less than twenty inches from me. I did not charge you merely because I saw you, in Custody of an Indian warder. Each prisoner is allowed to have his food cach day. The rice is served out by weight. You have had four ounces of pork for the last six years every week.
Hero Prisoner explained that he had been porkless for the last two years,
Mr. Craig turned up an entry which showed that prisoner had been degraded and so re- ceived no pork but was put back in his class next day and after a period of a month's pro- bation once more received his pork. This was in 1849.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1901.
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Lau Wai Chu, declared stated, I pm a pri- | ing on hoard his vessel'on the 17th instant 348. sonet in Victoria Grol, on a sentence of 13 passengers in excess of the number allowed by years hard labour for arson since five years the vessel's licence. Defendent stated it was back. This was the Wing Lok Street fire. impossible to keep the passengers from com- His Lordship explained to the witness thating on board at Cantou." The Chief Engineer he had been called by the First Prisoner and corroborated. A fine of a hundred and was expected to tell anything he knew of ill- I seventy-five dollars or two months' hard treatment or cutting food.
labour was imposed and paid. Le Rhone is a Witness-About food, it was not exactly French river boat running between here and cutting down. I was connected with the cook Canton. ing department. If you put more water with the rice it increases the "quantity. The first prisoner got his rice in varying quantities I knew it because he weighed it." I saw him do so. For the first six months he would get 14 oz. By and Prisoner-I never gave orders for office in the morning and 16 oz. in the afternoon. you not to be allowed to change. your clothing. A long time ago there was a complaint made I remember your being put on crank work and to the Visiting Justices about shortness of food. low diet for a month for having tobacco, and I know of no complaint made by the three on the 4th July of last year for talking, in- prisoners. I was in the kitchen. Iknow noth: solence and disobedience to a month's cranking of Mr. Craig being harsh on any prisoners, and a week's solitary confinement.
I am all the time in the cookhouse. I know a prisoner may complain of his food; they do so sometimes and the complaints are enquired into.
Here prisoner, asked if the regulations were so strict, how could he get tobacco. Probably, he said sarcastically, Mr. Craig gave it to him. Witness continuing I did not order warder No. 55 to Bog you a few days after the assault. By the third Prisoner:-It is not a fact that you only had fourteen ounces of rice during your first six months. You made no complaint about it. I remember your being reported on 32nd February, 1900, for not picking nine ounces of oakim and being put on rice and water after being passed by the doctor,
By the First Prisoner:-I remember when you came to me about your rice I told you it was 32 oz. A prisoner is entitled to that. You said you were entitled to 26 oz. but I told you that you were only entitled to 22. Formerly each prisoner got four ounces of pork once
a
week; now, the regulation is changed. I can't say if you always got your correct sup ply of rice. I didn't distribute it. I did not tell you that Mr. Craig and the Chief Wärder
ARMS,
Ng Sham Wing and Ng Kwan Wing were charged on the information of P. Const. Geo, Watt, with having in their possession, without a permit, 26 rifles, 47 revolvers, 234 Bayonets, 2950 rounds of ammunition and 17 cases of ammunition. Defendants pleaded guilty and Mr. Kemp imposed a fine of one dollar or four days' band labour. The arms and ammunition were confiscated.
JUNK MASTERS FINED.
Wong Ho and Wong Shing, junkmasters, Kemp with anchoring their craft within fifty were charged on the information of Inspector yards of the telegraph cables. Fines of $25 or six weeks were imposed. Wang Shing pre-
ferred gaol.
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The Colony has endeavoured to keep pace offered to the Chinese House Surgeons at the tree dislocate a stone wall? And in th per with the recent researches into the actiology of Native Hospitals (Tong Wa, Alice Memorial fectly natural suspicion may we not discover Malaria, and in" October last 1 submitted the and Nethersole) for all successful vaccinations," | sama explanation, if not palliation, of the tor- following minute to the Sanitary Board and it the vaccine to be supplied by the Government, tuous and criminal ways by which the Chinese was subsequently published for general in- with a view to increasing the number of vac have sought to thwart the purposes of those formation,
cinated persons in the Colony, and thereby whom they regard as oppressors, bant on their "The modern theory in regard to the trans-reducing the mortality from this disease. This destruction ? mission of Malaria is that the disease is con- scheme was specially recommended by the yeyed from man to man by certain mosquitoes Sanitary Board, by resolution, in August, 1898, belonging to the genus Anopheles of the and has been urged by me in subsequent An- Dipterous (or two-winged) Family Culicide.nual Reports, but has, I regret to say, not yet
It has long been known that true Malaria is been given affect to." associated with the presence of certain minute organisms in the blood of the patient and it can readily be understood that when a patient suffering from Malaria is bitten by a mosquito, some of these organisms are taken (with_the blood) into the "body of the mosquito. The malarial organiams there undergo certain de- velopmental changes and should the same mosquito subsequently bite a healthy person, he bécoines inoculated with the disease, and may develop an attack of Malaria.
The Anopheles differs from the ordinary mosquito (genus Cutlex) in that its approach is not heralded by that noisy 'ping' that char- initating to the skin; that it rarely bites ex- acterizes the latter; that is bite is not nearly so
cept between ́sunsel and sunrise, and that while the 'Culex' will breed in any old flower- tin containing water, the Anopheles' pot is fortunately more choice in jts selection of a beceding ground, and generally requires a There were a number of opium cases heart small sheltered pool, containing perhaps organic matter in suspension or a small quantity of
stagnant nor yet pure spring water. The Anopheles' can travel a distance of some 405ob yards and can remain alive for a period of several months-that is to say, throughour the whole of the dry season,
OPIUM.
This would be a vain dissertation 'unless it opened the door to remedial measures. And this reflection brings me unfortunately to the weakest point in this address. The calamities which have been entailed on the Chinese people The number of deaths from this disease in
any, for the greater part, as much beyond the 1899 was 35, while in 1898 there were to deaths reach of remedy as the real of the propaganda and in 1897, 209 deaths, and it is probable there is beyond the reach of argument. The re- fore that the temporary reduction in the num-ligious aspect of the mprement is not a lexi- ber of deaths from this disease has fed to the marked apathy in regard vaccination.
THE MISSIONARY QUESTION..
(Continued from yesterday.) The following is the continuation of Mr. Michie's lecture, at the City Hall, on Tuesday:
imate subject for Govenment. interference, however much it may invite general criticism. The mundane aims of the Romanist branch, and the territorial ambitions of the Powers with which the Church is bound up, are of too- of standing to be affected by transitory occur. "rences of by public opinion. Of the whole composite structure of the propaganda, there fore, all that remains which is amenable to treatment is that small fraction of it which touches the civil relation between the Pro- lestant missionaries and their respective govent- ments, which for this purpose are represented by Great Britain and the United States. In perfect good faith, though utterly blind to what they were doing, these two Powers opened the door to their countrymen to overrun China, but without taking, adequate steps to control Chinese an unworkable agreement, and the ill- tion of inland residence had been urged by adjusted machine has broken down, The ques
British merchants on their Government, which
enquired into the charge and found it proved. cut down the diet. remember on one occas- at the Magistracy this morning and fines rangwater weed, and 'the water of which is neither g all within the memory of living men, the their operations. They, thus imposed on the
You were reported for very loud shouting under punishment and were awarded seven days solitary. All complaints are thoroughly in- vestigated.
refuse to hear me.
Prisoner this is so how is it that when make a complaint you say “get out" and Witness: bat is not so, any lord. Prisoner :--Dn you remember when I made complaint last winter of a warder throwing water into my cell you punished me?
Witness: There is no report to that effect. On the 16th February 1900 he was reported for loud shouting and was put on, three days solitary,
His Lordship here explained that it was im possible to investigate these charges of solitary confinement for no offence etc.. Mr Craig said he carefully enquired into all cases and it was impossible to say now if it was so or not.
The interpreter here reported that the pri soner said to the witness: "you had better tell the truth, or when you go up there-again I will beat you."
To His Lordship :- was desaulted by the secord prisoner on the 28th July 1897. He struck me with a bamboo. He was ordered twenty strokes and three days rice and water with loss of marks by the Captain Superin- tendent and a visiting justice. I have had no other personal collision with any of the three prisoners and know of no personal animosity against me. First Prisoner bears a fair gaol character, Second Prisoner bad and. Third Prisoner bad also.
Hoosein sworn stated: 1am interpreter al the agistracy. I remember the prisoners being charged at the Magistracy. I interpreted the two charges to them and they all three admitted both (Original charges put in.)
The Prisoners had no questions. Bishen Singh, declared, stated I am an assistant, warder at Victoria Gaol. I was in charge of a gang of prisoners including defendants on 27th March in the lower yard. They were picking nakumi At ten minutes to ten the Chief Warder and Assist. Superintendent were going the rounds. They had passed the prisoners once and on the second time of passing one of the prisoners went up to the Asst. Superintendent in front and one at the back. I saw the three prisoners strike him I ran after the third and seized him and the other two were striking the Asst. Superintendent then. He was close to Mr. Craig when seized him and was running to wards him. I had to run to catch him. He had a knife in his right hand; it was one of those produced. I did not actually see the third prisoner strike Mr. Craig but I did see the first and second do so.
By the First Prisoner-I did not strike you with a stick after arresting you.
By the Second Prisoner:-You had'ʼn wen- pon in your right hand. I can't say which of the three produced. I saw you run up and strike the Asst Superintendent.
By the Third Prisoner:-You had a weapon like a knife in your right hand. You first Ind a piece of rope which you threw down and took a knife as you ran towards Mr. Craig.
You had not the piece of mope in your hand when I seized you. I cannot say which knife you had as I setzed you at theback and the goard in front took it away. You cut my hand.] as I seized you.
ion there was some twenty pounds short" ining from $2 to $300 were imposed. the rice.
By the Second Prisoner supplied you with the regulation amount of rice.
By is Lordship:-The regulation quantity of rice has not been reduced since I have been in goat. The allowance of rice depends upon the class you are in. If the prisoners do not get sufficient ice they complain to the Visiting Justices. I remember your complaining of being cut four ounces of rice. I don't know to whom the complaint was made.
By the Third Prisoner-You did suggest that your allowance should be 26 or of cooked rice and that you should be allowed, to cook it yourself... did hear you complain of being cut of four ounces of pork,
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Cheung Lee, declared stated :--I am a pri- soner in Victoria Goal and have been there over ten yours. I was convicted of murder and may sentence as commuted.
The reason for his being called was then ex- plained to the witness.
The only thing be knew about cutting down of diet was once when it was cut down by regulation, about two years ago, when all the prisoners had their rice cut. The rice is distributed by the prisoners attached to the kitchen. They give some more and some less. If I didn't receive the right quantity I would complain to the Visiting Justices. I don't know anything about Mr. Craig wrong- fully cunting down first prisoner's rice.
By Second Prisoner-When I went to gaol and got into the first class I had four ounces of pork a week. Since the new regulations
1 have had six nunces
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DRUNK.
William Bishop a seaman on the Empress of India, was fined $2 or seven days for being drunk and incapable in the public street. went to goal.
HONGKONG DURING 1900.
He
We take the following extracts from the Report of the Medical Officer of Health. for the year 1900-
AREA.
At the latter end of the year the Sanitary and Building Ordinances of the Colony were extended by Ordinance No. 3o to that portion of territory between the shore and the first range of the Kowloon Hills, extending from Lyeemoon Pass on the east to Laichikok on the west (having a sea frontage of some ten miles), thus making the total area of the Kow- loon Health Districts about 18 square miles. and bringing within the jurisdiction of the Board that collection of dirty and insanitary dwellings known as Kowloon City.
The island of Hongkong has an area of rather more than 29 square miles and the City of, Victoria is situated irpon its northern shore, extending along the sea-front for a distance of four-and-a-half miles and up the hill side to the city limit of 600 feet above high-water mark.
The domestic buildings of the City of Victoria number 8,600 (exclusive of Barracks and Police Stations) of which 738 are European dwellings. while there are also some 130 European dwell-
By third Prisoner:A prisoner, after three. years, is allowed six ounces of pork a week,
The third prisoner thought pork a very iming in the Hill District. portant question. If he didn't get enough he couldn't do his work and got punished.
Fen Cheong, declared I am a prisoner in Victoria Gaol under a sentence of five years for armed robbery. I have been there 22 inonths.
It was explained to him that the first prisoner had called him to prove an assault committed by Mr, Craig upon him.
He knew nothing of it. LiTak, declared am a prisoner in Vic- toria Gaol under a commuted sentence for murder. I have been in goal 149 months.
His Lordship explained that the second prisoner wanted him as a witness to prove
treatment on the part of Mr. Craig. Vitness Mr. Craig did not give him en- ough food; less than the regulation allowance. It was the fault of the prisoners in the cook house. They had only been there a short time and so did not know the correct quantity to give. It was nothing to do with Mr. Craig If a prisoner did not get his proper food he could complain to the Justices. A good any of them have made such complaints 1 am an old man, my Lord, have been there a number of years. I can't eat much, could do with less, and have no complaint to make.
By the Second Witness:-Four or five years ago remember your complaining of Mr. Craig curing diet. Prisoners serving long sentences are allowed to have a certain amount of pork cach week. This applies to first-class prisoners. I don't know anything about Mr. Craig cutting your diet.
The third prisoner had a lot of questions 10 put regalding pork and rice, but nothing of value to the case was elicited.
Asiatics, and especially children, suffer more or less constantly from Malaria, as they adopt no means of protection from the bites of mos- quitoes, and Anopheles) are almost always to be found in the neighbourhood of native dwell- ings, while some 1 to 5 per cent of them will be found to contain the inalarial organism. It follows therefore -
(1) That European houses should be distant some 400-500 yards at least from native dwellings,
efore attempting to deduce any practical hiuts for the betterniedt of the cuisting situa- tion, a glance at the manner of introduction of missions into China'may not be amiss. For it has not been so clean and above-board as be- fitted the pure character of Christianity. Its entry has in fact bech insidious, and attended with as much craft as the most fine-drawn pieces of worldly diplomacy usually are. Be various stages of the process are easily verified by any one who feels interested in the subject. The modern missionary question is not yel sixty years old. It was opened subsequent to steadfastly refused to make such a demand on and consequent upon the treaty of Nanking of China on the ground, as stated by Sir R. Alcock, 1842 Cemeteries, funeral rites, churches for that inland residence was incompatible with ex- Christian worship were permitted under flie
territorial privileges, and by Sir Thomas Wade, Treaty of Nanking. This applies of comise to the five treaty parts to which all foreign inter- that he could not recommend a British Consul to be sent to a place where a gunboat could course was then strictly confined. The French sought, as an extension of these privileges, that not reach. It would throw an unfair burden on the Chinese to compel them indiscrimina, the Chinese natives professing Christianity. should likewise be proiected. Their requests foly to entertain strangers who were ex were considered and approval by the Imperial empt from their jurisdiction, and it would be Commissioner, Kiying, who memorialised the unfair to British subjects to allow them to re- throne on the subject in 1844 and 1845. In reply.controlled nor protected. Hence inland re- side in places where they could neither be the fullest toleration was granted by Imperial Rescript to "the religion of the Lord of Heaven which instruc's and guides men in well-doing:" More than that, the Emperor decreed that the ancient houses which had been built in the (3.) That all brushwood and rank veget-reign of Kanghsi" be, with specified exceptions, ation, including grass, should be kept restored to the professors of this religion in down by frequent cutting,
their respective places." The French demands were thus conceded with every appearance of liberality and good faith. The Chinese states men of that time seemed unsuspicious of the bitter fruit which was wrapped up in these in nocent-look ng demands, The germ of the that simple concession introduced into the. whole French policy in the Far East was by
Having amitted to make any provision what- ever for a clear understanding between the Chinese body politic-the aggressive alliance with the Church, the deep purposes of which missionaries and the mandarins, and having had been copiously expounded in State papers discovered in the sequel the tragic con
sequences which the neglect entailed, it would from the days of Louis XIV, descending in an unbroken series, with constantly accumulating appear that it became the duty of the Govern- sequent steps, in the introduction of missionaries the omission as far as might be practicable. force, to own day. This first step, as all sub-ments concerned, however late, to make good was a conscious or unconscious imposition on That duty remains to this day unfulfiled. the Chinese, inasmuch as the ulterior purpose was concealed under a pretext.
(2) That all pools in which Anopheles' can breed should be filled up or drained, for a like distance, around such European
houses.
(4) That inosquito-nets should be used at night."
the year in the direction of the treatment of A certain amount of work was done during
some of the Anopheles pools with paraffin, and apparently without any great success, and of the filling up of others with concrete, but
ain afraid that nothing but a thorough sheme of training of the Nullahs on the outskirts of the City will have any appreciable effect in reducing the number of mosquitoes capable of carrying infection.
In a recent Report to the Royal Society, Drs. Stephens and Christophers, who are working at this subject in Lagos, say that "to stamp out native malaria is at present chimerical, and every effort should rather he turned to the that the same principle holds good in this protection of Europeans," and I certainly think Colony. The Colony has recently acquired a very extensive addition to its territory and every effort should be made to secure and this new forntory, before the land becomes,100 maintain an extensive European reservation in,
valuable for the Government to be able to
This shows a decrease of 14 Non-Chinese dwellings as compared with the previous year and an increase of 69; Chinese dwellings. The plans of 1,319new buildings, and of alterations to 3,186 existing buildings have passed through my hands during the year, with a view to seeing that they complied strictly with the Public Health Health Ordinances of the Colony. During the previous year plans of 634 new buildings, and of alterations to 772 existing buildings were received, so thatthe records of the past year resume from the native holders. This reserva- show great activity in building operations tion should be surrounded by a zone of neutral throughout the Colony, which has been occa-which neither European nor native dwellings ground, at least a quarter of a mile wide, on sioned in part by the alterations required by should be allowed, but which should be utilized Ordinance 34 of 1899.
by the Government for the cultivation of trees of laid out in part as a recreation ground. There is no objection to a small number of tion area, but in no case should any native families be allowed, as it is the native children, and especially those under the age of ten years, who are the principal source of infection in
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sidence was refused to merchants, though, as we have seen, it was tacitly by an oblique pro- cess, granted. to missionaries- much more dangerous social clement. But, having allow ed British missionaries, whether, explicitly or implicitly, to avail themselves of the permission, it seems clear that the Governments were morally bound to supervise them, and either to follow ibem, up by Consular officers, to pre- vent disputes with Chinese officials, or to im pose such regulations for their conduct as would work automatically as between the missionaries and the local authorities.
(To be continued.)
IF SMITH HAD EXPLAINED.
My wife says, and she says it with a map, that uever, accer again will the Smiths got an invitation to cat at our house. And whet she once makes up
Her mind to anything, she sticks to it like ghoemaker's way to a bit of woollon cloth.
You see the Smithë Ja and wife, were old
negotiated, a material advance was made on the When the Treaties of 1858. came to bu
French agreements of 1844 and 1846. A general demand was.now made for toleration of Christi- anity in China. This again was a covert design to gain something more than what was asked for, since full toleration had already been accorded. What was really contemplated by the two Powers, or by their respective pro-intimate friends of ears. We'd within a
throw of each other for
ther for many year and ware as thick pagandists who pushed them from behind, was
we were about aggression, religious only on the part of Great treacle. As to our worldly
on a lere, in pory moderatetances, part of France. The concession to France in sent him to Amurics on some business arrand: He Britain religious, political and military on the
Between two and three years ago Smith's employer. 1846, was the iron wedge driven into the granite would not tell us what. A fortnight since he turned block; the concessions of 1858 and 1860 were up at home and gave out that he had made a tride of the water applied to it, causing the rock to monor for himself while he
Lavt Toeulay we had then to dinner, the best the treaties. The Christian religion was re- signs being veiled by the mild pliraseology of dimmer my wife could And it was a good one, if I do say it thywif. Yet, vocally as a fals presented as teaching men to be virtuous; its lare. In the all times Smith bad too appetite of a eal-home. Now he picked and winced over the very Other attributes being carefully concealed.
distes that are to be his favourites. As my wife Thus the grand hypocrisy of Christendom was embalmed in caties dictated to China, by the politely, but fie didn't eat. Mrs. Smith apologised for passed him to taste this or that, his thanked her somewhat since his ratura from America. So the in disappointment, sual the Smiths wond home barly.
the enforcement of the provisions of the In-personal servants residing within the reserva-split. It was a gentle operation, ulterior de
Malaria
BERI-DERI
FRE
two victorious Powe s-one Catholic and the hor husband, and raid he had been dinner coded
other Protestant. It is impossible in this case to make any distinction between them.
on: for a con
Next, a fraud, audacious and flagitious, was er Smith is ill," said J. "No" said my wife, perpetrated by a French missionary in the in- he isn't ill.. He's proud. Rethinks Iris old friends There were 361 deaths of Chinese from Beri- terests of the Catholic propaganda in 1860, aren't good enough for him; that's where it is. He's Beri during the year, as compared with 197 when a clause of the most drastic significance tich, uk were jus and howorried woman.
I went on. deaths in the previous year. The numbers of
was smuggled into the Chieese text only of here broke down and cried, and I deaths among the floating population alone
the Fenth treaty, unknown even to its nominaliation smoke.
Al yet, bless your Foulait moment how. was GG.
negotiator, Baron Gros. It stipointed for the The deaths were evenly distributed through-perties of the early Christians, irrespective of
full restitution of the buildings and other proever. If Smith had been perfectly frank and said, "I am not the man war. I lived high in America, and out the year as will be seen from the fallowing all intermediate ownerships, and irrespective and this splendid dinner will inif kill me if I eat it, In all gone to piece with inflammatory dyspepsia,
133 | July, ......
apparently of those which had been already If he had said that we did lave pulled through. restored by the decree of 1846. It also
without A break. Why,
didn't he Par
he pay. it? vided for the permanent residence of thission aries in the interior, and for their buying land and erecting houses and churches. The clause might possibly have been repudiated by the Chi- nese Government on the discovery being made
GENERAL SANITARY CONDITION. The year has been a very busy one, owing to sanitary Properties Ordinance of 1839, which, was passed on November 28th of that year, and which required, witer alid, the provision of open spaces in the rear of many existing domestic buildings. A large number of old
In view of the very considerable number of buildings throughout the Colony have now been provided with these backyards and al- deaths from Malaria Fever among the troops, it though they rarely exceed the legal minimum | would appear to be especially important that of 50 square feet in arca, yet some improve-all Barracks should be isolated in this manner ment is already perceptible in the lighting and from the native population. ventilation of the back part of many of these dwellings. All new domestic buildings must varying from 6 feet to 14 feet in width, in ac now be provided with backyards, or back lancs, cordance with the depth of the house, and as plans of no less than 1,319 new buildings have is provision will gradually have's marked heen sent in during the year, it will be seen that effect upon the general sanitary condition of the Colony. The Sanitary Board are now engaged pon an earnest attempt to secure a reduction in the present excessive height of buildings, for the provisions of the present law in this respect are calculated toy stultify, to a greats extent, the benefit which should accrue from For more than fifty years past, many of the these open spaces in the rear of buildings. larger cities of Great Britain have prohibited the erection of buildings of a greater height than the width of the streets on which He also knew nothing affecting the case. By the Second Prisoner :- saw you had
they front, while in this Colony domestic knife, in your hand and received a cut from it.assaulted Mr. Craig and a warder. I was
By Mr. Pollock About two years ago I buildings can still be erected, under cer- The cut was not from the sword of one of the assaulting Mr. Craig and hit the warder ac
tain conditions, to a height of 46 fect in warders. There were no warders near, only cidentally when he got in the way. I got six
lancs only 14 feet in width, and in streets of gdawo Eumpenn prisoners who came to my assis
just over 20 feet in width buildings can be tance. I did not see you struck and woundert.
months separate confinement-and-go-strokes erected of height of 4 feet and can have The Second Prisoner informed the witness
balconies on either side of such street project- Leang Tan Cheong, declared:-I am a pri- ing over the ways and reducing the width that he was too cowardly to tell the truth,
soner in the Victoria Gaol under a six year of such street which is open to the sky to 11 or sentence for larceny. I was sentenced three 12 feet only. Many old houses which were
By the Jury The third prisoner drew the
•knife from his clothing. I did not see it before he ran towards Mr. Craig,
By Ilis Lordship -The oakum pickers do not have knives.
Abdullah, declared stated, he was an assis.
tant warder in Victoria Gaol, and went on to describe the assault and identified the three prisoners. He seized the second prisoner and received a cut across the left habd. His trowsers and coat were also cut and his upper lip was injured. He did not see the third prisoner actually strike Mr Craig.
The witness identified the weapon used by the second, prisoner, and the plane blade which was in the band of the first prisoner.
Li Hong Li, declared stated, I am Court Interpreter and interpreted the charges to the prisoner yesterday three times. They replied, "Yes, we did t; certainly, we did it! They thoroughly understood the charge.
On the case being resumed after tiffin Dr. J. C. Thompson, swem," stated he was Medical Officer of Victoria Gnol. He had examined Mr. Craig shortly after the assault and found two wounds at the back of the head just below the crown, evidently inflicted by a sharp cutting instrument. They were sepamte cuts meeting at an obtuse angle. One was
Chan Law, declared I am a prisoner in Victoria Gol under sentence of 18 years im- Prisonment for manslaughter. I think I was
convicted in 1802.
He foo, failed to establish any ill-treatment. on the part of Mr. Craig.
Mok Chun, declared am a prisoner in Victoria Gaol serving a sentence of ten years for larceny, but I did not commit the offence. I was sentenced about nine months ago.
for it.
years ago,
le
January, February
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26 August,....、、 27 September,
52 27
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April
30 October,
30
May,
June.
33 November, December,
40
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187 ACCIDENTS.
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Among the accidental deaths of Chinese will be found no less than twenty (together with one Non Chinese death) as a result of the collapse of buildings, none of which were orcasioned by fires. This appears to be a very, heavy mortality from an obviously preventible cause, and suggests that a very much greater amount | of supervision over the actual work, both of construction and of the repair of dwellings, is needed in this Colony,
in the large Cities of England it is custom
isu lady who does not hesitate to tell us her experience with that wretched allineat. Mis M. J...
is her
name, and her home, 66, Borby Street, tamont daten Sepember In a writer statement
Bertan is Sheflekt
th, of which the following is the suru and Foliance,
that it សអ since ner
At first, tho thought
now rather more "thutu tira yenta
that it was not contained in the French version, or buleh but that would soon pass ·
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it was only some trivial it was only some away, for Is of appetite and a feeling of langnes and
there d
not seem to be much the mutter with her.
So she struggled with her work as do countiras thousands of brave women every day, hoping to be rights her hups was short tired, for Indigestion,
In a short time that demon health-destroyer, had got her in lin iron grasp and would not set her free Intend of gating better, she becime
WOTED.
But alas her
He knew nothing affecting the case but de. / originally designed as two-story buildings have affor the Municipal authority to employ a And so it came to pass that the whole.system chest that lie could greatlie
fivered a homily upon the shortcomings ofrecently been raised to three and four-story number of inspectors of Buildings, whose sole
short sentence men as cooks and suggested that the Gaol Authorities put the old hands to the work.
(Case proceeding.)
AT THE MAGISTRACY,
April 18th.
* THE VITRIOL OUTRAGE.
George of the Naval
*ho Fay*,** **en if roing weight was resting on niy che nnd pressing in tay ri Indeel her chest because so and painful that she could starcely. bernything to touch it, and was krúnst afraid to walk about, the slightest jolting litt her so.
̈alund.
#Elitre, what's the gate.
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for by agreement between the high contracting panies it was the French text alone which was to rule in' case of disputed interpretation. But the Chinese bad not the courage to face a fresh quarrel, perhaps even another war with France. The French Government, on its part, took no pains 19 bring the two versions of the treaty into harmony, but on the contrary allowed full advantage to be taken of the interpolated clause. The deception was indeed cominented. upon by Protestants, but their missions never- theless availed themselves of its provisions
Her tongue was now always foul and nasty, and under the most favoured nation privilegeperionced such a sense of fines and tightacts in the after taking food-no nytter bow little-sho ox
concil of inland, missions for the last forty years has been carried on under the aegis of this equi vocal. And, broadly speaking, the missionary troubles, with digir auendant crimes and out rages during the past 35 years have arisen from this general cause. As Protestants have taken This focling of weight and oppression in the chest full advantage of the French treaty, it is difficult is one of the most distressing and common symptoms to see how they can avoid the charge of being of digestion. Like the rat, fog of the rallway
it counsel accessory after the fact to the means by which
caution and warns of danger What told pain and bery might be it was obtained. The situation, it must be freely admitted, was most embarrassing for avoided if only we heeded these danger sigrals of
Burt nature,
Wo them. They had either to follow the 'Catholic don't take warning, therefore suffer in
of moralising
In consequence. propaganda into the interior, or abandon that Mia Burton did for she goes on to way field to their, competitors. Only one inission" At times, 1 suffered intensely from wind spank that I have heard of resisted, the temptation, and was constantly vouiting our water. Bleep no the one directed by Bishop Scott of Peking, longer refreshed me, for it only came in, snatches and... Its members did not, indeed, refrain from going was disturbed by horrible drains. Deprival of proper into the interior of the country, but so far as fearful pains that were sure to follow, all wonder I rest at nights, and afraid to eat much because of the I have understood they claimed no rights there, and when persecuted in one city, they did not got to weak and thin, that at last I was forced to give in and take to my bed, where I stayed for six wocks. Twenty cases of this disease were reported hesitate to flee to another, rather than invoke During that time, I somitad a grastity of blood.. during the first quarter of the year, 16 of them
the strong hand of their Government to support The doctor said. I was enffering from ludigestion. being Chinese and the remaining other them in aur you a moment, the position of the taget herstel stonden met eine enabled me Asiatics; six Chinese cases were reported dur Consider for to stairs again, but did not enro me, for I ing the second quaner and one during the Chinese, Goverment in relation to these still suffered great pain
after cu
eating, and was always fourth quarter. One European case also op- dabious transactions. Leaving aside the ques- tirol and wearys curred during the fourth quarter, the patient tion of comparative etics, on which Western In this conlition I retraiuel for several months, being an employee of the Kowloon Ducks who nations assuine superiority over Fastein, despairing of ever licing well again, but providentially bad contracted the disease in Swatow. The has not the history of the introduction I was lo) to try Boigoi's Syrn, and to that medicine number of deaths from Small-pox was 17, of and spread of the Christian propaganda in heartilly and enjoy by micile without fear of painti slope is due my present god health. Now I can eat Chinn been such as to fill the Government feel brighter, ands which one only was Non-Chinese,
better in The total number of vaccinations recorded last of the country with warrantable suspicion ?
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Why Mr. Smith and or in 1898. This appears to be a most was demanded of them has never been dinner, I don't know He admitted it afterwaris to unsatisfactory state of affairs, and I think that the thing that was enforced; that the pretence we Huil
I my wife hasn't forgives him "Happy" more encouragement should be gives to this has borne no resemblance to the reality; that inys Homer, are those, why died under the higå most important means of prophylaxis. In 1897, the religion which inculemes virtue is break- walls "pf Troy Happier yol, say Thi are those who
recommended that a small bohus should being on their country as the roots of a banyan krokod on a
sooner, therefore, the law is amended in this and of repairs to existing buildings, and to buildings under this present law and the duty it is to watch the progress of construction,
respect, the better will' it be for the general report at once any defects observable in sanitary condition of the Colony.
the old work thus exposed, or any breach The question of the resumption of insanitary of the Building laws. In this Colony much of or obstructive buildings is one which must the constructional work is left entirely in shortly receive the serious attention of the Go. the hands of Chinese contractors, without vernment, as there are many private lanes in the supervision of the Architects who de 'the City which have been converted into in-signed the building or the alteration (except in sanitary courts by the erection of dwellings at the case of important European buildings, and it would seem, therefore that such a staff la even both ends of the lane, leaving a passage way only below the first floor. Buch obstructive more urgently needed here than at home, 34 in long and the other 21. They were both yaad as charged before Mr. Hazeland that buildings should be resumed, and demolished. The matter is one which concerns the Sanitary cut to the bone slanting downwards. There
and this can now be readily done under the Board only so far as the unnecessary lose of was a cut on the top of the head in front, an
he on the 17th day of January, 1901, and divers Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance of 1900, life is concerned, but on these grounds alone inch and half in length and superacial. There subsequent dates at Victoria.in this Colony while legislation is needed to prohibit the further the Board would, I think, be justified in mak- were two wounds one on the front of the left feloniously did aid, abet, counsel and procuro erection of such obstrucilye buildings, ing a strong tepresentation to the Government shoulder, probably inflicted by the plane Blade substance upon one GReek, which destructive erection at the latter end of the year, but there
-one Yeung Kun to throw, a certain destructive Several additional latrines were in process of on the subject. as also probably were those the back of the substance was in fact thrown upon the said G. is still the same urgent need for arianis, head, while that on the front of the head wast probably indicted by a knife. The cuts on
Reck on the 14th day of March, 1901, whereby especially in the City of Victoria, This need has Abdoolah were one on the lower lip, and two
the said L. Reak did suffer grievous bodily been pointed out by me since 1897, and it is on the left hand one an inch and the other.
believe, one of the principal causes of the offen- three and a half inches long. He was sent to refused.
The case was remanded to 25th instant. Bailsive smells which arise from many of the street hospital.
gullies and the drains, as, in the absence of suitable conveniences, fibe, coolies have no option but to make use of these receptacles for the purpose.
By the First PrisonerMr. Craig's injuries; might have proved fatal in the absence of a doctor. There is still numbness at the back of the scalp which may prove permanent. Sm By the Second Prisoner: All the wounds. on Mr. Craig were inflicted with sharp instru
By His Lordship Mr. Cmig's injuries werei severe
harm.
April 19th.
FALSE WEICHTS, T
For having false weights on his premises at 340 Des Voeux Road West, Lo Wo was fined
MALARIAL FEVERS.
SMALL-POX"
every way than1
by Mr. Kemp thirty-dollars or six weeks' hard compared with 532 during the previous year year was 4.406 as compared with 6,529 is 1899, Have they not seen, that the thing that one for pret auf mention hie illness for
labour. He paid up,
The total number of deaths among the Chiness from the Malarial Fevers was 887, as
and so during, 1898, this is equal to death- rate of 3.3 per 1,000. The death-rate among A SHIP CAPTAIN FINED.
the boat population alope from this case was Inspector Kemp charged Theinas Meade, 2.2 per 1,000, less, that is to Bay, than among and Dr. Thompson as their own fathers va imaster of the French && Le Rhone, with hay, the land population, as in 1899.
The Interpreter here, said that the prisoners
wished to state that they appreciate May
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