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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE;

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1914.

A GENERAL VOTE. S His Excellency the Governot commended the Council to vote a eum of $00,250 in aid of the following votes:→→

PUBLIC WORKS.

a

BPUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.

HONG KONG

BUILDINGS

-Maintenance of Buildings

COMMUNICATIONS.

Summer Excursions JAPAN

BY THE STEAMERS OF

814,000

3 Maintenance of Ronds

Bridges in City 4-Maintenance of Roads and

Bridges outside City

and

46,000,

9,000

CANADIAN PACIFIC S.S. LINE.

DRAINAGE.

6.Maintenance of Sowers, Nullabs,

etc.

- LIGHTING,

Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District. 8.- Electric Lighting. City

MISCELLANEOUS. Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers

9.

We lind the application of Article 3 of the Bili so sweeping that it covers ships which we cannot think it was intended to cover, Tho expense of the guarde and of the changes and fittings required is considerable, and the existence of many of them will be a serious interference with the freedom of move- ment and with the handling of cargo on board for long periods when they are not serving the purpose intended. The articlorofors to voyages ranging from Amoy to Haiphong. and in doing so includes vessels which have some of those. routes as only part of their voyages. One of the principal effects on Consters of these regulations will be to cause the erection of dodgers, grilles, barhedscire protections and other structural alterations. also changes in connection with passengers, their luggage and cargo, so inconvenient as to be almost impracticable, on the regula steamers running between Tientsin, Tsing tau and Shanghai to Cantan vid Hongkong. Thew boats wake a round voyage in, say, three weeks, and would be hampered by those regulations all that time because they are for two periods of eight hours each hoturen Hongkong and Canton. These vessels engage no pamengers at either of these two ports for the other, though they have passengers for the longer voyages. It will he a simple mat ter, therefore, to keep people off who are not travelling outside as well as within the danger one, and in any case in the 'soutlierr direction strangers would at once he detect-3. ed. We think it rensouable, therefore, that kuch vessels should be exempt from the new regulations.

The number of passengers carried by Coasters trading between Hongkong, Hoihow, Pakkei and Haiphong is so small that it would take a very long period to recover the cost of the alterations called for.

Additional reason for their exemptioni Bruse list of the following-remorks-to-certsii. of the regulations:-

Regulation No. 5 requiring access to the bridge Frami below to be abaft the grille ap- tients to assume that all bents are built mocht like, whether special river or gran-going" und that it is of equal feasibility to make the required changes with the one na in the other, besides the assumption that need also is equal, whereas the fact is that the construction of river boats differs from ano another and greatly from coasters, while shore is further great variation between this desigin of coasters. To comply with regulate coval of certain fixed ladders regulation on many of the cousters means and severing the connection between the fore deck and the rest of the ship or sending the boats to a dockyard and changing the design at great cost and delay,

Regalation 7 requiring the protection of the energency steering gear would, to be dimensions and this, alate would cost not

16 Stores Depreciation 29.-Water, Account (Meters, etc.)...

WATER WORKS.

KOWLOON

BUILDINGS.......

2,000

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

escorting the latter to the grave, Emperor for capacity. The Commander-in-Chief Willism informed the then Major von of the High Seas Fleet does not come Môlike that be had decided to elevate him withm that category for the German to the rank of a personal aide-de-camp Navy contains no officer of riper, expori- Five years of service in the Kaiser's once on greater professional knowledge. entourage were succeeded by regimentale he still on the bridge when the and divisional commands in the Guards Kaiser's Armada goes down to this ses to until, in 2004, Emperor William created conquer for the Fatherland more room Quartermaster Generalship at the in the sun, Germany's naval fortunes General Staff, hitherto Giled only in will be in competent and resourceful wartime, and designated Lieutenant hands, General von Moltke to occupy it. The post is that of a vice-chief, and on Moltke was thenceforth looked upon as

Count Schlieffen's eventual successor.

Like Von Tirpitz and nonrly all the other important men in the German Navys Admiral von Ingenohl is of com- moner origin, having been born at Neu- Von Moltke's qualities are not of the wied, in 1857, as the son of a tradesman and factory-owner. He is therefore fifty- dazzling order. Bulky and stocky of six years old Entering the hipodest exterior, with the ungainly outlines of aggregation of frigates known as the Bismarck, blue-eyed and blondish-grey- German Navy in 1874, he has spent thirty- haired, taciturn to a degree,,, a famed nine years in it, and, by dint of con- Schleswig-Holsteiners from which the the successive grades of administrativa Moltkes have sprung, the Chief of the and sea service.

500 GOING AND RETURNING WITHIN PERIOD 1st JUNE 3187 OCT. characteristic of the Mecklenburgers and spicuous merit has risen rapidly through

RATES FROM HONGKONG :

250

2,500 7,000

3,600

Tickets are interchangeable for return by any steamor of above-named Companies and include Bail between Japan Ports of call if desired.

Passengers may go and/or zetargi VIA MANILA without additional charge by steamere calling at that Port so indicated in schedule of sailings shown below,

The Steamers operated by the Companies med sre the largest fastest and most luxurious on the Coust.

NAGABAKI $120.00, KOBE $135.00. YOKOHAMA $150.00. force, unfailing candour, and mental has been gained in the Far East. It was General Staff is a nian of indomitable Most of Von Ingenohl's rea experience capacity more distinguished for sanity vouchsafed him, while still a cadet in his than scintillating brillianey. He cars teens, to see gar-servies in the schoolship far less for show than a Guard lieutenant. Tinete, which participated with other The Kaiser offered him the Imperial German vessel in the international naval Chancellorship when Prince Bulow fell, demonstration undertaken against the and Von Moltke, believing that a soldier Chinese in 1876, to stamp out piracy in should stick to his trade, declined the Far Eastern waters. In 1895, while com- manding the gunboat 7lfis, at the close of himself thoroughly in the background, the Chino-Japanese war, it fell to Von his powerful initative and relentless per Ingenohl's lot to silence Chinese forts at severance are known to have been the Tomsai, which, in consequence of sullen influence chiefly responsible for the vast unwillingness to acknowledge Japanese. increase now taking place in the peace sovereignty over Formosa, had shelled

German steamer containing Chinese establishment of the German Army at a

troops and State fýnds. Van. Ingenobl cost of £50,000,000,000

also took part as a young commanding officer in several punitive expeditions to the Afrioan consts.

JOINT SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS TO AND FROM JAPAN PORTS. invitation. Though he contrived to keep

Maintenance of Buildings.

1:000

MAJICOMMUNICATIONS,

antennace of Honds and Bridges

FROM JAPAN.

Te JAPAN.

7,000

DRAINAGE.ly

To

Bose NAADAM

laintenance of Severs, Nuilnhs,

- ERAUM

LEAVS

·IMAVM · ARRIVA

-

STKANER

LRAYE ARKIVE

1,000

2,000

Aug. 18

: Sefit.

AUR.

Bagitor RUSSIA

MOSTRAGLEGA

Sept

WATER WORKS.

Water decount. (Meters, etc.)..

NEW TERRITORIES. BUILDINGB

aker

in

500

Returning via Danka,

:S5-Majutonance of Buildings

Mainland and · Islands Northern District

COMMUNICATIONS. 86-Maintenance of Roads and

Bridges Mainland

Total

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

HONGKONG! .

"

SPL1 | MONGOLIA

E. OF INDIA SHINTO MARU...22

KORBA --****

"

Sept 21 Bept.

91

23

Dot 11:

∙ants

Steamers proceeding via Manila do not call at Shanghai."

-4,000

$99,260

No. 29-Maintenance of Roads and- Bridges. $25,000.

S. 1-Maintenance of Buildings 10

The inespended balance on this vote is but 80,00) and a Supplementary Vote ni 814,000 will be required to meet the estimated expenditure up to the end of the entrent year. This is accounted for by the fact that the contract rates of this work for the 1919 rates upon which the estimated the current year are 20 per cent higher than The probable total expenditure was hused. expenditure for 1014 will therefore be about 801,000 x $14,000, or $75,000.

No-Maintenance of Roads and Bridges

Kons TOKOHANA ARRIVE: ASKIVE

Sept 25 BPL

Going via "Manila,

[830]

MEN OF THE HOUR.

VON MOLTKE.

A Supplementary Vote of $7.000 will be required to meet the estimated expenditure LIEUTENANT-GENERAL HELMUTH up to the end of the current year This is. dis to a-rise of 23 per cent, on the contract rates. The total expenditure will therefore be 892,000,0

No. 24-Maintenance of Seweraj

Nullaks, etc — 80,000,

A Supplementary Vote of 81.000 will be required to meet the estimated expenditure up to the end of the current year. This is by the heavy rainstorms during June. The accounted for by extra cleaning necessitated probable total expenditore for the year will be 38,000 x $1,000 87,004,

No. 33.--Water Account (Melern, etc.)-$3.000. The expenditure on this vote, depends

CHIEF OF THE GERMAN GENERAL STAFF.

[BY FREDERICK W. WILE.] For eight years another Moltke- Teutonic synonym for invincibility in war has been Chief of the great. General Staff of the German Army. The decisive arbitrament of a great campaign will be necessary to determine whether Lieut.

ADMIRAL BOUE DE LAPEYRERE.

HEAD OF THE FRENCH NAVY.

With his firm lips tight-set beneath his short, curly, white beard, with his twink ling alert eyes and the air of dapper smartness that is characteristic of the French naval officer, Admiral Boue de Lapeyrore, Commander-in-Chief of the French Battle Fleet; might stand for a type of the senior officer of his service He has held commands in more waters than falls to the lot of most French officers The Far East, Iceland, the Atlantic, the Baltic, and the Mediterranean have been in turn the scenes of his service during the last thirty years, and now, or, rather, since September, 1912, he holds the rank of Commander in-Chief of the French Navy, and would, in time at war, have supreme direction, under the Ministry of Marine, of the naval forces of his country. Admiral Houe de Lapeyrere was born at the village of Castera-Lectourois, in the South-West of France, sixty-one years ago. The district which gave him birth,

Von Ingonohl passed four effective years-in-the-Admiralty at Berlin, between 1897 and 1901, as head of the division deal- ing with the fighting equipment of the fleet. As a lieutenant aboard his Majesty's yacht Holenzollern, Von Ingwohl first came under the eyes of the Kaiser in 1889, during a cruise to Norway and England, and in 1904, after three years at sea in command of armoured cruisers, the Kaiser appointed his former watch-officer to the which he accompanied his sovereign on commandership of the Hohenzollern, in numerous important voyages, including the famous meeting with the Caar in the Finnish Skerries in 1905, and the Em- peror's historic journey to Tangier in the same year. In 1900. Von Ingenohl was given the title of a naval aide-de-camp of the Kaiser, in 1909 he became an admiral of the High Seas Fleet, and in the follow- ing spring returned once more to the Far East to command the German cruiser squadron stationed in those waters. On the occasion of the Kaiser's birthday in 1809 Ingenohl was awarded the rank of von, ce & special nobility, the coveted mark of recognition of his services to the

This vote is practically exhausted and a entirely upon the number of meters fired General Helmuth yon Moltke, nephew of one of the most thinly populated, in Supreme War Lord's naval establishment. -effective, wenn a steel house of considerable Supplementary Vote of $48,000 will be to private houses and it is probable that a the Organiser of Troy, is entitled to France, a land of endless pastures with His promotion to the Commanderstrip-in-

less than $2,000 on each vessel.

Regalation 11 enquiring the isolation of ather than 1st-class passengers would mean a grill across two alleyways which are the ships only thoroughfares and would there. fore be extremely inconvenient if not im- practicable.

Regulation 19 requires that deck cargo whall he made inaccessible. This is imprac ticable and would mean no deck cargo at all,

Regulations 28 to 31 require guards-to- travel by the regular and irregular vessels, nnd we think we have given sufficient reason in the fact that the boats engage no pas- sengers between Hongkong and Canton or nice pen for their not being burdened with

required to meet the estimated expenditure up to the end of the current year. This is accounted for as follows:

(4.)-The cost of improvements

carried out to various roads in the Eastern and Western Districts amounting to ....... #25,480 (b)-Increase of 23 per cent. on

contract rates over 1913 con- treets on which the estimate was based (for contract work only)

(c)-Formation of quarry

10,000 10,000

$40,480.

The probable total expenditure for the

-

Supplementary Vole of $2,000 will be required, making the total expenditure $3.000 x $2,000-25,000

NEW TERRITORIES. No. 35 — Maintenance of Buildinga..

Mafulani and Islands in Northern District-86,con.

his celebrated uncle's other aubriquet of «The Battle Winner." His supreme War Lord, the Kaiser, and the tremendous organisation of nearly a million offers and men which Lieutenant General yon. Moltke heads, at any rate have unalloyed

in January, 1913. Chief of the High Sen Flest took place

A Supplementary Vote of 2500 will he confidence in his ability to vindicate the Lapeyrere, keng Admiral Boue de his carcer, he is the ideal leader for the

required to meet the estimated expenditure up to the end of the current year This is due to a rise of 9 per cent. on the wmt act rates for the current year. The total expenditure will therefore he $7,000,

N. 30-Maintenance of Beads, and Bridges, Mainland12,000.

takes pride in having given, in, the same but a fow old world, decaying towns, generation, not only an Admiral-in- Chief, but also a President, to France, temperament. Von Ingenobl is known in Of conspicuously quit and anobtrusive for M. Fallieres, the last French Pre- the ficct as a student and thinker, and an sident, was born only ten years earlier at officer of eminent talent as a strategist. Mezin, a few miles away across country A paragon of industry and devotion to from the birthplace of

Navy known as the hardest working and Admiral had the opportunity, rare for Day of which every ambitious German

As a young

commander in China, the hardest worked in the world. If the French naval officers, of axing active ailor-man dreams ever comes, Vico Ad- service. He was in charge of a flotilla of miral von Inganohl may be depended hastily armed steamers at the battle of upon to give a brilliant account of himself Foochow, and distinguished himself by in the hour of trial. his courage and initiative. One Chinese

F. WILE gunboat he took by boarding, himself heading the attacking party.

the inconvenience and east of carrying current, your will therefore be $66,000 due to a rise 40 per cent. on the contract knowndes et detall Valvoni 1997wAt the present time the French fleet is

guards.

Regulation 40 on coasters, passengers, an average in number of whom we may men. tion is only about 60 to 100. are carried in

--845,000-$111,000,

No. Maintenance of Roods and Bridges. outside City 820,000. The balance on the vote is $7,000 and a Supplementary Vote of $9,000 will be required to meet the estimated expenditure to the end of the current year. This is accounted

for by an increase of 12 per cent. on contract rates over the 1918 contracts on which the estimate was based.

The probable total expenditure for this year will therefore he $26,000 x 80,000, or 335,000.

ay after-deck house and, when that over flows, in the 'tween decks, below and the balance of the space on those 'tween decks is sully occupied with carga. The passengers have the run of the after 'tween decks throughout the voyage. To stop them upy therefore, behind locked grille doors while the ship is in the danger zone would be greatly resented, and the fitting of such lours or barriors across the 'tween decks

No. 6-Maintenance of Sewers, Nulles, cannot, we think, have been contemplated.

etc.24,000: The foregoing applies with equal force in

A Supplementary Vote of $2,000 will be all respects to the frequent but irregular roaster such as these chartered with Yang required to meet the estimated expenditure to the end of the current year. This is teze produce partly to Hongkong and partlynecointed for by an unexpected expenditure to Canton. They carry generally one kind of cargo and few, if any, passengers, und none bōtween Hongkong and Canton.

Paints of agreement are the requirement of (steamers) Regulations 12 and 15 to 21, 82 to 39, 41 in 13.

BILLS OF SALE AMES BOYNT ORDINANCE..

moved The ATTORNEY-GENERAL

the

scrond reading of the Bill entitled, "A Ordinance ta-exempt certain securities on imported goods from the operation of

the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886." In

on certain drains, particularly the storm water drain in d'Aguilar Street. The pro able total expenditure for the year will therefore be $14,000 $2,000-$16,000. No. 7-Gas Lighting, City, etc-$48,000.

Owing to an increase in the number of lamps, a Supplementary Vote of 8500 will be necessary to meet the estimated expendi- ture up to the end of the current year. The total expenditure will therefore he $43,000 $500 $48,500. No: 8-Electric Lighting of City,–823,500. Owing to an increase in the number of lamps, a Supplementary Vate of $250 will be necessary to meet the estimated expendi- ture up to the end of the current year. The

total expenditure will therefore be $23,500 x #260-808,750.

traditions entrusted to his keeping when the final, test comes. Meantine, emulat ing the habits which gave the conqueror

· of France still another popular lide, The Great Silence Keeper, Von Moltke's energies are devoted to hammer A Supplementary Vote of 84,000 will being into still more deadly perfection the required to meet the estimated expenditure mightiest war machine the world has yet up to the end of the current your This is

Von Moltke succeeded in brilliant passing through a period of reorganisa soldier, Count von Schlieffen, at the tion. A certain difference of opinion has General Staff on January 1st, 1906. He been found to exi between the Naval had had a somewhat more than ordinary career in the army up to that time, won his lieutenancy and Iron Cross in the field as a stripling in the Franco-Prus sian campaign, and sequitted himself creditably in various grades of the service until he reached his lieutenant generalcy in 1902. But men inside and outside the army looked askance on his elevation to the post so long adorned by Schlieffen. They declared he owed it primarily to Emperor William's passion for the picturesque and a gnawing desire once gain, to have the magic name of Moltke at the head of the brains department" of the German Army,

rates for the current year, The total expenditure will therefore be 816,000.

The CHAIRMANThe Director of Public Works has been going into the ques tion of addition votes required under various heads for the rest of this year, and his Excellency the Governor thought it would be better to take a vote covering the whole of the heads at this meeting You will see explanations of the various amounts asked for. Far the largest amount is that required for the mainten ance of roads and bridges in the city. You will observe that the roads are under going entirely new treatment, which was not estimated for last year when the esti The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS-The mates for 1914 were drawn up improvements were not estimated for. method of dealing with the surface. That The CHAIRMAN-This is an improved accounts for over $60,000 out of 889,000.

Hon, Mr. HEWETT-Is this dressing of the roads, Mr. Director of Public Works, likely to be permanent, because I notice that in the treating of various classes of top dressing some laste fairly well, and some wears almost immediately? I am re- ferring to the section at the corner of Chater Rond and Statue Square, on the west side of Statue Square. Again, on the east side towards the Law Courts, the macadam is showing through the path. PUBLIC WORKS The trafic is very heavy there.

Hon. Mr. Hewer-That raises the question of reducing the leads on trucks.

THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE Notices are being made out at present to send round to the Chinese owners.

Hon. Mr. HEVETT As soon as that is done away with it will relieve the strain Otherwise, de you think the treatment will stand against tropical rains?

The DIRECTOR OF

General Staff and Admiral de Lapeyrere, the Commander-in-Chief, as to whether the naval squadrons should consist of six or eight ships, the Commander-in-Chief himself favouring the latter disposition, This question is still pending, and awaite the Minister of Marine:

GENERAL JOFFRE.

HEAD OF THE FRENCH, ARMY.-

BY G. WARD PRICE.] "He has a good head for a watch-dog; calm yet always ready to bite." This description of General Joffre, chief of the French General Staff, furnishes in few words an insight into his character which is of great accuracy. For the onerous task of commanding her vast army in peace, and for the still greater burden. which would fall upon the leader to whom the whole safety of the nation would be entrusted in time of war, France needs a strong man, and no one doubts that in General Joffre she has a man of the right stamp.

contracting

Admiral Boue de Lapeyrere is a strong advocate of the system of personal control of a naval commander over his fleet exercised from the fighting line itself. He takes his place in the conning tower of his flagship when his ships clear for action in manœuvres, and never leaves his post until the engagement is over, watching each phase of the conflict as it He is sturdy and thick set of figure. He Letractors were destined to have their develops around him, and taking his wears a heavy, white, soldierly monstache, scepticism, dramatically undermined decisions undisturbed by the roar of the under which gleam strong white teeth that Having scoffed at Von Moltke as a de heavy guns and the quivering of his ship flash when he talks, as if to strengthen his corative figure, they rubbed their eyes under the recoil. Here again, the resemblance to a watch-dug. His nose is over the first Kaiser Maneuvres held Admiral, who may be termed the Sir John short and thick and heavy. He has a under his auspices before he had been at Fisher of the French Navy, is at variance habit of sharpening the glance of his eyes, the General Staff ten months. The great with the views of some of his staff. He always calm and clear by autumn mimic campaign for yeare past follows the English naval tradition in them and peering grimly from under his had been distinguished by operations remaining as close as possible to the heavy evebrows. In spite of his stoutness which that oftquoted Marshal of Franco operations of his fleet. The General Staff, he never looks anything but a sollier, would have called magnificent, but not on the contrary, favour the German even in mufti, though there is a joke war. The Kaiser had an unconquerable custom of keeping the admiral command against him in the French army that te has been so much in uniform all his life passion for thrilling cavalry charges over ing outside the actual fight, in an isolated that he has never mastered the mysteries bare holds, which would make splendid ship, beyond the range of the enemy's of civilian dress sufficiently to learn how cinema films, but cost the lives of a divi- fire, where he may work out his disposito keep his tie from climbing up his coltar sion in war. With the taunts of his rivals tions under less distracting circum-at the back.. ringing in his cars that he was a Kateer stances. Energetic, popular with his

General Joffre was born in 1852, in the Staff-Chief pure and simple, Von subordinates, both officers and men, and Pyrenees, and he saw active service as Moltke's first innovation was ruthlessly a close student of the lessons of modern early as any French officer now living. to obliterate the picturesque from the naval warfare, Admiral Boue de Lapey For while he was still a cadet of eighteen, mutumn manoeuvros, and substitute rere is a good example of the best quali the Franco-German war broke out, and gruelling, practical operations night ties of the French sailor. It is never his military studies were interrupted at ighting, forced marches, and all the doubted in France that the leadership once. Hastily promoted second-lieuten other trappings of real War Count of the French Navy in case of war has ant, young Joffre was attached to a The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS Schlieffen, who had opposed William been entrusted to good and capable hands. regiment of artillery, and took part in the Yes, and all ordinary traffic.

II's predilection for pyrotechnics, had

G. WARD PRICE

defence of Paris during the siege. Hon. Mr. POLLOCK-I understand that finally to leave the General Staff in

It was as a sapper, however, that he Chinese shopkeepers in Queen's Road are disfavour. Von Moltke, revealing a will

VICE-ADMIRAL INGENOHL:

spent the greater part of his career. In A Supplementary Vote of $7,000 will he complaining of the fact of a considerable of steel, succeeded speedily where his

the Tonkin campaign, in the Far East, hu eminent predecessor had failed. required to meet the estimated expenditure layer of dust being allowed to remain on

built forts under the direct firs of the up to the end of the current year. This is

the roads.

growth in the esteem of the army was COMMANDER OF THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET. Chinese troops, Then he was stationed in accounted for by value of articles condemned

French Indo-China and fought a can- The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS-consistent and rapid thenceforth. That and sold.

That is sand, which has to be laid on the the German Army to day is essentially I Germany's Trafalgar were to be paign there. Finally he saw active service The probable total expenditure for the top of the tar. A certain quantity of it workmanlike" is to a large degree the fought to-morrow, the great squadrons round Timbuctoo, before returning to a

is taken up by the tar, and the surplus is achievement of its present Chief of Staff. known as hot High Seas Fleet or command in Paris No. 2-Water Account (Meters. or will be $4,800 x 87,000-$11,900.

General Joffre, was, appointed General removed.

General von Moltke, born in Mecklen. Active Battle Floet," etc.).—$7,500.

Hon. Mr. HEWITTI notice an extra burg-Schwerin in 1848, will be sixty-six expressively called until four years ago issimo of the French army after a Govern The expenditure on this Foto depends expenditure on aullahs. Does that mean years old in May 1914. He is often would be led by its Commander-in-Chief, ment crisis which cost one Cabinet its entirely upon the mumber of meters Good |

for increasing the training or maintain.

mistakenly called "Count on Moltke, Vice Admiral Friedrich von Ingen ohl, political life. Until he was appointed, in The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and to private houses and it is probable that a the Bill was read a third time and passed. Supplementary Vote of 23,600 willing of existing nullahs

The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS for the title of Count, conferred on his The virile personality of Grand Admiral July, 1911, there had been for many per His EXCELLENCY Council stands ad-roquired, making the total cxpenditure For examining existing nullahe Exchy great ancestor in 1870 on the day Metz Tirpitz, creator of the Kaiser's fleet and no Commander-in-Chief of the French journed fill this day week. We must get 87.500 $9,500, or $11,000,

overshadows Germany's other for overlooking this important detail of on with this Piracy Bill before another

year a certain ullahs, consequently the of the present Molike, General Count great sailors that oven officers of the national defence. General Goiran, the year a certain addition is made to the fell, was inherited by the elder brother effectually overshado of the Navy, so army: The Monis Cabinet was attacked piracy overtakes us,

Wilhelm von Moltke, and ceased with the eminence of Vice Admiral von Ingenohl War Minister, explained that it was not latter's death a few years ago.

The are entirely unknown abroad. Yon thought wise to decide on a Generalissimo Organiser of Victory," whose wife was Ingenohl is what is known in Germany as before the actual outbreak of war. The an Englishwoman, Miss Burt, had no Kaiser man or friend and favourite admission led to the fall of the Cabinet. children. General Helmuth von Moltke of Emperor William. The Kaiser has and B. Caillaux succeeded to powe served as adjutant to his distinguished predilection for elevating his intimates to his War Minister, M. Messiny, pledgert uncle at the General Staff from 1851 until positions of power in the State service, to all the gap. It was then that General the Field-Marshal's death in 1801. While Some of them have not been distinguished Joffre was chosen,

doing so he said-The object of this Bill, Sir, is to introduce into this Colony the provisions of the Bills of Sale Act, 1890, as amended by the Bills of Sale Act, 1891. At present the Bills of Sale of goods in foreign ports and at sea are exempt from the Bills of Sale Orilinance, but goods which have reached the Colony come within it, and this Bill, Sir, provides that following on the amendment of the law which has been made in England any mistrument charging security on im uprted goods before they are deposited in warehouse godown, before their being -re-shipped, or before delivery to a pur chaser, shall be excupt from the said Ordinance.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was a second time.

Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill elause by elause.

On resuming,

The ATTORNEY-GENCIAL reported that the Bif had passed through Committee without mendment, and moved that it be read a third-time.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

No. Maintenance of Praya Watts-and- Piers $4,500. mentary Vote of 32,000 will be required to This vote is exhausted and a Supple west the estimates expenditure up to the end of the current year. The excess is due to extensive alterations and repairs to Kennedy Town Pier. The total expenditure will therefore ho $7,000.

No. 16-Stores Depreciation -$4,800

KOWLOON. No. 21-Maintenance of Buildings.

$8,500.

on ronda

cost of maintenance has to be increased.

FINANCIAL.

the Governor His Excellency

re-

A Supplementary Vote of $1,000 will be required to meet the estimated expenditure: up to the end of the current year. This is commended the Council to vote a sum of A meeting of the Finance Committes due to a rise of 15 per cent. on the contract $175 in aid of the vote. Colonial See pre rates. The fatal expenditure will therefore retary's Department and Legislature, Other Charges Medical Attendance on Unpassed Cadets at Canton.

This was agreed to.

followed.

the COLONIAL SECRETARY

siding.

he $9,500.

His

as it was more