obscure or unknown Chinese hongs and Firstly, and chiefly, the point in the Govern hold that epision myself I consider that under Fletcher (Clerk of Councils).
firms,, and much misery and loss might ment programme which calls for adverse com- limitations it is advisable and at times have been prevented this year if merchants
ment is the cessation of work upon the scheme even necessary. That the item appears at The minutes of the last meeting were read and traders had been able to know better with of a reservoir at Tyam Tak, which will is accepted, and that being the case it seems all in these estimates shows that the principle whom they were dealing. I am glad to hear when complete, solve, as far as it is pos- to me that we do not err on the side of and confirmed.
that something is to be done to give better |sible for us to solve, the question of a con- generosity. Much work is done in visiting the reads to Kowloon, but why does the Govery stant supply of water to the island of gaol and hospitals, and attending to the de ment tinker at the matter in this way? Why can Hongkong. This is of such paramount institute and miserable by ministers of all denominations, and the reward for there it pot draw up a fixed and definite scheme of portance to the best interests of the Colony that
services appears to be entirely inadequate. wide roads and broad boulevards for Kowloon any delay is to be much deprecated. I trust With a revenue of $1,000,000 and the principla and the New Territory to which all building sincerely that the arrangements for pumping of Stato aid to religion admitted the Colony are being developed to prevent as far as pos- squares its duty to its conscience cheaply by sites and buildings must conform instead of the present haphazard system of running a stree! sible the wastage of good water running devoting about one sovereign per diem to here and a road there just as some one happens through Tytam valley to the sea. There are to put up a building? It will have to be done three questions which I hope the Director of all over again just as in London to-day they Public Works will answer when the estimates have a Royal Commission whose report runs for his department come to be passed :- into 8' volumes, laying down a scheme of road improvements for London which is estimated taceat about thirty million pounds, nearly all of which with the greater part of it might have been avoided and saved if the Government of
carried out the plans submitted to them by Sir Christopbar Wren and John Evelyn for the rebuilding of the town after the Great Fire of London. It will be the same with Kowloon later on if we do act look ahead and exercise a little forethought and imagination.
Stimulating industries would, I think, be best effected by the Government giving up its prac- tice of always exacting the last cent whenever a piece of ground is wanted for a new industry, I know of one contemplated industry which it was seriously intended to start in Canton on this account. In another case the Company which had bought the ground from the Govers ment and cleared it of squatters at its own ex- pense was asked 12 times the original cost for a small piece it wanted for an extension for housing its workmen. Needless to say the ground was not bought, and the last time I Saw it was still lying idle. In another case a concern was called to account for making a path to a piece of ground on the top of a bill which it had bought from the Government, although in what other way the men,, not being birds, was supposed to get there I have never understood. lo a third case it was attempted to bring a factory to book for having built a well within its curtilage, but this fell through, because on
what the cutilage was. With regard to the last item touched upon by your Excellency Sport, do not think in this Colony it requires any encouragement from the Government. If our young men were but to serve their masters ng diligently as they serve their god "Sport," we should not see the British slowly driven out of
MELLOWNESS from Hongkong. Prohibition to import raga, honourable member who is in charge of n Bil to that day had adopted the advice and estimate will ensue?
ATTAINED ONLY BY
GENUINE
QUALITY
AND
GREAT AGE:
Per Dozen $16.50.
LIMITED,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ADMIRAL Richard, the commander-in-chief of the French Far East fleet, arrived at Saigon on the 31st August. A few days afterwards he went to Along Bay, where the Sully still lies hard and fast on the rock."
THE Echo de Paris prints an article by a foreign diplomat suggesting that in order to put a stop to the designs of other nations on india, England and France should build a south Trans-Asiatic railway to join Tonquin, Barma, India, and Europe.
A SENSATIONAL shipping case was on at Pen ang a few days ago. The case turns upon sum of $50,000 claimed for goods delivered by one Kader Mydio to Veajoor Pakir without a
A. S. WATSON & CO., bill of lading. The arrest of the latter for which a reward of $500 had been offered-was duly effected. He was bailed out for $10,000
THE garrison artillery and infantry drafts for Ceylon, Singapore, and Hongkong, will embark on the s.5. Duner, at Southampton, on Novem- ber 4 next. This will be the through voyage of a transport to the Far East garrisons. The companies of Royal Garrison Artillery at
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1905.
$16.00
WILL BUY A CASE
avail himself of the second reading to take the opportunity to say something about the Bill, and to urge its merits, but in view of the very comprehensive explanation of the estimates fox 1906, given in the speech from the chair at the meeting a fortnight ago, I think I cannot with advantage make any additional remarks. I will simply content myself with moving the second reading of the bill,
The Colonial Treasurer seconded,
MR. SHEWAN'S SPRECH.
Hon. Mr. Shewan: After your Excellency's full explanation of the Estimates there is not much left for me to say, but there are one or two points on which I think we should have more light. The Bilt in connection with the Widows and Orphans' Fund has not yet been laid before us and it does not seems to me to be correct to include this appropriation in
the Estimates, for if we vote the Estimates we commit ourselves to the prisciple of a bill which has not yet been passed. The money it is proposed to appropriate belongs to the Government servants from whose salaries it has been deducted: It is in the nature of a
(3) What amount of water is estimated to carry on the new system of flushing sewers, and will it be all fresh water? With regard to the last item is it not possible, in some way, to use some of those cataracts which go foaming to the sea in wet weather on the north side of the island, in some degree impounded and harnessed to do the work of flushing drains. After six months dry weather in the Spring it is trying to all of us to see quantities of good bath water and drinking water go gurgling down the sewera.
This subject naturally makes one think of destitutes, and of the increase in that field of charity, which your Excellency desires us for our own moral advancement to deal with by individual as opposed to public effort. I quite recognise the extrems, un- desirability of making things too easy for the unfortunate, who, in many instances, are the idle and self-indulgent. At the same. time it is a bad policy to press a willing horse too far, and the charitable would all- preciate stronger effort on the part of the executive, to protect them from the ever.. increasing invasion from outside of the destitute and penniless European. Casès in plenty arise of ill-health and bad luck amongst our own residents to occupy us, and without being niggardly it is manifestly our duty to first take care of our own household.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. For the earnest activity with which your Ex- cellency has endeavoured to promote the Kaw- ful (applause), and we await with interest and loon-Canton Railway the whole colony is grate
Whatever the delay may be about these nego- anxiety the result of the present negociations. tiations, I hope that your Excellency will pur- of sue the policy of constructing that portion. the line lying within our own border (applause) for to see it running will have a fine moral ef fect upon public opinion South China, and I · am sanguine enough to believe that in many ways it would repay us the cast of outlay.
'THE NEW TERRITORY,
As far as my observation has served me the New Territory has up to now grown little bo- yond what the inhabitants require for them- selves. Give them a quick and ready access to the Hongkong market and this will be changed, and i
d I hope that our New Territory with. Can industrious and increasing population, ren-
a will spring forward into port and communication dered possible by augmented facilities for trans-
trust fund, and should be treated accordingly, but it is put down in the Estimates as revenue. I feel sure that no auditor or accountant would pass this except as capital from the interest on Hongkong and Singapore will remain at their which the pensions are derived. How the being asked the Goverminent could not explain they seemed to think that finality had been the skilful husbandman, active because of
(32 present stations for another year.
CREGOR & CO.'S
IMPERIAL
HIGHLAND
Government can propose to appropriate this large amount of $220,000 without even saying
Those of us who lived through the drought of 1992 and know the annual recurrence of a short supply on the upper levels can only view with regret any failure to cope with that most irksome infliction. It produces also injustice bave known parents paying large taxes submit to see their children unwashed I have known a high military officer stand and see his house and all his treasures consumed by fire before his eyes, helpless for want of water, and then when every coolie in the town was enjoying a full constant supply I think that it may fairly be claimed that the attitude of the Executive towards, the water
the last 15 years. When Tytam was finished supply has been justly open to criticism doring
a new life, I think under the influence of
arrived at and that they could fold their hands good market at band for his produce, wo will
bring forth fruit, and many places now lying and sit down and do nothing. The supply see many of those barren hills rejoice and that idea and it is therefore with regret that one sees any relaxation towards the much as the benefit of anything done now. Lat us. rose. Succeeding generations will share with
desired end--a fail and constant water-supply, therefore if need be borrow to ensure the speedy accomplishment of work. To for
pay everything out of income although admirable in many ways is a policy of caution which may at times be wisely departed from with an ample revenue, with a clean bill of health, with an energetic Governor who is also an engineer teen and efficient department, with labour as ever abundant and with the public purse able and willing to pay for any assistance his departe ment may require, the present seems a golden opportunity for us to be up and doing. can, of the auspicious fortune which the Fates have given us. With the reservations I have mentioned I have pleasure in supporting the. second reading of the Bill (applause).
THE French Government has just chartered by your leave to the men to whom it belongs I am quite in agreement with Mr. Kipling, and into all the houses in the lown soon dissipated waste will come to bloom and blossom like the
the steamers Sinati and Caodang, of the Mes sageries Maritimes, for the transport of troops to Tong-King. The Sinail was to sail on Aug. 30 and the Coobang on Sept. 5; they are taking but 160 officers and non-commissioned officers
tons of provisions and war material.
In the Suminary Jurisdiction Court this after noon, before His Honour Mr. Justice A. G. Wise, Puisue Judge, the Siu Cheong firm sued
SANITARY EXPENDITURE.
"with"a"-zealous officer at the head of the
the Wo Cheong for $218.43, being balance due should be stated, as at present it is very inde. dream all day of polo ponies, cricket matches: time we may be pardoned for drawing your Let us see that we avail ourselves, as far S. WO
for goods sold and delivered. Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared for plaintiffs, the defendant firm neither appearing aor being represented -Indebtedness was proved and judgment given for plaintiffs with costs,
In a case of assault tried before Mr. G. N. Orme, three defendants, Chinese women, ap- peared in Court with babies strapped on their
backs. His Worship asked if the babies were would be far more to the purpose, and instead subject which has been dealt with already in infectants the total amount of this vote would Canton-Kowlden railway and of the New
also charged Being answered in the cegative be remarked that in fature if babies were brought into Court co their defendant-mothers' backs if the latter were convicted the babies would have to share the sentence
A STATEMENT is published showing that, in the nine years eading June, 1901, the local authorities in the United Kingdom borrowed one hundred and seventy-seven millions ster- ling, making a total of indebtedness in two years of four hundred and forty three millions. Daring the nine years mentioned the National Debt has increased by one hundred and thirty. ane millions, chiefly in consequence of the war
plation (applause). details of the two speeches which had
cannot understand notice too that these pensions will require a clerk, etc., costing $3,000 per annum, so that at the very outset we are plunged into extra expense This item
With a clean plague-sheet, a happy státe is put down as exempt from military contribu 1,000 soldiers of various branches, and 2,000 tion, but is it so? Ordinance No. 1 of 1901 the trade of China by the hardworking German, shared also by the city of Canton which has exempis only proceeds of land sales and leases, the thrifty Japanese and the untiring China-no Sanitary Board, the amount of $491,645 and therefore before this money is dealt with a man. In trade and commerce to-day the race put down for sanitary expenses seams enormous. clear understanding must be come to with the is to the man who gives himself entirely up to If one protests too loudly the bogey of the Co P.W.D., backed up, I hope, and believa by a Military on the point. As a detail I would ask it, and who like St. Paul has put away childish lony's ruin and plague tearing rampant through that the rate of exchange at which the peasions things. We shall never regain our old position the streets is shaken before our eyes. It is not an item, therefore, that non-expert people cap on page 7 of the Estimates are paid in London in the Far East by encouraging our men to
take a strong stand against. At the same. faite. The sum of $491,645 to be spent by and boat races.
Excellency's particular attention to this great the Sanitary Department is to me enormous. THE COLONY'S OPINION..
outlay of public funds and we appeal to you How is it, I think asked the question The Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart said :-After with your acknowledged grasp of detail and this time last year, that at Canton where
the luminous and comprehensive review which capacity for, organisation to satisfy yourself
THE GOVERNOR'S REPLY, there is little or no such precautions or
we all had the pleasure of listening to from that we get full value for our money. It
H.E the Governor first thanked the hon. expenditure, plague is never worse than it
your Excellency on the first reading of the difficult for any one to feel assured that over
Mr. Gershom Stewan for his very clear exposi- is here where, we keep an army of mica Estimates for 1966, it may, perhaps appear to 500 men can be fully and constantly employed.tion of what he considered to be the views of doing nobody seems to know what. Half the some unnecessary to say much more upon a Were it not for a reduction of $10,000 for dis- the Colony in matters of public works, of the money spent on Water Works it seems to me
such a masterly and thorough manner. As Mr. exceed $500.000 and be greater than 1905. to that view by other members of Council he Territories. No exception having been taken of so many Bacteriologists we might have a Shewan and myselfhave, however, been detailed The diminution of $25,000 in the anticipated took it as representing the opinion of the com trained Entomologist from home who would off by the Unofficial Members to review the Go- revenue from felling trees is very welcome to manity; and, as such, said it would be most teach us how to trace out and demolish the vernment programme, I ask your indulgence, all of us who love our woodland scenery, and valuable in supporting him in the various white ant and other insect pests which cause a in giving you some ideas which occur to me on while on the subject. of trees, I would like to schemes that they had in hand and in contem
He then went into the huge loss to this Colony every year by their the subject. It would not in any case be right if compliment the Government on their scheme destruction of property. I regret very much the unofficial members, however content they for planting the hills on the month side of the been delivered and at the outset said the deferment of the No. 2 section of the may be at the general position, passed this Bill harbour and I hope to see the red-headed hills he was not prepared at the present mo Tytam Water Works scheme. You said, Sir, in silence and voted away about $7,000,000 of in Kowloon included in their programme, and ment to give a full explanation of the pro that a large outlay if we can "afford it would public money without comment of any sort perhaps wreathed with laurels. By the increase posal to transfer to Government the Widows hasten the completion of the project." Then To do so suggests two possibilities: 1. That in trees means that so mud less earth is work- and Orphans Pension Fund the principle of ment in Council and by the directors of the why not afford it. If the outlay cannot be met the unofficial members are no good-a possied by rainstorms into the harbour and on the which proposal was accepted by the Govern
DOF At the present time out of revenue we must have a loan, but do not bility I have more than once seen darkly principle prevention is always better than fund several years ago, let us lose a moment in pushing forward, the hinted at-os, secondly, that the Administra cure the more woods you have the less work could be furnish the Council with the reasons whole work to completion as soon as possible tion bas arrived at a state of perfection you will have to do when it comes to dred-which led them to pass the existing ordinance and several preceding ordinances which em- by every means in our power. I hope that the and is above criticism. As to the first Iging the barbour. The approaches to the bodied many principles which would be includ $75,000 spent on flushing tanks for the drains am in too delicate a position to offer any town from the harbour are, as they have been ed in the new Widows and Orphans' Pension will enable us to do away with the pre-opinion, and to admit the second would be for a very long time, in a poor condition, and
Fund ordinance. Before effect could be given to the financial arrangements embodied in sent disgusting system of cleaning the lamentable to us all, for as things are ever I see no provision for their improvement in
the estimates before them with regard to sewers by bauling chains through them. changing in this restless world the next change the present budget.
fund. - the Bill ⠀ which..... would ba While on this subject I would like to protest which must come after perfection is a step to
introduced had to be passed by the Council, The delapidated matsheds which at tisans and ample opportunity would be given to the against the way in which, the Praya and other wards decay. I think Mr. Shewan has shown places are all being disfigured by unsightly there are imperfections enough in the Governornament the three chief piers are, I maintain, Council to consider and discuss its previsione. In the meantime it was desirable to transfor urinals, which should be built underground, ment programme to make one feel assured onworthy approaches to a port which claims to and should not be erected almost immediately that we still belong to a healthy and progres-be the third in the world. A spark from the the fand with the issue of the larger pension which the transfer would give to the widows and orphans of past contributors. It was desir below people's offices and vemadahs where
able that this should take effect from the com. they are a nuisance and an offence The.com-
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' FUND," --
mencement of next year, it ha
It had been neces parative figures for 1881 and 1906 are very in-
The sum of $249,000 brought in under this
sary to take into consideration, ju the Estim teresting, but although we spend a great deal
ates, the financial arrangements and trusted It appears to the outsider as supremely more money now I do not know that Hong- heading is a novel departure and one requiring
that hon. members would see fit to leave fur humorous when a judge of all people should kong to-day is as pleasant a place as it was some explanation. We have no figures of any
ther discussion of the matter until the Bill was determine to have a holiday, only to find that then when we did not have the Sanitary Board sort as which to form an opinion as to this ht is kept at bis desk by work which he him spending 11.15 per cent. of our revenue.novel departure. It seems to be exempt from
Bill should be before them before they were self has inadvertently set down for himself. Nor does it seem to me to be creditable that Military Contribution, but how that exemption
called upon to vote the small amounts in the estimates of expenditure for administering the soft that was the position of Mr. Justice Wise with a far greater population our expenditure is effected we have-ng means of knowing. It
fund, but he received a representation from certain gentlemen interested, or whose widows to-day. This is the beginning of the so-called on education should, as you say, have dropped a vote of this Council is sufficient to excuse vacation" and Mr. Justice Wise had solemnly froin 3.95 per cent to 2.73 per cent. It is any item of revenue received from this
and orphans would be interested in the fand assured everybody that he would not dispose quite right to economise and cut down ex 20. lax it is a precedent which will pro-
and he wished to consider carefully that repre of any cases in the afternoon. The Court repenses, but it should not be done at the cost bably be freely availed of in the future,
sentation before proceeding with the measure
contain a clause, sanctioned by the Secretary porters sang a Te Deum, and the clerks praised of education. The new scale of salaries for In addition to our affairs it seems a large
He mentioned, however, that the Bill would the heavens. This morning there was nothing subordinate officials will, I fear, not do very order that, by a stroke of the pen, the lax many years, be extracted from their official of State, exempting the contributions to the step in the right payers should be called upon to accept the pigeon hole and the work proceeded with forth fund from the Ordinance dealing with military on the list, but to everybody's amazement it much good, it is a
contribution. His Excellency then dwelt on was found that there was a case set down for direction, of course, for if you want a responsibility of a life insurance company, with
the question of expenditure on the Sanitary heating this afternoon. Mr. Justice Wise had good man you must pay good wages, but When the Bill explaining this item comes on
terred to the great improvements in mortality robbed himself of his first balf holiday so you will never secure efficiency until you give for consideration we can then consider the If your Excaliency, would, farther, take the department and in the comme of his remarks re- called and had to turn up and look as though the Heads of Departments full power to dismiss details of the scheme Meantime our only Clock Tower by the hand and lead it down to statistica during the past few years and incapable man with or without commutation of course is to vote solidly ngelust the inclusion ofwards the waterfront and endow it with a large, while not going to far as to claims that (3-be enjoyed it
WHISKY.
'NOT ONE OF THE BEST,
BUT
THE BEST!
GREGOR & Co.,
34. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, 15th Junt, 1995.
in South Africa.
It is expected that the impending change in the command of the 2nd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment will give the post of second in command of the 1st Battalion to Major W. R. N. Annesley, D.S.O., of the 1st Battalion at Malta, whilst the vacant majority should go to Captain H. L. C. Moody, of the zed Battalion. Both these officers have seen active service, the former in the Nile Expedition, 1884-89, and the latter in the Boer War, 1900-02.
sive body.
THE PIERS.
the
at Blake-Pier bas stood, although in a some before them. It was his intention that the
funnel of a steam launch was sufficient to remove the ferry matshed in a few moments a month or two ago, and the. gale we had on August 30, which was not a very severe one, was sufficient to demolish the covering at Queen's Statue Wharf. Luckily the covering what decrepid state, and it would take but little to dissipate the venerable relic from amongst us. When it is remembered how the san poots down and the rain also upon just and unjust alike I feel it is pot asking too much when we express the wish that, the elaborate plan for a proper approach to Biske Pier, which has existed for.
THE CLOCK TOWER,