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showed the lowest rainfall on record, amounting to only 39.91 inches, as com pared with the average for the corresponding months of the past seventeen years of 65,42 inches. The year's total rainfall was the second-lowest on record, being only 55.78 inches as compared with the seventeen

Previous years average of 25.10 inches.

* Tytam and Wongnaichong reservoirs never filled during the year. On the 11th September the contents of all the reservoirs amounted to 390,000,000 gallons, about 120,000,000 gallons below their full capacity. In consequence, two months from this date recourse was had to the intermittent system, the supply to the main portions of the City SEASON.ing, four hours daily these hours were

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The Portuguese gunbost Zaire, en route to India, arrived in the Harbour yesterday.

Sir A. R. F. Dorward, the pen Officer Commanding the Troops at Singapore, arrived thors by the Ballarat on the 13th inst.

The N-CA Daily News Corrospondent telegraphs undor date Tientsin, 11th December

Tho Tientalu British Municipal Council has started a mounted Sikk patrol.

Slugapore is still on the intermittent water- supply system, in spite of recent beary falls of.

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General Miles, U.S.A, arrived at Kobe on the 11th inst. and was to leave the next day

The railway siding dispute is now in Mr for Europo viá Siberia.

Dotring's hands for the final decision of the only point which still remains undevided.

No further details regarding the fatal affray between Indians and Chinese at Quarry Bay on Sauday afternoon ware available yesterday, the greatest ralicence being observed in all quarters.

Two hundred and forty-one deaths wore registered at Singapore during the week ending on the 6th December. The ratio per thousand

was 53.40.

Lord Kitchener arrivel at Delhi on the 2nd-

inst, and loft again the same night moexpected-

A lady, the wife of a rotired Assam tea-planter, 17, thus escaping a public reception. He drove from the station to bis camp in a second-class fell from a window of the Grand Hotel, Calcutta, had been suffering from fever and was to have on the 2nd inst., and was picked up dead, Sheticce gharry. left with hor husband for New Zealand on the 4th.

The numbers ander famine relief in India according to a Calautta telegram of the 4th inst., six thousand in sossa days. Almost the whole foll the previous week to 23,897, a reduction of

of those remaining on relief were infirm, aged, and children.

In the Chefco Express of the 6th iust, on accomat is given of the wreck of the Enseigne Captain Wyadkom, and the steam.tag Hesper Henri, and it is noted that H.M.S. Amphitrite, did overything in their power to assist the wrecked vessel and her complement.

Several valuable governorships will have to be filled up when the Colonial Secretary returns from South Africa, points out the Home and Coloniat Mall. "Sie West Ridgeway's term in Ceylon is drawing to a close as is Lord Rau-

further curtailed in parts where it was necessary to serve a limited number of houses at a time, to ensure all of them Of the Finest Quality and Vintage obtaining & supply as far as possible. - Ac the end of 1901 the intermittent system had been in fore for fifty-one days, the quantity then in the reservoirs amounting to 146,000,000 gallons only. The average consumption of altered water per day, Mr. CHAT shows, was 3,525,000 gallons- figures which demonstrate how little Hong- kong was prepared for another year in succession of deficient rainfall. Turning now to the latest Water Return, showing the quantity in hand on the 1st December, we find a total of 332,571,000, after ene month of two hours' supply daily. The consumption per head of population in Victoria and the Hill district last month was 10.4 gallons a day for an estimated population of 216,400. It is plain that we shall, even with the£4,000 a year) i already vacant, though this strictest continuance of our present curtailed supply, be poorly prepared on the 1st January to face another such year of scarcity as this has heen. Yet it is for years of scarcity that we must be prepared, not for years of plenty, when oven our out-of-date reservoir capacity may serve a little longer an ever-growing population, the large majority of which is absolutely antaught that taste of water is, in the circumstances of Hongkong, & erims against the com. munity. But the advocates of the rider main system still hold that it will be right"| to punish the innocent with the guilty and condemn Hongkong to years more of intermittent supply.

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furley's in New Zealand. Western Australia

many be filled up before Mr. Chamberlain goo s. British Hondams will also be vacant prosently, as Sir David Wilson is about to retire from the Service with his pension, but the place is only worth about £2,000. ir Benry Blake has not much longer to run at Hongkong, and this is a post much sought after £5,000 a year and an

allowance of £800,”

The Malay Mail hears that Sir Frank Swettenlah has asked Towkay Loko Yow to expresi kia views on the currévey question and that the Towkay will shortly call a meeting of the leading Chinese miners to discuss the question.

A memorial brass has just been affixed to the south wall is S. Andrew's Church, Shiba, Tokyo, to commemorate the life and work of the late Archdeacon A. C. Shaw. The design was carried cut under instructions from Mr. J. Coader, F.RIBA.

Speaking at a dinner given last month by the members of the Port of Loudon Sanitary Committee to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the Chief Magistrate said it was a fact worth knowing that the Japanese, our allies in the East, were directing their attention to the municipalisation of their great cities, and in this work they had largely taken as their model the Corporation of the City of London.

This Postmaster-General of the United States; in his annual report, recommends a two-cent (one penny) rate of postage hetween the United States and (reat Britain, France and Germany, He mentions that the representatives of the foreign commercial bodies or visiting the States in connection with the inauguration of the New York Chamber of Commerce

building are strongly in favour of the chango.

A sensation has been caused in New York by Russia is devoting some attention to Chinese a statement included in the report of the Judge | Turkestan. The Noruett says that, in the Advocate General to the U.S. Secretary of interests of Russian trade, the Imperial autho- War, in which Captain Cornelins Brownell ritesboro decided to extend the existing lino admits that he administered the "water cure of telegraph between Kuldja and Irkeshtam to

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to Father Angsstine, a Filipino priest at Banate, Kashgar. Thero is overy reason for believing and that after the torture had been administered that Rassin has been engaged busily in the third time the priest died. Captain Drownell | ragioni, as various “scientific expeditions” have Lad previously reported the men's death, but explored that outlying portion of the Chiness made no reference to the cause. As the Now Empire, which is destined to become sooner York Evening Post says, this incident shows or later the connecting link between Peking that there is at least something rotten in the and Tastekend, in Russian Central Asia. system of army intelligence." It is somewhat remarkable that it was left to Lordon papers to point out that the occasioval cases of ornalty on the past of American soldiers were the natural result of the climatic conditions in the

East.

The Hongkang Daily Press will be issued as usual to-morrow morning, Christmas Day, and will contain a short story by a locul lady. There will be no issue on Friday morning, but on Saturday the Daily Press will appear again.

Alfreda do Lucchi, who mysteriously dis appeared from Singapore on August 14th Just, and was apprehended at Marseilles by the

M. Jaurés, commenting last month in the French Police on a charge of forgers, Petite Republigar of Paris on the Siamese brought back to Singapore by the Ballara qreaty, anys:--This treaty excites the wrath of The allegation against the defendant is that he the coloniale. There is a great tempest in the committed forgery by uflizing the name of lobbies, throatening, it is said, to knock down Herman Stachelia to a cheque for $9,850 on the everything. The groups headed by M. Doumor, 13th of August last.

whoss watchword is unlimited expansion sud aggressive Imperialism, are astir. What will result from all this? Nothing will result be- cause the Chamber will refuse to be drawn into The a policy of adventure and provocation, treaty la excellent because it settles disputes between Siata and ourselves which were daily becoming envenomod, because it is the only way of settling them, and because it allows the hope that mutual confidence will supersede the salen, aggressive, and precarious peace which for ten years has placed France and Siam in conflict.

H.M. gunboat Britomart arrived at Bang- koke on the 11th inst. from Hongkong and anchored in the river opposite the British Legation. The Britomuri procoded the arrival of H.M. battleship Albion with Rear-Admiral Grenfell on board, and was to act as a means of communication between Bangkok and the battle- ship, whick on account of her wize, was obliged to remuiu at the entrance to the river. The Albion, which left Bangkok on the 17th inst., returned to this harbour yesterday morning.

We have received the Fouchons Enke of the 13th iust.By the death on the 11th of Mr. W. P. Galton, agod fé, Fongkow last one of its old landmarks-Dandy Dick was enccessfully performed by the F. A. M. & D. S. on the previous Saturday.-The firsts, seconds, and thirds gained by the placed riders at the Foa- chow Raras on the 9th, 10th and 11th iust, wers:-Mr. Massey 5,23; Mr. Zahu 4,44; Mr. Oswald 4,2,3; Mr. A. O. Crighton 3,3,3; Mr. F. Crighton 2,6,0, Me. Schnore 2,2,2; Mr. Mackie 1,2,2, Mr. Wabstar 1,45; 31 Skeno. Knox 0,1,0,

According to the Japan Times, a Jápa- nese military officer has lately made a trip to Dolo-nor in Mongolia, and while there sac. ceeded in obtaining an interview with the Living Buddha. As expected, the Living Buddha turned out to be a young boy, but what was suprising wae that the Baddha offered his guest Egyptian cigarettes and coffee, in roms furnished in all respects in the European style, On being questioned how he had acquired all these foreign surroundings, the Living Buddha said they had best given him by some great friends, and if his guest wanted to see those

friends, he would find them in the next room. The officer went in and found portraits of the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia; and the officer

Judgment was given on the 12th inst, in the International Court, Bangkok, in the important action of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation . Khoon Ying Prik. in which the Bank sought to recover the sum of TER. 484,550.97 the amount of an overdraft. The Court decided ju favour of the Bank for the full amount claimed. With reference to a mortgage on certain steamers and lorchas the Court decided that mol mortgage had no existence in the eyes of the law.

There is nothing in any of the stories you may see about the Americans in Western Canada disliking British institutions," said Mr. O. Armstrong, colonisation agent of the Canadian Pacte Railway Company, the other day, "Some United States newspapers which comment on the fafur of Americans into Canada are saying that it will have a tendency to foster a feeling in favour of annexation. The Americans who are coming into the West understand the situation fully, and come prepared to accopt it as it stands."

TELEGRAMS.

"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.

FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS.

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, 22nd November, 6.40 p.m.

MA HARDOUIN'S NEW

APPOINTMENT.

M. C. Hardouin, French Consul at

•Canton, has been appointed General Sucre tary to the Indo-Chinese Government. The appointment is regarded on indicating renewed efforts on the part of France to promote trade and political relations with Yunnaa and Kwangsi.

GENERAL NEWS.

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, 23rd December, 11.5 a.in, DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE.

ENQUIRIES INTO COLLAPSES OF BUILDINGS.

PRAIA EAST ARCHITECTS AND CONTRACTO COMMITTED FUE TRIAL.

Yesterday attornton, before Mr. F. A. Haze land and a common jury, the official enquiry. wia conchuled into the circumstances attending |the fatal collapse of boure No. 45, Prayn East, Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, on 2nd August last. Crown Solicitor, appeared on behalf of the Government, Mr. H. W. Looker on bolalf of the architects, Messrs. Leigh, and Orange, and Mr. C.D. Wilkinson on behalf of the contractor, Man Wo. Mr. A. S. Heoper watched the cate on behalf of the Land Investment Company, of which he is scoretary.

There being no further evidence, Mr. Win- son addressed the jury. He said the law did not require more than ordinary, reasonable precautions to be observed in such cases, and therefore the jury had not to consider whether it was possible to have designed and constructed these houses so that they could not possibly have collapsed, but simply whether reasonable pro cautions had been used by the parties con- cerned, and whether the evidence justified them (the jury) in saying that some person had been guilty of criminal negligence which resulted in The collapse and tire deaths of the unfortunate people who were killed thereby. The Crown Solicitor, in his opening statement, was quite in error in saying that no man conld rid hintself of responsibility by delegating his duties to some The Archbishop of Canterbury is dead. other person, but would be liable for the crim. inul negligence of that other. Such was not ¡The Most Rev. Frederick Temple, P.C., the case. A master was frequently held liable D.D., LL.D., Primate of All England, was

in damages for the negligence of his servants, but not uyiminally liable for his servants' acte of born at Santa Maara in the lonina Islands on

criminal negligence unless he expressly author. the 30th November, 1821, his father being Majors such acts or bad himself been criminally Octarius Temple, former Governor of Sierra negligent in employing that servant or servants, Leone. He was educated at Blundell's School as, for instance, if an engine driver employed an and Balliol College, Oxford, taking First Class inexperienced youth to drive his engine, and au accident resulted. In support of his contention, louons in both Classics and Mathematics In Mr. Wilkinson quoted Justice Stevers's History 1843 he was elected Fellow of Balliol on the of Criminal Law and Digest of Criminal Law. Blundell Foundation. In 1856 he was made Continuing, he said the duty of the contractor in II. M. Luspector of Training Schools, and two the preseul case was to put up the buildings in...

accordance with the plans and specifications years later Head Mastor of Rugby. In 1860 given to him. Mr. Leigh had been asked the he becane Bishop of Exeter, in 1885 Bishop of question, "Was this work done accordance London, and in December, 1596, Archbishop of with the specialoptions" and his answer was, Canterbury. He had been failing in health for positive evidence the jury had got, tant the "Yes," "There was positive evidence, the only some time and at the late Coronation was almost contractor had dong his duty, and consequently to work to carry out the ceremony. Later whatever happened afterwards was not the still he had a fainting fit in the House of Wilkinson further submitted that even if the result of any neglect of duty on his part. Mr. Lords, when geare fears were expressed as to evidence had been to the effect that the contrac- bis bodily state.--E». D.P.] [\\\

tor bid not put up these buildings in acc dance with the plane and sucifications, · or that he had used bad niâterials in the construc- tion of the houses, even then the jury could not find him guilty of criminal negligence antess amply axisfied that it was bis personal duty to superintend the laying of every brick and every piecs of mortar. It was aimalately impossible for the jury to find the contractor guilty of neglect. The only evidence that the materials used by him were not perfectly good was that of Mr. Bangna, the Government Analyst, who examined the mortar taken from

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 21st December.

BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE

JAPANESE. Notwithstanding the deallowance by the Dominion Government ofseveral British Colum- bian Acts affecting the Japanese, niueleen Japanese havo beou imprisoned at Vancouver for non-compliance with the educational test They were subsequently released at the instance of the Government.

THE HUMBERTS ARRESTED. The whole of the Humbert family concerned in the notorious" Crawford frands" have been

arrested at Madrid.

brick sud to have been taken out from the ruins. But what proof was there that the brink was one of theseacinally used in the construction of the houses? There was no possible proof whatever. As to the collapse, it occurred at a quarter-past ten o'clock at night, when the. ty; hoon was at its beight. Was it not probable that one of the windows on the top floor had heen blown in and that one of the heavy gusts blew out the top story, which brought down the rest of the builting Lt the jury were satisfied LONDON, 21st December. es to that, or if they had any reasonable doubt that it was not the case, the only possible verdict they could bring in was that the deaths of these poople were due to an accident for which no man was responsible due to an act of God, not to an act of man.

ANOTHER SON TO THE PRINCE OF WALES.

H. R. H. the Princess of Wales has given birth to a son, Mother and son are both doing

well.

VENEZUELA.

Great Britain and Germany have proclaimed the blockade of Venezuelan ports, and this will not be related natil Venezuela gives some sort of gurantee of her hose fitre and readiness to satisfy the claims of the Powers. It has been suggested that Fresident Roosarelt be arbitrator on the pointe at issue, and the suggestion has been transmitted to General Castro, who has accepted.

Three Venezuelan schooners have already besu seized by the British under the blockade.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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do not hold onesolves responsible for the discharged. "Asto the other daig, that of superio-

opinions expressed by our correspondents}

General De Wet throughout his book on the South African War, it is said, observes s sin- gniasriy dispassionate attitude. He treats his late enemies with courtesy and justice. His charges against his own people, however, are most [We serious. He says that the horoas among them wore rare, but the number of thigea who were ignorant, cowardly, without discipline, and unfaithful traitors was great. He does not oven spare bis own brother. Ho asserts that bad it not been for the traitorous conduct of those who ussisted the British as scouts and counsellors the Boers would never have been defisted.

CHRISTMAS SERVICES.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS."

Mr. Looker beat addressed the jury. Ho said his friend Mr. Wilkinson and stated the law, and he thought his views would be upheld by the magistrate. He would only supplement bis quotations by enying that it had been held that a culpable mistake or some degres of onlpable charge of manslaughter unless the negligence negligence causing death wonka pot support

was a great as to be reckless. They were there to engnice into the curse of the deaths of actual cause of death was the collapse of the certain people, and while they knew that the wall of a house in Pinya East, the jury bad abo to find out whether anyone, by criminal or reckless negligence, contributed to that cause of death. The duli-s of an architect were to prepare the plans of a building and then to superintend the work: In the present case the plama wore approved by the Public Works. Department es being in accordance with the provisions of the Building Ordinance, so that the first duty of the architect was actisfactorily

tending the work of construction, it was perfectly. obvious that any architect, however anxious and willing to do so, sould not possibly superin- tend every detail of the construction. IL was laid down by accepted authorities that THE water question promises to continue to

·Hongkong, 3rd Desember.

was impossible for him to do so by Hudson, for With reference to the following paragraph architects and engineers, and the jury, Mr. instauce, the loading authority on the duties of attract a very large prop rtion of t public attention in local affairs, a fact which cu

written by the Editor of the China Mail in Looker thought, would agree that an architect Monday's issue: "The majority of the Cham-could not be expected to be on the was all day cause no surprise seeing the important

ber's Committes do not see how the gold and look after everything to suparintend the bearing of the supply of water on the health

of every course of brickwork and the Jaying standard can be introduced here unless China mixing of every fresh lot of mortar. The of the community in an Eastern port like this. The discussion on the subject is not We are requested by the Committee of the

The services in S. John's Cathedral ongues gold-do the majority look ngon the primary canse of the collapse, of course, was the likely to become acute again for the present Catholic Union to thank the public of Hongkong left, using over this special relations existing Christmas Day will be as follows-Holyquestion in this light and is it the old argu-wind, but was it assisted in any way by defects -until the rider-main question comes up for for their kind support to the bazaar of toys between the Lama believers and the Court of Communion, 7.30 a.m.; Matius and Holy here it is too near silver-using China from in order that the houses, when orcoled,

Settlement, if indeed the Govt rament is going held on Sunday lost for providing Christmas St. Petersburg. to take the perilous step of supporting the treats to the poor children and old people. The proceeds of tho bazaar ore about $1,200. The Chinese proposal. But all matters connected

committes will be pleased to see all ladies and with our water supply must be regarded gentlemen who sure to call on Christmas Day with a certain amount of interest, and at three o'clock in the afternoon in the Club therefore we need not apologise for looking room at Glenealy, when the tea-party for the very briefly at the section dealing with it in poor children will be held. The dinner for the Mr. CHATHAM'S belated Public Works aged and incolids will take place on New Year'a Report for 1901, laid before the Legis Day in the Home for the Aged and Infirm, at

.5 p.m. The Water lative Council yesterday. Authority treats of what is rather

Echo de Chine says that the steamer ancient history by now, but as he

Amiral Egemans has been chartered by the summarises the facts we may follow him. French Governmout to take away the French The timely advent of the rains in the early gaison from Shanghai. The withdrawal will part of 1901, he points out, rendered it be complatest in one operation, probably on the unnecessary to introduce the intermittent 24th or 25th of this month, as soon as the system in the early months. It had been necessary prepanations for the conveyance of arranged to curtail the supply and by an the horses and males of the battery of artillery accident, this was actually done for two can be made on the transport This Shanghai days, beginning on the 7th April Then garrison will relieve the detachment now at the rains came down and the intermittent Kanchauwan. Lt-Colonel Diguet, the Com mander, will proceed from Kwanchauwan to system was not found necessary. The Tonkin, where he will her the command of an period May-September, however, which is important military district, a post wally held regarded as constituting the wet season, by a full colonel,

Communion, 11 am Thare will also by a Celebration of the Holy Communion at the Peak Church at 8 a.mi.

A special Christmas service will be held to morrow at S. Peter's Church, Queen's Road West, commencing at 10 o'clock. There will be special music, and the offertory will be devoted to the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. All are cordially invited,

ment that Hongkong cannot go on a gold basis the materials used or in the work of construc- tion The original plan had be a deviated That argument is surely absurd as comparing sald comply with the requirements of a new Hongkong with (say) Singapore. What differ sanitary Ordinance, but even when so ultures Writing on the 20th, inst., the New York

the plus fulfilled the conditions Isid down by correspondent of the Times saysThere were

enve our it possibly make as regards the cures the Building Ordianes and in no way affected two main points is the President's four

whether the distanco botween Hongkong and the stability of the building. Not only that, Philippine speeches yesterday at Memphis.

some of the principal ports of China, and but the certificate greeted by the Public Works First, no politica in governing the islands,

Singapore and the principal ports of China is Department, after the horses had been inspect

ed, showed, that they were all right. Thr bricks might have been bad, but everybody had Politics stop at the water-line. Second, "We

three days or eight or nine daya?

The Malay States are simply producars, anteaid they were good; the mortar might have úro there, and wo can no more haul down vor

To-night at the Roman Catholic Cathedral if the Straits Settlements surrounded by these been bad, but practically everybody und said flag and abandon the islands than we could now abandon Alaska." This is far stronger than the usual midnight Christmas Buss will be held. and other great producing districts (Borneo, was good. The bonding might have bean iad, but the wall" had fallon. 801 Mr. Roosevelt's last declaration last spring on Vespers will start at 10.30 p.m., and the Mass &c.) can go on a gold basis, surely we, who ere

there was nobody to give actual evidence" tho me subject The President admitted at about midnight. The Cathedral choir, importers not producers and are merely the as to what it was lite before the collapse

contractor.

been They had "oraolties here and there. They are now cominsisted by some ladies and gentlemen amateurs, half-way house between London and India and except the

fold that the bricks were of various sizes, and plately stopied, and the provocation was well under the direction of Mr Baptista, the organist, China, can make the change much more easily, that, that necessitated a certain amount of Ind high intolerable, but provocation is as oxenso. will sing the Mass by Antenori and Cagliere as there is scarcely a single limport that is not handing. No doubt there was a certain amount On sold on a gold basis, if the Straits Settlements of bal bonding, but so there was also în overy Heneked, "Are we altogether immaculate at with fall orchestral accompaniment. home? I think not" Question and answor Christmas morning the Mass at S. Joseph's can do it, we can, and if tho Singapore Currency house in the Colony put up by Chinese The were doubly significant, for the President was Church in Garden Road will take place at 9 Commission Boally decide in favour of a gold bonding. Mr. Looker submitted, was of the ordinary description of bonding found in every speaking in a Southern state, where lynching is d'clock as usual. The service will also be a currency it is hardly necessary to apply for a Chinese house in the Colany; and as with the frequent. The burden of all four speeches was choral one. Haydn's First Mass in B that will Commission to investigate the question bere bonding, so also with the bricks and mortar, reiterated and unqualified eulogies of General be sung by a choir composed of amateurs, under In the crent of Singapore desiding to "ge gold" The only other possible factor in the collapse, Wright, of Tennesseo. Vice-Governor of the the direction of Mr. Emil Danenberg. The what we have to do is to follow suit and call for spart from the weather, was the thickness of Philippines, who shares with Governor Taft the orchestra which will accompany the Mase is experts' opinion for Hongkong only when the the wall. The Ordinance said that a wall of the dimensions of that which collapsed should hommar of wisely rating these Pacific pussersions also partly composed of uuteurs and portly Straits have the proposed change to gold to 20 inches thick, in this rise the wall was 24-

inches thick-two inches thicker than the "Gonersi Wright has done inestimable servise," from H. M. B. Ocean, by kind permission of the decided against them.-- Yours, etc.

CURRENCY. Ordinance prescribed. Therefore the jury Captain and Officers.

said the President.