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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1894.

Tan Daily Prese quotes the Courrier-d'Hair phong to and fault with a statement of ones based on the Awsir of June 23rd. Th. latter, under the heiding Mines de Ke

a roport of the general meeting of share holders in the Compagnie Frangsien das We have now received the reports counting the Kebas mines, and the racolutions carried at the general musting on let May last, and a make it our duty to publish them ele. Then follow a column and a half of report,

Charbonnages du Touklu.

in which there is no meation of the Com-

pagnis Commerciais et dedustrielle du Tonkin, nur in fact of ang but the Kebas That was our authority, and Company. was quite enouga to go up. The Courrier

terus up with a different version, and

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THE

CHINA MAIL.

Manugerant.-

SUNSHINE AND MICROBES. A HONGKONG KING CANUTE. ed by Mr J. B: Dakin, as representing but we think it right to make provision is ing is surrounded by a high brick wall (part | BAAG.

I beg to report that accompanied by fur

The power of sunshine to destroy mero large number of sharchablers resident in full in one these claims should have to be of this has been blown down, but it is im

amount equiva- medistaly to be rapsired) which completely geon-Captain Westcott, A.,8., I visited organisms has long baon kaown, About (Note.-This tile e copyrighted as

cure for intemperauce,).

England, have been carried into effect as met. In autting aside

the Chinese Bospital established at Lai-chi-sixteen years ago, two Englishmen, Downes guarded by midiera. kok on Saturday, the 7th inat., at about 12 and Blunt, established the remarkable fact Ones upon a time there was a great King, far as has been found practicablo, ard the lent to & per eant. n the capital of the inoistes it from the surrounding country.

expence of the present bao,' saya- A fow duya ago we published: of comoly appearance, wonderfully good-smmint d to 31.336.7 June, 1894. Company, the Directors hero in view the The outrance We were race-ved by the noon, and mada the following obeervs-that if certain liquids espable ::f ondergoing

monthly instead of provability, that occasional years of dis ster

The building is a large, isolated one of painsfaction are exposed to the dirent rays of the sun, they remain perfectly sweet, bearted, and wine in a way; that is, he 81.766.01 in June, 1893, when the business have got to be faced when auch ex principal Doutor and seumpanied by tions:

was under the former management, The periences do come, your Directors will be others, all of whom evinced every desire to went to great deal of trouble to let people rem of the premises in Bengkung havo sow oubled by the maintenant of the Dividend show as everything and expressed them two storeys, divided into zooms of con- while exactly similar liquids kept in the see what a good thing it would have bean (June 1894)benreduced to $572 hua month Equalisation Fund so maintain dividende selves willing to dry-out any sugges venient size for hospital wards, and ad-dark, become tainted; and exbibit, in

without disturbing the Company's general tions we mighs make. The wards on the mirably situated

numerable bacteria under the microscope, in place of $1.000,20 paid in June 1993

To our surprise, we found the general In this way, the lethal action of the Sun's if he could have kept his mouth shut. Thus Now, I think, reading that paragraph with Reserves, which are understood to be more grand four are given up in men. They

are tiled, quite dry and clean, well ventilat sanitary conditions to be good, as we were he sacrificed their esteem for the sake of us the light of previous knowledge might or less of a permanent character.

The business was purely formal,

ed as they open en to the semi cuvered led to believe that this hospital was in the regards this world of micro- same filthy and disgusting condition as the and quite a new aspect given to the healthy organisms, was born for the first time, At an extraordinary meeting afterward, courtyard. pro- teaching a valuable lesson at his own ex-lead sharehold ra to supporo that Mr Dakin

"The hade wore vievated 2 fast above the Glassworks Hospital had boon. It was al inborontocaving which we feel for possis as to reducing expenses of staff alterations wore made on she articles of as pense, and to warn them against the evils of arrived boro with a send new act of folly he made foolish exhibitions of himself. rents, &c. Now, the fact is that the pro-nociation to enable the directors to oil the other love wide, supported on quite the opposite the wards were clean light in our houses and gonaral surround. Now, to further epan his people's eyes, viong Board had arranged for all these re- ordinary general meeting in March or treaties, clean, covered with mutting, and and wall ventilated, and also well lighted inge. Experiments were next made to supplied with a blanket; in face the ususi by windows, and there was nothing ap determine how these results were brought ductions before Mr Die gat hore at all. April instead of in July,

Chinese bed us used at Dr Kerr's Hapital, prouching overcrowding. There was an about, and upon what factors they were de- he made a show of intensa ignorance about The roots of the superfous premises would

Canton, and at the Kennedytown Hos- sbundance of disinfectants of different

In the first place, it was pendent. kinda-Jaye's fluid, ohloride of lime and found that the Sun's motion for or pitals THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG. what concerned his country, and one day, naturally cease when the loners ran out

The upper wards were similarly fur-carbulic acid-which were being freely diminishes with the amount of oxygen pre- discovering a particularly nasty hole, he and no one thou ht of renewing them.

Cases are about as usual to-day; there nished, the large open windows and used. The lease of the two shops in Queen's Then some of his Road expired at the end

sent. This conclusion has recently; been of Agua doce not seem to be very wish prospect of versudah affurding ample ventilation. There wers 60 patients in hospital at the confirmed at the Pasteur Instituto, by M put his foot in it.

and the lease of the godown courtiers at once crted out that it wouldhat at the end of Feb usey. There are the tho Co.ang ever showing a clean bill of large upper ward and found it measured bed, which was clean and comfortabis, and anthrax to annuaias in the presence and We took the dimentions roughly of the time of our visit. Each had a separate Moment, who expound the bacilli of undignifiel for him to withdraw from pon; having sut into the mad; he duetions made in the premises, and so far

dai's statistics of plazo deems to have feat, gisting so ench of the 18 patients it held tended to and quite contented. There those exposed to the Sun in the presench Hopped. A week ago there were 180 pa- 73 sure of for and per 1,100 cubic wers three Chinese doctors and a great of air were killed in two and a half boUUN

foot of air space. Tios compares tavourably many assistants to look after thom. tients under treatmen in the Colony, and with the allowance in hoc'hospitals, partie:

The exercia were romered by moans of those placed in a vacuum were still is

after fifty hours' exposure to sunshine,

The next problem to be attacked was to bo-day there aro 16). Prufsir Kitarate cularly taking into tuleration the rapid closed buckets and the system worked saile-

change of the contained at, owing to free factorily. Thora way total absence

ancertain whether all the solar rays. WHIG stated in his prehwinary trasies (referred entuation. Sauces of chloride of lime any unpleasant smell in the wards.

aqually responsible, or whether the differ to in those columns pesterday) that his in- were placed at the fut of every meond We were shown a large supply of naw

out colored rays produced different effects. voll and giving on xolina iun of a caching vestigations hid i got altown whether the bed, whilst for the patients able to more hospital athing, which car guide informed The problem was most sucosesfully attacke

closer accommodation is provided outside the us was intended for a daily change for the

ed by Dr Geisler, of St. Petersburg, who you think we give Mr Dakin credit for, it is total extermination of the plagas was a

patients.. wards; for shots tatckels are brought in.

found that the rays at the red and had Fatients. The whole number of patients Ia fuo, contrary to our expectations, we

little or no effect on the growth of the Mr Wits--I do not wish to be exptions practical passibility or not but that or or to split araw; by what I wish to point dinary Chinos dwelling were perfect geru-under treatment was 68 vic, men 28, fonad the sanitary condition of this hos-bacilli, while the most powerful deleterious WUERTEIL and children 30. Six patica's badpital to be just as good, in our opinion, as sation was obtained in the ultraviolet, the been sant Canton to-day. Of this that of the Kennedy town Police Barrack effect becoming less and less marked in number about one-third were suffering Hospital; and we fail to see how the passing from this to the red. Experimenta

Hongkong.

The plague patients were conflition, can be a greater source of dan very little potency in comparison with tim setterad promiscuously amongst the others, gor to the Colony than the latter,

San. We regret that we were unable to make Ait semed clean, contented, and well cared for. Foud and madioines were provided. auresives soquainted with arrangements Some wure their own clothes, others gar- for the burial of the dead, as we had wished ments supplied by the hospital,

the rooms. The cessible by launch at low

Meanrs Mary & Co. have coarta as y ex-

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plained that the error was with the Aveni; muat in consistency stop there and pretend Ins I be any knowledge with these redug. Ith agi, for the steady A cronsa in the about 1296 square feet and 20,250 cabic the patients appeared to be fairly well at beenos of elt, with the result that while

So the Kng, following the tione Me Dukio's suggestions had nothing the Kebao Gu, proposed to reconstruct, butxample of Canute (who implicitly belise da de. did not, as the Commercial and Industrial was formed and lett the Kabas Co, money on mortg ge; that in the obly business which the now company has done or is dong, and to, though the enruings of the

his faddish crters, and tried to stop the tide from rising, wad shion when he failed proicated he had only dose it to rebuke them) tried to mainta his aboard attitude and pat down bie fot fardar than evor, and got dusure the woved their Kong wore indignant; and all who loved their custry were afraid; and all wh

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Kuba mines are nominally used to most inturest on mortgage, it an un's to the same thing seemstraction and a divi-vod a jke laughed till they burst dead, paid to the Con reist Uo, shure button off, and there was a boom in the holders, who practically own the Kubao market price af battens. mines and nothing sisə.

Bu tilt the courtiers were nogaviced; A LONDON correspondent writes to the Sia.they got a great number of bilings to go

The Chair-This in tot relovaut, but I do not wish to suppor

Mr Watte underwent we work at the question of p sing the sout

The Chairman-If you say the accounta are ant onrrect you are relevant. But if

irrulevant.

out is that all these ecunomies were compucaorica. The word be applied was remplated before Mr Dakin arrived here.

schrachlich -korrible. He appeared to Mr Fenwick-I think Mr Bay alourly

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gapore Free Press:-After dragging itself the place and applaud; others they go <xplained that all these reductions would i think that among Chinese it would hardly from plague, and less than half came from Formier, if kept in ita presoal good sanitary with the electric light showed that it had partly through one administration and well to fis up a lot of ruficial surroundings on occur.

beautiful sale—') atago propertia

and

the sheep bloated, and the courciers crowed, and the performers wat home marcalling at succeeding with each an ousy and cheap

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summation devoutly to hence.

By the Esmeralda, which arrived to-day, we hear that the Zufire (which should have

Rt the King, seeing that the objec› 1 sarrying it through. That Branch arrived here before) is detained ja quaran- / bag carried va, and we found the arran-

water.

But, perhaps, the most important resalt of these investigations in the discovery that exposure to the solar raye may materially

A. F. PRESTON.

Sarg. Col., S. WESTOORT,

Surg, Uapt., A. M.S. The microba

Hongkong, 8th July, 1894.

destroying them. Mach bygiahlo import. ance attaches to some investigations to this A.M.8.direction made by Dr Palermo, of Naples, which have only recently been published. The microbes.selected for

were experiment Kogh's cholera bacilli These barilli, which almost universally credited with ducing

be possible to attain absolute immunity, Me Witts-That was at a private meet-

not while as to Europeona an opinion caurot into another there appeure now to be say

stat-ment gat he expressed. It will be interesting to obance that the question of the Military reially learnt their parts, and hold dressing, the discussion at which Exaction will be determined some that as hereal. Then when all was ready they made public wheroos this

thesee how Hougkong stands ca 8000 as the I would refer And public. Tite soxt thing I the lines desired by the Culouy. When I got two sheep, and let them to the place, in the report has been given to and went through the performance.

in the alteration in the agreeme... bext dry season ests in--only three months ser a fair store in one of th1⁄2 nf which we to dɔ, owing to the cemetery being inao modify the character of bacteria without last wrote, I stated that the question was lo be again raised in the House of Commons,

This them but for a variety of reasons, all of gogent, this course has not bees adapted Information from a well-informed, though unofficial, source has now come to band laou had not yet struck home, and that i which leads the Straits Government to ex- takes a delicate surgical operatio with poet that the Government will make * substantial concession to the Colony. It is stage to at ease into noma people. de also hoped that the concession will be of a vided to let the ourtiers still have their permanent rather than a temporary charac-way, and let them shove nim into the ter.-The Straite Settlements Associati2 here are asking the Government to allow the vainags of a British Dollar in Bombay. Communication has been entered into with the Colonial Office and the Ex-oulive of the Areas:ation bupe for a favourable answer.

Waining of the robel ontbreak in Pahang, the Singapore Free Preta says:-"Cup

II. L. Talbot, who is now in Hospital, is going on fairly well. Ele is, however, kopt quiel, so that chaudes af fever may be reduced to a minimum One of the slags fired at him grazed along the front of bis belt and shined his revolver pouak, se that Capt. Talbot also made a narrow eecaps of getting a bullet into his body. The wounded Sikhs are understood Lo be doing as well as can be expected. Some Rocoans of the precite way in which Bir Wise received bis death-wound has now

hule worse and wores, for the sake of the terrible example.

tinu at Mariveles, near Manila, owing to the death of the head Breman from plague,

patata are fed at the cauel Chinone meal suara, but those requirin it are supplied with extra umeaia. The rice, eggs, etc. were found good in quality; cooking was and ample for the Lumber Remebis cleanly of patients. No friends were about'; the only non-patient we say was a mober any patient is allowed vnd friend us o

The Permanent Committaa, Sanitary Board, 12th July, 1894,

are aimio cholom in zónu, ara also Fatal

to gainea pigs in about eighteen hours. Dr Palermo placed some of these bacilii în

The following are the statistics of the Ducsing her child. On inquiry we fouDA SIR,-I have the honor to acknowledge the sunshine for various periods of time,

he wished, and I heartily appreciate the alteration and congratulate the Board

imply turned this Company into a of Dakin'e business in London. With re gard to the soc muta; on the face of them the earning power of 1898 remains the same almost as for the last six months of 18:2 The liabilities have increased by sboot $0,000 and the value of the stock of about The trouble is, however, that the svil$17,000, that after lopping off some on-

cumbrances there is the result that the debit | Tas Y Po):- conqueuses fall on his subjects. Mone rime, he stays in his position, with every balance is re-tuced by about $300. Thera sppearance of being perfectly comfortable. If the appearances d become realities, it the stage props' do becoros zenuine ar ticles, if the leopard hanges his spots and tie Ethiopian changes his skin, and the Mongolian his complexion, then it will be time think out for the end of the world and the debut of the Millennium.

DAKIN, CRUICKSBANK & 00., LIMITED.

At the private

Adariasions Dusths

Sent to Canton (8th ba ch)

Discharged

by gunboat Che-In Dadar fretreat.

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and he found that while, when he protected

that Lai-ohi-kok Hospital for the 10th and 11th Buras, but in such as the friend has to the receipt of your letter of the 11th of inst. published in the Chipera Mail (Wa remain within the buspital limita and is July, No. 1251, transmitting reports from them from the Bun, top killed guine only discharged at the same time as the Dra Csatllo and Hartigan and Sorghon- parient,

Colonel Preston and Surgeon-Captain West-pigs in eighteen houts as usust, after they When patients are dying they are ro- colt on the condition, on Saturday, the 7th had been sunned for three and a half to. a nothing to show that the raing pant

moved to a matsbed just off the courtyard, instant, of the Chinens Hospital at Lai-chi-four and a half hours they were per is increasing; and it appears, therefore, that even if things go on at the mme rate

wise provision in a 20 of persons eo vasily kok, informing me that His Excellency the featly harmless, the animals experiencing frightened as the Chinese; they are placed Governor proposes, from this morning, to no evil results whatever from indentation will take rather more than two years

on a wooden platform rounin round the cause patients to be removed to Lai-chi- with them. These cholera bacilli thats

kok upon the

rendered innocuous had not been destroy- which same conditions upon fore the concern is free of this clog of a

24.xhed, which would hold uxteen or twenty

patients ars now being removed to Canton, ed, nor bad their total number sakabed debit balanco, and if for any reas in sales or

peranus. refire abould droress this time wood be

We saw two auch during our visit,

and requesting the co-operation of the any diminution, by the action of the ana shice during this short time, but their vi. out that urologged indefinitely.

The following are the lateat ofcial re-

Fernel-The staff consists of six doc. Permanent Committee in carrying

rulence or discure-producing power had meeting hold on 21st August, 1893, Me

turne, for the twenty-four hours up to noon ture, 42 servants, 17 prave diggers, 3 cufti. policy. if it had

been The Permanent Committee are very glad ther important discovery was inade that

destroyed. More than this, the fur Page made propues which

nere, soldiers, etc. been carried into effect, would have to-day-

Sentry. The bucket system is duly to find from the perusal of theus reports the guinea-pigs which had survived the brought dut the ensuit of the yuar'a

carried our. No urinal er intrive is, as far that the result of their repeated reps incaulation with those in istod cholers to the good

tations and of His Excelloney's-communica Working as bon: $12,100

That!

ADY instand of $15.00 to the bad. scheme is simple, ceily sarried out, and

cat something under $200, It Adminis would at once raise the market value of the Deaths

At present there is no We are simply A.iding downhill; our shares are selling at

The annual meeting of sharehniders in Dakin, Cruiskubank and Co., Limited, was held in the Hongkong Hotel this afternoon..

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reached as Mr Wise, who was with the Mr R. Ja Dentys, Chairman, prasided.hares, and place the business on a better Dibere...

-1 or $1.50, and unless anmathing is seon Saa Francisco, writes as follows to Mr W. Inne to wipe of this debit balance we will. Hunt, V.B. Consul, regrding the consume going downhil

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froat of the advance, wan kneeling on his There were a'su present: Messrs Gon. Fentuating all round. right knee and just in the act of ring hiswick (Director), 7. S. Joy (umnager), R. Eight in the Company rifle, when a ballet from the weapon of pas of the Selugor Sikhs immediately behind, Goboay, A. G. Gurden, F. W. Watts,

along the high boot on ir Wines Bain, M. B. Pulishwallah, O. M. Huzario, grazad right leg and entered the bollow of the R. E. Humphreys, G. T. Rivora, F. Col. koeo-joint, Bovering the main artery. Ou falling over dr Wise was hit when or the lins, and Tong Achat.

The Chairmat anii-The Repurt of the ground by the sings from the rebel Kabe tbat orased the other wounds. To Grang Directors and aratem-nt of Yusuf, who was close by, asked Mr Wies have been in your bands he knew how he got hit that way and who, and I sel that we

accounte for got

tak. tha

it was that did it. He replied in Malay - {ng reaů. We hope the amount of profi.

it

I know: it was not the enemy, but ehown for the elva months will b Was done by one of our own courates. considered satisfactory. As you now the prent Directors Duly came intoffice dur- apormons number of ing the last three months of the year precií.

CONSIDERING the

Mr Fenwick In justics to Mr Jog i Plagne: hink I should give an explanation in corned to the profits of inat year.—Mr Fenwick proceded to quote details to show how values of stock and bitings, &c., nad

been written down,

Visitors are only admitted for ime. We saw Buna

short

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BONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

SHORT RANOM GUP. There were only seven competitors sa

telegrsue that are daily dospatched, the caliy, susi, there fore, they have no credit to try Me F Watta, Messrs F.uwick (whof barning scraps of leather which had care prepared to all furaasen Als Excellency's attention to certain mat- wou for the third time by Mr G. C. Hay-

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bacilli had acquired immanity from the longth of time without being emptied and tions with the Viveroy at Caston has been disesse, that is to say, they were protected cleaned; they were in good condition when to produce sa spssdy and so vast an ica-

This M inspected by us. The buckets are emptied, provement in the state of affairs at Lai. from contracting it afterward. into the sea at high tide.

i kok. They have, however, very grave proved eight days later, when these parti- onlar guures pigs were inccalated with There is a special latrine on the jetty for doubts whether any permanent improve.

solves quite gaaffected by dower which to the use of servants. Lime seems to be meat has been or will be effected, and they viralent cholera bacili, and showed them. Dr A. McNail, CA Van Nem Avonus,bed freely. The doors and walle were hope that, as the only possible means of ordinary guinea-pige proved rapidly fatal,

ensuring the continuance of the state of

are as yet only on the threshold of this affairs found to exist on Saturday last, His moes-intersting branch of bacteriological clean.

Patients are ouly Excellency will be so good as to obtain for kept in hspital til they are it to be re- them fres permission from the Chinees research; but the results which have been Jure 13, 184. mored to Danton; this, we understand, is Authorities to make daily visits, if need already obtained open up the possibilities Si-Pardon the liberly i take mad-done to save hospital expenses.

bo, to Li-chi-kol Hospital and cemetery.f discoveries of vital importance in by-

Igienic scienco.—-Nineteenth Century, The water i g from the upper part of They have further to request that they zasy dressing you. My murive us the saving f human lifa. The papers state that the the stream already mentioned and is the be furnished with daily lists of the names payne is now raging in your oily. I have

A channel draining the kitchen sink was tories who may find their way into the After some further discussion the report learned that in the gr at pa ue in Lurdue se supples the neighbouring village, and addresses of patients from British terri- in 1686, it was observed that in the shoo.in a vary dirty con ati n. The Duraotor Hospital with a view to the cleansing and and acerunts were, on the in tin of the makers' quarter there were no car af the penused to have to remedied.

dainfection of bousos within our jurisdic Chairman, accunded by Mr J. Andrew,

disease.

Un investigation, it wB MORE. There is a large room full of Chinese tion. adopted and passed animously.

The Permanent Committee desire to call Saturday, the 7th inat,, and the Cup was On the muting of the Chairman, ereonded tained that the tremniy mujoyed by the droge, and in the pharmacy where

abomakers was a tributable to the castela meing

ters disclosed in the reporte sent them wurd, who has improved very much in his vight of which were in active use

bich may well be made the subject of wreed to kafice for six months) canulated on he pine 6. Permir during our 12. From what we saw we

Andrew. T Ꭺ. Bau were elected Directors.

suggest that loather, har, borne and the are convinced that the patients are supplied further representations to Canton, and the shooting. The following are the three beat

important is

is the by ned and the oronal then-from acute medicine,

fd of the slaughterhouses should be with a nicenes of clothing, food, and fires and by far the most

200 300 Beep To- The Hospital could certainly extraordinary statement that only about in the Hospital

yds, pla. points. tal of the patients in the ed about as its power of absorbing fold accommodate 100 patients were at the

9-60 Ruses is great. The combustion should not availabl space properly utilized,

plague at all and Mr G. O. Hayward... 2999 were suffering from

21 21 14-50 be complete but should be more in the Orrel.The cemetery is situated on. that these were scattered promiscuous. Mr Stewart......

24 il-54 nature af smouldering so that the odors high ground in a vice about three y among the other patients. Another Mr W. Duncan...... 30

of

Karious very emisted should be

qua ters of a mile from the hospital, in a point

importance is strong. I make bold 1. suggest this, as it couot totally different watershed from that snp. the statement that all excretal matters THE Eskime bount upon their fingers--one de barn, and I firmly believe that och plying the busp tal or that aid to supply are emptied into the sea as high water: two, three, four, five. Above five and up to

number of buriala bas apparently, without anything good may be done. -Very compestiully H. hips

been 148, and there is a room, with- tempt at disinfection or destruction. The ten they use the second hand: thus, siz” in but caching on any other watershed, consequences of such a method of treat the fitat finger of the other hand. Abova For at last double that number.

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ment may be very ebrions when the run of ten they employ the toen. Thiricha, for instant, is three toes upon the vas foot,, eight graves rundy for use; they were in a tidal currents in the harbour in taken

into consideration. The defective drain and e

deighteen, three toes on the second foot. row about 2ft. apart and quite 64 ft, deep; others were bei g dag, but not fished, as reported on ought to be put in order, and Twenty they describe as whole tot,

farther than this, They seldom go farther the probability that the stream supplying can do so if necessary. For example, they evidenced by the atop fuarth at the ends and evenness of the bottom. Thase the village mesy be polluted noods attention. more over 4 foot deep,

As to the Cemetery, the Permanent Comexpress twenty-two by uying, two on the A Custum ficial voluutsered the state-mittee can only say that Dr Lawson and second man thirty-seven by two toes on the second man's second foct; forty is the ment that the first graven used were on Tuesday, found coffins less than a fan Nansen they cases, or at least do not cont Surgeon-Major James, visiting there ne whois of a second wan. Acording to Dr ly 16 inches deep, but she described from the surface of the ground. His

On the motion of Mr Andrew, avconded by Mr Golfias, Mr F Henderaan 928 TO- el cted auditor

A vote of thanks to the Chairman, on The proposal of Mir Watts, concluded the basiners.

STRAITS INSURANCE CO., LTD.

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A. MON EIL,

THE JAI-JUL-KOK HOSPICAL THE GOVERNMENT'S LATEST MOVE, The following letter and acompanying reports have been forwarded to as for publication:-

Colonial Scoretary's Offen,

Hongkong 11th July, 1894,

Barth over the coffin of about

the

like an at-

Ecoros :-

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CA, 695

cash,

New Benares,

New Malwa credit,

Allowance, Oattiés, -Old Malwa, cradity Allowanco, Catties, Persian, Oily, caeli, Allowanes, Catties Persian, Paper tied Allowance. Catties,

but they

arrara buat take place are very few indeed. for that t tor, on the ther Sometimes, of course, a serious mistake band do I think they deserve blame if th3. ocenre, a whee an officer who was recully proti oto THUG y sight wish invited to accept a cerisia post was made This meeting would bare bron ort, da to swy Yes, instead of No, through a had it not been for di utics experi- telegraphic error. ftor an experience of rewed in taking etnok, chily owag to many years (styl a corresponden), I cannot the idness of Mr Stephen me of the remember a single wistake in eignalling ofnstants, who becara ili atness any importance. I do recollect, however, lyfier returning from Japan, and, to Huy'e agreement expiring. a telegram being delayed for some hours the fact of Mr through any own fault. I was stationed at Everything was done to get things forward

Inken transmitting office, and bad

frems

Bas quickly as possible and the stock taken amali village a telegram which I had to The business before the meeting to-day is The seventh ordinary general meeting of send over another wire. enfortunato te pare these apunta if they are approved the Stros Insurance Co., Ltd., was held ly, my attention was attracted by something of and to appoint new Directors and

in the Company's Offices, Singapore, vin eles, and I forgot all about the message auditor. Now, with reference to the Dre which should have been sent ou. Two or t, you all know the position in which the 5th inst., Mr A. Juhnston presid tarca baure

after I discovered it, to myth present Directore stand, borror, and I did all ia my power to get it Mr Dakin, who is a very is ge sharing. The Chairman said:-The Company off with deepetch. The wessage asked that holder and who may be called 49tinues to make inch satisfactory pro- boat should be sent to the month of of the founders of the Company grass that, as you will see from the Report,

out here and wished to a river to tow up a ship, and as a result of ome

we are enabled to provide substantia! ad dalay the ship lost tide. I was in a certain alterations in the managemen terrible slate of alara lost the conseqacases The Directare then in ose did not alloge-ditions to the Reserve Fund and at to mysolf should be disastrous. The ther agree with what Mr Dakin wished in the same time to recommend an in matter was reported to bead-quarters, and that rapeer, but seeing that he was sup- creased dividend, making 7 per cent.

Sir, I am diracted by the Guverner too, on being interroga ed, a depta Exce.moy might well require that this beyond, one hundred, which is the whole in due course a formidable document came puried by a vosy large body of shareholder for the year. The premium interne has transmit to you to be lait bafuru the Pur-1 fook, and as

the ordinary Chinese Cemetery should be dealt with as our of the fifth man-Little Folks Magazine. dom, directing that I should be seriously at bume they fell in with his anggestion that increased by $90,10), while the carb

Amanent Comittee reports on the outdi-box is about 15/16 inches in depth Cemetery at Kennedy

over with 5 or Atin of Li-chi-kok Hospiral from Doctors

Quotations. edmoxished stud us the sum of one new Directors should be appointed and that outs have increased by $400,000. shilling I was glad to get off so easily, the new Directors should appoint nite nomi- the end of the year 1800, the Company Cantlie and Hartigan, and Surgeon-Colonel and the cofoa 18 m.hes, his staterpant-walled round and covered as dealt with ;

could not be accurate. There are mounds 6 feet of earth."

HONGKONG, July 1, 1894, aud, peediena lo say, I never forgot ano a mager. Mr Fenwick, who is here vaseta, apart from the paid-up capital. Preston and Surgeon Captain Westcalt. of earth and sods over these graves between In view of the very great improvementa message again. --Cassell's Saturday Journal. so-day I am glad to say, was at that time amounted to 52 per cent, of the annual

absent from the Culong Mesara Ray and premium incom; at the end of 1895, the Eresidency proposes from next Thursday of the insufficient depth of the Bret made and of His Excellency's strong desire

In view of the nature of the reports His 2 and 3 feet hig. The explanation given effected in the Hospital at Lai-shi-kok UPIUM-New Patoa, Cab... 700

OLI One thing which the Colonial Secretary's Hutchison asked myself and Me Luxley assets are equal to 96 per cent, so that morning to cause patients to be removed to

Chinese by per- graves was that owing to.8 prohibition as t to gonciliate retura respecting the Chinese migration to join the Board and they themselven besides tho paid-up capital intact, we have Lai-chi-kok on the same cuuditions as re- tial by the Lastonas oficials, bodies at mitting the removal of the nick to does, says the Sydney Morning Herald, is relired. Mr Joy was appointed manager. in hand noorty a whole year's premium morala now take place to Canton and to re

La-chi-kok, the Permanent Committee Of the $1,400,001, of cash esaets, to demolish the shares made by a South As regards the Directors, Mr Lalay and

ments were burried. This is excusable, as

their objections to the pro- Anetralian Minister, that there was myself...Mr Renwick has not been her. £8J00 is in sterling, as against £520 d quest that the Permanent Commitese wilt eumulated and in consequezon the inter-dr

in all epidemios rashes' will occur; even posals of the Government, and will ou I have the bonour to baj considerable leakage of Chinese in the ports very long and I do not know what he has t date of last meeting, and had these cooperate in carrying out that policy.

our burials were not saciently provided operate in carrying out His Excellency's of this solony. The assertion made with to say on the subject-have, every con- accounts, which wore closed at 31e

Sir,

for at first as they now are. We saw heaps policy on matter, but they desire some warmth, was denied on behalf of the fidoncs in the way Mr Joy has carried on December last, brez stated st exchange vi

Your mansk obedient servant,

·J. £, STEWART-LØYKHARE,

and baskets of limo, in the graveyard and most respectfully to place it on record that Customs and the Government generally, the business. Air Loxley retired on Nr 2/2 instead of 216 par 6. $100,000 would

more told that eiz y caties is used, in so they are still of oplafon that, from a purely but Me Kingston was not quite convinced. Fenwick's return. It was my intention to bare been added to the silver value of the

We have $3,000 increased interest The Chairman,

Acting Colonial Bedietary cordance with Chinese anstems, around sanitary point of view, the transmission of Here, then we have an officiat reinen, retire, and it was on that understanding I entitled to all respect, which accounts for was appointed Director on the uuder on investments. The ratio of working r

Permanent Committee of the Sanitary each coffin, rich men being provided with the side to Lal.cht kok is bighly undesirable

a much larger quantity.

and may early become a source of vary all the arrivals in the ports of New South standing that I should be allowed to penses to nat premium is 144 per cent

Board,

All the graves are numbered, and most grave danger to the Colony, and that the antire responsibility must rest upon the Wales since 1858. As grows and passengers retire as soon as the senior Director had The oitlemente ca 1893 Underwriting

have beadstones, of which many will executive and not upon the Banitary Boardsdaga 20,055 Chinese arrived; 14,197 left in the returned to the Colony. However, Account amount to less than 30 per cent,

Hongkong 8th July, 1894. built up with nommt. pame vossale which brought them, 4364 Me Loxley retired I did not think it of the premium income, the most favour

and they desire to reserve their right to Balled for China, 1267 went on to other right to send in my own resignation as tohle experience the Company has ever had, His Excellengy Sir William Robinou,

▲ stream floss down the ravine con reconsider the question if any serious ra- Barometer * K.O.M.G..

or Temperature solonies, 181 landed here, 5 died in port, would have lampered the Company. Bath but the winter in Europe just past hi

BrWe visited the Temporary Plague tiderably below and a good distance from crudescence of the plague in Hongkong or 51 remained in port un Sist May last; and Me Fenwick and I wish to reture Mr brought hasry marins susitis, so that

embauoluro some vegetables. but mostly thus they all are enumerated. So much Fenwick is likely to be leaving the Colony we cannot expect that the 1883 account Hospital at Lai-chi-kok at 4.30 pm on the graveyard. On the alleviat land at its the appearance of any fresh dangers in Bumidity

large profit Jaly 7th. 1884 -

tion is for the report that China ships were, by soon and I have not the time I should will yiekt quite such

grown. Considering the relation of unnection with Let-chi-kok, should render Direction of

such a source necessary or desirable. They Site.--The yamen now need sa a hospital desertion abandonment of their prews, mich to devote to business of

har just this as the 1892 accoast, which

is situated on the sas front, at the side of the graves to the street and the nature of bare further to request that in any Force

Westber adding illegally to the Chioass population. anet. It is a very difficult thing in a closed, The Company's assets are repre-

the evil we doubt if any contamination of a bill, with a frush-water stream flowing these is likely re

proclamation or notification that Bat another source of dimination is revent- Company like this to find suitable sented by first class, and for the most part,

of

SDIGS.

the Chinese on the anb Ralu to be issued ed in the report by the item of 4055 people to act a Directors, and we readily restinable securities, and the beside it. It is on a piece

It may fairly be questioned whether we jest, it may be made clear that there must righ köpeciale beexpendun Chinese who had left Australia by way of would be very pleased if the shareholders smennt loaned on marigge has been re- closely adjoining the land immediately do no grin a much as we lose in the case be a lefringement of the existing Bys- this salony, all bat saren of them bound present to-day would give no the names duced daring the past year by $12,000, Bidar Chalons, as the Laleabi-kek station of query plaxon espas buried outside the laws and thist temovals to Lii-chi-kole ara

Qader the jurisdiction of the Chinese Ma. for China Figures like thes, when added of any Direcgra they would wish to be

bo: up. Your

directors miss no oppertonity of

only permitted upen the conditions laid dastus of thons nationsis, pointed Under the articles; I association, quitting any properties wine invested, or the avaping aun. The approach is by is Susuecacter's Island, which is separated Danton (1) that the removala mist

i tu tag sea breeze and sheltered from the yearly

Talation-The nearest British territory down by Excellency for removals to bo ensbla ne to foresset the tims when the the shareholders cienos at a meeting ful security for the amount Eastern population in Australia must, cut of this sort appoint Directors unless they which do not yield a satisfactory return lengthy bombor jetty.

from the Hospital by a wide stretch of a from our plague Hospitals; (2) of Chinese side the Northern Territory of South are approved by the retiring Directors; but way of intenst or dividend.

Buildings--The bospital consists of gagre la bin comma dious two-storied brie oriotas The neatst pint of British Bowlson is

subjects only; (S) of persons who are theme

Temperature. TIRED Australle herself, be reduced to a small if any large majority present at the meet the amount invested on mortgages lo

umber. The process, though, goes a ing show that they are in favour of any gapore has been radaced by 206,000, and woully finished, with large windows, tiled over a mile distant by ses, and double that selves desirous of going there ; and (4) who

HONGDONG, July 19, 180 land, where there is practically are certified by European Doctor to be in slowly, for not all those Chinese who leave partienier gentlemen as Directors I do not theas mortgages, which seemed the least courtyard surrounded by authunas, well

aft state to bear removal.

(Taken at Meas Fulcoser & Col the colonies for their own Empire remain think there would be any particular diff. desirable of the Company's investments, fred and riofed and generally after the communication by road,

In fact, if the Chinese desire to have a The Permanent Committes will make the

Premises, Queen's Road;} in the land of their birth. For instance, calty in getting Mr Fenwick and myself to have been realised with out lons to the On-style of a Chinese yamen.

Wards.The ground and upper hom of hospital under their own magenest, near nedosary arrangements for a junk to leave 165 out of the 181 Chinese landed at recommend them. The only other business pany. In view of the depreciated Trice of

A day for Lat-chi-kok From Kennedy BAROMETER ...... 20.81

·local real estate this must be regarded as a the, sin building are used as pardi, the our frontiers and available for plague twice if, at 10 am and 4 p.m., bat. Sydney did so by virtue of naturalisation before you the appointment of an Certificates, seven others by virtue of anditor, and I pesause I shall have the vory satisfactory record. The new Re-Boor of the former being tiles, the latter patients from Hongkong, Lal-chi-kok re Town

Bommends itself as being within easy reach the junk cannot be fitted with waing TREMOMETER exemption papers. They were returning meeting with me in formally uminating serves which we have

opened will wood, Dang

beds, do, do, until to-morrow (Friday).. The general plan of each is a large cen and capable of isolation, to the land of their adoption. The same Mr Fullarton, Henderson. Before putt-emmend themselves to you as fending

I hare the honor to be, Sir, your most There are so dance of plagde in the Uni- to financial position tral rooms with two smaller flanking spast- thing happens continually in the other ing the accounts the meeting, Lo sirengihen

toms Stations sojaCont.:

obedient servant, colonies, notably in Vistoria, where the should like to hear what shareholders of the Company, The Underwriting mente

The other rooms are utilised a dwellinge differlties. But, in view of facks Mr F. Watts Hefore the question is put ible loss on claims which are in dispate like tasses to speak of growing unibers of to the messing I would like to make a few in course of litigi Some of these date another for foud, another for preparing the Chinese population is, untaide the remarks about the second paragraph of the 5a k as far as 1856; it is unlikely that the drugs (pharmacy), ofte room, coolie Nerkbar Termory, unjustified.

export. It reads *--* The chungen suggest whole amount reserved will be called for, quarters, kitaben, ato. The whole build-

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At this revenirants endass i laro, to say in regard to the Director &amperise -Alcount is to provide for pol for the Exoters, one store room for drege,"

limius of this isisud,

distanca

WILLIAM HASTIGAN, M.D.,

Dipl State Medicine. JAMCH CASTLE M.B., F.RO.8, Dipl. Public Health, London.

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may

(Signed) Jro. J. FRANCIS,

Chairment.

Honourable The Acting Colonial Becretary, die Sie, da

HONGKONG REGISTER,

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