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impracticable, all reason for the tax completely 'fails. The other and more important remission. for which allowance is made in the Estimates consists of a reduction of one-and-a-half per cent. in the assessed rates--a remission which is over eleven-and-a-half per cent. of the whole of the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1888.

District Reservation Ordinance mendment Ordinance, 1888. The object of this Bill is to make ca..ain restrictions as regards buildings of Chinese chamcter which were made in a recent Ordinance applicable, to a particular district applicable to another district, the Hill District, and to include portions of the colony mentioned in the Ordnance. The words "Hill District," ball me the district bounded on the East by the Wantsal and Aberdeen Valleys, on the West and South by the carriage road from the city of Victoria to Pokfulum and Aberdeen, and on the Victoria; and to make the general provisions that apply to the European District as defined by the Ordinance to which I have referred applicable to the further district it is intended to include.

but this did not

in the course of a few months, and which he will | North by the European district of the City of fire originate from spreading, the Chinese | turc, which does so much to prevent the preser- ral use. It is not uncommon to meet with Seigal's Carstive Byrt me. In a few days bò sens

rites paid in the town of Victoria and of course formis a much larger proportion of the lower rates paid in the country districts. The Go vernor had hoped to be able to propose a still larger reduction of this tax; but owing to an uncertainty which will probably come to an end

then be role to explain, he is unable to do so at present lest he should thereby repeat the min take of some years ago by taking a step which may shortly have to be tetraced. The reduction actually proposed, however, is a substantial relief and it is hoped that it may prove practicable to make a further reduction at no very distant date. Another point requires notice. The present favourable condition of the finances appears to afford a fitting opportunity for drawing atten tion to the Imperial Institute-an object which in the Governor's opinion is well deserving of a contribution from this Colony. As Hongkong is almost entirely dependent on commerce, and

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The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Bill was read a fist time.

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rheumatism and dropsy

His reply was

remarkable case is that of a house painter named patronised by those who happen to be disposed to lay up a little merit, and to whom this Jolleion, who lived at Fonshurst, in Kent. His buis avenue appears as good as any other. Any reas obliged in to expose himself great deal to wind kind of a divinity which seems adapted to exert and weather, and he was seized with rheumatism, and a favourable influence in any given direction his joints soon swelled up with dropsy, and were Tory will be patronisett, just as a man who happens stid and painful. Nothing that the doctors could do. to the of trouble. crippled. to need a new umbrella, goes to some shop him that he could do torthe table, nod for the where they keep such goods for sale. To inquire whole of the winter of 1876 and 70, he had to give up. into the antecedents of the divinity who is thus and lako to his bed. He had beon "afflisted in this worshipped, no more occurs to a Chinese than it is holdin

and was

Was gotting worn out would occur to an Englishman who wanted the way for thro

and discouraged. Besides, he had spent over £15 for umbrella, to satisfy himself as to the origin of

what he called "doctor's tuf" without the leat umbrellas and when they fust came into sene bemellt. In the Spring he board of what Mother has dono for others and learned disquisitions upon the question as to the bought a 2s. 6d.

bottle of number of Buddhists and Taoists in China. In mo word he was much better-before he had finished our view this question is exactly paralleled by an

the bottle. He then sent to me for a da. 6d. bottle, and as I enquiry into the number of persons in the United

going that way I carried it down to him, Kingdom who use ten-penny.mils as compared myself. On getting to his house what was my satanish with the number of those who ent string-beans.ment and surprise to and him out in the garden Any one who wants to use a ten-penny nail will wooding an onion bed. I could hardly belleve my

own eyes, and said do so, if he can obtain it, and those who like string-beans, and can afford to buy them, the death of you, after being laid up all winter with

You ought not to be out hore,

man, it may be them. will presumptively consume case in not different in China as regards the two most prominent doctrines. Any dhist priest, and who can afford to pay for them, will hire the priest, and thus be 'a A Taoist priest, he will Buddhist If he wants in like manner call him, and this makes him a Tasist. It is of no consequence to the Chinese which of the two he employs, and he will not improbably call them both at once, and thus be at once a Buddhist' and 'a Taoist.' It has been well said that there is one thing which is worse than pure atheism, and that is entire indifference as to whether atheism is true. In China poly. theism and atheism are but opposite facets of the same die, and are more or less consciously held for true by multitudes of educated Chinese, and with no sense of contradiction. Its absolute indifference to the profoundest spiritual truths in the nature of man, is the most melancholy characteristic of the Chinese mind, its ready acceptance of a body without a soul, of a sou! Coamos without a Causes Universe without without a spirit, of a spirit without a life, of a a God.-N. C. Daily News.

has little or no manufacturing or agricultural visions is to punish by imprisonment without could have been the cause of the second fire. consciously compelling themselves to formulate Chinese who wants the services of a Bud. for me in a fow days what the doctors could not de

ten minutes to three o'clock, fire was discovered in some houses at the S.E. junction of Nanking and Honan roads. The fire alarm was sounded for the third district instead of the fourth, cause any delay in the arrival of the firemen, some of whom were on the spot before bells had ceased ringing. First came the Deluge with two streams, then the Mi-ho-loogs, Victorias, Torrent, and Hongkew in the oriler named The buildings im fire were old unoccupied shops in course of demolition, so it is a mystery how the The fire was soon got under and prevented shopkeepers on the opposite side of the road directing a couple of small streams from their windows, the water being supplied from faucets on the premises. While the Chinese were at work on these, fire broke out in one of their stores-Sun Yuen's-the flames appearing almost simultaneously at the third window in Nanking THE GAMBLING ORDINANCE,

road and also from the roof. What caused this The Atomney General-I have to move the fire is unknown, but it is probable that in first reading of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to

their hurry and excitement, the occupant. amend Ordinance 9 of 1876. The object of this

upset a lamp. It is highly improbable tha Bill is to amend Ordinance 9 of 1876, the sparks from the first houses that were burn, gambling Ordinance, and the scope of its pro-

The flames, however, spread with remarkable the option of a fine the, keeners of gambling houses, and to withdraw from the scope of the rapidity and defied the efforts of the firemen to law persons who are found haunting or fre-extinguish them notwithstanding that there were seven or eight streams playing from hydrants, quenting grubling houses, that is, to place a

So the firemen could do no more than attempt more severe punishment on the keepers of

to confine the flames, and aided by the high ambling horses and exempt those who merely

walls of the building they partially succeeded. frequent them.

All the hydrants in the locality were monopolised, while the Torrent took water from the Cathedral compound pond. Some of the firemen mounted ladders placed against the walls of the house opposite to Sun Yuen's in Henan road, and from this elevated position were able to pour more direct streams on the flames. While they were doing this, some 60 sailors from the Rambler and Cockchafer arrived on the Reene, and were instrumental in pulling down the de gerous parts of the ruins of the fist fire, and during the operation their book did not hold head but without doing serious injury. Then the and coming away, hit one of the men on the lege engine was sent, for, and took water from a firewell the junction of Nanking and Honan. ronds, but the supply did not last long, notwith- standing the water was about eight feet deep when the engine commenced pumping, and by the time it was nearly exhausted the smell was far from agreeable. The Old Yuet Sung's store caught fire, and a portion of the upper story was destroyed, while much of his merchandise was damaged by water.

industry which would derive benefit from a more extended knowledge of its pn tucts in England, the objection to taking part in a mére Exhibition is intelligible, and not without force. But the addition to the original project of a plan for Commercial Museum seems in itself not only to justify, but to render mest desirable, some

The Colonir' Secretary seconded. substantial support to the Institution on the pe

His Excellent after referring to the im of this Colony, The Governor understands that the excellent Museums of this kind whi.h have possibility of stopping gambling. by act of Parliament add: 1 :-Although these, I am sorry been established in Germany have been a vẹ appreciable factor in the remarkable commercial that there is a strong public feeling other way. to say, are very much my views, I am aware, progress which has been made by that count.,

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is a desire that we should in recent years; and it seems evident that a

make eve., pible effor, to suppress gambling, collection which is kept continually supplied with samples of the goods actually required by, or and if such T. should be made successfully likely to prove attractive, to the peoples of a nobody wed more fully approve of them than countries, cannot but be of great advantage to the success mesures to suppress gambling, I I world But while I say I'am in doubt about a community which; relatively to its cumca am most cas in that such measures as we have possesses a commerce not only not eque", but probably not approached in magnitude should be an effective as possible and should hit by any other in the world. The Govenor the ght ple and hit them hard. The general is therefore of opinion that without api ing put on in a very large one and to

put it down in Hongkong, to British sentiment, or to Imperial ent

we have the least ment, or indeed to any sentiment at all the chance of pu. 1g it down effectually, we must taking of some share in the Institute by his deal with ve pus conditions and consider a Colony may be advocated on purely businenumber of which are taking a considerable grounds; and apret from this consideration he time. I believe the views of the Government are now brought toiembly to a focus on the believes that it would hereafter becount for various reasons a subject of regret if Hongkong it is not quite fished, and I am afraid I cannot whole subje, but the Eill intended to deal with should persist in standing aloof from a Great Institution which has been deemed worthy of the promise if for a month or two; but meanwile a support of all the rest of the Empire. Though great ex is continuing and it is to met. This that I introduce this short holding these views, the Governor does not fcel Ord arce. I b. ng this forward as an explana that he would be justified in giving to emtion of why this short Ordinance is intro-reels from the Deluge,, Mill-he-loongs, Victoria practical effect by placing a vote for the purgase duced just now, as it might appear that after on the Estimates without the unanimous, or the labor of the mountain only what is almost unaminous, approval of the Legi-ve Council; and he refers to the subject here in apparently, an insignificant mouse should be order that it may receive consideration brought fo... But though it is a small ordi- nance it involves an extremely important prin- Finance Committee. In conclusion the Gove, Jor indulges the hope that whether his opinions ciple. I was struck when I came to Hongkong as above expressed meet with the concurrence of with the Irge numbers in the Gaol in propor tio to the pulation. I found that a large the Council or not, the Members will at least number of the people in Gaol were wretched agree with him that the financial condition and prospects of the Colony, as revealed men who frequented gambling houses. And I found also from enquiry that the men who were by the above survey, may be regarded as A subject of very justifiable congratulation, really chiefly responsible were continually escap. The Governor bas in this message confiacding, the law poiting them to be fined at the himself entirely to questions of finance. He outside a celain number of dollars, which they proposes, in another to pass briefly in review the frequently paid so that the really guilty principal events of the year about to close, and parties esca 1, while their wretched dupes went. also as regards the coming year to mention the it is more than an injustice; it is a very to pison. Taat in itself is an injustice. But various subjects which demand attention, giving at the same time some general indications of the serious evt when we consider that not only a measures which he hopes to be able to submit to very great majority of the Chinese but a great the consideration of the Council,

number of Europeans are gambling continually. It appears to me morally most wrong that some people should be punished for what is made a crime but is morally no worse than what the others do. 1 say that is a very serious evil in

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary. VOTES The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Governor's recommendation of the following Seven thousand dollars, being a portion of the amount ($20) required for the building of a Lunatic Asylum for Chinese.

sums

Two thousand five bundred and fifty-one dollars, and ninety-two cents, being the cost of a new submarine telegraph cable, and expenses incurred in laying it between Hongkong and Kaulung

At ten atinutes past 4 o'clock the firebells rang ngain, and word was brought to the Gremen that there was another fire raging, this time on the hastened to the scene, and were followed by hose French Concession, so the Torrent Company

and Hongkow Companies. They found the fire in the Passage de l'Administration, running alongside the French Municipal Hall, but on the city side of the Rue du Consulat. It did not last long, and only two houses were destroyed, for the firemen were so prompt, that the flames had but little chance of extending. Most of the firemen then returned to Nanking road, but their services, were not required. The Deluge Company kept at work till after 6 o'clock, when they went home, the Victorias leaving at the same time. It was deened advisable to keep a couple of streams playing on the mouldering remains, and in the afternoon, while the coolics were at work directing these streams; n portion of the wall of Sun Yuen's store fell on top of one of them, inflicting a severe wound on his head, and he was sent to the Shantung Road Hospital. The damage at these fires in Hoaan and Nanking roads was confined to Sun Yuen's, which was completely gutted leaving only the bare walls, standing; old Yuet Sung's partly burnt, and contents damaged by water, and two houses on the east side of Honan raad.

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was "There is no danger. The weather ie ne, and Mother feigol's Curative Syrup has done

years. I I think I shall get well now,” Hokopt on with the Syrup, and in three weeks ha was at work again, and has had no retain of the trouble for now nearly ten years. Any medicine that can do this should be known xil over the world.

Yours faithfully,

(Signed) Rarent GRAHAM,

Of Guama & 8o.

Holloway House, Sunbury,

Isiddiosos,

June 25th, 1887. The above wonderful cure of Rheumatism was the result of the "rumarkable power of Mother Saigal's Curative Syrup to cleanse the blood of the poisonous humours that ariso from Indigestion and Dyspepsia.

Mother Selgel's Curative Syrup is for sale by all chemists and medicine vondort, and by the proprietors, A. J. White, Finitod, 36, Farringdon Road, London, Eng-ddel.

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In Brisbane one day last month that uncon sidered trifle, Governor Musgrave, addressed himself to the Grammar School boys, and filled. them up once again with the old slow-dried cram about the glory of their ancestors, and the romantic era when the early fathers of the race got themselves up in hammered brass and railway-iron and went out to slay and be Then he went on to talk of the glorious slain at Crecy and Poitiers and Agincourt. day when half Europe shoated exultantly at Waterloo, and dilated on the great men who dragged bits out of each other on that occasion, and finished up by telling the boys that if they kept up their muscle and screamed for the Queen they might one day go and do likewise. Naturally enough the boys applauded--they would have done the same, for that matter, at a dog-fight- and possibly a few of them believed in the Go- vernor's words, and longed to be like their fathers and holler for England in some bloodthisty hippodrome. We are sorry to undeceive these boys, but it can't very well be helped these copper fastened barons weren't their fathers, not by a long way. The patent unsinkable Warriors of Crecy and Agincourt are extinct, and their descendants, when they weren't all beheaded, are mostly selling prawns by the quart or earning a precarious existence by retailing coals at so much the alleged cwt. Some of them are in the circus way, and some are wheeling dirt in band- barrows, and a large number are supported by their mothers, and live in damp attics, and many are in gaol Similary, the sons of the officers who fought at Waterloo are now serving largely as prison-warders and plain cooks, and a grateful been hanged and some are sleeping in boilers

"LEADING WIND,”. on Brisbane wharf. The ancestors of young Hinckley, will load the above Australia-those of them who were ass enough Port, hold wastes, equidad here for

For Freight, apply to

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BEDSTEADS, WARDROBES, CHEST of DRAWERS, TOILET TABLE and GLASSES and WASHSTANDS,

1. MAWING MACHINE. SUNDRY PLANTS in POTS.

850

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J. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer.

in view is durability, the object which the Chinese builder han in view is economy of materials. Whoever wishes to see an example of this defective construction on an immense scale, in a situation where one would have looked for more thorough work, has but to walk for a few miles along the bare of the wall surrounding the Imperial city in Peking. It would seem as if the only Chinese structures which are sure to be adequately built, are the pawn-shops, which are in reality a kind of treasure houses in which security is of capital importance.

This general characteristic of Chinese architec vation of ancient buildings is anaingous to an intellectual fact in the Chinese nature. The Chinese show a conspicuous lack of mathemati cal training. They do not start from simple postulates and unfold a connected series oftruths, each one of which is at once felt to be connected with what has gone before by a link that cannot be broken. It is difficult to imagine a Chinese examination for the degree of Flourishing Talent; or that of Selected Man, of which questions on the science of Logic should form a constituent part. It is hard to conceive of Chinese minds the laws of identity, of Contradiction and of Excluded Middle, yet it is quite certain that a complete recognition of the proposition that 'A equals A, and that 'A is not not-A, would put An end at one blow to a large part of what every | Chinese supposes himself to believe on certain subjects. The reason why Chinese unite so cheerfully the belief in absolute contradictories, is not because they are not amenable to the laws of thought which rule the rest of mankind, but because owing to vicious mental processes of obscuration, these contradictories have no op portunity, of being recognized as such. The Chinese have no instinct of definition, in our strict sense of delimitation, the selection of certain predicates which are affirmed, and the negativing of all others. They are not analy. tical, and it is often exceedingly difficult to conjecture the process by which they have stand the steps of the process if we happen to arrived at certain conclusions, or even to under- succeed in discovering some of them. They constantly take for granted the very things which to our thought require the most rigid proof, and expend much ingenuity in cla- borating non sequiturs, which are of no value whatever. Modern juris- prudence has developed an interesting and self consistent theory of the laws of evidence, which have become gradually settled by the practice of generations of courts. Evidence is direct, or it is circumstantial, it is admissible or inadmissible, it is relevant or it is irrelevant. Each of these terms has come to have a more or less well settled governing the reception of evidence, reduce the and technical meaning, and the numerous rales conduct of a strongly contested suit in a modern court, to a species of chess game, in which, while the mov cannot be foreseen they must all be in accordance with the strict rules which govern the game, and which will never be set aside by any judge for any person whatsoever. Contrast all this with the proceedings in a Chinese court of law, even when (as sometimes happens) the magistrale is just and wishes to do what ought to be done. All sorts of evidence is admitted, there is nothing so irrelevant as to be on that account excluded, wide areas which ought to be traversed to get at collateral facts, are not only not tra- versed, but are not thought of by anyone what- ever, and it will not be strange if the case is decided at last, on some minor side issue, to the utter ignoring and disappearance from view of the matter upon which the trial began. In making these comments upon Chinese legal proceedings, forcible illustration of the justice of which will occur to every reader, we do not wish to be understood as referring to the difficulty of securing an upright magistrate, and a fair trial. That topic is susceptibile of the most ample treatment, but what we have now to say relates to the proposition, that such, is the constitution the magistrate, if a British appellate court had the opportunity of revising the proceedings of a Chinese trial, there would not be enough left of

to be at Waterloo at all-were mostly plain those proceedings to make a gun-wadding 1 for foundations is found in their histories.

An excellent example of the Chinese disregard Browns and Thompsons who fought for 148. þ

a day and two meals that a respectable dog Instead of treating of the prehistoric period of would shy at. They were flogged punctually and their race, as a territory which cannot be explored generously and with energy, and when their arms with certainty and ia regard to which no positive and legs had been blown off they were sent to the affirmations can be made, it appears "that workhouse, where they slept ten together in one ancient Chinese writers, of a period antecedent | dirty room and got a scanty supply of thin gruel to the foundation of the Han dynasty, indulged | till they died. Those who had only one arm or lines of dynastic rulers, to occupy the myriads put in prison for begging, and knocked about on an exuberant fancy in the enumeration of long one leg blown off were turned out to beg and then THE of ages, which was fabled, had elapsed since the head and other parts by the keys of the

PHERE is no feature of our civilised life that to produce man as the possessor of the soil | lived to be killed off by the potato-famine and of "China." Mr. Mayers, from whom this other public events of a like character. The an than the neglect of LIFE ASSURANCE," "By observation is quoted, proceeds to remark, that cestors of the present nobility didn't fight much, payment of a small quarterly subscription any "no actual, weight is attached even by but they served their country nobly by supplying man of good health can recuro a very large suns Chinese writers to the statements handed the army with paper boots and hoop-iron to his family in case of premature death, yet down by the fabulists of antiquity regarding artillery, and they lent money to kings who were hundreds of families brought up in comfort. prehistoric epochs and dynastic lines. It is up the spout, and married the shady ladies whom perhaps in luxury are left in extreme poverty only in the next grand division of legendary the monarchs had cast off.. It docan't pay any every year from the bread winter having record the age of Yao and Shan and lavish percentage to serve our Gracious Queen neglected to assure his life. In the East many their successors that a claim to anything in the tented field, and if the Brisbane Grammar a man lives up to his income, knowing well that resembling authenticity is set up and even here School boys want to find themselves without if death cut him off suddenly, his wife and the stemer requirements of European criticism shirts in their old age they cannot do better than children would be left almost wholly unprovided demand proofs which native historians are keep a steady eye on the heroes, who fought at | for, ̈All this can be prevented by Life' content to forego," How different is this spirit Agincourt and then go and do likewise.Sydney || Assurance; ' from that of Occidental exactitude, it is needless | Bulletin. to point out. There is a story of a Newfound. land farmer who boasted of the density of the AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM fogs in his country, and, in proof, affirmed that he had a party of men at work shingling a hard, and the fog was so thick at the time, that they It appears to be a general defect in the architee unwittingly, shingled forty feet into it, before As this is Jubilee year it tends to make one look ture of the Chinese, that in the construction of they discovered their mistake! The Chinese back and think of the flight of time, and in this way their buildings, the base is the part which receives have shingled backward into the fog of antiquity, I am one of the veterans in the sale of your valuable the least attention, and upon which the smallest for some thousands of years, and have never and accessful medicine. I have sold it from the Eng- expenditure is bestowed. Millions upon millions detected the point where the roof of history, and rst, and hare sent it into every county in of people in China never in the whole course of the fog of myth unite. No wonder that one of land and many parts of Scotland. Well do I remam ber the Aral circular „you sent put some alve or ten their lives see a mountaio, or even a hill. Where their sayings declares that rather than to believe years ago. You had come to

to England from America there are no mountains, stone is sure to be very all that is in the book of History, it would be to introduce Mother Seigel Cartire Byrup, and 1 expensive, and for building purposes, so far as better that there were no book of History,

was struck by a paragraph in which you used thes the bulk of the population is concerned, may be That which is true of the historical horizon of words Being a stranger in a simuge land, do said to be practically unknown. The next best the Chinese, is yet more conspicuous when we not wish the people to feel that I want to take the substitute is brick, and owing to the high price consider the basis on which the popular religions least advantage over them. I feel that I have a of fuel, Chinese bricks are almost certain to be of the empire are supposed rest. Taolsm remedy that will cure disease, and I have so much

confidence in it that I authorise my agents very imperfectly baked. The mud of which they and Buddhism have each histories of their own;

K the money if people should say that they have not are composed is thrown loosely into the mold, the and these histories are no doubt known, to a surface is scraped to a rough level, and when the select few within the loner circles of their benedited by its use. I dit at ones that you would brick is sufficiently sun-dried to bear transporta priesthood. But generally speaking even the over sy that unless the medialne had merit, and I tion, it is placed in the kiln. Owing to the fact that priests neither know now nor care anything "pplied for the agency, a step which I now look back

upon with pride and satisfaction, ga it has not been pressed, and that it has been only whatever as the antecedents of the sect to which

Eror slain that time I have

ach have found half turned, the completed brick is full of cavities, they are attached merely as parasites. To

Dempepris I have di met with, and I.hare mold thousands of bottles. It has the soil is impregnated with soda, as is the case obscure passage in the Tao Te Ching is a never falled in any case where there were any of the in a large part of the great plains, the soda is work of supererogation, when we know before drawn up by capillary attraction fatn the bricks, hand that the priest, cannot read a character of noes of the stomach, rating of the food after outing,

following symptoms-Nervous or pick beadache, sour, and also into the structure above, which gradually any kind. What does the average Buddhist sense of falness and heaviness, dizziness, bed braith scales away, at the base, till it comes to resemble priest care whether Buddha lived six hundred line

and skin, dull and sleepy a wall of cheese, which has been persistently years before the time of Christ, as some maintate, aung and mous on the gums and teeth, constipation, the car, heartburn loss of nibbled at by rats. To counteract these results, or only two hundred years, or indeed whether onions,

ringing in the over there are algne that „and, în short, wherever are the but these pricate the or folgte of photo and , and the blood is out of orderi

clogged etc., are introduced above the foundation, but these priests, the questions of origin, of the these are merely palliatives, and do very little historical development, of relative importance

my customers hare beiter," or "I am perfectly rapid, that in a few years it becomes reces not only non-existent, but when such questione sallon or never sem beface in the case of any medie sary to renew the foundation a little at a time are raised, they cannot be so stated are to be is that people fall sich other of thirty and without disturbing the wall above. Besides made to appear important, and can with difficulty the laberent defect of the bricks, Chinese be se stated as to be intelligible The same is who have boon odred say to the suc banders almost livrihbly add to ours, trista regalato me antecedenta eptor Counsell, Ont hundreds too shallow an excavation for such foundation secret sects with which the empire in honey or two that happen to come into my. as there is and the use of a very insufficient combed. The adherents of these societies have o Two old goleman, whose namen they

$24%wo quantity of lime. It is not uncommon to see no Ides when they were begun, ner by whom, like m me to give you had been marers to ina Daily News of October a brick wall laid almost upon the surface of the

"do they concern and Dyspepes for many years. curence of three res, all burning ground and not unfrequently with no lime at all

ther points kinds of medicine withous r time" is almost a unique experience. Ein situations where a foreign contractor would; day of the Shari-hal Fire, Départment;. dig a trench, fyé feet deep, and use lime?

ton: The object which the fornien.

Hongkong, 18th October, 1888.

FOR NEW YORK,

THE

itself, for this reason, that it effaces what ought been effected on the stores, Sun Yuen being of the Chinese mind, that no matter how uprigh! country has forgotten them. Some of them have 3/3 L. 1. 1. American Ship

The following are the insurances, which had insured for- Tls. 40,000 and Yuct Sung for Tla. 30,000-North British and Mercantile, and Commercial Union Tls. 35,000; Sun Fire Tls. 10,000; Siraits Fire Tis. 10,000; General Fire Tis. 10,000; Hamburg Fire Insurance of 1877, Tls. 5,000, and Phoenix Tls. 2,000.

Insurances.

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to damages from land-slips, fall of walls, Injuries i the, present gao'. who are really after all morally teer firemen to publicly express the thanks of the powers of Heaven and Earth had first united | warders; and only the most fortunate. of them strikes a thoughtful man with more force :

year:

They were referred to the Finance Committee, Various minor votes were recommended by

the Finance Committee.

THE ARMAMENT.

to be a distinc, boundary, that is the boundary between minal and innocent acts. If people see men continually sent to Gaol for an offence which is being continually committed by others and as regards whom the only difference is that they are not found cut,-if they see them being convicted and if they see a punishment awarded which is practically the same as that awarded to thieves, I say that the feeling against crime must be grstly dulled; and in that respect a very large injury, not only a moral injury but a Nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars most substantial injury is done to the com- to defray the cost of the extension westward of munity, because the inducéments to restrain Lower Richmond Road.

real time are made thereby. the less. That is Thirteen thousand, five hundred and twenty-the chief object, but another reason is found in three dollars, and twenty-nine cents for repairs the impracurability of separating these people in to culverts, roads, and other damages caused by no worse than a very large portion of the popula the rainstorms during the rainy season of the tion, from the ordinary criminals. Now I say that is a great wrong. You may have a man who Three hundred and fifty dollars as a grainity never committed a real crime in his life made a to the son of the late Mr. D. A. da Costa, Senior criminal of and thrown into gaol beside real cri- Marine Officer in the General Post Office, to minals, simply because he has betted his few complete his education.

cash in a gambling house. For these reasons this Ordinance, although small, is very important. Because there ought not to be a moment's delay about it, and we cannot bring in the larger Ordinance at once, I have thought fit to bring this one in now. Another reason why I bring it in now is this. I may say the principal reason is that I have been taking a very serious respon ability on myself the last few months in releasing these people after a few days' imprison- ment. My first reason for doing that was the crowded state of our Gaol in face of the imminent cholera; but on looking into the matter, I determine that I would at the earliest moment bring ina lew of this kind, and meanwhile I would reduce to as little as possible the punish ment of ordinary gamblers. A the same time, while doing this I believe gambling is likely to be much more effectively suppressed by making the people who are really responsible suffer most keepers of gambling houses and sellers of lottery tickets-causing them to be necessarily affected with very severe punishment. For that reason I have withdrawn altogether in their cases the option of a fine. That is the principle of the Ord arace, and I recommend it to the Council for consideration,

The Bri was read a fist time. The Colonial Secretary-I beg to move the ZTE FIRE ENQUIRY BÍLL first reading ofthe Supplementary Appropriation BIL 1887 The real increase of expenditure amounts only to $17,368, but the sum the Council has to vole is 8194,468, I think I have

A despatch from the Colonial Office was laid on the table enclosing one from the War Ofice which stated that it had not been found possible to keep the promise of delivering the guns for Singapore, as on proof, the linings were ascer tained to be defective, and after full consideration it had been found necessary to re-line all the guns in a different manner. In dealing with new material there were so many elements of uncertainty involved that it was Impossible to be bound by fixed date, and Mr. Secretary Stanhope could not do more than express the hope that they might be ready for despatch early next year. The pivots, and racers for these guns were despatched last year and those for the other guns were being prepared and would be sent est as soon as ready. The quick-firing guns were nearly ready, and it was hoped they would be despatched by November or perhaps earller. The same reasons account for the non-delivery of the guns for Hongkong.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL,

1887,

The Astorney-General moved the second reading of a Bill entitled "Au Ordinance to authorise la certain cases the holding of judicial investiga ons into the cause of fires.

was rerd a second time.

There was a noted absence of Chinese in the vicinity of the fire in Nanking road, the Police having been a punctually on the spot that they were able to keep the natives at a long distance off. The Surveyor's Department overseers were also very prompt, and by the time the firemen left, they had cleared all obstructions from the roads, so as not to impede the traffic.

We have been asked by several of our Volun-

the whole Brigade to Mr. Sillem and other members of Messrs Vrard & Co.'s firm for their much appreciated generosity in supplying hot coffee and other refreshments during the time the fire was raging. This is the third occasion within a few months on which they have thrown open their house at all hours of the night, and manifestly not without putting themselves to a great deal of trouble and inconvenience, to minister to the creature comforts of our fremen. The coffee kettle of the Brigade did not arrive on the scene till late, the caterer apparently not thinking it worth while putting in an appearance

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THE APPROPRIATION BILL, 1889. The Attorney-General, moved the addition of The Colonial Secretary move the fat a new clause providing that any person moving reading of the Appropriation Bill, 1889. The or attempting to remove anything from a house amount required is $1,134,931. After what has duiing thee the Police were in possession been said in your Excellency's message it is not was liable to a fine not exceeding $100 with the ment regarding this B'Last TEROR The clause was adopted and the Bill left in

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