year 1896 should begin with a dobit balance on this account of $315.000 unly.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1895.
seventy-nine thousand and sixty-two dollars to the Public Service of the year 1896,"
À Elif entitled "An Ordinance to amend The Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordinances of 1890 and 1801 (No. 10 of 1890 and 18 of 1891.)" A Blil enflied "An Ordinance to further
14 of 1887,"
Mr. Ooka speaks of the Admiral in the follow. Ing strafo ——— He was a lively and Intelligent min. dieninguished alike for forethought and. decision. He had the rare art of endearing | himself to, and thoroughly controlling, the men under his charge." A touching and characteristic torpedo boats attacked the Chinese warships at hal-wel, No, 8 bid the misfortune 16
“Surely you will let me see what is wikten about it editorially to-night 14
"Yos „cannot see a word of it balore it li painted," 3-
"Well,” anld the astonlahed-Minister, "the Times is the most extraordinary and the most ungrateful newspaper published. You may
| A $3 fine was inflicted for p'ying « vodicle withe out a license. A tamponman was fined $15 for cimrying a number of passenger in excess of his license, Two cases of assault wem desk "with, one being punished with a $2 fine, and the alber ons month's imprisonment. For street- gambling S1 was the penalty.” A ast of chair-
on Queen's Road,
"the debitTMbilanca will disappear at the end"""shows an Incrense al 378 vessels aggregailog amend the Police Force Consolidation Ordinanon)"] [story"Is "told"about" blow When our wel- | UAHONNOP, my resigan:lon, but I consider this coofics wax Good $6 for rublog at passengers
cercats enger judicial lavestigations-into-the-and-the-dead-bodies of aloituna de founder, very harsh treatment,
-crew~~~When the paper appeared-in-the-morning,-11-
A Bli entled "An Ordinance is authorize in
causes of fire.
In consequence of the improvement of Tal- pingaban a large area of land will probably be randy for sale in the course of next year, and with an expanding revenue it is to be hoped that of 1895 Then again.
should witness extensive land sales in Taipingshan, and when 188 ressent it" Kakly cios do the result will, is all probability, be more than gratifying. As As regards the expenditure on this work, the total cost of which is estimated at $83.000, a rum of $10.00 has been provided to the Estimates for 1896 and you will be asked vote the balance when the Supply Bil for 1897 comes before you have now, gecilemen, pat balefly beforn you The financial pestilen of the Colony, and having regard to all the clrcumstances you will doubt- loisagree-with-mein-thinking-that-the-siste-of-The-passangiz-traffic-returns show an increase – and Markets Ordinance, 1887 { ?? affairs in both satisfactory and hopeful. In of 35,186 lu the number of emigrants, but addition to the resumption of Talplogaban other immigration has fallen off considerably doubt. active measures for improving the sanitation of less on account of the ect of certain housing the Colony have been undertaken.
several months in respect of certain neighbouring porte Infected with the plague. :
BAIPPING AFFAIRS. Turning to other matters of general Interest, the shipping returns up to the goth September last are more than encouraging. For the first 9 months of this year, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, British shipping 175,306 tons. Forelin shipping with a numerical acctease of yg ships also chowa an increase in fount of 11,867 toss European vessels have handled and carried some 176,000 tons of cargo more than last year. There is likewise an "A Bill sailted "An Ordinance to provide for increase in the Foreign and Local Junk Trades the recognition to the Colony of Probates and of 178,747 tons and 79,363 tons, respectively. Letters of Administration granted in British The total increase over last year in the number of Possessions.” ships entered and cleared at this port is no leas A Bill entitled "As Ordinance to further than 4,551 vessels aggregating 845,203 to amend The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1898 distinct improvement even on the exceptionally-Bill-entitled An-Ordinance to further good returns for 1893.
amend The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter-Houses,
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EPIC AL BANITARY PRECAUTIONS. The provisions of The Public Health Ordin ance 1987, and of Ordinance No. 4 of 1895 have been strictly and steadily enforced, and upwards of 400 common lodging-houses have been licensed. It would thus appear that the evil of overcrowding has at length, to some extent, been successfully checked. The enforcement of Ordinance No. 15 of 1894, which gave this Council no little trouble, has been accompanied by a
a marked amelioration of the sanitary
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ADJOURNMENT.
self into Financial Committee. I propose His Excellency: The Council will now resolve to adjourn the Council until Thursday work, the
Thursday, the 5th December.
were picked up at Liukuotan, Admiral Ting ordered the corpses to be buried on the laland with due attention, remarking that, although they were his enemies, their loyalty to their Emperor deserved honourable treatment at his hands. Death is easy to ntials ; It is within The reach of every person.....
....of the meanest sort. But to dis an honourable death like
true miks
is not to be expected from an ordinary mortal...The last days of Adialal-Tag well became the true soldier that he wAL" Then,
death of the cowardly General Tsoy, Mr. Ooka alluding to the very sympathetic Edict lamed by the Chinese Emperor on the occasion of the
follows: "Such concludes
while in the Cats of Admiral Ting, not only was praise wilks held, but high displeasure was proclaimed against him oven after his heroic death! Who can refect on these things without being moved to tear of sympathy for the unfortunate soldier?
contained the news of the rerlension and a dignified editorial censuring the Chancellor for deserting bir lender.
THE MEKOng disputeE.
BY ONE WE
*WHO KNOWN
Chinese segmen's boardlog.houses hare 5th December. The Council stands adjourned was bestowed as a man lika T. Peril praia the zona along the Mekong which the French
recently been Inspected and licensed for the first time, and there are now 67 such bases duly licensed, affording accommodation for 1,120
1.00.
THE CRIMINAL STATISTICE:
The criminal statistic are gratifying, and there has been no repetition of the riots which occurred in the garis part of last year. The public peace
tion of private premises throughout A been efficiently preserved by the Police, and
and
with the exception of the coolle strike, which Accomolations of filth and rubbish, Hirgal took place at the latter end of March last cockloits, mezzanine
connection with the enforcement of the bye-laws back-yard abstractions have been removed, and are bees / the robbery with vialance on the 18th and hand the ground for the regulation of common lodging-houses, and surface of upwards of 700 tenements concreted. A special inspection of
of the drainage last, there is, I rejoice to say, ao "Police News of private premises wat made in the early part worthy of record. of the year and revealed a most insanitary wiate
THE COOLIE STRIKK.
the coolle strikes was, however, not maintained The firm sititude of the Goremment during without loss and inconvenience to the com- mercial community, but the circumstances did not admit of concession, and looking to fature interests it will, I think, be generally admited that the success achieved was 201 100 dearly purchased. The community is indebted to the Naval and Military Authorities for their ready assistance in the emergency, and the Police,
usual, did excellent work in keeping arder and relieving the situation as far as possible by providing coolles and cargo bosts for the several firms.
FINANCE COMMITTER.
The Council then adjamined, and immediately resolved Itsell into Financial Committee, and the Financial Minutes recommended by the Governor were proposed for adoption by the Council
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necessarily endorse the oplelane expressed by
Carrespondenta ko this ondemn.]
THE WATER SUPPLY OF HONGKONG,
1
To The Theron or tur “HonokaNG, TELEGRAPH,”
When the waterworks were started we were
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more
It is, indeed, a significant commentary on the memory of the grestest Celnare here should be mare cherished to Japan than in the country for which he sacrificed his life-Japan Mall
most signal event of the late war that the
THE TIMES.
A very lateresting paper has been contributed by SIR,-Before the Tylam waterworks (which Mr. Creelman to McClure's Magazine, describe cost us more than a militon dollars) were started, ing The Times, its proprietors, editors and staff. we never had any complaints of water lamins, copiously illustrated by portraits of all the because we had a good supply from private as well wetted betaren Mr. McClore has talled to which employed hundreds of acceed in obtaining the portrait of Mr. Buckle, welly to public
who has a prejudice against being photographed. Carriers water
supply our wants although at the same time we were saddled with water rate late Mr. Walter, so that we may take the The proofs of the article were revised by the assured by Government that we should hence description as authentic. Mr Croelman naturally into the vela of respecial eulogy in forward be provided with an ample supply of speaking of the Times. This is what he has to water without the necessity of using the wells in the colony, which were considered unhealthy ran to the personas, and as to how the great and unfit for human consumption or even for paper is managed :— washing purposes, and consequently, on the recommendation of the Sanitary and Medical Boards, the latter were condemned and ordered to be closed.
Theory so far may be very good, but we must not allow theory to take precedence before facts, until auch
before the commencement of the Tytam works our water supply was obtained from natural springs on the island, and were in those days unknown; and even now no actual prosi as to the unfitness has been forthcoming,
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TENDERNESS TO ITS ZUPLOVIS,
exceptional aminority, and he has told the I dislike quoting; but Sir Charles Diek* la an
#Na doabt if we were to insist upon the requation of Chanted, or the obite Daily Chronicle man that—
undertook to respect, feeling would soon begin What I am rather alarmed to run high. England took a very strang line there, and se about to the | question of Slam that remains open.
far Lord Salisbury has not
shown any disposition to go back on the position taken by Lord Rosebery.. I hope that matters may be allesately arranged by negotiation, possibly on some fresh departure. You know that the Commisioners who were sent out to decide on the limits of the Baffer State have come back absolutely at loggerheads, and altogether matters are far from setilement,”
be
WII.
ap
As regards the first part of Sir Charles's expression, there can be little question. It only necessary to call upon M. Hanstaux for the fulfilment of als predecessor's pledges to produce the elements of a pretty row, Last March twelve month Lord Rosebery stated in Parlia ment that" As soon as the articles of the Franco- Slamere Convention have been executed by the Stamese Government we are assured that place of Chantabus, which was occupied as guarantee for the execution of those proviiloss will be evacuated by the French Government" As there has been no allegation on the part of the French authorities for fally eighteen months past that those provisions have not been executed, it is becoming time for some one to remied the ou
Qual d'Orsay of those nestrances. Only when that is done, there is
every prospect of the Paris Speaking of the liberally of the Times to its the present conquer-swollen state of France,
prene raising") wwar-whoop
which, in employés, he says pen
Will Justify Sir Charles Dilke's predictions.
With
respect to the Buffer State business, if J, partly
right, but not altogether. The Commissioners-Messre, Scot and Pavio-got on admirably, in private. The only trouble between them was in to which we Engliid territory and which French. That, by the way, was largely the question they had to settle. Mr. himself at Monhslog, on the extreme' east of
province of Chleng-tung (or our
Kleng Shan State which
bid tang)-the
the honours of a guest, which M. Pavle conditionally ceded to Slam and the French invasion. There he recalved M. Pavis with all promptly resented (la a polite way, of course), bectus, as he put it, he was on his nailve heath, and was himself the best. After that, naturally, all bopes of carving Baffer Sinte out of Klengstung were strangled. On the one hand the administrators of the Shan States have mariage. There is one man of eight-two yetention of Kleng-tang, and to strengthen the contro! formally reported to the Indis Offics that they have taken mearUTOS to make clear the post- Thirty-six men are overʼsixty old, and ten are over sevenly.
anxiety to the Government. The rainfall en to, now 16 Government Schools, and 105 Grant. For theory is proved to be admiwable, ranks, and they die blessing lia name. During
of affairs as regards the old drains, whereas the drainage of those premises in which the new system has been fotroduced was found to be In excellent condition, The re-draining of private premises progresses, upwards of 3,150 houses baving been already drained; and with a view to the early completion of this work arrangements have been made by which drain age connections can be carried out by the Public Works Department. Owners should-readily avall themselves of this facility.
THE WATER SUPPLY. The work of
the raiding
dam
at the Tytam Reservoir bas advanced, and there is now storage, capacliy for an additional 40 million gallons of water. Unfortunately the small rain- fall up to date har not admitted of this additional quanity being stored. The long and unprece dented drought has been a source of much the 30th September lart was some 38 inches below the average, and some 15 fuches below
dry season commences with a water supply of 245,000,000 gallons instead of the usual quantity of 378,000,000 gallons. It has therefore already been necessary to c curtail the supply to the city of Victoria
by some 1,400,000 za
toss dally, By this economy and by close supervision ever the consumption of water generally, It i belleved there will be sufficient supply for ordinary wants until the raloy
ralay season round again. The new waterworks at Kowloon are sufficiently advanced to admit of water being supplied from public fountains to the most populous parts of the district, and a continuous supply is being maintained. When the pumping machinery to erected, the supply will be extended to the higher levels, but at present there is not enough pressure of water to reach them.
years
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE,
{Saturday, 23rd November, 1895.]
́GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS..
-No. #Ra—A cireniar despatch from the Secres tary of State for Foreign Affairs is published, -nolliyine-that-the-treaty between-Chila -and- Great Britain was denounced by the farmer on Sept. 3nd, and that the treaty ceased to have force from that day.
No. 48-Notifies that Her Majesty has not been advised to disallow The River Steamer: Ordinance.
No. 48-Wotifies that Messrs, Carlowitz & Co. have registered cerfüin trade marks within the Colony in scordance with the law.
No. 483-Notifies the appointment of Mr. Alexander McConacble is anofficial member of the Legislative Council during the absence from the Colour of Hon, J. J. Bell-Irving,
or vatil further notice.
No. 484-Gives notice that certain materials within the Resumed Area of Taipingaban will be sold by public auellos en the 4th December, Regulations; substituted for those published in No. 485-Contains additional Police Pension Government Notification No. 334 of 1805,
No. 486-Contains new regulations under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 10 brevent boats with dangerous cargoes remaining alongulda Jetties or landings.
No. 487-Calls for tenders for the construction of a new steel boiler for the gëverument steam Taunch Victoria; to be recolved by noon of-the 30th fast.
No. 488-Contelow the minutes of a meeting, of the Sanitary Board hald November 7th,
No. 489-Contains notice of Artillery"practica from Stone-catters' Island.
No.
- 490-Contains particulars and cond! Toas of a stle of Crown Land to be held on the oth December, at 4 p.M..
No. 401-Notice to Mariners,
ton of the hall and filtiage of a floating fire No. 491-Calls for tenders for the construc-
engine for the Government; la he recalvad by noon of the goth November.
LEGAL INFORMATION, ere the National Bank of China, Limited, versur Chen King Ting, alias Chan Chiu Yami Wilt of foreign attachment against all the pro- perty of the defendant within the Colony is
the minimam yet recorded. As a natural result | Chinese “ Kalfang" schools. It has often struck not, as now, from the surface. Complaints | the Britisk Minister, Mr. Bowlby had dared to Scatt took the faitiative by establishing returnable on the 6th December,
the
THE HEATH OF THE COLONY,
4
WHY THE CHINESE ARE NOT ANGLICISED. With regard to education, it
appears that the attendance at the several schools which fell off that year, has now recovered its normal proportions Including Queen's College, there are in-Aid Schools (at which latter to have been opened during the year) in addition to numerous ply me as extraordinary-not to say discreditable
that, after 55 year of British rule, the vast majority of Chiare in Hongkong should remain so little [“Anglicised.” I have thus been led to done into the system of education adapted in enquire more thoroughly than I have hitherto the local schools, and I am of opinion that too masch attention has hitherto been paid to purely Chinese subjects. With a view therefore of promoting a more general knowledge of English
Chineis,
the Government proposes amongst in future to subaldise only those schools in which special attention is paid to the teaching hoped that this ill, tend to educate the of the English language and modern subjects rising generation of Chinese to mere eniigh- tened views and ideas, and to dispel the ignor. ance and blind superstition which have proved and still ata proving such a stumbling block to the promotion of their moral and physical well-being.
Toa mortality statistics show that the health of the Colony is good, and the present year promises to be the bewithlest on record notwith standing the somembat alarming prevalence of malarial fever, which is no doubt dan to the exceptional droor t
Prof PREVENTIVE MEASURKÍ,
#
THE SILVER PROBLEM,
The silver question remains as much a problem as ever. 1 had hoped that before this the evils of a depreciated dollar would have been com- peasated for in sotes degree by an influx of English capital into the Colony, but the stability of exchange appears to be beyond all control, and so long as that is the case, English capitalfats falling industries of Lancashire rather then run any risk in todastrial ventures abroad. I notice, however, that in Shanghal capital in being readily subscribed for the establishment of
by last year's experience, and look ing to the prevalence of the plague in the neighbourhood of the Colony during the early part of 1895, I appolated a Committee of Officials to consider what exceptional measures should probably prefer to assist the apparently be taken to protect the Colony against the re-appearance of the discase, or, in the event of its re-appeasing, to limit its ravages as far as possible. Temporary hospital accommodation eton Mills and ather industries, and I could and burial grounds were at their suggestion wish to ace a similar spirit of enterprise abroad provided, and Bringements removal of patients, the isolation of those who in this Colony. With its unceasing water supply had been in Imediate contact with the disease,
the model settlement' has advantages and the dialection and cleansing of
which are respect
denied to of Infected in
but there is no
FERSON why premises. It was further deemed advisable to Hongkong prohibit Chinese immigation from certain local difficsities should not be faced and int cied neighbouring ports for several months ultimately overcome, or why this valuable during the year, but this retriction
Där entregós of mastern commerce should not sito not continued longer than was absolutely became ere long a great industrial centre, necessary. The precautions taken ngulust the recortence of the plague and the timely arrange.
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made for the
•
this
THE ORKAT KASTERN PROBLEM. Past and passing political events in the Far ments made for dealing with it have been East are of special importance to Hongkong. efficacious. I am glad to inform you that only The peace of
which brought the cases have occurred during the year, and that hostilities between Japan and China to a close
in May last, has not been unproductive of dis an epidemic threatened.
, nor is the j
political
borion yet quile as could be wished. It is to be hoped however, that the Great Easters Problems will work out peserfully and
In the beneficially, meantime we may rest assured that the interests of Great Britain and her possessions will be | and judiciously forwarded by Her
been some misunderstanding between the Gor. | #niely By Government an opportunity offers, and
and it
In
my
a8th November last,
of the Governm plain
at no ilme waX RO
THE STATUS OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF
tb the recommendation of a In accordance with the Committee of Equiry Into the Medical Depart ment, a Medical Officer of Health has recently been.
I regret to Kals that there has appointed.
ernment and the Unofficial Members of the | Majesty's Saltery Board in regard to this
In this connection I would incidentally remark appofatment, in
whilst for a lims at least favour of purely that may not be out of place here la
local interests may brief,
the pos
position of
this | nacismally be postponed in matter.
addream to this Council on the | Imperial faterests, I have every reason to belleve expressed my own views, that the questions most particularly affecting which coincided with those of the Retrench- this Colony have by no means been fest sight of, meat Committee, regarding the a hitherto constituted. division
of responsibility which such a con
Constitu- tion involved, and I urged the desirability of placing the sanitary system on a different basis. Some opposition has been offered to views in certain quarters, and it is not impro bable that a compromise will eventually be suggested by the Secretary of State, but a yet no A decision has been arrived. at, in this certain to sign any appointed Medical
I
state of affairs, I was
WIE DAWilling
defalla position to the
Board
dated the
THE CONCLUSION, Gentlemen, I thank you for the patient keuring which you have accended to me. "The period which I bave reviewed has boon one of activity in sanitary reform and improvement
In MEDY other directions. I have looked in vain for the symptoms peculiar to people #writhing ander Injustice and taxed up to the limit of endur- 1ī have diaconured only that happ nonce and T
of progress and prosperity obtains in a wall-ordered community,
wells for use
Then, I say, that unless the Government is supply of water in any season of the year, the prepared to provide us with a fair and ample shutileg up of all the private all the public wells in the Colony is a suicidal policy, and the re-openfag of the wells will be a boon to the community,
. I enclose my card and remain
Yours faithfully,
CHINESE TAXPAYER. Hongkong, November 25th, 1895.
that
bollers.
a hard and fast rule, and is not going to close wells simply because a satisfactory guarantee cannot be given that the water
shalt not
be
used for any other purposes, but if
ses, but if the Board
The sternness of the Times is shown only to the public. Its private bounties are counties. Chlidren are born at Bearwood to serve in. Its
the Tae-ping rebellion fa Chins, Mr. Bowlby, the special correspondent of the Times, was seiced and imprisoned with Sir Harry Parker, tell the truth, and bewas slowly tortured to death The
story of his horrible fite was printed the Timas; but, after the regular edition was printed, the presses were stopped, and a single copy of death, was struck off and malled to the corre another edition, containing a mild account of the pondent's aged mother--so that she might ever know how her son died. That toucking Incident liastrates the feeling of mutual consideration and the
asprti corps that permeates the service. There are men now fathroffice who have tolled thers continuously for over half a century, Most of the employds in the mechanical depart ments are related to each other by blood or
For
ibis, the active management has always been in the hands of young men. Mr. Delane, for instance was“ twenty-four years old when he became Editor, Mr. Walias was only twenty-nine when be succeeded his father; and he is load of saying that the united ages of the Editor, Manager, and two principal assistants then amounted to s hundred and ten years. Mr. Buckle, the present Editor, was only thirty years old in 1884, when he assumed full power), Mr. Bell, the active manager, is a comparatively young man. “It is interesting to see how yeath and age, the
| Times office, Oxford and Cambridge femishing
158 editors, Bestwood the printers mechanics.
THE ARMY OF WORKERS.
Of the actual editorial work on the paper, Mr. Creelman gives the following Information
Contrary to the general idea, there is no formal council of commitee in the Times. It is 55e man power. The editor writes nothing himself, bet he controls all that is written. When doubts be consults his assistants, chief among
he
KDY
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The Gazette also contains the usual fist of unclaimed telegram lying in the Telegraph Cols offices the Post Office list al daste geziante merchant vessels, correspondence, and list of letters, atc,
י.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
MAILS DUR: French (Oz3) 8th fast. Indian (Chelydra) zgih inst. English (Rosatin) goth inst American (Evandale) and prox. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 4th prox. American (Peru) 8th prox.
+
SHIPPING RETURNS.
ARRIVALS
From 8 pm. Saturday to 8 pm. today.
Honglong......■teamer, from Singapore, Continental .........40 141 Taliang......
Afridi
Fecian EROOS3PGDERY Orient 1925+6+0+
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MojL
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Cantosa.
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Singapose.
[We quite agree with our correspondent that too many wells have been closed, and to this fact the Sanitary Board has at last
exercised over that State by the Superintendent," That means that they hive sent a couple ** awoken, as Mr. Cooper's utterances at the
English officers with 130 Goorkhas and Fer- last meeting of the Board clearly show, ht
Jabis, 10 hold it and execute
orders sent meeting he is reported to have said... Inder the Building Ordinance the Director
from the other end of a field telegraph line THE F. & O. S. N. Ca's steamship Resetis, of Public Works can grant permission for a
other hand, M. Hanstaux has formally pro-this port at 4 p.m. yesterday, and may be expected between there and Fort Stedman.: On the with the next English mali, left-Singapore for single well, and be can make such regulations as he thinks desirable for the structure. There
tested, as might be expected; he abje
abjects to here about 4 p.m. an the joth fast. Are cases in this colony where a well can be
any assumption of British authority on ground legitimately used for certain purposes, and I
claimed by France. Our Foreign Office have
noted the affably
THE P. M. 9. S. Co.'s stemmer City of Rio da have had my attention drawn to a manufactur-
that by consent the Buffer State Delimitation Janire, with malls, etc., which left Hongkong
objection, hat veint out ing industry which has been stopped because
16th for a proper supply of water cannot be got for the
Commissioners had left the question of Jurit-Kobe, Inland Sea San Francisco, via Nagasaki, This Board is not going to lay down | university and the farm, are blended to the diction to be decided by their Governments, destination on the 31st last.
| Thi
This M Hinotaux (fortified, doubtless, by the and unreliable assurances of Afs Commissioner,
Pavie, who recently arrived in Pasla) strenuously denies. Meanwhit, he has to explain the recent is advised that the existence of a wall in
arrest, on British soil, of Sve Kleng-tung head- men, British subjects, by some irregular French likely to be source of danger to the health
force, against which the British Government have of the colony the Bourd is perfectly justified in making an order for the closing of that
entered a formal protest. The position, therefore, well. I would therefore like you to say
remains pretty renone protest to each side.
Up to now there are no indications that the that this Board agrees that there are certain cases where it is desirable to sink wells for
long-delayed Buffer State negotiations between baflding and manufactoring purposes, and
the two Governments have really began in CAT- has no objection whilever to the Directer of Foreign Editor. Ons editorial writer never begins nest, owing to everybody concerned having been Rim under the Xuliding coms intillately. Whether Charles German
Lord O dieance to grant grades the colonial editor, the ecclesiastical Dike's dictum will prove true, as regards
news writer, the nicoltural writer, the it is probable that it will torn out pretty accu- Aurora .............................((tigata)
but Sallsbury's Intentions, it is impossible to say, art permission for the construction of auch wells;
the consell of five military experts, the applicant to the fact that the Board has powto maile critic, and so on. The legal depart pourparlers
time to
to cause
deferred, for our force at the wells to water
Toug
weak trained faw
Monbaing, of $30, be analysed, and if it thinks proper order ment has eighteen
though
be, a pretty It to be closed, I ask you to concur in the for the principal civil courie, sight for the assises, sure, sooner or later, to resent the trespasses of opinion so that I may be able to dispose of und ergentesen for the police courts. London the Toaqulasse Izregulars, who from time to in desance of the Jalat district harry the two or three applications which I have in mapped out into oluetean districts, and there is band," Mr. Edo agreed and the following in each district a reporter responsible for all Commissioners' pacifc arrangement, und as even résolution WLE thereupon passed (That 1a9s not covered by departments. Then there our one native company is amply strong enough this Board, is of opinion that the Director is a labour reporter, a cricket reporter, a golf and to not only sweep the French from the entire of Public Works should in his discretion give fastball reporter, a yachting reporter, and two
is only about soo miles by 130-but special writer for drive them out of Luang Prabang as well, the Amara There is permission to sink wells for the
fres, one for railways, one for astronomical earlier there is a definite settlement of the obtaining water for manufacturing and bad of sacing reporters
Theriding. So the, staff ramifies out into almost dimeulty the less likelihood there will be the provisions co- falne subject to
In Ordinance 15 of 1895All foul every department of life is an orderly and well- wolls should, of course, be closed, but there can balanced systems. The chief of the staff of par- be little, if any, justification for closing weils liamentary reporters, Mr. Broadrib, bas eighteen containing wholesome water until Buch time
bim, two of whom are (probably somewhere about Doomsday) as the
There is also Government is able to furnish the City with a proper supply of fresh water from one year's and to the other.—ED., HK.T]
whom is Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, the
at the same time calling the attention of the willer, the geographical writer, the dra- | rate. Something will cerialaly happen if the
at any
the
of
A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE ADMIRAL TING,
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reporters
time
τοπίου
Bro
it
of Sir Charles's prognostications proving well founded, Delay means England's disadvantago say how,-Pall Mall Garitis.
* TÖR LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Met die of
the six hundred and
stenographerí....
Summary representative in
seventy electoral districts of Great Britain.
The paper maintains a state of five in Paris, (we la Barilo, two in Vianas, ons in Rome, ene ona la Oderis, one in Madrid, In
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Tuesday, November 26th.
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THE TEMPTER AND THE INCORRUPTIBLE. faithfully in connection with the surrender Web-kal-wel,
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The most catchy sxecdota in ready and to the late General
army on shore at the triad in vain to bribe the Times by giving
The Indo-Chias Co's new river rakmar the Medical Committee and which ancnded the looks forward to some additional measure of me place, and who killed himself at Linkustan the early and exclusive Information of
Kutwo, Capt. Young, left for Shanghai yesterday. after the fall of the forts on the mainland, his resignation which sealed his career. Mr. farther recommandaifons of the Committes in
Besides these letters, the Albons contains Cremen states
that Lord Randolph, on
THE WAXCK AT TÉE AUCKLANDS ISLANDS. regard to the reconstitution of the medical staff.
MR. CHATER'S REFLY.
preface by Vice-Admiral Viscount Ito, a short Hon. C. P, Charter 1-Blr, Fleet mare' 1'am un which the fature position of the Medical
bat extremely well written sketak, and a very
wing Lord Bellebary, drove to the office in Victoria Street, and sent his card to Mr.
SYDNEY, October 28th Officer of Health must, to great extent, depend, only echoing the sentiments of my colleagues, good portrait of the great Chinese Admiral,
Speculation is rife in Sydney shipping circles Buckle. When he was admitted to the Editor's
as to the name of the unfortunate vessel recently I should not have thought it necessary to make my that we have listened with the Viscount to pays the following tribute to the presence, be announced that he had decided to this explanation were it not for cartala insinua greatest interest to the very lacld and exhaustive memory of his honoured adversary it is resign his office as a protest against the Premier.
wrecked at the Auckland Islands, and # tions which have been made as to the motiver statement Jest delivered by your Excellency, carcely necessary for me to bear witness to the The Timer was to have the privilege of
probable that a request will be made to the New Zealand Government to have a further search of the Government. There are those who have This is hardly the occasion at which to raise fact pretended to see in the sction of the Govampolats of debate, but I can assure your Excellency face that intense solicitude for the lives and anouncing the news in the morning, Mr
safety of
made among the lalands with a view to clearing of the men under hls charge was the
the sole
Buckle urged the Chancellor not to take such s
POLICE COURT. ment an attempt to deal death-blow to the time the questions brought incarard by you motive that mompted the late Admiral Ting to rash step, but his argemsate had no effect. **
up the mystery. The report of Captain Fairchild, of the New Zealand Government steamer Sanitary Board. I disclaim any such 150k) | skitration: Ono thing, however, I may mention | chivalry displayed by kim moves our hearts and Land Randolph.", answered Mr. Bucklo
have our most und Werious
* surrender. The noble spirit of humantly and
The usual batch of hawkers were fined $1 each Hinson, who discovered the wreck, Ol, course yon will be friendly to me 7” said and, even
I such been my object, I
for breaches of the Market regulations, Three received yesterday. The report says Ther at least hava adopted measures better calculated now, and that is, how highly satisfactory out commands our most profound desiration, Wast *Certainly
coolles were fined $2 each for committing has been a largs ship wrecked within the last to effect measures which would have financial position appears to be prof, I trust, a contrast to the cowardly and execrable conduct મ Bat there is wet another parer in England reliances. Two sallors contributed $3 each to three months on the north-west coast of the no doubt whatever us to my intentions, that the prosperity of the Colony is founded en of his friend, Twoy ! A perusal of the letters that would not show some gratitude for suckake Colony's fands, while one was let of Auckland lands. The rocks are strewn with As a matter of fact, however, the responsibility a solid basis.
proserved in the present volume muables us to
to piece of!
for only $1, for being drusk. Two coolles Australian wool and broken Umber. It appears of deciding this queriion: does not eas
His Excaliasof then, in accordance with the gaiker somné iden of the silention to details and "That may be true," said the alior,bat were sent up for a month each for petty to be nearly a new ship The deck plankings standing Ruige, named the various cheniicann.ound judgment that characterfund the mass, and you cannot bribe the Timur. This sewe te larceny, and youth was ordered to receive see siin, thick. The topsal yard ise 65th low did not desert him even in the hour of his traglo enormously important. It will make a great ten strokes with a cane for the same offence. painted yellow, the paint quite franka All hand The following bila ware rand a first time ime.. md. In him, indend, we find some qualition smuation. But if you choose to have it go, you Bevan patly offences against the Odium Ordinement have been loncang Mengi tu má
3938 extuled | An Cryškiamos to soply a svo skin to shown at the grass soldiers of former gut give it in mumu pchat neuronder, and 2004 'unze were punished with fases. A bosimERIS
Kost) sing oë lë will appont le duc est veneto-morrow?! | Buod ĝa fer throwing rubbish into the kuchem
left
so bad
with me. Having expressed my views, my duty
onde, and I can only hope thát, whatever done closion may be arrived it, it will “amestnaly secure the sanitary well-being of tals coMMINENT A which, after all, li sar pemmen vijest
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