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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897.
« Intinration.
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LIMITED.
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DEATH.
At Canton, on the 30th September, 1897, WILLIAM DE ST. CROIX, of Mesra, Butterfield & Swire, aged 49.
The Hongkong Telegraph
The present government is wholy wanting In debating power. It hates criticism. It dreads discussion, and since the method of half-unofficial and half-official written communications to members out of Coun
and
TWENTY lascar firemen of the British steamer | THE Kobs Girls' High Schaol, which was
warant were charged with enfasing duty by thing not long ago that stils were sent te Captain Trotter at the Harbour office this broken up now. A clupata Kross over the it all the way from Shanghai and Rongkong, la morning before Comdr. R. M.,Ramiey. They accounts Mr. and Mrs. Rowa made accussila
against their partners, the Mileses Souter, Rowan then refused to abide by the arbliratoz's. dispute was referred to arbitration Ta
award, and leghi proceedings" wese taken "to the order of the Court, and application was enforce it. The Rowan next refused to obey mede for the imprisonment of Mr. Rowe fee contempt. Accordingly be was committed, but after remaining la pilson a few hours he was released inconditionally.
cil has been exposed and put a stop to, Itald that they were ill-treated by the engineers,
the but there was no proof, and they were each negotiates quietly with individual mem bers and so arranges matters before hand tentenced to seven days' barid labour." that things pass in Council sud silentio. If Tax Queen is aan of the contributors to the discussion cannot be avoided, then the forthcoming antomu exhibition in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Her Majesty has sent orders so as to check all discussion.
Lady Butler's painting of "The Roll Call" The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy In 1874, and was purchased by Mr. C. J. Galloway. from whom it was acquired for the Royal
WINES & SPIRITS. HOMOKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897 matter. Is dropped or referred home for
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Hongkong, 30th September, 1807. [149" THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM_NAVIGA- | below:-
T ON COME'NY, LIMITED,
NOTIEF TO CONSIGNEES,
·FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND
SINGAPORE.
"HE Company's Steamship
THE C
"KINTUCK,"
baving arrived from the shove Ports, Consignees of Carge are hereby informed that their Goods are belog landed at their risk into the Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claim will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Clates must be sent in to the Office,of the Undersigned before Noon on the 7th October, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chaled and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on THURSDAY, the 7th October, st 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance, has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 7th October will be subject to rent.
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Hongkong, 30th September, 1897.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAL. ' HE Company's Steamship
THE
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Captain Dawson, will be despatched as above
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For Freight or Passage, apply to
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At BOMDAY, the Steamers are discharging in VICTORIA DOCK.
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LIMITED..
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND POOCHOW.
*HE Company's Steamship
THE
"HAITAN,"
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For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 301b Sep ember, 1807.
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NOTES AND commentTS.
We note, with pleasure, that the Daily Frer has propounded for solution & further sign in a body. Two of them are capa set of questions bearing upon local topics.ble of such a sacrifice. Three of them We note, however, with regret, that there are wholly incapable of any act or idea, is not anything like the same amount of good, bad or indifferent, that could dis- "grip" in these Interrogatories that there please the powers that be. They are was in the first set, when our contempo- wholly selfish and devold of public spirit. rary's back was up in regard to the police A member of a Hongkong firm, whe hap
pened to be also
more
man.
in
the
Director of the Hong- kong Bank, was once questioned as to his attitude in certain matters, and was Incautious enough to speak the truth:- "My rule is, myself first; my firm next; the H.K.B. last" Similarly some of the alleged representatives of the people have rule (though they don't confess it so the devil take the taxpayers." boldly)" Myself first, my firm next, and
If the Colony had been in a positiön, to exercise any control over its own affairs would not have been in the present mess.
But its Government is entrusted to a
scandal. They do not go to the marrow of things nor open the way for a series of | effective and telling replies. Neverthe less our oracle will do his level best to answer the string of queries:-
SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY had better remain where he is. He was not conspicuous in his life time and there is no special necessity for placing his statue in any
conspicuous position Colony than it at present occuples. If there is room on the new Praya for statu- ary, let us have a status of Sir RICHARD GROVE'S MACDONNELL, the only really great Governor the Colony has ever had. If Rot Fafneant and a lot of inexperienced any man deserved to be held in honorable boys, hence the crisis, The Government memory by the Colonists, that was the has undoubtedly called the Secretary of Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY was a court-State's attention to the representations of the unofficial members the gold loans, eous and honorable gentlemen and a good covernor, but he would never have but only to make light of them and repre- had a statue or any other memorial in the sent them, as his Colonial Secretary did Colony if he had not been followed by the the gentlemen themselves, as unworthy of late Sir Jons POPE HENNESSY, whose troub-notice, ignorant and Inexperienced. led reign left many very bitter memories behlad it. It was not until after Sir Jos The construction of the Jubilee Road i had left us and until there was some in- adjourned size die. What is done, is not to Judicious proposal to commemorate him be done. The government has not yet by a statue that anything was heard of a paid over ils contribution to the Jubilee statue of Sir ARTHUR, and the proposal to Fund, and probably won't do it at all, No do him honor was not so much a genuine one knows where the money is, except movement in appreciation of his services perhaps Mr. CHATER and Mr. JACKSON, and as a Governor and his merits as a man, although there has been plenty of time for as a condemnation of his predecessor. Itit, no accounts have been rendered to the is true, there are not very many men in public yet.... the Colony under ten years' residence who have ever seen Sir ARTHUR's statue but neither are there very many left who un. derstand and appreciate the motives that dictated its erection. Let Sir ARTHUR remain where he is. If he is not as much 18.60 19.20 1.60 0.80 seen as he ought to be the fault is not in the position in which his effigy is to be found, but in the people who, having very beautiful and very conveniently situated public gardens, leave them, year In, year out, to amaks and coolles. When our re- sent Governor leaves us, we shall pro- bably and a very decided movement Among the community in favor of putting up a statue of Sir G.. W. DES Vaux.
9.00
Per BOL,
St. Barted 6.96 $ 7.56 $0.60 0.35 C ST. JULIEN, Red
9.60 0.75 0.40 Capsule DLA ROSE, Red
Capsule 12.96 1391 1.10 0.60 SAI TE FOY ...... 7.10 7.92 0.60 0.35 CUSSAC
9.60 10.44 0.80 0.45 CHATEAU D'AN-
Haur
GLADE 13 20 14.40 1.10 0.60 CHATEAU
BRION RIVET... CHATEAU Μου
TỪN D'ARMAIL- KACQ
It is very doubtful, we understand, whether any money will be forthcoming for the Volunteer encampment this year at all. Any how the Charity Concert and the Camp should not be allowed to clash; and Sir JOHN CARRINGTON well deserves a ten days holiday from the work of the Courts. He does his work steadily, faith- fully and well, and if the West Indies had sent us one or two more like him, we would have been much better off any time the last six years.
galleries.
The stondy decrease lo crime has certainly begg remarkable. An English paper says The figures for 1895appear in shaw somewhat decis tively that the fluctuation was only a minor one, On Friday, September 17th, four sallers from and that the general tendency in crime to decrease
still persists. The total number of the British ship Glanericht went nshore atzial on ladictment has fallen from 12,033 la 1894 persons Joe Yokohama and made the usual tour of the to, 11,316 in 1891, the decrease being almost grogihops. At ene house a dispute arose as to entirely in offences against property, Offences payment for some bottles which the saflors against property with violence have diminished broke; they offered a dollar, but were pressed for 358, forgery and offences against the currency by 314, against property without violence by 65 cents more. Four policemen were brought,and | by 15. Indíciable offences tried summarily have look the sullore in custody; bet mob law asserted diminished from 44,143, to 39,301, a decreKNO itself, as is now usualḥin Japan, and the crowd 4946. But the polat of most interest is that the Grimes which were specially asted as having set to work lynching the salon. The policemen incressed to the years 1891-3-4 bave decreased seem to have judlelously retired, and two of the markedly in 1871. The figstes for burglary sailors escaped. The other two, wora bidly | kaya fallen from 1813-ta röjő, fraud fram 1138 besten, and one of them died the same day, his | 19 2016, robbery with violence from 333 10 294. bead and face' belug bideously battered. And Duly forgery shown a slight increase, from 230 to all for 65 cents! Japan is ambilous to figure
as a land of cheap living and cheap dying.
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245.
[Fiji mails lately received, in Sydney give accounts of some heavy weather experienced by
IN circalar dated Yokohama, July goth, the the birque Kinclume when on her voyage from Yokohama Specie Bank has notified New Caledonia to the Asores. A repart ssye i customers that on and after the tit October, All went well until August 4, when a heavy gula all debts accrued or to accrue, due by the set in, accompanied by a high sex. At 930 bank in Japan, though purporting to have the ship, and the cargo shifted bodily to the port so, on the date mentioned a banry uns struck been contracted in silver you, will be payable inside, throwing the vessel an ser beam ends, with an equal number of yen of gold currency, and a great weight of water on deck. Efforts were that sliver yen cannot be specifically demanded mids Immediately to get the ship before the though it can be received in payment ; and also wind. After great difficulty this was done, and all hands than came afi and requested the capt. the Bank is authorized to convert the Nippon aid to make for the first port for the safety of Ginka mater lolo gólă cola for any amount on their lives. Captain Jones therefore decided to demand on and after the above mentioned date, make towards Suva. The hands were engaged for several days. In fact nearly until their arrival
The weather, how ever, continued whole time. On August 8, a 2 am the wind was blowing with hurricane force, and the Tessel had a trying time in making the Fiil port. A survey was held on the versel at Suvs, and it was decided to discharge 200 tons of ore, so that the necessary repairs might be effected.
Tar annual general meeting of the Hongkong
Cricket Club was held at the pavlion st 5
at
Save used very bad, with a heavy res the
THE POLICE SCANDAL
a'clock this alternoon. Mr. A. G. Wise pra sided and there were also present a large num- ber of the members of the Club. A ballat for the slection of the committee for the ensuing your resulted in the reelection of the retiring commitee, Messa. A. G. Wise, A. Anderron, Col. Gordon, W. Y. R., F. Maitland, T. Sercombe Smild, Chantrey Inchbald, J. M. Atkinson, A.
Filtzen Indian constables have been to-day Donald and E. A Rum, Alter this an exizaoedi- nary general meeting was held to considera pro- | diamirsed by His Excellancy the Governor for posal of Mr. F. Maltizad that rule rz shout! in recalving bribes in connection with the Wa Lane fatere read as follows:-"The Annual Sab, and Cheung Hlog Street gambling houses. The were found among cription for Members shall be $ra payable In | numbers of there men advance on the 1st October in each year. Any Member absent from the Colony for 12 consecu- tire months shall be eximpled from one year's Subscriplina" The Presiden! «econded and it As to the Hongkong end Shanghai Bank
was carried unanimously. At the conclusion of and the Chartered Bank and their attitude the meeting the President announced that the to silver, both banks are undoubtedly ground would be ready for use si z «p.m. on members of the London Clearing House | Saturday, Lord Salisbury, recently in addressing and were, we may be certain, duly re- an Irish deputation who complained of the
presented at the meeting held to consider Ar the Magistracy this morning Lee Kan, clerk 1.75 sub-commissioners and the court valuers the action of the Bank of England, but of the Dairy Farm, was brought up on remand
appointed under the Irish Land Acts as
on the charge of embruling his amployers untrustworthy, is reported to have said: what part they took at that meeting no
one knows, nor can know just yet. The money. Mr. Jaman Walker, manager of the "You may distrust [them] quite legiti-telegram does not say that the Clearing Company, was recalled and stated that from the mately. It does not mean to say that they House was unanimous. All the world, beginning of Angast he had suspicions that 3.00 are not honest men. I have no doubt that however, knows that the Managing Di-milk was belag lost. He calculated that about they are very honest men, but the finding rector of the Chartered Bank is a con- 43 lbs. of separated milk were missing on 27th difficult task. I belleve the Irish Govern-
... 11.00 11.10 8.80.90 Our Clarets, including the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the ace of the grape, and are not artiEcially made from taislus and currants, so, is generally the care with cheap, Wides. BRANDY.
*** HENNESSY'S
* 100
fi
Par Casa,
1 das. Par Bat. OLD PALE, Rod Capsula$18.00 $1.jo B SUPERIORVERY OLD COONAc, Red Cap-
C VERY OLD LIQUEUR
COGNAC......
34.00 1.00
V.O. D HANNY'S FINEST VERY OLD LIQUEUR COGNAC, 1872 Vin- taze, Red Capsule. 36.00
V.V.O. E FINEST VERY OLD
L'QUEUR COGNAC,
1861 Vintage 48.00 400 of an Impartial man is a very much more vinced bimetallist and strongly favors the August, and, from that day till, the atst instant, All our Brandy is guaranteed to be purement has taken the utmost precautions to rehabilitation of silver. The London ma-
Cognac, ibe difference in price being merely question of age, and vintage. WHISKY..
SCOTCH-
-Fre
1 dos. Bot
A THORNE'R BLIND, Walie Cap-
B WATIONS Glenorchy Mel- LOW BLEND, Blus Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark 10,80 C WATSON'S
A:ELOUR-GLEN-
LIVAT, Red Capsule, with
Name and Trade Mark...... 12.00 D WATSON'S H.KD BLIND OF
Scotch
100
20
nager of the Hongkong Bank has no opi- nions on the subject and we certainly do not think that any of the Directors of
Is
the papers seized at No. 3, East Street ́and. the constables have been identified by an employd of the Cheung Alig Street gambling house as having received bribal from that house. Several of the men admitted their gallt.
SANITARY BOARD.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held this afternoon. Dr. Alkisson (Colonial Sur goon) presided, and there were also present Dr. F. W. Clarke (Medical Officer of Health), lice), Mr. W. Chatham (Director of Public Hon. F. H. Mar (Captain Superlatendent of Po- Works), Mr. N. J. Ede, and Mr. H. McCallum (Secretary.)
MING TEA.
read and confirmed,
The minutes of the previous meeting were
- QUARANTINE AT CALCUTTA, An official Dollscation was receivad stating
FANITARY DWELLINGS,
A report from the Medical Officer of Health/ was tabled relating to the loannitary conditios of dwellings on certain inland fots knows is Jardine's Gardens.
money by the fall in silver, nor in spite of to the office, adding an allowance for leakage, the fall, and that is all the shareholders which be compared with the total weight of milk care to know. One thing only is certain, rent to the office from the farm in Pokfulam, The darkest hour
Just
Defoedant cross-examined this witness without
Mr. N. J. Ede minuted the report to the effect advantage. Defendant stated that to baliles of that the owners should he made to pisce the sepatu'ed milk were given to the Italian Con- | koster in a sanitary and habitable condition at vent daily, free of charge, but witness denied ones or remove them,
The Medical Officer of Health sisted that the"
before the dawn. Silver must be at its very low- est when our contemporary takes to kicking it. So that there is a very strong
in its prospects we mean, not in the price, although that will follow, from this time forward, the action of the Bank of England being the first wave of the advancing
tide.
menths ago. The cass for the prosecution belog closed, defendant said he wished to call
some witnesses and the case was remandad i 9am, on Saturday. Bail as before ($500) was allowed.
3804, as the F. W. D. did not atoms inclined te Interlers.
*-
27021 th, walued at $104, could not be a
have impartia! men but impartial men
accounted for. He showed his Worship how he that the quarantine regalations promulgated on are not to be found on every wayalde.
discovered the deficiency, by etvlog datalled January 4th, 1897, reguding vessels from There is a general impression that if you the Bank here in Hongkong are making figures of mlik distributed to customers and sold | Kurschl had been cancelled. take anybody with education and set him down as an arbitrator, he will decide Impartially between two litigants. He will certainly not do so if the matter is one of 0,ga | great public controversy on which men have taken angry sides. Impartiality is an actual achievement. We are very proud of the Impartiality of our Judges; and we have a right to be so; but they probability of an upward move in silver, I this and said that this siłowance cɛnted few Board should re-enforce lis order of October," WHISKIES, Vinter Capanie.. 14.40 1.20 are Impartial because they are trained, because they act in the presence of a Bar which is constantly watching them and subjecting their action to careful scrutiny, and because they do everything in the full blaze of publicity." Some- body ought to Introduce Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, for this dictum is worthy of application not only in the judicature but throughout all the ramifications of officialdom, and (from our point of view) particularly In the Hongkong Civil Ser vice, mutalimutandis-You may quite Botlegitimately call the military extortion a swindle and the method of passing votes and levying taxes a piracy. It does not mean that the official automatons them- selves are a gang of thieves. I have no doubt that they are very honest men,' etc. But, unfortunately, the Hongkong authorities do not come within the scope THE mortality returns for the colony show a ¦ plainant de anded that the purse be returnïd | the others were employed at the Bager Refidery, of his concluding sentence, for they do
E WATSON'S VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY, Gold Cxp- sale...........
****** 15.00 1.25 DANIEL CRAWFORD'S FINIST
VERY OLD COTCH WHISKY 14.40 Our lowest pitced Whisky is of excellent quail. ty and of greater age than most brands in the market. We recommend our customer not to be deterred by the lowness of price from trying them all. For a soda whisky, Thorne's Biend and Watson's Glenorchy are equal to say, Abelour-Glenlivet is a very old Peat Whisky (smoky) that could not be replaced in stock at the price. D and E are too well known to need
catament.
IRISH-
THE CAM dow,
A JOHN JAMESON'S OLD, Grean
Capsule..................$100 $100 15.00 1.25
D JOHN JAMESON'ʼn FINK OLD,
Green Capanis
C JOHN JAMLION'S VERY FIND
OLD, Green Capsule
18.00 $5.50 All there are very fine and old. C has been stacked in Hongkong in wond for over so yours, tbere beleg litle sale for Irish Whisky in the Colony.
Pe Ch
1 dos. Par Bot
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
ANNEXATION OF CUMBERLAND SOUND BY CANADA,
LONDON, September 28:8. A Canadian Government xxpedition has formally annexed Cumberland Sound, in Bale's Land, to forestall an eventual-sebore by the United States.
THE NORTH WEST FRONTȚER;
The Mohmand Campaign Ja over, and the tribes are thoroughly comed. Generr! Ellor is withdrawing towards Peshawar,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
орална
not "do everything in the full blaze of death rate of 23's per 1000 for the work ended publicly." Some of their most nefarious 18th September and for the following week 176 deeds are not made public until too late per 1000. AMERICAN- GENUINE BOURBON WHISKY,
to alter them; and then, when the full FINE OLD. Red Capable, with
blaze of publicity does materialise these our Name and Trade, Mark...$15.00 3.25 very honest men simply say "Let it blaze GIN,
blaze away and be hanged."
Tu Case.
to PBL)
A FINE OLD TOM, Whlis
Capsule.................................$ 7.20 $0,60- B FINE UNWINTINID, White
Capric... 7.30 0.60
RUM.
FINEST OLD JAMAICA, Violet,
THE Bombay plague reports ambmitted at to- day's meeting of the Sanitary Board, stated that kom August 19th to 30th there had been 68 cases of the disease thers and 34 deaths.
The Acting Director of Public Works, In his minuto, said a number of the hair" would bare to be removed when the cotion: sillls' wars began very shortly. The matter might stand over and then be dealt with as suggested by the Medical Officer of Health. The inspectors should observe grester vigilance in, the” matter, and see that these places displaced by the milia were not reconstructed.
THE three mon charged with highway robbery and stabbing of a man in Kowloon on the aged lost, appeared at the Magistracy to-day. The wounded man, Hak Hing, said he was a farmer
Dr. Clark, în bit seport, fald the places were? in the village of Lak Yuen, at the back of Row Insanitary malthed dwelling. In October, foon. At 7 .m. on the 23rd init, he was on 1891, 110 agents of the owner, Menirs, Jardion, his way to Hongkong to pay his account with the Matheson & Co., were served with a notice Heng Loong shop, and when he was at the back regarding similar dwellings en Inland fel 1818, of Ha Tau Wal, British Kowloon, he met the end after a great deal of delay, they were ter moved in May, 180s. In 1896 many of them three accused. The first defendant asked blus were re-erected and were now as bad ne ever, I he had any aplam with him and be He recommended that another notice be servad answered that he had none. On the plea on the owner or agents, requiring them to put the buildings InTanday.condition or remove of being an excise officer he searched com
them entirely. The pisces were occupied by plainant, br* as it proved frulitate, defendant || some çço persons and covered am area of abort took away
urse which contained $42. Com. 18 sorast half of the people werk gazdaders and
but no bood was taken of him. He made a snatch at it and first delandent threatened to stab him if he did not relinquish his hold. - This be refused and he was stabbed thren: ilmas In the abdomen. After this he became unconscious and when he came to he found himself in Chinese territory. Shown a small dagger with a blade thres Inches in length witness recognised The recent Government circular, remind-Ta numerous patrons of Mr. Dorables's Kow it as belg the one with which he was stabbed. Ing Civil Servants that if they have any that the to biuris talked about, The second and third defendants, according to dealings with newspapers they shall surely that the "double-ender," so much talked about, witness' statement, held him while the first die, was, in our opinion, aimed at the is at last ready for service, and will commence made the starch, Sergs, Coutin gave evidence correspondents, regular and irregular, of regular running on Monday next, We hope to of finding the complainant in Bilish Kowloon, our morning contemporary. It has been give a full description of the new steamboat to- | and also the dagger with which the complatant, made the vehicle lately of a great many | morrow, " explanations and defensive allegations on the part of the Government. Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL used to use the press largely in that way; perhaps his suocessor occasionally does the same.
Jardina's Kerosene Godowat, and the Navil Dockyard.
It was decide to adopt Mr. Ede's suggestion,
"INIANITARY PROPERTIES COMMITENTOM, The Insanitary Properifes Commission sub- mitted amendments proposed by them to be made in Bylaw 97, dealing with private stroniegā o. They proposed to embattime the word a Mback yard or back lace for street ! muda thak - the bylaw, should not affect any additons as rew buildings conformleg to the provisions of the Ordinance of 187, and he bylaw, made saa Ordinance o under
The Medical Officer of Health, in a minute to the report, wrote that the amendments, il adopted by the board, would deprive li el some of its sizeköy, was stabbed. The three defendants made state meagre powers under the old wrt bylaw, and could hardly ballive that the commission. Tuz practice of night soli coolies dumping sefasements that they knew daibing of the case and realized the nafate of their proposition:: Ha into the harbour has, of late, been very com that they were in Hongkong at the time of the referred to the powers of Ordinance 24:4- mon. A case worth noting was heard at the robbery, Iospector Kemp said the circumstances 1887 69 10 mexions, dwellings, and said that: Magistracy this morning in which one of this of the arrest of the prisoners was very peculiar, the bylaw, us tunde by the board, find once; class was seen to empty his buckets into the He received a copy of so"knonymous letter sent received the approval of the commission. It
don't with the sanitary e condition of existing- The Legislative Council will meet when barbour near the Victoria Recreation Club to the Captain Superintendent of Police, This dwaillogs abutting on private streets, lanes, kes a sufficient number of the unofficials have much frequeried Exiling resort. This time a letter stated that the defendants were the guilty. To February of this year he showed members been persuaded and talked over on the flow of $15 was inflicted. It szems hard llaan pariles. It was not signed by any individual but f of the commistion a nutaber of such houses med quiet to acquiesce in the proposals to be on the coolie, when the milliary authorities do was over the nom de plume of the tababliants the majority were described as belag unfit fo kuman habitation and a diegraça, to the laid before the Council as to the estimate much the same thing at the same place. It of Yau-ma-11," He said the first defendant was sanitary leglaiation of the cokaydi. In Maye and as to the other matters, doubts about would be a good thing if the Sanitary Inspectors an ex-police constable, --The ossa was remanded | 1896, two mam perue of the commissi 16 I which caused the lait adjournment fine dife' sonid prosecute Údžeri Zinek.
till next Thursday,
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