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THE COLLAPSE,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1Y13.
POST OFFICE.
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June 14
Skaughai June 30
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front wall naturally tended to pull it outwards and it must come forward. He was not aware of (Continued from page 5).
any warning having been given is the tenants of those houses as to oches in thickness. It was almost the condition of the walls. I entirely separate from the party any such warning had been issued wall. The intention in doing that, from his office he would hars he imagined, was, to strengthen known of it. He had not received the party wall. Practically it had any report or any information to no effect at all: There might have the efcot that the walls were in been some increase in strength, a dangerous condition, nor had but very little. These defects the Public Works Department, would not be noticeable before There had not been any recent in- the collapes of the wall on any sprotion of those houses by the ordinary examination. As for saP.W.D. The two photographi he knew the wall had stood for produced showed the skin wall forty years. The inevitable re attached to the party wall. The sult was that a wall built in that other two photographs showed tanner mast eventually collapse, the roans after the collapse, to-morrow. These houses, before the collapse, His Worship Do you with were occupied as Chinere tone to pal sny questions to meat houses. He believed there Wright; you can put them Saigon was' s small shop at No. 9. The through your foreman ? walls of the adjoining houses-s The Foreman-No. the party walls between 5 and 7 "His Worship:-Wo and 0 and 11-wore of a similar adjourn now, gentlemen, until to character to the wall which col-morrow afternoon at 2-15. lapsed. He had since made far-
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[To-day's hearing is reported
JUNE RAINFALL.
ther examination of the whole of on page.] this block and condemned several other walls. Assuming there was no collapse, in the course of an ordinary examination there would be nothing that would lend the Building Authority to condemn the other walls, other than the party wall which did collapse. In his opinion the collapse of those houses was caused abeo lately by the collapse of that party wall. He was of opinion that the collapse started between the first and second floor.
The rainfall at the Botanic Gardens during Juno amounted to 17.73 inches. The daily fall is shown in the following table:-
Date lat June, 2nd 3rd 11 4th
Inches
.03
This
was only his opinion, from what he saw of the premises. The original cause of the collapse. was certainly the way in which tha wall was built, according to his opinion, but he could not say what was the immediate canse of the collapen. If the wall
"
-5th " 6th
1,04 .06
7th
8th
1.55
9th
1,62
10th
1.60
was about to collapso it was very likely there would be cracks for two or three days, but not neces- sarily. The oracks would tend to show a gradual failure of the wall rather than a sudden shock. The timbers of the floors were gener- ally sound. The same remarke that applied to the roof applied to them. After the collapse he did not see two bricks sticking to gather from the party wall. This would be very unusual in Eng-: land, and preotionlly impossible in a well-built wall and that strengthened his opinion that the
11th
1.27
12th
2.79
13th
.80
14th
29
1.45
15th
34
10th
..39
17th
12
.36
18th
"
..16
19th
..03
20th
12
.21
21th
30
..30
22nd
16
23rd
.28
24th
1.00
25th
1.13
28th
27th
.48
28th
29th
.02
30th
.12
Total 17.73
mortar was bad. On arriving on the scene he examined the adjoin. ing premises to see if there was any likelihood of the party walls of those houses collapsing. He found those walls were defective so lo had **
shoring erected across the street and and also across the gap caused by the collapse. He then got the coolies who turned up later to assist the police and the fire-brigade in clearing the debris and resuing the injured and recovering the dead. He thon had barricades erected to keep the crowda baok
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China Coast Meteorological
Register.
Station.
3rd July, B.,
Wind.
Hour.
Baromator.
Temperature
Humidity.
D'tion.
Weather.
Force...
Wostock 7 a 89,6439 51 8 1 0 Nemuro 630,18-
Hakodate 30.15-
€50.1
986 3
19
10
30.04 29.05-
.1 -
680 6 -
- 0
Nagasaki 29.86
Tokio
Kochi
10
K'shima
29.92
Oshima
29.95
#
Naha
29.93-
29.89
Ishi'jima
SJW 1
ALY
- 30.1 1— — -0
about
Freight
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T. F. Claxton, Director, Owen Duffy,
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H.
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N
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& A. E.
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Bunking
Lam
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Vis Yokohama-Per Vadala, 10th July, 11.
LP. SIGISMUND
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9:0
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about
End of July,
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Temperature, in the shade, in | degrees Fahrenheit.
3 Humidity, in parcentage of saturation, the Humidity of air saturated with moisture being 100, Amazone,
4 Direction of Wind, to two Australien, points.
5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufort Boale,
6 State of Weather, b blue sky, f fog, g gloomy, h hail, 1 light- o detached aloud, d drizzling rain ning, o overesat, p passing showers, q equally, r rain, a snow, t,thunder, v visibility, w dowwet), 0 Rain in inches, tenths and hundredths.
METEOROLOHTUAL,
Previous
BS⚫ p.m.
29.75
86
74
S
8W
Day On Data On Date Barometer 29.72 29.75 Temperature 8483. Humidity 79-84 Wind
SW Direction Force
2 2 Weather
Observatory, 2nd July, 1913, it open air Temperature of the 121 Rain
0.12
T. F. Claxton, Director. TIDE TABLE. - 30th Juno to 6th July, 1918:
High-Water Hongkong
KO WALER
Man
Hopper
8:40 PR
Japan.
a.m.
· MoLean, Matsuyama,
Mrs. 8. Nagaye, Mrs. Henderson, Mr. Phohman,
Mrs
Shima, K. Kinare, Mrs. K-Warren, Capt. Kwan) Mr. & BE
B
Mos.
Zod.
30 m
3 蚯
S STATS
Wady
·
m
.0 23. 19
Korror, Yap, Uliai, Sai-
Mr
Thari
pan, Truk, Ponape, Ku
Bale,
Jaluit,
Naura,
Australian
Malk
Rabaul and Sydney-Per-Cystem, Wrash, Fried or Biswal, Germania 11th July, 4) Find Haddocks, Kppen day.
pm.
ALEXANDRA CAFE,
Will leave for: Japan on
9850 T. 18th July 10820 T. 27th do
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