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FRIDAY MAY 17, 1907.

THE SANITARY COMMIS- SION.

Bad Administration,

majority of casos, the Government through the agoncy of the Sanitary Board in forcing ownois of property to comply with sub- Boction 1 of section 176, compel them to create a branch of section 140 in respect

kitchen space

of

THE CHINA MAIL.

As it has appeared in avidungu, tife: amended Ordinance is still found impro timble and inflicts to much hardalap on in Chinese, who feel compelled to sond their familica back to the mainlangt of Olim, owing to consequent interenso in comfort and privacy.

·SANITATION IN HONGKONG.

called upon to advise, his duties to be of « - similar cature to those laid down by the Bradford Corporation and the City of London."

Bill bsonino and to mark

Hitherto the Government Juve forced the the cost of living and want of domestic Mele; was discovered at alout'inid-nighistorical Review by Mr boing added to the Board all the unoffiçin)

In yesterday's isage we gave extraits from the Ropost issued by the Commission appointed to inquire into the Administra-whatever. tion of the Sanitary and Building Regu

of the Sessiori of

A BRUTAL MURDER,

Indian Hacked to Picoes.

The doad body of a Mabcinelas, mined compliance on the one hand and winked

Those who cannot very well soud their last night at No. 4 Ang Loong Strach at the attendant breach on the other, which in obviously a most undesirable state of families away, have been driven to use The dy was frightfully hacked about, the affairs and quite indefensible on any ground oleth, and in the case of the pour class, injuries being apparently caused by chop ruge, in place of wooden partitions to aumerous changes in our laws secure

it is sense of inuntor and from what can be changes have in many instances had the This has made the condition of sanitation gathered the crime must have taken placo Eine give extracts dealing with various uncertainty that prevails as to still harshes cloth partitions, whilo preventing ventila

values, coupled with the go from bad to worse, in so molt as the earlier in the evening

Bo far no trace of the murderer, or torical Review of Sanitary Administration laws boing On the subject - Administration, the calculations acted, render uusiastiko tion as much as the wooden ones, actiniumurderors, has been discovo od nor lims in the Colony compiled by Mr A. Sholton eventually be suggested by the

almost impossible, ungender a late dirt to a

far

greater extent, and aro

nny motive for the oriale bean uneartliod. feeling of uneasiness and want of con- more liable to cause fires. Commissioners rapori...

The Chinese touement houses are so former, is the general pression of the Revenga ar robbery, mest probably the Turning now to the terms of the Comfidence, and thus koop investors aloof

The prigin of sub-section 1 of 176 can be peculiarly constructed flat every storey or traced as far back as Ondinance 24 of 18m floor as it is commonly called is simply sized nothing end further evidence is obtain place would stoto that their empiries into 7, sub-section which Feads:

rout of cach room ranges, Every domestic building, inust be from $10 in the por districts to 800 mor the working of the Ordinance all point to

provided

with an open space in the rent, month in tlie busiest part of the city.

Very

few Chinese can afford to take n families keep a flour, together, in order to bring it within their means to keep thoir wives and child

children with

with them,

lations, and we will now from time to respecting property and the fact that these little privacy for their women pers or large knives. Froin all appearances mission which has dealt with the Ad- the Government and the unofficial members

questions.

icon, the Commis up in the first

room.

certain can be said.

The

ROBINSON PIANO

COMPANY, LTD.

THE

MINIATURE GRAND

BY

8TELN WAY

work of creative at which slaudi alone-unqualifedly THE BEST.

PIANOG

disapproval of the Biodical Officer of Health

Faxombots of the Board

dezcopte

tone resigned. Hooper.

In the

opening the Legislative Council the Governor said he regrotted" stato thero. had Attached to the Report of the Con been some intsunderstanding betweon

ministration of the Public Health and

of the Sanitary Board in

regard to the of Medical Officer of Health. appointmart some opposition had Buildings Ordianto, is an important His

S Loon offered to his views in certain quartets and it is not improbable that a compromise Hooper. It is as follows:-

Secretary of State but ne vat no decision. The earliest record of any soniitary had been arrived at. In this uncertain to assign administration of the Colony, is when the any definite position to the mowly appoint Sanitary question was taken by the ad Medical Officer of Health as tho Bubor Government, and a Committee of Public dinate of Holy, which at any time

might THE KOWLOON-CANTON

Heatch and Cleanliness was appointed' in cease to exist.

In the

on 14th Legislativa Council on August, 1843, with authority to enforce Decomber, 1806, the Honourable Mr T. H. RAILWAY.

rigid sanitary rules amongst all classes of

Whitshead 1901 (section 5, sub-section 1) the same clauso was altered to read "Every domostio

residents, but an effective measures wore Governmentcomplained of the notion of the is most unsatisfactory, both in the Admin-building must be provided by the moner

Progress During 1908.

Board, and of the word to the Sanitary taken. Those rides were subsequently Board, and of the protracted delay on istration and in many of their regulations with an open space in the rear, &c., "

formulated by Ordinance 5 of 1844.———— part of the Government in reconstructing

the Board on

on a proper basis He Bald Flis Touching on the question of the Kow. In order to fully explain what appear to The words added constituted a most far eaming is abore the average earning1on-Canton railway in hija report for 1606 inter a'i that the occupier of promises Faddros to the Council on 28th November,

Ordinance Number 14 of 1815 enacted Excellency be the dmwback in the regulations and

and radical altoration notwith the failure in administration, the Commiswhich the Attorney General in of Chinese clark. Ho must retina | sioners have decided to steal in detail with introducing the Consolidated Ordinanes (10 fairly respectable manner as his position Si Antthew Nathan say The attempts should not allow the accumulation of filth 2604, then said leat a Sanitary Board,

onco a mesting certain sections of the Ordines, pointing of 1991) to the Legislative Council asid roques it. He cannot live far away from of H.B.M. Consul at Laton and Minic or other offensive substances within his

fortnight, could

The following in au account from the properly ont where Indship exists, the case for En substituting a single Ordinance for the his business amongst the coolice. He has tor at Peking and of the Hongkong Garera promicas. This was followed in 1806 by care and direct, such a staff I do not tam uit of the taking of the Ple complaint, and the resultant injury done fifteen it sepented it had been found noces to rent a floor in the Central District, ment to get the Chinese authoilies to an Ordinance to regulate Chinese buriala, gentiones could he found who have time

believe, and that four or five independent biscite

THE SANITARY BOABY, which costs at lunst $20 per month, nocom

and inclination to doroto several hours of the Colony. prosperity

ing of some of the enactinents

etinents con

daily guage cally half of his wages is nhuurbed by the final loan agreement for the Chinese section the Colony of Hongkong as follows: Was then deal with the alterations which so as to preserve top but that rent. the renaming half boing

of language cilly half

Reall of Plebiscite. apper desirable in order to render the and prevent undue

barely of the Canton-Kowloon milway and of an "Such of the Onlers and Regulations position to inform you definitely what whether there should be an unofficial or on

possibility, I hope's

a For a considerable time the subject of working of the Ordinances morò eflicacious, nearly the whole of those amendinents sufficient to pay for his day possiblo, A210oment for the joint; wórking of that of the General Board of Health established | atops it has boon decided to take to pince official majority in the Savitary Board has It seems almost inconceivable that the of the rent per cent, to 50 por cant with the British auction resulted in four in London under Authority of the Acts of the Sanitary, Board on a new basis. been a voxed question amongst those in the "

the conclusion, viz., that the Administration sulsoquent Ordinanco, -No. 10 of whole storey, Ginerally two or three

of the Sanitary and Building Regulations as carried out under the existing Ordinances

the word.

Å'

An instance muy ba given of a Chiponat 840 mouth clerk, though 840 a

a month

which

ARA

the

Governor in his

to properly and consequently the general·į sary to make some altor consolidated modating-about twelve params. Practi-open negotiations for the conclusion of a land to prevent certain nuisances, within a to su a task than to bo, in".

and at the same time les hurssing and DRGIOUS to the community.

Of all the drastic sections of a very drastic Ordinance, section 175 probably

were purely formal and the substance of

the law remained entirely unchanged."

tremendous

of to

the bounds

effects property owners nutreneriously than blind to the by before (Ordinuco & mother, a sister or cognising the preliminary agreement inndo it to adopt, shall for such Time And to of State, but as, yot no decision has boen?

His

other.

tion

to

nity Lens

it

for, under the present law, it is for him to save 40

Parliament för the

the vent by partition lyns before.

and motings being hold at Cauton in March Public Health, ne any of them, as shall be of the Session Attorney General should have been so sharing it with another

His Excellency made i

DT explanation and and April between representatives of the from time to time, by the Governor in

is stated. Even when a better paid inan can afford. Victroy there and of the British and with such modifications thereof respective nat improbable that compromisu will Some opposition has been offered. dous significance of is defective

ective in the funds these three words

Council determined and notified, to r any

the owner.

to my views in certain quarters and it is 830 ront a mouth, the present to pay 820 to 8 mental principles of equity inasmuch as It has been shown in the evidence

it

a with undue severity on Chinese Corporation, in the Vicary 10-with each

His Excellency in Council shall think ly 29. sacrifices vosted righte without compensa the Commission that sub-section 1 of him. Ho tinte a

eventually be suggested by the Booretary tion. To quote from the of the section 175 of No. 1 of 1903 which is an

brother.

there may

-with-kim.

sit besides his own by the Corporation with the Chinese Gorsuch Extent or with such Modifications as arrived at. There are those who inve Landowners

the exact copy of

section

ion bú sub-action 1 of 10 wife and children, and one or two servants, mont 22 the 28th March, 188, and in shall be do notified, extend to, and he pretended, to see in the action of the Governor regarding

Hurt Public Health and of 1901 has cost the landlords of Hongkong The only cubicle allowed to be put his proposing arrangements which, though enforced within this Calc Building Bill, September 280s, 1900. "No very

and will if not used by himself and his gife. very large sums of

His s mother, or has aftuner boon upheld of dollars more, for which there can be no have to sleep and do everything in full Constitution. by our Courts Una the principle that debt the additims of these three words open view of each other in the remaining

G without compensation a violation of the

in the 1001 Ordinauce spice. righte of private

will tot he Al wvate property will not por.

their re

reproduction in the 1913 Oerlin

Except in the cubicle, there is no other the public good mitted even

yet woane are almost entirely responsille.

privacy available. The law does not allow find that this section, retrospective as

cused

A

of

is

principle is more bruly established in our repealed cost. thenaya thousands children and all the members of his family they differed materially from those of the Authority of this under the Government an attempt to deal » death;

the property

t several lakhs of dollars. can be no doubt that if this see- tion of the Ordinance continues to bo enforced without compensation, the losses

ity

bu

Serious.

One of the witnesses, no less an author

than the Building Authority himself, admitted that the enforcement of this four-fifths of the

the owner

of a

צו!"

proliminary loan agreement and included one for joint working, wore accepted as the basis for the further negotiations. These, after sunuy delays, were carried on

blow to the

my

intantions."

by all other Loading Makura

FOR SALE OR HIRE

A

PRICES consistent with quay and

BASED ON PRE-ENT HATE OF EXCHANGE

"(Continued on Pages 2 and 3)

SUBSIDIARY COIN.

*Comments by Sir Matthow Nathan.

"It has provel most unfortunata for pro- even a little space to be enclosed for the at Paking. between Tang Shao-yi, the cui connected with stor of the measures which would have left no doubt Sir, Matthew Nathan comments on the

such as

Under the Ordinance of Order and Clean any such motive and even had such been Sanitary Board. I disclaim liness 1836 the Governor to appoint a duly qualified Modical Proti mrsnes

was empowered

should at least have adopted In his report for 1908, just published, measures batter calculated to effect it tioner to be Medical Colony who shall

such dutíns whatever as to

as to my inta

Sanitary subsidiary cain evil. He says that "bad as: of the methods in

ethods in Shanghai and Singapors under wore the effects on trade of the insecurity as the Geramnor shall dirvel Colony as

fa Municipal Council hate the managementatory results, while of the waterways far greater evil rosulted i the Ordinace was in

ed and not without good re

the

following year, thin above nection, was ay

our

It may be argued that if the three words tenòment on offer or - sation in oblainperty upon which added to the 1901 (bilinasen were so vp-| purchase price on marigage, was equivalent wore mado until after the suction containing must be put up on the issuing a 5 per cent loan of £1,500,000 for following year » Chief Inspector was necessary work Quite recently the Hon-about & per cont. grently reduced the pour-

ол

his

pressive, how is it that no serious complaints room

tom was re-embodied in the 1908 Oulin

anco,

mor-

added to these four.

to

Mr

.

Chadwick was commissioned

3 hever known any object worthy is to the inconvenionea of

and

after, the esetbent of theso Ordinances papers in the accountant's' room, and as under the dirvotion of a Chinese managingmont was created na Sub Department of renght forward which has not of its Government who, were mishlo to get

In fail at these periods the Government encouraged bundlorda to provide lanes in almo

ed in conjunction with the losses incurred of 1933 the

Hi the

CAR

*

he

And

owners that the speech theaks of convenience, and railways, party of lossen Attorney General in the this nose director-general of an Vorty and Mr

Ordinance was

as not to arose, the amongst the wage earning classes of slightest suspicion among the unofficia!

reason, as t J. O. P. Bland, representing the corpora-re-enacted by the Amending Ordinance. has become almost unbearable.

As the

most authorities in, issuing from the provincial The Medical Inspector appears to have obnoxious and the most poisonous odours members of Council that the changes pro- The Chinese merchants and traders, too, tion. Ten metings were held between the had no direct staff under him until 1873 are to be met with in every street of the mint vast quantities of subsidiary coins possed were other than ns described by that are not left without a share of the hard- 23rd August and the 7th Novales and on wheri a Chinainen, was appolated Seaven town. The accumulations of filth discover-containing out 10 por cent, one oder learned gentleman and they were satisfied ship. The rent of their shop varius be the 10th of the latter month a final loan gor for all. Departments undoy Surveyed in the native part of the city Inst year tudo dollar of which they purported in

varies-be- with his s statement that the law remained twoen 930 and $100

ris entirely unchanged."

Himilar

construction floor.

to the floors of the agreement was signed by Tang Shao-yi and Department and this continued until 1878. were permitted by official neglect. The represent fractional parts. This over- In 1870 four European-Inspectors were blaine cannot be attributed to the Sanitary issue, bringing down the value of sacks of To meet their business Mr Bland. It provides for the corporation

appointed to Department Survey

Board, which novor hul pow : to carry.

power t requirements,

You similar coins-already in the country by ground

the construction and equipment of the

ourable the Colonial Secretary spol bec

spoke at a chasing power of the Kwangting consumer to Guvernment confiscation,

public prosent law requires it to with an open front above

Chinese section of the railway. A first the

vicoting and bore testimony to the mahon Report on the Sanitation of the of Hongkong residents. Ho of counter,

He said:

foreign goods It The mortgagor so far from finding his

incidentally brought down the dollar value of Hongkong which is unsuitable for the conduct property enhanced by the costly re-con- The reason is not far to seels. The 1810 business, requiring privacy and security.

of mortgage: on the milway is to be the Colher, change Enchis to haro been ri

far as the publio spirit is concerned security of the loan the duration of which is No structions, hods it

it seriously depreciated inaud 1001 Ordinances contained succeeding The common practice of a Chianso

Colony trading concerns in blie value, as

as tonants invariably demad lower clauses which provided that houses built thant is, to keep his safe and valuable toba 30 years. The construction is to be made until,1883, when a Sanitary Depar fants in consideration of the availab's e

received support

port in every way from the rid I of a large stock of this coin purchased conxmodation being reduced.. Flis margin could dispestise with backyards if they had the carotakos of these, the steuntant or dircter with who arret ud a Borisations of Mr. H. MoCalum who was desig: I have never come across auch n-voll into return $3,583, ond of this to England for

the Survey Department, under the direc-inhabitants of Hongkong.

in the preceding year hind eventually his rents reduced to suck an extent a land or a certain width in the rear. shroff in to

to sleep in as to leave him able to pay the interest houses having a cortin pen space at the also forbide this, for any enclosed space chief recountant. The agreement pro-

the room, but the law a British engineer-in-chief qud a Britishunted "Sanitary. Inspecto

formed community; it line been

shle as bullion. The Hongkong, In the same year Order and the unhappy mortgagor, rear could and did obtain exemption from looping purposed is a mortgago,

cubicle and

Clean oilgod

result of this lesson to If he be a man of small agents, has to relin providing backyards.

vides that a further, one for the jointliness Amendment Ordinance" was passed as a most enlightened comment decided as a

And such a standard of intelligence could quish lila property at a heavy crifice or go

refore illegal

other floors of a Chinese firm are working of the British and Chinese whereby the Governor might constitute a net lave been maintained, except oliminate from their future financial policy making profit from the supply 19 With the Honourable member of subsidiary cofas te iute Tank

uptoy..

permanent Sanitary Board consisting of When is circumstance is duly sansider. | lion of hackyards but in the old Ordinane la partitioned into so many cubicles for sections of the railway should be arranged the Surveyor Gedemt, Registrar Govora cordially agree in this instance and Provinces and then took stops, which ainee the two Kwang clecke, from the coneroting and time washing clauses contained in the 1899 and 1901 for the staff, aro in the majority of Governor of Hongkong, Negotiations for members' to be app the Board consistedvice on a properly constituted Sani ary Provinces--the imperious necessity for

which are not require between the Viceroy of Canton and the Colonial Surgeon and not less than 2. other I believe that we have in our midst men i tho end of the your five had some resul succeeling and modifying any nice

by the Governor eminently well qualified to render good ser to impress on the Goverment of those regulations,

there is small rom for wander Ordinances were eutiroly doleted with cases let to the agents of other smaller that Chinese property has, as is affirmed disastroussults to property owners. businesses outside the Colony It is thore by several witnesses, depreciated 30 to 3v Houses completed at the end of 1902.

tary Inspector Board"

The following is an extract from the checking the output from the Canton for fore

fore obvious that hardship

the

consequent por cont. in valute,

the beginning of 1009 passed Jay the upon

upon the prohibition of the erection of more.

to the Sanitary Sub-Department of Public Colonial The tendency of the Chinese to soud Sanitary Board and Building Authority as than one cubiolo on the upper floors of the Kowloon railway also ya down that it Works Dopartinent and was a member andontal Surgeon's Report for 1894, con

cerzang the Sanitary Board their families away from the Colony is being built in accordance with the law and existing houses in keonly felt by Chinese is understood that the Chinese Government

Honorary Secretary to the Sanitary Board,

As a compulsory member of the Board appointment was a Medical words aro insuficient to express my The first

disgust coming more and more warka (side consus which in fact were the very centres of the of all classes. rutarns which show an actand Chinese

In his osidenoo, the Principal Civit will not build another line competing with Inspector. Mr McCallum was appointed at, in any way, being a part of it *** population, exclusive of now Kowloon, of

The only thing I 387,583 at agninst the estimate given in Coverament who sold land in lots to suit Mediol Officer has admitted that sections this milway to its detriment." In this Sonitaty Inspector. Tie other. Tuspecious I leave the Colony for a time with regret. the Report on the Health and Sanitary blocks of houses of a certain height, with tie and unpracticable. The remarks and proposal of the Chinose authorities to build Surveyor General (Chairman), Registrar before I returns there will be some inents buhind him on the state of trade in

do not regret leaving is 104 dealing with cubicles are dras-connection it may be mentioned that a fa 1887 the Board was composed of the the Sanitary Board as Body and I hope Condition of the Colony for the year 1905 and depth and of a design with which they suggestions embodied in the statement of

a line towaris Amoy which for someof the Palico). Mosse. Mic

Colonial Surgeon, Major Dempster proyemout as to the individual Mchore." of 338,873 occlusive of new Kowloon, or is were perfectly familar) were contouned Me A. Carter, the Sanitary Surveyor, Shestage of 51,290

Mir W. Danby wrote to the Press calling Hongkong in 1900. In his annual report persons).

ilied. 119

is appended hereto, are worthy of miles must have followed approximately.

son, Ede, Ho Kei, H. Me attention to the cruando boing waged ho points out that in the Chins trade of Property in Hongkong until the last (wa Lanos were no longer to be encouraged } or three years has been one of the favourites against backyards and buses privately us, of the year 1887 new inst legal exklofts, etc., and formally Hongkong and as regards importe very

deration from the evidence before the same coures as the Canton-Kowloon Callum to).

New alleging corruption the Chinese commuarity, eived are not allowed to count as open that the revision of the law bu this direction from Hongkong where it was held that the Public Health Bill

Sanitary was introduced into the Adonistration,

heavy losses had to be faced at the aid of Berty came into the murkot, buyer. Even public ronds fifty foek or more deserves the serious attention of thoGover construction of such a line was contrary to Logislature and after the fullest discussione | The Deity vess said the Government the year owing to the large stocks of India

in width. are not allowed to count as upen ment and the Legislature. the Public Health and Buildings Ordiuntce spaces and, under sub-section 2, it would It is impossible make a hard and fast the preliminary agreement of March, 1999. extending over some months it was passed would have to suit the matter to the bottom yarn which were held at prices above their

but by a suspending clause in the Ordin

either of 1903 (section 173 thereof in particular) scent that a building with a wide public rule in this matter, but we ate of opinion While the survey work on the British ance it did not besome-law until it was his altered all that

road back and front is Sonsidered far more that cubiclos are a necessity to the Chinese

A resolution of the Sanitary Board was true value. Neither in Blanchester, nuty the custom for the vou-story than one with only oue frontage, population, and that the whole question in section of the Canton-Kowloon railway notified that it was not disallowed by the passed that tho Colonial Secretary be re-er woollen goods was business, satisfactory parting with a

a. property to If the effect all this were not so serious, the general interest fequires cafoful const was being completed in the early part of Queen which notification was fazetted in fasted to furnish the Bearl with the anil in metals it was dull. tapontations of

May, 1888 ths or 40ths of the purchase money it would se ludicrous.

opinion of the legal advisers of the Crown Australian flour continued to increase large- the your construction was proceeding on tho This Ordinance was the first which gave as to whether any legal steps can be takenly. Exporte did not do so badly. Thurs line between Tai To and Lo Fu forry under the right to the public of electing any with a view to obtaining rodress for the was a good yield of silk and fair demand misterontation made against for it and native dealers were satisfied with

investments and keen competition always existed when

ANGPA

Formerly it

dur

allow

law (being built more or less under the

direct encouragement and advice of the

to remain on mortgage, and the Govern For instance, wo woukh remind your ment would have been wise to encourage Excellency of the case of the present build. practice which stimulated legitimate entering of the Hongkong and Shanghai Rouk, prise in property, and incidentally brought which at any mumont night under the in much revenue to the Government tertus of the Ordinance be called upon to coffers, but no such transactions usually provide an opçu space A$ hack yard in

the

spell ruin, and are consequently becoming rear (as Bond to the Kowloon on the north side) although open:

rarer

und rarer.

from Les

and

to

deration and thorough revision.

SPORTING.

Lawn Bowls.

-

this further agreement were not started before the end of the year.

The final loan agreanent for the Canton

of 8 members.

bister of feet!

Mr H. McCallad was Sanitary

wore of Naisances,

in the

ya Commission or otherwise:

chy a f

mint

BAD BUSINESS.

A Retrospect of 1908.

Sir Matthew Nathum has left a few com-

the Public Works Department and by the representatives of the Bound and the app and its officers in Fr Duby's the results of the your as regards ginger. boen found not including, however, any constitution of the Bourely an unofficial letto meeting of the Sanitary Board the rise in the sterling value of the

and of April about 2 miles of bank had

bridge or heavy earth-work. On the 29rd Tomorrow, afternoon the Police and March Mr W.. C. Evet, who had been ap pointed by the consulting engineers-Sir

CIVIL SERVICE #FOLIE,

important principle was admitted in the

majority?

The Ordinnuca enacted that the Board

more than

and the

Aba

und soy.

dollar which has been going on since. Carly

thout compensation is expe- have lately been advised by its legal competition. The following will represent resident, engineered in Elie Colony hom shall be appoint ayers hold by apparently the only means not the end of that mouth and again at the end

Over and above all, the Government Civil Servico Clubs meet in a Lawn Bowls Toha Wolf Barry and Co.-to be chief Colonial Surgeon and not]·

drafted was was pointed out in the permanently jeop infuatially signed potition against it) the prosperity of the Colony progress and

work of a novice,

That the Government recognised this to

this

Tho Sanitary Department is carrying on

a moru vigoris campaign than ever as

CIVIL SERVICE GWÁMPÍOKSÍLIP.

a certain extent is certain by the fact of regards the enforcement of this section Kelly beat Mr. L. E. Brett by 21 points

boing

withdrawn and a redraft of the (176) notwithstanding that such on orce- to 14. Ordinance made. This redraft was intend-ment would;" many cases, oppont to be

for.

was, worth

and some dificulties with labour delayedbers of the Board,aagistrate's order, which resulted in favoursome withdrawal of capital from the Colony

the

in gold using countries and

for invostneciation in, the value of

of Public Works, minuted as

1903 continued. in

in 1908, the range of should consist of the Surveyor General, Director Honourable Mr T. A. Cooper, it is doubtful, apart from the question Peninsula.

Registrar General, Captain Superintendent follo of Police

"I hope t

variation in the year being slightly greater that a full and complete caquiry of equity, whether the enforcement of

175 section

members, 4 of will be made into Mr Danby's allegations than in 1905. At the commencement of dient on economic grounds. As a direct advisor that under section 176 the Sanitary the Civil Service:

by the Governor against the Sanitary Board and its off January the dollar stock] at Sy. 0 11/16d.

It foll to 2s. 0 5/löd, for a result of such enforcomment, Crown Innds Board has only pawur to recommend

short time at Messrs W. H. Kally. R. Fonton, M.nd took charge of the work, being and 2 elocted by the..

It is made evident the latter Ba

available, Assisted by an engineering staff of one diminish in valuo and the assessable value modifications and not

A Royal Commission. texemption from the Melver and L. E. Brett (Skip.)

inemabors, de

as the last part of the An action was Brought

of February, rose irregularly to 25. 3 9/160. by Yeung Shin in tho of property decreases.

section. The sole remaining safeguard of

middle non-official members Kam against bio Sanitary Board and Polica 3 9/16d, at the end of the year. The

of Novembor and The Public Health and Buildings property ownera was thus swept away with Hudson and I. A. Wheat (Skáp.)

Meski's B. Duncan, C. H. Parkinson, R.xecutivo and four assistant ongibers non-official ine

sume Rection EBYH** who arrived subsequently. During the of the Board shall hold office for 3 years," Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 as originally results which lavo

Constable Rao as a test casato fry the right maximuns of the your was the highest valuo met

Messrs P. R. Adams, G. Badcock, Aummer sickness buong staff and workmen Thereby the unofficial majority of men of the Sanitary Board to enter premises and that had boar attained tipes, as ond of jeopardis rarity

Blowey and W. Finchor (Skip.)

pull down cocklofts without gotting a 1908. The rise is said to have involved the progress of the work, which consisted In Committee of the

maust be of the plaintiff. tunnel through the Kowlum hills. By the Governor when once he has accepted Yuen against the Sanitary Board for local stocks. tho championship final Mr W. H.at first in preparing for the piercing of the

that the nominee of the wer General:

Another netion was brought by Wong Li consi

consequent end of the yon quarters for staff and Office and is a meinber of the Board is

Certainly those stocks dealt with in the labourers and workshops were completed perfectly independent, and it must be wrongful acts, and ho was awarded 8500

Will deannges

Colony which give the best indication of cousins only fou

consider Land is the foundation of all prosperity The Victoria Recreation Club will enter

cost of only four ocial members and the shares and any legislation which losscus its

Mr McEwen enid there was nothing to heursty of the officers, save the Daily of four land companies, went down on in security of tenture (as section 176 dess) upon their new site on Monday best. A4 store yard, with arrozigaments for laud-

of the hile those of be disastrons

matshed has been erected and the work of ing plant and manterink, and lean forared at the commpanity to

hampon Dock Company. connected by about 3 to Tui Kok Tini and affected by it and in the end to the Governorsticking the permane oloring, though yards of temporary metro gato railway the

* so it is not certain that appears frein the cases that have recently

Cand

namely, tried. element will pro-dominate, boun

that should t

of business brought by different phrases and words to express the interests from the community is governs the end of the year. On Monday members some 1,500 yards long, formed with part of

Babaro

Wharf and undertake a general Hongkong and With regard to the military cleansing of the town owing to the outbreak Same Hitaning Sub-section

replied "With 2 of this very We are of opinion that section 175 of and their friends are invited to be present the existing Public Works Department

The shores int Godown Company I section (175)

this Ordinancs requires to be completely at the Club lehteen 11 and 12 o'clock road

Military generally have their man, the to the north face communication Neither the Biting

from a temporáry landling place at Lok Loown Board of Health and I do not think it of filth diseases, a much clesor supervision nearly every industrin undertaking, in nor Medical Officer given under sub-section 1

armanent be held.

appoint bolonging to

to the garrison to the Whitewash Brigade by responsible Content Company and the Rope Manufac work by the end of the

such from this time.

4 Board as this.

offers than has hitherto been the case turing Company shrunk in value, had been started from, the opon at either

The Board this time consisted of 10 This

Clark mae in year Dr..

possibly exercise engolid advanced inore than 4 for for by Ordinues of 1887

personal supervision over the whole of the What will be the ultimate temunal

ed to be final but before the ink was dry illegal by

by the ign

ageing

of the proviso con-

on it, it was found to be unworkable intained in section 208 of the Ordinance. inuy resposts and wholesale attendments

had

te bo Diade.

Everrin its present form, it is a hasty

and ill considered doenment. It toomis

willà, antiguous, regulations and the con-

Civil Medical

WR CANO

mist

The V. R.-C.

the principal revised and that compensation should.bo when an informal opening, coremony will

*Cubicles.

A Smart Captura:

....

on the south but were still undor con- f Dorne in mind that this new Hoari Apart however from: any question of the state of its business doafersőd

eix

the Governor appointing, say, af Press of Aug. 26, 1800, 000 lesson aloa Hongkong and"

over: 10%-

in

000

time to

Ha in Tiaa Cove As regards Pline I won't say it is against the law-to should be exercised over the operations of cluding the two "sugar refuerit, tho

OLE

end of the tunnel.bub in somber and was constituted as provided work but he could norge of that

of Health or anyone else is able to say exactly what it does menu, but the in- ference is that houses of more than 40 foot in depth

having two main frentages in

Yesterday three men broke into In recommending the introduction of a different, streets require double as much timestic law, for the Buthe abolition of house and stoly about 8570 worth of plothes feet open spes 111 similar houses irving only one frontage the Chincag terenient houses, the advisors

the syntet e cubicles or sub-divisions of the floors of and jewellery. With little to work upon face. A shaft 30 feet deep had been sunk that of Medical Officer of Health and in It is not right that Chinese householders Road Central, under the auspices of the

inside this face at the south and feat inside t

The unworkability of this

in

been

not

et inside

290

shaft to

tho

5,100 foot from the. first and

AA

of these

In 1895 a new office was created, víz,,

vacancy on the Board to

We have boor asked to stalo that the , competent loutanants are required. Arts Exhibition, being held at 37 Queen's

MARE HAY: WHILE THE SUN

brifty farmer Ho knows that the

but which are back to back or abat against of the Government Apparently the fiolice were informed and three mon headings commenced in both directions April a Bill was introduced into the Lezin-should a plexi at the mercy Canton Nam Koung Pablia Gollege, will be

or other subordinato officer whose olif. ility of this sub-section has realise They charged before side the north fase, had been on menber of the Sanitary

question thoroughly or folly who, had booked their passage for Canton, from it. Another to be 268 feet deep, ease there was no Oficer wven if they remain proof against the and curias which lavo- just been received

slative Council autliorising the Governar in coro zeal may lead to such occurroncas closed temporarily lur two days to allow foot

the Medical

Health A of appoint

as gave rise to the case tried on Saturday of the exhibition of à now lot of paintings fast been recognised by its non-enforce proposed. This is evidenced by the passing moat in the case of nearly all the many of Ordinace 23 of 1003 and the numerous F. A. Hazeland this morning and but

anitary Board in the temptations to set corruptly that must Chinese houses in the Colony that are more minutes, whist

not yet started. At. the-end" of the

This was strenuously opposed in lucre : boon written, sug

rushled.

work wine also proceeding o

goudbridges Cotnell and in support of the opposition inevitably be held out to them, than 50 feet in depth.

south of the tunnel and ou 3 north of it in mumble Mr A. McConachic read thu "The Hustontife the Director of

gesting modifiantions. Pablic

On May 1806, His Excellency he It must be borno in mind that the only Japanese Stowaways.

the Shatin valley. Works admitted in his evidence that the

report OF A

Govenor addressed a communication to the the Colony mcans

housing possesses of

t'a mis on either. received premia and had Chinese population is bi

of the earthwork for aiderable portion Following quotution from tho Government had

tho Two Japanese, men and 12wordon of the tunnel and about of that Medical Commission Appointed by the Chamber of Commerco asking wither HERE is a lesson in the work of the

Govornorto ouquire into the working of the they adhered to the views of Mr J. J for years receiving fotonuo in the of mites asid Crown runt from sub-divisiong, without which it is impossible were charged at the Magistracy. this on TriPo and the Lo Fu ferry and Medical Department of this Colony and Keswick,bon ho was Chairman of Lint bright anesbine may isa: but a day Aud bu

- Inad for the middle and poor chases of Chinese in rong with stowing away on the completed. The reclamation for the smtion

by the Governor

Soft ab üld bo which shopkl have been devoted to wider to live comfortably and docently. Moriousthishing from Kutchinotzu. site in Hung Hom Bay had boun put in rich was ree on Chamlar, in favour of an official majority prepares for the showers: which, aro: En.

more rouls and senverging Lea

in the Sanitary Board or of the most likely to follow." "reads and more.

household. Dysonteringskora Ordinanco the Government had the erection In other words that the f

I of 1903 totally prohibited They were four d in the fore-punk, and hand. The total exponditurs that had that the Modical for should be recent views of the Honourable Mr T. Hovory of

-attack some membør cubicles and when

nctually been insured by the Slat Dacou advisor to the Governor on all Sanitary Whitebeat their Representative br the of the home without warning Chambor beat profiting by the insanitary condition

found unworkabio, it was consequently boatswain and two quartermastore wore her was $599,548, 1

mattor through the Sanitary Board, to Counsil in favour of an unoficial jority is Cole, Cholera and Diarrhoen of the Colony, That, boitie du do to pommituted as above stated to allow one charged with siting nud-letting the SPRAINS

which is should be attacked and ou

on which

The Chamber decided to take the opinion Romedy which is the bost knowe modipina pensation at

least sheild

pro- subicle to be erected on each of the upper

SPRAINS QUIORLY OURED. costly ro construc

he should ocetipy a seat. He should have perty owners for such ei tiona na come under this section (176), and floors of existing houses and none on the Chie of the man was finał 2200, the re-

mininder of tho stowaways being fnod 850 ATHE be parts freely with Chamber no vote, his duties on the Beard being of the community on the subject which fer thead disuades, should always be kept at ground floor. Under both Ordinances, the consequent shrinkage in the earning however, the ercetion of cubicles in touch, while the charges against the lain'a Pain Balm and give them purely of un advisory nature it beintoy did with the following result::

331 and datay may prove fatal Fur salo by aft boatswain and the quartermastors will be absolute rest and a quick sure is certain undesirable that he should iter into For the Unthosh Majority, It must be remembered that in the great owly built houses is entirely forbidden.

For sale by all chemists and storescopere discussion on points on which he should be For he Official Majority,

shepu

power of the property.

Wad

deelded to-morrow,

the ptorious day

May:

band, ne immentite Treatment is necessary)

31 chemists and storekeepers.