HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUSTIL.
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held on May at in the Council
Chamber at 2.20 p.m. ·
PRESENT-
HIS EXCELLENCY TUK GOVERNOR, MAJON SI MATTHEW NATHAN, K.L.M.G."
BYTILBYENTARY ESTIMATES, The ATTORNEY GENERALI ask leave to introduce and road for the first time a bit entitled "An Ordinance to sathorize the appropriation of a supplementary sum of two hundred and seventy-eight thousand four bund rod and twelve dollar and eight cents, to defray the charges of the year 1905."
The COLONIAL TREABURER #oonded,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 18T, 1906.
that
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have been practising here for many years] BRITISH SHIPPING IN WAR-TIME.
to do so if they posĶERS shall continue the qualifications which the Bill requires that is to say if they have a degree or diploma or certificate granted by the universities of Pennsylvania or Harvard or other universities entitling them to practise dentistry, and if they bave in addition to either of these professional qualifications a certificate of the State Dental HIS EXCELLENC The amounts which it in Council of Pennsyiranit or Massachussetts HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL VII proposed to provide by this bill havealready been which entitles them to practise in those Blates of forumtion, so that the wish of the Roral!
covered by Bunucial minutes which came bofore It is not necessary to go into details of grali LIERS HATTON, C.B. (Commanding the Troops; the Legislature from time to time last year. Beations. They are set out in clause 9 ofthe Bill,
.Hon. Mr. T, Senicomar Smra (Colonial
The total ezress on votes apart from savings If any person coming here after the Act comes Bretary).
on other votes appears in the bill as $278,412 into operation desires to practies dentistry he Her. Sic H.8. BERKELEY, K.C. (Attorney Honourable members may notice a discrepancy must satisfy the Dentistry Board that he has the between this figure and the figure of $301,340.35 | qualifications required by the Ordioaneo, but which appears as total excess over the smount
if the Board is not satisfied and the applicant originally vote on page 28 of the supplementary is act salist-d with their dissatisfaction, the Colonial estimates now before them. It is Bill provides an appoal to the Governor in counted for by the fact that it was not necess-Council. In England there is no appeal to ary for the Council to role an excess on the any particular body, but this ill allows a kid opemte bath as an additional security to Hon. Mr. W, Chatham (Dirvelor of Public military contribution, that being provided i private appeal to the Governor in Council. My} the maintenance of our overses trade and as an
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General).
Hou Mr. A. M. THOMMON Tronstrer
Hon. Mr. A. W. General).
Colonial
BREWIN (Registrar
Hos. Coptoiu h. A. W. HAINES-LAWRENCE, RN. (Harbour Master).
Works).
Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewart.
Hon. Dr. Hu Kai. M.B., C.M., C.M.G..
Hon. Mr. E. OSBORNE,
Hon. Mr. We YUK.
MINUTES.
The minutes of the provions meeting were read and confirmed,
PAPERS.
year
it
by law No. 1 of 1901, against the excess over the original estimates of $301,344. observed at the foot of the same page that there bas been a saving of $525,247. It will be observed that there was 8223,916 less expen- Mr. A. 4. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Councils, diture during the year than was anticipated. From the retures Alrenity lal on the table and published in sessional paper No. of this will be remembered that the revenue' was Ins than anticipated, the revanue during the year being $280907. Comparing these two figures it will be observed that the working for the your was less favourable than was soticipated when the estimates for 1905 wore mus, by a sum of $56,000. The result of this is that whereas in the original estimates of surplus in the year 19005 $23,419 was anticipated, there was an ally a deficit of *32,871. When I addressed the Council on 7th September last I estimated a deficit of $78,972, so the final estimates show we are somewhat better off than at the time when the estimates for the current year were introface-l.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excelency the Governor, laid on the table the following papers: Returns of the Police Magistrates Courts for the year 190: report of the Post Office department for the year 19 5; - report of the Captain Superintendent of Police and of the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade for the year 1905.
VINANCIAL MINUTE>.
4 NATIONAL INDEMNITY.
One of the most urgent and Important recom- mendations of the Royal Commission on Food Supplies, of which the Prince of Wales was a member, was the formation of a small expert committee to frame a scheme of untions! indem- nity against the loss by capture which British shipping may expect to in the Honso of
sustain in the event o worst auch is committee-is-in-cours of Com.
Commission that there should be no delay in taking the step is question is evidently to be realised. The reasons which prompted the recommendation are quite clear. The Com. mission ra had dope
ample eridone that onr dependence on overses food supplies might war-time. easily lead to panie prices in it of his opisien that the prices of commodities Admiral Sir John Hopkins, for instance, gare
the would be "tremendously driven up by advance of insurance and
freightage." The Royal Commissioners, therefore, came to the condusion that a system of national indemnity
influence on prices. alternative of national insurance was, of
own opinion is that we should appoint a board important
standying "This It will be and have it to their discretion, but that est be
discussed in commitee. The Bill provides course, considered, but was rejected on the greund, among others, that national indemnity penalties upon persons who contravene its would leave it more open to the Government, provisions. The Bill does not apply to persons eting through the Admiralty or otherwise, to who are at presont practising dentistry in the keep greater control of the risks which, in Colony or who bave practised within a certain
sume form or other, will undoubtedly have to by rút, The final declaration of the Royal time pret us to the Ordinance coming into
Commission on this subject was os follows: We look mainly for security to the strength operation to be hereafter fixed oxcept to this extent that every person whether protizing of our Navy, but we rely in only a less degree upon the widesprend resources of our mercantile fleet, and its power to carry oui our trade and before or so! must put his nams upon the register within a reasonable time. I think, bir,
reach all possible sources of supply wherever the principle of the Bill must commend itself to they exist; and we believe that a guarded and
would a the Council and I move that the Bill be now well-considered rehome of national indemnity. I act as a powerful addition to our resources. road in zecond time,
because it would tend to keep down the cost st transport,
atul therefore would go for in the direction of preventing high prices le time of
ไ I think, Sir, it war, while, at
it would be a same time, stimulus to the enterprise of British shipowners. Some interesting details as to the probable cost of a system of national indemnity will be at the service of the Committee acw to be The COLONIAL, SECRETARY seconded, and appointed. On the basis of the total foreign trade of the United Kingdom (import and this was agreed to.
may be assumed export) in 1903, of which it that about two-thirds was carried in British bottoms, it appears that the value of cargo per tou of British shipping entering and clearing with carge may be taken at about 10 58; that, on the basis of a tonnage of 8,900,000 tons, the total salas of cargo liable to capture wonia to, in round figures, £91,000 Taking these figares together-
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY, ACT, The ATTORNEY GENERAL-Sir, I rise to
the same
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconder, and this was agreed to.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL
would be well to send this Bill to the Standing Committee on Law, and I move that it be referred to the Law Committe
HUMMARY OPPENCES ORDINANCE.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL moyed the thin reading of the Bill entitled an Orduanes in amen the Summary Offences (Auendment) Ordinance, 1905.
The CONIAL SECRETARY seconded; and the Bill was passer
Vatns of shipping Value of cargoes
'Total
-... £89,000,000 91,000,000
The COLONIAL SECRETARY Jail on the table Financial Minates (Nos. 2 to 33) and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee,
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, His EXCELLENCT Financial linuto No 98 is to vote a sum of 850 in aid of the vote move the second reading of a bill entitled Public Works Extraordinary, buildings - Ordinance to amord the law relating Women." the Property of Married quarters for signalme, Green Island. This is to really for quarters for the sasistaut lighthouse Thu objent of this Ordinance is to place keepor. When I inspected at Green island on ourried women in this Cotony on May 1st my attention was called to the ia footing as they atau in England, and to MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE AMENDMENT. sufficient quarters provided for this officer, and accord to them the right of protection with
The ATTORNEY GENERAL Mored the third as it is more aconomical to do the work now regard to their own property; separate proper-roading of the B entitled an Ordinance 16 when a contractor is working on the site than ty, which they enjoy in the mother country amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890. to postpone it until later, 3 decided after con- and I may say elsewhere in the Empire. The sultation with the Director of Public Works Ordinance is at embodiment, with such slight that this smul addition should be made, modifications as are necessary to make it suit Financial Miante No. 9 is, in aid of the able to the slightly varying conditions in this voto Public Works Extraordinary, building: Calong of the provisions of the Imperial re-arrangement of outbuildings as the Supreme enactment known as the Married Women's Pro- Court. Last month the Crown Solicitor, through porty Act of 1882 and 1993. The 189 acting to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court If5 per cent of our shipping serv the Registrar of the Supreme Court, brought to my notice the overcrowding of the basement of that building. I visited the building and am satisfied that belter arrangements could be made. The plan for theso arrangemouts was prepared by the Director of Public Works in consultation with the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and to carry out the alterations in aovordance with
merely amended the 1892 act. The original act in England was passed in 1870, but the 1882 ect extended very much the protection which was accorded for the first time in England to married women in respect of their property. The Ordinance in this Colony will give immediate protection to married women with rospect, to their sarings in the savings banks,
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The COLONIAL SECRETARY secunded, and the bill was passed.
SUPREME COCHT JURISDICTION.'
The ATTORNEY GEazzal moved the third † reading of the Bill entitled an Ordinance relat.
with respect to the care and commitment of the custody of the porions and estates of lunatics.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was passed,
His EXCELLENCY-The Council, stands
adjourned till Thursday, June 6th.
FINANCIAL COMMITTEE.
this plan 31,609 is required. Financial minale other banks or otherwise in rested. There are immediately after the Council-the Colonial
No. 30 is for a sum of $7,800 in aid of the vota | many married women here who have such Public Works Extraordinary, buildings-Time savings and who have property in the shape of Bali tower on Blackhead's Bill, Kowloon. The shares, properly both moveable and Immovable. erigin of the proposal to build a new time-ball The principle of the bill will, I am sure, commend towar was a complaint which appearul in itself to everybody in the Colony. Exactly introduced before I am the Press some time ago that the existing why it was not time-bal: is not visible from si parts of the able to say, but I think it is high time it The only persons harbour. The matter was referred to the should be introduced now. Chamber of Commerce, and in consultation likely to object will be the Sikh and other with them a sew site was selected on Black-1 Indian moneylenders and nearers, also the Load's Hill. This site is within War Depart ment property, but the honourable and gallant member on ing right line consented to the time ball being erected on that property. Plans bave boin prepared, and have been concurred in by the Director of the Observatory, sad as the matter affects shipping it is considered to be of some urgency, and it is proposed to put it in hard without waiting for next your's estimates. Financial minute No. 1 is for 828,275.36 in aid of the vote Public Works Extraordinary, mis cellaneour, reconstruction of Government piers.
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held
Mr. T Sercombe Bmith; residing. The following Lotes were pussad :—
Secretary (Hon
QUARTERS FOR SIGNALMEN.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum
of $350 in aid of the vole, Public Works Extraordinary, Buildings, 12-Quarters for Signalmen, Green Island..
LE-ARRANGEMENT OF GUTBUILDINGS.
The Governor recommsurled the Council to vote a sua of $1,00) in aid of the vote, Public Work Extraordinary, Building Re-arrange
Outbuildings at the Supreme Court,
TIME BALL TOWER,
class who frequently take property of their wises to pay debts lacurred. It is proposed to give the Ordinance eyet as from the first day of January, 1883, when the English Act of 1882 came into operation. The object in so doing is to place all married women in the Colony with respect to the power to acquire aud dispose of!
The Governor recommended the Council properly which they have acquired bere in the i same conditions as in the old country. Instead to rote a sum of 825,273.36 in aid of the voto, Public Works Extraordinary, Miscellane. of moving that the hill be referred to a omittee of the whoh Council. I think itu, Re-edestruction of Governinent Piers.
The Governor recommended the Council
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to voto a sum of 87,80 in aid of the vote Pallic Works Extraordinary Buildings-Time-Ball Tower on Blackband's Hill, Kowloon.
would be better to referit to the Law Committee,
GOVERNMENT PIERS.
TAUMATI 8CHOOL.
The Governor recommended the Council to veto a sum of 8217.80 in aid of the roto. Public
Yaumati.
... £130,000.090 the cost of the indemnity to the Government would vary according to the percentage of losses. in some such proportion as the following: If I per cent, of our shipping were
lont 17 25 per cent. of our shipping were
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lost
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Lost
1 10 por cont. of our shipping were
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AN ENGLISH VICAR'S OPINIONS.
The Rer. Forbes Philips, Vicar Gorleston, recently addressed an audience on HAVE BEEN REVISED
The Resurrection--ra-stated." The question was, he said, what appeared to the disciples throughout on basis of prevailing bigh exchange. after the crucifixion, and it was there be gut We supply only into treable. Fortunately for him St. Paul supported him in Lis views, or he would not be wearing the naiform of a clergyman of the Church of England. In his opinion, it was quite clear that the Christ of the reserection was a spiritual personality, a glorified type of remained what all woe would be one day if they faithful,
found, Thero were
many. whol
held and beld violently-that the resurrec tion of Christ meant the actual coming forth from the tomb of the body which had been mangled and crucified on the cross. That was and to put it forth nut the belief of the bodies of men would.
from the palpit that the
rise again in the solid state was a gross and stupid blunder. He refused to believe that the Christ whom he was called upon to preach, in the spirit world, was a solid body. When he
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conducted s burial service he was required to MANUFACTURERS
read a long assage from St. Paul. In that passage St. Paul emphasised the very doctrine for uring which he was now called upon to resign. He might say at once that ha hud
of resiguing intention
Bofors The they could get him out of the Church of England they would have to get rid of St. Paul. It was time the Church said
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4,500,00
what she meant, and, for God's sake, let them 9,000,000 throw overboard aseless lumber which was keeping men and women--the intelligent ches, 18,000,000 at all events-out of the Church. It was clear
Le maintained, that the
Christ appearance of to the Apostles was a spiritual presence, bocsusa Christ mosed about from place to place with
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latter are personally selected at the
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out of sight. But Christ himself told them that risen men should be as angels in heaven and he did not think that even Prebendary
solid substances,
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In the wories Round the Empire" in the World the Suez Canal forms the subject of on interesting article. During the past twenty Web-Peploe would ergas that gels were BRANCHES FROM PENANG TO
years, says the writer, steady spade work has bees constantly going on. In 1870 the canal had a depth of only twenty-six foot three inches and a bottom width of serenty-two feet. IB 1997 8 it was deepened by Fall & mistre, and the bottom width was gradually increased to a hundred and right fest. The carros in the chaud vere as the same time rounded off, in order to accelerate the speed of vessels. Daring the years 1848.100 passing stations were constructed eight hundred and twenty yards in length, at intervals of three miles, with A bottom width of a hundred and fifty feet. At this time also the depth of the skannel was in- creased all along to twenty-nine and a-half feet;
and in 1902 ship, drawing twenty-six foot three inches of water were allowed to use the canal, Work is still in progress with the intention of incraving the depth to thirty-one feet, and the bottom width to a hundred and twenty-eight foot when it will be possible to increase tuo rato of speed from six miles to nine miles an hour, reducing the average time of passage from twelve heard. The steamer in eighteen to
the writer came through the canal took sixteen and a belf hours to effect the journey, Battleships max at present go through it they dismount their beary guns into lighters, and coal at the far end of the canal. When a depth
DOLE TO THE TEA TRADE.
CUSTOMS TO RETURN DUTY PAID ON HAY 1.
PEKING. Hongkong, 20th May, 1906.
TYPEWRITERS
In the belief that the alteration in the tes day will slated by the Chancelor of the TAKEN. Charges maderate. daty was not to come inte ettet until July 1- Exchequer les trader?, it is stated, took out of bond on May 13,310,1201bs of tes
1116
UNDER.
ULEANED, REPAIRED,OVERHAULED
NYPEWRITING WORK
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The quantity taken out of bond on May 1, 1905, was 564 07; and it is therefore sale,
to assume that has the announcement of the
change of ante from July 1 to May 14 hern
DR. M. H. CHAUN,
latest Method of the AMERICAN
37, UES VEUX ROAD CENTRAI,
sde estlier, 2,773,147lbs. loss would have been taken out, and a saving of £11,503 would have
deputation from the Tea Bayers' AssociaTSYSTEM of DENTISTRY. been made by the trade. tion pointed this out to Mr. Asquith, and the szociation received uoties that the "Customs are to return the duty in the ordinary way by From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. over-entry certificate on all tes anty-paid on May I which has not been removed from bond before
re May 14, and that any tea duty-paid on lay 1 may be returned into bood in noopened packagos.”
Hortert Compton, the secretary of the
This sum is duo to the final reclamation and more that it be referred to the Standing Works Extraordinary, Buildings, 10-School, of thirty-one feet is obtained, oven the Drand. Free Tea League, writes to the Express that a
account; on the final closing of that acronut in accordance with notices which appeared in tha Government Gazette on March 2nd. The closing of that account involves certain credits to the Treasury due to news having been paid into the ucccant in creem of what was due by Government for their part the reclamation, These credits will and from other causes. more than cover the debit which you are now asked to refer to the Finance Committee.
Committee on Law.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
REGISTRATION OF DENTISTA,
EDUCATION YOTE,
nought could make the passage carrying her peony off the tea tax can do the consumer no good ten twelve-inch guus on their mountings. If whatever. It is merely a dolu to the tas trade. The Governor recommanded the Council roto a sum to 8100) in aid of the vote, Edustao directors will be sufficoutly far-sighted so Had twopence come off the tax, Mr. Comptas beliares that a practical relief would have been incur the expense of widening the canal through-beares tion, Department of Inspector of Schools at its length, by
the existing pass connecting The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the second
Other Charges, Remuneration to Assistant in stations and thus gives continuous surface Examiners of Great Schools.
width of thrie hundred feet, with a bottom reading of the Bili entitled an Ordinance to
width of a hundred and fifty feat, this would regulate the qualifications and to provide for
DEATH OF MR. THOMAS COWEN. accomplish the duplication of the craal. the registration of dentists. He said-The
aud vessels could perch other without intention of this Bill is as far as possible to
The Japan Chronicle, in announcing the losing time at the passing statione. Tying up ensure that for the future persone practising as
in a passing station trans the loss of at least au Financial minnte No. 32 is for $17.80 in aid dontists in this Colony shall be professionally death of Mr. Thomas Cowen, says it took place hour. It has been estimated that the cost of the
frou a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. Mr. of the vote for the school at Yaumati This is educated as such. At the present morasht there Coren was being treated in the Akasaka Hus. proposed extension would not excred a million! who has decided to take a woll--aroad holiday! is no legal qualification for a person practising pltal in Tokyo, by Dr. Whitzoy, for tomone pounds-a capital expenditure which could not as a dentist, and it cannot but obviously on the braiu; Mr. Thomas, Cowen was one of fail to be remunerative, and would set at rest
for all time the construction of a rivel caval. the heat-known journalists in
a small excess on the estimate of $25,0 for
the building. The school is now completed
Honourable members will remember it has been
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AN OLD GERMAN SETTLER. The Japan Chronicle of Mag 19th saps- Auther old resident sails from Japan to-day in the person of Mr. C. T. M. Nickel, the founder of the stevedoring firm of Nickel & Co., Ltd.,
1840. in Germany. In 1859 Mr. Nickel arrived in to Nagasaki, where be was in the year I Shanghal from his native land, but moved on If this is to be dons nu time should be lost, as After ten years hard work in the southern pert be desirable that such a state of thinge Irishman possessing high literary ability and a
again for
left erected in fulfilment of a promise made to Mr. should censo as soon as possible. To effect wido experience gained in many fields in this the trafic is certain to increase in corresponding he retard home, on to Yokoba
that object the Bill provides that after the part of the world. He was a familiar friend to proportion to the annual development of the the East, going on to Yokohama. In 185
of year
the canal, when the transit stevedore, which four year ago was transformed CHILDREN OF opening wus conreated from a general into a British Ordinance is passed, into law no one shall men in North and South China, Cares, world's trade and shipping. From the best be estil din Kobe, and began business as a
Fimited Japan; the very
2 company with Mr. Nickel us school. Hendurable members who have visited practice in this Colony as a dentist unless be characteristics which mada it impossible receipts amounted to only 64,460fes, down to into
This post, however, he 1904, when the receipts were 115,818,47cmanaging director.
and practically retired. the building will be satisfied that the promise is on the register of dentists to be established. For him to settle down in the rut of so thars has been a steady, continuous, annual resigned sassing as of the Government to provide a suitable place In order to get upon that register a person one place were those which were the most for Chinese children bas teen suply fulfilled desiring to practice as a dentist will have to attractive to his friends, who will hear of bis growth of traffic; and what is specially to be from business. Mr. Nickel hes somo lively Finuucial minute No. 3 for $10 is in aid of satisfy a board to be called a Dentistry Board, death at & very early age with the sincerest noted is that each roduction of transit dues has stories to tell of the ently days, when foreigners regret. He was the founder of several papers.
been nearly always immediately followed by an used to sell arms secretly to the Japanese and the vote education, department of Inspector of and to be appointed in the manner set forth in the Manila Tines and China Times at Tientsin; increase in receipts. It will be interesting to English gunboats after them; and of the way
Pages, and includes a Sketch Plan of Remuneration to the Ordinance and consisting of the Principal edited several others for short periods; and as a see if this increase will be maintained during business was conducted in the Dutch settlement THE VOLUME which consists of 461 Schools other charges.
at Deshims, when one bottle of quinine was the current year, wow that the tariff has been war correspondient made a baino twelve years ago. assistant. examiners of grant schools. This Medical Officer of Health as chairman, and tw
exmphor, wax, and bronzes secretly exportad. the Forces at the bettle of Kwailin, is dedicated remuneration in post years has been pant some practising dentista-ho will have to satisfy that In this latter capacity, perhaps most suited to reduced to the unprecedently low rate of seven sold for a gold koban, equal to about Y14, and hislarical interest showing the disposition of
his unture, he was considered brilliant, and dur-
Mr. Nickel, although aver seventy years age, to Sir RoBERT HATI, G.C.M.G., and Dr, A.
RENAIC. what irregularly from the bonaty for grant for Board that he possesses one of the qualifications jug the China-Japan war as correspondent of
hopes to return to Japan,
Its description of Chinese Social Customs. and Buperstitions, combined with the insight it schoots. We now propose to regalarise the set forth in clause 9, or that he is a person who the Timer is werk was admittedly the best thikt was sent to the London Peass. His forts lay in
gives into political conditions in China makes matter by making a special vote for it. This at the date of the Ordinsoce passing into law or
CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY" n excellent will not involve any excess on that voto for the within a certain limited time to be hereafter descriptive writing. During the late war be
fized in committee was bona-fide practising as work in this direction by publishing one
was again a correspondent, and concluded his
Tolum for presentation to friends at Home. of
Well bound in Yellow Cloth with Chinese department,
in Gold. a dentist in the Colony. The Ordinance is many books that have been written on the
Emblem in
PRICE liberal in its scope, because it is proposed by it Russo-Japanese war. A year or more ago Mr. Cowen returned to Japan, which he liked better to pirmait persons possessing qualifications as than any other country, a wreck of his former dentists other than those recognized by the self-bis face disfigured by terrible sufferings
of England to practise. ¦ from neuralgis. Daring seasons of respite the Formosa Channel, land the N, part of the Regulations. The Chinese quarter referred to Printers and Publishers, the "HONGKON
The motion was agreed to...
FINANCIAL
The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table report of the Finance Committee, No. 2, and
moved that it be adopted.
Medical Council
the
francs saventy-five contimes per ton.
WEATHER REPORT,
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report :--
On the 31st at 11.35 ..-The barometer has risen over China and Japan.
An area of high pressure lies over the E coast of China and W. Japan, and pressura is relatively low to the S. of Formon
Fresh N.E. and E. winds are indicated
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and In other words it is proposed that the from suffering, however, he joked as much as the motion was carried.
large bodies of American dealiste whoever, and enjoyed what could be get out of life, China Ses
travelling a little and waiting a little,
Forecast:-Fresh E. winds; fine.
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PORT ARTHUR IMPROVEMENTS.
REMOVAL OF CHINESE HOUSES.
It is reported that the Japaness authorities in the Liastung Peninsula bare decided to remove about 200 Chinese houses in the old
$3.50
To beobtained from Messrs. KELLY & WALSE,
city of Port Arthur, according to the Building LT, Messrs. W. BREWER & Co, or from the
is reported to be so poor and filthy that its DAILY PRESS" Office. existence is considered to be detrimental to the
decency and hygiene of the city,
Hongkong, 23rd April, 1906,
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