#No. 8300 ——August 15, 1889.)
Maases Jarding, Matheson & Co. inform us that the 8, Wingang, from Calcutta for thisuport, loft Singapore to-day. Di Doberck, Director of the Observatory givas it as his opinion that the coire of
THE CHINA MAIL.
currents. We had eight European piston was ever voted for the system and it was ford from by the residente of the Peak, alone I do not wish to impute any bad tion may be brought up, and that our letter are not directly responsible to Parliament, Up to and they asked the Government to re- motivae to the President: I am wire that it of 17th July to the Satury Surveyor may us are the political officials. The Tran- fera on board and the full complement of a never approved by the Council crew. The slip had two bridges and I was that time drainage at the Peak had been usedy the ovi But the Governor so his was the result o zeal, but at the same time be produced.
svaal, socording to Sir Hercules may standing on the upper one of these when arranged for by specific agreement between letter to us did it ask us for any he had no power to do it at all. 1. believe. We also request that when this matter come British, but it will be Republican, abo struck. Ws wore about twelve miles the Government and persons who bought opinion on the stem of deinage there are a great many things in he samu in review before the Board, wo may be in and all through the blundering of Colonial of Cue intialand. The chart I was using land there, by which despite wore can there and how to randy the vil simply condition hera, A great deal of currespond- vit à to attend so that our mida of the questillige lininistration. But as regards the d'urlioni utary career of Bic Hercules, I was lost, but I produce copilos of the same structed and drains led into them. With saya cumpel in your capecity as Santary ence to this Board is over sun or heard of tinn way be represented,
We obnet. I
purchased the chart from Mossrs out the sanction of the other parties, the Board) the residents to carry out the views by it, but is disposed of by the President.
Un review is that no notice of any policy will gravitats towards Gladstonim
the typhoon has probably outered the Falconer and Co. before learing Hongkong Board or the Legislative Council, the of the Surveyor Gedoral and Mr. Cooper and The President explained that his action questing state that our reason for ro- cannot bring myself to believe that hin
mainland to the West of Hongkong.'
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme on the Dar- rack Square to-morrow evening (Friday) communcing at 7.30 pm.
March.... In the loaming Winborbottoms.
Lanoors. "The Mikado... Bucali. Vale... Little Sailors...Crowa.. Polka..Fairy laudabies' Dunkler. Quadrillo Lindor'una cierë
„Šioworl.. Gangly Galop...'Narren'
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colony, established an entirely new.system hof drainage, da s matter of fact and as
Etter of clear
law, the Governmont had panat refois to compol them
joined the Alinacraig tive and a half year to right to interfere with his conditions ago. I had this four to sight witot between made with these people when they partion as to how many houses were uncon-an Surveyor General, he was of opinion the time we left floilo and the time the ship chased their lots. If the Government want
bear.
it
We cannot also allow the statement in the notices, that no opportunity was given the Board to inspect, to pass without denial, or that we have done anything contrary to the meaning of the Board's Bye-Laws.
Yours truly.
DANBY & LEIGH,
It was agreed that the papers should be circulated, and Mosers Dauby and Leigh requested to attend at a future testing to
give any explanation necessary.
COOLIE" EMIGRATION FROM HONGKONG.
OPINION IN SINGAPORE.
No attempt was made to work the pumpe Cavernment, on the recommendation of make them couscat with the draine, and in in dealing with the letter had simply benaark reached nk that the drains were het in for was, it net ir Gladstone's polloy, or The ship had settled down before the boat a young gentleman just arrived in the that wa belises the nuisance trill cease. to save slelay. Ac to his power to do so hourder until emo time after they were co-rather his absence of policy, which caused were out,
so much less in Bouth Africa during our reply to that was that they had ne derived it from a taotion of the 12th July, vered in, and then only in the form of an Hugh J. Story,
power to sempel residents to connect and 1888, giving the President the powers order to ruop u thum
disastrous conflict with the Boora; and au axroutive Committee during the lu
which beyant a doubt rendered the ad- craig seid-I hold a vanster's
Mr Edle sakud if there was any informatory of the Board's meetings. Speaking
ministration of the Cape Governor so difficult and mortifying. In reply to my nected, his option boing that there was the drain with which Messrs. Bird and
enquiry whether the Portuguese were not struck the reef. The wonthes was fine on Fed to invent a new system of drainage at only one or two..
Palmer wished to connect was not a sait Neither the Chairman for the Secretary able one. Me Cooper was present, and if the morning of the 14th. The course was the Peak which they thought necessary, it
the Board wanted further information, altered to S.W. about 6.30 am, and about would have been only right and proper that could give any information on this point.
aw the bottom right underneath they should have borne may expente 7.30
is
The Acting Registrar General pointa doubtless he would be able to give it them where I was standing on the bridge. The would entail. As a matter of fact I believe out that the only clause ondor the Ordin-
Dr Ho Kai-Fou have not given any Captain, who slau ant it, telegraphed below a great many people do drain into these ance which plied in this case was Section reason why the connection should not be THE effects of the proslinity of a typhoon to go astern. A few minutes afterwards main drains and the system has turned out 52, and it nid down as one of the conditions permitted.
we found six feat of water in the hold. A to be a nuisance. It was urged that it of their interference that the building shall were felt in the colony_with_considerable little before that the Captain had remarked world be when the drains were being laid be without sufficient drains. ffe did not forco, last night. After sunset. the wind, to me that we were well clear of the reef down, but Mr Cooper know better than any soe at they had any power to compel the which had been pretty high all day, Lose to shown on the chart, it being on ont post one else and the deata woro put down in Peak residents to connect with any publie spite of every one. Sometiring of the same drains, and if they had no power they could a gale. After midnight raiu fell heavily Walter W-Adam, chief engineer, mid-art has been done at Kowloun, Some take no stops.
Ho Kai noved the adjourngunt of and continued with but little intermission I have been in the ship since she was thing of the same sort has been trist in anfil eight o'clock this morning. It was estimiste fairly well by the unrober of re- Thor a vory ill-tempered sud a very ill
launched, about seven years ago. I could Victoria; it has not been carried out yet, the discussion, til the next meeting.
The President thought they should feared that a good deal of damage must relations what speed she was going. I advised letter in forwarded to the Predoblain & legal opinion an
a to what power the have boob done to property by the wind produce my a gino-room lug. Ai non on residents and they are told that is Board had.
Mr Francia-That means referring it and min, but this fortunately does not sp-
the 13th she was going from 7 to 8 knots. Excellency is advised of auch-and-soch
3. The Government is already advis pear to have been the case, a few instancos hore was no break in the speed up till thing, and such-and-such things are back to the Government What is the good
half-part soven next morning. I was in my stated as facts. As members of the of that? of slight damage only being reported. cabin when the skip struck I went dowu Sanitary Board we ate then requcated fed that we have the pqwor
The engines were to look into the matter and so what
Tha President-Two below immediately.
legal Among these is the collapse of the roof of stopped. There was no water cunting into enn be done. Our Secretary writes on this Board have expressed, an apposits Crosby's store, one of the oldest buildings the engine-roum at that time. I was the Colonial Secretary for infrination and upinion, I know Bat when lawyers differ in the colony, which occurred last night.
enlled on deck and went to assist in getting he is told that members of the Board who is to decide 7
Mr Francia-Here are three legal the boats out. The ballast pomp was put can go to the Surveyor General's often and on to the farebold by the second engineer's look at the plans there, and they can ask members of this Board who have no atradow. THE fact that Datch plantora have been re-order till the water got into the engine the Acting-Surveyer-General, who happens of a doubt on the matter. I uppdes the
to be suring large tracts of land in British North room and put out the brea. The second to one of the Board's inferior officers, matter is going to be referred to the Acting Borneo has generally been taken, and rightly engineer took obarge of the engine.com for any information. I put it to the Board Attorney General, whose opinion is to over- so we think, as a testimony to the suitable when I went on deck. The pump was on and the publis whether that was a proper ride every one's.
fur about a quarter of an hour. The answer to give to this Buard. The Board
20% of its governos, hot for af
its sail, or both, for commercial purposes. When we hear, however, that London capitalists are turning the tables on the Dutch planters, and throwing capital into Dutch Borneo, the offect of the news somewhat puzzling. From the reports mad by Mr W. MacGregor Smith (who is in Hongkong at present and is well known here), it would seem that the western por tion of Dutch Borneo is a perfect El Dorado, and that its olimato, and its minom! and other resources, are far more calculated to
hour..
ballast pump could throw 50 tem. an looked down about a quarter of hour after the ship struck and saw that the engine-room was full of water. If all the pumps had been kept going they could not have kept the water down.
farid Anderson, escond engineer, asid-1 was not on watch when the ship struck but
went below immediately afterwards had not felt hor strike. I was below about three minutes after she struck. The engines were stopped when I I got down. There was no water in the engine room thou. I want an deck to pat on the don. key pump. The pump was kept going about ten minutes. I don't think if the
would have kept down the water.
After deliberation the "Court gave the following judgment:
to
know what the
members of
The President-As an officini member I
sayyet but have respect for the opinion the legal advisor of the Government.
of
aby
aoting is concert with the Boers of the Transvaal in teferonce, to the seizure of Dulagoa Kay Railway, and that the latter wore influquoed equally with the former by intense dislike of England and its free in stitutions, I was assured that whatever might be thought of the want of bonaty of the Portuguese, ho (Sie Herealsa), believed they had acted quits within their rights while, as regards the Boers, they had no dislike for the English nation-only for the English Colonial Office.
did not He believe that any large and powerful cons munity which had once enjoyed the fruits
sible authorities would willingly pos
the thonsolres in subjection to any such authority. To that extent he, if not a Home Haler at heart, believes that Hume
South African Confederacy I am not a le Whether Siz Hercules believed in a future Rule will largely prevail to South Africa,
to say, as that point did not form part of our conversation; but it is well to remember that the Orange Free States and the Transvent together forms territory fully as large as all the Capo colonien united.
ib
The President-As Surveyor-General, am not called upon to give my ressouă. glee any ret the Government. Mr Cooper is presont and can give you any informațion.
Me Francia-We hra told that the Sanitary Surveyor Fatuses his permission report the Singapore Free Press of freedom from the dictation of irrespon
Coinmenting on our Harbour Master's because the Surveyor General will not Cuneidering that Singapore is a terminus allow it, and then the Burveyor General as well as an entrepot fur by far the larger refuses to give his reissue for not permit prop rtion of the stream of immigration entirely. ing it. It is stultifying the Board anally setting out from the cast ports of
The President If you wish for
China, the remarks mede on the subject of ewigration: further information, you can apply to the Attendant st Hongkong deserve to be, aza
in the 18% sa report of the Moster Government, and have not the slightest mined with attention doubt your applovim will be entertained. That is the proșier-etares to adopt. If you demand of me as Sveyor General, as of a it. As Burveyor General I bave ushing Fight, certain information; refuse to give to do with the Baarit.
Mr. Francis-I tag to move that the Sanitary Surveyer by instructed to approve or disapprove of plus submitted to hi solely in sanitary rounds. Mr Humphreys tecided.
The remarkable
AL
ROOTT'S EMULSION OF PURE UD LIVER
se of this. a. China, which came up at Singapers a fax months age had, the effect of bringing prominently to public notice which coolie anigratim was manged the salut, or want of Bystem, under
Hanghong. That a shipful of onelie passen gers should arsato soothing like a tiny and Doerse the captain and ofl. cere to take the vessel into Singapore, the Ou wa HYPOFTOSPRITES is the must alleged destination of the passengers, while valuable rainedy for Consumption, Scrofalu, the ship had cloured at Bough for whian General Debility, fasting Dresses of Chil
Bougkong, is an drets, Bronchitis that incident not to be lightly looked at. It has ever been produced. It is very palat The President-Really, Mr Francis. I
hetokoned soinething radically wrong in able; it is very fattening and strengthening. must call you to order. The rule of debate the system prosailing at the pors of em- It will base at once the most violent cough
barkation, the existence of some
the brangis-Ishould like to ark whether
has been withdrawn and the plan now approved.
I called attention to appears to be more ful and unscrupulous organizşúion waszer- and will give both, comfort and strength
honoured in the breach. than in the obser
E.
Mr Francis- We are toally in Committee the whole time.
make Le che land of the future than the injection pump had been put on also it meat that thece, complaints are not now. would be in no better position at the next detail at all; it is a question of principle.tling the Protectorate to proceed. Sub-
Now Osylon is likely to bo, Me MacGregor Smith represents à London syndicats, and if his reports of diamond-fields, gold.
gold-finding,
The President pointed out that the Board meeting nulers they got some information in the meantime.
The Vice-President said he intended
a motion to that effect...
Grekrces for labour and tobacco-grow. We find that the British 8.8. Afinaciang, of paints are ihen suut in by the residents, woving Ki's motion was then put and Board both members sud officials should be work, and there was such a neglect of the
ing in the provinces around Pontianak, are over verified or followed up according to that gentleman's expectations, then Wes- tern (Dutch) Borneo has undoubtedly a very great future before it. He states that concassions of largo tracts of that country have been given by the Sultans, on the most favourable terms and sanctioned by the Dutch authorities, for the exclusive exercise of the usual mining and planting rights, and that the pros- pecta are more bright than anyone sould have ever looked for. Excepting a certain number of concessions granted to Arms in Singapore, most of these rights; have been, scoured by London merchants, and the success already, attained justifies the belief that Bornas diamonds and Barneo gold, as well
Bornea Labucco, will soon Kore themselves old Itapema. make
important factors in the markets of the
little remarkable that the apathy of the Dutch themselves, and their somewhat exclusive attitude until recently, should have lad
to
sa
the exploitation and settlement of British North Borneo, and the attraction hither of many of their own planters; and that this apathy and exclusiveness should now be followed by the welcome which the Dutch are now giving to British murobante in the western provinces of their East Indian possessions. Possibly 'the North- Borneana may have some light to throw upou this peculiar bit of historical give and take.” “In the meantime it is sufficient for us to note the fact, and do with the remark that the profitable use of English capital has always done good to the country in which it is invested.
THE LOSS OF THE ALTNACRAIG. MABINE COURT OF INQUIRY.
A Marine Court was bell at the Earbour, Ofice today to inquire into the circum- stances contested with the loss of the Bri- tish as Alinacraży of Aberdeen, efficial number 84,361. The Court consisted of the following:-Commander R. Murray Rumsey, R. N., Stipendiary Magistrate; Nav.-Léont. W. McFarlane, R.N., H.M.S. Fictor Emanuel; Capt. Scotland, B., Ghase; Capt. Boutillier, as. Benarty.
Capt. Hayam, master of the Alinacrely, said-I have been master of the Alinacraig for seven years. We sailed from Loile for Delaware on the 12th ult. with a full cargo of sugar. On the night of the 18th I was un deck all night, and about 7 30 am. on tho morning of the 14th without any previous indication of
of ity I saw the bottom on look. over the ship's side.. The ubiof
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in the interests of the Chinose brokers and others concerned in the audio trattle. The enquiry into this vase by the Protecturate The President-At any time you can
authorities here came to a futile cluse, for the reason that the alleged irregularities more to u Jute Committee. In fact I
and misrepresentations which coustitated think it would be far better if we had d always a small Committee to settle these the grievance of the kidnapped
uccurred at Hongkong, and coordin matters of detail.
Mr Francis-It is not question of
the case had to be referred thither, there being therefore no jurisdiction here on. On the motion of Dr Ho Kai, the Board then went inte
inte-Committes.
eequest investigation at Hongkong did The President said, he considered Mr however put it beyond doubt that thinge Francis motion unnecessary. As a Sanitary were managed so luxly in coolis embarkation actuated by aan.tary principles. He had existing regulations connected with the iasne of coulis tickets, that there was abundant no reason to suspect that any officer was not so guided, and therefore, although the for accepting us trus the assertions motion was harmless one, he did not
made by native passengers of the s. a. China as to the mode in which they declared they intend to vots on it at all.
The motion was then put and carried, the had been deceived. It is a little curious. Vice-President being the only one voting that a case of sucli exceptional peculiarity against it.
as that of thea & China, concerning which this Colony and Hongkong, abould not important correspondence passed betweon have had at least a itself in Capt. Rumsay's report. It has,
a special paragraph approved in the first plan was sufficient.
Mr Francis-But there can be no quas the contrary, not even the barcat men- a greater fall would be better for be construed into an inference that the There is nothing more, which may. keeping the drain clean?.
Mr Cooper-For that
ong Master-Attendant may have had Hongkong purpose zes, bute Chint case in his mind, that there are other things to be considered.
the open- Mr Ede-Since this letter was written ing sentence of one of his En
Emigration' para- which rans in these general terms second set of plane?
virtues of these popular romsdies in their to the sufferer. It pussesses the combined fullest form. Any Chernist can suppply it-Waison & Co. (Limited), agenta: În Hongkong and China.
notations LONOKONG, August 15, PIUM-Now Patna, cash....... 587
Old
saab, New Boneos,
oush, 593 CRS,
560
*
New Malya, caab,... Allowance, Fadin...£4/10/
Old Malwa, cash,... €0U/610 Allowance, Taels... 48/80 Persian, Oily, cash. 620/540 Allowance, Taola... 16/48 Parafai, Papor tied 540/580 Allowance. Tuele....mil/48.
Exchange
HONGKONG, August 15.
In London-
20 asked by the Governor to compel people to provide meses for a public system of
Mr. Francis
is should have thought my drainage. We do not know systern is. We have never had any inform opinion alone was as good as his.
tion about it. We have never been com
The President-I have a great respect for municated with in my way or seen any your opinion ales, Mr. Francis.
The Vice-President agreed with the plans. And I say it is an impertinence to ask members of this Beard, constituted as it in opinion expressed by Mr. Humphreys of elected as well as appointed members of This point had been overlooked for many unofficial as well na offeint nombers, to gontus and it would be dierepectful at the to the Surveyor Gonerul one by one. and present moment to rush forward into nelien. aak for information which should be given He thought they had better wait until the the Board in its corporate capacity. Governor had received the deputation, But now the Government says that nothing and for that reason he seconded the motion has been done by the Board. I suppose is of Dr. Eo Kai. is known in the Surveyor General's Depart Nothing has been done by the Surveyor Goueral's Department, by the Board, or by anyone else for the last six arnths. Com
and the Governor states that the Board ra which William Buyers (whose certificate fuses to act. I submit if the Board had carried. of enmpetency, a mester in numbered
Vice-Presidert proposed that the 05,437) was laster, left Iloilo on 12thered the Governor's letter and stated July 1889 on a voyage to Delaware, with that they declined to say or do anything in Sanitary Surveyor, bofore the next meet- the matter for want of the necessary infor. ing, report what honor at the Poak:cute full cargo of sugar, sight, passengers mation from the Government, which the within Section 62 of Ordinance 24 of 1889. and a full complament of a crew. That all went well until the morning of the have been perfectly justified in doing was carried,
Government refused to give, they would Mr. Francis seconded, and the motion 14th, when, at 7-25 a.m., she struck on a And now it is stated officially and pablished reef, sustaining we great damage that she to the world that the Sanitary Board refuses shortly filled with water and had to be to act and will do
if any comunica We are of opinion that safe and proper by him during the whole of the interval tion from the Government bes been received
Hongkong, 2nd Aug, 1889, courada were steared until the time of
Re Drains M. Lote 20 and 21. the cross bearing being taken at 6.30 since the request was made for information,
the Board. by_the am, on the 14th, and that the curse
DEAR SIR-On the 1st instant wo mont The Secretary-I have received no com· subsequently eet world have been & prcmunication.
au amended plan of the share to the Secre- par one supposing the position given by
iary of your Board for approval, which was Mr Francia-No, the Government itself returned to u strongly of opinion that this position had forgotton it. The Board was perfect car no reason why we should not adhere to could not pass it and that he wha lot b. reliable one.
Mr Cooper-No, not that I know of. The bearingsly justified in replying to the Government, the original plan, which stewed the drainage
Chinese Emigrationhas lately received touch were takes in a rough and audya Mr Ede suggested, that all the being laken into the sewer in the Queen's
case that we must ascribe this salutary in-
It will not be disputed that it attention." manger, without either azimuth ring, houses except one or two are connected Hond.
to the occurrence of the China kidnapping style piu or: cómpeas corrector.
The with the drains, adding further that the difference between the bourings was Board had no power to compol these
If the drains are laid in this manner we
crease of attention. A reference to tha only three points Meid they were houses to connect,
can only get a total fall of about 3 feet, in
emigration statistics of the Port of Hong- laid off on a chart of comparatively existence at the time this new system was flat s
If they were not in length of 500 Feot, which is we think too small scale, all of which combined was introduced, they
Mr Cooper-If I had approved the plank kang proves that the increasing importance gradient.
At the time wo sent tins they would have ga ou constructing a
of this external population movement just
¿justif havo au condusive towards error and supposing
agreement plan ja wa were not aware that there was a drain whiel. I know would not pass thefes all the care that can be bestowed upon the courses and distances to have been cesspits, and if they
the Government to drain into sower on both the cast and west sides of the Surveyor General,
We and that the aggregate enigration accurately given and there is no evid
is exist ground into which wacould carry our drains
Mr Francis As Sanitary Surveyor to through Hongkong in 1888 amounts to no to load the Court to a contrary opi-ence then we have no power whatever to
this Board nion-the error brought about by such sumpol them to alter their draing till the and go a fall of 7 feet, and which wo now
wish to drain into.
have you anything to do with less than 96,00, that for the preceding the Surreyor
General 1
your baing 82,000. This Colony, with its combination of less than one pamt in Section 52 says, If any building be with- got it to a defective and insanitary condition.
dependent States, has absorbed nearly esch would place the ship ou the report-
referred to him
*3,000 of that omigration, againat nearly taken as Mrests Falconer de Co.'", Premice, you od Marabout Shoal, at the line of striking. of intent dra, and if a public sewer sufficient size be within 100 feet of the however, is the evidouce premises or ontermont boundaries of the Againstt of Kona Komayau uns on
abandoned, in Lat. 0 N., Lang, 118.20 would ask the Secret the matter. I
E.
ARCHITECTS COMPTAIN OF OBSTRUCTION,
Mr Cooper was. then invited to take seat at the Board, and in reply to Mr Ede The Secretary read the following corres said the fall of 3ft. Oin. in 500 yards pondence: To the Sanitary Board.
tion
that
tian.
there bearings to be correct'; but we are has slept on it and I am afraid the Roard saying that by the artery Surveyor, has permission been given to adopt there subject, of atnoes connected with |
once
that the
were
Survaper, on the subject to-day, and he We have seen Mr Cooper, the Sanitary insiste on the drain being laid in the msh ner frat proposed.
We are not aware that there is any law to if such public sewa be on a lower level, it manner of disposing of the drainage, bitt lot on which such building is situated, and prevent as altering our minds us to the shall be lawful for the Board to regnite are prepared to do it in the way insisted the owner of much building to connect upon by your Surveyor, provided you will with such publie sewer by means of a pre- take the responsibility and bear the expense drain. The Board can only act if the if they get choked up, or become a nuisance existing system of
the port bow of the vessel Burio. W., and this could not have been the case if the shoal is in the position marked in the chart and the vessel struck it. The case is so circumstadlial, and thereboing
no written evidence (the loga having been drains draivage lo stated to which we are convinced will constantly be lost), we are not prepared to may that the existing is insuficient. Can the and have to be opened up and cleaned out, master has beenguilty of not navigating his be insuficient if they are drained into ceas. the case if they are laid to such a fat ship
with suficient and came
acamenliku care;
according to pits and we do not therefore dol with This
hare thus no power to interfere, and even mend to him having more care for the would be unreasonable to interfere con-
if we had the
power it futare in dealing with cross bearings.
sidering the nature of the agreement
ent with
certificate. We would, however, r-com-Government wreement with the gradent. Yours faithfully,
tarp grounds, did you refuse to pare the Mr Freucin-Why, if it was not ou sani. pisua
Mr Cooper-To save trouble.
Mr Francis You are not paid for that
Mr
in this matter?
TH
18
| 63,000 in the foregoing year,” Wa cannot therefore be indifferent to the mode in Mr Cooper -Not officially, Me Francis-You had better not (the that employera nad employed alike are which the migration is managed, seeing rest of
of the
remark was inaudible at the affected directly by the obligations incurr ruporters' table.)
ed in the forwarding of the coolies from The President do not think this is a
China to the Straits. proper place, Mr Francis, for you to threaten officers of the Board. They are servants of the members as a crporata | THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA. body, and therefore n private individual oxpress his opinion of
BIB HERCULES ROBINSON: INTERVIEWED. member has the right to thecalen tłem er
The London correspondent of the Coylon
them.
Mr Francis-Thon how is su opiulon to Times, writing on 12th July, gives the fol lowing interrating interview with Sir Her be expecting Registrar GeneralBy
The
BIRD AND PALMER Submitted to the President. Plans were formal comphunt to the Pres dent. · submitted on the 30th January, 1889, and Mr Francia-The President has no power;
The rash of water into the ship efter strik: the residents st the Peak. If the Govers a far as I know approved. Another plan he
ing appears to have been so great that no mont want the drains connected, it is only
effort to keep her afloat would have been fair that they bear the expense theme was submitted on the 1st iust., and it is to
of appear to have conducted themselves
bees maintained.
Any avail. The officers and crow
properly and proper discipline to have
THE BANITARY BOARD.
AT JOGGERHEADS WITH THE
ON. PEAK BRAINAGE. "
14 Lowton,
July 12th.More than one I paper has affirmed that your former simply the mouthpiece of the Board.Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, is about Alter come further discussion Mr Francis to content a vacant seat in the flouse on The President said that unfortunately he latter refers,
the stop taken in regard to this that this mored that the Sanitary Surveyor bu in Gladstonists lines. I have the best possible when this an not in the Colony
his rabjeci was brought forward and ho
there. fore in a position to explain the many points raised by Mr Francis, but he had beped that some official member, who was
of
Do was not
As
Secretary
**
strusted to approve of the second set of plans if there were no sanitary objectious to them.
Dr. Ho Kai seconded,
Mr Ede said the Bad was in the diffi-
with that.
reasons for declaring that this assertion is
interesting not true. I had a
a very
Hiver sation with His Excellency quite recently. and be it remarked that he is still dover
resignation nor of the Cape on leave, his
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Temperature
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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
AT&P.M. TO-DAY."
Barometer.
Damp Bulb
Temperatura
Direction of Wind
Force
Weather
Rainfall
23,60
Hongkong Observatory, August 15, 1889.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
August 14, 4S Š PM,
Karometerred
Temperature.
Wl'ostock, 29.77 74
About five minutes afterwards we founding that His Excellency wanted at clusively that the Board should have you will lay our letter, to the Saptar that Mengra Bird and Palmer, bo informed John Lupe punessy, as well as with the Amoy 23.688
B to the
Wind.
HALL SUM
Hongkong, 3rd August, 1869. Gentlemen, In reply to your letter of yesterday addreraud to the Sanitary Board, I am directed by the President to inform a member of the Board at the time, might red that the reason why the Sanitary Sur cult position of traving to deal with house being accepted only an from August 1st GOVERNMENT bave been able to give some explanation of plan was because bakes that the proposed beyond their coguisar.se. He would vote Kurds entering Parlament he had not de veyor declined to approve of your revised drains while the public drains were entirely nex-and I gathered from him that at re- the course adopted by the Governor. He
it The following in the remainder of the did not think that was the place to disouse connection with the public sewer would not for de motion mainly for the anke of bring- oided on any such step, but this I talre
the action
meant simply that until the date when the be sanctioned by him in his capacity asing officer was alm on deck at that time disenssion at the Sanitary Board, of which the latter written by the Colonial Seratayment.-I have e
the Government.
the question to a decision. Surveyor to the Public Works Depart Mr Humphreys also supported the mo- retirement and his pension actually com
tion. Meas Bird and Palmer had not been mence he would not suake
A was standing on the upper bridge at the we gave but a brief summary Inet sight. and the
Mr Francis brought, as he charge
any sign. time. The telexraph was rung to order the The report begins after the correspondence understood, of its being impertinent, to
H. MCCALLUR, informed why their fest drain should not regards his politics, however, I was assured engines to go full speed antern. I rang the with the Government on the subject of Colonial Secretary to deal withi
should certainly leave that matter to the Mesare. Bird and Palmer.
Secretary. be adopted instead of the 3.0 drain by him that although he had hitherto been
could ne telegraph myself. Before anything could be Peak drainage had been reed ;---
be De might
plan weeply said he refused because the a staunch Conservative, he done the vessel struck. I ordered the
think beat As to the legal technicalities
Any party represented by the pre rokio 29.89 plans Hongkong 6th August, 1889-
would not be sanctioned by the Sur work
to signify pumps to be sounded. We found there Mr Edo-I do not read the letter from he must say he did not feel suficient H. MoCallus Eag
reyor General. They had nothing to do sent Government. I take this to were six feet of water in the forehold. His Excellency of the 20th April as reau-ly well acquainted with the Ordinances
deep dissatisfaction with the treatment he Nagasaki, of the Sanitary Bourd to offer an opinion, but it showed con- DEAE SIE.We shall be much obliged if
The Frezident moved as an
as an amendment received in regard to the suspension of Sir Shanghai 29.72 87 14 feet. I entered the boats out, and a pression of opinion from us ter the passagers and crow had left and system of drainage, which is under the con- the assistance of legal opinion deal Board before them at the next meeting as
that the Board cannot asuction the alters. Colonial Office faltering and paltering in Hongkong 23.49
aiphong. 29.61.95 only the boatswain and myself remained Itrol of the Public Works Department and with such points when they arose, Bis we requested you to
tion in the plans already_approved by the Cape matters, of which he has had such an sounded round the ship and found from not of the Board. The letter I understand, experience at home has been that almost We saw Mr Comper in his capacity as Sur-Sanitary Surveyor to the Eoned.
abondence. When I alluded to the official Folinao.49.89 78 five lo
No seconder to this amendment conti ha ignoring of his decision in the Mauritius Manila 29.8 85 to fire and a half fathom either after stating that His Excellency is in invariably the clerk to the Board was a vegur to the Board and do not consider
found.
· matters, he said it was the outcome of the
AUGUST 18-Ar ̧101,M side of the reef on which sho lay. The formed that the cause of complaint aroan solicitors. As the matter would double that any of his other mumerous official
The motion was then
feebleness of purpose in the Colonial ad- W'ostook. 29.91 74 100 se 2 ship was then full of water. The apar from the pop-junction of the houses with be dealt with now that the Governor had capacities affect the question in any way. -
put and carried, the President voting against it. deck was below water. I then got into a the main drains, says:
ministration of Lord Salisbury's Govern. Colio..... His Excellency is expremed his desire for a depatation, he
Yours faithfully,
BIRD AND PALMER boat with the boatswair and made for the advised that the duty of compelling this did not think anything would be gained by
The Secretary was instructed to write to meilt. Our conversation-naturally turned Nagasaki.. shore. The other boats had preceded us.
Messrs Bird & Palmer, that the approval to Cape afairs, and in reply to my enquiry Shanghai..29.71 88 91 ss junction reels with the Sanitary Board and pould be pleased if any gentleman would reyor General will no doubt give so prolonging the present discussion, and he Minute by Mr. Humphreys —The Sur
whether the Trazzraal poas stod sny im Amey Ideoided tugoto Port Royalus. On arriving he would be glad to know what
by the Sanitary Board did not involve any there I
steps are
cariction of the connection of the drains portant attractices other than those of old tongkang 28,63 80 87 962 of connec wweaked the Intendant of Marines to being taken for the perforising.. of it.'move as a resolution that a reply be sant to for being unable to appro propused in with the main sewer.
and diamonds, be rophied that it had all the taiphong. gauboat to
tion with this public the wrick. This back to the scene of Every honso, I believe, except gae, which the Governmont, -⠀
capabilities was granted and can connect with the main drain hos been Ms phreys thought that the matter Messrs Bird & Palmer's revised planes DASEY AND LEIGH COMPLAIN
of making an exceedingly Balinan....120.84 804 27 2 I went with them. Owing to the state of connected, trut the smell still exists had been taken out of the lazds of the
prosperous country, for, in addition to its Manila.... Mr FrancisThe question I should like |
ting climate and much fertile a sil for new The Secretary said that he had received products, it contained grout resources in the weather we
we were unable to get to Our reply therefore to the Governor should Board, and proposed that nothing further to put is what right the President has to ship. We remained at Port Royalus be that all the houses are connected except should be done until His Excellency bad communicate on s matter like this went Danby and Leigh and the Sanitary Sur that, as there attractions draw towards it
we ware sont
copper, coal, wool ang tuber. I anggested by the to Manila From tanish so many, stating the number, su ade that received the deputation, 1500 Va
first getting the authority of the Board there we unfortunately through some acuidont this were sent to Hongkong. Oar draught of matter has been delayed
The President said the fact of His Excel- Here is a serious complaint against one ofar. He grupo ed to read the last letter
and circulate the rest of the correspondence. Consutly increasing numbers of British having desided on holding a meeting, the Board's officers, and I submit such a water when we left
Bottlers, the Dutch cloment would eventu- and 23.9.
The following lotter was read —
outnumbered 23.10. The ship
ally be
the
English, and 12th August, 1889 bulkheads, the Colonial Secretary published in the way atops within their jurisdiction saking corespondence as that abould have been laid
bufore the Board. The President bas
thus it would readily merge fato an showed pretty clear where wa
that the reply sug
1. BAROKETAS, Mžnost to 38 degrees Fahreds Dr. EG KA-We
We are asked a certain tain executive powers to carry out by-laws B. McCallum, Beg
Colony, Sir Hercules, however, dos ait, and to the fovel of the ass in inches, jemilia. Ware. There is one reaf ontalde which I gested by Mr. Ede is
is not a sufficient or ade- thing by the Government, and the Peak and execute the wishes of the Fourd, but Secretary, Sanitary Board.
nogtaks this view of knew of. The
The ship was going frum seven
seven custa opa. In the first place this system residents
himself to
DEAR: SL8,In reply to your letter of the tho Transvaal. He asure future of and haudraithe
assured me that 1. TEMPORA TUGM, she shade pau Cagessa. thing. As I understand it, the Bhawor such a communication es
a strong and growing die Fahrenbali. of Colonial Olloe administration 8. Eva, in percentage of saturation, the
of South humidity of sår salurked wi b mOUŠŠEES IN grast
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& long currespondence, butween Messrs.
.1689.
Borg 2.48
The centre of the typhoon has probably eutered the mainland to the West of Hung
W. UOBIECE, troceramendatronemer.
Hongkong Observatory, August 14, 1880.
4. DESTION Or Wind, kowo pounts.
6. Porce of tea, soprag Beunfort
to gut casts when she struck and some of that drainage at the Peak was adopted in the Government to do is has no right to take his with- 6th instant, in which you were good enough there wa ed to tear into the rest. No report was without any communication to the Board residents of the Peak potition the Govern cut Arst consulting its Biard. A plau line to suolone un copies of the notices you soit made to me about water coming loto the without our being in any way consalteri, ment to have the main desinage improved, been rent in, and afterwards, for certain to three of our clients re drains. (sl) of] throughout the Bilder food 100... engine-roots, but I saw it coming in there, although necessarily is involved alterations complaining of certain nuisances that arise resins, another set of plans are ment for ap- whom have forwarded them to us with the The engine room staff was on deck thon in the private drainage which is ander the drainage constructed by the Gov. proval, and the Sanitary
the Africa, and the Surveyor refuses to request that we would reply direc), we underar independent. Government in the The water was at that time over the main within our jurisdoticn.
I think I ernment at the Peak. certain explana sanction them, not from any unitary rea beg to statu that we regret we cannot ae- Tratsynal and Orange River Free States)
·was full of water fore: and, alt. From the is much for the information of the fral and Mr Cooper-that the drains trary to any by-laws, but because in some Board in this matter as final, and under their hands of Gólésial. Ofice Cominiched clouds, & driesling, rain, tog, ¿ gloomifs deck in the fore end. When I left her she may my, and what I sa Baring now fion has been given by the Surveyor Gene- son, pot for the reason that they are con- cipt the opinion of the President of the strongly inclined British, selilers to wash aste time bearings were taken until the ship public as it in for the Board, that to the some houses were not connected with the other capacity he will not be able to asratione suze 20 of the Public Health Ordinance etion, which of course meant though he kali, a lightning, ova strock && course was kept Lam: beat of my belief, after considerable re- maid serge and that if a larger number of them. Mr Cooper is Baillary Surveyor to must ask you to place the matter for re-did not say so in so many words-govern-qually to mine snow, I thzarar, labsact Haded with the conduct of the officers and search, the matter was never even brought houses were connected the nuisance would this Board, and when he refuses to sanction view before the Board, p sów. I did not make any allowance for before the Legislative Council. No money cease. That opinion was respuatrally de. anything it must be on sanitary grounds In doing this we request the whale que perustent effigisle of Dogging Street, who, Bark, la inchas, vonths wat bagdrokko,
mont by irresponsible persons, the new (we
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