-LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
14th lust.. A meeting of the Legislativa Council was -held in the Council' Chamber this afternoon, Present-His Excellancy the Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M., His Excellency Major-General R. G. Broadwood, C., Hon. Sir Henry May, XCMG, (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. F. A. Hazaland (Attorney-General), Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson (Coloniai Treasurer), Hor. Mr. W. Chatham (Director of Public Works), Hon. Mr. F. J. Badelay (Captais Superintendent of Police); Hon, Mr. A. W. Brewin (Registrar General), Hop., Dr, Ho Kal, M.B., C.M.O., Hon. Mr. Wei Yok, C.M.O., Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart, and Mr. O Ufomenti (Clerk of Council).
MINUTES.
The mlantes of the last meeting 'were read and confirmed. +
FINANCIAL MINUTES.
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. to 5. It was agreed that they be referred to the Finance Com mittee.
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the report of the Finance Committee No. 21 of 1909, and moved that it be approved,
Agreed.
REPORT ON OPIU M.
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table
■ report on opium, its nature, composition, preparation and methods of consumption by F. - Browns, Government Apalyst.
HAMTARY BYE-LAWS,
Council approved the Bye-law made by the Sanitary Board on the 18th January, igro. under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances, 1903-1909 :-Amendment of the "Slaughter Houses and Slaughter of Animals Bye-laws
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26 1910.
It was agreed that the following votes be recommended for the approval of ibe Legis. lative Council:-
.HONORARIVM.
A sum of five hundred dollars in aid of the. vota, Miscellaneous Services, honorarium, to Mr. L. C. Rees, secretary to the Squatters Board.
BOYS AND MOORINGS,
A sum of four hundred and eighty-five dollars in aid of the vote, Harbour Master's Department, A.-Barbour Office, Other Char. gas, repairs to fairway buoys and Stanley's moorings.
CONVEYANCE ALLOWANCE
dollars in aid of the vote, Public Works, Public A sum of one. hundred and Įseventy-four
Works Department, Other Charger, convey ance allowance to i land surveyor.
PERSONAL ALLOWANCE TO ASSESSOR. A sum of three hundred and forty-three. dollars in aid of the vote, Treasury, B.-Office of Assessor, of Rates, personal, emoluments, personal allowance with' exchange compensa- tion to Assessor of Rates.
LAND HAILIFFS.
A sum of two hundred and seventy-five dol lars in aid of the vote, Judicial and. Legal Day partments, E, --Land Registry Office, personal emoluments, New Territories, allowance to five, police officers acting as land baillfls, etc., af $50 each.
This was all the business.
SHANGHAI LAND INVESTMENT
CO., L
ANNUAL MEETING.
The twenty-first annual general meeting of shareholders in the Shanghai Lard Investment Co., Ld., was held on 16th inst. Mr. E. Jenner Hogg (chairman) presided, and there were also present, Mastra. E. C. Pearce, G. W. Wright. The Colonial Secretary moved that bye-law DD, J., M. Young, H. R. Kinder (Directars), No..3 contained in Part 1 of the Slaughter. Peebles (Manager), C. Cummins, G. S Houses and Slaughter of Animals Bye-laws Lindsay, J. lobuston, W. H. Bestie, A. R. 'made by the Sanitary Board under the Public Duacan and Dr. Timothy Richard.
Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1993, on the' 26th October, 1909, and approved by the Legislative Council.oothe ith Novamber, 1909, be repealed.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded. Agreed.
His Excellency iba Governor read a despatch from the Secralary of State for the Colonies conveying His Majesty's expression of loyalty and feeling in the erection of statues to Her Majesy the, Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
PENSION ORDINANCE.
The Attorney General moved the first read. lug of a Bilt entitled An Ordinance to amend the Pension Ordinance, 1862,
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Bill rond a first time.
In a memorandum attached to the Bill, it h explained that, under the exlating Pension Rules there is a rule (No. 21) declaring that the Governor-in-Council is empowered to retire any public officer at the age of sixty. This is without any statutory authority and is therefore allra fres. It is therefore desirable
that such statutory authority should be given
to the Governor-in-Council.
LIQUORS ORDINANCE.
The Attorney General moved the first read. ing of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amood the Liquors Ordinance, 1909,
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Bill read & first time
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The chainman said :-The report and accounts have doubtless had your atten- tion, and we will, with your consent, take them as read. They have been made as tolly explanatory as possible, and seeing what a de- pressing year it has been for owners of property generally, we may really leel very well satisfied with the results. We have made no sales of property of any moment and we suffer in res- pect of our godowns, of which there is an over. supply in Shanghai, and you are doubtless aware there are many empty. Had it not heen. for this part of our undertaking we should have shown an increase in our gross realals, a face which I think you will adinit redcards to the credit of the management. Astle, our gross rentals fall short of last year by 12,000 add tasis, Furthermore, bad times press bard on the side of expenses, which are heavier by some Tis. 10.000. Changes of tenancy involve ex- pense, for there is always something to be done for new tenants, and, (as I think you will ap preciate), we work on the principle of meeting. any reasonable wishes of our tenants, as far, we possibly can.
In regard to our income, I may remind you that one valuable property was only completed and partially occupied late in the year, and we have yet to derive the full benefit, which will, in due course, be derived from this source.
OPIOM.
GOVERNMENT ANALYST'S REFORT.
24th inst
There was laid on the table of the Legislative Council this afternoon a report an Opium: its nature, composition, preparations, and methods of consumption. The report is dated 14th November, 1908, and in by Mr. Frank Browne, F.1.C., F.C.B., Governmbat Analyst The report reads:
Opium is the milky juice of the untipe capsules of Papaver somniferum or opiam poppy, obtained by incision and inspissated by spontaneous evaporation.
COMPOSITION. The following may be taken as the general composition of oplum
Per Cant
·Morphing simamianą“ 6 to 15 average 8 Narcotine 4 to 8- Other alkaloids.... 0.5 to 2 Meconiuna
under 'z Meconic acid Peculiar resin & caout .chouc.........
Fal
Codeine Thebaine
Narcolino... Narceine
3 to 8 averago A
tan.
1 to 4
Per cent.
** 0.02'10 0.4 2.0.15 10 1.0 -1.0
4 10 5
** 0.02 to 0.7
It will be seen from what follows that these five alkaloids occur in such small proponios, that they modify but little the action of the morphine when opium is taken.
** 4"OPIUM TILLS These also are sold as Anti-oplum remedies They are sometimer recommended in a circular accompanying the bundle to be preferable to epiam smoking as an affect is quickly produced, and moreover, that they can be carried and taken shortly. Appendix Gishows the nature of such pills and how variable in their stregth The most poppiar plil is ons containing the most of oplem. An attempt was made by a vendor to put on the market one containing of a grain of morphine in each pill, but the provisions of the Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance effecinally prevented its sale. How ever, these piils are very cheap so that they are within the reach of the poorest, and those better off can buy them to an almost unlimited extent, so that thule sale instead of the much more expensive and very much weaker smok ing epium is likely to do considerable harm in fostering the oplum bábli,
.......
5. MORPHINE' INJECTION, This practice is very injurious as not only are solutions of uncertain strength used, but diny hypodermic syringes are constantly em ployed. These are made usually of bamboo or matal They are 'frequently vary tough in design and the needle is fastened into most by means of lead. Probably the peedie after in- sartion in one person is put directly into an other. The employment of this method was stamped out by Ordinance in 1893. The prac tice of morphins injection was very popular os account of its cheapness.
6. SMOKING OPIUM OR CHẬNDOO.
- THE OHARTERED BANK.
NEW BRANCH OPENED IN THE X.M.S.
The importance and growth of the trade of Nagri Sembilan, one of the Federated Malay States, is evidenced by the fact that the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Chine has now opened branch establishment at Saramba, the capital of the State: The Negri Sembilan are in the centre of the rabber industry, which has been expanding enormously of lats years and promises to increase vastly in the Imme
dinis fatara. - There are also savaral tin minus
of great value in the neighbourhood and as there is a fius harbour at Seremban and com- munications are gradually being extended in every direction the foresight of the Chartered Bank in opening's branch institution there is self-evident.
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TUR PORTUGUESE' CONSUL.
OFFICIAL VISIT TO NAVAL COMMANDERS.
of an ordinary coaling coolle accustomed to taking opium. Immediately after his first, meal, ip","early mordlog he will repair to an oplum divan and will smoke several pipes. As soon...as finisbad ke is ready to undertake his arduous labours for the day in the evening, after his meal, he again, repairs: to the divan to smoke a few more pipes, after he leaves and goes to his lodging houss, seemingly much refreshed by this indulgence. At 12 midnight all visitors at divans must leave and they do so just as they would any eating house. There is no such thing as a man being unable to move on account of narcotism. Although members of smokers must be going home in the streets at about mid- night residents of Hongkong of many years' standing affirm that they have never sean at that hour a Chinese under the in fuence of opium br of any other stimulant The scientific facts therefore seam quite in accordance with the usual text-book state- ment :-"In any case, opium smoking seeme to fojure the health of Asiatics but litis" (Dr. Wynter Blyth: Palsons, p. 395)
GENERAL CONCLUSION ON THE METHODS Senhor J. J. Lairis, Consul för Portugal in
OF ZAKİNG OPIUM,
Hongkong, made his first official visit on board, Of the six, it would seems that by far the last Tussday, since that vessel's arrival it port from the Portuguese cruiser Rainha Dona Amelia on injurious of all methods is that of smoking. Lisbon. It may appear that the ceremonial By this last, only a vary small part of the
call, was somewhat belated,since the cruiser han morphine in opium is taken into the system, and even when a comparatively large quantity as a matter of fact, however, Mr. Leiria met been in Hongkong harbour now for some time, is barat, the morphine taken internally is ex-with the regrettable accident in August last, cassivaly minata. The eating and drinking of opium, and of opium wine, the taking of which confund him to his house for some con
eiderable time, and it was not until yesterday that he felt safe enough negotiate the gangwAY oplum pills, and the administration of mor phine by injection, are likely to the opiam habit or craving, and as far as of the Portuguese craisers, After ble visit to Captain Cunba Lima, the Portugness_Consul possible facilities for these methods of tak visited also the Vasco da Gama and the guns is the stimulant should be restricted. Ex-boat Patria, Alf the three vessels, fired the case in smoking, like excess of any other kind, is also to be discountenanced, but this is customary complimentary salutes. in great measure guarded against by the high price of the drug, which for most people en- sures its consumption in moderate quantity. But there should be a limit even to the cost of chandoo, for if probibitive, smokers will resort to the other extremely cheap and admittedly more harmful methods of taking oplum, or to cocaine the very worst form of narcotic indulgence.
set up
THE COMETS OF 1910.
The following notes on the Cometa, hara been courteously forwarded to the Preas-in Shanghai by the Director of Sicawei Obisiva- |tory for publication :-
1.-Halley's Comat has been visible for some · dayspast with a meza powerinstrument, berwarn Saturn and Pegaz), about a third of the distance from Saturn. On April-20th it will path nearest
a velocity of 334 miles a second.
Gum & soluble bumid
Acid mattare
...... 40 to 56 Iosoluble matters and
mucus ..................... 18 to 20 Ash
* 4 to 8 Water............. 8 to 30 average 10 Opium in remarkable for the large number of deficite, highly complex, crystallins principles "This preparation is used solely for smoking contained in it. Of these about 30 m alka purposes. Much care is exercised in making loids, and chief in abundance and in vaine is it so that its consistency, aroma and flavour morphins. Next in importance are the alka-when smoked may vary as little as possible, faids codeine, thebaine, papaverine, narcotine Any kind of opiurs can be used, but the variety and anrceine. These have been observed in which commends itself more panicularly to the opium boiler and smoker is the Indian. the following proportions —
This is remarkably uniform in composition, always a recommendation to the Chinese who cannot be troubled with the extra care that opiums-of-uncertain-quality require. Chiassa opiam being carelessly prepared and of dubions quality cannot yield an esteamed smoking product. A high percentage of morphine in the opium is no rcommendation, in fact, aearly all smoking extract of the best quality is prepared from opium with a low morphins Morphine exsils in opium in combication content.-The-reason-for-this disregard of-the:- THE STANLEY-ARMED ROBBERY to the sun (about 56,000,000 miles distant) with with sulphuric and mecoplc acids. It crystal morphine proportion, will be seen when the lises in transparent, colourless, trimetric prisms,homistry of opium smake is considered. At or above 200 C. morphins partially Appendix H gives paniculars of an opium smoking apparatus nod manner of smoking, volatilises, melts, and lumi brown, becoming and Appendix I shows with what care carbopised at a somewhat higher temperature. the well known extract is prepared. By It is inodorous, bas a persistent bitter taste, the student of the subject the table below atid is a powerful narcotic poison. The poi should be carefully studied. Particolars are sonous effects of opium are essentially due to first given of the composition of eptum extract. morphine contained in it, and the symptoms The ashes from the ripe from the smoking are produced by opium differ but lule from those known as opiumi dress and in quantity the consequent on the administration of- pure morphine. It is nearly insoluble in cold water,
amount obtained is about one half the quantity of extract smoked. This residue is converted but dissolves readily in ditute-acids to form into droas opium extract alter it has been mixed with about an equal weight of hd lan or dross from dross opium extract, and boiling out, and The ath of bá a consists almost entirely of preparing in the manner already indicated. sodium and potassium sulphates and a little The chief are Turkey, Smyrna or Con-phosphate. The proportion of morphine in the stantinople opium, Patos, Benares, Malwa or first dross from opium extract is noteworthy as Indian opium, Persian, Egyptian, and Kuci- it shows what a very small quantity of morphine chao, Yon-oau. and Sau-ch'uat, or Chinese is carried away in the smoking. The results opism. Very rich opiums can also be pre are expressed as percentages in the undried pared in Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, substances. Germany, England and Sweden.
salts.
The dose of opium according to the British and of morphine from one-tenth to half a grain. Pharmacopicia is from one-half to two-grains,
VARIETIES,
The following table shows the nature of some of these varieties;-, •
Kind of Oplum. Morphine Hot water Cold water Water
extract extract
Smyrna Vaina Benares The
Malwa Persian 10 to 1
With funber reference to the accounts, I will add a few words though they really speak for themselves. In Working Account the credit of Tis. 9,697.70 fncinterest is the difference bo This Bill gives affect to instructions of the tween our receipts from mortgages, and interest oa nur undeveloped land, and our payments in Secretary of State for the Colonies who is not prepared to sanction the privilege granted to respect of debentures bank overdraft. the Gorernor by'saction 6 of the Principal amount is less than last year, as our mortgage Ordinance, inserted at the instance of the unloans are reduced by some Tis. 484,000. official members, because the privilege has recently been abolished as opponunity offered in those Colonies in which it previously existed. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT,
On the motion of the Attorney General, se conded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill antitled An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates and Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance 1909„was rend a first time.
This Bili substitutan Dow section for sec tion 86 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, and Is introduced at the instance of the Secretary
of State,
By sub-tection 1 of the new section the Magistrata is empowered to whip youths and also to imprison them only in the cases of sim? ple larceny, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and indecent assault.
** By sub-section 2 where the youth is convict- ad of any offence other than an offence speci- fied in sub-section such youth may be whin» ped in lieu of any other punishment to which the offender is liable,
Where a youth baxbeen ordered to be whip ped in lieu of imprisonment, the Magistrate shail aise order him to be detained in prison for a period not exceeding forty-eight hoùm,
QATIIS..
The items on the other side of the accounts call for uo special comment.
Profit and Loss explains itself, Reserve Fund remains at the very substantial sum of Tis, 1,523,045 72.':
The
Reserve Fund for Equalization of Dividends is Increased by the Tis: 130 000 appropriated at our last meating to Tis. 300,000, and secures our position for dividends ler á very long time to come even if it need be drawn
apon at all.
The balance sheet shows the cost of our properties up to date. The chief increase in
on No. 6 Estate, on which paymenit in respect
of new buildings have been made to the extent
of Tis. 218,000.
There have been a few new buildings on other Estates and a little additional land bought, but otherwire the increases are for interest on 'undeveloped land.
Our mortgage loans
amanat 10. Tla.
* 095,159 43; and are all fully covered,."
I do not think there remains more for me to add, but if any one has any questions to ask I shall be glad, as far as I can, to answer them. A shareholder asked what was the total in terest on undeveloped property. The chairman replied that the total amount was Tis, 67,672.29. The report and accounts were accepted and passed, on the motion of the chairman, eccond.
The Attorney General moved and the Colonial Secretary seconded, the first reading of a Billed by Mr. Youngs entitled An Ordinance to regulate the Law as to Oathi
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Agreed. This Bill introduces the whole of the Daiki Act, 1909, and section 5 of Oaths Act, 1888,
Sections of the Oaths Act, 1888, is the section which allows a witness to take the Scotch (orm of oàth should he 'so, desire.
OFFICIAL SIGNATURES TIES.
The chairman then moved, accorded by Mr. Wrightson: "That the Directors be authorized to pay a final dividend for the year 100g of 6 per cent, and a bonus of 2 per cent, on the paid-up capital, to the shareholders on the register at this date." The motion was carried. ananimously,
Mr. E. Jenner Hogg, was re-elected as a director; and Mr. C. R. Wingrove was re-
That concluded the business of the meeting, and the chairman intimated that the dividend ‚warrants “would be dispatched that day,
The Attorney General moved the first read-appointed auditor. ing of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888.
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Bill read a first time.
Certain licences which were formerly issued by the Colonial Secretary are now issued either by the Colonial Trassurer or by the Captulo Superintendent of Police,
Oplum cr
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SIX MEN COMMITTED FOR
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TRIAL.
33rd inst.
*Bix mon appeared 'before Mr. E. R Hallifax at the Magistracy this morning on a charge of armed robbery. The facti of the latest ontrage are that between four and five o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th lurtant, the six prisoners entered the village of Lam Lei Wan, near Tytam, in the district of Stanley. They terrified the inmates of thren houses by means of choppers and knives and after having tied them with stout cords, ransacked the dwellings and fled to Stanley were at once informed of the outrage Tytam Tak pumping station. The Police at and the news was immediately communicated by telephone to Sbau kiwan Police Station and a dose of Chinese and Indian policemen under Constables Parr and Sullivan were de talled to track the robbers. P. C. as (Sullivan) Chinese constable ambushed the with marauders at a convenient spot and it was dot long before two of the_robbers appeared and were at once pounced upon by the biding policemen, As the captors "ware proceeding with their prisoners to headquarters, the latter attempted to escape and also tried to ware their comrades, who, unaware of the fate that
·had befallen their accomplices, more following some distance behind to mest them, by menos of verbal sigas, but their plucky guardians covered them with pistols and prevented the | Pscape of the majority of the robbers, who on coming up were promptly arrested with some of the stolen property on their persons. It was fortunate circumstance that the robbars, doubtless finding their weapons cumbersome and perhaps incriminating, left them behind, as there is no telling to what lengths they would have gone in their desperation and considering men. P. C. Sullivan's smart piece of workc is praiseworthy in the extreme. The robbers ap. pored before Mr. E. R. Hallifax, First Police Magistrate, to-day, and were committed for trial at the next Oriminal Sessions.
Io Appendices A. to C. will be-found more complate details of the composition of Indian and Chinese opiums. About 400,000 chesia of Chinese opium are consumed ascually ined previously that the temperature at which athair numerical advantage over the two palico.
China, while the consumption of the foreign variety (mostly Iúdia¤) is from 49,000 10 50,000 chests,
PREPARATION AND METHODS OF
. CONSUMPTION, ^«
CHEMISTRY OF OPIUM SMOKE, ' The celebrated French chemist Haori Mais san made a number of experiments in connec tion with this subject. His treatise is given in Appendix J. He placed about one and a half Ounces of opium extract in a retort, through which air could be drawn, and so fitted that the products formed at various temperatures could be collected and examined. He had determin. smoker dried the chandon immediately before usa was 240* C, and at which he smoked it, was about 250 C. He found from his experi ments with chandoo of the best quality that at a temperature not exceeding 350 C. the quality Opium in various forms is official in all the excessively small and consisted of a small of substance carried over in the smoke was pharmacopoe as of the world. In appendix D quantity of fragrant oils and a small quantity will be found a list of those preparations ap. of morphine, which was probably, carried pearing in the British Pharmacopoeia. In ad- forward by the water vapour," "That_this dition to thase, in England, a large quantity of amount of morphins was extremely minale opium' is consumed in patent medicinas, ruch may be inferred from his statements in bir as cough mixtures, chlorodyne, and such like paper, and from the fact that no record remedies. In European countries the use of is made of Its weight, probably because the opium and its preparations is chiefly medicinal, amount was too small to be determined, In East there are bat few preparitons, opium With chanded of indifferent quality he separated water, wine, pills, morphine för injection, and at a temperature of a50* O. to 315° C. varion smoking opium, each of which togelber with products the chief of which were pyrroline,
nses will be treated in detail and opium in acetone, bydropyridic and pyridic bises to
gether with a little morphine. All the fast its raw condition will be first considered.
mentioned substances if taken in considerable The consumption of raw oplum is à very quantities would be injurious to health, just ancient practice among Eastern nations. In as in the same way the pyridine and bomolo- the British Melical Journal for 1894, Jan- gues; nicotine and its decomposition products, bary 13 and 20, will be found a digest and the ethereal oil, all formed during the of the evidence collected from too Indian combustion of tobacco, are concluded to be medical officers, from which it appears that poisonous, The amount of morphine from raw opium is taken habitually by a very large this accond quality extract such as dross oplam number of the population throughout Indie, extract must for scientific reasons be even less those who are accustomed to the drug taking it than from chandos.. The temperature at which in quantities of from 19 to grains in the 24 the former commences to burn is higher than hours. So long as this amount is not exceeded | with the latter,, also, as made"la Hongkong, it they do not appear to suffer ill-boalth or any invariably contains much less water (ase table); injurious effect. It is entirely unknown what consequently the morphine is much more likely quantity of an opiate should be considered a to be decomposed by heat than to be carried poisonous dose for an opium-ester. In 'the | into the pipe by water vapour. New York Mid, Record, zii 239, is mentionad Moissan says that the smokers of best chao- the case of a former officer in the English doo seem to be capable of living to a great age, army, who at the age of 1x1 was still living in and of keeping is as good health as the greater New York and had been an opium habituato number of tobacco smokers who do not smoke for 70 years, and at one time his daily con- pipe or cigar to excess. With regard to smokers sumption of the drug was go grains. Though of chandoo of inferior quality his opinion is not undoubtedly pernicious. when indulged in by so favourable. He compares the two classes to the moderate persons merely for the sake of intoxication, of smokers, the lone
1. RAW OPIUM.
NEW SUGAR COMPANY,
PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT IN PORMOSA.
It had been reported, says the Osaka Asahi that the Formosan Government, surprised at the remarkable result of protecting the sugar industry in Formosa, had decided not to grast, a charter for the formation of any more sogar its effects scom to be greatly modifiéd, when drinker of good alcohol,~jhe other to con
288 " TENYO MARU'S" SPEED.
RESULT OF OFFICIAL TRIALS,
Then it will become again visible in the evening and might attain very great brilliancy,''
It will pass between the earth and the sun on May 18,
2.-Winnecke's Comet-Its south-declina- tics—20", according to the report in "Nature," continued to increase from the month of Octo ber and probably prevented it from being observed in our regions,
The astronomical reviews for January baya confirmed this forecast.
The position of the Daniel Comet was, according to M. Ebell's calculation for January 20, 57 33' north declination and 6h. 23m, right
ascension,
whereas the right ascension was but slowly increasing. It was then of the rith magnituda. and its brightness diminishing.
Its declination increased 1* in five days,
4-A ́ fourth, big Comet seen about zugsst
from January 31 to 30, of which the tail was the largest ons observed since 1882, decreased. tapidly in brightness-and-disappeared in the Zodiacal light.
MANILA CARNIVAL.
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A FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
Thare is avery reason to believe that the Caraival ber been a bigger success this jour than the most enthusiastic predicted. At 4. rough estimate the Carnival has not only got- ten itself out of debt, but after paying all bills there will be something like P20,000 in the treasury of the Carnival Association after the closing of the show tonight.
. It is estimated that the receipts of this year's. Carnival will aggregate the sum of P120,000, Last year the Carnival went into debt to the extent of P64,000. Adding to this P10,000, the approximate expenses for this year, there will be a balance of about P45,000.
In speaking of the success of the Carnival on the 14th inst. Director General Mehan said to a Timer mens
“We are much gratified by the showing the
economized in every way that we could. For Carnival has made this year. The secret of (the success of this year's show is that we baya
instance, one of our largest expensas wäuld be the purchase of lumber for the erection of various buildings. Most of this was saved from The T.K.K. finer Tinyo Maru went through last year. We stored it away at that time, when formal speed trials on Tuesday pour the ens kept on hand every thing that would likely trance to Naganaici barbour over the meatured | bestand this year. The result is that wa haya' distance, which the Nagasaki Press believes is bad to buy little of this expensive material." slightly in excess of three miles. The results
ware as follows
rat
Rate of speed per hour.
ti
3rd
4th
5th
Tims. Tun 10m. 185. 10.144 knots.“ and
10m.
30,079 tom. 18. 20.144 zom, 1611.) 20.192 IOM. 218, 29.046
203.
H
6th
"
som, tos, 20 408
· Maio speed-20.167 koots, On Thunday, official trials were run with the following results —
zst zad Iom, oĢI, 20.577' knots,
rom. 158. 20.242 rom: 041
2nd
物
.3nd
20.61I
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n
4th
rom, 275,
20,014
ih
100. OIS,
20.713
6th
10m. 238. 19.985
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Mead speed 20.3565, knots,
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All vinítom who' have been interviewed so, far expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the Carnival, and it is probable that the greater part of them will not only attend the next Carnival themselves, but will belag others with them.
SCIÈNCE AND TROPICAL DISEASE:
The fruitful results of the increased attent tion which has been directed to the study o tropical diseases during recent years hiva been extremely encouraging, and ự wide- spread interest is being aroused by the augouncement that a..congress of the Far- Easter Society of Tropical Médicine is about to be held in Manlia. Medical delegates of Various nationalities will..compare/resulta' of their experience and it is hoped that many As the vessel was built for a speed of 1g | obscure points concerning the terrible diseases keats the result of these trials, made after she prevalent in tropical zones will be elucidated. has been, in service for about 18 months, in la connection with the Congress an exhibi bigbly satisfactory to the Builders (the Mitsution is being arranged, one of the interesting Bisbi Dockyard and Engine Works, Nagasaki) features of which is a collection of medica
ments specially, adapted for use in, tropical" as well as to the owners and officers,
countries. It is significant of the advance of- | scientific pharmacy that old fashioned bulky medicines are now almost entirely superseded
FALSE RUPEES,
It was the practice for the Colonial Secretary in the case of the transfer of licence to an- other person to charge a fee of $1 for such transfer dudes the provisions of Ordinance of *1888 (Official Signatores Fees Ordinance 1888)
There is no provision in the ssid Ordinance companies, but a scheme is now aid to be on f taken by thosa accustomed to undergo, great | sumare addicted to absluthe. How&YAT, ID LARGE CONSIGNMENTS RECEIVED IN INDIA :
foot to form a new company in the island with fatigue. Those Interested on the point should the East the smokers of such second quality
authoriting a fee to be charged for, the sign tures of the Colonial Treasurer and Captain Saperintendent of Police and it is desirable that the amount formarly levied by the Colonial Secretary should now be levied by the Colonial Treasure and Captajn Superintendant of Police respectively.
'This it not a new impost.
FOSTPONED.
•
The following Bills were not proceeded
with:
read the views in Appendix # of Dr. William Moore, late Surgeon-General, Bombay.
Appendix F givas also a recent view of the subject,
2. OPIUM WATER,
FROM CHINA.
| by compact and poriable tabloids.
Second reading of the Bill entitled 'An Or now produces refined, sngar, and the result in of opium is put therain, upon which water Is Pharmacaotical Jourgul, July 14, 1883). If the use of alloy, The India rapes which cattos) danger was first discovered through...
dinancató amend the Code of Civil Frocedure.
Second reading of the Bill entitled An Or, dinance to amend the Tramway Ordinance,
the support of Marquis Matsukate, and, it is
chandoo are the hardest working of any,
FIRE IN KOBE HARBOUR, and it seems to be impassible for any employer bellaved that the prospectus will be issued
The Pioneer says with ralarence to the appear.
'ANOTHER 'COTTON, STRÁMER IN TROUBLE. next month. The particulars of the scheme
of labour to distinguish by any difference la physique, capacity for work, or in behaviour, ance in India of faise ropees coined in Chias are being kept secret, but it is known that the
the smokers from the non-smokers. The the number.detected is so large that it would
Fire broke out at 6 o'clock"yesterday - moin». capital of the company is fixed at Y10,000,000, that the mill is to be established in the vicinity
In India among the Rajputs, infused opium Oplum smoking coolie is probably as reliable seem that some kind of mint must have been log on board the British steamer. Fury (3,785 of Taipeb, that sugár cano is to be collected
workman as any, in the world. Oplum established for their manufacture. The 1991), under charter to the Nippon Vusen Kal- over an extensive tract by utilising the railway bas long been the drink bath of reconciliation smokers, both Asiatic and Europeau, describe rupeas are not of base metal bat of good she, reports the Kobe Herald af 12th Inst. She and river, and that crade as well as refined and of ordinary greeting. On a birthday, when the taste of the smoke as mild and aromatic silver, the enormous profits to be secured arrived here at 9 am, on the 1 och and want sugar is to be produced by the new company,
all the chiefs convane to congratulate their There is no bitterness and this is of considerable by placing them in circulation making it alongside the Tokie Warehousing Co.'s pisz." She had on board from Bombay 27,900 bales of The Ensuiko Sugar Company of Formosa brother, the large cup is brought forth, a lump importance as first pointed out by McCallum unnecessary to run the risk of detection by
which 22,000 bales ware to be landed" -hara, Tha two or three grains of a morphine salt be boiled bears the King-Emperor's head has not been a that, compared with sogar produced in japan made, to which sach helps his neighbour, agt in water, so bitter is the substance, that it can satisfactory ons, for the design can easily be the watch noticing the heat sizing from Wold sald to have proved satisfacory, It is stated poured, and by the aid of a stick, a solution is from Formosan and other crude sugar, For, with a glass, but with the hollow of his band be tasted in the air by a delicate palate at a limitated and thess Chinesa rupees are so wall Ko. 3 Soon after denis smoke was seen coming. mosan refined sugar is Ys per reo kis cheaper. hald to his mouth. The infusion will contain distance of several feet. Yet the amount of struck that it is difficult to detect them as out of one of the ventilators Steam was turned It is expected that all other Formossh sugar all or nearly all of the morphins of the oplum morphine so volatilised is extremely minute, spurious: except by expert. exstination. In on to the batch to extinguish the dames, and/ The Couneli considered the Jury List for igro milla will follow the example of the Eusuko
Therefore the amount of morphine that is taken--weight and foesess they are abovs suspicion the Launcher. Xo-an go of the Kabe: Watar.. company in which case the sugar-refining This is sold in Hongkong under: the name in. by ordinary opiam smokers must be an ; and the ordinary person will accept them, at Police, and Wada Barn, Bliyakoskimu Murman business in Japan Proper will be much affected, of Anti-opium wine. It is recommended as almost negligible quantity. The leaocuous once. We do not know how bankers, Euro-ind Takakama Maru, of the Mizan, Binki -Jepun Chronicit,
ramody or cure for opium smokers, Two Bature of the amoke is further shown by the pean and indisp, are likely to deal, with them, Dockyard, were soon alongilda. We: unders samples consisted of samshu or Chinese wins fact that many European gentlemen have but there certainly some to be a danger of stand, however, that their services:ware, not Ma. John Bibby, who recently died at Che, and contained bliter and favouring substance smoked comparativaly large quantifies at A their being gradually absorbed into genom) | availed of, the captain finding the ship's DWD them in his 93rd year, want through the war | and 99 and 1,5 per cent. of opium, to which sitting, without experiencing any marked sansa, circolation Mensures will doubtless be taken appliances adequate to deal with the outbreak with China of 18,142 as a bluejacket on board last all the effect of auch wines is due. The tlons (McCallum in Journal quoted). Is to discover their place of origin in China and it The fire was auppressed in the afternoon. H. M. B. Modists and took part in no fewer than strength depends entirely on the whim of the order to understand this anbjace fally and way then be possible to get the Faking Gor About 5,000 bales were damaged
le insuredą twenty engagements.
there being no fixed formula, 154000|wirly it is desizable to consider the habit ernment to break up the gang of coiners)
1902,
______IDRY_LIST - 1910. *
with closed doors.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Council was than adjönmed.
fas
FINANCE COMMITTER. - : . meting of the Finance Committee wald: Lubmediately after the masting of
the Colonial Secretary
$. OPIUM WINE..........