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SANITARY BOARD,

A moeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday at the Board Room, Mr. B. O. Enteleson presided, and there were present Hon. Mr. W. Chatlinm, C.M.G..(Vice President), Colonel Bedford, Mr. A. Sholton Hooper, Dr. G. H. L Fitzwilliams, Mr. Lan Chu Pak Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Dr. F. Clark (Medical Offcer of Health), Dr. Ponise, (Assistant Medi cal Officer of Health) and W. Bowen Rowlands (Bacretary).

CEMETERIES, BITES AND CEREMONIES,

Mr. HOOPER said he wished to propose a slight ly different resolution to that of which he had given notice. As two days notice would be necessary, and as this had not been given he moved the suspension of the wanding orders in order to enable him to move his resolution.

Hon. Mr. CHATHAM seconded and the motion

was agreed to.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 1909.

Mr. Hoorn-I would prefer to loare it to the Magistrate that the prosecutor should prove that.

Hon. Mr. HEWETT-Apparently, according to what has been raid, some Government officials don't keep their books in a proper atate.

The VICE-PRESIDENT-Ocassionally property is in a somewhat abandoned state.

Hon. Mr. HIWETT-Does the Government resume any land because taxes have not been paid? I have never heard of such a case yet.

The motion was agreed to,

SHIPPING NOTES.

In their report the Hamburg-American Company give a few interesting Bgures. Of

THERE IS SKILL AND

OF CONSTRUCTION

a total capital of £6,250,000, no less than THOROUGHNESS £4,250,000 is stated to be invested in the Com pany's Amerionn lines. Consequently the financial panic in the United States, with its complete disorganisation of Atlantic traffic, was bound to affect it very severely. During the year the company's laid-up ships represented an average, over the whole period, of 136,000 tons, A comparison of the work done during the two

The draft estimates for 1910 were forwarded years is as follows: to the Board.

Red royages Passengers...

The Acting Hend of the Department, Mr. R. O. HUTCHISON, submitted a lengthy minäte as to changos suggested in the draft estimates. Dealing first with personal empluments he stated that it was proposed to do away with the post of principal clerk and appoint a new secretary at a salary of £360 to £420. Under the vote coolies the total number provided was 88, which number he thought, would have to be increased as the method of engaging

IN ALL

PIANOS

WE IMPORT

1908. 1907.

985 1,228 280,404 47,290 Freight tons of goods...5,572,959 6,312,930 Sea miles traversod ...6,866,246 7,755,471 : The company's foot is returned at 915,855 tons, as against 955,742 tons a year previously. The reduction arises from sales of steamers which STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY of the proposed sister ship of the America, the were unsuitable, and the exclusion from the list

construction of which has been deferred

cular nationality or religious denomination had spoken se sbly against the rosolation If the cemetery was în a congested state the would recognise the sentiment underlying Government could be seked to extend its sro it, and which would certainly make him vote for it He did not wish, either alive or without ancroaching on the rights of the non- European section of the community Those dead, to draw any distinction between the diff Chinese who made use of the Colonial Cemetery.erent nationalities Here, but he was perfectly con, were chiefly the British born, the British rinced that it would be a very great soures of naturalised, the Christian converted and the sorrow to a large section of the Christian Eurasian Chinese, and recently Japanese had Church to know that Bhaddist rites were being also made use of it. As these people had already carried on in their cemetery, in the same way se beer admitted into the European paradise on Bhuddists would object to sss an alien religion carth, he thought it was scarcely fair to dobar forsing its services in one of their temples. them from using the passage to the European

Mr. Hoorza thenght as proposer of the ro. DRAFT ESTIMATES. paradise in heaven. The better class of Chinese solation he had a right to reply. Mr. Lau Chu who had made Hongkong their permanent homo Pak said in the first place that the semetery had had not a decent cametory in which to bury their always been called the Colonial Cometory, dead, and the Chinese had no control in and that indicated that every member of what were called Chinese comotories. Those the Colony had a right to by interred there. cometries were simply tracts of larren land set He found, on roference to an old book dated past by the Government for the burial of 1866, called "The Treaty Ports," a map of Chinese dead of any class. The Government Victoria, on which the Parnos, Protestant and Mr. HOOPER then proposed the following re-reserved to itself the right of resuming the land Roman Catholic cemeteries were marked. He solution. That as the new Cemetery Bye-laws and ordering the remains to be sxhumed and would next turn to the official organ of the prohibit the burning of jossa ticks and firing of briest anywhere else as the Government might Colony, the Government Gazette. In the issue crackers, in the Colonial Cemetery it is desir from time to time he pleased to direct. If it of September 17th, 1867, them was a schedule able for the Government to select a new site and autlierise a cemetery for the interment of boding was desirable to induce the better class of of fees for interments, monumwats, etc, in the coolies from a contractor for such work na credited the directors of the Hainburg-American of persons of the Bhaddist and other non-Chris Chinese to stay permanently in the Colony, it Protestant Cemetery. He found that the word traction, disinfecting, etc., had been found Company with an allusion to the "deadly con tian Faiths, and for whom no special Cemeteries was scarcely wise to impose too many restrictions Colonial" cemetery was first applied by the unsatisfactory. He proposed in the estimates have been provided where it may be lawin or to introduce class legislation. The creation Church. Mr. Hooper then quoted figures to to recommend provision for 100 peritianont that they have ever made or published any} for the practice of any rites and ceremonies

coelies. Under the head of disinfectants he slated that the estimates for 1909 amounted pertaining to the religion of the deceased

to $13,000 and as daring 1908 the total Proceeding, he pointed out that the only differ.

amount expended was 87,095 he thought it ence in the resolution proposed from that of

was safe to make a considerable reduction in which he gave notice, was that it included other non-Christian faiths than Bhaddism and all

the vote for 1910. He pointed out that u con- siderable saving could also be effected in the religions that had no cometery provided for the burts of their dead. The. Board on the 13th

lighting of the Central Market by means of Kitson lights and the Electric Company had October last passed a bye-law prohibiting tas

also offered to contract to light the market un- burning of joss sticks and firing of crackers in

der certain conditions at a considerably cheaper the Colonial Cemetery and that bye-law was

me. The "aving effected would he $3,000. approved by the Legislative Council on 3rd

With regard to the removal of ceilings he December 1908. At the time when he propesad

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of the by-law to prohibit the burning of jos sticks and the firing of crackers had already limited the aser of the Colonial Cemetery to certain class of Chinese. If the other Chinese liked to bury their dead there without observing the ritos of their ancestors it would certainly save the missions a lot of money and trouble to convert them. Lost of all, it was a policy to be condemned, the excluding of the very class of people the Colony invited to come here and settle, from sharing in the privileges for which they paid, if not more, as much as any other These were the section of the community.

slow that if all Chinese were buried there we would require a new cemetery in six weeks.

The motion, on being put to the meeting, was carried by six votes to three, the President and the Chinese members roting against it. PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE

AMENDMENT.

A copy of the amending Ordinance was for warded to the Board by Government. The most important changes in the Bill were the proposed transfer of the control of markets to the head of the Sanitory Department and the

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A telegram sent to London from Berlin

SUPERIOR VALUE

petition of the Cunard steamers." They deny BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR

THIS CLIMATE. statement of the kind. As a matter of fret, the annual report of the company is singalarly free from comment on the subject of Atlantic rivalry. It complains that, while the Hamburg-Amerionu Company is burdened to the amount of £27,000 year by excessive consular fees and kindred exactions, foreign shipping companies have ROBINSON PIANO sources of income which German shipowners lack. "In this connection," says the report, "we need only mention the policy of subventions, in our opinion highly unsound, which is con stantly extending abroad, and the large sums which the Eritish companies obtain from mail

that resolution he had not the least idea that views he had to submit for the consideration at delegation of authority to the Governor-in-thought that provision ought to be made for carrying as well as from thie trausport of goods, ! any hardship would be created and that it madabers on behalf of the Chinese. He thought Council and the Secretary of the Sanitary compensation under this work and suggested the introduction of which into Germany is

community from the Colonial cemetery their views should receivo proper weight.

Board to issue permits for exhumation.

Mr. HOOPER suggested that the Government be informed that it was not advisable to allow notices intended for owners of property under any circumstances to be served on the tenant. peaking on behalf of European land owners, he said that trouble bad arisen previously, and that the practise had caused great inconvenience, so much so that the Commission particularly made a recommendation on that point. If it was a hardship for the European owners, then it was a greater hardship for the Chinese owners, and would open the door to corruption greater than before. What weald happen? They were going to allow a notice that was intended for an Heowner, to be left at the discretion of s' sanitary

inspector with a tenant, and of course the in-.!

that a definite sum should be asked for, namely $10,000.

forbidden." This complaint about subventions will certainly cause surprise, in view of the fact Mr. SHELTON HOOPER minuted-A copy of that some of the German shipping corapanies-- the draft estimates ought to be furnished to pot the Hamburg-America owe so much to each member of the Board. It is impossible in absidies: British mail payments, by the way, the short time allowed for circulation to are not of the nature of subventions in the ordinary sense of the word. They represent thoroughly digest them.

Hon. Mr. HEWETT-Iagree with Mr. Hooper remuneration, and sometimes very poor re The Board should also have a copy of the Chair-muteration; for work done. man's minuto re estimates.

Mr. Ho Kom TONG-I agree with Mr. Hooper.

FOOLING A. FIRE BRIGADE.

BILLY FIRST OF APRIY, JOKE.

en the cruer, Huot think it fair falling in

It is not very long ago that British ship-

would tell again any soction of the com.they deserved careful consideration, and before munity. He thought the joss-sticks wera any steps were taken to exclude the Chinese burued at graves by Chinese only, in which case it would have been no hardship to prohibit, because the Government had pre-

Mr. Ho Kon TONG said he did not propose videl them with cemeteries where they to traverse the ground so fully covered by his could bury their dead and perform their funeral friend and colleague who had just spoken. Mr riter according to their religious customs, but it Lan had omitted to touch upon one important was brought to his notice that there were several point, and that was that the resolution before intermente in the course of the year of Japanese, the Board affected their Japanese friends

Dividende declared by British companies most of whom belonged to the Bhuddist faith, principally, most of whom were of the Buddhist

interested in tramp shipping exhibit in most and they felt it a hardship that they were not faith. The motion, if adopted, would affect them

cases the results of had tirnes. The Mercantile able to intor their dead with the ceremonies as a community on the whole much more so that

Steamship Company pays, for instance, 5 per enjoined by their religion. It was to meet this it would the Chinese, who in numerical propor

cent for 1908, as against 6 per cent. for 1907. that he proposed the resolution just read. It tion were far less hurt in their sentiment than

Messrs, W. France Fenwick and Co. distribute was the duty of the State in any country to were their Japanese fellow-residents,

6 per cent,, as compared with 8 per cent. The provide for the burial of its dead, and as an could not be a party to a measure of

Your Line passes its dividend, wheries for 1907 English colony we were only too pleased to doubtful practical expediency which might spector would leave it with bin. Why?

it paid 6 per cont. The Princa Line, which That following righteously indignant letter pail 5 per cent, for 1907-8, has considered it provido cemeteries for all denominations. In alienate the good feelings of any section of the Because when he found out a nuisamos existed Kupport he read an extract from the proclamation community, much less of the Japanese, whose all in a Chinese Louse it was his duty to find out.

DEAR SIR,-Knowing that you are pleased wise to make no interim distribution at the The WoodBeld Steamship dated lat February, 1841; when we took over the we were. On the ground also that the resale who the owner was and sequaint him, so that appears in the Chefoo paper of the End inst Colony "The inhabitants are hereby promised tien breathod a spirit of class or racial disproper legal notice might be drawn and served to receive items of local interest, I send you the present moment,

ed here during the early hold thich occur. Company & tramp enterprise, paid 91 per cent. protection in Her Majesty's gracious Dame fizction, he was strongly opposed to It 1 that temptation in the hands of any in which for crass foolishness would be houd 2% for 1907, but makes no diseinuaon for the past against all enemies whatever and they are principe. More especially so when the contem- further secured in the exercise of their religious plated manure was tonnded on sentiment, and spector, for he would in the majority of beat. Several members of the Fire Brigade year,

that there was a fire ont in the Temple Hill rites and ceremonies and social customs." Since traversed the sensitiveness of other people, cases leave the notice with the tenant. were called upon the Telephone, and informed that date the Government had loyally carried from his inquiries, instances of cracker firing The other day an officil notics, signed district, and as it was ascertained that the owners were complaining of a "shortage of out what was stated in the proclamation, and in the Colonial Cemetery had been few and far by the Secretary of the Board, was address information came from a member of the brigado Officers for their ships and caused influential

od to the Secretary of the Land and was stated to have been received from the had provided so far as the burial of the dead between. Even granting, for the sake of

Investment Co. The notices byelaws required signals on the Hill, various foreign members Committees to be appointed to consider the sub- was concerned sufficient and proper cemeteries argument, that it was a general pra etice,

turned out and with the assistance of some ject. With the single exception of that of the for all classes. Under those oroumstances he there was already in existence the necessary suck notice to he served on the owner, or where policemen, and a few bostuen, ran the engine white Star Line the various projects ant was ware that overy member of the Board would legal machinery to regulate it, in order to reduce it was a mited liability company, on the into the native city, and along the main streets schemes were subsequently abandoned. Aceert wish that the same justice should be meted out

te a minimum the so-called objectionable obser acretary. When the server was told to take towards the western district. First of ances, according to the orthodox rituals of the notice into the speaker's office and serve it in pony was harnessed to the engine, but as ing to Mr. Moore, the Sematary of the those belonging to the Buddhist persuasion proper way he threw it down on the table and he seemed to be full of 1st of April devilment, Imperial Merchant Bervice Guild, large num he had only to appeal to Chinese Mr. Lau Chu Pak had said that the Colonial declined to do so. There would be hundred of whole engine would be smashed to pieces: finally, bers of Captains and Officers are out of employ engine was then hauled along by hand. After ty in scouring positions even in the lowest. collongues, at the Board for their support to Cemetery was not consecrated ground, and complaints. A notion would be served on a however, he was brought to a standstill and the ment and are experiencing the greatest difficul- be given to the motion. They recognised how enr Colonial by-laws provided against fireworks tenant for something to be carried out in sight going a long way through the Chinese town and grades. Many have been unoccupied for from doar to them were their roligious customs, within "God's acre," there was no danger of ind-forty hours, and the owner might be away being unable to find any sign of fire the engine twelve months to two years. The Secretary of

was brought back ita quarters, and now

the Guild has recently received a letter from ramour has it that the alarm was supposed to be therefore they must realise how dear to other the Chinese, or of the Japanese for that matter at the time. No notice intended for an owner

an Officer who holds a Master's certificats, is a joke suitable for the day. If public institutions countries were their customs, although perhaps, resorting to the Cemetery of all places, to indulge should be served on a tenant unless the former

was absent from the Colony, and had no agent such as the Telephone Exchange and the Fire thirty-one years of age, and has acted as Chief they might not be of the came way of thinkin pyrotechnic displays. He was well aware that

Brigale are to be utilized for such purposes, one Officer of a large steamer. This Officer states will never be able to tell whether a call to a ing. But in this case they were of the same in this British Colony equal opportunities would here.

of thinking, so far as their religion was be secorled to all--in life as in death--and that Hon. Mr. HEWETT entirely agreed with Mr. Fire is genuine or not, and if there is any truth that, having been six months out of employment, He informs the Secretary concerned in the majority of cases. He alluded fundamental principle would determine the Hooper. The Government made the owner in the rumour that the idea emanated from she is now looking for a berth as an AB, bat

the responsible person, and clearly it was the member of the Brigade the sooner he withdraws | unable to get one. to the Bhuddists. great many Chinese inrejection of the motion before the meeting.

from it the better. Thanking you for inserting of the Guild that he would be greatly indebted he Colony were Bhuddists. They had their

Hon. Mr. HEWETT said he would rather this duty of the Government to serve the owner,

to know of any coasting Captain who would be Thie a gross piece of laziness on the own cemeteries where they could perform these question had never been raised at all, but having It was only

willing to sign him on as an ablo seaman. rites, and we could not deny the same right to been raised, the "thought he had the right to part of the subordinate officials that they should

is a commentary on the serious state of affairs make a few remarks an the subject. He serve the notice on the tenant instead of the

which exista in the nautical profession. That the Japanese or any other nation.

understood the question was that Bhuddist owner, and as Mr. Hooper had said, it was a Chefoo, April.

a young and able man possessing the highest rites, which included the firing of crackers and direct incentive to corruption, which, unfor the use of joss sticks over the graves of tunately, we know in the past history of the

employinent in a ship's forecastle indicates the the dead slovil be prohibited in the Sanitary Board had been a very serious matter.

Jemontable condition of things in the Merchant Colonial Cemetery, bat that as an offset, a It was for that reason that members of the new cemetery should be provided for Bhaddists Commission specially reported that in future all

Bervice..

this sort should beserved and other non-Christian races who wished notices of

Do excuse to have a cemetery of their own. That, he upon the owner. There was

that they thought was a perfectly reasonable proposal for the Government to

They There had bean, for a great number of years did not know who the owner was. here, special cemeteries set aside for different could find out in six hours, and if he was absent religious denominations. It seemed to hit from the Colony the notice could be served on perfectly reasonable that the Colony should pro- the agent.

to any raco, Asiatic or otherwise, who claimed

protection under our flag: He

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Dr. FITZWILLIAMS seconded the motion. He felt quite sure that when this restriction was proposed there was no idea of laying any hardship on any faith or sect, and that this was parely an omission instead of an act of prosexip

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means of interchanging ideas, of possibly exercising some degree of control over rates, and of corresponding with similar institutions in England and abroad. With these objecte As a result of the reduction allowed last year in view it is proposed that the committes shoul by Mr. Asquith in the stamp duty on voyage mest ones a week. The msociation is tordially policies, efforts are being made in India to get supported by about 80 per cent of the noting the stamp law assimilated to that now in force underwriters, and in their hands has restel at home. A petition was recently submitted to entirely the election of the committee; each un-

The following Board of Directors of the next Carnival ware elected at a meeting beld at Manila last week: Messrs, W. Cameron Forbes, president, J. C. Mehan, Fells M. Boras, G. A. O'Reilly, Colonel Gonzalez Bingham. E. G. McCullough, Daniel Earnshaw Carlos de las Heras, A. G. Stenhen, J. W. Hanssermann.

The Carnival of 1910, it was deelde, will be held during Chinese New Year's week.

Many changes

of programme dro recommended the Viceroy, signed by the marine insuranceerwriter was asked to vote for seven members,

sest together a large number of "names," Listory of the duties and the changes which it were elected in a thoroughly democratic way. In his annual addròss to the Calcutta Associa connected with the other important develop. was hoped the Government would agras to make. The formation of the new body muy fairly he tion the chairman referred to the suggested monts of the past few months, whereby reckless

including the rates on coal, in which fires during the last but season were frequent, forming one of the notably bad features of the past year.

Mr. Lau CHU PAK said he had listened with great attention and interest to the eloquent and able speech made by the mover of the resolution If the resolution which had been so carefully and ingeniously forded, would, when carried, benefit instand of deprive non-Christian persona of their right, not only the speaker, but every body who was acquainted with the circumstances.vide a special cemetery for the Bhuddists, and

The VICE-PRESIDENT, after referring to would give it their hearty support. Bat in any other denomination suoiently representedifferent clauses in the Ordinance, said members Colonel McCoy. Among these recommenda- chi, Coconads, and Burmah, which set, out 99.that the seven chosen members, who repre- point of fact that resolation was aimed at cur. to justify such an expenditure on the part of the had it on Mr. Howett's authority that the "tailing the privileges hitherto enjoyed by the Colony, He was afraid Mr. Lau Cha Pak had Chinese and other fellow citizens, the majority spoken a little bit off the line. The point was address of an owner could be found after mix hours notice. The speaker had sometimes quite impossible of whom belonged to no particular religions that the Bhaddists and others, wished to carry denomination: whatever his sympathy out the ceremonies and perform the riten found out that it was

over the graves of their dead which were to ascertain the address of snowtar might be with the relation, Le did not think

accadance with Protestant or his agent. On many censions recourse had he should allow his sentiment to aurry not in

He thought the him beyond his duty. In opposing the Catholic ideas. Personally he had no view to be xands to the police, and some- motion he abstained from criticising the many on the subject but he wished to hold an even times that comes failed. points raised by the mover and soconder. He balance between different denominations. He Ordinates as it stood provided all ressonable

could quite conceive that members of the protection in that respect, would simply state the views of those he re

Hon: Mr. HEWETTAs it stands. Therefore presented on the Board so that members might Christian church might be extremely opposed Consider those views with the mover's views to any other rites than those which pertained we don't want the nmending ordinance. ad form their decision according to justies and to their roligion being carried out in the Mr. HOOPER moved "That this Board con- fairplay: The Colonial Cametery, as its name cemetery; and that being so they should respectsiders it advisable for ull notices addressed to implied; was open to every resident in the Colony the sentiments they might be only sentiments the owner be served on such owner and not on faizspective of nationality and religion. It was of these people. He did not think that by the tenant unless the owner or his suthorised maintained at the cost of the public, and was passing the resolution, they were casting any agent are out of the Colony."

Hon. Mr. HEWETT seconded. During the last reflection, or drawing any racial distinction the public's property.

The TICE-PRESIDENT suggested that the sixty years, strictly in accordance with between Astatic and Occidental. The resolution

was provided to meet the various sentiments mover should adil, Or that if the address of British Justice, the had any law or regulation contemplated to of the different denominations to the Colony such owner cannot be ascertained through the confine its use to people of any parti-Ho trusted that the Chinese members who proper channels, etc."

never boon

in a report submitted by Mr O'Reilly and agents associations et Calcutta, Bombay, Kara- tions are a redaction of the hippodrome per formances to three nights during the Carnival and that the concession for confetti be controlled by the association

Colonel McCoy believes that the gratuitous distribution of a package of confetti to every er person entering the gates would tend to keen reduction; be also reviewed the various tarifs, competition has yielded to reasonel agreement

up popular interest and enthusissun in the big flesta and his suggestion was received with favour.

Vice Governor Forbes, interviewed by a board of directors would meet within a few daya, Cablenews representative, said that the new but that he did not know if a new director general would be selected at that meeting or not It was the consensus of opinion of the hoard, tion for next year would be this t of the exposí. the 27970s namely, the formation of au Under writers Association among the underwriters however, that the industrial and that every effort would be made to encourage at Lloyd's. It is no injustice to the enterprise the provinces to take special pains to send good of the loading member who initiated the more the finances of the Association had been so exhibits to Manila, Mr. Forbes also stated that ment to say that Lloyd's have long had an arranged that all bills would be settled within opportunity of seeing the weful work such a alphabetical order)-Messrs. A. Boulton, the next month, and that, although there was at body could do in the existence of such active Hicks, P. Janson, F. W. Murten, H. Ridgers, present a cseh deficit, the assets of the Associa the buildings and other property in its posses. Institute of London Underwriters and the Mr. de Rangement has been elected chairman, Hon, as represented by Its guarsaleed bonds and 250ciations, supported by the companies, as the C.I. de Rougemont, and H. G. Sicklemore. for next year's big show in a proper manner, these bodier, the new association will provide a of the market, has been appointed secretary, ion, would enable the directors to start the work Underwriters' Association of Liverpool. Like and Mr. J. McNair, who has a long experience-

a semi-official publicity. There would seem to and the mystery enveloping private account to

be sound reasons for creating the organization; Another notable example of the policy which end if by introducing some measure of cohesion now rules the market deserves to be recorded it only provente the repetition of the disastrous the writer of marine insurance notes in events of the last two or three years--harmful

special

to shipowners and certainly dangerous to the market-its existence will be amply justified.

As a result of the election the following mexibers were elected to the committee of the now association (the names azu girən in