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SANITAKY DEPARTMANI,
ANNUAL REPORT FOR "Qu8.
The repart of the Head of the Sanitary pariment for 1908 is as follows: alterations were made in the working of the 1. During the year 140B several important Department by the amendment of the, l'ublic Health and Buildings Ordinance which was passed in July, 1958,
3. All drainage and all building nuisances under Part III of the Ordinance are now deal! with by the Public Works Department. The head is confined to reporting the existence of work of the Sanitary Department under this
such nuisanceL
NEW LAW MAY, AFFECT NEW FARM.
TENDERS.
terday afternoon the question of consolidating
At a meeting of the Legislative Council yea-
the Opium Ordinances were brought up.
onsolidate the Laws relating to Opium and its of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and The Attorney General moved the first reading Uompounds.
The Colonial Secretary seconded,
His Excellency the Governor said i–The Bill which has been moved by my hon. and learned fileud to be read dow a first time is one which has been rendered necessary becausa. there have been various difficulties in the existing Gidinance capecially in the matter of the treat- meat of murphia, in fact the Ordinances na they stand are so confusing that it is doubtial if there are not paints which are not ab found recessary to introduce certain small sulutely contradictory. It has therefore been amendments in order to clarify the mxist, ing law and it was thought better while we were doing it to recast the whole of Civil Medical Officer was replaced as President know exactly what the existing law is. There the laws in one consolidated Ordinance, in 2. By the amending ordinance the Principal order that those who tender for a Farm should of the Sanitary Board and Head of the De could devote the whole of his time to the
is no new principle of any considerabis import. pariment by an officer of the Cadet class wo ance introduced. The amendments: which have been made will be painted out when we Department,'
discuss the Bill clause by clause in Committee. I may add that unless we take this opportunity of consolidating the Ordinances it would be practically impossible la do so for the next three terminated because any alteration however. YURIS until the currency of the new Farm bad
small in the Farm when the tenders were sc cepted would vitiate the contract. By introduc- ing this Ordinance we reader it necessary to postpone the date on which the tenders will be ient la And we propose to postpone that date that the matter in a very urgent one. We wish until the 30th September next. You will see to give the tenderers as long notice as possible in. order that they may study the new law in order to find out any small alterations that may affect them. I shall thara. fors ank the Council at the next meeting to consider the Bill not only in commities but also to pass the third reading in order to get it out as soon as possible. Since the Bill will involve no new principles I trust it will be treated as a non-contentious Hill, Tho law. au' it exists with such innovations at have been Introduced has been the subject of various pro tests but trust it will not be necessary to reatw these protests. Finally, I would point out to you the Bill is a further revise from the one circulated - yesterday, There are a⋅ few- make. alterations which it was found necessary to
The Bill was mad a first time,
Kowloot which was started in 1907 for the pur. 4. The survey of the City of Victoria and
cles under gise of the Public Health and Build. pose of recommending modifications for cubi
On the recommendation of the Board modifi- Linge. Ordinance
has been practically completed
erection of cubicles the amending ordinance he have been granted in 8,767 floors by the Governor-in-Council. To discourage the provides that, where there are no cubicles in floor, the habitable space required for each person is 30 sq. ft, as compared with so sq. ft. in floors where cubicles bave been erected. Both these measures have done much to make the law press less hardly on the poorer classes of the Chinese community.
5. As will be seen from the Medical Officer ing the year was severe, there being 2,073 cases of Health's report the outbreak of plague dur
Co-operation of the Chinees in anticpleque as compared with 240 in 1907 and 893 in 1905.
have made to
LIQUOR LICENCES.
QUESTION AGAIN POSTPONED.
At the meeting of the Legislative Coracii held yesterday afternoon the question of liquor licences again. came up. It appeared on the
The Colonial Secretary would move the following resolution:-
largely owing to the work of the public dispen- measures, This has been fairly successful saries and street committees to explaloing to the people the reasons for these measures. The advantage of keeping cats. plague measure
es on noti- kan been impressed on the people and now practically every hous in the Colony possesses' one or more cats, The "Chinese Bre also now doing their own rat-catching, the Ranitary Department merely providing materials and collecting the rats. This system was not in working order fill September, but since then the number of rats commendations of the indien Plague Commis raturned has been very entisfactory. The re-Orders of the Day that:
sion are being carefully followed and several fectants, etc. All these changes tend to make changes have been made in the use of disin disinfection less distasteful to the Chinese.
6. There were 56 cases of cholera, 38 cares of Ancudmeut typu,
of small-pax 2nd: 400-cars of malaria, during.
all disibergfor, with effect in respect of each licence cussed in the Medical Officer of Health's report. that is now or may hereafter be in for from the use of the renewal or of the grant of such 7. The Hon, Dr. J. M. Aikinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer, was president of the
licence as the case may be provided, always - Board; and Head of the Department all July that in the case of licences which are renewed and, when Mr. C. Mcl. Messer was appointed or granted subsequently to the date of this re Head of the Sanitary Department. On Novem solution and prior to the first day of January ber 24th. Mr. Messer was transferred to the rgro, the fee shall be in respect of the period post of Postmaster General and Mr. J. H.between the date of issue and the thinty-first Kemp was appointed Head of the Sanitary day of December, 1909, at the rate previously Departmant. As Mr. Kemp was unable to obtaining, and lu respect of the period from take over bis duties I was appointed to act for and after the first day of January, 1910, at tw
Liquor Licences Ordinance, 198, named sche- Resolved that the second schedule to e dule 8 a section 2. of The Liquor Licence" 1907, be fepORING MELY
that the allowing arutu ka suuriicured;
needs of the time. We have not much faith were itrarievably lost in the conflagration, may bid, I understand," he said. If I were you 1 an Individual-capable of giving utterance to administer it in the interests of the general. Opium Farm Tenders. In those Commissions of Inquiry, which sit-lead to endless complications. The earthquake would not shed tears over the lot of auch man statements of that sort is either a llar, public. It is understood that the turn-over is interminable days, sift all sorts of contradicough folt uit over Japan, seams to have who are not by any means the representative comic or a subject for the lunatic asylum. worth the attention of the Government and tory evidence, and pere into amazingly on coded to su sren which is not thickly and respectable merchants they are said to. Ho altan, As
populated, otherwise there would be a different have beso.. He, further explained that the Frederick Lugard beca
matter of fact, bas Sir local dealers could easily be squeezed out by TENDERING PERIOD EXTENDED. abelruse subjects dit in the end the members story to tell, but when we find that in ons pre- men were arrested by the police on the request these anti-oplum measures through the Leujetas all gorde which they sold in competition with
accused of rushing
the simple process of importag elgh duties on, themselves became so befuddled and distroit fecture nlone, that of Shige, 31 persons word of their own Consul and that they had been live Council? that they scarcely know where they stand, killed and 168 lojured: 20 temples collapsed sert to China by the Consul and not by the not see eye to eye with the soi-disant reformes and us to the morality of the proceeding every In Hongkong those who do the Government. The idea is an excellent one, whether black is white, or whether they are
and 59 were badly damaged 1475 houses crum- Governmbat." Their own Government want living in the realm of inconsequent detail. pind up like matchwood and 1.167 were pared them, and they have gone. But have not mouthpiece of the pharasaical philanthropists profits, that is to say taxes, in the same box have seen in His Excellency the Governor the body knows that you cannot have morals and But the fact that the people of Singapore are heap of rains and 997 in little better condi- courts of justice before being depotted?' he ignored the intarests of the Colony in his weather and ic view of the peppery temper of tially destroyed; 636. other buildings are a even the Chinesa a right to ba beard in the of England. They have alleged that he has Another idea is to tax ginger, but in this hot seriously considering the possibility of tian, when we read such details reported in a Commission of Inquiry shows that there respect of one district out of staby that suffered pus. beat issued, he replied,it would Government. His telegrams to the Secretary lef is flush in the desert. But what a fillip was asked. Had a writ of habeas car anxiety to carry out the wishes of the Imperial sam vinger deslers that suggestion, may be is something radically wrong somewhere we begin to appreciate the character and have been heard, but no writ was asked for. of State, it was declared, were not sufficiently to conversation the Liquor Licences Bill has As everybody knows perfectly well, the force of the cataclysm, A European writing Of course a writ was asked for, for the simple explicit, not sufficiently downright and em average resident in the Crown Colonies on from the vicinity of Lake Biwa says that the reason that the Chiness merchants were caught phatic, with the result that Lord Crowe did at
bren during these dog days. It has proved. this side of the globe take marvellously little
even a «reiker attraction than the sea serpent, shocks were sharper than he remembered durin a trap and accepting the bona fides of who appreciate the effect which legislation against the big gooseberry, or the Siamese twins. interest is local affairs. They may growl bis eight years' residence in Japan and he ever invited them to attend at the secret service the opium trade would have on the revenue
described one of then as unique in his ex- and grumble at those responsible for the inperience, "It seemed like the passing of e.
office never dreamt of preparing for evil copie. of this Colony. And now wo find some sufficient supply of water, we will say, and
guances
Now we come to the Chiness fabatical antagonist, who presumably know bell from a big gun, the vibration being more Consul at Manila, His Excellency S. C. what he was saying, virulently urging that they will probably formulate a programme of in the air than on the ground." In so far as Chang, who was also subjected to so interview His Excellency and the official members reforme which ought to be carried out im- phuman life was involved; the catastrophe will by our enterprising contemporary, and this of the Legislative Council were acting in open mediately, but there the matter rests. So that not compare with those of San Francisco,
is what be bad to Ry on the subject: defiance of the will of the Imperial Parliament if Singapore is really serions in its interest to
Mossina or those cities in South America which "A number of bad character, members of Better to be ground to pieces between the have an inquiry there must be more in the came under the spell of seismic eruption. Various tongs, bad for years been calling dis- upper and nether millstones than try to please There is nothing of the spectacular in the re-credit upon the Chinese community of Manila, everybody. Simply because the Governor of maller than meets the eye. We find the Sin-.
ports which have come to hand from Japan; they which, as a whole, gupor Free Eres declaring: "In whatever are all grim and sordid detail, families camping law-abiding people. Their overt acts of law a conscientious official anxious, to secure the composed of honourable, a Crown Colony has tried to do bis duty as way the public regards municipal work, herë, in the open, or trudging with all that remains lessness became so noxious of late that the good of the Empire, to give effect to the desires they cannot avoid. Feeling intensely dissatis of their worldly possessioon on their backs Chinese Chinber of Commerce, always solici of the Colony whose affairs he has been ap fied with the results. That should give the railways torn up and buildings fallen in. But tous for this good name of the local Chinese, pointed to administer, and to comply with the supporter of the municipal council principle Francisco, with all its ties, is far away. Japan, a continuance of that state of affairs, communi
Messina is on the other side of the marth; San and thoroby roused by the possibilities of commands of His Majesty's Secretary of State to think furiously. There appears to be an
be is open to the abuse, calumny and vilification on the other hand, is next door neighbour and cured with the chambers of commerce of Amay, of every little vulgar whipper-anapper who can echo, of the prehistoric days when Hong-
in Hongkong are fort as much interested in kong was considering the question of whe-
Canton and other cities, with a view of bringing siring jingle of phrases together. What we re the affairs of Japan as we are in there of Can the atfer to the attention of the Government. gret is that washould ever have ther the administration of the Sanitary Board More especially can we sympathise at Pekin. The authorities there acted prompily His Excellency was going too fast in the matter of suggested that was all that could be desited in the follow- with the people of Dai Nippon is by requesting the Philippines Government to closing the divans: but perhaps too much notice ing remark: "It' matters not whether one
the misfortunes which have befallen them- remove the principal trouble breeders --It is being taken of the spoutings of an irrational merely looks into a system which requires when we consider the heroic efforts that are
reads like an official communiqué and was being who somehow or another has managed the signature of the Secretary on every disasters will be a set back, although it need being made to recover lost ground. Those
evidently prepared for public consumption. to capture a seet lo Parliament. With regard document of whatever description issued
He added that there was quite a number to the promise made by the Secretary of State not be a discouragement, to that spirit of en- of med with police records among the
that he would ask Parliament to make a grant by the Municipality, and in consequence terprise and advancement which has brought deportees and held that the community as aid to Hongloog in consideration of the loss brings in its train R host of rubber Tapan to the position which she' holds to-day in a whole, and not only the Chinese; should sustained by the closing of the divans, the exact stamps with the Secretary's signature lying the estimation of the world. It is the distrors, congratulate themselves on getting rid of words of the despatch are: When iba time about the office conveniently handy for
which inevitably follows such-convulsions-of-
of these bad men. It is all beating about the arrives His Majesty's Government on their part any tamby who may be in the room
nature and falls beaviest ou those least able to
basb, ruaning off at a tangent, anything to will be prepared to ask Parliament to give a when the Secretary is out; or whether one
bear it that will appeal to, ibose who are not wholly absorbed in money-grabbing. It is characters who had bean protected by the to the Colony the revenue which is found evade the main poist. Who were these bad substantial contribution towards making good looks at the cost of an administration believed by the Kobe Herald that the misery which is yearly growing greater in com-
secret service. In answer to further questions to have been lost as the direct result of mea occasioned by the sarthquake will only be od His Excellency appears to have sat on the sures adopted under their instructions." parison with the revenue; or whether one a slightly smaller scale than that caused by fence with great success. He did not know And when the Prepared Opium Bill was before looks at a primary duty of municipality such the fire at Osaka." "Oo this occasion there is whether there would be any further arrests; the Legislative Council, His Excellency the as the efficient disposal of sewage put aside, at least the consolation that se human agency be had no idea what right the Peking Govern Governor in urging its acceptance said: " Hi from year to year as too big to be tackled, indeed the fact that no fires are reported speaks registered residents of the Philippines; all he will make good a substantial part
could have prevented or lessened the disaster; ment had to request the deportation of these Majesty's Government have stated that they whilst fancy schemes are carried through; or
the loss whether one looks at the health of the com.and authorities.. As much cannot be said lo
wall for the precautions taken by the public could say was the matter had been handled in which is the direct result of carrying out their
*diplomatic" A
We rather fancy that policy. We should be perfectly certain that munity which is steadily growing worse. as regard to the Osaka conflagration, as bar been med aval nit of diplomacy it smacks of an-
what we are doing here is part of that policy, the years go by, under each and all of these abundantly shown in these columns and else thony Hope and Stanley Weyman to say and that i the reason why I think it is of great aspecte
to be doing where, and still less can it be held that the pect municipal work appeste oder in anually occurring disasters to fishing fleets are remark win Off with his head." The Consul should have the sanction of His Majesty'd Go- importance that this Bill should be passed, and present regime." Truth to tell, Hongkong much less terrible dimensions. The fact that
incapable of being prevented or reduced to admitted that be knew the man had been put verpment, so that loss which may arise out of aboard the Fuensang and the hour when they the operation of this Bill may fall within the may not be Utópis in tablet form but li
as surely as August and September çome round sailed. repeat," the celestial diplomat con
terms of loss incurred by carrying out the policy general record is certainly better than that wa bear of hundreds of fishing craft being mer cluded the interview, that the disreputable of the imperial Government." It is pure fiction of Singapore, if figures are worth any cilessly swent out to sea, with the sequel usually tong members cast discredit on their race hers to suggest that the monetary grant proposal thing We read that in the sister at the loss of several hundred industrious lives, and that they were spirited away for the good
was engineered from this end, as anyone Colony the birth rate has steadily risen,
sufficient to show that no adequate attempt of all concarned. What we want in the Philip who is prepared to abide by the facts will for whereas in the eight years from 4802 made to guard against the dangers which ploes are Chiness who by their ability, in admit, but reformers were over jugglers to 1899 the average" number of births per
are known to exist at this time of the year, tegrity and character anbance the prestige of with facin Berides did not Me, Theodore That may be the care, of course, and we do not beir native laud.". These are fine sentiments Taylor, when' declaiming on' this object in year was 43.17 in the eight years from
doubt the truth of our cor temporary's remark, and will be appreciated by the tnng which the House of Commons, explicitly declare 1901 to 1908 the average was just over 26, but the fact remains that thousands of people That, though slow, in an eminently satisfac in lapan are in extreme want and in the
won the day, but where are we? No good that the people of England would be prepared or sufficient reason has been shown why to contribute something towards covering the tory increase, but when we turn to the deaths depths of despair. Those accustomed to labour these men good or bad as they may be should initial loss sustained by the Colonies, and over the same periode, we find a very differ-
in factories cannot get employment for months be" spirited away" at a moment's notice frm Hongkong in particular, as the result of their ent tale has to be told. Whereas in the first have to exist by some manner of menas. It ourselves the Cublinews believes that the real
to come and meanwhile they and their families their homes, families and businesses. Like action in suppressing the traffic in opluni ? Of course if the British working man is anked period mentioned the average number of
As we said before, whether he is willing that au infinitesimal por deaths per year was 34.58 in the second period. file use looking at the sparrows who neither story has yet to be told.
rean nor spin and yet enjoy life; and it is there is more in this than concern for the reputa
tion of the British tax receipts should go to the average number was 40.24. And yet the long time since manna fell from heaven. There tion of the Chiness community-in the Philip wards recouping the Colonies made practically expenditure by Government on the medical in an question about it that these destitute plaes, there is far more in it than meel the bankrupt by the insensate appeals of the ultr department in 18go was a sum of $80,000 homeless walls wit have to be supported not!" eye, Pertinently, the editorial writer of the good he will promptly demand that the taxes whilst in root hod. risen to $160,000. A new Oaku has risen from the ashes of the
"Does the responsible be used to reduce the price of beer, And paper quoted asks': fre, and means of subsistence must be found person know that the men
to be expended on the purchase of knitted crimas enumerated iu connection with their names? If so, why garters for the benighted Hottentots will hear bas he not given his testimony in court. Do with composure and phlegm the nows that scp- abe police officers and secret service men whether British Crown Colony has gons to the wall were made party to this violation of the Coagnaccount of its pacrifices compulsorily made at stitution of the United States know that these be instance of gauteel suburbia and gentlement Chinese were guilty of the crimes coumerated of the Chadband type. Amidst all these troubles when it is sought to justify the high-handed the man most worthy of sympathy is His Ex- and despotic act of the authorties? If so, why cellency the Governor, who is ragged and bave they not testified to these facis in the heckled on this side and blackguarded, maligned courts of Justice of which they have and aspersed on the other. Certainly Sir Fre-fficer of Health for the City of Victoria and made a mock by their act on Friday sight?" derick Lugard should know by this time what Dr. H. Macfarlane for Kowloon But there is much more serious matter to it in to suffer the sling and arrows of outrageous come-it is suggested that these Chiness, were
fortune, deported by the police on the representation of a rival tong-for a consideration. That is far
DURING THE DOG DAYS. too grave a question for us at this distance from the scene of the episode to deal with and wo leave it at that. The Cableness also asks if gislative Council it would be worthless to Writing on the eve of the meeting of the Le- anyone knows to what Chinese society the
The workTuranezed by the Bill read a first local Chinese Consul belongs, but we should peculate, as to the result of this site soon time by the Love Council yesterday after in our usual innocence ask that question Government may submit a mature which debate in the liquor licences question. The
inga comprise the following, that is to say? - of the Consul himself Proceeding to quotes will beat no manner of resemblance to the mound brea water commencing at a prist
(+) be constructing of a detached-rubbl "Will-the-Government resort to the same original resolution, but When we referred on Tuesday to the inex
means to rid the islands of Englishmen
whether any new plicable action of the secret service authorities Frenchmen and Germans and persons of other proposals will meet the views of the up-
about 1,000 feet south by east of the ačniki of Mila in deporting a score of Chinese mer nationalities who may be non grata to
official members is entirely accther question. terminating at a paint about gun feet west be western corner of Kowinon Murine 1 of 34, and chants without trial or warning--baving secur
faction of their nationals? How long will it
The point that we would deal with at the mo
north of the north-western corner of Kowloga them in custody by what certainly seemed be before an American clique will be able to sections of the community have evinced in this tructed entirely on the era bed of the horhous
mant is the extraordinary interest which all and still seems a despicable. ruse-we were
Marine Lot for the said breakwater to be con go secretly to the police department or the matter affecting the cost of liquor licences and
An accident, which necessitated the removal careful to emphaslan the fact that.our inform. on whose orders the police act and arrange for therefore, lddirectly, the price of liquor sold o
(2.) The constructing of a masonry jatty com
of a man to the Government Civil Hospital, show whether the slightest justification existed spoliatios of the homes and property of other arrive at the conclusion that the majority of by north of the point of commencement; the stion was not necessarily complete enough to the forcible expulsion from the islands and the ticensed premises. A stranger might be apt to and terminating at a polo? about 450 feet west
mencing at the western end of Saigon Street, Tuesday afternoon. A coolie, giving the pame was witnessed in the Western district laat for the adoption of such a despotic and tyran- Americans against whom they have some per Europease in Hongkong were shareholders to
of Mak Lap, was the victim.” Mak, it would pleal measure... We feel certain that such
sonal or social grudge? Had the men de. methods-"Muscovite methods" they re call
said Jetty to be constructed on the foreshore appear, was walkink slobe Queen's Road West fivered up to the Chlaste Government to the local hotels or at least supporters of the
and sea bed of the barbour,
at about three o'clock talbreing home. Ai he the law of the United States, ed by the Cablenews-are: utterly foreign to
be probably bebeaded been the burden focal liquor trade in the widest sense. Indeed
(3.) The reclaiming of a portion of the fore: the clothes' poles, which are se conspicuous
arrived outside a certain tenement and calculated to bring American law and justice doubtint whether the sum total of their cris people have been dallying with their good ed criminals they are represented it in it is to be feared that many good and worthy into disrepute, and in that opinion we are supmes would have been as reprehensible as the
shore or see bed adjoining and lying to the south of Kowloon Marine Lot. 32, and the
outside the verandahs of Chicase-bouras, name to such a degres. that others have ported in the most spirited terms by our conviolence that has been done to the fundamental be altogether warranted.
protecting of the area so reclaimed by manus
left its support and fell to the street, The coma to conclusions which might not
unfortunate Mak was passing the house at the of walls and other necessary works. there were anything against principles of the American Government by temporary.
In other words, theas men, some of whom had been in business their kidnapping. Evidently the Gablenews the silent Individual who could not be
(4) The
levelling and
moment, and the pole struck him on the head, reclaiming of the aren in Manila for 30 years and owned their private knows much more that it discloses. It taptat induced to say three words on any
of Crown land, foreshore or sen bed bounded rendering him unconscious, and causing him equipages, then was clearly the duty
suddenly
as follows-On the north by Public Sqners him taken to No. 7 Police Staley where hu to lose much blood. A passing policeman bad police authorities to see that they received plain between the lices. Criminals or po criminals, creasing the cost of licences cropped up. And discovered bis tongue when the question of in-
Street on the east by Reclamation Birast,
was temporarily treated, and thence to the hos And substantial justice. They were entitled to
Kowloon loland Lots Nos. 561 and 563, pital. It is not considered that his wound is in None will proffer more sincere expressions
these Chinese merchants have been made scape the examples he has given of the procedure in bearing in the Courts and if the batile for
and Canton Kaad) on the south by Row. of sympathy and commiseration to the people liberty to remain in Manila went against them
casts at the behest of the Peking Government
olhar countries to say nothing of the dire con- and the American police have acted as cats sequences which will befall the Colony should of Japan in the terrible series of adversities they had the right to appeal. Instead of that,
icon Inland Lote Nox. 555 and 559, Bat any way serious, tery Street, Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 563 and which have followed one after the other with these Chinese merchants were caught by
Paws. A pretty role for the glorious represent the price of strong drink be increased have 565, Canton Road, and Saigon Street; and on appalling results than the Colony of Hong- artful and mendacious statements and prompt to fill.
tatives of law and order in "God's country "ordad evidence that he has studied the the west by imaginary lines connacting a polot kong, which itself has known and days of trily bundled neck and drop aboard the Yuensong
Ject and given it that thought and bulation and disaster. Scarcely bad our paigh and departed to China without a bangs
which belt auch an all-important subject as the bours and friends in the North recovered from clothing or it may be a dollar in their
liquor duca. Naturally-the licence-holders in the shock induced by the holocaust-at Osaka The question was What had these deportes
Hongkong baye beno baranguing their clientele great manufacturing centre which has prac done to deserve such high-handed treatment
to their hearts' content although what sàllifac tically been wiped out of existence than they. By whose orders were they ejected from Manila
A fifteen-year-old boy, named Fan Wan, who _{27th August.)..................
Lion-they derive-from-that-wa-fall-to gather.- seceived a visitation in the shape of an earth like a lot of lepers) Who were the parties
-appears-tọ - be a champion-sprinter among his..... Noiblog, could more forcibly illustrate the Still it zalieves the tension, no doubt, which in guike whose range and violence place it on who consiliated themselves actocrats big methods of the anti-opiumists or the depths to something to be thankful for. Of cOLLERS ADY
own class, did some dashing yesterday, but he was out-classed. Yan, who, is also, the bully but slightly lower level than those which enough to override the law and font public which they are prepared, to sick in their work discussion on the Liquor Licences Bill bar were recorded in the closing decade of last opinion which is the law? Well, further light of propaganda, than the contemptible and inevitably led to the opening up of the larger
of his street, left home yesterday afternoon for century. Following closely on the heels of Is shed on the subject by the lips of the malicious attempt which was made by an object of taxation in general, and it is wonder.
quiat stroll an airing, he says, Walking that calamity, almost before the unfortunate
turned out to be too much of a tame game for Cablemas which arrived to-day. It may be obscure member of the House of Commons to fel what an immense feid of ideas, there in
this people had time to breathe, came the news well to say, in order not to keep impatient traduce, maliga and misrepresent the attitude is Hongkong. No one
young athlete, so, arriving at a certain considers bas that one of the 'frbing fasts which she out readers in suspense, that the American authori adopted by is xcellency Sir Frederick Ludens bis daty to his country or his state
A Chinaman, the complainant in an sarault spot, he put on a small tret, which soen de case, stopped into the witness-box in the Police veloped into a record-smashing pics. It maggable livler around (ke shores of Japanties seem co-hava certain grounds for deporting gard, with spspect to this most debitibie.sub.usidas ke has unburdened himsalf-of-ble Court, this morning, to tell the story of how he is unfortunate, although fact northalats, Bad baen rukjannly.swept to detraction. theag "Chinese merchants, but not after the ject. Koowing perfectly well that the Governor | own particular fad. Whils xil admit that have seldom rand of such a trinity of disaster fashion they adopted. On the day following the of Hongkong, sa an Imperial servant, je the Government by book or by crank mast to show that he was roughly handled, Ele it is his misfortune. While sigaming
was attacked. His appearance was oficiant that Van bas long armit That is got his fanit
Bloss
The Happening within so brief space of time. It departure of the Yarns lawyer applied precluded from publicly relation the vilelse additional taxation next year and while all face was all patched up, bin clothsa baraggled footpath of Queen's Road West, Fan's would almost seem as if nature for the mo for a writ of Kabsar corpus in the case of these and "unwarranted assentions of an Ireas are prepared to pay their shara-provided lunt and covered with blood stains.
arma flew out as he was passing, a money- mant had determined to deapon barself with Chinaman, but seeing that the men had gone possible Member of Parliament on be share is so small as to be hardly perceptible to
him how he earned his living.
counter as if by magic. It was fore, skat bordes thrown on baz, aboutders at the present The assistant axecutive secratary, Mr. Welch, deliberately declared to the House of Com other man should bear the brunt, most of kic time. There is only can. thing, which
"I am a cook," was the reply.
Longboat the second failed to come up to the loves the picture and that is the fact that the fee, was interviewed by newspaper mao
who appeared for the Government to stay the mous on the 17th oft, that "In Hongkongnecassiles being really luxuries, In view of Where do you live?-Canton,
occasion, In trying to dodge round a comper thar had been some measure of progress, all. the fact that the Government this your calmly total loss of life an für as can be ascertained is
Surely you did wat sleep in Gaston last a collided with 200 ponade of fans, and falatively small. Bet tbs dratmetion of ponded the sparen of conversation "he though it had met with the utmost apposuich and amostentatiously and for this bentot of the night. Where did you sleep! In the Central cannoned off into the golfers. Before he could
progreed bath wary high-handed
rise" to cover the mile, the mojeyechanger party the loss caused by the acamp orment of air carried out and remarked that had fem the lapparel servants of this country, owners and their dependants grabbed a choli Police Station. Apadreds of working men and women, 'the'dis.
"was not A briter exhibition of the willingness to plan, Tour lakhs of dollars and applied it geniously The reason for the assault, at giyen by the|| had him by the quene, and he was turned over. Barliance of, Linde, and the dialocation of all and anything to do in the matter: it wanld Hongkong which commands itself to tobe parted that the present Colonial, Secretary, be some money. Although the cook bad mpnay Coon, the young rescat pleaded guilty to steel. American custom and usage and that if he der and desame Kid' Majesty's representative in so the interests of the Colony, it has been aug. defendant, was because complainant owed him to a policeman, This morning, 14 the Police forme of government are beyond computation mot, pocne again, Hajfanker:explained that thumping demagogues could scarcely be givan. madala preserved an tug High Court in Ciska, Charagan? Some of them have been in miliza montaj:in facă din lese unii akp butjar, bananig Indian Crisperative: Bounty * Móré-and-him down. A due of jy was a pasok, zna
might go a step further and conseente the Civil | ant in Quend's Road Inst; night And kabelsé | |be kévers) days before Fan will hire shy von
Now Hongkứng may have its annual visit for the sufferers through the havoc and desola. binders and guilty of the deported ware high- | thaia hexevolent old indies who leave fortune
tion of the plague, but its death rate is justion sought by the earthquake. Already, we about half that of Singapore, The Free Pressure glad to see, the larger cities of Japan have in a spirit of asiger declates: "The death rate risen nobly to the occasion and the Government rises and municipal expenditure on salaries
if we thought that has gone to the rescue. Bas increased from one'in seven and a half Hongkong could afford to respond in a man. to one in six; the cost of paying for those cer indicative of our appreciation of the who carry out municipal duties is now corrosity shown by Japanese firing dur practically twenty per cent, of the revenue, the dark days following the 18th of September, iços, we should be the first to give whereas fifteen years ago it was only about
cttosanice to the idea, but Hongkong itself is thirteen per cent, and we are still in a state in the Slough of Despond. It is doub'ful if of primitive sanitation which would he look- she can meet all the calls that will be made on ed on with disgust by any village with over
her resources during the next year. Never five thousand people in England: Judged was the Colony in a worse position to assist a by the business standard of results compared neighbour and we fear all that Hoogkong can with cost of working and continuation oso give that bald expression of sympathy which if it cannot be translated into something of goodwill, the present, system appeals more tangible is at least sincere and profound. to-most ten as a · failure, and one' of' the chief reasons appears to be that there never seema anyone capable of plan- ning a wide programme which should extend "over a number of years and achieve several definite results in really pressing wanis." As for Penang, which is also ruled by a Mu. picipal Commission, things would appear to be ten times worse. The Gazette speaks of "the stenches which polson the air that we breathe; the concentrated, pent-up muck in the Prangin Ditch that diffuses death and disease all over the Settlement; the soul sickening reck that blows across the Padang and pours out of the by-streets; the damp, drainage-soaked soil that is sick with the teeming life of a hundred years" and 10 forth. Hongkong can wait a while before it places itself in the position of Singapore and Pebaug,
BLACK AUGUST IN JAPAN..
(26th August.)
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When the Cuaucil arrived at this stage, however, the Colnolal Secretary quietly anid
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Sir Henry Rakeley reconded,
His Excellency the Governor waited for any protest but there was none, the Colonial Secretary's intention biving evidently been previously communicated to hon. members.
The motion was therefore carried and the
resolution is postponed sine die
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