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P.C. Mahomad Bux said that on Saturday morning he was ordered to keep back a mob of Chinese, and that when he went to do so he was pelted with stones. The defendant was one of those who threw a missile, and he arrested him.
Fined $50 or two months' in default.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS
and the unhappy patients on the bulk must be brought to the Tung Wah branch Hospital, and those of the sick who so desire could be permitted to introduce the full disease into their native villages on the mainland! Splendid illustration of the intelligence and perspicuity, to say nothing of the gratitude, of these so-called representatives of the native community!
P.C. Rossball Singh charged a coolie with a similar offense on the same occasion.
Fined $50 or two months' in default.
Two coolies were charged with disorderly conduct in Po Yan Street on the 20th.
A Sikh constable said that during the morning a Chinese gentleman came out of the Tung Wah Hospital and got into his chair. The coolies were about to carry him when a mob of Chinese turned the chair upside down, with the gentleman in it. The occupant of the chair got out and ran back into the hospital. The first defendant was one of those who got hold of the chair. Witness blew his whistle and arrested the defendants. At the same time some stones were thrown. Some watchmen belonging to the Tung Wah Hospital came to witness's assistance and the mob was cleared away.
Fined $50 each or two months' in default.
Three old women were next brought up, charged with assaulting Inspector R. Germain, an officer of the Sanitary Board, while in the execution of his duty.
Complainant said—On the 20th inst. at 8.30 a.m. I was on the house-to-house inspection duty in Station Street, Taipingshan. I was called away to Market Street for ten minutes and on returning to Station Street I found the whole place in an uproar.
I pacified the people as best I could and went on with the inspection. On coming out of the next house I was met with a shower of stones and bricks and rubbish. The first defendant threw the brick produced, and the second and third defendants were the ringleaders, urging the others to attack us. I had two inkongs in uniform with me. I arrested the defendants. The people objected to the house-to-house visitation. I was the only man inspecting at the time; I had no soldiers. The house-to-house visitation has been going on for some time every day, and there have been no disturbances hitherto. I have ceased to suppose that it was in consequence of the employment of soldiers that the disturbances arose. The soldiers have been employed for four days.
Mr. F.H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police said—I ask for a severe penalty. This is part of an organized arrangement for disturbing the measures taken by the authorities to deal with the plague. The disturbances are only kept under control by the presence of an armed body of police in the Taipingshan district.
The first defendant was fined $10 or one month's imprisonment, and the other two defendants $5 each or six weeks' in default.
Nearly all the fines were paid.
We regret to learn that Inspector Quincey and several of the officers who have been so actively engaged in the work of visiting the houses are incapacitated by illness from duty.
The house-to-house visitation, which daily discloses the unreported existence of plague and sometimes discovers the dead bodies of victims in the rotting dampness of basement floors, is to be still more vigorously carried on. Fifty volunteers for this highly necessary work are asked for, and in view of the danger and gravity of the situation, not only to the trade and commerce of the port but to the health of the entire population, these volunteers and probably more, will doubtless be speedily forthcoming.
The insinuations which have been cast upon the military employed as special sanitary officers, and the reports current that it is this to which the chief objection to the house-to-house visitation is due, caused us to make enquiries in this direction. We learn on the best authority that since their enrollment in this work the military employed have worked very satisfactorily and effectively, that no complaint of their conduct has been made, and that as a matter of fact the majority of the householders were not aware that the men visiting their houses were military, until they were incited by the anti-foreign leaders behind to make demonstrations of vindictiveness. The soldiers employed are all picked men, and the majority are non-commissioned officers. Twelve men of the Shropshire regiment are still engaged in the work of inspection and twelve engineers in disinfecting. Each sanitary officer is accompanied by a likong, and there are now twenty-one men on this special duty in the infected area.
We might mention, to remove any misconception, that the Government have not completely abrogated their authority even over the Chinese Hospital at the Glassworks. Dr. Penny, R.N., makes visits twice daily to see that things are in a sanitary condition, and European police are on duty at the gates keeping statistics of cases.
It is said by some who have had so intimate an acquaintance with the development and character of the plague since its appearance here, that the attacks now do not appear to be quite as virulent as a week ago. It may be added that several of the new cases in the Glassworks have been discharged on diagnosis as not suffering from plague. Whether such are being sent to the Hospital accidentally or intentionally it is difficult to say, but plausibility is lent to the latter suggestion by the natural desire among the Chinese to be able to record in their statistics a higher percentage of "discharged cured" than the European doctors were able to do.
23rd May. The following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:
Hospital Admissions Deaths Ken-edy Hospital 3 1 Chinese Hospital 19 10 City Hospital 7 10 Tung Wah Hospital 27 18 Total 56 39The patients under Chinese medical direction are treated with a decoction made from the root of an aquatic plant, which is said to have been wonderfully successful in dealing with serious cases at Canton. After being infused in hot water for some time for some time the liquid is strained off and administered at regular intervals, while the pulp is applied externally to the buboes as a poultice.
Under treatment 21
"A quiet day; plague in a measure abating," practically sums up the reports received yesterday. The concessions made by the Government in no longer insisting upon the transfer of patients to the Hygeia and in giving permission (speedily availed of) to establish a Chinese hospital under Chinese control, acted like oil on the troubled waters and no further disturbances took place, or were even attempted, after the Glassworks had been converted into a hospital. The native prejudice, however, not having been largely removed, large numbers of coolies continued yesterday in every way possible to leave the colony, both by steamer and passage-boat, and the exodus appears to be increasing.
At the Magistracy yesterday a hawker was fined $10 for creating a disturbance near the Tung Wah Hospital.
DEPUTATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
IMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT.
At one o'clock yesterday afternoon a deputation from the Tung Wah Hospital, accompanied by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart (Registrar-General) waited on His Excellency the Governor at Government House for the purpose of representing a certain feeling existing among some sections of the native community. The deputation presented to His Excellency a long petition, the principal points of which were:
(1)—That the house-to-house visitation should cease.
(2)—That sick persons should be allowed to return to their own country.
(3)—That the patients on the Hygeia should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.
(4)—That all sick persons should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.
After listening attentively to the recital of this document, His Excellency said that he would take the last point first. In reply to that, all he had to say was that sick people might elect to go to any hospital they liked. There was no interference with their choice whatever, and no intention on the part of the Government to force patients into any particular hospital for treatment. As to the request that the sick on the Hygeia should be moved to the branch Hospital, he altogether declined such a responsibility. The idea, he said, was absurd, as if the petitioners' prayer was granted it might result in much unnecessary loss of life. He therefore declined to grant it. As to the request contained in paragraph 2, His Excellency said that he had nothing to do with the return of the people to their own country. If the authorities in Kwang-tung refused to allow persons from Hongkong to go to Macao or elsewhere, he could not coerce those authorities or interfere with their decision.
And as regards the first point of the petition—that the house-to-house visitation should cease—His Excellency said that he considered such visitation to be absolutely necessary, and he had no intention whatever to relax the morning regulations in that respect.
The morning paper had shown how necessary it was, for they reported that three or four dead bodies had been taken out of one house, which would never have been discovered but for the house-to-house visitation. His Excellency reminded the deputation that this was an English colony, and said that the Tung Wah Committee should assist him in carrying out the law and persuading others to obey it. Holding up the proclamation he stated that that was now the law, and it would be carried out. He promised that every consideration should be shown to women and children, and that if any unnecessary damage was done on proof thereof the persons suffering would be recompensed. To show his own opinion of the necessity for visitation he had asked that all the outbuildings and coolie quarters at Government House should be inspected. His Excellency further said that he intended largely to increase the force of Sanitary Inspectors and he hoped that in a few weeks' time all danger would be at an end. He asked the Tung Wah Committee to assist him by getting additional help.
A fatal case has been reported from Queen's Gardens. A day or two ago a coolie employed at the Royal Engineers' mess was taken ill and died before knowledge of the nature of his ailment—which was plague—was known to his companions. The premises have been thoroughly disinfected.
His Excellency concluded by saying that he was responsible not only for the health of the Chinese but of the Europeans and the Army and Navy, that his decision was embodied in the proclamation, that this proclamation was now the law, and that persons transgressing it would be arrested and punished.
The Registrar-General frequently interpreted His Excellency's remarks and the deputation withdrew, if not actually satisfied, at any rate fully aware of the determination of the Government to do its best to stamp out and prevent the spread of this insidious disease.
Tung Wah Hospital on Monday.
A meeting of the Consular Body, held at Shanghai on the 15th inst., it was unanimously decided to request the taotai, through the Customs, to enforce No. 15 of the Harbour Regulations, as a measure of precaution, against vessels arriving from the South. The Regulation in question is as follows:—"Vessel arriving from a place infected with cholera or other contagious disease on board shall not come nearer the lower limit of the Harbour than one mile, shall fly at the fore a yellow flag, and shall not allow any one to disembark or come on board without permission from the Harbour Master's Office."
There is some talk of closing the schools at which Chinese scholars attend. We believe that Dr. Bateson Wright has applied to the Governor for permission to close Queen's College, and it is probable if the disease does not receive a decided check during the next few days that this precautionary measure will be adopted.
THE PROCLAMATION.
The following is a precis of the proclamation issued by H.E. Sir William Robinson:
Whereas Hongkong is now visited by a plague which is killing Chinese at the rate of between 30 and 40 a day, and it is understood that 8,000 people have succumbed to it since the commencement of the outbreak. It is the general opinion that the outbreak was caused simply by the bad smells from large numbers of dead rats. This has also been proved by a foreign doctor on Shameen, who, after examining some of the newly dead rats, found many worms in the lungs. He advised people not to eat them, as they are a great poison.
22nd May.
We are glad to be able to announce that the plague in Canton has further diminished during the past three days. The doctors have now discovered the proper method of treating the patients, and the percentage of deaths amongst those who have been attended by them is only twenty per cent. or less.
17th May.
Mr. Leach concluded his arguments on the point raised by Mr. Francis as to whether the case should be dealt with in its present form, and Mr. Francis replied.
His Lordship reserved his decision.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. A.G. WISE, ACTING PUISNE JUDGE.
CHOI CHU vs. CHEUNG KAM TIM.
Mr. Creasy Ewens appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Phillippo for the defendant.
This was a claim of $400. money alleged to have been lent by the plaintiff, a woman, to the defendant's wife for the purchase of necessaries.
The plaintiff gave very contradictory evidence as to the circumstances of this loan, and His Lordship, not considering that there was sufficient proof of the debt, gave judgment for the defendant with costs.
ALLEGED SINGULAR AND FATAL MISTAKE.
A correspondent writes:—"Is it a fact that a Chinese woman was sent on board the Hygeia by the Sanitary Authorities supposed to be suffering from the plague, but which proved to be a case of pregnancy? And is it true that the mistake was not found out until it was too late to save the patient's life? This is the tale told to me by my servants, and two of them have left my employ in a terrible fright to take their wives out of the colony."
SUPREME COURT.
15th May.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.
In re THE CHINA LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
The bearing was resumed of the motion by the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris to be placed on the register of shareholders of the China Land and Finance Company, Limited, in respect of 1,500 shares in the Company which had been deposited by Ng Chan Fong, the Bank's compradore, as security for advances made or that might be incurred in future by Ng Chan Fong to the Bank, being additional security under terms of an agreement of the 16th February, 1891, and a bond dated 14th December, 1891.
Mr. A.J. Leach, Q.C., instructed by Mr. G.C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master), appeared on behalf of the Bank; and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. C. Ewens), on behalf of the Company and Ng Woon Sun How Qua, who had been served with notice of the motion.
His Lordship, on taking his seat, said—In this case Mr. Leach, before answering Mr. Francis's application that I should not deal with this case at the present stage, asked me to allow him to complete his evidence by cross-examining certain parties upon the affidavits filed by Mr. Francis's clients.
18th May.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, AND COMMON JURY.
ATTEMPTED ARSON.
Chan Sik Ming, an apprentice, aged 19, was charged with feloniously and wilfully attempting to set fire to No. 7, Queen's Road West, occupied by a boot and shoe dealer who employed the defendant, on the 6th inst.
Mr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), prosecuted for the Crown.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Another apprentice who had been committed as an accomplice was discharged by proclamation.
The following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. Chow Dart Tong, A. Sharp, J.M. Gutierrez, F.G. Barres, F. Hubbe, D.W. Craddock, and Thos. Grimshaw.
The facts of the case were that on the night of the day in question the proprietor of the shop awoke and found the defendant setting fire, by means of a large joss stick, gunpowder, and matches, to a box of shavings in one of the rooms on the ground floor.
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty.
His Lordship reserved sentence, which was delivered on the 22nd.
His Lordship (addressing the prisoner) said—The jury have found you guilty of preparing a joss-stick with matches and gunpowder and with having set fire to it. They found that you knew what you were doing, and that you placed it close to a box of shavings in order to set fire to the house; and everything points to the supposition that you did this because your master had given you a few slaps two or three days before. The consequence of your foolish act might have been very serious. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for one week and that you receive six strokes with a rattan.
21st May.
FORGERY.
Pun Long, a clerk, was charged with uttering a forged note purporting to be endorsed by one Chao Yan Lok in January last, with intent to defraud Messrs. Arthur and Co.
Mr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. H.L. Dennys), for the defence.
The following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. A.O. Gutierrez, C.F. de Carvalho, R.S. Philpott, C.A. Plumb, E.J. Moses, M.S. Northcote, and F. Gomes.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
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P.C. Mahomad Bux said that on Saturday morning h. was ordered to keep back a mob of Chiness, and that when he went to do sn he was palted with stones. The defendant was one of those who threw a missile, and he arrested him.
Fined $50 or two months' in default.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
the unhappy patients on the bulk must be brought to the Tang Wah branch Hospital, and those of the sick who so desire canst be permitted to introduce the full di-ease leto their native vil ings on the mainland! Splendid illustration of the intelligeno and perspicuity, to say .P.C. Rossball Singh charged a coolie with a nothing of the gratitude. of these so-called similar offenes on the sims occasion.
representatives of the native community! But Fined $50 or two months' in default.
fortunately the Government had reached the Two coolies were charged with disorderly con- end of its tether in the matter of concessions, duot in Po Yan Street on the 20th.
and when this deputation approached the Go vernor, ilis Excellency very firmly put his foot down, admonished them for the absurdity of their ideas, and told them in plain words that he would have none of it.
A Sikh constable said that during the morn ing a Chinese genzlaman came out of the Tung Wab Hospital and got into his chair. The coolies were about to carry him when a mob of Chinese turned the chair apside down, with the gentleman in it. The occupant of the chair got ont and ran ran back into the hospital. The first defendant was one of those who got hold of the chair. Wituess blew his whistle and ar- rested the defendants At the same time some stones were thrown. Some watchmen belonging to the Tang Wah Hospital came to witness's
assistance and the mob was cleared away
Fined $50 each or two months' in default. Three old women were next brought up, charged with assaulting Inspector R. Germain. an officer of the Sanitary Board, while in the execution of his duty.
Complainant said-On the 20th inst. at 8.30 a.m. I was on the house to house inspection duty in Station Street, Taipingshan. I was called
away to Market Street for ten minutes and on returning to Station Street I found the whole place in an uproar.
I pacified the people as best I could and went on with the inspection. On coming out of the next house I was met with a shower of stones and bricks and rub- bish. The first defendant threw the brick pro- duced, and the second and third defendants were the ringleaders, urging the others to attack us.. I had two inkongs in uniform with me. I - arrested the defendante. The people objected to the house to house visitation. "I was the only man iuspoeling at the time; I had no soldier The bouse to house visitation has been going on for some time every day, and there have been no disturbances hitherto. bave ΠΟ reased to Rppose that it was in consequence of the employment of soldiers that the disturbances arose, The soldiers have been employed four days.
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Mr. F H. Mav. Captain Superintendent of Police said-I ask for a severe penalty. is part of an organised arrangement for disturb. ing th measures taken by the authorities to deal with the plague. The disturbances are only kept under by the presence of an armed body of police in the Taipingshan district.
The first defed ut was fined $10 or one month's imprisonment, and the other two defen- dants $5 each or six weeks' in default.
Nearly all the fines were paid.
We regret to learn that Inspector Quincey and several of the officers who have been 80 actively engaged in the work of visiting the housse are incapacitated by illness from duty.
The honse
to honse visitation, which daily discloses the unreported existence of plagas and sometimes discovers the dead bodies of victims in the rotting damps of basement fors, is to be still more vigorously carried on. Fifty volun- teers for this highly necessary work are asked for, and in view of the danger and gravity of the situation, not only to the trade and com verce of the port but to the health of the entire popula tion, these volunteers and robbly more, will doubtless be speedily forthcoming,
The jauendoes which have been cast upon the military employed as special sanitary officers. sad the reports current that it is this to which the chief objection to the bonse to house visi- tation is due, caused us to make enquiries in this direction, We learn on the best authority that since their enrollment in this work the military employed have worked very salonsiy and effectively, that no complaint of their conduct has been made, and that as matter of fact the majority of the householders were not aware that the men visiting their houses were military, until they were incited by the anti-foreign leaders bebind to make demonstrations of vin- diotiveness. The soldiers employed are all picked men, and the majority are non-commissioned officers. Twelve men of the Shropshire regiment are still engaged in the work of inspection and twelve engineers in disinfecting. Each sanitary officer is accompanied by a lakóng, and there are now twenty-one men on this special duty in the in voted area.
We might mention to remove any miscon ception, that the Government have not completely abrogated their authority even over the Chinese Hospital at the Glassworks. Dr. Penay. R.N.. makes visits twice daily to see that things are in a sanitary condition, and Eurupaan police are on duty at the gates keeping statistics of cases.
It is said by some who have bad so intimate acquaintance with the development and character of the plague since its appearance here, that the attacks now do not appear to be quite as virulent as a week ago. It may be added that several of the new cases in the Glass works have been di-charged on diagnosis as not suffering from plague. Whether such are being sent to the Hospital accidentally or intentionally it is diffenit to say, but plansibility is lent to the latter suggestion by the natural desire among the Chinese to be able to record in their statistics a higher percentage of dis-
were able to do.
23rd May. The following are the returns for the twenty-barged oured" than the European doctors
four hours to noon yesterday :---
Admissions.....! Desths.
3
Ken- Chinese
De- Hynedy Hos. City. To- geia Town. pital
tal. orense. **
19 07 10 10 27 18 ป 17
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The patients under Chinese medical direction are treated with a denation made from the root of an aquatic plant, which is said to bave been wonderfully successful in dealing with serious cases at Canton. After being infused in hot water for some time the liquid is stratud off and administered at regular intervals, while the pulp is applied exter ally to the buboes a s poultice.
Under treatment 21 "A quiet day; plague in a measure abating," practically sums up the reports received yester. day The concessions made by the Government in no longer insisting up the transfer of patients to the Hygeia and in giving permission (speedily availed of: to establish a Chinese hospital under Chinese control acted like oil on the troubled waters and no farther disturbances took place, or
biated at, after the Glassworks had been converted into a hospital. The native prejudicha, hom ver, not having been Large numbers of coolies continued yesterday in every way pradored to by the authorities and to leave the colony, both by steamer and passage their first deina, da heving been so promptly grant-boat, and the exodus appears to be increasing. ed, the hostile svetion of the 'I aug Wah Hospital | At the Magistracy yesterday a hawker wES made thems Ives more or less of a nuisance both fined $10 for creating a disturbacce near the to the Reistrar-General and His Excellency the Govenor by deputations and bumble pati- tion **
d the agis of British praying regulation in his matter might be removed ant that the dievase might be left
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the sole management of their own countrymen. The bonse to bones inspection, said these estim. able gentislin, must be done away wità ai cùss
May 24, 1894.
ing with a contagious diseass ou bird shal, not come nearer the lower limit of the Harbour u one mile, shall fly at the fore a yellow flig, ul shall not allow any one to dis bark or come on board without permission from the Harbour Master's Offi»».”
There is some talk of closing the schools at which Chirese scholars altead. We believe that Dr. Bateson Wright has applied to the Governor for permission to close Queen's College, and it i probable if the disease does not receive a decided obeck during the next few days that this pra cautionary measure will be adopted.
DEPUTATION TO HIS EXCELLENCT THE GOVSENOR.
IMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT. At one o'olook yesterday afternoon a deputa tion from the Tune Wah Hospital, accompanied by the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lookhart (Registor General) waited on His Excellenoy the Governor at Gareromont House for the purpose of re- presenting a certain feling existing among some sections of the native community. Th deputation presented to His Exeloney a long petition, the principal piots of which wars:
(1)-That the house to house visitation should cease.
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(2) That sick persons should be allowed to return to their own country.
(3)-That the patients on the Hygeia should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.
(4) --That all sick persons should be sent to the Glassworks, Hospital,
After listening attentively to the recital of this document, His Excellency said that he would take the last point first. In reply to that, all he had to say was that sick people might elect to go to any hospital they liked. There we no interference with their choice whatever, and no intention on the part of the Government to force patients into any particular hospital for treatment. As to the request that the sick o the Hyg ia should be moved to the branch Hospital, be altogether declined such a respon. wibility. The idea, he said, was absurd, as if the petitioners' prayer was granted is might result fo munch annecessary loss of life. He therefore declined to graut it. As to the request contained in paragraph 2, His Excellency said that by had nathing to do with the return of the people to their own country. If the authorities in Kwa tang refused to allow persons from Hongkong to go to matou or elsewhere, he could not coerce those anthorities or interfere with their decision. And as regards the first point of the petition-that the house to house risitation should cease-His Excellency said that be con sidered such visitation to be absolutely necessary, and he had n intention whatever to relax th
The morning regulations in that respect.
paper had shown how necessary it was, for they reported that three or four dead b dies had been taken out of one house, which would never have baeu discovered bat for the base to house visita. tion. His Excellency reminded the deputation that this was an English co`ony, and aid that the Tung Wah Committee should assist him is carrying out the law andersuading others to obey it. Holding up the proclamation he stated that that was now the law, and it would be car- ried out. He promised that every consideration should be shown to women and children, and tha if any unnecessary damage was done ou proof thereof the persons suffering would be recom paused. To show his own opinion of the neos. sity for visitation he had asked that all the out buildings and canlie quarters at Government House should be inspected. His Excellency fur ther said that be intended largely to increase the fores of Sanitary Inspectors and he hoped that is a few weeks' time all suger would be at an end. He asked the Tung Wab Committee to assist bio
A fatal case has been reported from Queen's Gardens. A day or two ago a coolie employed at the Royal Engineers' mess was taken ill and died before knowledge of the nature of his ail-by getting additional help. His Excellency cou ment-which was plagne-was known to his com- elud d by saying that he was responsible not only panions. The premises have been thoroughly for the health of the Chinese but of the EuropexDS disinfected.
and the Army and Navy, that his decision was embodied in the proclamation. that this pro clamation was now the law, and that pres transgressing it would be arrested and parished. The Registrar-tieveral faently interpreted Ilis Excell ncy's remarks and the deputation withdraw, if not actually antisfied, at any rate fully aware of the determination of the Gover ment to do its best to stamp out and prevent the spread of this insidions die ase.
Tung Wah Hospital on Monday.
A meeting of the Consular End, held at Shanghai on the 15th just, it was jumpinously decided to request the aotai, through the Cus- toms, to enforce No. 15 of the Harbour Regu lations, as a measure of precaution. against vessels arriving from the South. The Regn iation in question is as followe▲ vezzel uzziy
THE PROCLAMATION.
The following is a precis of the procimie issued by H. B. Sir William Robinson --
Wherous Hongkong is mow visited by a plagti
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
199
405
May 24, 1894.J which is killing Chinese at the rate of and 8,000 people have succumbed to it since the tion that his Lordship should not deal with the
tween 30 and 40 asy, and it is understood that commencement of the outbreak. It is the gen. the infection is conveyed from the inmates of a eral opinion that the outbreak was caused simply
case at the present stage.
The bearing of the arguments was eventually house to the neigbours, it is necessary to take by the bad smells from large numbers of deal adjourned. measures to prevent the spread of the disease in rats. This has also been proved by a foreiga order to protect the people. All cases of plague doctor on Shameen, who, after examining some should be removed to one place, and those dying of the newly dead rats, found many worms in of pingus should be promptly buried, and the the langa. He advised people not to eat them, premises disinfected and cleansed. You people as they are a great poison.
22nd May.
s are to report cases of plague and of death from plague at ouoa to the nearest authorities and to
We are glad to be able to announce that the cleanse and disinfect your houses. Unt of con plague in Canton has further diminished during sideration for the welfare of the people and to the past three days. The doctors have now dis- prevent the poor from being neglected, Sanitary covered the proper method of treating the Inspectors, do, have been appointed to made a patients, and the percentage of deaths amongst close house to house visitation, to cleanse and those who have been attended by them is only disinfect your houses, and to help in the removal twenty per coat. or less.
17th May.
Mr. Leach concluded his arguments on the
point raised by Mr. Francis as to whether the case should be dealt with in its present form, and Mr. Francis replied.
His Lordship reserved his decision.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MB. A. G. WISE, ACTING PUISNE JUDGE.
CHOI CHU 81 v. CHEUNG KAM TIM.
and Mr. Phillippo for the defendant.
Mr. Creasy Ewens appeared for the plaintiff
of the sick to hospital for careful treatment. Fatal cases will be buried with due respect directors of the charitable institutions ou the have been lent by the plaintiff, a woman, to the
The Pao Yu Magistrate paid visits to the
This was a claim of $400. money alleged to Now, three temporary hospitals have been opened 14th and made donations out of bis own purse defendant's wife for the parchase of necessaries. for treating casus, two ander European control for the defraying of medical expenses. the other under the direction of the Tung Wah
It has been ascertained that at the commence Hospital Committee. All treatment is gratis ment of the outbreak the average number of No distinction of nationality will be made coffins containing plague victims carried through present defendant being sued for debts con- Some time ago a similar case was heard, the The proclamation is to inform you people to the North Gate for burial was 15 per diem, tracted by his wife and ordered to pay a sum give all assistance and not to obstruct the Sani- but of late it has been reduced to between 40 down in satisfaction of the claims. This money. tary Inspectors, &c., in their bouse to house visi- and 50. This report, we learn. was made by a it appeared, he had handed over to his wife. tation and the removal of sick persons and the painstaking money obangor, who has his stall by bodies of the dead, and in disinfecting and cleans the North (tate, and who when he saw a coffin dence as to the circumstances of this loan, and The plaintiff gave very contradictory evi- ing your premises. The loyal and respectable passing his door put one cast into a vessel and His Lordship, not considering that there was population should assist the Government to wipe counted the coins at sunset.
the defendant with costs. sufficient proof of the debt, gave judgment for
oat this plagas. Let every one obey this com Some residents at the West Gate think that mand, and refuse to listen to rumours spread by the danger has not yet passed, and many of them bad characters; and let no one contravene these have removed their families to their native placeR. orders lest he be punished and repentance come
too late.
ALLEGSD SINGULAR AND FATAL MISTAKE, A correspondent writes:- Is it a fact that a Chinese woman was sent on board the Hygeia by the Sanitary Authorities supposed to be suffer. ing from the plague, but which proved to be a cass of pregnancy ? And is it true that the mistake was not found out until it was too late to save BEFORE the patient's life? This is the tale told to me by my se vants, and two of them have left my employ in a terrible fright to take their wives out of the colony."
SUPREME COURT.
15th May.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
HIS HONOUR Mr. E. J. ACKROYD,
ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.
In re THE CHINA LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY. LIMITED. say inquiries to be made respecting the truth or the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris to The bearing was resumed of the motion by
The above reached as at too late an hour for
otherwise of the allegation.
THE PLAGUE AT CANTON.
--མཡཡ...
FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO."]
16th May.
18th May.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. B. J. ACKROYD,
ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, AND
COMMON JURY.
ATTEMPTED ARSON.
Chan Sik Ming, an apprentice, aged 19, was charged with f loniously and wilfully attempt- ing to set fire to No. 7, Queen's Road West, occupied by a boot and show dealer who employed the defendant, on the 6th inst.
(iustruoted by Mr. A. B. Johnson, Crown Mr. A J. Leach, Acting Attoruay General Solicitor), prosecuted for the Crown.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Another apprentice who had been committed as an accomplice was discharged by proclamation. The following jary was empannelled:-Moss76. Chow Dart Tong, A. Sharp, J. M. Gutierrez. F. G. Barres, F. Hubbe, D. W. Craddock, and Thos. Grimshaw.
The facts of the case were that on the night
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty.
His Lordship reserved sentence, which way delivered on the 22nd.
His Lordship (addressing the
prisoner)
be placed on the register of shareholders of the Chins Land and Finance Company, Limited, in respect of 1,500 shares in the Company which had been deposited by Ng Chan Fong, the Bank's compradore, as security incurred or that might be iucarred in future by Ng Chau Fong to the Daring the past two days the plague in Can- Bank, being additional security under terms of ton has become better so far as we can judge. The an agreement of the 16th February, 1891, and a mortality percentage of those who contracted the bond dated 14th December, 1891. disease was reported to baabont 70, bat it has now i
Mr. A. J. Leach, Q.C., instructed by Mr. G. of the day in question the proprietor of the shop decressed to between 30 and 40. A famous doctor C. C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and awoke and found the defondant setting Bre, by has arrived at the city from Ying-tak-hsien and Master), appeared on behalf of the Bank; and means of a large joss stick, gunpowder, and attends the patiouts, fros of charge, in the vit. Mr. J. J. Francis, QC (instructed by Mr. C.matches; to a box of shavings in one of the lage at the East Gate district. A large number Ewens), on behalf of the Company and Ng Woon rooms on the ground floor. of people go to ask his advice and receive his Sun How Qua, who had been served with prescription every day, and it is stated that 80 notice of the motion. per cent of those who are so treated have re-
His Lordship, on taking his soat, said-Ir this covered Some San-Szes have subscribed money case Mr. Leach, before answering Mr. Francis's for the orection of a large matshed in the place application that I should not deal with this case said-The jury have found you guilty of for the reception of patients being attended. at the present stage, asked me to allow him preparing a joss-stick with matches and On the 11th inst the Poo Yu and Nanhoi Ma- before he goes into the oases cited by Mr. gunpowder and with having set fire to it. gistrates saorifioed for rain in the Sing Wong Francis, to complate his evidence by cross They found that you knew what you were Temple and on the 13th at 4 pm. & heavy examining certain parties upon the affidavits doing, and that you placed it close to a box rain commenced to fall in East Gate dist lot which have been filed by Mr. Francis's clients. in order to set fire to the house; and every. and is Honsin, but only safely in the Was I took time to consider, because I thought it thing points to the supposition that you Although it only lasted about half sa bour the rather strange that cross-examination should did this because your master had given you residents have naturally heartily welcomed it.
then take place as requested by Mr. Leach, and a few slaps two or three days before. The 19th May, The welcome downpour of rain which fell the praction in England.
I wished to ascertain if possible what was consequence of your foolish sot might have I have gone through been very serious. The gentence of the continuonaly on the 13th and 14ta inst. has a great number of books and I do not find Cnet is that you be imprisoned for one already done a vast amount of good to the city one word about it. (His Lordship hore read week and that you receive six strokes with and the surrounding districts in the way of cleans extracts from various law reports.) In another a rattan. ing the atmosphere and the filthy streets. On case in which I appeared, the case of Ryrie v. the 16th another downpour comm need at noon, The Attorney-General, I appeared for the Gov. which was much heavier than the former one ernment in that matter, and I find that after I lasted Suverai hours, and the long had fully opened my own case and produced all my thirst of the fields in the Nam-hoi, Shao- evidence, Mr. Bowdler and Mr. Bruce Shepherd, tak, Sam-shui, and Tang-kun Hsiene was en- who bad filed affidavits in support of my arga a forged note purporting to be endorsed by one tirely quenched. The plague which has worked meats, were cross-examined by Mr. Francis and Chao Yan Lok in January last, with intent to sneh havoc amongst the community is gradually then Mr. Francis replied. As I have said, there defraud Messrs. Arthur and Co. disappearing, thonga it still claims victims. is no case at home which shows when the cross- Mr. A. J. Leaob, Acting Attorney-General Its diminution is undoubtedly due to the examination is to take place, but our code says (instructed by Mr. A. B. Johnson, Crown Soli rain and the clever and experienced doctors that the cro-s-examination should be taken as citor), appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. who have came from various parts. The near as possible to the trial of the suit, and J. Francis, QC. (instructed by Mr. H. L charitable institutions in the city have opened therefore, in the absence of any evidence, I do Dennys), for the defence. many branch hospitals in different streets so as not see how I can allow Mr. Leach, before the
and
21st May.
FORGERY.
Pun Long, a olerk, was charged with uttering
The following jury was empannelled:--Messrs.
to reader batter service to the diseased people. other side bas opened, to cross-examine any of A. O. Gutierrez. C. F. de Carvalho, R. S. Up to the preseat time, although the number of their witnesses.
Philpott, C. A. Plumb, E. J. Moses, M. S. deaths caused by the disease onnot be accurate-
Northcote, aud F. Gomes.
Mr. Teach then at great length quoted a num.
Jl ascertained, we may say that between 7,000 bor of cases in answer to Mr. Francis's applica-
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
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