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THURSDAY, JULY 26," "1894.

The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company intimate an interim dividend of $1.25 por share for the six months ending 30th Jawa last.

Ar the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. Wodehouse, two Chinese were charged with alting a man who had tried to keep them from insulting a Chinese women on the Yaumati ferry Junob on the 23rd inst.

The following are the statistics of the Lai-hi.kok Flospital for the 22nd, 3rd and 24th inst., published in the Chinese Mail (Weh Te: Yat Po):

Admissious. Deaths

Dach-ceed.

Under Treatment

22nd 23rd 24th

7.3

3. 6

61 5 4.1 3. b1 48 43

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOCTURNAL VISITS TO CHINESE HOUSES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE RAUB AND JALIS MINES, The Administration Report on Pabang for 1898 contains the following notes to mines in which Hong song speculators are greatly interested

|

FOOCHOW NOTES. ling part of the work now begins. It all

are the Chinese to rule us; or we them,'| Straits, Java, China, Japan, India and vory easy to make the first part of the lad

Jaly 21. That is fairly straight talk from's group of Europe and it was impossible to get together der, with the ground as a support for the Owing to the late short arrivals a smart men, many of them Government servants, a mesting even fairly representative of the first pola; but what support can there be rise has taken place in the price of cotton to the Governor of the Colony.

general body. To communicate by mail for the sciond oas up in the air? This yarn. Against a quotation of Bid per bələ

mennt a long dolay, sad it is so much master To the Editor of the • ÜKINA MAIL'

problem, howeger, presents uo difficulties month ago it is now per bate,

to aronne suspicion than to allay it, even Hongkong, July 23.

to the Bundyak's mind. Hlashes some We reported a fortnight ago that the

cao, that the Directors found themselves in with strong arguments in favoar of uns's Six-A paragraph appeared in your taroc fest of the boltons end of the next Fusshow carrison had been strengthened morning contemporary of to-day's 'date se pole to the 3it. of the top end of the first by 2,000 meu. We now hear that 2,000

as axtremely dificult position; on the one hand the shareholders follows:-Yesterday a new dopartaro was ons, and then, putting it bis cung, ties the more recruits have been added to the local made, a house-to-house visitation being second stick to it, and, ascending as before, forces. The forts are being put in thorough

far from the Head tificedegationlar locality the wind. The Punjem Mining Cooper's mine ating up of the Compasy, conducted by night. It commenced at vine continues to longthen his ladder indefinite- repair.

and on the other The firat crop of paddy which has now Julis has been worked since 1885, but only a majority of the shareholders whom it The drst defendant was fined $25 and the Hungkong Hospitals for the twouly-four o'clock and the work was carried on until yourda Santaken, the capital, Mrs nearly all been gathered in is said to be began to give promising results in 1892 was impossible

midnight. The visitation will for the pre- AB sont, we understand, be continued nightly. Pryor's work is a varitable guide book. plentiful

Some of my Chinese friends have asked Sanatkan Bay is a very fino natural har- however, and of good quality. Farmers, Daring 1883 4,808 ing role in 1892, agitation bed seriously damaged thefore se Ge what they are to do in the rent of bour. The arrauca ze one and a balf | prospects for the accond crop on socoant of vield of 4,874 oz. 12 dwt, of smelted ga0; it was only when we found that, the un

passed thraigh the mill, producing a total ness Every effort was made to avertain. the views of those we could consult, and The following is the Tea Export giaca average of rather more than 1 oz. avoidable deky tras likely to prove ruigous and midnight; others have of people length is about twenty miles: about seven- our issue of 14th instaal is per consignsqa' farther result of 508 cz.. but this ship.to the Company's business and put beyond.

rk

The following are the statistics of the

hours to moon to-day :--

Uestis

Adiniselyos

Discharge Under freatment...

Sooo

Hygeta.

- Kennely.

0 1

ง

10 33

$1

Janrase.

their houses being invaded between D. p.m.siles broad. Tooide the headlands it in absence of rain.

11, at all

allorcases to seven miles in breath, while ita

the right

returas:---

For London- Poras. Palinurus... Ningchow.. For Hongkong-

器

Per s.s. Palinur.........

165 317 · lbs.

.329,437

7.790

THE JALIS GOLD, LIFE.

ton. The Inst 'orushing of the year yielded

10

busi-

The Bonham Strand drain, which has Mr Editor, as an old resident and a person palm-leaf boneos poup ont fram amillat the the disposal of the Salt Commíssiover, and portions of the concession. The Jatis Mise ing to close the London Branob, the Shino

beon frequently mentioned of late, ia a purely local one, about 500 feet long from the upper end to the outlet. It is a very

indneed in

second was dismissed.

AUDENT' was brought up on romsad in the Police Court to-day, obarged with at-

risks, they will contest the tempting to obtain geoda by false pretendea

to enter their private residences at aight teen more or less navigable river flow into

mant was exported from the State in January bopo the probability of our later on getting He had gone into the Wing Hong shop in

without a warrant; othara again appear to it. The entrance is guarded by the grand

and does not figure in the returns for the a renewal of the good etter made us by the Quein's Road Central and ordered about 890

think that the whole Government of the and defensire sandstone cliffs of Bahala,

year under review. The stone, from which Commercial Union Assurance Company Colony has been surrendered into the hands whose precipitous faces, softly toned to all

ibis gold was won, was lifted in every case before you with a recommendation to nocept Limited, that the Directors decided to coma worth of Entopean clothing; he said his

of the military, and that the Colony, being the varying shades of rods and purples, brother was one of the Yusn Fat Hoog THE DRAINS AND THE RECLAMA under martial in, the only thing to be faco the easteru sky, while at their feet

from the shafts and levels at Jalis, the head- doce is

quarters of the company, and so development such a resolution as has now been read to lasve it a quickly as their busi oruriant folingo flourishes, and, litie A company of soldiers has been placed at work was done on any of the outlying time hoped by the Directors that by offer to you by the Secretary. It was at one partners. This turned out to be absolutely

TION.

10 eftir will allow them to do s

o bo, But, unfounded, and the prisoner was sent to gael

groenery and dot the gloaming white His Excellency, by way of keeping to consists of an original main shaft which

uzan employed, hak detached some La Ree has reached a depth of about 165 feet stap the agitation and arable us to marry

hai shareholders might for six months.

ef some oxperience of this Colony and of share. ila inhabitants, I would appeal to the G Alter rounding Baballa you will soon that the fire brigades apparatus is kopi Lavels have been drives depths of 80 vernor, though your columns, and nak find yourself opposite the town, which, proper working order, while others are to and 110 feet, the 50-fect level being driven on the general business of the Company what on earth is to be goined by wantorly lying on the north side of the bay, is con attend to the constant changing of the as the lode, and the 110-feet level striking but the Shanghai Committes rejected all third proposals for any such arrangement and mal demand for steamers as well. Blougar fold drain, and is connected with about fifty alienating its goud wishes of every single cealed from sight until you are alongsile woter reserved in large tubs in the streets the lado at a distance of 64 fest. sated quidation. We are told that the

Chinese resiling here by trampling upon it. It has n'frontage of

would be satisfied with nothing houses in cll. About August, 1893, the i thoir ideas of privacy and home life in this but no depth, steep hill "e two irilus. for use in essos of fire.

Il te so long since anything was heard of springing up but i short distance from the shore, except in the Hon-bul lottery that it was thought to wag Yours,

as Dan as the shaft has been wank 10 for whort *** defeated now, would be rei ano part where there is a gradual rise have been electually suppressed, has the deeper. Until this has been done the man- again

consideration the Directors came to the tit much reseaubles Dover. These hill the village of Cus-lace in the vicinity of should they begin to drive the 160-foot conclusion that the affer made sponsatsently

lovel The ludo appear to slope away from are capped by houses, the homes of the the Fageda Anoborage goes to show that it the shaft, and it is stated that when the by the Commercial Union Assurance Come Earopcon residents, and at night when the a still a gcing concern. The unfortunate 150-feet lovel is drives it will strike the Pay Limited WAS of snow favourable lamps are lit in the bungalows, the effect is man found to be solling tickets was sonten-leds at a distance of about 113 feet from nature, and likely to lead to such insealal We have already acknowledged the re-bright and pretty ono na viewed from the end to 200 blows with the bamboo and the mouth of the drive. The away value of results to the general body of shareholders,

month's exposure in a cogno.

that it offered the most advantageose ceipt of the latest, and, in many respects, res.

The business portion of the town lies at The mandarin

been proved by the authorities to of a concession of the

to be considerable, the question

dotto recommend to you ita scooptanes. concerning British North Borneo, It of the streets being built over the sea, on

in mind; a decision was needed at

coal has now

Tax Corean trouble is causing an abonn mal boot in the coal market, and an abnor-

A splendid opportunity to gain a footing in porta hitherto supplied Praya Reclamation Department began full exclusively with Japan coal, which is naming in near tho outfall of this drain, and almost all bought up at a high premiunt. Look special precautions to avoid blooking The steamship Riverstale, which has been it; the outlet is directly ander the Bonham for some months running between Bong-Strand Wharf (the limit of that Section) kong and Hougay under għar:er, wili, aftor and rubbish was allowed to be dumped her next trip south, go to Wuhu and Chio. close alongside the wharf; a man was put to work specially at keeping the course kiang with a full cargo of 'Charbonnages

clear for the drain. Mr Bowdler, however, coal, and will afterwards spend some months in Japan waters on a coasting charter.

Bo clio rubbish

to fall noross the mouth of the drain

ENGLISHMAN

1.

REVIEW:

FROM A NEW STANDPOINT.*.

level will be driven at a depth of 100 feat

intand as a comparison I may mention arrest lately of a degler in the-tickets agement fear to be driven out by agitation, and again, and after mueb

that

1

the

WAY

Lost comprehensivo work yet pablished the foot of the hills, a considerable Bumber has beon canti" charge of the city gaton countrates from this mine aasta end the orisis, and that 16 was their duly

the front of

arrangement

lo treat soul-

jog ta

propass before

schema

redouble his vigilance in having the people entraces by one of the oyanide prosesses a most important point in this connection his was taken ill about this time and confined 20001ed worth perusal and we have there- pites made of iron-wood or brick, stid raised passiag in and out of the city watched, been raised by this company, and businossible moment fur the mãe of to his room; when he next went to Bonham ture, in defiance of literary custom, taken foties for loot passengers, Ranworing the particularly those entering and leaving formed the subject of correspondence with concerned; for your sakes because of the Strand he found that during his absence the trouble to fread it throughout. It is puses of roads and sido walks run along after the gatos are closet, Nons but the Government during the year. No desio jury to the business, daily

of them. There are on wheelad respectably dressed people are to be allowed

bas. yet been come to, however, Ax Americau auxiliary oxpedition loft St. Mr Cooper had given instructions Boc to pleasant to bo able to say that we do notices of any kind slowed in Sandukan, to pass and these are to be obelispged in liters is moom for death puto whether that, and for the sabo of the Compati

Even the despised ricksha being interdicted thought necessary by the gate koopers. In miving wills in Pahang are as yet on a

the offer, because only frompt Joba's, Newfoundland, early in Joly for trouble farther about keeping the drain regret the time thus spent. Written by a while it will be understood that they are the event of unsatisfactory angore being clently extensive scale to warrant the com- want of of the good old sore s sufi- transfer of goodwill would thems Bowdoin Bay, Greenland, to bring home Lieutenant Peary and his twelve som clear, as it did not matter,

lady whose husband was closely identified hardly suited oven for ponies to pass along.given the parties are to be arrested and 1 dumped alongside the whart was allowed; with the early history of the new territory { All the conveyance of baggage, rice, stores harded over to the Provincial Judge.any in incurring the expense which would aiding to put panione.

c., o. is done by carrying-coolien who Echo.

We make for maro selections from the under dalo of 21st June, saya :-The views | Bir Cooper about this, and was told Themistic. That it is, however, in the main me chapter, as so little is known of the

and partially block it. Mr Bowdler asked we were prepared to find it somewhat opti- bear the loads slung on ropes. of the Colonial Ofice regarding the pro new drains are all finished there; the old accurate we ara semured on the best autho- principal North Bornean port that every posed British dollsr have hean materially changed by the fact that the unemployed drain is no more seeded. Two small rity. That it is bright and graphic we need paragraph contains some unfamiliar fact.

"The population is a very cosmopolitan Indian mint is willing to coin such a dollar street-gallies still emptied rain-water into no external assurance. The little volume

With a little more charge.

note it, but that was nothing worth notice. Now, of burely 200 pages sontains caroly a dull or vase of British, Germans, Daich, Malays, which includes Singapore and pressure from the banks and merchantz, assent would probably be givan to the creacion of a British dollar of the waight and fineness as the Mexican. Tha Colonial Office was chiefly concerned as to

Ms Arnet Heid, writing from London

at a low

BUB

THE MONGKONG GOVERNOR AND THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE. AN OMNION FROM SINGAPORE,

prog

To

this bo nebessary for the constra

rastion of the

the *****

the basla 皓 requisite works and machinery. The re- therefore, as mainder of the large area of mining load of liquidation, the Directors arranged held by this company under its original from 1st July aurrant-subject of saree that the transfer should, taku adfest, an concession has not hean worked pested during the year, the attention and your soliraation and the business la of the management, na already now being garried on for the account of The Governor of the Celony of Hongkong stated, baving been wholly confined to the Ltd. It was necessary to make publ

the Commercial Union Insurance Company, A little will have mare reasons than one to remember development of the Jalis Mane. the Black Plague.erisia at Hongkong. As tribute-work in the alluvial deposite of the provisional agreement in order to satisfy policy-holders that their interesta tad beau himself,

elf, and expressed in the form of by native miners holding leenass from

the

energies

i after the drain had been getting more and paragraph, and to all intorented in ita sub- Penang men, Brune, Dyaks, Bajows, a sequel of a certain course of motionsstaken the Chenderas Valley has been carried duly cared for. I have avoided personal. more obatracted for about six month Ject matter it will prova a most neatul hand. Sulus, Rugia, Banjerassing, Javanese, poruclamation Sir William Robiussr the campa03, but their efforte bare, for lies and, as far as potato, matters of

though, wo believe, never completely

pouring in all the time, and was of couraS

book of information.

To its introductory Chapters dealing with the early history of the country and the

o.

the

accumulating there. It appears that whon events which led to the formation of the When first I came to Sandakan there was their duty to apply this disciplins, are, first exemption fee of $500 for the first three. baving mad these printed statements, will

the attitude of the majority of the Euru-blocked-it was found that sewage was pesa merchants and of the Chinats traders Ba & class, Tar following romarke, which are taken from Tz, are daalt with in outer coleman-Two third-class Master Gunners at Hongkong lately summoned up courage eend complaints to the General respecting the dallar, which is so far above this current. market rate as to make one of them £1. 68. and the other £3. Gs. Bd. out of pocket on a month's pay. The official reply begins with the promising remark The Major-General considers that these com- plains are entirely sentimental." Butirely scatimental' is good, for a man who has lost abust 40 per cent, of his month's pay. Major-General, I take it, gets the full value in starting of the trifling remonteration awarded for bis valued services; otherwise

timente

business,

the P.W.D. apeak of the new system of drains being buiched in any district, what they mean is that the street pipos are all laid but the houses are stili draining into their loss by the offinal rate of exchange of the old drains or into the soil as before. nol summand much confidence in the boas-amount of work being done on all land | dion! Ofour, publicly atheros to the join! Government of Paha to test the paine shows the value of the goodwill of our

Thus, the word Gnished' meata that the must important part is not yet begun. Wo have it on the very best authority that it was by Mr Cooper's direct order that the drain was allowed to be blocked, as not worth the trouble of keeping clear, simply because new swers had been laid though they were us yet taking little or none of

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of many parts of its property, and sipos Mr A. Gentle, while not opposing the the knowledge thus aequired cannot be

He cald the anccessfully utilised by the company until motion, spoke against it. the Jalia Mine is in a sufficiently

effect of winding up the Company would be prosperons and advanced audition to justify its sale disas

disastrous to Singapore. The Company

*IS NAUR MINE.

Australian Mining Company, kas scatinged The Raub Mize, the property of the Buat

per

Joured theory; mpr du I, nor any one else that that part was filled in, however, for samej turately omitted all refernce to such mat and although we had a poukat abote our lengthe, right or wrong. to stop that fliebe justify the sanguine expectations formed no interest in the company sept what

THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG,

The search parties operating under the

wiption of the forest scenery

excellent.

a

palm

ทย

416

The motion was agreed to.

Exchange. HONGKONG, July 20, 1894.

London

Rank, Wire, _

TI

On daraand,

Chinese, Sikka, Indiana, Arabs. Somalis,

a publie test consu

The total population as shown by the has had the discomfort of incurring, in twe the most part, been fitful and ineffective. said and printed to Shanghai barat ban

was over 6000 peraons, of quarters, reproof and protest which can only In 1890 an extension of time for five a whom 120 were Europeans, a vorg consider be likened to a couple of vigorous slaps in years from Marab, 1800, was granted quality of the Company's business and the la number bising Indica and children, the face. The parties who have found it is this Company on payment of an saoust character of the managembut, and you Belish North Borneo Company we need only one other English women in the place. The Permanent Committee of the Sanitary and of 81.000 for the last two years of the perbases allow us to ask here if it is not not safer at length. Teru at least of the

The laws in force in the territory are Board through their Chairman Mr J. 다. extended period. Daring the year 1893 4 good and suficient answer to them that gentlemen who were concerned in ulta ning taken from the best und roost suitable Franels; and, escond, the whole body of the further extension of three years from one of the wealthiest and most swoce.efu! the treaty with the Sultan of Brunei which sougees, and inside the Tuding Civil and medical officers, civil, military and Daval, March, 1893, was granted, in consideration of British losurquos illos is anilons present territory under foreign control did virally placed the greater portion of the Penal Codes,

whe aow 90 daly in corebating the of the payment by the Company of an to acquire our business and staff and to The Land laws provide for a certain plague. Dr Ayres. the Principal Civil Ma- annual exemption fee of $1,000 to the undertake current liabilities without any

In past years the

the preming whatever. We take it that this cas circles of Hongkong. Their projecte sold, or else after a specified lapas of time pretest of his medical colleagues, and ad- company has done muck bud a kunak of miscarrying when other the grable are confested.

ministers an emphatic saab to His Excelico people's money had been invested therein, In accordance with the terme of the uy of Hongkong on his falling away from his None the less-they are both dead now Royal Charter, slavery is not yet entirely political responsibilities. And as far as we aru they entitled to the credit of having abolished, but measures have been taken

casuistry of a Colonial can see, not all the cast apened the way for placing under British to modify it, and its ultimate extinction is a Secretariat can meet the blust challenges protection a valuable portion of the largest are matter of time, All children born of levelled from iwa direntions at the Governor's sa goleg coscara,' it has been considered was perfectly solvent and expected of good stond of the Malay Archipelago. This, slave parents since 1883 to free, while the aution. Mr Francis dectores, and provee, caly fust to grant a further extension of grounds to return more to its shareholder

than the actual amount it owed them; however, by the way. Hongkong residente impurtation of any fresh slaves is pro- the prudamation to be illegal. The medical the time clause, under which the company' Shares Had recently, set from fifty par will be more interested in the present and: belated, neither uro slaves allowed to be

manifesto

declares and proves it to be sub-exclusive quracasion rights would otherwise fature of the now land thau in its some-bought sold in the territory.

versive of the

enf the public malets, not only now have lopend. With the time now allowed sont, discount to almost par sines the liquid- Of course, the result of such a block was

what chequered pat

The health of bands in vers good; but in the future. And all the mess has to the company it may reasonably be hoped ation was talked about. The company in frightful; but there is no ground for con And here we must note the one defect

e testimony to this, I way mention that been the outcome of Sir William Robinson's

compulsorily liquidated against the being that meass will be found during the next wish of a great many shareholders-and i I decit not that its own. ld time decidedly macting with the outbreak of bubonic Mrs Peyer's work. An immense amount of early all the members of the government to engur zra) to oblige the Chinese and

matter

few years to develop the Gabau Miuo, singo. strong, possibly too strong for reproduction. plague. A plan of the city, with the plague Hongkong munoy has been sunk in deve-staff in 1832 are still here, and abaunoes ooniliste their wronghended prejudices. very encouraging results were obtained was perfectly impossible for the shareholders The gallent offser in of opinion, it seema,

cases dotted in their pr. per streeta, shows toping Britteh North Beruso with most from office on account of ill health are very The position was not an easy one, for the from that portion of the concession during in Singapore, who warn not in touch with the

It does not ontle that the dollar will spondily recover itself, that the area of this drain was considerably disappointing results.

If there are any cases of sickness Celestial prejudious, silly as they are, TAXO.

1991, one crushing of several tons of selected shareholders in China, to oppone the combi and he seems in think that, taking the ups less affected that other parts,

those who tans invested to say that the they are usually to be attributed to care- with the downs, the men gain as much The Wing Lok Street drain is another

6 det. per los. a certain share in

Singapore would doubtless take note of the taotica that had been adapted in rauning the much territorial

the emptying Hongkong of hail its inhabi they loso by the discrepancy between the typical specimen of blundering. Thers is days is with the anime, and that demedersbestos, or inattention on the part of the disease had contributed of dealing with stone yelding an average result of 6 oz. cation made against them. The publis i

drain coming all the way down from the companies are na prone to unnecessary ex- The tempora'ure rarely rises above 86 tants. The Chamber of Commerce, touched. erial and market rates.

company to its last lega. It meant that if historyPeak, and there was a direct outlet hefore penditure as those concerned only in mining in the houses, or falls below 12 on a tender plass hy the exodus of the pa-

pumber of shareholders at a distance, hav the dollar during the last eighteen months, however, in no way supports this rose--the old reclamation recal years ago. When or hotel keeping. Mira Pryer hae uufor always need a covering over us at night, pulation, were prepared to go almost any

might be mads out of it in the way of plun it, and at the end of the year under der, make a dead sat at a local compERY I have come naross, share the Major-General's scrutable reason the drain was turned off ters and throws no light upon the reasons dining table, for three Jos I never onto Ard one of the Chinter demands was that review the company was enabled to declare that company anticipations of the speedy rehabilitation sharp ie the westward, at an angle of about which have rendered het Land of Pro- it in motion. This is a significant they should he allowed to establish a pingue

small dividend the first net profits which it was not a policy that raidents in of the silver currency. Men who have been 80 degrees, and naturally such a sudden miso en unpopular is Hongkong esteem,fact when ons considera that

I could be forced to 10. boapitul on Chincerhoil, but withio a few

have aserned from astuni mining in the pore could be expected to

cated to look rosiving a large percentage feas than their double-back stato blocks of "ic corde, after hard, sourata and in creating Ass exiretadly Lot in the afteruse, to are treat or maireat their pingue stricken felow. State, it is hoped this, should nothing favour; although, owing to the citymi.

constant at the pay month for 6 year

Then the P.W.D. w tle veuessity of car-lady's diary it will bear comparisuo with Lever driven to the expedienta for cooling courtrymen in their own peosliar way the mines, a substantial dividend will be partly local business, they might suknow- untoward seau to check the progress stance that the company could not live on a self, and who have no prospect before them but a continuance of the loss, have a rying the drain out straight to nen; but many rare pretentions works. Her des- the air, such as they have to adops in And without taking due took of what forthcoming at the end of the current year. ledge that the Directors had done wisely in

entirely filling up the

westerly right to protest. If the Government regards instead of

Lones in Tadit and China in the hot sea- results naderiay this proposal the Governor The total yield of gold won during 1833 not opposing the pressure brought to bear grievance as purely one of sentiment, 00:lat, it was cotamed to take the neigh. The usual accounts of tropical scenery on, and all the doors and windows are of Hongkong issued a preclamation allowing mounted to 4,896 oz., of which, however, upon them. thea the Government can have no serious ung houses' sewage, and also to be a are much overdrawo, so far as my throw but to keep out the heat as his Committee pointed out that this action State before the end of Broomber and their sharos be Eeld by persous af distaove As trasted it would be a warn to let in the breeze instead of this to be done. Mr Francis on behalf of only 486 oz., were exported from the ing to lonal companies of the risk of letting objection to put right. Unless there is a relieving branch for the direct drain in

110 periezies extends; at any rate with regard being closely deliberate design of making a profit out of heavy rains, all water over a cecialo to the number of lowers to be met within those countries.

The heases we live in may be roughly i jaw, under which then fill fores of figure in the returns for 1883, The aver: who had no interest in the company».

infringed the Bye-law, the men--and the Major Ceperal command-beight in the diree: drain being left to

As a rule, the forest inlf is une uniform

ermanent Committee overdo

.west. The reclaimed dark green. Orobids are often to be seen; described as big

ape pisid per ton during the year was wid go

any barne, built above worked. No ing of Hongkong denies that the Government derires sunk a prost, or that it is really ground, however, subsided a foot or two, but their flowers are rarely conspicuous, ground on poles, with thatched roofs and still to reply. Mr Francis wrote again. slightly in excese of 1 oz. 2 d., de against

no reply. The Committee met with an average of by dw yielded by t alm leaf rails. There is a certain kind of out any reply from the Colorful Secretary, crushed in 1892. This marked improve. the stone making any-there can be so practical and the drain with it; but the part, near There are, of course, Exceptiona, but theyli sugestive of a perpetual niente! Kinally & weak and petalsat letter, in which went in the average yield is accounted for

the outlet was built on piles, and could not grow so

so high up in the forks of the trees difficulty about paying at the market rate.

adapt itself to changing circumstaneda; so that unless the tree is fulled or a ladder about life in them, and when I first arrived it is stated that the Governor is advised by the fact that during 1892 the original On the Beward

part of the drain acquired made there is no getting them, de rest thy baggage, and storing my belongings in the Permanent Commites is incorrect; that closed, a heary flood having brosen the

ared to me rather unwise opening that the interpretation of t

of the law arged mice,

known as the Raub Hult, was an upward slope, and the sewage stayed being practically impossible, for the grest my nt the bottom. Thus the whole of the forest trees grow from 100ft. to 10ft. auch fragile and airy tenement, as B. E. vill place so obstacle in their way it dam, swamped the mine, and rendered the subvil in that district gradually developed before they spread out a single branch in though one was asked to take up one's per- they rosign;

be would like

like to know it tha into a huge cesspool, and the pollution the Sanitary Board are now turning their probably goes ton feet deep at least-por. their search for light and air, their trunks manelit abode in a summer house-izdeod, drafts of the letters were approved by robertes which had already been constructed i

being as straight as the columes of a even summer houses at home are more member and whether the publication situated somewhat to the west of the original Ou Parle

o novafe that all work in them was per whether they were submitted to foros abandoned, Dating 1892 shaft hopi twenty or more.

substantially built and shut in than are our poch member; atientjoy not merely to the discovery of For the rest of the now Reclamation,

As we glided along Да

we policed many domicilee. A large open umbrella right of the correspondence vas santioned by such workings was sank to a depth of over 100 plague cases and inaanitary houses, but also every precaution is being taken, tu guard charming little patches of park-like scanary perhaps be a batter comparison.

menter Mr Francia at once replied, and feet, against blocking draina at present in or -places once under nativa cultivation, but

Tho house, or bungalow properly speak shows that the letters are the expression of and the levels driven from this shaft rich the Baub Hole formation to overcrowding; and socturnal surprise istance, now or old, separats or otherwise, now dearted and becomis grass land, which ink, is usually siete ilige moes of a the opinion of the Committee, and B. 3 early in the year under review. A consider. visits bays been made, especially among the and also to maintain working gradients for afford food to pomerode door and wild flower gardou, which is always more or less coolle boarding-houses, where there is rea Dapartment went out of its way to t

all drains. For instance, the Reclamation catie, that make these pretty peaceful open, while in the hotte self there is also publication I deny the right of the Gurable amount of work has been done by

erocr to ask the question or to get o take up glades their feeding grounds. One could ince door, so that any one can walk

year, and that, la son to suspect, dangerous crowding of re-tha las-house Straet drain sa far as Garden not help indulging in a desire to pitch one's up into the verandah,

mittee could possibly work if official enguley Punjona Company, the management has not turned refugees.

Road, in order to avoid trouble with tent and make a garden in one of these The servants are usually Chinese, and if were to be trade into the individual optriona bors content to concentrate its whole at-

Chineso, generally Halans, people coming of each member, and how be voted.' The night visits have, for some reason, gradiente, angles, outfalls, etc. The storm- inviting spots.

tention upon any single portion af in water drains, which are not intended for The mist noticeable tree in the forest is from the island of that name not very far Traversing the Colonial Secretary's letter property. cased a good deal of ill-feeling among the sewage at all and are not trapped to prevent the mangalia, with its smooth white trank. from Hongkong. Our servants are Con- Mr Francis again firms his position. As Chigess, just on theordinary visits did when smells coming out, do as a matter of fact which springs straight up, toworing high tonese, I prefer them to the Haines, as to ingal interpretation he points out that receive rewage in large quantities; the now above all others before it speade out its they are soarter in appoarance, and tidier the Governor is Loned to take the opinion fint started. There is no apparent reason**

which separate ? sowers, ara complate,

branches. For some resson or ather, the thin the lattur, why there should be reasonable objection are not doing anything at all in some cases wild bees that abound to this huntry sesm The office hours are from ten to four, T feel certain that no lawyer will advise shareholders of the Straits Fire Insurance to night vislie more than day visits; but and are not anywhere fulfilling their sup to hars a predilection for these trees, and after which time the European population His Excellency to the contrary, that bia Da, was held at Singapore on July 19; for Gold Leaf, ID fine (par izei). whether reasonable ar not the Chinese doposed dxty of taking all the sawage and sometimes one way count as many as disperses to lawo teania, riding, billiards, |

proclamation a Saturday is in direct con- the purpose of considering a recolation to Spareigos (Bank's buying rate) until it reaches the sea. The old from the branches of a single tree. The and occasionally dances, follow. It would and diapenses persons from the observance Johnston was in the chair. water and sewage, and which are now sup the wax, though it has a good marketed to Eastern life, to see us start for a the same date. These Bye-Laws have the aware of the agitation with regard to wind. praad to get nothing at all, are as a matter value, whilst the honey is simply wasted dinner party, the lady in ordinary evening fores of law by the express provisions of the ing up the Compasy that was began in It happens, however, that there has been pi fact getting sowage and no water.

This altogether.

costume, but the gentleman (supposing i Ordinance 5 ISH, is what the Public Works some informality or oversight in connection when they say tho.

people meat Malays, as meat people know, are expert is not a Government House dinner, at which

other day, and until that it will not be necessary for me to go they are with fast night's visit; for the Permanent complete."

revoked are a binding apon into details fully, or tullow step by step the lowing account of the way they climb trees in white duck trousers, short white mess Excellency as upon any other person in the action taken on your behalf by the Board t, even if it ever dock has appeared before in print. Committes nover gavo any authority for it. As a matter of lost, sven

and though they be rev

Tevoked their of

here had sent you of Director here, Tou have become really complete, the sewage will

Bandyak (Bundysk is the goneral | of a waistcoat Last night, the soldiers and volunteer still pour into the barbour, and the fore- tert in use for the Tunbiowhas, Ro- We have said and quoted enough to

He then declares that the Governor, to he

he Chairman of the Committee of Shang stephara wont through every house from shore will still be pestilential. There is, za matowa, and other neighbouring tribes) that AD-cade its Borneo will give out-legalize his position, either withdraw ast Bhareholders circulara Les Yuen, Stross East to the Masse Whart, Me Chadwick says, a good lido scour method of asseding trees is very curious siderea rezy fair idea of what life in that his proclamation, or prociálnu that

ard little remains for me to say. through the barbour, but somehow that

Appearing to

to regard the tree itself as OLD

of the

ting to you i that your Directors ing side is it, and place the rangs between Pots, a country which produces tobacco Health Ordinates concerned.

rivals that of Doli, hemp which is matter stands as far as the legst side of clusion that it is impossible for them to room and counted the occupants, laking closets become general, even careful records of the numbers. To-day open alone, the predominance of lowing manner: First, of all, they out al

The medioni renommend you at this Mueling to do

otherwise than

sgren to the quita opinión is that

prodlamation to

to be; however, an order has been issued to stop when Mr Chadwick first came to Hong-1 the rungs, the sharp end of one of which quality--16 varieties sink in water, place; no restriction on visitors; imperfect pression seemed to prend for

will become aninhabitable altogether. which they sharpen it one end. These are while shoanding with Straits proncs, made permissive by the

rattans, gutta peroha, timber of excellent proximity to

to Hongkong of a plague-saturated pany, Lirited. It was suggested at first, and the Kong, he was like Me Crook--he had driven into the true about five fret from wholly or Apurly ant-proof to say nothing interment, involving atmospheric polovning time that the Diretoss opposed the Barometer There have been pemagous complaints water-closete on "Lis brain; but he soon the ground. A pole souse fifteen feet or so of fruit, vegetables, de, de, can scarcely absence of quicklime, asetamination of water proposal and began to work against it with- Temperature of the soldiers misconducting themselves; paw how utterly as the time he late be long is then kind securely to the outer and be deemed unpromising Gold and con supply to ships, orrtainty of dissterment; out any good reason on their side for such Humidity

for this place, and by the left he of the peg. At interrals of four feet or sa have been discovered and population only besides discharge of patients before real opposition. We protest against any such Direction of and there are parsistent accusations of war, as former colleague of his put it apart two mora pegs are driven into the nestled to develop its resources. convalescence, and the absence of all accusation. We have always recognised Wind

aqusezing." The fact that the Chinese never in love with the Canton latrine system. tree, the workmaa ascending on the last the take action in the proper way to expose such The original iden was to separate the sow-pog driven in, when he fixes ons above; ring colony of Hakkan has been formed solentio effort to deal with disease germs that the Company is yours and managed by Fores

age from the storm water simply in order and the poln being tied to each of these near Kudat, while many of the tobaco The protest ends up with a request for the us only la our interests, and that such Weather mes, but merely sproud damaging reports, that the former could be diverted right pegs, there is a ladder left below, 12ft. golice assis good gusts under the system is reedite cotitermanding of the prools-stop a winding up is one for you and set for Rain

siderably discredits much stories Anyway out of the city and out of the harbour, Long, to begin with. But the most phas plantation. There poems no reason why more distant place under conditions to be over, our duty to sea that a minority of the of independent onltivation purssed on the mation, or the re-transfer of the hospital to the Directors to decide upon,... It was, how- (now, the visita must be continued all that out or west or both. But as long as the

befaro msay years haro oispend North | defined by medical authority. De dyrén shareholders, angakt not override the wishes old house connections are allowed to exist, Decken Bones, By Mm W. A. Pryer, Kaz Borash should an occupy a leading post-entirely donors: snd his rider siguide and grook the property of the majodity. cam bo dono le te probe the complaints to thers is no possibility of thin or of any

other remedy,

cantly states that the question really The Mareholders ars sonttered over the tion in the Far East.

direction of the Permanent Committee of

cathedral aisla

no entrance

onewer to it.

that be

atone

during the compuny As I said before, no Com contrae to the policy pursued by the

I li legal adviser," and then says And

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4 months' night, Oredita,***

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An extraordinary general meeting of the

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75 248.40

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STRAITS FIKE INSURANCE CO., LD.

object, very strongly. It is a pits, but it was it from letting out any smells above twenty and even thirty beed' beats hanging and other amusements. Dinner parties, tradiction of Bye Laws of 11th May, 1894, voluntarily wind up the Company. Mr A. Silver (per (2) ̧. cannot be helped; the searching cannot be drains, which used to take both storm natives rarely szert themselves to obtain be rather a novel sight for any oue, nut of the provisions of Bye-Laws 3 and 4 The Chairman said You are all so fully

apped at the whim of the Chinese.

Quotations,

BONGRONG, July 26, 1891.

Bratom is now Įjungle men. We do not know that the fol- | function black dress is de rigueur) is arrayed liency on oved by His Shanghai after the issue of the last Report, | OPIUM~~~Now Patna, csalipo.715-

jaoket and bright hued otwmerband in Colorantet he dispened from the Searetary of the Company and by :

Ola

iding

The

show

B

teria

atich

between Queen's Road and the Proya does not seem to geour out comers like me of a ladder, they seek to fix the miss part of the world isiko. As regards to a put to the operation of the section

There the have been reinotantly forced to the 10022- about 500 houses in all ; they entered a very the one near Sassoon's office. “The two This they accomplish in the fol better than that of Manila, cotton and the difficulty is in-

the Colony lot of wooden pegs about a foot in length, coffie as good as can be obtained anywhere protest is compleftising the dangers out of the Straits Stre: Issarases Cor-

the night visits until further notice.

Port

And Yelph

2

Cash... New Benares, cank, 715 Old

bình,

Now Malwa credit, Allowance, Caities, Old Aisi wa, credit,. Allowsues, Cattles, Persian, Dily, meals, Allowance, Catiles, Perian, Paper tied Allowance, Cattlës;

184

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HONGKONG REGISTER.

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