NOTES BY THE WAY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST 20 1909.
COMPANY PROMOTION IN.
HONGKONG.
LETTER IN THE "FINANCIAL TIMES."
Financial Times ---
The following inttar is reproduced from the
Sir,-As you are aware, the Hongkong Com pary Ordinances ware framed to afford facilition for the registration and working of companies wishing to trade under the limited liability laws. As a general rule these Ordinances follow the English Company Acts, but owing to lack of
scrupulous parsons
· KOWLOON-CANŢon railway.
QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT,
In the House of Commons on July 25, Mr. Glonel asked the Under-Secretary for the Colonies if he will say who was the consulting ginger on whose advice the changes of the Kowloon Raliway were adopted which are alleged to account in part for the increased cost of construction; was it through the Grows Agents that advice was obtained; was the
parposes of the line dre commercial; and whe iber any competent person has estimated that the line can whes working ever repay the procipal or any, interest on the money spent upon its construction?
THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
·Another decided fillip has been given to the. Hongkong University scheme by the latest contribution of $15,000 by Messrs. Jardine, "Matheson and Company. This handsome gift” xle characteristic of the traditions of the princely house and should act as an incentive to other British firms to come forward with their fub- scriptions. Thate are several prominent European business-houses that have not yet stirred In the matter by way of pecuniary aid, but these will, doubtless, respond to the final supervision on the part of the Hongkong Gov-estimated cost of the charges tested by loviting call for funds prior to the closing of the sub-emment various abuses have crept la, and un-public tenders; whether he is aware that the
have not been slow to take scription list at the end of the current year.adv.ntage of the loose administration of the There is a possibility that the £110,000 Ordinances, especially when these companies required for the endowment and equip operate outside actual British territory, Com ment fund may be realised without a num. ber of firms baving subscribed, but this should paples registered in Hongkong, but working to China, can be brought under the jurisdiction mot act # deterrent to farther subscrip of the British Supreme Court at Shanghai, but tions, which might in all likelihood result
the Court has no jurisdiction whatever over extra Chairs being established. This Import: persons of other nationalities who may commit ant fact should not be lost sight of by those who
all sorts of offences against the Hongkong. have British prestige at heart.
Ordinances without belog brought to book, Of course these persons can be charged in their, Some scientific authority has been expatiatown Consular Courts, but when they claim pro ing on the merits of beer as a nutritive article tection of some small South American State in Rod claims, not without well-established argu-
Dine calls out of ten they escape punishment, meat, that when one drinks good hear, one alto There are numbers of companies trading here eats beer. This is indeed satisfactory anws which are registered in Hongkong, but all the (bypochondriacaplease note) and certainly ought directors, maungers and capital are of foreign to swell the coffers of the local hotele. lodeed, origin, and in case of default persons making if this latest scientific truth had been apparent contracts with such concerns have no redress, -to the worthy trìo made famous by Jerome K. Jiroma in kis’"Taree Men in a Boat," it wrold have relieved those, troubled souls of a great deal of heart-burning as to the exact nature of their diet compatible with the slender state of their health. Unfortunately, the innocent trio lived in a different age.
*DOAS ONE EAT DEER? -
A FORTUNATE DAR.
structed throughout In accordance with the Colonel Seely: The railway is being con advice of the consulting engineers, Sir John Wolfe Barry and Partners. Its the custom for Correspondence between the Colonial Office and the coniniting engineers to pass through the Crown Agents. As the line was being con- obviously out of the question to invite tenders in structed on the departmental system, it was
bui respect of part of it the line is being made in the interests of the trade of Hongkong, and it is confidently expected that either directly or indirectly through the increase of trade with the interior of Chine, the Colony will be amply re paid for the money expended on construction, CHINESE SEAMEN.
NEW LAW COURTS.
PROGRESS OF THE BUILDING,
In his report for last year, the Director of Public Works has the following reference to the New Law Courts:-
The whale of the main cornice was com
pleted, and about soe feet of the base to the balustrade was ́bedded. · The carved figures in the pediment on the west front were completed and fixed and the statue of justice was finished ready for hoisting into position. The granite facing of the walls of the second and third courts was completed; the east, walls of the library was built to a height of 3 fost abuve second floor lavel and the walls of the rooms on the second floor (east front) were built to a height of 3 feet above floor level and the piers of the upper part of the principal court window-sills ware being fixed. The walls and
were built to height of 16 6* above second floor level and the internal walls, generally were within about 4′ 6′′ of the same height.
The massive teak brackets to support the overhang of the roof were fixed on the east and of the first floor colonnade was completed with south sides of the third count. The concreta
the exception of four bays, and all the con crete floors (except that of the balcony over the colonnade) on the second floor were laid.
The drested granità set in the work amount- ed to 26,863 c. ft. and about 1,500 c. ft. was dressed ready for setting, los granite balusters were prepared making a total of 455 ready for ployed dally was 142, Sxing. The average number of masoni em-
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1908. Estimates.......................... ..$100,000,00 1908. Expendituro...... 99,997.15 Total Estimates
..$796,200.00 Expenditure to 31/12/08... 503,333,49
THE ANTONG-MUKDBN RAILWAY QUESTION,
No doubt the question is a difficult one, and ane can understand the reluctance of the Hongton Churchill said that the number of Chinese
Replying to Hr. Havelock Wilson Mr. Wins kong Government to take action, but what is to be said of the authorities who openly ames of all ratings who wore engaged through permit the Company Acts belog broken ?
the mercantils marine office at Poplar dorine We have hers à Crown Advocate, who, in the quarter ended June 33, 1908, and June 30, a sense, occupies the place of the public 1999, was 115 and 493 respectively. fo order prosecutor at home. The English Company to avoid misapprehension he should like to Who says that our dignified Bar is dry and inws do not permit of a company inviting public add that the figures for Poplar were quite expansion aointeresting? Cysics are want to describe the subscriptions until it has registered at Somerest ceptional. Taking thefigures of the engagement proceedings at our Law Courts with the aid House its memorandum and articles of associa of Chinese seamen at the principal ports of of such terms as "platitudes of the Beach," tion and filed with the Registrar of Joint Stock the United Kingdom for the first aix months etc., but the presence of large blocks of ice in Companies a copy of the prospectus. Practical- of the present year, and comparing them with the Court-room in connection with a locally the same regulations are in force in Hong those for the first six months of last year, it litigation which has been going on now for kong, but in a prospectus, published here to
appeared that there was practically an increase, some time struck the average observer at be- | day, public subscriptions were being invited for
the total being 3,173 compared with 2,122, ing distinctly coincident, not to say refreshing, j'a company before it had been registered. The at this time of year. when alt and sundry aro promoters are prominent British subjects and sighing for a merciful zephyr to cool their no action whatever is being taken. Is it to be burning brow. During the progress of the wondered at that foreigners dely the Hongkong case, it was found expedient for the Judges to Ordinances when British subjects of standing visit the factory which is responsible for the do so? In this case the company will be regis. alleviation of thousands of parched throats and tered only if the flotation is successful. to this suggestion the bawigged exponents of in addressing this letter to you I do so in the legal intricacies gladly consented. This de- hope that the publicity accorded to it in your ‚lightful deviation from the ordinary routine is widely-read paper will induce the authorities to diversion enough to make their less fortunate | put a stop to a state of affairs which is fast colleaguas elsewhere engaged in the honour.degenerating into a scandal. able-profession turn green with envy. But thas, a strenuous term of service in an enerval. ing climate-like that of Hongkong also has its disadvantages.
THE HONGKONGITE'S PLAINT, Apropos of this; à remark or two concern. lug the average Hougkong newspaper render may not be out of place. People at home are perfectly satisfied with only a lew choice specimens of Plowdenism, if such a term may be permitted, in their daily paper and such actertaining accounts as a rarible to an ic factory are as rare as the dodo, but the Hongkong reader, whose power for grumbling sơ far an his daily paper is concerned seemi to. rule to be highly developed, dearly loves as treat harmless persons, who have done them no harm to a long winded dissertation as to the exact lines on which the paper should be ruv, If the finest daily to the world were to be published to the Colony, it is open to doubt whether a single Hongkongite would for one moment admit that it was in any way comparable to a production of Fleet Street. But, as Mrs. Malaprop says, comparisons are, “ 'odorops"
TYPHOON TOPICS,
Somehow or othes, my ideas drift to the sub- ject, of typhoons. So lar, the Colony has vititar bean spared hadronded annual which brings destruction in its wake, but whethar the cyclonic season will end a auspiciously as i bas begun is another ques
tion. Old China hands tell me that a time there was when the Colony presented a clean sheet with regard to typhoons, but I fancy this was an exception which proved the rule. Dear me, "the' strain of my reflections will lead guileless folk to the conclusion that I am a con- firmed pessimist and that I am trying to force the unwelcome visitor upon them. Nothing is further from the truth. But it might perhaps
startle them to know that lourists have been
complaining that the Director of the Observa lory has been robbing them of an oudoubled privilege, and many have been the walls of disappointment that have gone up. However, this is by the way, and the fact remains that old residents hold the opinion that sufficient for the day is the evil thereof and are, thankful to Providence that thus far the undesirable visitor has preferred to exclude Hongkong from its itinerary. May the Colony's good for
tune continue.
JUPITER PLUVIUS.
SIBERIAN POSTAL ROUTE TO CHINA. Mr Holt asked the Postmaster-General if bis attention had been called to the statement of
ATTITUDE OF FOREIGN POWERS.
· HONGKONG WATERWORKS,
TYTAM TUK SCHEME,'
The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M., Director for 1908 as follows:- of Public Works, wilten in his xonual report
These works, which have now' been fully completed, form part of the schema for the full. development of the Tytam Yaling Supply. They comprise the following
(1) A Storage Reservoir in the lower por- tion of the Tytam Valley, the parma- bent overflow level being 200 feet abova Ordeance Datum, (i) A pumping station on the west shore of
Tytan Bay. (iii) A road from the Shackiwan-Stanley Road, to near the Tytam Byawash Dam. (1.) Access roads to the Pumping Station and to the gauge basin at the intel to the Tytam tunnel and a path from the old Stanley Road, round the shore of Tytam Bay to the pumping station, (v.) A rising main from the pumping station to the inlet to the Tytam tunnel,.
(vi) A suction mala from the storage ra-
servol to the pumping station; The following is a description of the work:
308
(1.) Storage reservoir.5388,495.14
(H.) Pumping stations—
Preparation of alto and
erection of bulld. Ings................$ 86,465.55 Pamping engines and
bullets (2 seis)
111,530,60
198,286.21
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235,094.97
(ii) Road Tiv.). Access Roads (v.) Rising Main (Ti) Suction Mala
Miscellaneous Charges
24,815.75 5896,189.64
The foregoing is exclusive of a sum of $842,035.44 spent on the temporary pumping plant which was brought into operation on the 1st November, 1993, and dismantled in May, 1907, and on preliminary works, surveys, bor. inga, well-sinking, &c, principally at the site of the proposed low-level dam," 1908. Estimates »« «« veka S 15,000,00 1908. Expenditure
£3,692,81. Total Estimates.......................... 861,000,00 Expenditure to 31/12/08............ 1,038,165,08
THE GREAT FIRE AT OSAKA,
THE DEVASTATED AREA,
The result of a survey made by the Osaka Municipal authorities shows that the area devastated by the fire is 1,840 ken, or 30 cho (3 I-to miles) in length, from Kushin-mach), where the fire originated on the east, to the Nippon Spinning Mill at Fukushima, on the west, and the widest part is 300 kan or 5 cho (one-third of a mile), from the Yangi bridge to the premises of the Sampai Company, and the carrowest 40 ken or 240 feet, covering a total area of 359,438 tsubo or 123 cho (about 305-3 acres).
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FINANCIAL EFFECT OF THE FIRE. Referring to the financial effect of the great" fire the Asaf has the following remarks:
The total loss to fire insurance offices in this great conflagration will, doubtless exceed 14,000,000, and the insurance companies will be compelled to dispose of the Government bonds held by them in order to settle the claims. In the event of such a large amount of bonds belog disposed of at once, the bond market will be affected. This course being disadvantageous to the companies, they may draw money from the banks and dispose of the bonds gradually at an opportune occasion.
BTORAGE RESERVOIR (i). Designated Tytam Intermediate Rerer- voir. This reservoir has a capacity of 196 million gallons at paraneet overflow level, which is 200 feet above Ordnance Datum, and, by inserting board a' 6" high in the overflow, its capacity can be Increased to 113 million A contract for the joinery and fittings re-gallons. Its catchment area is 470 acres but quired to complete the work was let to Mr. the water from portion of it, 210 acres in Chan A Tong on the 22nd February, Aquap extent, is intercepted by the Tytam West tity of casements, etc, were made and the Catchwater, As the catchwater is inadequate, of the courts was in course of pre-however, to convey all the water flowing from paration.
this area during heavy rainstorms, the reservoir derives some benefit from it, besides intercept- Ling tba subsoil water. The dam is constructed of cement concrete faced with rock-faced granile asblar on the upstream face and partly with rubble and parify, with drosand ashlar on the downstream face and is provided with an over- flow too foot long about the centre of its length, The cement concrete, with the exception of the backing of the upstream ashlar face, tapering from zo feet thick at the base of the dam to 5 the Acting Consul General at Tientsis con
feet thick at the crest, which is to the propor tained in Consular Report No. 4,275, AuDual Series, that letters addressed via Siberia reich According to a Tokyo dispatch to the tion of 4 to 1, is mixed in the proportion of 6 to and contains displacem. The height of Tientsio in a little more than half the time Mainichi, the news that the Japanese Govera
the dam above the original stream bed is go taken by letters posted in the United Kingdomment has decided to carry out the reconstruc-
feet and, from the lowest foundation lavel to The banks suffering direct loss from the fire this is correct, whether he will assist British of the protest of the Chinese Government four 10-inch draw-offs, connected with a 12- Banks, their Dojima branches having basa de without specific direction as to route; and it tion of the Antung-Mukden Railway in defiance
the crest, 10 feat. A valve-well, containing are the Kitahama and the Nippon Saving trade by forwarding by the quickest route all appears to have moved the latter. Government
inch stand-pips, which is in direct communica-stroyed. The only other banks having large lesters not specifically addressed?
taformation bas reached Tokyo that a certain
tion with the 18-inch suction mais to the pump. business connections at the scene of the dis- The Postmaster-General: I am aware that high official in Peking had an interview with ing station, is constructed in the dam and le aster are the northern branches of the Yamagu the time of transit to Tientsin by way of Siberis Mr. Ijuia, the Japanese Minister, and warned
surmonated with a valve-house. A Venturi chi and the 24th Banks. The total damage. is about half as long as by other routes. The hias that in the event of the Japanese Governmeter (with recorder in the valve-hours) regis. sustained by the banks is thus not vary question of making greater use of the Siberian railway by force, great trouble might ensue
ment carrying out the reconstruction of the ters the amount of water passed down to the large. Even in the case of the Kitahama Bank, route for letters is engaging my attention.
pumps. The contents of the dam are ---- the financial depositary of the Dojima Rice between Japan and China, in which case,
Cement Concreto 24,520 Cuble.Yards Exchange, the amount of advances made to nothing could be more unfortunate for the
Feat Ashlar Masonry 47.755
sufferers in the devastated district is estimated two countries, The Chinero officiali,asked
Rubble Masonry.............
Yarde 451
not to exceed V1,000,000, while the ad- whether there was no way of arriving at a
vances made by the Yamaguchi, 34th, and peaceful settlement of the difference by meADE of mutual concession. The Tokyo correspond.
Nippon Savings taken together do not exceed Y3,000,000. As the notes on which advances cat of the Osaka paper learns that the Foreign
are made are endorsed in most cases by the Office, in reply, informed the Chinese Goverb
feading men in the business centre of the city, meat that the Japanese Goveroment had
and other notes are secured by property, thi already decided on the course to be taken and
loss to the banks will be slight the fact had been communicated to the forbigo Fowers. Moreover, the Imperial sanction had been obtained, and there was no room for the The boat was built by Men, E. de la Japanese Government to make any concession The only course now lett for the Chinese Gov. Brosse et Fouche of Nantes in France, sent aut bare in pieces and re-rected by the erament was to accept the Japanese demand. Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd., This intisation was transmuted on the 4th in- at one of their docks. The whole re-eraction statit, and the Government is now awaiting a and equipment was carried-out in the short reply before launching an ultimatum, RULANGSU (AMOP) MUNICIPAL space of 33 days from the time the mate
Mr. Nakamura, President of the South Man rials ware landed until she left the whatf Churian Railway Company, who is now in under her own steam on her first and un-Tokyo, is awaiting the instructions of the Gov. It is believed that his departure from official trial trip. The trial trip proved great success in every way, the number of ro valutions of the machinery being in excess of the number obtained by the builders, and her speed was 54t kaots.
1 am, etc.
A BRITISH MANUFACTURER. Shanghai, June 19.
BLACKHEAD'S, HILL LIGHT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
It is notified in the Gazells that a group flashing red light with a white sector showing be- tween S.81.W. and S:89* W. on a red brick tower on the summit of Blackhead's Hill (Chiosultsai, Point) has been exhibited since the 1st August.
It shows a group of three flashes of one second duration, each flash with an interval of one second, followed by a period of five sa conda_darkness......
Since the same "date a fixed red automatic light has been exhibited from the buoy marking the Cust Rock, situated 4 cables N. 75 E from the above Light.
COUNCIL
Minutes of a meating of the Council, held at the Board Room, on the 27th July, 1909.
Present Matura, W. H. Wallace (chair -man), J.-E-Fenwick, W. Kruse, Lim Nee Kar, Mencarini, 5. Okuyama, W. Wilson, the Health Officer and the Secretary,
Mr. Lim Nee Kar was introduced and took his seat as Chinese member of the Council.
The minutes of the last meeting were read
and confirmed."
After discussion, it was decided to fix the period of notice to be given either by the Coun cil or the Societary, to terminate the latter's agreement with the Council, at six months.
NEW FRENCH GUNBOAT FOR
THE YANGTSZE, -
SHANGHAI DOCK CO. COMPLIMENTED.
The French Navy has received a most valu. able addition in her Yangisze Fleet in the River gunboat Doudert de Legree destined to support, the gunu at Olry in carrying the Tri colour over the rapids of the Upper Yangisze
into the heart of China. "
The gunboat presents a very smart appear. ance, and as regards the shape of her bull and the arrangement of her deck boozes shoʻis a marked, departure from the usual type of
Upper Yangtze gunboats to which we have become so familiar out here,
Her principal dimessions are-
Length over all............ 1722-6 § - Breadth.............23.0 Depth....................................?-55
erament
Tokyo will be the signal to commence opera- tions for the reconstruction of the railway in
Manchuria.
The correspondent adds that the foreign Powers raise no objection to`the course to be taken by the Japanese Government, because it is authorised by the Peking Treaty, and the connection of the service on the main line of the South Manchurian Railway and the Chinese Eastern Railway has now been arranged. When the transformation of the Antung-Mukden Railway is complet ed, connection by rail between Japan and Europe. by way of Fusan will be established.
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OSAKA ELECTRIC› LIGHT, CO.
THE LOSS OF THE TREASURY. The effect of the fire in diminishing revenue from taxes has not yet been ascertained. Ac- cording to the law, income tax payers losing a quarter of their estimated Income may demand a reassessment, and the same applies to amount on which assessment is based. The Osaka Revenue Inspection Burean estimates the total loss of revenue, including that from the sake and soy taxes, at between $300,000 and Y400,000,
The machinery consists of two sets of triala The Japanese Government has not the slight placed immediately under each cylinder, being payers of business-tax who lose dra-balf of the
The secretary reported that inquiries had been made concerning (1) small-pox on the Island, and (3) disease amongst the cattle, with the suit that there was found to be no foundation for such rumours, which, as regarded the cattle,
The Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., might bave originated in the fact that a farmer
Lid, have been complimented.by.the builders bad been prosecuted and convicted for selling a cow for consumption unfit for human food, the in most gratifying terms ou account of the very prompt and able manner in which the purchaser-who afterwards sold the animal.in
work was carried out by them, the contract Amoy-being also procended against and fined, fsugting requesting the Council to order the fixed at 56 days.
A communication was read from the Hai-time allowance for complation having been
Kulangausampaa-mento registertheir sampans
re-expansion, surface condensing engines, and steam is supplied by two watertube bellers fitted with forced draught.
UNDER DUTCH RULE.
ROAD.
4.
LOSS OF BAKE BREWERS, Three sake-brewers have lost their residences
and godowns and four others their residences alons. About 1,700 koku of sakd has boon
destroyed.
Mr. Shiedo Kalchiro, a soy brewer who has bean burnt out, has lost about 3,500 koku of soy. When the soy held by.over 40 say shops destroyed is added, the total quantity lost may be found to be not less than 3,000 köku.
(i). PUMPING STATION. The pumping station has been erected on a site well below the proposed low level reservoir and excavated out of the hillside, the material obtained being utilized to form a reclamation where junks can come alongside and discharge coal. The buildings are substantial structures and comprise a commodious engine house, The investigations into the damage instala bailer house, workshop and store. Quariarsed by the Osaka Electric Light Company for a European overseer have been consiccted were roughly completed on-the-morning- on a sits to fest above the station overlooking of the 4th instant. The number of houses. Tytam Bay, whilst those for the Chinese stað of angion drivers and stokers are situated close supplied with lights in the street totally swept away numbered 2,246, with 7,487 fights, to the station. The main flus from the baller
while the number of houses supplied with light house is carried up the hillside and terminates
in the streets partially destroyed was 3,907, in a short shaft 61 fent in height, the total,
with 7,6ar lights. In the latter case, about 40 vertical height from the fire-grate to the top of par cent of the total number of houses have the shalt being 135 fest.
escaped. In these circumstances, the number Two sets of pumping engines and two ballers of lights for which the subscription is lost will'. supplied by Messrs. Tangyo, Birmingham, havo be about 12,300, which means à lons in the_rn. been installed. Each set is capable of raising ceipts of some Y 10,000 per month. A further loss it million gallons a day to the gauge basin at of the company is in the posts, wires, other the inlet to the Tytam tunnel, 400 feet above apparatus, and fans, with avalon totalling Ordnance Datum; the engines have been 10,459. The board of directors bald a meet- designed as to work alternatively from the preeing on the 4th instant to receive the report of posed low-level reservoir or with a negative damage, which it was decided to include In suction lift of from 100 to 200 feet when pump the loss for the present parlod ing water from the Intermediate reservoir, The engines are triple-expansion, condensing and run at 241 revolutions per minute with a sicam pressure of 135 lb per square inch, The pumps, three in number, hava 12-inch diameter rams and 30-lech stroke and ars et intention of using the Antung-Mukden line driven direct from the pistos sod cross-head by side rods straddling the crank shaft. The for its private purposes, and the transformation of the line is intended merely for the purpose boilers, two le number, are of the Lancashire of realising the open-door principle in Man-type and are fitted with super-heaters in the churia. This has won for the Japanese Govern-smoke chamber. Au engine, supplied with steam from the main ballers, and a direct-driven ment the sympathy of the foreign Powers. For this reason, it is not expected that they will dynamo of ample capacity have been installed support the cause of China, unless China has for lighting the station. An overhead 5-tos very strong grounds for ber objection. [This travelling crane, capable of lifting any portion correspondent is evidently of opinion that the of the engines, spans the englus room. foreign Powers know nothing of the actual wording of Article VI. of the Peking Treaty ] (iii) The road, whilst taking the rising main A Tokyo dispatch to the Osaka Shimpo re- already laid and containing provision for a ports that dissension has arisen between the duplicate main to be laid later, also supersedes military and civil parties in the Government the road which will be submerged when the regarding the China question, the military party low-level reservoir in, constructed. It is 14 alleging that the attitude of the Foreign Office miles in length and bas a width of zo feet for is inclined to be too yielding. It is reported 13 miles, where the main is laid under it, and that Goverment will acknowledge the sovor of 12 fest where it has only to accommodate eignty of China over Chiantao, and give way the traffic. The road has a continuous rising on the Fakumen Railway question. This is gradient, varying from t in 240 to 1 in 8, and considered by the military party as a humilia.is frac from sharp bends so as to avoid excess tion to the Empire, and they allege that all the siva friction in the main when pumping le în undertakings projected in Manchuria at the progress. There are four large bridges, (one cost of blood are about to vanish like a dream with 3 spans of go feat, one with 3 spans of 20 The military authorities were strongly opposed and one of 30 fact, one with 6 spans of 20 feet to the moderate attitude originally taken up and ons with a spans of zo and one of 30 feet), by the Foreign Office on the question of the three cuttings over 60 feet deep and numerous Astang Mukden Railway, and it was because massive retaining walls. Turning to Sumatra, not including Acheen, of pressure brought to bear that the views of where war still prevails, it is stated in the the Foreign Office have been changed and the Locomotief that the bative chiels, and sultuos, proposal has been made to reconstruct the line native under their rule. The first charge on Arb under treaties which expressly leave the | by force.--Japan Chronicle, ADVENTURE IN DIFU PREFECTURE,
the revenue is the civil list of the native ruless, Two women and a young girl who were wan
the next is the salaries of the officials-while dering about near a wood la Ono district, Gifu
the balance is spent for the benefit of the nativo prefecture, on the 27th ultimo; were suddenly
-STRAITS-GOVERNMENT-TO-WORK-THREE- population in public works and improvements pounced upon by a bear, said to be about seven
This balance is 15 per cent, in Siak and as Toet in length, which rushed out of the wood at
LOCAL FARMB. foreigners in the country are ruled direct by much as go por cent. in Langkat. The their approach. With a brick they attempted
SINGAPORE, JOHORE and Malacca. to escape, but the bear reached the elder of the
government, the natives only being under the women, knocked her down, and bit her, Menu-
chiefs of the land. The position of the native. The Government are taking over the mann. while the other two ran off, but the young girl floundered into muddy pand close by, Hear
rulers is thos clearly defined and strengthened. facture and sale of opium for johore as well as Ing the noise the bear left its prey and made for
The government, on the other hand, has the for Singapore and Malacca from January, i power to protect the natives from being ousted next, the farmers remaining in control at Pen- the pond. However, the girl, managed to
and plundered by broad-minded Immigratsang for the present. Mr. F. M. Baddeley, clamber out on the other side covered with The.Captain Superintendent of Police reports, it is averred, is the case in the F. M.Ş. formerly acting official apeigone, who is now at mud. By this time the cries of the women ed the following cases bad brea dealt with at The granting of concessions to Europesas is home on leave, but who returns nest inapth,
the Mixed Court since the last meeting- Ead attracted some villagers, upon seeing whom the bear disappeared into the wood. The injur. SummoDICE: Assault 30, Allowing pigs and kept within strict bounds to check graspingil be in charge, and Mr. J.R. Brooke, Govern ident analyst at Penang, has been nominated ed woman was carried into the village, where cantle to siray ra, Illegally removing property 3 methods,
The sum of it all, observes our Samarang : to assist him, but the appointment has yet to it was found that her wound was of a scitous Debt 5, Throwing rubbish, &c, into the public contemporary, is that while the native rniers in confirmed. The old Tan Tock Seng Hos
ature and might prove fatal. At latest advices, drains 4 Damaging property 8, Creating the F. M. S, sie z.deced to the rank of merepital site has been discussed as a suitable place the villagers, who were greatly alarmed to learn disturbance, Using abonive language.1. that a boar was in the vicisity, were andeayour- Summary arrests: That 5. Assault 6. Creating appels, and the Malays are left out of the for the government factory, but no decision has Ing to form a cordon round the wood, and ware a disturbance 3, Breach of M. R. (disorderly reckoning, the patives in Sumatra are governed yet been reached.
by their own chiefs and have the lion's aburu There are several ases to which that site fying in walt for the animal, armed with farm ou a) a Breach of Sampan Regulations 2, Implements and various, nondescript weapons. Illegally removing gravel, de, from the fore in the distribution of surplus revenue-besides might advantageously be applied, those high
There are some sequestered spot in the shore 3, Qaitting service without giving lawful blog aufguarded against foreign immigrante in favour being of opinion, that they would be The suction main is 2,416 yards in length, and plasters getting the upper hand, by joltable for houses of detention, while another the pipes being the same as those used for the mountsias of Gifa prefecture, but the existance notice 1, Drunk and incapable 3, Being a tegus
The Dutch Government hays'avoided the | viaw is that they might be tamed into a great | sising main. Two sets of sinice and air valves of a bear seems miher doubtful. Baars, more and a vagabond z. !..
mistake, made in ibs F. M. By of leaving the immigration depot, where newly, arrived: ims and two washouts have been provided on the Dover, will seldom attack human beings at a
(Signed), W; H. WALLACE,
wank and unenterprising Malays to be, as it migrants should be segregated under closer suction.main. The suction main in faid in a „time when ike/vegetarian: fate on which they
were, drivan to the wall. The Dutch Goyera. Governmtat supervisión than at present. The trench a fest 3 inches deep, the joints being sallya can be obtained in large quantity," "Por--
ment have pat saldo the iden of federating the Government owas the factory at present in use | rua with lead, 14" deep, Mitar the lasertion of a isibly the woman wors attacked by a wild dog,--
Sumatra, Native State on the ground of lis in- | and may decide to continue the uis of those | stead of yarn, ter terfering with simplicity of administration. | bulidings—Straite Times,
The coff of the works was as follows i
Typhoon talk naturally leads to a discussion of the Colony's rainfall. Jupiter Pluviur ban been extremely attentive of late and during the past few days the torrential downpours have been responsible for the chagrin of many ac enthusiastic bathing party. But the plethora of rain-laden clouds has had this advantage-it has helped to cool the sultry atmosphere and If for this only one should forgive the officious Clerk of the Weather. The violent thunder: storms that have accompanied the heavy dowo pours have not been particularly conducive of composure on the part of nervous people, who are strongly of opinion that the thunderstorm is a greater evil than the rain itself. Really, some people are never satisfied.
CASUAL CRITIC.
WOMEN ATTACKED BY A BEAR.
in the Haifangting's yamen, and to carry special license boards issued by that official. It was decided to inform the Haifangting that the Council could not comply with his request, as the Council considered that, as the Kulangad sampans already carried license boards, with the number plainly marked in both Chinese and Foreigo characters, such boards were ample for purposes of identification, whether on the Kulgogst or the Amoy side, and that no good purpose would be served by compelling these sampan mee to carry two license boards moreover, it would be a distinct hardship to call on these men to pay two license fees. The Haifaugting was also to be requested to issue such orders as would prevent Gob Pek and other "watchers," from interfering with licensed sampao men belonging to the International Battlement of Kulangeu.
A letter was road from Mr. A. B. Craggs and others residing in the neighbourhood of the coal yard owned by Mr. Tong Tal, complaining of the nuisance caused by the coal dust. The secretary was directed to inform Mr. Tong Tai of the complaint, and to request him to have the coal boap regularly spriûkled with water,. and then covered with matting. Should he fail to carry out this request, the Council would reluctantly be compelled to proceed against him in his Consular Court.
The Chairman referred in feeling terms to the loss the Foreign Community and the Council had sustained by the death of Mr. A. F. Gardiner, who had served on the Council for over four years.
By order,
C. BERKELEY MITCHELL,
Secretary,
Chairman,
PROSPECTS OF THE MALAY. IN SUMATRA,
• The Locomotief, a newspaper published at Semarang, draws a comparison between Dutch and British administrative methods, as seen in the F. M. and Sumatra, respectively. Full justice is done to the wonderful strides made in the F. M. S. through the tin industry and plactation enterprise, but it is declared that the people of the land-the Malays are the least benefited. Our contemporary maintains that they are crowded out and thrust aside by hordes of foreign immigrants-Chinese, and Tamils and that the Malay rulers have very little voice in the government.
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THE OPIUM QUESTION,
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THE OSAKA WAREHOUSE COMPANY. The warehouses directly owned by this com pany have all escaped undamaged, but the godownsat Dojimal leased by the company from Mr. Abe were burnt down, together with tha contents, consisting of about 5,000 tubs of black sugar and a quantity of rice and beans, valued at about Y50,000. They were all insured.*.
DOJIMA RICH EXCHANGE, The damage sustained by the Dojima Rice Exchange is estimated at Y33,000 for the building and furniture, but the building being insured for Y30,000, the actual loss is not more than Y5,000. When the revenns from commis- The bridges have a clear width of 13 feet baslon lost on account of the suspension of buni- tween parapet walls. The pier, abutments and sets (for a week) is added, the total loss will be arches are constructed of cement concrete, about 76,000. faced throughout with granite. The spandrels and baunches are'ffled in with lime concrate.
Wherever the road is on embankment, masonry plers have been carried up from the solid ground to support the mains,
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(iv.) These have been constructed to take the rining and suction malas. They are of an ag- grogate length of 1.33 miler and have" widths of 6 and 13 feet.
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RISING MAIN.
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OSAKA GAB COMPANY. The precise loss of the Osaka Gar Company has not yet been ascertained. The gas mains are laid underground and ́are' undamaged, while the fittings ipalda the houses belong to ebe-subscribers. In these circumstances, tha loss of the company is comparatively small A present is in estimated at about Y50,000,0
'KNITTED GOODS INDUSTRY.
It is somewhat of a coincidence that the dis astrous conflagration originated and ended in * knitted goods store and that the fire has dealt (v.) The rising main is 3,406 yards in length blow as the knitted goods Industry. The and consists of cast iron pipes 18 inches in devastated area is the centre of this industry in diameter, inch thick and a feet in length. Osnica, and about 120 sewing kounas were barst The weight of each pige is 19 cwis, the pipes down. The season for the manufacture of win- being of uniform section through the whole ter goods is now at its height. In consequence Jearth of the main so that no confusion should the goods have for the most part left the hands arise in laying them. Thras sets of reflux, of the sewors and the quantity, destroyed was sluice, air and by-pass valres and five washouts not very large, the total value not much incendie have been fixed at intervals in the rising main. ing. Ysco,000. If any portion of the goods in The rising main is laid in a trench 3 fost 6 the hands of the sewery was saved it must have. inches deep, the joints being rug with load; been damaged by water, and is therefore a tota at inches deep, after the Insection of a strand
loss. Most of the producing factories have 68- of yat (VI), BUCTION NAIN,
caped, and they are now ready to push on pro- duction. But the destruction of so many Dywing: houses will doubtless interfere with the supply. and the conflagration may result in the delay of about a mouth is the opening of the winter goods sasson, The wages, of, operativas bara already gone up by 15 per cent, Moreover, the marest for cotton yarn has advanced. The fre salt of knitted goods this month,, held on ther
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4th instant, wai vary activa, the price gotag
by abant zo per esate--Jugen Chr