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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1888.

PRINCES and priests are the only persons on the continent of Europe, Italy excepted, who cannot be compelled to accept a challenge to a duel

MANILA papers to and by the Don Juan report the murder of a policeman and the wounding of another by a group of natives in the parish of Tondo, on the 3rd Inst. A few persons were subsequently apprehended on suspicion.

Tik last French tiffe, as described, has a ball so small that a soldier can carry two hundred and twenty founds, shoots with a new smokeless powder, and its bullet pierces a brick wall eight inches thick at five hundred yards.

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ITH LI Hung-chang, and Lip Ming-chuan Governor of Formosa, are impressing upon the Viceroy Chang-Chih-tung, the palpable advan- tages of railways, as proved by the experiments already made in that line in the Province of Chilli, and in Formosa.

WE are request to state that Members of the Cricket Club wishing to play in a "Pick up" on Saturday next, commencing at 11 am, are requested to sign their names on the List lying on the table in the Club ante-room, or in the Cricket Pavilion, before 4 p.m., to-morrow.

The silk trade of Canton has fallen off greatly this year in consequence of the alternations of tengierature during the spring. Other products such as Casia and the Matting trades have suffered from like causes. The price of bricks and tiles were likewise greatly enhanced during the summer by the floods in the Tung-Kun

districts.

WHAT was a swampy paddy field two months agu at Ramboo Town, Whampoa, is now filled in, with soft material and forms the flooring of the new wing of the Naval Technical College next to the Custom House at Whampoa. This does not promise well for the general healthiness of the new establishment; but then Chinese sanitation is the antipodes of ours as in every thing else.

THE Emperor William is said to have paid special honor to Herr von Treitschke, who, in writing the history of Frederic 111, said: "In his long and silent life the Emperor Frederick got out of touch with modern ideas, and became incapable of following the thoughts of the pre sent generation to that degree that his short Government was one of the most deplorable episodes of our national life,”.

(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.)

THE PRESI÷ENTIAL ELECTION,

NEW YORK, November 7th. General Harrison, the Republican candidate, has been elected President of the United States.A SIKH guard employer in the gaol set a good

example

SHANGHAI RACES.

(By Telegram).

THIRD DAY-WEDNESDAY, 7TH NOVEMBER, The FLYAWAY PLATE, value, 115, 109, for Chinn Ponies, weight for inches as per scale, entrance, Tls, Seven Furlongs,

Mt. D. E. Sassoon's cr. Bullion ....... The PARI MUTUEL CUP. value, Tis, 700, added to a Sweepstakes of Tis. to each, Second Pony to receive 30 per cent, and the Third Pony to cent, of the Stakes; for China Ponies, weight for inches as per scale, Griffins at date of entry allowed zibs, winners 7lbs. extra. One Mile and a Half.

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the European residents of the Colony this morning. He suin moned a native milkman for supplying him with adulterated milk, when he paid $2 a month for the pure article and ar "Chalks" did not appear his bail was estreated. We, sympathise with the Indian-we have been there ourselves. We have been reluctantly com- pelled to aboudon, a milk diet. We ineffectually protested against the monotonous regularity which we found small but elderly fish, cockroaches, finle boulders, &c. io our matutinal supply, a four-pound bull-frog decided us, and we "passed." Now, Mr. Pollock-avenge us. Tux Melbourne Obsèrver states -

A young girl mmel Ellenbesh Sout, of delamikings type, was brought up by Const-ble O'Sullivan on charge of insulting behaviour. In company with some others of her class bos sexta, the girl w sin Brusnick-street on Saturday night and in full light of the shops demonstratively kissed one of her male congasipha. A fine of son wan inflicted.”

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Mt. D. E. Sassonn's gr. El Dorado.............. 1.

Weeping Rachel | And this is insabing The Chau-Shașo-Kirk Cup, value, Tis. —;

presented by the Directors and Employés of girl can't kiss the youth of her affections under behaviour! The time has actually arrived whea the CMSN Co.; for China Ponies that have

any Merling in China or Hong the as-light without being charged with insulz keng previous to date of entry at each Meeting.ing Constable O'Sullivan-we presume because To be won at two consecutive Meetings, or she didn't kiss that bog-trotting minion of the three times in all by Ponies, the band fine law instead of the other fellow Shade property of the same owner or owners; weight departed Pompey! Ghosts of Abraham, Isaac for inches as per scale; catrance, Tis. to: Band Jacob gaze upon the scene! Holy Moses per cent. of the entrance fees to go to the Also great Jehosophat i Winner until the Cup is won: when the Second Pony shall receive sime; the remaining 20 per real, to be allowed in accumulate, and the accumulation in excess of Tis.500 (to be retained for a new Cup) is to be paid to the Winner. Once Raini

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Mr. D. E. Sassoon's gr. Vendetta The MANCHU STAKES, a Sweepstakes of Tis. 5 each, with Tis. 109 added, for China Ponies that have unn and not won à Race; first pany to receive 70 per cent.; second pony, 20 per cent; third phay, 10 per cent.; weight for lingues as per scale. One Mile and a Quarter.

Tux largest milway station in Europe, and probably in the world, is the new Central way station, at Frankfort-on-Main.

short time the Club has been formed. It is more Rail-over to be regretted that more of our young civi. lian community have not inken to the lively game. for sport we all so much admire and who so We have no doubt that the ladies, whose love regularly grace the ground with their presence, will use their all-powerful influence in swelling the ranks of playing members.

THE Superintendent of the P. & D. S. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship Thames, with the next English mail, left Singa pare for this port at 4 p.m. yesterday,

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AT the Durham asizes recently the charge against one of the prisoners stated that she "unlawfully did cast and throw herself into a certain sea at South Shields called the German Ocean, with intent feloniously, wilfully, and of her malice aforethought, to kill and murder her- self." The man who talked like that in real life would be locked up as a raving maniac, but lawyers swear by the style all the same.

A FIRE broke out this evening in a carpenter's shop in Albany-street, Wanchai. It originated in the cookhouse, and but for the strenuous. efforts of the firemen would quickly have extended to the large stock of timber. Alongside were many more wood-shops, so that a serious conflagration was narrowly averted. As it was, the damage was confined to the new buildings, and was not extensive.

THE Italian Admiralty has recently caused to be carried out a number of experiments, with, a view to testing the comparative,merits of caster oil and olive oil for lubricating purposes on board ship. From the results obtained they have given orders that henceforth all exposed parts, of machinery are to be lubricated exclusively with castor oil, while mineral oils are to be used for cylinder and similar lubrication.

"Is Marriage a Failure?" still goes on in the London Daily Telegraph. Why (if at all) it is a failure in Germany is naively told by a corres- he says, "has led me to believe that there was, pondent. "My experience of German isinages," and is, more give and take between mained folk in Germany than is the case here." This can only mean that Teutonic wives succeed in extracting more money from their husbands than their English sisters.”

IN generating steam, experiments under various boilers show 1,000 feet of gas to be equal in heating power to from 30 to 153 pounds of different kinds of coal. One pound of coal equals in value 7 feet of natural gas. The latter explodes violently when mixed with 9 to 14 parti of air. When burned with pure oxygen, the flame temperature of the natural gas is estimated at 7.100 degrees centigrade. When burned with just enough air to secure perfect combustion, the temperatures are estimated at 2,363 degrees centigrade for natural gas and 1,700 for Siemens.

We may remind those of our readers who are "shootists that to-morrow the sixth annual meeting of the Hongkong Ride Association will open at the Kowloon ranges. There are about twenty-seven competitions altogether, and many valuable, prizes, so that large number of marksmen will doubtless attend, We notice that the Press " prize is ostentatiously absent, which is another injustice to the down-troddes profession of pencil-pushers. The following is a list of the prizes, which have been presented to be shot for :-

Aoy Ride, Phyred Cup, presented by Messrs. Paltoser & Co. Association, Plated Cup, prescured by Mars, Lane, Crawford Peddant's Cup, Silver Cup, presented by Than. Jackson, Ey Ladier, at pize, Silver Belt, presented by the Association.

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Silver Balz, presented by E. I Woodin, E. 4th Silver Belt, presented by the Association.

Inland Bax, presented by Lack Hing. Carved Blackwood Jerd box, presented by Wong Hing Silver Duckie, preserved by Woit Hing. All Cuners, regate 1st prits, Silver W. ich) and and prize,

Inkstand, or mo ay presented by the Associa Fion

by the Association

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Long Range, areas are two plated mugs, presented Farowall Cup, Silver Cup, presented by the Members for the Bendicup Aggregate, st prize. Two plated mugs, presented by Queen's Aggregate, prize. Silver Cup, presented by the Quem's Aggregate, biatch Rise, presented by J. D. Humphreys,

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Chinese merchants,

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SUPREME COURT.

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

·(Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, and Mr. A. J. Leach, Acting Puise Judge.)

CHING FAN v. Ho YUEN Sv. This was an appeal made by Ching Fun, executor to the estate of Leung Yu Sha, deceased, against an order obtained in Chambers by its

Mr. Snador's ch. Hesitation..................、 The CopMOPOLITAN Cup, value, Tín, 150; second pony. The cu; for China Ponies; weight for inches as per scale wines at this Meeting nf one Rylle estia ; iwn Races, 17lb, I question, which, according to the lately concluded Yuen Su for the administration' of that estate by

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One Mile and Three entrance. Th. 10. Quarters, Me Sonder's er. Joker ............ The Cove LATDAN CUP, Yslun. Tls, 100, for Ponies that have run at this "Meeting and not won a Pace, and heren entered otherwise than in the Shan hai Stckes, weight for inches aa per scale, encrince, Tls 5. Once Round. Mr Dr. Santa ur Salipere The Citymon SWOLDETIKĖS, a forced entry for and arms baily to winners at this Meeting. conthe all for he winners of the Consolation Con and the Hick Stakes, not exceeding 14 barata sinthes in height, weight for inches as perineale, entrance, T's. in, winners of two Pacx Thea extry of male thin twɑ Races, The 40 extra, «One Mig and a Quarter,

Mr. John Peel's dun Orlarda .......qi............ The GRAND NATIONAL STEFPLOCHASE, value Tito for China Ponies, weight for inches

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the Court. The Attorney General (instructed by Mr. Reece) represented the appellant, and Mr. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. Mossop) was for the respondent. The respondent is little girl who had a house worth about $8,000 left her in 1886. The order was obtained on her behalf on the ground that the appellant had fumished no account of his administration, and the paint now in dispute was whether the Acting Chief Justice could make such order in Chambers, on a sum

on, or whether the matter must not be argued side their Lordships reserved judgment. in open Court. After lengthy speeches on each

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IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. F. Liach, Acting Puizna Judge).

THE FORTHCOMING REGATTA:

The following are the results of the drawings for bants, coxswaing, and crews respectively, for the Victoria Regatta to be held next month-

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CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by correspondenta in the colon]

MR. PILOT SPEECHLY ON THE WAR

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TO THE EDITOx or the "How,kovo Talegraph."

12, Praya East, Hongkong, 7th November, 1888. DEAR MR. EDITOR-Am I the individual alluded to as. Pilot Speach'ly "in your issue of the 6th inst? If so, Thee to inform you that I Sulphur Point on the 5th inst.. "for sever was not pilot of the aferlin when she stuck on

„minates only.” this correction, and an anlgy for publishing also request you to publish what you heard without knowing it to be true, unless you wish to hear the Law of Libel explained, and perhaps, be absent from the "buzzum" of your family at the approaching festive season. Meantime, "sharpening my hatchet,"

I am, Yours faithfully,

JOHN SPEECHLY,

Licensed Canton Pilot.

No Cards. [Here is the paragraph to which Mr. Speechly takes exception to "We hear that H. M. S. Merlin, while in charge of Pilot Speachly, grounded on the Whampoa Point and remained there a tide. The bottom is only soft mud, so the Aferlin cannot have sustained the slightest damage. Mr. Speechly says he was not in charge of the Merlin when she went aground, and we are bound to accept and give publicity to his statement. But we positively decline to publish any apology, or anything in the shape of an apology, and if Mr. Pilot Speechly thinks he can tell us anything about the Law of Libel that we are not already acquainted" with, he is at liberty to commence operations without further delay. We are glad Mr. Speechly is "sharpening his hatchet"; our little gun has been loaded to the muzzle for weeks past. We have been looking out for a victim, and it seems we have found one. Now, Mr. Speechly, trot yourself out-Editor, The Hongkong Telegraph.]

16. I make the foregoing remarks test it be misapprehended that the consideration of the. reforms in private premises. Separate System need retard early drainage

the proposed eastern main a gradient or Inclina- done more for their health and comfort than could tion sufficient to induce a self-cleansing velocity.possibly be obtained at this moment from any it will be necessary eventually to dispose of the ather form of sanitary improvement. additional outlay by conveying it as far cast as sewage of Wantsal and Bowrington at some

greatest and there establishing a steam-pumping North Point where. the tidal scour is at its

station, an expedient commonly resorted to in English towns similarly circumstanced. These extra works are estimated at $113,000, making the total cost $143,000.

17. Although Mr. Couper, since his actival in the Colony, has been devoting a large portion of his time to the study of our local conditions with a view to the adoption of the best system of

5. The establishment of the Separate System public main-drainage to be devised for the city, of drainage will in no way nullify or minimize the vast amount of detail which had to be. the importance of the main drainage improve-mastered by him before he could arrive at ments which have been effected by the Govern- definite conclusions, has made it impossible to ment from year to year during the last ten years.

place his Report before the Governor at an for even if house-sewage is now diverted to earlier date. The delay, however, is not to be special channels of its own, properly built rain regretted, as it has enabled a very complete water drains of adequate sectional area and lid investig tion to be made into n matter which is to proper falls are none the less a necessity to all important to the health of the community, the city for the removal of sub-soil drainage and and in this connexion, I deem it my agreeable duty to bring to the notice of His Excellency the very thorough manner in which Mr. Cooper has carried out this preliminary portion of his work,

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

J. M. PRICE, Surveyor General. The Honourable Frederick Stewart, L., D.,

Colonial Secretary.

storm waters.

6. The Separate System can be carried out without adding to the expense of house-owner, for it will impose no greater burthen on 'the. landlord to connect his house-drain with a Government main sewer under the Separate System than with one under the Combined System. Two house-drains--one for dirty water and one for main water--will not be required of him. His roof drainage and the rain which falls upon his back-yard "may in minst cases be allowed to escape ever the surface through gutters into side-channels, and thence into the ucarest of the numerous street gratings which everywhere communicate with the storm-water drains.

7. The Separate System of drainage is no new experiment in European cities. As its advantages are brought to light by practical experience it is becoming every year more generally adopted by Municipal and other public Bodies. To Hongkong, if not adaptable before owing to the inadequacy of the public, water supply, it will be specially adaptable now. for the first time that we have a new reservoir admitting of a daily consumption of water in every house in the town sufficient to afford the drains in the shape of waste waters that volume of dry weather flow throughout the winter which is essential to the effective working of a system that seeks to a act in measure independently of rain.

8. Though Mr. Cooper's report relates princi pally to main drainage I wish to invite His Excellency's special attention to that portion of it wherein he refers incidentally to house-drains for it is impassible to over-estimate the importance of remedying as early as possible the evils to which he alludes.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, Hongkong, 23rd July, 1888. SIR,In accordance with, the instructions

received from the Government, I have the honour to report that I have carefully studied the ques- tion of the main drainage of the city of Victoria and now beg to submit the following observations.

Since my arrival in the Colony early in January I have been making myself acquainted with the existing main drains and I have at length oẞinined the necessary local information to enable me to lay before you a complete scheme of sewerage and sewage disposal. Accompany ing this Report I forward-

1. Diagrams showing the Hongkong rain-

fall..

2. Plans showing the tidal currents in the harbour as indicated by float experiments, 3. Plans showing the existing drains.

4. Plans of the City-Sheets I, II, III, show-

ing the proposed works.

5. Sections along the proposed lines of main

Bcwers,

TOPOGRAPHICAL. The city of Victoria as will be seen from the Ordinance Survey lies on the northern slope of the range of hills running from east to west Rcross the Island, and extends from North Point on the east to the Sulphur Channel co the west, the harbour farming the northern, and the 400- foot contour line above sea level, the southern boundary of the city..

With the exception of the level portion of the lower town between Queen's Road, and the Praya, and of the Wantsai district, the whole of the ground has a steep declivity towards the harbour.

9. Up to the passing of the new Public erald Ordinance (Ordinance. No. 24 of 1887) the law on this branch of practical sanitation was inadequate for securing efficient house- drains. The Statute Bank contained no provisons for the class of materials to be used in their con- struction, nor yet did it prescribe the method of that construction, nor were there any provisions for trapping, ventilation, or disconnexion. The The level portions, to a very large extent, result of this inadequacy of the Law was that have been reclaimed from the sea and con- the Public Works Department was ever insequently the buildings have been erected upon conflict on the subject of house-drains with made ground of a more or less porous character, landlords who deeply resented what were Therestof be city is built on disintegrated granite considered the expensive whims of the Surveyor in various stages of decomposition. In soma General, whims which they alleged ther did not parts the soil is what, is locally known law. find supported by any special definition of the au red earth, in others there is a large proportion of hard rock immediately under-lving the surface. 10. In 1894 a Public Health Bill designed to On studying the levels it will be observed meet this evil--together with many others-was that the city is naturally divided into several drafted and submitted for the consideration of distinct drainage areas, the principal water the Colonial Government, but for ressons into partings running nearly north and south, or at unfortunately was never presented to the which it is unnecessary to enter here, that Bill right angles to the line of Praya. Legislature until the assumption of the Govern ment by His Excellency General Gordon spite of the opposition of the landlord intereat. Cameron in 1887 when it was passed by him in 11. Again a further delay arose from a request of the opponents of the Ordinance-that it might not be confirmed until a Petition which they were to frame against it had been previously considered by the Secretary of State, but after a lapse of three months no. Petition being yet forthcoming, the Governor was obliged to inform these gentlemen that unless their Petition was pre ented within a stated period the Ordinance. must be transmitted home without it. A third, and, of course, unavoidable delay occurred in the reference of the Ordinance by the Secretary of State to the Local Government Board, in the consideration of it by the latter, and finally in the confirmation of it by Her Majesty the Queen.

The Ordinance has been in force since the 2nd of June, 1888, bat mare delay has occurred, for after a lapse of over two months it has not yet been found possible to pass in the Sanitary Board the Bye-Laws relating to house-drains even the original motion made by me to give preference to this most urgent matter was, not carried without opposition,

13. These delays are unfortunate as it is of urgent importance to the Pablic Health that, the reconstruction of defective and insanitary house drains should be grappled with without further. loss of time, and this can be done without any THE SEPARATE SYSTEM OF MAIN by Mr. Cooper in his Report, we need whatsoever of waiting for the adoption of otherwise of the Separate System as pointed out

DRAINAGE,

The following reports on the separate system main drainage in this colony were presented to the Legislative Council by command of His Excellency the Governor: -

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,

Hongkong, 24th August, 1888, Sir, I have the honour to transmit you the enclosed preliminary Report of Mr. F.A. Cooper, city of Victoria and to recommend his proponi on the Separate System of main drainage for the tians to the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Governor,

TP somewhat startling news (7) from Macao published by our morning contemporary, referring to the proposed wholesale migration of the Chinese merchants and shop-keeper of the Holy City to Chinese territory beyond the Barrier limits, was communicated to us a week ago. Our correspondent having alluded to the matter in a rather dubious manner, we thought it advisable to await further developments before making any report. We are now in a position to state that this proposed migration of the native residents of Macao into Chinese territory is almost an accomplished fact, and is the direct outcome of two circumstances the new system of personal taxation' which the Portuguese mai administrators of the neighbouring colony have devised, and intend enforcing at the commence. at of next year, and the frontier delimitation Treaty, will now have to be seriously taken The first circumstance is in itself sufficient to set the whole Chinese population of Macao moving out of the place, bag and haggage, and we think, the sooner, they do so the better for them. The new system of taxation which will shortly be imposed is a ax of 10 per cent. on all sources of income, from a servant's wages and a clerk's salary to a merchant's gross receipts or a house-owner's rentals. Unlike the British system of income. tax, in which a margin of 150 per annum is allowed free of taxation, and the rate charged on sums exceeding that figure is only five-pence in the pound, or about 2 per cent, the Macao per- sonal tax, to the tuna of roper cent, is charged on every dollar carned either as wages or as returns for goods sold, or as rental. Adding to this the house tax, and the Municipal rates, which clerk, merchant, house-owner, or professional are anything but light, and we have the Macao

A QUESTION OF LIABILITY. man burdened with an intolerable yoke and The hearing of the claim brought by Un Fa, bled to death by the blood-thirsty plunderers contractor, 200 Praya West, against Father as per scale winners of a Steeplechase at any of the Colonial Treasury and of the Lisbon Torres, of the Spanish Procuration, was resumed previnds Meeting in Shanghai, s'b. extra. Cavernment We have known residents in the to-day--Mr. Webber was for the plaintiff, and non-winners of a Steeplechase allowed 5lb., modern Gomorrah occupying semi-official posi Mr. Franc & Q.C., (instructed by Mr. Stokes! entrance. Th., 5., Twice Round a Courictions who have been taxed to per cent, on their represented the defendant. The evidence an selected by the Swirds.

salaries, who have been compelled to pay this each side having been heard, his lordship Mr. Ring's go. Holbom....................

exorbitant exaction every year, and whose pro-reviewed the case. He expressed his disbelief perties have been distrained when falling to ante in the testimony of the plaintiff on various points, up the required sura, But it is on the Chinese and was of opinion that improper entries had that the Lusitanian intruders and adventures of been made by him in his ledger. The only

(1.) The dissociation of the sewage of houses

from storm-waters. the neighbouring colony exercise to perfection evidence in support of bis claim was that of a

(il) The rapid conveyance of the town-sewage their short-sighted policy of plunder & Chinese youth who had been in the defendant's employ, to the sea and its innocuous disposal in who fails to pay his taxes sees his house or shop and was discharged for decelt. On the other the tidal current by means of separate sold without any more ado by the myrmidons of band, the defendant had entirely denied having glazed stoneware drain pipes of a bore the Treasury; there have been cases when houses authorised the plaintiff to supply the goods, and

comparatively small because of the which were worth from 3800 to $1,000 have be believed him. Judgment would be given for elimination of storm-waters. been sold to pay arrears of taxes which amounted the defendant, with coste,tema and

And then the, Portuguese

(ii) The admission of a limited proportion of to from $10 to $12 lament the ruin and degradation of their colony l

rain-fall into these proposed foul water Up to the present the Chinese population have

drains; and (fr.) The escape of storm-waters and sub-soll been exempt from income tax ; as it is now

drainage into the sea as heretofore The match Military tự Civilians arranged for oposed to extend to them the 10 per cent.

through the present main drains of the 'squeere" on their gross incomes, it is easy to yesterday did not come off on account of some of city which remain undisturbed. conceive with what consistency, promptitude the members being unable to play, but as and alacrity the whole Chinese community there were eight men on the ground pick up storm-waters will so greatly reduce the volume 4. The dissociation of house-sewage from of Macaoil levant and transfer their was played with the following results White" of foul water to be dealt with, and will make abodes and their shops to Chinese temit ry,Captain Collinson (Captain) Messrs. Bethell that volume so manageable as to enable small OUR Cantón correspondent writes: "His Excel- beyond the Barrier. No wonder the Chinese Whitebead and Gray "Red Major Churchill diameters to be used for the principal arteries, Tency the Viceroy paid a visit on the 6th inst to authorities in the neighbourhood of Macao are (Captain), Lleuts, Woodcock and Anderson and dee to this circumstance the project will be "Poo-miau," the Temple erected to Marco Polo, helping this migratory movement. They are and Mr. Armstrong. The two Captaics crossed feasible at an outlay that is moderate compared by Imperial nuthority, near Whampoa. It is only doing their duty and helping their com- sticks Collinson getting the beat of it, but the with the relative expense that would attend the to be hoped His Escolesey's devotions at the patriots out of serious trouble. It will be fine ball was quickly returned and the white goal construction of the same length of mith rawers shilde of a foreigner gave him fee him full satisfaction.

day when the Macan Portuguese will have to thrice fell to the combined; attacks of Churchill ender the Combined System which requires in go beyond the Barrier to buy their daily food Woodcock and Armstrong, the ball never consequence of our heavy rain-falls-that all INFORMATION from Dolgelly. Wales, states that and their ramsay May we live to see this being anywhere near the red goals in the channels be of an unduly large and costly size during four weeks working 32 tons of stone desired consummation! No better solation secondmund Whitehead and Woodcock The estimated cost of the four proposed new have yielded 1610 ounces of gold, or an average could be given to the frontier delimitation changed places and a far better game resalted fool water mains comprised in this schem of 34 ounces to the ton, in valuo neány £6,090, question which is still pending, than by the both sides scoring one goal though the gether with their brancher and The yield is regarded as falmost unprecedented, wholesale migration of the Chinese of Hatão Redi certainly had the be

thethesworks amounts to $730,000, but And may be taken to indicate a dividend rate of beyond all possible frontiers of Portuguess

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The British cruiser Sapphire, Captain W. c. Karslake, arrived, this morning fromi Kabe.. WILLARD'S Opera Company will probably arrive bere ahout the zoth of the month, and re-open on

the sand.

FROM the Berlin Lustige Blatter:-"Father, what is the quickest way to get rich 7′′ “Honesty is the slowest way, my son. The fact has bern noted that seamen, as a rule, are pecuilarly subject to color-blindness. In tears made in the British mercantile marine standard green was pronounced red in 107 cases out of 189.

POLO CLUB.

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2. The adoption of the Separate Systems will be in harmony with the drainage provisions of the new Public Health Ordinance.

3. The main features of the Project are four, vir.:--

14 The many miles of modern main sawers that have been built by the Government within entirely replaced the former old defective malo the last ten years and which have almost drains of the earlier days, of the Colony, more especially in the upper levels of the city, have been well constructed and laid to proper falls as testified to by. Mr. Chadwick in his Report that in spite of the best workmanship and of on the Sanitation of Hongkong, but it is clear every precaution the newest and best built main. nuisance along its whole length if the liquid drain in the world will become an offensive matter that is fed into it at every step from the in a high state of decomposition by reason of connexion drains of private houses, is already previous long stagnation, and this is what is now occurring the

for an early remedye city of Victoria and can

15. The remedy to be adapted to remove the bad smells in the streets which are found to emanate from the Government main sewers is so obvious that no person examining the matter for himself can fail to see it. The evil must be at tacked at its source: that is at the house-drains All house-drains found in a defective and in sanitary condition, wherein kitchen sind other foul waters stagnate and ferment for long periods must be taken up and relaid to proper falls in Impervious glased stoneware in lieu of porous black brick, and must be furnished with those safeguards to health in respect of trapping, ventilation, and disconnexion which are now clearly specified in the new Ordinance and its proposed Bye-Laws When properly recon- house-drains may be connected with the present structed and passed by the Sanitary Board such main-drains, and when the time, arrives į. laying the new pipe males on the Separate System, it will be the duty of the Publics o Department to see that the connexion. such improved house dmins meat mains is properly cliccted Trees House-owner groups other defective old house drain the same time and dealt:

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The method of house construction and the hablis of the Chinese, are subjects which have been dealt with by Mr. Chadwick, in his exhaustive. Report on the Sanitary Condition of Hongkong, as recently as 1882, and as in that Report Mr. Chadwick enters very fully into native local habits and customs so far as they come within the scope of the, Sanitarian I pro- poso here only to add a few supplementary remarks with reference to the growth of the city of Victoria, since Mr. Chadwick's Report was written and to the probable still further extensión. of the city. ANNAKATAN

Since 1892 ca reclamations at Kennedy-town and Slaughter-house Point on the west and at Causeway Bay on the east, have been carried out by the Government and the two frat of these reclamations are to a considerable extent already. built over.denta de paga The Causeway Bay reclamation has not yet been utilized for buildings but a few houses have been erected on the Shaukiwan carriage road a little further, to the eastward. In the upper town new sites have been opened further up the hillsides above the level of the Bonham. and Caine Roads. Many houses in the Chinese quarter have been rebuilt in. a better style and creased in height with a view to affording

further accommodation.

The population of Victoria in 1882, was 163,000; it is now 180,000,

The western district of the town situated below. the level of the Pokfulam Road, High Street and

with the exception of the Gas Works, the Sailors Bonham Road as far eastward as Ladder Street is almost entirely occupied by Chinese tenements Home, the Government Civil Hospital Buildinge and some large Godowns or warehouses along On that portion of the Western district situated. the Praya dan above the level of the Pokfulam Road, High Street and Bonham Road no Chinese houses are allowed, a recent local enactment entitled The European District Reservation Ordinance (16 European houses above such levels. of 1888.) making it illegal to build any but

This higher portion of the Westem District is water conduit frem, Pokfulam practically bounde at present only partially built over. The line of the probable future extension southward of Districts. building operations in the Western and Central

The Central District situated between Ladder Street on the west and Garden Road on the east,

occupied below the levels of Gough Street,

Gage Street, Lyndhurst Terrace, Wellington Street, and Ice House Lane, mainly by Chinese houses Along each side of Queen's Road are to be found the better class of Chinese, shapes there are, however, situated along Queen's Rond and the Praya, several European shops and most of the mercantile bongs, this being the European business part of the city. The upper portion of the Central, District in occupied by European residences and public buildings including Gov ernment House, the Government Offices and the Gaol, The Botanical Gardens are also situated in this Quick The ponion above the Calme Road is only partially built on

The next division" between Garden Road ou the west to Arsenal Road on the cast is occapied ings. Enstward of Arsenal Road, follows the almost entirely by the Naval and Military build-

The balklings along the Eastern Prays are thickly populated. Chiness district, of Wantaly

princpially warehouses; there are also, however,

tenements in the Eastern Dis“

the Royal Seamen's Hosi. residences on. Morrison Hill

gbton Hill, all:situated in this district

portions of tricts on