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foron could be permanently re-established, and a tentative effort in this direction will be rande
Hy EXCELLEN then put The Colonial Secretary's mation, which was carried.
MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE. The ATTORNEY GENERAL begged leave to introduce and road for the first time a Bill entitled an Ordinanco further to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1909, and for other parp ses.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY MOORčit and the motion was carried.
The prinsipal objects of this memurs are to provide a practicable system in respect of the. lights to be carried by junks, to scuro further and better control of the traffic of small craft in the Harbour, to facilitate the granting of Special Licences to Rivor Stormire, and to exempt certain ships in certain cases from the operation ofn section of the Principal Ordinance.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND MIRLS,
The ATTORNEY GENERAL, begged leave to introduce and real for the first time a Bill antifled an Ordinanca further to amend the Protection of Women and Girls Ocdicenon, 1897.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY secorded. 'The motion was carried.
The purpose of this Ordinance in to afford further and batter protection to girls by amend
abduction and to provide for the reception in certain case of the svidence of children of tender years, though not given on anth or affirmation. With that object tit is proposed to and section (1) (a) and section 26 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1:97, by raising the age in each case from 16 years to 18 years and to adopt the provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, section with regard to the evidence of children of tender years.
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POST OFFICE VOTE,
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SUMMARY OFFRYZES ORTUNANGE, The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first
reading of a Bill o titled an Ordiannes amend the Summary offences Ordinance, 1845
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded. The aution was agreed to.
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Works due to the complete adhérenço ta which was not found the inerenend Post Office Staff a better chanco anticipated completion of the two large possible. That scheme provided eight classes, of of overcoming the special difficulties it has to
jin hamul, rize those at Kowloon which which the editions es regards salary con- contend with her. Paing fout Depart. and Tobruary 1 horogions pure automont PHOTO COMPETITION FOR AMATEURS
mancing with the lowest class were the follow. Aduiainistration to the important and pleasure. In the region of pure amusement add R02090,000 gallons to the storage ucgem.
Class VIII-8240 to 8120 by 860 ment of Public Health I can follow no bottir I may mention that the Government is await- ing: modation on that side of the water and those at
wid ionist incranonts, in which the maximum policy than that of my able predecessor who Jugla decision of the Royal Yacht Club as to Tytuin Tak (No. 1 Sectioa) which 19.4 gallons to the storage on this side salary of the Class could be reached and first enlisted the ra operation of the Chinos their adoption of a site which after inspection As we shall still be spending half a million enjoyed for one term in eight years. Class community in kooping cloan this overarowded seamed to me to be better suited for is Club
of the Hohemes in
VI-949 to $6-0 by Lounial city, a policy to which the study deorum in Hons than the one which it had been proposed dollars on the completion
I to assign to them, and I would also refer to a 1906 against $750,000 entimuted for 1905 1eremonts, in which the maximum salary of the the general death rate in late years can
thinkfairly bo
bo attributed. The a. cessarily aros in the portion of King's Park, South of barn decided to wait till the year 1907 bofore Claes could to reach and enjoyed for one
Class VI-Sub to 3 by heavy expendituro • wa ibour on Sanitary Gwenigus Rond, which has bocu levelled for a patting in and the extended Tytam Tuk form in six years.
measures is much more satisfactorily employed Cricket Ground. It is somewhat smal for this Scheme (No. 2
to increase $60 biennial incremonts, in which the maximum Section) which nr storage accommodation on the Island by salary of the Class would be reached and enjoyed in the presention than o cure of disease, and purpass but on the final sottoment of than Mili Class V-9000 to I have accepted with willingass the anggestion tary Land Question the provision of further 1.200 90,000 gallons and will probably most for Gne term in eight years about 24,000,000,
$1090 by 50 bisnuiul in rements; in which the of the Principal Civil Modied Off or to recommedation for games in the area North O draing works propeen to sp- $70,00 grain $75,000 in maximum salary of the Cluses could be reacted trans or certain items which formerly appeared of Gascoigna Road will be taken into consider Class under special plague expenditure to the part of ation I do not apolas for roferring in Last year's insule, and to common thu
IV-S.,200to $1,500 by 260 hiennial funeremonts.
his estimates which provides for the perman-ut this Council to the matters of sport. for in Oa exten-
which thn maximum salary of the Class could anitary work. With roard to another means I held it not below the dignity of Government papers have been laid on the talli, Mioti of Gus Lgating, the same small amount be ruched and oujoyed for one term in 1 for improving the aitary condition of the to taksa cigs of the pubfie stook of hartatess
Chas 11-14,800 to $2,100 by 860 City of Victoria victhe resumption of pleasure, of 89,507 is includat. On Miscellareous Works years. the expenditure is increagent from 255,600 te biennial increments, in which the maximum insanitary property, I intend to consistently $73,000, while on works under the Public Health salary of the Class could be reached and enjoy follow the poling that was adopted before I The two higher came to the Colony. I may mention here a and Buildings Ordinance it is ruined from for un leria in 12 yers $170,000 to $160,000. I may here mention Classes Bood not ba co. sidered as the apraint branch of the service whose work has some in- that the Government are fully alive to man's in them with one or two exeptions had a ace on the Public Health, the Bosanical the aneessity for continous policy in been made prize uppointments with sterling and Afforestation Departmont. More system the matter of resumptions of Insanitary al vine. The defects of this system are as is being introduced into the farther afforests
t to you fum follows:1). The long period rounired to wait tion of the Island, and the afforestation Properly, i will be apparent to paper which will shortly be pronted to you. increments in the junior classes and the small of New Kos) on rad the planting of tho aru to da undertaken Un all the above sub-heads except. Warness of the increments is the senior class Kovicon Roads
on definite and continuous plans. Pablic Works you will observe that there is no great make the increments of litle moment to clarks.
A man who haserrad about a year will scarcely Instruction, judging from its flickering difference in the estimates for the two years,
Anke the prospective rise of 800 at the end of history, as it has been clearly ant forth in a In the remaining two sab-bonds, Buildings and Communicaflank, it is otherwise. The sucuals suother your as an indue-ment to continun paper written by the preet Inspector ef in the Suvies shonld any other employment Bohaus for the Board of Education at home, is proposed to be allotted to then in 1900 are
,is him Later on an average one of the most difficult Departments on which $480,100 and $210,000 respectively. against be offered to 3647,200
and 805,070 in 1905. The reduction rise of S per annum come out of proportion to frame a policy for Hongkong. In that paper buildings is due to the completion this year in salaries of 32 to 70 times that smennt Mr. Irving aptly comparat the attempt to variation in the raise the standard of education of the Colony of the Bacteriological Institute of the alien (2) The systematic. to the Central Police Station, of the Kosloot periods taken to pass from the minimum to the with its constantly changing population to au Disinfecting Station, and of the Gau Ponder waximam lary in the various classes tonda attempt to raise the educational level of Hepat on Groen Island and the approaching against tho continuous promotion from class to haring Cross Hotel. On the whols I am For disposed to the belief that gaiter good will be completion of the additional Government Civil glass which is an incentive to work. Hexpital Staff Quarters, Now Harbour Office, instancs the fast that in the 7th and 5th classes attained by giving a sound Western Education Youmati School, and Tai Po Offers Quariors, the maximum is attained in four years while in to a moderato proportion of the boys who to us for it than by imparting a while the only now work of first importance to the 5 lund 4th classes it is only attained in six coms
orrata smattering of English and Western knowfsigs be put in laud. is. the prison for eonvicts, for and 10 years respectively tends to which it has not yet been possible lucido on the site. In the matter of sally to unnecesary blooks in the 7th and 5th el-sson, to a large number who. left to themselves, ing the law with regard to proonration and
commani) The impossible length of time required to would probably pick up se much of it as they cations, which is one to which with greater ass by regular promotion from the bottom to require for the purposes of working in shops knowledge of the Colony I attribute greater the top of the list ist doter promising young or offices and would in suy sont receis. the importance, I have little doubt but that the men from joining a Service unless they can Chinese training which few of the Cantonese increas in the allotinent will crimend itself to do so in an upper class over the heads of men allow their children to lack. For the main the Council. For the railway to Cueton I already serving to the discouragamunt of those tenauce of Public Order a kobe system exis's The greater number of educated men which I should be sorry materially to siter. In have included an amount, which in addition to ren complo ing the detailed surrey (Applause) will that can be induced by the chances of con- our peculiar situation close to the most populous cover some preliminary expensos that it may be tinnous promotion to join in the losser olasses City of China we cannot allow aliens to settle
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our midst if they provo thomyolves to belong foftoy of the general decessary to incur before I am in a position to the greator will be siny
what wii bo the amount of the loan required Service. (4) The varying gaps between the or give strong grounds for the presumption for the whole work or to make proposals for salaries of the different casses are further that they belong to the criminal olas. We continuos advancement. The must also keep up a Poico Feres mnoh larger providing interest on that loan. For the Now chocks to forritories I have also m de precision for roads maximam salaries of the Stl: and 7th classes than is required in Coloning differently situated that will be required in advance of and in and the minimum salarios of the 7th and and maintain a strong British cloment in that classes differ by one increment, the Forea. Further we must, with regard to the connection with the railway. In Kowloon
and 5th 100,000 inhabitants in the corner of rural Chien alories of the 6th itself it is proposed to continn Robinson simam Road-the main road of the district-threagh
that has in ree at yours cous under our jurisdic- tion, maintain a somewhat paternal rule and the hill on which it now abuts, and that, I think
prosent the dissatisfaction which would arise will be of great importance in opening up new districts. O the land provisou is made for
if harassing legal proceedings with referenes to their petty land affairs took the place Marrying Conduit Rond East till it weotsMagá
of the old oppression by Yamen raubers. zine Gop Rearl and West to Victoria Battery.
The question of the maintenance of internal As regards telegraphic communications it has
order leuds naturally to that of defence. heon thought desirable to improve those by
intend to use such inflaeton as I may have to which the approach of vessels to the port is
secure the maintenance in the Colony of a communicated to the Harbour Offles.
Garrison sufficiently strong to provent it being raidd in war by hostile ernisers while His Majesty's ships are employed in their proper work of hunting out and destroying the of eqendrous of the enemy. For the effiuisioy that Garrison and the defences thay are to man salary, of we can repose full condieses in the General Grade
Officer Commanding. In suy matter that the could be
Colony ean property give assistanos to him I reschel & enjogedfor a wire he can count on that assistanos. I tara.
mntion here that a permanent seltement may Years.
of the ditiouit military and questions which have been under discurion since the cossion of Kowloon will, I buliere, be arrived at very shortly, a result largely me to the good work done by Mr. May in the water. (Applanss) While on military subjects, I will express my appreciation of the support that is being given When introducing the Estimates for 1905, I
by the community to our Volunteer moroment gave the pacentage of the estimated expenti-
and at the mae time I must state that I shall not be fully autistied till every British born which was llctted to euch of the main branches of thu Pablie ervice. The
person who has entered into or wlio still retains Bure do not differ greatly this year For
the vigour of manhood prepares himself to the do is most for the protection of the Now-effective Servicos (roles 1 and 2 the prentage is 5.95 instead of 5.6ib, for General
Colony in its hour of used. The Depart- mout of Public Works is the last to which Administration including the Post Offico (vitesh maximum salary of each class is seperti I ared refor. It is annecessary for me to
1.12 from the minimum salary of the closa above 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, and 20) it In place of 14.35; for Public Health votes 13; by the amennt of an increment. The systers state again that I look on the completion 14, and 15) 11.15 against 11.01; for Publio offers to a young man with the necessary of the Railway which is to connect us with Intruction (votes 16 sud 17) 273 og síns 269; educational qualifications who joins either of the Canton us the most important of there. A quarter of a million dollars a year for intarist for Public Order (vetos 11 and 2) 13.41 against lowest classes the chaves of fairly regular pra-
Of course there a loan for the part of this work who will 12.73; for Defence (rots 21) 10.69 agaius motion throughout his eur or.
la in this Colony will not be an excessive price 1928, and for Public Works (voto 22) 3194 will be many curas of a clerk when he has against 349. It may interest Honourable reached the musximum salary of his grade not to pay for it. Good roads in the Now Territories ao nocw.sary adju ots to the scheme. I have alemters to compare, in this respect, the being considered suitable for promotion to a extimated expenditure for 1906 with the bi- her one and being passed over by the s of already alluded to the extended Tytam Tuk natual expenditure 25 yours ago, that is in better qualifications when vacancies occur in Water Supply which will require for its 1881. In that year, which was presione the higher grade. This way tond to the dis exenation au anual alle mout of half a million
incurred, to any public debt being
appointed muss leaving the Service but it will dollars for seven or eight years; a inrger per cent of the total expenditure was on be buiter to occasi-slly lose these men who expenditure if we can afford it would hasten the account of non-effective charges against 5.98 have proved themselves unsalted for promotion completion of the project ad set the minds of per cent estimated for 1906. For General than to have constantly to accept the resignn the presest generation at rest with regard to the Adminisation 30ore than double the present tions of the best of the junior clerks, Theoreti future Water Supply of bus Island. Next in proportion was then spent, 30.73 per centralty I have no doubt that the grading solum urgency among the large projects is the agair at 15.12, that in 16 say the stablishment is an improvement ou the Cla-sitication Sobeno prevision of a typhoon aleler for the increasing But & are terrtical advantage en not number of junke which now have prematurely ebuges for the colony bora & much greater proportie than they do sow to the value of have been suficient justification for any change to leave their work to ensure not being shut out the work doue for its improvement. For and certainly not era change involving some of the limited accommodation in Conway Palie Health the percentage of the total increases in exp nditure unless there were some Then comes the still harger question of
The Governor recommended the Council to expenditure was 5.45, a perekatege greater that here laste an ea reties providing for the continuou ly issernasing
vote a sum of One thousand thres hundred and in any pevious year and in any subsequent for believing that it would off et a practical shipping that visits the harbour by
There are Eixy Dollars ($100) in aid of the vote, Medical For 1906 improvement. The practical need for the the area of dep wat in it. year up to 1889 when it rore to 7.39.
Departments-Other charges for the following scheme was touon-trated to me by the fact several other important schames and mon Xis stimato 14.15. Public Instruction took
wall ems that have been constantly lows
iil Hospital.
Light and Fi Lunatic Asylums Fu and Ligie incidental ExERSES Provisions for Patients
Inelading the Extraordinary Public Worse, of which I have referred to the principal ones, the total estimate for expo ditore for the year 1906 is $7,056,955 or $118,237 less than the pal extimated expenditure of $7,175,192 original for 1905, and $101,005 loss than the expenditure of $7,169,860 for that year according to the FINANCIAL POSITION ON 31ST
DECEMBER, 1906.
rerisel ostinate. PLORABLE
An estimated retenus of $7,347.395 and та ostimated expenditure of $7,050.955 anticipates a surplus of $290,440 or nearly $300,000 on the your's working to provide for any unforeseen or only partly torosong, work. which we any find it desirable to undertake during the year.
TOPA
ALLOTMENT OF EXPENDITURE.
A
2.98
and the minimum of the 5th and 4th by two, increments, while there is a gap of five increments between the sximum of the 4th and the minimum of the 3rd. A man who has reached the maximum of the 4th class may have to wait somaey are without increments before recuising promotion to the 3rd, and with it an addition to his salary of six increments. It would be better if he received further increments in the 4th class and only one additinal one on pronation to the 3rd. The foregoing defects are obriated by the adoption of the system of grading shown on the following tabla:---
Grade. Mini-
Salary.
Maxi
mika,
KUN.
Ine- DION
$
6th
20
6th 180
4 660
4th 790
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2nd 1,820 Int 1,087.
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Poried in
which
2
1,200 1,9 biens inlly 1,000 1,20 bienuially 44-10-19 biennially This schoma starts from the same minimum ($240) as the existing classlflention kaheme but goes to a slightly lower maximum ($2,040 in plice of $2,00). It provides the en- couragement of andunk instead of biennial incrents in the thres lower classes and while
taining the biennial increments in upper chisses doubles the amount of them.
I
BAY
3.95 of the total expeditare in 1881. It that before my scrival a scheme had been red oa the Government in Inyoud provning
14.05
The object of the Bill is thus set forth- The peers at present passossed by the Polico being insufficient for the effective abatement of the nuisance ansed by solicitations for immoral purposes by persons frequenting certain pablis places this Bill is designed to confer the requisite powers.
PROTECTION OF MARRIED WOMEN.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL Moved the first reading of a Bill entition an Ordinamen relating to the Summary Jurisdiction of Magistrates in reference to Married Women.
The parposo fo
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The COLONIAL SECRETART seconded, and the motion was
this Bil is to confer upon Magistrates a summary jurisdiction to compel a husband who deserts his wife or who by his conduct drives his wife to leave him to provide reasonable maintenance for hor nud has children, if any.
OTHER BILLS.
His EXCELLENer-The two Bills not mon- tioned will not bo res to-day. The Council slants adjourned till the 14th inst, when the sound reading will be taken of the Bills wo have read the first time today. exeu pting the Appropriation Bill, which it is proposed to take on the 21st instant.
The Council then resa,
FINANCE COMMITTEE
A sting of the Finance Committee was bolt immediately after the Council, The Colo- nial Secretary presid d.
The following votes were pussod.
MAGISTRACY · VOTE,
The Governor vocomiended the Council to vite & tim of Four Handred Dollars ($10) in aid of the rote Magistracy, other charges, for office furniture, repairs and incidental expenses.
CITY HALL GRANT.
The Governor recommended the Council to rerote the sum of One thousand two hundred Dollars ($1200) in aid of the vote 22 Miscellan- eone Sorvices, being the City Hall Grant for the year 1.
Mr. SHEWIN- Is not that very lata? The COLONIAL SECRETART It is a ro vote.
MIFCELLANEOUS SERVICES.
The Govereor recommended the Council to vote a sum of Two thousand Dollars ($2,000) in aid of the vote, 2 Miscellaner us Services, Telegrams sent and received by Govorament.
PRIBON CE - ROER.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of One thou and five Imadred Dol- lars (81500) in aid of the vote, Giaol --Othor Charges, for the item, Lighing the Gaol and Warders Quarters.
1
MEDICAL
Total..
8500
150
Gil
650
THE FOOCHOW CASE.
COMMITTAL FOR CONTEMPT,
M. Kolte.
The hearing of the charge against E. J. Moss for disobeying an order of the court was cons eluded on August 30th
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His Lordakip said that in considering this matter he would like first to say that what was being dono that day had nothing to do with the merits of the action. It was perfectly possible that Mr. Moss might be found to be antitled to have done what he bad done; it was quite pos sible that when the matter was tried it might! be found that this was an unreasonable restric tion and that the interim injuction enght! not to have been issued; hat his Lordship hail nothing to do with that, and the in- junction having been made by the Court at Foochiow, he had to consider whether it had been disobeyed by the defendant deliberately. When he looked at Mr. Brown's evidence and his cross-oxamination, there was not the least doubt, in his mind that there had been dis obedience. Now, if Mr. Moss, having given evidence on his own account, had teen able
FOR THE CLIMATE. to show that what was done was unintentional or immaterial, then his Lordship could have
Intending buyers abould not miss this most excused it, but when he read Mr. Mosa's favourable opportunity of securing one of these -evidenco he was convinced that he (Mosa) Great Bargains, was not in the right frame of mind with regard to the injunction. If he had taken the in junction sezicasty, as an order that he had UPRIGHT PIANOS to ahoy, he would not have gone anywhere near the offer, and the Court bad it from the defend- ant himself that he was there doing exactly what he ought not to do. If one pressed the meaning of the word contamanious it might be LUNA!! that what the defendant did was ant contum. acions, but the question was whether be did as CABIN PIANO
of the Court HOPKINSON a fact disobey wilfully the order His Lordship thought he did. Ho dista sed the matter with Mr. Brown and there PLEYEL
$1,300 | -
EDUCATION VOIE, The Governor, fecommended the Council to vots a sum of Three lonndred and i ty. Dollars (5) in ad of the vote Eration-Other Car, Yumati Augi Chinese School, for
the item Furnituro.
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at least ten different instances from OWN MAKE (R.P. Co.) 300 his own mouth, in which the defendant had disobeyed the order of the Court. This SCHIEDMAYER
who was charged had done something to upset KIRKMAN... the machinery of the Court of law and justion, God the object of that machinery na regarded. STUART the parties in this case was to keep the rights of
ROSENCRANZ what the parties in st-tu quo. The reason why Mr. Mass had done was a grave off, nce was OWN MAKE (OVER that he had by his disobedience pat that machinery of the court ont of and had made it harder for the Court to do justice, and BROADWOOD for this reason his Lordship ould not lake a light view of the case. He knew what it was SPAETHE like at Foochow and he could not treat the COLLARD defendant in a way in which he would treat him
grear
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$150 $475
180
250
290
480
295
525
450
320
500
325 480
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400
600
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In London. His Lordship therefore committed HAAKE dafendant to prison for seven days.
Mr. Macleod asked for costs, and his Lordship said he would get them in the usual course.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The Indo-China str. Namsang left Calcutta
KRAUSS
HOPKINSON
WINKLEMANN STEINVEG...
for this port rim tlm Straits on the 5th inst., and GRAND) (Small & Large) PIANOS. may be expeted here on the 20th it.
COLLARD The Bon Line str. Beulawers, from Antwerp
this part.
sumitud to the Societary of State for a bus falou sineo and is estimated for art your
new system of salaries for the Post Office that they will be kept in i
a mind I am not prepared at 2.73. It is pos-ible now to maintaia Públi
now to make any interent, with regard to Order with a sory much smaller proportion of Staff, which differed not only from the system
thea in force but a so from the lassifica them. There are on or two matters lichs I the total expenditure than in 188, when it was
year at tion Schome that had never been introduced should like to mention through thor annot be 21.7 per cent; it is es imated for next 13.41 (Applause). Only 11.7 per cent of the into that office and that the grounds for this referred to any of the houds of the Edim 10: total erg nditu.e in 1881 was devoted to sum ssion were that higher ludacsuents were before you. Of these the first is the importanco Defence. Next year the proportion will be acessy to retain the revises of the junior totala Colony of the mainten of existing an 19.60. This important increase, which dates men in the Post Office where intre clarks on tervation of new industri. s. With the ineense from some 10 yours ago, was not satirely at the employed than in say other of the Government of Dook accommodation in the Far East and the desio of the Colony but the Military Coutri- Departments. My lelief that the adoption of construction of Railways to the Treaty Parts, this Colony cannot always hopo to m intain its bation fised by ordinance can sourcey be the scheme would effect a practical impor. mont regarded as an unreas nable payment for the is based on the success which a similar ons had past tr.de preponderance over its ricals. If it Imperial Tramps stationed at flungkong, from met with on the Gold Coast, who frequent is to advance at the rate at which it has hitherto whom the Colony derives some indirect as charges in the subordinate staff were checked advanced it will have to take full advantage for well as direct advantages. Finally, on Pablic by the introduction of a logical and consecutive fudu trial purposes of the nearly inexhaustible The Secretary of State has supply of cherp abour that on he attracted to Work, to which only
per cent. soule of salaries, of the total expenditure was doroted in 1881, we left to my decretion the extension of the nabeme it and of the convenient si os for carrying ou manufacturing basin sses which exist in the cent. In 1906, whicirnow that appears in the estimates as con- per cent. propose to spod 31.94
New Teritories. It is not greatly in the
inst, and way be expected heson the 10th inst. venient opportunities oreur for applying it to Hotable and a ti-factory increase.
Farious Departments or in particular appoint power of the Government to simulate i desties. SCALE OF SALARIES FOR DUBORDINATES. There is one point with regard to the Eeli-mal ban sattusin of it which will i trones I may refer as a small effort in this direction mates for Expenditure to which it is necessary a logical basis into the scheme of sterling salaries to the fact that a collection of specimens of the
is engaging my utlsution."
present products and manuf ctures of the to ruvert as I fear. Honourable Members may
Colony is now being propared for exhib tion nt find it a little ifferil. to understand from the doonments before them. Wherens
This systematization of salaries, involving in the Imperial Institute in Ludon. I believe in large a
some cases increases to them, shoir tend to exbititions partly us stimulating improvements ember of the clerks are shown under the different classes of the Classification Schetas improve the personnel charged with the General in the production of the ar icles exbibited and adopted in 1901, all hoes of the Post Office, Administration. At the same time I should be partly as furnishing a wholesome pleasure except a few entitled to Exchange Componenloth to see the proportion of establishment to residents and visitors. tion, all those of the Barbour Départout, of charges to the work done for deroloping the shortly to take into consideration the the Magistracy with the exception of the Colony again increase to anything like the improvement of our Massam and I see no. s'aff will reason why in view of various minor arts-lace Interpreters and of the Department of the d figures, and
be very earoposed addit ons to:
scrutinised. As business making, silver working, book binding, oto-be- | Tuspector of Schools, and a few clerks in Departments, are shown under one of six grades. incrasses it is however necessary to allow ana ing practised here, a periodical art exhibition The grades represent a new scale of stlaries increase in establishments and to provide suit should not be a success. It would be an ad- which is being grainally introduced in place of able accommodation for them, and I much look vantage if the Animal Flower Show which was the salaries under the old Classification Scheme, to the completion of the new buildings giving formerly an important feature of the Hongkong
2
ottoor
GENERAL POLICY,
I
pr.pose
vote a sum of ven tousand sight hundred and soventy-eight colare and seventy.our couls (878.71) in aid of the vote 2 Mi crllaneous Service Other Miscellaneous Ser jews for the following:- In connection with Mraar", Howard and Stephens'
clam Marins Lot No. 181.
...$4,50321 Taxed cata
Pollock, K.O.,
.. 1,150.00 Fees of Mr. H.
Do. Mr. W. Dauby..........
1.0 0,00 Do. Mr. A. Stelton Hooper... 1,04:00 Shorthand writer's attendances
Do. transcription of notes of speeches and evidence
Total
60.00
and London, faft Singapore on the 5th iust. for BROADWOOD
The H.A.L. str. Saxonia left Moji on the 5th COLLARD (as New)
Hongkong, 4th September, 1905.
The C.P.R. str. Esipress of India loft Yoko homa on Friday, the 1st Sept., p.m., for Victoria and Vancouver,
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday iived the following report :--
On the 7th at 12.15 p.m. Pressure continues 129.50 | slightly above the normal in S. China, Formess and the Philippines, but it is inclined to give $7,876.71 in
WAY all those arose,
Mr. SHE WAX-Have they accepted this? The · OLONIAL, SECRETAKT~~Yes. Mr. SHEWAN-Have thy had the money? The COLONIAL SECRETARY-Yes, it has been paid over to them.
Retarts from the North are entirely lacking. Gradisats ara slight for F. and S.E. winds ever the N. part of the China Sex.
Forecast:-Moderato E. winds; fair.
690
DE. NEWELL WILSON,
DENTIST.
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Latest American Methods. Reasonable Fear,
No charge for examinations. Ofico hours 9 AM. to 5 PM,
No. 2, PEDDER STREET (next to the General Post Office and fopposita to the side entrance to the Hongkong Hotel),
Hongkong, July 5th, 1905:
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