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To-day's Advertisements.

INTERNATIONAL TUG OF WAR

AT

·HARMSTON'S

"

CIRCUS,

$500-CASH PRIZES-$500.

Open to the Army and Navy of all Nationalis ties at present in Hongkong, and Members of the Police Force. Teams to be limited tie ten men each. The first prize will be $150 (cash), the second $ton, and $150 is to be divided among the last four teams in the final (winners excepted). Each team to have one representa?” tive coach only, and no team to be allowed to change men after having pulled off once.

ENTRANCE FREE.

Teams will be Drawn on MONDAY EVEN ING, February 11th, at the Circus, and the order drawn will be strictly adhered to.

First Competition, TUESDAY EVENING, February tzik

ALL ENTRIES to be made in writing, to Close MONDAY; at 12 Noon, addressed

to

R. LOVE, Hongkong Hotel. Hongkong, 8th February, 1901

[160c

HARMSTON'S

GRAND CIRCUS

AND

ROYAL MENAGERIE.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT | |-

COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT

TO Mr. ROBERT LOVE,

The Popular Manager.

HE WILL)

HE WILL SING and CLOWN. HE WILL)

GRAND AMATEUR HEAVY WEIGHT LIFTING COMPETITION.

A handsome.

Trophy will be presented to the Winner.

A well-known CHINESE GENTLEMAN will enter the cage of the ROYAL BENGAL TIGER "DUKE," accompanied by his trainer, Mr. Gus Burns, on this occasion.

A MONSTER PROGRAMME.

(MATINEE"

NEXT MATINEE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9th. (MATINEE) Commencing at 3.30 T.M. Doors Open ono hour earlier.

Children Half-price to all Parts of the Circus. Box Office Plan:-ROBINSON PIANO Co., Queen's Road.-

POPULAR PRICES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1901.

To-day's

Advertisements.

HONGKONG - RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

LONG RANGE CUP & SPOONS.

THERE will be a COMPETITION for the above TO-MORROW, the 9th instant, At 2.45 TIM

RAÑOKS--700 and Bod yards, Teh shots and Uno sighter. Entrance Fee for Cúp $1. Entries on the

Range.

Members are reminded that Subscribtious

for this year are now due,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, Sth February, 1991.

NAVY LEAGUE.

LECTURE.

[

CAPTAIN & ANDERSON has kindly

consented to deliver a LECTURE on

IMPERIAL BRITISH INTERESTS IN

THE FAR EAST AND THE NEEDS OF THE NAVY," in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, at the CITY HALL, on TUESDAY, the 12th February, 1901, at 5.15 P.M.

Mr. J. J. FRANGIS, K.C. will take the Chair. Ladies and Members of the general Public are invited.

HENRY, E. POLLOCK,

Hon. Secretary, Navy League, Hongkong Branch. Hongkong, 7th February, 1901. 1740 THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED.

[OTICE is hereby given that the TENTH

MEETING of THR NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED, will be held at the BANK PREMISES, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong,

on SATURDAY, the 9th March, at Noon, for the purposes following, namely:--

To receive and consider Statement of Accounts and Balance Sheet to 31st Dec., 1900, the Reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon, to elect Auchitors, and f transact the other Ordinary Business of the Company.

The TRANSFER BOOKS and REGIS. TER of MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 23rd day of February, to 9th March, 1931, both Days inclusive.

By Order,

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GED, W, F. PLAYFAIR, Chief Manager. Hongkong, 8th February, 1901.

Intimations.

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[179c

EYE SIGHT.

Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16, Queen's Road Central (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL). Business hours:-9 A.M. 10,5 P.M.

GREAT proportion of cataracts and

SOLDIERS and SAILORS of ALL NA. A diseases affecting those advancing in life

TIONALITIES admitted to CHAIRS and STALLS HALF-PRICE,

ROBERT LOVE.......... Manager. Col. CHAS. B. HICKS... Representative, Hongkong, 8th February, 1901.

N°

JURY LIST, 1901.

[640

OTICE is hereby given that Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 6 of The Jury Consolidation Ordinance, No. 18 of 1887, 1 have This Day caused to be posted, at the Chief Entrance to the Court House, a List of all Persons ascertained. by me to be liable to serve as Jurors. The Names of Special Jurors

are shewn therein in Italics.

The said List will remain so posted until the 5th instant, in order that any person may apply by Notice in writing to me requiring that his Name or the Name of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the said List upon cause to be duly 251igned in such Notice.

J. W. NORTON-KYSHE, Registrar.

Supreme Court,

Hongkong, 1st February, 1901.

[1786

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL THE Company's Steamship

"FORMOSA,"

Captain Hodgins, will be despatched for the above Forts, TO-MORROW, the 9th instant,

At 2 2.11.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.

[1770

Hongkong, 8th February, 1901.

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

`HE Company's Steamship

THE

"ESMERALDA,"

Captain G. T. Blaxland, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 12th instant, at 5 V.M. This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers and is fitted with the Electric Light

A Doctor is carried, For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, 8th February, 1901 [180c

EASTERN AND) AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE (Calling at TIMOR, PORT DARWIN & QUEENS LAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, &c.}

'HE Steamship

THE

"EASTERN,"

Captain Ellis, will be despatched as above

on WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, at Daylight..

BIRTH.

On the 2nd February, at 115, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of C. GILBERT DAVIES, of a son.

DEATH.

At "Presmor, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, suddenly, of pneumonia, on 2nd February Colonel PATRICK DUNCAN, În his 75th year.

"LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

He read the objects and reasons attached to. the bill and moved that it be referred to the Standing Law Committee.

The Colonial Secretary seconded and it was canied.

dinances as to Rating which it repeals."

The objects and reasons are *** "This Ordinance consolidates the four Or

INSTRUCTIONS have been issued says the Bom Bay Gasatts for the selection and despatch to Central Africa of 160 Sikhs to relieve the fores kong Legislative Council was held in the Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of the Hong. now serving there. The men selected will be seconded for three years and will leave India there being present His Excellency Sir Council Chamber at the Government Offices, in time to reach the Protectorate by July next, Henry Blake, G.C.M.C., H.E. Major-General the relieved force arriving in India in October.

W. Gascoigne (Commanding the Troops), the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Colonial Secre

"The definition of "tenement" is modified IT is stated on what appears to be good tary), the Hon. A. M. Thomson (Colonial as regards Fiers in order to comply with the

sident of the Nanyang College, has been ap. (Director of Public Works), the Hon. F. H.

(Attorney General), the Hon. R. D., Ormsby | 1899,

"Section 29 embodies the alterations affected pointed Foreign Adviser to the Viceroy Chang May, C.B.G. (Captain Superintendent of by resolutions of the Legislative Council passed Chib-tung, The M. C. D. News trusts he will Police), the lion. Basil Taylor (Acting Har since Ordinanca No. 5 of 1892 came into oper-

cceed in keeping the Wuchang Viceroy hour Master), the Hon. C. P. Chater, C.M.G., Straight, for the latter appears to be a bit the Hon. Dr. Ka Kai, the Hon. J. Thutburn, "wobbly" at present.

the Hon.-J. J. Keswick, the Hon. R. M. Gray, the Hon. Wei A Yuk, and Mr. R. F. Johnston (Acting Clerk of Councils.)

The Hongkang Celegraph authority that the Rev. John C. Zerguson, Pre-Treasurer), the Hon." W. lacigh Goodman pro-inions of section sy of the Pins Ordinance,

HONGKONG, Friday, Fioruary 5, 1931,

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

DEPARTURE OF THE CERMAN EMPEROR FROM ENGLAND.

LONDON, February 6th.

The Emperar met with a splendid racep tion, driving with the King to Charing Crow station, from immense crowds.

DECORATION FOR LORD ROBERTS.

The Emperor William sailed this morning nicorted by British cruisers to Flushing, The Emperor has conferred the order of the Black Eagle on Lord Roberts.

IRUSSIA AND JAPAN. The Tsar received the Japanese minister presenting his credentials.

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY, The King has appointed Prince Henry of Prussia a la suite of the Navy,

BRITISH SOUTH

AFRICA.

THERE has just now been added to the Loins- ter collection of postage stamps in the National Museum, Dublin, says the Pall Mall Gauatie, one of the rarest known stamps. It is the fourpence blue of the first issue of Western Australia, with the awan in the centre inverted. There are very few specimens known, and this stamp was the gem of the Dyke of Leinster's

collection.

-Tur Kade Chronicle says:-By a melancholy coincidence a picture post-card was received in Koben few days ago from Batavia addressed 10 Mr. A. C. Sim by Mr. E. Whittall. Two weaks before the post-card was dispatched Mr. Sim had succumbed to typhoid fever, and be fore the card arrived Mr. Whittall had died in

Batavia of the same disease. It will be re- membered that Mr. Sim and Mr. Whittall were Captain and Honorary Secretary respectively of the K. R. & A.C. in its most palmy days,

ALL of us here know how thoroughly Admiral. Seymour was justified in his request for a bridgade of British troops at Shanghai last summer, says the M.-C. Daily News. Well informed Chinese believe that it is only the continued presence of the foreign force here The Fyrmus (7 Pyramus) has been ordered that keeps Liu-Kun-yi at Nanking. The Em to the Cape from Malta.

press Dowager would have superseded him by ont of her Mancha favourites before this, but that she fears that his removal would be the signal for the dispatch of the foreign troops now here to Hankow, en route for Hsian.

THE London Daily News was to change hands

DISEASE AMONGST THE TROOPS.

The mortality from disease is again, vory heavy armong the troops in South Africa..

Considerable precautions are being taken on the coast of Namaqualand to prevent the landing of filibusters.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report data:-- On the 8th at 11.55 a.m. the Barometer has fallen rapidly on the China coast, probably owing to the existence of a depression in fresh monsoon in the N. part of the China Sea. China. Moderate to light monsoon in S. Chine,

Forecast:-Moderate N.E. and E. winds; fair.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Clerk of Councils read the minutes of the last meeting.

FINANCE.

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial minutes 6 and 7 and they were referred to the Finance Committen.

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table it was adopted on the motion of the Colonial report of the Finance Committee (No. 1) and

Secretary seconded by, the Colonial Trea-

surer.

ation.

"In section 35 the words "within the first month of such quarter" and "subject to the Provisions of section 36" have been inserted to prevent any ambiguity.

"The only substantial amendment is con- tained in subsection (.) of section 39, which is new. It confers upon the Governor in Council power, if he thinks fit so to do, to fix à minimum- rateable value for teaements, below which they shall not be rateable at all. This is desirable, for in some villages there are premises the quarterly rates in respect of which amount only of collection and enforcement of payment, are to a few cents, while the trouble and expense entirely out of proportion to the benefit derived by the Treasury. Indeed, where launch hire for the collector has to be taken into considera- The Attorney General moved the Secondtion, the revenue gains practically nothing. reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to

The renaixing amendments are only formal. repeal and re-enact with amendments The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1596. tribution of 20% in full return for the annual He said the Ordinance substituted the con

cost of the military garrison, including expen- ditura for military lands and buildings, elc. The Ilon. Treasurer had gone into the matter and he submitted that it was a fit and proper bill to be passed by the Council.

DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION.

The Colonial Treasurer secondled and it was carried.!

•

The Council, then went into Committee to consider the bill clause by clause, after which the bill was read a third time and passed.

THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE. ing of the Bill antitled An Ordinance to further The Attomey General moved the third read- amend the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891.

Hon. J. Thurburn seconded and it was read a .third time and passed.

PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS. Ng

reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance The Attorney General moved the second to consolidate and amend the laws relating to 'Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.

He said he would like to acknowledge the

assistance he had received from Dr. Clark, the medical officer of Health, in this matter. If he ad the memorandum attached to the bill to, the hon. members, they would understand his reasons for bringing it forward.

AMENDMENT TO CRIMINAL LAW. The Attorney General moved the Second amend the Criminal Law as regards certain reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to

indecent outrages and assaults.

He said that it had been found necessary to amend the bill as several cases had come up lately. It brought the law to the same as that in force in England.

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The Colonial Secretary seconded and it was carried,

The Council then went into Committee to consider the bill clause by clause after which it was read a third time and pasted.

LAW RELATING TO TRUSTEES. The Attorney General moved the Second consolidate and amend the laws relating to reading of the Bill entitiad An Ordinance to.

Trustees. He said: The object of this Bill is to place on the Statute Book of the Colony the Trustee Act, 1893.. By this Act a number of enactments relating

trustees are repeated

fession and other persons interested in trusts and re-enacted with amendments. By its enactment here the members of the legal pro-

will have to the full the guidance and assistance which can be derived from the English cases will be the further advantage resulting from its and text books on the subject of trusis. There

enactment that several of the English Trustee Acts which form part of the law of the Colony but are not to be found on the local Statute Book, having been enacted by the unfortunate method of reference, will be swept away. See Ordinance No. 7 of 1856. These Acts so enacted are proposed, however, to be repealed cedure. (Statutes Repeal) Ordinance, 1901, which will come into force contemporaneously with this Ordinance.

about the middle of last month. It is under- stood, says the Daily Express, that Mr. Oppen heim and Lord Brassey have already left the proprietary, and that their shares will become the property of a group of the "Lkile England" party as represented by Mr. Henry Labouchere. Mr. E. T. Cook, under whose singularly able of its old Imperial tone, will be replaced by a control the Daily News has recovered so much schedule A, so far as they are still operative not by this "Ordinance but by the Civil Pro gentleman of pronounced pro-Baer sympathies, who will seek to make it "represent in future ths historic traditions of the Liberal party."

The Lady's Picterial produces a good story about the Duke of York. It is stated that upon one occasion his Royal Highness was indulging in a strictly incognito ride on an omnibus when the driver, having considerable difficulty with one of his horses, apostrophised it sharply with Come up, yer Royal 'Ighness! Come up,

The memorandum is as follows:- "The main object of this Ordinance is to consolidate the provisions of the various enact- ments relating to Public Health ́set forth in

and in force.

"In substituting a single Ordinance for the fifteen it repeals, it has been found necessary to make some slight alterations in the wording of some of the enactments consolidated, so as to undue repetition. Nearly the whole of these preserve uniformity of language, and prevent amendments are purely form 1, and the sub-by the Colonial Secretary, stance of the law remains, almost entirely, un- changed.

read a second time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded and it was

The bill was referred to the Law Committee, on the motion of the Attorney General seconded

SUPREME COURT.

occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of 'Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.

Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi- cate a deficiency in the form of the eye require THE Italian composer Verdi died on the 29th will yer?" "Why do you call him Royal sub-section 7 of the Public Health Act, 1875, Bill is to place on the local Statute Book those ing Classes only to correct and cure,

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES ult. His operas included the well-known Highness?" asked the Duke. "Well, sir," only after testing the sight.

ADVICE FREE. £1453b

NOTICE. THE OFFICES of the "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH have This Day been removed to No. 50, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Second Floor, (the premises formerly occupied by Messrs. POWELL, & Co.) to which address all communications should be addressed.

ET. F. SKERTCHLY, Manager.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1899.

Tur German--Mail of the 9th January was delivered in London on the 6th instant.

Trovatore and La Traviata.

A BAREFACED case of cheek by a Chinaman in demanding money, under the excuse that he

was a policeman, is reported in the Magistracy

column.

News has been received that Mr. Fraser, H.M. Consul at Chungking, has given permis sion for lady missionaries to return to that port, but not to proceed into the interior.

THE fire which took place at Kowloon City yesterday morning at half-past five, resulted in the destruction of three houses, the total damage amounting to about $1,000. LUMSDEN'S horse have been disbaniled. The A.-S. WATSON & CO., troops were paid off on the 12th 81, and most of them left for up-country to resume their appointments which have been generously kept open for them. Colonel Lumsden and some of the officers remain for the present in. Cak

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D..1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

PORTS.

(For Invalids and General Use.)

B.-VINTAGE, superior quality,

Red Capsule........ C-FINE OLD VINTAGE, Sup-

Per now.

Cant.

$14.40

erior quality: Black Seal Capsule............ 18.20 VERY FINE CLD VINTAGE extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled) 20.40)

cutta.

THE enquiry into the fire which took place at the houses and shops Nos. 233, 235 and 237 Queen's Road West about a month ago, was continued before Mr. Hazeland at the Magis tracy to-day. Messrs. Bowley (Crown Solictor) Gedge, and Reece were in attendance, repre- senting the different parties interested in the hearing.

A BRITISH Army officer, who was recently collecting cavalry mounts in Australia, received the following, note from a horse breeder: "I can supply you with horses for cavalry, artillery and infantry. But I think my specialty is in the hors de combat as the French soldiers call bim, which means officers' war horse or cbarger."

THE H. K. C. Club will play the return match against the Navy starting at 10.30 a.m. to-mor- Port after removal should be rested row. The following will play for the Club: for a month before use. Wine re-7. Sercombe Smith, F. Maitland, A. G. Ward, quired for drinking at once should be w.,, Capt. Ainsie, Major Dyson, A.P.D., 1. A. Woodgate, Lt. Hill, R.W.F., Lt. Higgon, ordered to be decanted at the Dis- Major Dorchill, R.A., Capt. Langhome, Rág pensary before being sent out.

Lt. Lumb.

These Wines are too favourably known to need comment.

Sunplo bottles and smaller quanti-

This well-known Steamer is specially fitted ties will be supplied at proportionate

for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham-wholesale rates.

sions, Ice, &e, throughout the voyage.

ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light.

We only guarantee our Wines and

are carried.

.

A Stewardess and a duly-qualified Surgeon Spirits to be genuine when bought VD-Retur Tickets issued by this Com direct from us in the Colony or from pany to and from AUSTRALIA, are available for our authorized Agents at the Coast. return by the Steamers of the China Naviga-- TION COMPANY and vice versa, ett

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE Band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers will play at the Hongkong Hotel 10-morrow (Satur day) evening, from 8 to 9.30 p.m.-

FRGGRAMME, March..........“ Heils of New York" Valse. His Excellency! Descriptivesareuith Selection The Messenger Hoy," Piceala solo. Sprites Dance Alection..."Scotch Muhdy!

Extra.

Lancers.

...Ills Excellancy"

Kerker.

Spioseler. Cargil Waile ...Cirvalilai.

.CAT,

following is the programme of music to be played by the Band of the Royal Welch Fusi- liers at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, to-night, commencing at 8 p.m. ---

March Belle of Chicago {vertire mad.” Crown Dismond'

·Segction

The Chieftain". T'earl of the Loat' Ucscriptive

.."Hurenish. Selection. The Messenger. Boy"

Ports.

Sou Auber. Sulisan

„Spindl

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co,

Agents.

A. 8. WATSON & 00, LIMITED, Hongkong, 8th February, 1901 [1760 HONGKONG. DISPENSARY.

Piccolo Boir...

Extra Da Sprits Danc Cantigue de Noel"

Deprat.

said the driver, "that 'orse is so 'orty and Izzy and goed-for-nothing I calls im is Royal ghness; see!" The Duke concludes the

story with, "I thanked him, and asked no more questions."

Act, 1890.

(9); have been inserted, dealing with smuke In section 23, however, two new subsections nuisances. These rub-sections follow the law in force in England 25 set forth in section 91, and section 24 of the Public Health (London) The principal Public Health, Ordinance. No. 24 of 37, was divided somewhat arbitrarily into six Parts, but those Parts had no headnotes Consolidating Ordinance; the various sections referring to their respective contents. In the

ment and re-numbering of the sections, but it are grouped together under appropriate head ings. This, naturally, necessitates a new arrange greatly facilitates reference to any special subject matter.

will be seen that the term "Medical Ordinance for the term "Sanitary Superintend ent" as used in Ordinances No. 24 of 1887 and No. 11 of 1895. This is because the Medical Officer of Health has, since his appointment in 1895, been appointed to perform all the duties formerly appertaining to the office of Sanitary Superintendent, which office is now merged in

The Attorney General moved ilu. Second amend and declare in certain respects the Law reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to to be administered in the Supreme Court. He said-It will be seen that the object of this enactments of the fadicature Act, 1873, which

were intended to effect a fusion of the two systems of law formerly administered by the English Superior Courts, and also certain enactments of the same Act for the amendment the passing of a new Code of Civil Procedure and declaration of the law. It is thought that

posed that the Bill when passed shall come affords a favourable opportunity for enacting these valuable provisions of law. It is pro into operation concurrently with a new Code

of Civil Procedure.

read a second time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded and it was

referred to the Law Committee.

The Attorney General moved that it be

The Colonial Secretary seconded and it was carried.

THE particular species of mimic warfare known as a "Boer hunt may be excellent sport for boys, but it should be indulged in without the excessive realism which lurks in loaded rifles. Board under: Part II of Ordinance No. 24 of "Certain powers were conferred upon the A party of youths at Clydach, near Swansea, 1887. when any part of the Colony appeared to celebrated Christmas by catching a horse and, be threatened with or affected by any formidable setting one of their number to gallop him across epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, and a field, while the rest potted at the improvised the Governor had, with the advice of the De Wet with a rifle. As the unexpected some Gazelle the Proclamation mentioned in the Or Executive Council, issued and published in the

,CODE OF PROCEDURE, times happens in this world, De Wet was-hit, dinance. Since that time, however, all requiing of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to The Attorney General moved the Second read- and when taken to Swansen hospital was found site powers have been conferred by the Legis catablish a Code of Procedure for the Regu to have a bullet in his brain, from the effects of lature without the previous issue of such Prolation of the Process Practice, and Mode of which he is hot likely to recover. It seems, of carnation, and it has, therefore, been deemed Pleading in the Civil Jurisdiction of the of course, inconceivable that the lads should not Health Ordinance, 1887, in this Consolidation.

unnecessary to retain Part II of the Public Supreme Court of the Colony. He said: The hare known that the cartridge was not blank-Officer of Health" has been substituted in this evident that the time has come for a revision existing Code of Civil Procedure has been in force for 27 years and it has of late years been buf possibly they thought that it is always long

of the system of civil procedure which was qdds on a mounted Boer's ability to get clear away from an unmounted Briton.-P. M. G.

established by it. Accordingly, in March, 1899. the Chief Justice- submitted to the members of the legal profession, 'at a meeling called for ONE hardly knows what beer, baer, glorious

that purpose, a proposal that, if they thought beer is likely to do next. Not content with

auch revision desirable, he was willing to poisoning people with arsenic, it has now taken

undertake it wisile on leave of absence in Eng- that of the Medical Officer of Health. to exploding. A sample of "four ale," at Ealing,

land in that year. At the meeting there was "The continual effort which has been made a general agreement that such revision was was taken by an inspector, and put in a clean, of late years to improve the sanitation of the desirable and that the offer to undertake it sound pint bottle. It had not been in the bottle Colony has given rise to several amendments should be accepted. The proposal met with the must be delighted now that the beer was not a minute when it exploded. The inspector of the Public Health Ordinance, 1887, as well. sanction of the Governor and the Secretary as to other Ordinances passed with the view of State, and a ́ Draft. Code of Civil Procedure inside him. Of course, bottled beer sometimes light and ventilation into all Chinese houses, arrived in the Colony in April last. These of securing the introduction of, at least, some was prepared and printed, and copies of it bursts its bottles. But in this instance the beer and of diminishing the evil of overcrowding in was the mild "four ale" and was drawn straight the Colony.

copies were distributed among the members of the legal profession, and a meeting of members. from the barrel. Beer, apparently, is in a very over, been made from to time, under the gestion of the Chief Justice,..

A large number of By-laws have, more. was called in July last, at which, on the sug hysterical condition at present Its reputation repealed Ordinances.

n Committee was is at stake. The sooner we get back to pure in force have been collected together and and settling the Draft. The Committee con- All those at present appointed for the purpose of examining, revising, beer the better, for there is nothing better than inserted in schedule B. It has been found desisted of the Chief Justice, the Acting Puisne a glass of the pure homebrewed, thinks the

sirable to leave some few sections of Ordinances, Judge, Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. and Mr. EH. Occasional Notes man in the P. Af. G-there because such enactments as relate to the Deacon and Mr. J. F. Reece, solicitors. At the No. 34 of 1899 and No: 15 of 1894 unrepealed, Sharp, barristers at law, and"Mr. Victor H. never was any arsenic nor explosive matter in it, height of buildings, for instance, or to the erec same time all the members of the profession, WITH regard to the recent shooting affair on directly within the scope of the Ordinances re-gestions in weiting for the amendment of the tion, in certain cases, of verandahs, come more were invited to send in to the Committee sug- the Japanese steamer at Singapore, the Faft lating to building than of these dealing with draft The work of revisigo had heen very Mall Gazelle says:-An ideal Jury was that public health generally. When the Building Or thoroughly and carefully done by the Com

dinancesureconsolidated, those few sections can mittee. Corrected proofs of the first revision composed of five Eurasians and two Chinamen be included in such consolidation and repealed. have been sent to all the members of the pro who acquitted a Siamese named Nai Manih *The rules regulating the election of mem-fession as the work progressed, with a view to charged with shooting his wife. That be shot bers of the Sanitary Board, which are still in her though, happily, not fatally was not force, will be found in schedule C.

The evidence was indisputable. But ve Eurasians and two Chinamon are not. to be tied down by Western nations of the law of evidence and a foolish devotion, to tretit. After hearing how Nai Manih wont aboard of a vessel, where his wife had taken a passage for this country, and shot her with a revolver,

doubted.

the five Eurasians took counsel with the two Chinauen and pronounced him not guilty Two Ghinamon on a jury must be of the great. est help in simple cases of fact. Any one can get mixed up where the evidence is contradic tory and insufficient Rut when the facts are brutally plain and obvious it requires the genius of the Yellow man to overturn them With the assistance of five Eusasians they can give a verdict implying that black is white,:

It is trusted that this Consolidating Ordin ance will reader the law relating to public health more easily accessible to those interested in the subject and will facilitate the labours of those to whom its enforcement is entrusted." motion was carried.

The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the

The Attorney General then moved that the bill be referred to the Standing. Law Com- mittee.

carried,

The Colonial Secretary seconded and it was

It was agreed that the Standing Law Com miiltee should meet after the Council meeting for a few minutes, and then again on Monday

THE RATING LAW

The Altomey Generál-moved: the, second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Rating,

obtaining fresh suggestions for the improvs- ment of the draft. Quito recently a second revision has been made, and it is believed, that the Bill now embodies a complete and work- able body of law, adapted to the requirements. of modern practice, for the regulation of the civil procedure of the Supreme Court. It is desired that, if possible, the Code should be brought into operation on the 1st July, 1901" ;

To the short statement of objects and reasons. I should like to add a few remarks. I bave carefully studied this Code, and it appears to ma- to be an admirable piece of work, for which we ought to feel much indebted to the Chief Justice. It preparation-must have involved a vast amount of labour, and it is evident that the greatest care has been taken both by Sir J Carrington and the Committee to render it as - complete and perfect as possible,. The Ordin--- | ance which has regulated. Civil Procedures in this Colony for the last twenty-seven years was wall suited to the requirements of Hongkong in 1873, when it was passed. But duria” those