other than a European, so many days at the "crank."
No letter can be received or written without the Superintendent or Chaplain having read it previous to forwarding. The note paper has a whole lot of rules and regulations printed on one side, and must form part of the letter, so that tbose ashamed at having to use such paper refrain from corresponding. To debtors no limit Is placed as to the number of letters they may receive, but when they are handed the solitary sheet of paper and envelope they are warned that
no more will be furnished until the ensuing week; even to obtain this single sheet they most first of all ask permission to see the Superinten. dent, and after waiting until that autocrat has dispatched the prisoners brought before him for various offences against prison regulations, a very humble ale must be affected to crave his authority for this favour, ;
The window of the European room for what should be, only it is always occupied by Chinese) overlooks the Police Court, and some time bacie It was the practice of the friends of certain of the detained debtors to supply them through this, by means of a cord, with many little dainties which the prison authorities would not allow to pass in the proper way; but like many other things this was winked at until, so the story runn, one evening the Superintendent was sitting on the verandah above, when he heard strange sounds of revelry proceeding from below, and it was found on investigation that the whole of the prisoners in the debtors' ward were in
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smdke from the adjolning cook-house, the smell of dirty clothes, and the accumulated breath of the ironers and sorters) as fo.id as in any. While chapel common lodging house, and you have, it may be safely averred, a fairly accurate idea of the den in which your clothing is dealt with by the ordinary celestial washerman. It is not a very nice place, but such it is nevertheless, such it has been for the past fifty years in this colony, and such it will remain until the regulations relative to public, Inundiles which were passed at a meeting of that mysterious body the Sanitary Board on the 14th of November last are, with certain necessary amendments, put into operation-and the sooner it is done, the better for the credit of the Board in question and the health of the community. The sum of $25,000 was included in the estimates of this year for public laundries and yet three months have passed over our heads with nothing done to ameliorate this disgraceful condition of affairs. To sum up the city deeds, it may be honestly asserted that not in one, out of many visited, was there anything like the air, space, height and absence of latrine proximity that would supply the elementary conditions to be demanded in satisfactory clothes washing.
Europe high spirits and very happy, and the twenty, thisty, and fifty pieces at a time,
extremely
room smelt more like the tap-rooms of a 'put than a prison cell. On a search being made, two whisky bottles were found, one empty and the other half full of the exhilarating liquor The bottles had been passed up from below through the window by means of a piece ofstring. These were the last, however, that came in this way, for the wire netting referred to was Immediately placed over the bars, and thus all further sinuggling was prevented in that parti- cular direction,
As was once remarked In Court by Chief Justice Sir James Russell, the debtors prison is greatly abused by unrelenting creditors. A ruer remask was never made, and the sooner the Hongkong "Fleet" is abolished the better for the good name of the colony,
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CHINESE WASH-HOUSES IN HONGKONG.
A SCANDALOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS.
And now as regards the actual system of scouring the clothes as witnessed at Tung Lung (East Point) and other places. Firstly the clothes are put in a huge cauldron of warm water in which soap of the kind above. mentioned and a dash of soda have been mixed up to the consistency of pensoup- According to their dimensions. In this tub they are bailed, all the time; and stirred about they are then partially wrang out and put into another tab where the water is not so thick as in the cauldron and thence on and on from one tub to another until at last they are clean
(?) enough to be taken out and "dacked" in a stream, to wash the scap-suds and slush out of them. They then wrung out and spread over the hill-aide, when the weather is fine, to dry. But when the weather is hazy or Jupiter Pluvius sends down showers to quench the thirst of the parched land, then comes the rub the clothes hastily rolled up in ail sorts of shapes are piled in recking bovels for a day or two in the hope that the weather of feat un, and failing to do take the clothes fato bis city depot and, after firing up his store, bangs the "pleces" on the bamboo suspended from the ceiling The rest needs no description, the most innocent of imbeciles surely could not fail to realise the facts. Some Iden, it may be added, of the need for proper super-
dreds of pieces are passed through the same vision may be gathered from the fact that hun water dally, and that the first, the soap-suds and soda solution, becomes towards evening as black and shiny and evil smelling as the slush raked out of the bottom of a city sewer in sun- mer time!
of thirty or forty hours " John” takes
When our "Special Inquisitor's" exposé of the disgusting condition of the Chinese bakeries in this colony was published in these columns last September it was Intimated that the distinctly insanitary state of Chinese wash-houses would be dealt with in due course, with a view to. throwing some light upon the cause and development of certain troublesome skin diseases
Keen competition, high rents, the rise in the amongst the European section of the community the existence of Chinese washermen-at one price of soap, soda, blue etc., etc., all lend to make Facts have now been collected and show, as any one reading will perceive, a state of affairs which time a No. 1 pidgin-a mere hand-to-mouth should receive the earnest and prompt considera-existence, as a careful inquiry into the status of tion of the general public, whose health is the washman will speedily demonstrate. Jeopardised by the utter lack of the most ordleary precautions adopted in many or almost all parts of the world in respect to an industry which, if carried on in a slovenly manner, cannot fall to have an injurious effect on the general bealth of the community, and at times lead to the rapid spread of deadly epidemics.
An inspection of several of the eighty native wash-houses situated in the crowded central; westem and eastern, districts of this city of Victoria, as well as of the creeks and nullahs which meet the waters of the harbour at Cause way Bay and in the neighbourhood of the now defunct Whitlelld Station, on the Shao-ki-wan Road, has confirmed all the rumours and the suspicions as to the absolute necessity for the establishment of public laundries Government supervision,
under
Without public wash-houses and public Chinese baths, for the use of which the Chinese should be charged. the lowest possible fees, na diminution of the horrors of the present washing system with its attendant evil effects on the bealth of the public-many of whom suffer from ringwonn, itch, and other disgusting decases, contracted through contact with and to prove to our readers that there must have infected clothing can be reasonably expected;
been a scandalous neglect of public interests in some direcilon we subjoin a copy of a draft of public laundry regulations, which were approved by the Sanitary Board on the 14th November last, and forwarded to the Government, with a recom- mendation that they should be carried fato effect without delay!-
"That the accommodation, considered mest sultable for each public laundryman carrying on The establishments of Chinese washermen are to be found in almost all the lanes business in Victoria is (a) a washing room, (6) a and by-ways of the city, particularly in the drying room, (e) an ironing room, (2) a dwelling central district. Srime of them, where the popularoom, consisting of twa living rooms, a kitchen, tion is most dense, for instance in Taipingshan, & &c., (e) a drying ground.
Hollywood Road and Lok Hing Lane, have but The number of public flaundries in the city
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a site for the first experimental Elock of public | common-sense of the Italian Under Secretary of Inundries has been approved near the junction Foreign Affairs. That official declatest our Con of the Kennedy and Wanchai Cap Roads. The stitution should be mended if it provided for, no working drawings have been prepared, and the speedy redress from the Louisinna State Govern buildings will be commenced as soon as the aftement and refused to permit any further detay. The letter of Burón Fava, announcing bis recall, is cleared.
presents the two demands of Italy. One was that assurances be given of the prompt punish- ment of those guilty of the killing at Now Orleans; the other was that indemnity be granted to the relatives of the rain Italians. Secretary Blaine in reply very plainly shows
United States that the
cannot gradi Assurance of the punishment of those who that the New Orleans prisoners, becauar Assurance would nullify any such
trial by juny. All that it can do is to see that the usual procedure on the indictment and trial of the accused be carried out. As for indemnity, he declares the Government has been willing to Sant it. Blaine sent this letter to the talina charge d'affairs in order to ascertain whether Italy has severed all diplomatic relations with the United States. If this official replies it will prove that these relations are still maintained:
At the Magistracy this morning, belyre Mr. Wise, Okuda, sub-lienteannt on the Japanese cruiser Aonge, was called up to receive rentence In the case hesed yesterday, in which he was convicted of making a sketch of Belcher's Fort, He pleaded ignorance of the law,
His Worship said –I found yesterday that the defendant had been guilty of a breach of the law under this Ordinance, but as it was practically the, first offence under the Ordinance I had the case adj mned for a day, in order to consider thorough ly what penalty should be imposed. The def endant, pleaded ignorance of the law, and if he had been a civilian it might have been some excuse. But as he is a nával officer, he should know perfectly well that it is no excuse whatever. Under the circumstances I think it my duty to fine him $100,
A book was produced by the police in which defendant had other sketches, but his Worshin could not consider that. Only the one sketch In question was before him.
The Japanese Consul paid the fine, and
the defendant was released.
·CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necesarly endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in thle column),"
Dispatches from Rome indicate that Premier Rudini has been forced by the opposition under Crispi to demand Fava's recall. The English papers are very frank in their expressions of lack of belief in the genuineness of the demand; they belleve Rudint is playing to the gallery, bu they suggest that Italy may regret her hasty action, that is likely to lead to the injury of her American trade and the restriction of Italian immigration.
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, April1st The elections just held have resulted in a
complete triumph for the Liberals. It is reported the situation in which the insurges at Iquique find themselves is a most desperf one. Every thing is at faming prices, and the supply of coal is exhausted. The insurgent squadron is scouring the coast in the hope of capturing the colliers, The Chilian Government flotilla is almost ready to proceed against the rebel ships. A desperate SIR-Permit me through the medium of your conflict appears to be inevitable.
A PEACEFUL TRIUMPH. TO THE Euros aptur "Rowokong Thingrapa,"
columns to call the 'attention of masters and officers of the British Merchant Service to the
fact that a Bill entitled & An Ordinance, te restrict the leading and discharging of cargoes lo certain waters of this Colony" was read a first time, at the meeting of the Legislative. Council held here yesterday morning. That the efforts of this Association and its friends to cause the abolition of a custom which is deemed a great hardship and injustice by members of the profession generally, both on home-going and coastlag steamers, has so far resulted in complete success is undeniable, and it is with feelings of unqualified pleasure that I make this annnuncement and heartily congratulate you upin the measure of success attained by the force of reason and arguments based upon facts-not by means of violent outbursts of indignation, justifiable and otherwise, such as brought trouble and misery upon lens of thousands of our countrymen in the Australasian colonies last
autumn.
In thus briefly referring, on the spar of the moment, to what is, I presume, practically a "Sunday Observance Law" I cannot conclude which has, from first to last, been pleased to without paying a brief tribute to the public press,
accord the movement the inestimable assistance of its support.
As I shall avall myself of an early opportunity of speaking publicly unon this, subject, dealing with the new Bill clause by clause, refrain from, further trespassing upon your valuable space at the present juncture.
Yours (inithfully,
SAMUEL ASHTON, *President, British M. M. O. Association.
College Chambers,
Hongkong, 30th April, 1801.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BERLIN, April 1st.
CITY OF MEXICO, April 1st. President Diaz opened Congress to-night. In his speech he referred to the ratification of the boundary convention with the United States. "The changes," he said, are pragosed in the Extradition treaty with the United States,"
DUSSELDORF, April 1st.
The representatives of all the German steam- ship companies engaged in carrying emigrants to the United States have decided to raise the price of steerage fares to America to marks from and after the 1st of April.
OTTAWA (Ontario), April 1st. Medical men detalled to investigate the cases of leprosy recently discovered at Victoria have pronounced it of the Oriental type. Immediate steps will be taken to hunt up the aflicted China men and return them to China. It is stated that within the past year the scourge has made great headway in the Pacific Province, and that it has of British Columbia, unless the Government take reached a point that will imperil the settlement immediate steps to wipe it out.
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one in the south-west suburb of the capital of the province. But at some time which tradition will not fix, this spring was absolutely snuffed out, in exactly the same manner as a candle is put out by an extinguisher. According to uniform tradition, a huge kettle was placed over the bubbling fountain, and the water, unable to make is escape, retreated into the earth, and was never more seca 1 In testimony of the existence of such a stream, large channels which it once occupied are still to be seen, bridges (all inhuins) by which it was crossed, and the posts between which the food made its way into the city, and out again, the wall, ne is usual in such cases, having no north gate.
What motive could have led to this supposed eff cement of a beautiful flowing stream of pure water, no one is at the trouble to suggest. Bat all are agreed in the statement that within the past three or four years, a district magistrate taels in the effort to discover the site of the who coupled the ramen spent several hundred former spring, which he wished to bring back sghin. Every one says that the motives of this official were of the best. He had no possible. objet but the good of the city. He employed. large army of men digging for a long time but he totally failed. And why? Because the people, who could have told him where to dig, would not, but on the contrary purposely misled bim. And why did they do that? Because they were afraid that if they should dig in the right place, and bring the water back, the result would crop for the next year. So the effort failed, and be to flood some of their land, and spoil the wheat the money was wasted, and an excellent rehearsal of the future history of "Reform in Cidas was enacted by the Kad-tang people, without their being aware of it.
The streets of this ancient city are sunk far below the level of the surrounding country, like It is a matter of frequent observation with those in the vicinity of Peking and other Chinese travelle's in China, that its ancient cities are. places of former, celebrity, The traveller can disappointing. As a rule there is the greatest hardly fail to be impressed with the thought of difficulty in identifying sites, and when the the righty past, of which such a place has been situation of some place of historical interest Is the witness. When his historical reverence bas mcertained, all that presents itself to the curions.ttained its most extreme polat, he is more or gaze of the investigator is a mound of earth, and less pained to be told by a venerable man a mosaic of broken tiles and bits of brick.
official life (who evidently knows what he is There li a strange propensity on the part of the saying) that this is not after all the true ancient Chinese to move their cities about, sometimes to Kio-tang," for that lies sixty to the east great distances, so that it is often only the name ward, and has nothing whatever to mark it but which is continuous. Occasionally the record of a light ridge of earth i this fact is preserved in the addition of the word 'older 'new' to the name of some cities, but not infrequently there is no warning of the alteration. Some of these changes arc
no doubt due to a laudable impalse to exchange an Inconvenient situation for a better one
The grain tax in our region has been collected at last, after the magistrate has spent three times as long the market-town on the river
as usual. The reason for the long delay was
the high price of millet, and the unwillingness of the people whose crops have failed, to pay
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TREASURY NOTICE. THE RATING ORDINANCE, 1888.
THE VALUATION_LIST for VICTORIA for 1891-91 is open to inspection at the from MONDAY, the 4th May; Extracts may Treasury for Twenty-one Days, commencing be taken.
This Valuation will be in force from July 1st, 891, to June 30th, 1892.
will be May 23rd. Besides lodging & Formal The last day for appeal to the Supreme Court
The general opinion 'here is that no serious Some are to be credited to geomancy, in Oriental¦ out in buying' grain so much money as they Appeal in the Coart, stating the grounds of such
streams above the west end of the Kennedy wise praved, the tone of the American press is transplantation when several casca of parricide the river. When the requisition has been Kowloon 'and the Villages will be open tu
at the present time is sixty-four.
"The number of public laundries using the
Road for their wash-houses is ten.
"The committee recommend that in the first instance a set of wash houses consisting of ten.
The National Zeitung says: lynched were America citizens, which is in no leaves no doubt that Italy is justified in her arxiety for the welfare of her subjects in America. The Vossische Zeitung calls M, Blaine "a
Cup w`r with any European power."
to the Assessor on or before that date.
The Valuation Lists for the Hill District, inspection later on, of which due notice will be given,
one room. Here they collect the dirty clothes (hundreds of places at times), sort and book them and tie up in bundles ready for transportation to the wash-houses at Tung Long Chao, near Causeway Bay where almost all the actual
carried on. For the establishments in the city separate establishments be erected at Warchat. I diplomatic brawler, quite capable 'of conjuring This is n very ancient place, which is marked on severely beaten, because the people were been altered from that now la force, the Assessor' washing of clother, etc., done in the colony is
The Tagblat! thinks the matter not serious, It is convinced that Mr. Blaine, the personifi. cation of Yankee haughtiness has not kept within the limits of international courtesy,
It is reported that mysterious warnings, sent by
Where the Valuation of any Tenement has
has sent notice of such change to the Owner,
his address is known, or if not, to the Occupier, with a request that he will hand the same to the Owner. The omission to serve such notice does
gents' drawers and singlets, fever-stricken| preference should be given to the laundrymen the Mafia, have been conveyed to King Humbers fessional antiquarian. But he is met at the is accomplished by heaping up the grain, till no | the prescribed time, viz. May 4th to May 3rd,
always a factor in political Even if those affairs; and still others are due to superstition collect nine or tea thousand pictly, in gral
such as leads to the demolition of a city wall and which is to be delivered at the granary, on have occurred within it.
met, another notification is issued requiring Of some of the preceding) remarks, Kao-tang the remainder to be paid for in money, at Chow, in this province, is an'interesting example the district city. "Many local constables were Mr. Oxenham's Historical Atlas as in existence all holding off, waiting for others to pay fn during the time of the Spring and Autumn grain, that they themselves might take advantage Annals, representing China from 731 to 519 BC of the option of paying in money. The reason was founded, ought to have some claims on the to false measurements, each bushel as delivered not invalidate the Rate, or form any excuse for A city which was perhaps built before Rome for the difference in cost is the fact that owing Occidental traveller, although he is not a pro- realy amounts to a bushel and a third. This not appealing against any Assessment within. of Italy. The Mafia is said to have demanded pro-whore.confronts him in China, that there is payments at the yames, the rate, strange to say, rateable property should therefore inspect the ou set by the same difficulty which every more can be piled on the measure. In the cash 1891. All Owners of Occupiers laterested in tection for Italian residents in foreign countries. no one can tell him what he wants to know, id fixed one, from which there is said to be no Rate Book within this period. It is further believed, according to this story, that and no books from which to gala informa variation. the recall of the Italian Minister at Washington is tion. It is true that every walled city is The taxes of the regions most severely flooded largely owing to the fears of the Italian Minister theoretically the subject of a volume of Historical bave been altogether remitted for a year, In
ARTHUR CHAPMAN,.. aroused by Mafia threats.
..Assessor. Records (called a Chin) but these are generally other places, the autumn tax was remitted, but
Hongkong, 1st May, 1891, * difficult to procure, and often wholly out of pript. century have been so many and so serious, that Daily News. The political disturbances of the past. Balf at the spring tax, which is always pald in money.
NOTICE.
The Vossische Zellung announces that the hoofde committee further recommend trymen Unter Sill probably for the basis for freah "The committee further recommend that it United States law for the inspeciton of pork and to rent the public wash-houses, but that it should negotiations for the abolition of Its prohibition. be left to themselves to rent them or not as they
The Cologne Garaffe says the Bulgarian is, however, a matter of pubile importance that upp works for large suppites of war material consider most advantageous to themselves. It
Government has made a contract, with the laundries should be kept in a proper sanitary to strengthen Bulgarian defences. condition, and it is, therefore, urged that bylaws
Iofuenza la again raging in this city, and be made as soon as possible under subsection
many deaths are reported. 33 of section 13 of the Health Ordinance, and that they be gradually but fimly enforced. If it up sufiable places for themselves in which to this is done, and the public washermen prefer to carry on their business, an urgent public require meat will be fairly adequately met by private enterprise.
́are virtually nothing more than receiving and
and that after some little experience of the distributing depots, wherein the pieces are, working of these wash-houses two other sets of as above stated, "booked" prior to belog sent at least double the size of this set be erected- out to the wash-tabs and brooks to the eastward,
ore at the cast end of the town, and the other st Everything is necessarily jumbled together the weat end. It is also strongly recommended Indiscriminately-ladies' dresses and petticoats, that in letting the first set of wash houses pallents' gorments and bed-clothing, and Chinese now carrying on their business above the demoiselles pantaloons and Lyons slik stockings Kennedy Road, because the streams in which may all be found in a single tubs of semi-putrid they now wash their claiking are being formed slush which is supposed to be (and was doubtless into open masonry nullahe, and in a very short at one time) soap-ands and pure water. But time it will no longer be possible for them to this indiscriminate mixture of clothing is carry on the washing part of their business in matter for grave consideration when the fact this locally, is ascertained that hundreds of pieces of clothing and bed linen from the hospitals of the colony are distributed broadcast throughout the wash-houses of the colony every week and the evil is perhaps much greater than those who "give out the washing imagine, for the simple reason that at times the washermen favoured with the patronage of public hospitals have more than they can get through, and so send on a few hundred pieces to their "chums” who, it may and often does happen, are also the "washermen for public schools and chart table institutions. Thus children aften become stricken with diseases which at once appal and distress their parents and teachers.
Before going into details of the modus operandi adopted by the washermen at Tong Lung Cuso, Whileht, and even KN ERE DUE AN The publiensisance arising from the washing Quarry Bay, it may serve a useful purpose I requires no comment. With a view to prevent of clothing in public stress is well known and brief description of the average washerman's city depôt is given. Picture to yourself a base the spreading of this nuisance to other streams, ment-room, ft. by 8 ft, in one of the crowded the committee strongly recommend that steps
14 Ing with aith, the result of many years utter free ang salaments the cat lanes of Tal-ping-shan; the walls literally reek-29 at once taken to prevent the formation of af Ignorance of the whitewasher's brush; the already used for such a purpose. This floor, once covered with bright red tiles, now readily be done by the police prosecuting, for coated with a crust of dark-grey conglomerate of committing a nuisance, any person found pollu Band, mud, tobacco-ash, saliva and every species ting a new stream by establishing tanks for the
dust and filth and crushed vermin shaken out washing of clothing therein.
(Signed) S. BROWN. N. J. EDE:
ST. PETERSBURO, April 1st.
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Vadholsky to three years' detention in a fortress A military tribunal has sentenced Prince for killing Lieutenant Monessoff in a deel,
GIBRALTAR, April 1st. Thins moze bodies have been recovered from total number recovered 423. the wreck of the steamship Utopia, making the
MADRID, April 1st. The Queen Regent gare a cordial reception to United States in the Hispane-American com- General T. W. Foster, representative of the mercial treaty negotiations.
Co-day's Advertisements.
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HE PARTNERSHIP hitherto existing between: this date by mutual consent. All forward Settle ments will be attended to by Mr. G, H, POTTS.
POTTS & BARFF.
7ITH reference to the abors I shall cone
LODGE GENERAL BROKEN.
No. 535 REGULAR MEETING of the above named Lodge will be held in the FREEMA
Hongkong, 1st May, 1891.
NOTICE.
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**** GEORGE HUTTON POTTS.
the Business of & SHARE and WITH Treference to the above I shall con-
GENERAL BROKER.
· CHARLES S. DARFF. Hongkong, 30th April Rot
in many instances city records have not only not been revised, but the originais have been Tort: case in Kan-tang, for although such a volume in the Talping rebellion. This seems to be the
is accessible by pulling the proper wires; "The to have perished in the terrible ruin which blocks from which it was printed are sald
overtook the city at its capture a little more than thirty years ago. The rebels had just warning of their impending arrival, so that devastated Linching, and there was ample wil the population deserted the city, at the advice. (or command) of the district magistrate, who felt himself to be between the devil and the deep sea. If he abandoned the city which he BONS HALL, Zetland Street THIS EVENING was set to gover, he was undone; if he remained, the 1st May, at 8.30 for O'CLOCK precisely. he was a dead man. Realising the hopelessness Visiting Brethren are cordially invited. of the dilemma, he behaved with the dignity of Classics, which teach that "The scholar, trained a Confucianist, bred in the teaching of the
prepared to sacrifice his life." Alone of all the for public duty, seeing threatening danger, Is Inhabitants of the city, the magistrate remained In the city, the gatec of which were left wide dressed in his robes of office, until the rebels. open. He seated himself in the public hall; actually entered the courts of the yamen, when threw himself into a well in the back part of premises, and was drowned, The Talpings occupied the city thus easily the trestle, though, in the summer); a foot or two stated that the sum of $15,000 was included in
and from there be taken lato heaven, The every ancient landmark in and about the walls. below the smoke-begrimed ceiling a number
* Victor Emanuel give notice that they Mormons telleve that the foundations of a One of these was a bill called Chi Ming. Shan, are NOT RESPONSIBLE for any DEBTS the estimates of this year for public laundries. It suspended a great variety of male and further stated that the site of the proposed new inant ons temple were laid man, Zest mening before any of the gallinaceous tous contracted on or after the 1st May, 1893, by their
of laundries was Crown land, a portion of which by the Angel Gabriel, and that hosts
fowle Messian QUAN LONG or any other Person. female articles of clothings in one corner
descend from heaven, uncover these foundations had given warning of the coming of the day, Hongkong, goth April, 1891. a small three-dollar fron stove giving forth
was occupied by cowabeds under squatter and in a single night ererch on Mount Zion sound, of this natura and as soon as thin signal.]
& beautiful temple.
[659!... golden cock within this mound uttered the first considerable beat; upon this rest the Trener licence. As it would be necessary to remove Implements; in another comer a pile of firewood, the squatter, be proposed to put him fair and the Reorganized Church is contexting the was given every other cock hastened to follow, cake, and Calcutta soap in cakes as hard as a compensation for the value of his buildings.
title. Last pight the church building was com. Of this famous place, nothing remains but are not brickbat and resembling a compound of course A minute was appended by Dr. Cantile, who pletely wrecked. The Hendrickies claim the heap of rubbish. brown sugar and sand, Jumbled up together in suggested that the steam disinfector erected near desecration was by the other faction.
Another landasark was an ancient pagoda, latterly confasion a foot or two further ga
Tat the Diocesan Homs be either removed to near find yourself in what serves for a cook-house, the site of the BEW Iundeten or that it be placed where a dirty coolie who stands within two feet at the service of the public more readily ihan it of a foul-smelling latrine is endeavouring: to - la at present. ^
of
of the clothes during the sorting and booking
process; common deal trestles for ironing,
under which two or three planks are laid for the
"boss" washerman's dozen or so of employds to
-N. G. MITCHILL-INNES,"
A letter from the Surveyor General to the
KANSAS CITY, April 1st Two branches of the Mormon Church at Independence, Mo., known respectively as the "Hendrickites" and the "Reorganited Church, are fighting for the possession of Mount Zion, a low hill about four acres in extent, which was selected by Joshua Smith as the place where
the
TN view of the approaching departure of the GOVERNOR all outstanding claims by Tradesmen against His Excellency should be the Private Secretary, forwarded before MONDAY next, at Noon, to
Hongkong, 1st May, 1891.
NOTICE.
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Intimations.
NOTICE.
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Justices of the Pence will be held in the Justices's Room, at the Magistracy, at ELEVEN O'CLOCK in the Forenoon of TUESDAY, the stä day of May, A.D. Por, for the purpose of cons sidering an application from one ROBERT intoxicating liquore in a certain ballding at Victoria Gap, to be named THE MOUNT AUSTIN Hotz
ALFRED G. WISE,
leep on at night (they usually prefer the top of Colonial Secretary, which was laid on the table. all the elect will assemble on the Judgment day gained, for many months, and destroyed almost)HE WARD ROOM OFFICERS of HM.S.) ISHERWOOD, for a licence to sell and retaЛt
you
The Hendrickites have a
--WABEISIFTON, AYIN TIL The recall of Baron Fava by the Italian Government still forms the chief topic of interest
HONGKONG CLUB, NOTICE.
which had a legendary connection with the ROM this date and unul further notice. Mr. fate of the city, but of which, nothing ACTING SECRETARY of the above Club
ED. INO. BOARDS has been appointed remains but the base. One of the mod singular tales told in connection with this
in this country as well as abroad. The cable city is of the former existence of a large dispatches from Rome show clearly that the fountain, which bunt from an underground
By Order,
C. H. GRACE,”/
Becretary,
boll, a pound or two of rios with the aid of hulf a In the Surveyor-General's latest report, dated dosen chips of slick and a lump ortwo of cokeƒthe the afth February, he states that on the recom- atmosphere (what with the best of the ways, the | mandation of a Cepamintas of the Sanitary Board | American Minister was unable to appeal to the spring, and whigh le said to have resembled the l^ Hongkong, 141 May, 1890;
- Police Magistrate. Magistracy, Hongkong, 23rd April..1891.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. HONGKONG DERBY, 1897.
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"HE WEIGHTS, for the above RACE wil The weight for inches, not, sost, kolb, sa heretofore...
EH. GORE-BOOTH/ Clerk of the Cours. M Hongkong, 17th March, 1891, 9
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