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No

O better preventive against Plague and

Disease is possible than a well disinfected

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1894.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

CHOLERA is reging in Canton.

Waxw everything else falls, and your insomals seems to be incurable, try and gei a position as night watchman.

Rev. Thugge-I've been to the priest-ridden

Rev. Dobbs-1 hope yon did not gamble.

THE next Gymkhana Meeing is announced for city of Macao. Saturday, August 4th.

Rev, Thugge-Nerez 1. But I securatatoo THERE's this to say in favour of the cremationists prise in the church-lottery! --none of them want the earib,

THE steamer Azamor, of Tata & Co.'s line, arrived at Woosung on the morning of the rat fast, from Bombay, via Slugapore, and reported baving encountered terside weather in the Ching See, and having dodged the typhoon as much as was in ber power,

A GENERAL meeting of the members of the Warrant Officers' Club will be held to-night at their head-quarters, B'ue Buildings, at 7.30sharp. THE Emperor of Japan has despatched bis private physician to Hongkong to attend upon the Japanese scientists now offering from the bubonic disease on board the Hygeia.

Hnx-Do you prefer Moaton Rothschild or Clos Voaquest ?

Berlin Blet-Vell, dey are both very goed, but If you want my personal preference, give me gin! A REGULAR meeting of St. John's Lodge. No. 618, S.C., will be held in the Freemasons' Hall, Zetland. Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. ADVICES from Singapore state that Capt. Talbot and the three wounded Sikhs from Pahang, now In the Singapore General Hospital, are pro- gressing as favorably as could be expected.

Tut cases coming before the Magistrates to-day 135 (both courts were sitting) ranged from unlicensed basking to the alleged committal of an unnatural offence, but nothing of public interest eventusted.

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED

WATERS.

UR NEW FACTORY has been recently refitted with automatic Steam Machinery

of the latest and most approved kind, and we are well able to compete, in quailty with the best English Makers,

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmort care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.

COAST PORT ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by firs steamer leaving after receipt of order. For COAST FORTS, Waters are packed and placed on beard ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.

Counterfall Order Books supplied on Applica

tion.

Our Registered Telegraphic Address is "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," "

Mr. Newcome-Doctor, what is the trouble with that poor invalid?

Dr. Bastly Nothing medical. He is a Hong. kong officiel, and, of course, incerable as long as bts office lasts.

ACTING Chief Justice Ackroyd may be a man of few words, but he is not always a man of short sentences.

.

As we go to press we hear that the Permanent Committee of the Sanbary Board have replied to the Government, withdrawing their objections Lal-chi-kek and agreeing to co-operate to carry to the propsent to remove plaque patients to ing out the Governor's policy of conciliation. Patients will therefore be free to go to the frontier plague depot on and after to-morrow (Friday), the 13th lost.

We mw two such during our visit, Personnel-The staff consists of zix doctors, 41 servants, 17 grave diggers, 3 ceffiners. soldiers, etc.

Sanitary.---The backet system is duly carried out. No urinal or latrine is, as far as we know, allowed to remain for any length of time with out being emptied and cleaned; they were in backets are empiled into the sea at high tide, good condition when inspected by us, The There is a special latrine on the jetty for the The floors and walls were clean, gra of servants, Lime seems to be used freely.

MERCANTILE MARINE AFFAIRS.

PRESENTATION TO SER WILLIAM DES TRUX,

Des Voeux in the rough by Captain G. C. Anderson this Colony, which was banded to Sir William who acted for the late Captrin Samuel Ashton, (who was unavoidably absent) on the 7th May,

1'01.

THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG.

quality; cooking was being carried on, and wa found the arrangements cleanly” and smole for The following is a free translation of a pro-shoot; the only non-patient we saw wWIE & the number of patients. No "friends" were clamation Issued by Governor Sir William

mother nursing her child. On Inquiry we found Robinson on the roth Instant:-

The leading feature of, the inpual meeting of that any patient allowed one friend as a nurse. the Mercantile Marine Service Association, with "Whereas a number of evil-diaposed persons but in uch case the flend has to remain with- which the local Marine Officers Asociation is are spreading false reparts setting forth that in the hospital limits, and is only discharged atailled, recently held at Live: pool in der the houses, condemned by the authorities as unfil the same time as the patient.

presidency of the in

Land Mayor, Mr. W. Bowic parts of the Colony, will be destroyed by fire, malaked just off the courtyard, wise provision ation's farewell address to the late Governor of for human habitation in Tai-ping-shan and other

When patients are dying they are removed to

was the presentation of the embaster copy of and that no con

the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Associ own owners of Compensation will be allowed the in case of persons so easily frightened as the 30

property, be it known therefore Chinese; they are placed on that there le no truth in such reports. All ronning round the shed, which would hold wooden platform property which may in the future be lawfully sixteen or twenty persona. destroyed will be valued beforehand, and the THE keel-plates of the Victorious, says the Evaluators' awards in all cases. No property will owners thereaf will be paid the amount of the 8+ C. Express, have at last been laid down at be destroyed unless there is very good rezaan Chatham. Before many years we shall have for such action. The people should not belleve fifteen batile-ships of 14,000 tons and upwards, such unreasonable rumours." and at home we have only five decks capable of accommodating theas monsters. In addition to our lavgrat cruisers, such as the battleships, our Powerful and Terrible, require desk accom. modation of even greater size. At Malin there it one large deck, at Portsmouth two are being excavated, and at Derpoport an extension works scheme has been sanctioned which will take upwards of ten years to completa. THE Fiji Shimpe in a recent issue expresses sorrow for China because she has grossly miscalculated Japanese character la supposing that her clumsy Intrigues in Korea would be regarded with indifference by the Japanese nation. Alarmed by the news of the despaick of a powerful force by Japan, the Middle Kingdom tried in vain to persuade the Japanese Minister in Korea to desist from entering Seoul. Her repeated applications to the Goverment for the withdrawal of the Japanese troops have also been positively rejected. She may request the good offices of some third Power to mediate between herself and Japan, but this empire, says our contemporary, will never with- draw its troops so long as

lo the as thele presence deemed bec peninsula

Decessary. Such being not serve her purpose In the present Instance. Will she fight? She must know that the bas been forestalled

from the very putref, by Japan and that there is little hope of success for her

The latest official returns are as follow:- From noon yesterday until noon to-day t

New Desha Disk, Rem, under ket. cured. treatment,

Hospital ship Hygeia... o Kennedy-town............. Slaughter House ........ A. M. Branch Hospital... Private houses......

Total --

7 14

10

20

6

6R

I

4

2 102

Deaths repaited from the outbreak (gth May) up to July 11th, woon, 2.333; grand total, 2,343, From noon up to 5 p.m. to-day-At Tang Wah branch (including now only the Slaughter House) new case, nil; deaths since, 2; sent to Canton is junke, wif; total remaining under

Witness the tentence of two years' ] Japan's mititude. China's usual diplomacy will treatment at the Tang Wah branch, 61.

hard labour to which he recently sentenced the bapless chief officer of the Nova-Scotfan abip Silkirk.

IT is stated that a Nottingham man proposes to cross the Atlantic rome time this year in a vessal which is only ten feet six inches long, with three feet beam and two feet six inches depth, and Is bos the smallest craft that has ever attempted such an adventurous voyage.

JOHN BURNS, the conscientious English labour feader and member of Parliament, has declined an invitation to go to America the expanse of the American Federation of Labour. He wrote to President Compers that he would like to go, but was too busy. He said he could not possibly visit America until after the next general election In England.

THERE does not appear to be a vestige of truth In the rumour current in the city to-day that several of the Cantón river steamers are bringing large quantifies of fresh bref to Hongkong from

in sems. It is interesting, says the 7, to watch the movemesis of the Chinese Govero. ment under these chrcumstances.

A POWERFUL battleship, which the Thames Tropworks are now constructing for the Japanese Government, is to be named the Fuji Yama, after the celebrated Japanese mountain. The vessel will be of the Royal Soversign type, and will have a displacement of 13,750 tons, while the total coal capacity will be 1,300 tons. The armour belt is to be 256 feet long and 18 to 16 inches thick. The two barbettes will be plated with 14th, armour, and each carrying two 12in. breechloading guns; while the other armament of the vessel will consist of ten 6in. quick-firing guna in casenistes and twenty-four smaller Hotchkiss-quick-firers. There will also be six torpedo ejectors. The engines, which are to be |

tople expansion and 14,000 horsepower, will Co., of Deptlerd, the boliers being of the usual cylindrical type. The speed of the verrel will be eighteen knots. The Japanese Government have had the construction of two powerful tour clads under consideration for about seven

and

LAI-CRI-KOK RETURNS.

The following are the returns of admissions,

death, etc., at the al-chi-kok pesce yesterday twenty-four hours ending 5 o'clock afternoon-Admissions, 6; death, I dis. charged, I sent to Canton, zo; remaining under treatment, 57.

Visitors are only admitted for a short time. We saw none. Patients are only kept to hospital till they are fit to be removed to Camionikl, wa understand, is done to save hospital expenses. The water le got from the opper part of the stream already mentioned, and is the same as supplies the neighbouring village.

A channel draining the kitchen stok wat la a very dirty condition. The Director promised to have this remedied.

The preliminary business of the meeting over, the Lord Mayor aid he would now call upon Capiala Price to make a presentation to a gentle- man whose name had long been famillər to them, and who at one time was her Majesty's sepresentative in the colony he (he speaker) claimed as his birthplace, and where no one was more bigbi respected than Sir William des Voeux. Sir William in addition to having been Hongkong, at which latter place he evinced the Governor of ather colonies, one of which was greatest interest in the Me can lle Marine Association. He

10 was sure they would

be pleased The testimonial was then read, It was set the presentation of this testimonial. to witness forth therein that Sir William des Verus as Governor

the "Sunday

of Hongkong, had by th passing of the Csign Working Ordinance" conferred great boon upon the merchant shipping of the of Hongkong. The working of cargoes Sundays bad been fest to be a great hardship, It was signed by the president, Captain Samuel

Mr. Chesney Duncan (hon. secretary),

aptain H. Bathurst (hon treasurer),

port

There is a large room fall of Chinese drugs; prepared 15 small fornaces are fixed, el. ht of cantile Marine Officers' Association, Hongkong. and in the pharmacy where medicines are the commitee, and associates of the British Mer- which were la active use daring our visit. From alag with others, and bore the seals of the what we saw we are convinced that the patients M.M.S.A., the B.S.O.P.S., the S.S., and the are supplied with a sufficiency of clothing, food,

S.S.A. and medicine. The Hospital could certainly accommcdate iro patients were all the available

space properly utilized.

Graves--The cemetery is situated on high ground in a ravine about three-quarters of a mile from the hospital, in a totally different watershed supply H.M. abips. The number of burials has from that supplying the hospital or that sald to been 148, and there is am

ample rcom, without encroaching on any other watershed, for at least double that number. We saw eight graves ready for use; they were in a row about zit, apart and quite 61 ft. deep; others were being dug, but not THE LAI-CHI-KOR CONTROVERSY. habshed, as evidenced by the step of earth at the

ends and unevenness of the bottom.

The following letter and reports were received this office too late for publication in last night's Issue :-

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 11th July. transmit to you to be laid before the Permanent SIR, ar directed by the Governor to Committee reports on the condition of Lal-chl kok Hospital from Doctors Cantlie and Hartigan

accurate,

Captain Price said that on behalf of the Liver-

pool association and in the name of his brother

sailors all over the world, he had preat pleasure in

presenting the testimonial to Sir Willieta. It was an expression of opinion from men who had felt his kindness, and now esteemed it.

tion

how

with

express adequately the feelings which were Sir Willem des Voeux said he was sure those present would forgive an invalid if he failed to ppermost in his mind. He knew the presenta- for was to have been made hice years. but it

owing to his ill-health it was postraned,

Rive

bim great plearore to receive in the first place he

he must apologies that he should be in

la this great port at the other end of the world which he had very slight conrection. However, as it was the desire of the Council of the Association be was there, though contrary to the advice of his medical man. that prople who Rved in this country had He might say generally but little knowledge of the difficulties which & Governor in such place as Hong- kong bad to contend with. In England very simply because the Custom House was closed. or no Sunday work was done in barhours, Hongkong was one of the few favoured

therefore there was no obstruction in the way of applause)-where all the parts were free, and

probably not aware, that Hoogkong, Sunday labour such 11 existed in England. He might tell them of fact of which

bare rack fifty years ago, had three years ago Imports and exports the value of which exceeded by more t

than

a miilion tons those of any other port in the world-about a million tons ahead of London and one and a half millions ahead of Liverpooll In this port, then, no difference was

Walle the evil was simple. In the Gnt place, to pass a low would te ludicrous place where, out of 230,000

There were over 4 feet deep. A Customs official volunteered the statement that the fest graves used were only 15 inches deep, but as he described to us, on being interrogsted, a depth of earth over the coffin of about 1 foot, and as the ordinary Chinese "box" is about 14/15 Inches in depth and the coffins 18 inches, his state ment could not be of earth and sc is over these graves between

There are mounds and 1 feet high. The explanation given of the Insufficient depth of the first made

e graves was

consequence the interments were hurried. This Customs officials, bodies accumulated, and in

provided for at first as they now are. We saw is excusable, as in all epidemics "rushes will occur; even our burials were not as efficiently heaps and baskets of lime in the graveyard and were told that sixty catties in word, to accordance with Chinese custom, around each coffio, rich men being provided with a much larger quantity.

the City of Rams and that such meat is sold to constructed by Messrs. Humphreys, "Tennant, and Sargeon-Colonel Preston and Surgeon, }hat owing to a probibition as to burlal by the the world where there was no Custom

the Central Market, without Inspection by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. During the winter Conths considerable quantities of Canton beef are imported here, but during the bot season it Invariably walks ashore on four legs.

At the third ordinary general meeting of share holders in Dakio, Cruickshank & Co... L'd, which was held at the Hongkong Hotel at 3 o'clock this afternoon, Mr. H. L. Denny presiding, no dividend was declared, the accoun! were adopted, and the Chairman explained that the affairs of the Company are now on sounder basis than before and business prospects decidedly encouraging. Messrs. J. Andrews, Alex. Balo and Geo. Fenwick elected directors.

ard Mr. F. Henderson auditor for the current

year.

Rad

*

commission was appolated to visit the various shipbuilding establishments of Europe and America, but it was finally decided to place the orders to England, one at London and the other at Newcastle, without loviting Continental firms to tender,

IT to high those, ways the China Gazelle, that some of our advanced financiers and currency reformers do not ture their attention to the question of providing us with some local sub- stitute for the rapidly vanishing Mexican. The cry about a British dollar which Hengkong raised so vigorously a few months ago seems to have fallen upon deaf ears or been last in the failed to strike bome in some equally

DE

And all signed messages addressed thus wili | THE Straits Times of the 4th lost, ways —The factory way. And mean while wa

recalve prompt attention.

The flowing is a List of Waters always kept ready in Stock:-

PURE AERATED WATER

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

SELTZER WATER

PURE TABLE WATER

LITHIA WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE.

No Credit given for Bottles that look dirty or

romour regarding the death of the late Mr. Wise, in which it was stated that he was shot by an excited Sikh, is confirmed, by a telegram which Colonel Walker despatched to the Resident of Selangor on Saturday night last. That telegram says "fi Is deeply regretted that Mr. E. Wise, superintendent of Ulu Pahang, was accidentally shot dead by a Selangor Sikh." In the engagement, two Selangor and three Perak the news of Mr. Wite's death was received with profound regret.

the

mythical tael is having a bad time with its ↑ 17

currency cousin from the land of Aztecs. But it to plain that if Mexico is not going to send us suficient dollars to carry on the commerce of the const we will have to fura somewhere else for our supply of current cola. We must have dollars somehow, or the commerce of the Treaty Pozia wil suffer more every day. and four

Captain Westcott,

In view of the nature of the reports his Ex-

the same conditions as removals now take place cellency proposes from next Thursday morning to cause patients to be removed to Lal-chi-kok on Canton, and he requests that the Fermanent Committee will co-operate in carrying out that policy.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,

All the graves are numbered, and most bave

a

ate in

were

Sunday and an

any other day.

Acting Colonial Secretary. headstones, of which many will be bullt up with made betweevident the cure was not so

The Chairman,

Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board.

Hongkong, 8th July,

cement.

His Excellency Sir Willem Robinson, K.C.M.G. Hospital at Lal-chl-kok at 4.30 p.m. on July 7th. of

SIR We vlalted the Temporary Plague

Sils. The yamen now used as a hospital is situated on the sea front, at the side of a hill, with a fresh-water stream Rowing beside it. It is on a plece of ground closely adjoining the fand immediately under the jurisdiction the Chinese Maritime Customs, at the Lal-chi-kok station, open to the sea breeze and sheltered from the evening sun. The approach is by a lengthy bamboo felty.

Sikhs were wounded, one severely. In Selangor | What we want it dollar easy to get medions two-storied brick ballding neatly

dollars' worth

safe of

Buildings-The hospital consists of a com- finished, with large windows, tiled courtyard surrounded by outhouses, well floored and roofed, and generally after the style of a Chinese yamen. main building are used as wards, the floor of the

Words. The ground and upper fleste of the | former being ifles, the latter wood.

The general plan of each is a large central zoom with two smaller flanking apartments.

The other rooms are utilised as dwellings for

hard to forth of debt and then come back by means of a string attachment; a dollar that THE two new British cruisers, Powerful and snuggles easy in the sock of John Smith, but Terrible, which are to be the mort tremendous bloated compradora os plaguey shroff a dollar

withers like the manna of old la for size and speed in the world, are now in pro- that will buy some flour and meat while it buys cess of construction. They are to be of 14.300 much Scotch whisky and Manila cigars; a dollar tong displacement, gro feet long, with a seabove drawing laterest and that will double

yot going speed of zo knots, and an eight hours itself while the owner sits in the shade and contractor's trial speed of 22 knots, both under natural draught. They are to be fitted with a coal liquido through a straw in the RAJU the Doctors, store room for drugs,, another for

of a summer night when band is

the

In playing with one hand and mopping its face with a towel the other; a dollar that will circulate without depreciation dellar that will surely repair the waste of sloth, appetite and bad judgment ; a dollar that comes to the lap of indolence like worms to the crawal a fatherless robin ; a dollar Adam and reverse the order of men.

Belleville water tobe bollers, built by their con- structors. The halls of these two ships are to cost £338.000 and £345,000, in addition to £100,000 for the machinery of each. The time for completion is three yenia,

drinks coal

kes auch a

Christians the desire relief and at the same

A stream Hawa dawn the ravine considerably below and a good distance from the graveyard, On the allovial land at its embouchure some | people 200,000 were non-Christians, who, with the relation of the graves to the stream and the been deprived of one day's wages in the vegetables, but mostly rice is grown, Considering a very bare means of livelihood, would have

these is likely to ensue.

week, and so bring them to something like nature of the roll, we doubt if any contamination

starvation. As they were not Christians, moze- over, they would not have had It may fairly be questioned whether we do not

may respect rain as much as we lose in the case of ever the only means of recreation Chinaman bad for the day, and they would have adopted plague corpse burled outside the limits of this theo

-either island.

would to gamble or smoke oplum. So they Isolation-The nearest British territory ideal of barms instead of good. It was exceedingly

course old do a

* good Stanecatter's Island, which is separated from the

ifficult to devise a messure which would give Hospital by a wide stretch of ses. The neatest point of British Kowloon is over a mile distant do ro barm. He was bound to say that he was by sea, and double that distance by land, where not what might be called a strict Sabbatarian, there is practically no communication by road. under their own management, near our frantlers, was because the British nations were suffering for his experience showed that over-performance In fact if the Chinese desire to have a hospital in this respect led to more harm than good. It and available for plague patients from Hongkong, from this custom-they had no day upon which Lal-chi-kek recommends itself as being within they could rest from their inbours and go to easy reach and capable of Isolation.

church if they so desired. At first it seemed There are no cases of piague in the Customs almost impossible to devise any practical Stations, adjaceni,

measure against the tremendously strong oppoal. Hon the slightest suggestion regarding Sunday labour would raise in the

the colony. However, on way back to Hongkong from England a means occured to him was suggested by which the and in view would be without causing any severe autfering. Had the

hole of the mercantile c

been against have made the law. ha wauld not have done so, for he felt it would be

WILLIAM HARTIGAN, M.D.,

Dipl. State Medicine. JAMES CANTLIE, M.B., F.R.C.S., Dip), Public Health, London.

of this has been blown down, but is I beg to report that accompanied by Surgessit, although he still could have been

food, another for preparing drugs (pharmacy), coffin room, coolte quarters, kitchen, etc. The DAAG. whole building is surrounded by a high brick wall (part Immediately 10 be repaired) which completely Captain Westcott, A.M.S., I visited the Chinens isolates

t from the surrounding Management-We were received by the principal Doctor and accompanied by others, all thing and expressed themselves as willing to carry out any suggestions we might make. The wards on the ground floor are given up to men. ventilated, as they open on to the semi-covered

he want

greasy, or appear to have been used for any THE Acting Prisne Judge is becoming very wies that will remove the sentence pronounced upon entrance is guarded by soldier country, The Hospital established at Lal-chi-kok on Saturday, chicely justifiable under the circumstances.

Waters, ao auch Bottles are never used agula by { who have to appear as witnesses in the Supreme Tge N. C. Daily News extracts the following of whom svinced every desire to show us every, storeyu, divided into rogue of convenient size for Steing might be done. It was simply

other purpose than that of containing Aerated in his day and generation; he has pubiloly expressed his abhorrence at seeing, prisoners,

Court,

us.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

The Hongkong Dispensary, Hongkong.

The Shanghal Pharmacy, 24, Nanking Rod,

Shanghal.

Botica Inglesa, 14, Escolte, Manila. The Canton Dispensary, Canton. The Dispensary, Faochow.

The Hongkong Dispensary, Hankow.

The Hongkong Dispensary, Tientsin.

London Office, 8, Fenchurch Buildings, E.C.

Hongkong, 16th June, 1894-

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1894.

Is

to

glish

being brought from the Gaol to the Court In civilian dress. Presumably his lordship thinks the extra punishment of prisoners entailed by the annecessary indignity which he treated so Alopanti from the Bench on the roth instant. vas and Tapanlegraph lines between They are tiled, quite dry and clean, well that this hospital was so the same filthy and met with contributed net a tle to the break. can be of me more moment to the hapless sufferers than is the weaving of the degrading cangue to Chinese malcfactor in heather lands. "Only that, as Poe's raven queth, and nothing

more "

་་

Chine

courtyard,

from Shanghal native papers-Rumours of all sorts and abades, according to the blat of the story-tellers, have been fylog about the Sellle meat, but ar the land Korea

Korea and China are not working t boon Impossible to got BOT telegraphic news during the part font days. chinese officer just down from the North da representative of this paper yesterday when talking of the new Japanes

line between Chemulpo and Fasan that he had not THOUGH & considerable improvement has takes would not be allowed to remain intact by the

High ent

est doubt but that the japanese lines place in the arming and organization of the Viceroy Li Hung-chang's army lace the opinion Korean peasantry, who are bitterly opposed to recorded in the following paragraph was passed the Japanese. Even among the Eastern the large open windows and verandab affording

Maanta | ample vantilation. (la 1879), yet, observes the China Gazette, the Sectaries. (Togahuto) the

Japanese have very progress on the fro

We took the dimensions roughly of the large and a Japanese caught by sympathisers, septive of tbeira. A pelvate letter from Tienists square feet and 20,350 cubic feet, giving to exch from any states

on the side of the Japanese

what

and

in use are those formerly sccording

and

"been few

in the

to

Korea.

who with, for their packers')

price.

kad

zeap

the 7th inst., at about 12 noon, and made the firm in Hongkong-Jardine, Mathieson & Cn.-- He found that the bend of the leading shipping following observations:-

The building is a large, isolated one of two was on his olde, and he came to the conclusion

that pat a certain fine on the working of hospital wards, and admirably alicated.

To our surprise, we found the general sanitary fine ruficiently large to prevent

ships or European-bulit ships in the harbour

unnecessary conditions to be good, as we were led to believe work belog cons of Sundays. The

opposition disgusting condition as the Glassworks Hospital down of his health, but great many persoa bad been. It t was quite the opposite-the wards

who were well acquainted with the place had The beds were elevated a feet obove the floor, were clean and well ventilated, and also well sines

that they

had not suffered so much

that the wave 43 foot wide, supported on trestles, clean, sipproaching "owever, and there was nothing they expected, and he was glad to say covered with matting, and supplied with overcrowding. There war a band of the firm to which he had alluded had bianket; in fact the usual Chinese bed as used abundance of disinfectants of different kinda never regretted the course they had taken in the Kennedy-town Hospitals. at Dr. Kerr's Hospital, Canton, and at the Jeye's fluid, chloride of lime and carbolic acid matter. (Applause.) Notwithstanding what

which were being freely used.

cast, be (the speaker) was proud of having The upper wards were aimilarly furnished,

There were to patients in hospital at the time done this, (Applause) It was, he belloved, of our visit. Each had a separate bed, which real and substantial boon, and he trusted that was clean and comfortable, and the patients ble seafaring Contrefold, despite anything

In the East would appeared to be fairly well attended to and quite the benefit a capiented. There were three Chiness, doctors had cost him in the gatulog of it. (Hear, hear.) On the motion of Captain Price three hearty The excrets were removed by means of closed beers were given for the speaker, and the Lord buckets, and the systems worked antisfactorily. Mayor said that Sir William had their hearty - with the allowance home

In the execution of his duty. taking into consideration smell in the wards, Saucers of chloride of lime clothing, which our guide informed WA.

of presenting this humble memorial, is the hope as good, in aur oplaton, as that of the Kennedy the deep esteem which your memorialists enter town Police Bangck Hospital; and we fall to see this for you, and as evidence of their gratitude how the former, kept in its present good for the ban conferred on these connected with sanhary condition, can be greater source of merchant shipping generally, by virtue of the danger to the Colony than the latior.

“Suoday Garge Working Ordinance” which you We regret that we were unable to make our have now graciously caused to be

Gassed. amongst burial of the dead, as we had wished to do, being those directly connected therewith have suffered to the cemetery being inaccessible by launch at an injustice in monect to the working of carOBI medicines were low waler.

on Sundays, which has been a great hardship. A. F. PARITON,

Several efforts have been made during the last Berg-Col, A.M.S., thres-yases to bring about a cenation of the 6. WESTCOTT,

custom of compulsory Sunday inbawz no board,

L tals pert, bai hitherto without incours. is itthy bowerary remained by pan Kantine

pares

to rapid

fren

in reprosted

The fail text of the Address xenda as follows:-

of the contaloed air, owing. We wars shown a large supply of new hospital Way it please your Fxcellency,

pon the sve.

your departure from these

the Chipers do not possess the at

any price" party, 7 zion accommodation la provided outside the wards, the sanitary condition of this hospital to be just that it may picaso you to stcept it ag a token t

wealthy Taotsis,

on the sablent of reached for others buckets are brought in.

OBS.CO any Patients. The whole number of patients

so much more superior and rapid he obat there does not seem ANERKS | over 1,100 cubis feet of sir space. This co There was a total absence of say unpleasant | J7mpathy in the loss of health sustained by kim which General Grant drew f, the deductions | them world not be better off than a Chinese upper ward and found it measured about 1,290 and a great many anslutnate to look after them. fifteen yea

ago might well

go

be drawn fro comparison made to-day between the armies of hard of China giving hem to be any likeli of the 18 patients it held 73 feet of floor and

to Everything Herald of Weling in the New York Japan in

fof Nov, 19th, 1879, General:

General Grant after preparation, his tour in the Far East said to reference to the I officials wespite the fact of • th anghong Telegraph Chinese army. It layer online to regulation nows that this is to be the foraling polat of bls were plared at the feet of every second bed, intended for a daily change for the patients, The Hongkong Telegraph

In the armies of England and America, but the fame, and therefore cannot ford to to whilst for those patients able to move closet In fine, contrary to our expectations, we found we beg to approach you for the purpose arms are cast-off rejected

weapons of a inferior quality, of the American

Ecran ibare nations. The soláterly quality common to civilised peoples." price," his Excellency in bald to be, e fopita under treatment was 58, vis, ment 28, women

that At a public reception

money must go if we go to war, and again and chlidren 30. Six patients had been sent to given to him by the Viceroy at Tientsin,

mart

wa bay Fac. If these Canton to-day. Of this number about one rollitary display constituted one of its features, personages really wanted to buy posse, he would third wers suffering from plague, and less than

be willing to which

gave him an opportunity of forming a

to buy il-with their

- Fasther į patients waze scattered Ha did not believe the whos asked to give, in addidor, his impressions Seoul-Tientsia lines, has decided to place sont provided. Some wore their own clothes, then

il, owing to the breakage of the well cared for, tinople on the afternoon of the roth inst, causing great damage and killing fifty people. There is to the soldierly qualities of the Japanses, sunboals at Cheloo which will leave that post garments supplied by the hospital, of which snuwered with equal frankuose but in a far every six kouze for Port Arthur with telegrams we saw a fair stars in one of the rooms. The

■gonural panic, and the popainon are camping different tous, from which i will be readily sonn) and despatches for: Koren, késserged for that ¦ palmits are led at the praal Chinese mesi kouts, and in the suburbs of the city. The Public | that his anxiety was to avert all chrison of "ountry will therefore have, to ba telegraphed or | but those requiring it abe supplied with ents Offices, Wanky and the Bourse nie slorod, warfare between the two Empires:

sent to Chelse first,

moale. The tins, eggs, vis, warn found grei

TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, July 11th.

soldiers.

For

EARTHQUAKE AT CONSTANTINOPLE, Ament as to the quality and bearing of the | answer appears to havsuluhuoney /". This | kalf ceme from Hongkong. The plague | selvės acquainted with " arrangements for the Hess post the seafaring community and

A severe earthquake occurred att anasing

that Victor Pence with diAPMA, VWO hear | the others. All semi, promise contented, and

request for pea

Food

Burg-Capt., A.36.8.

Stougheng, Bih July, 1854)

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