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To-day's Advertisements.

A. LING & Co.,

FURNITURE STORE.

(Next Door to Messrs.. WATKINS & Co.) QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Speciality:

FOOCHOW LACQUER WARE.

·Hongkong, 18th June, igat.

THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVICA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SEATTLE VIA SHANGHAI AND JAPAN.

THE Company's Steamship

"HYSON"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 18,

DEATH. On Sunday, the 16th June, at 2.30 am. ADELINE WILHELMINE, the dearly be loved wife of Edward Herbst, deeply re gretted by her sorrowful husband, children and parents,

. [639c

NOTICE."

chearliest thanks to all the sympa. HE Undersigned beg to tender their

thisers in their sad and sudden bereave- inent, and to the numerous friends who so kindly attended the funeral cere- monies of the 'late lamented ADELINE WILHELMINE HERAST,

Captain. S. Rogg will be despatched on SATURDAY, the 2nd instant, taking Cargo to SEATTLE and Overland Points, U.S.A., vin Great Northern Railway or Current Rates.

For Freight, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 18th June, 1901.

"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

FOR LOND N & ANTWERP.

THE Company's Steamship.

GLENESK,"

[6430

Captain J. Rifferty will be despatched for the Above Ports, on THURSDAY, the ruth July.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW, Agents.

Hongkong, 18th June, 1901

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Thic

FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, POET SAID, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.

THE Company's Steamship

"SADO MARU,"

having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at Kawinon, where each consignment will be soned out mark by muk and delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.

Optional goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before 4 F.M., TO-DAY.

E. HERBST and Children. Mr. & Mrs. F. W. HEUERMANN, Hongkong, 18th June, 1901:

[640c

THE CHINA EXPORT-IMPORT

TAND BANK CO. beg to tender

their best thanks to all who have shown their sympathy in attending the funeral of the late Mr. ERNST KARL THÔNERT. Hongkong, 18th June, 1901. [641c

he Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1901.

We congratulate the members of the Committee of the Chamber of the Commerce on their letter of the 7th instant addressed to the Colonial Secretary, calling the atten tion of the Government to the grave defects in the Sanitary Administration of the Colony and to the serious consequences to the shipping and trade of the port that must necessarily result, tuless some more effective measures are adopted to protect the health of the Colony and to check or put an end to the annual visitation of plague from which the conmuaity has suffered since 1894. We agree with the majority of the members that it well within their functions and duties as the representatives of trade and commerce to address the Authorities on the subject. We are very decidedly of opinion that if they had not done so, they would have failed to perform the duties and safeguard the interests they have been selected by their fellows to 'perform and protect.

We are not in die least astonishell that Sir Thomas Jackson 'refusel is quite in accordance with his ideas. Only to have any act or part in the protest. It a short time ago we pointed out that while he remains in the Colony there is no chance 645e of success for any movement in favour of popular government, however limited, or of any effective action with a view to any improvement in the form of government under which we live. We can only express our astonishment that entertaining the opinions he does he should have accepted the chairmanship of the Chamber, Its functions as defined by its constitution are as follows:

Goods not cleared by the 25th instant, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

All ship-damaged packages must he left in the Godowns and Notice of same sent tosis Office before the 28th instan, or claims in connection therewith will not be recognised.

NIPPON 'YUSEN KÄISHA.

Hongkong, 18th June, 1901, INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY,LIMITED..

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE:

THE Company's Steamship

KUMSANG,"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after 4 P.M., the 20th instant, will be landed Consignees risk. and expense' into Godowns at East Point,

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON &

General Managers. Hongkong, 18th June, 1901,

Intimation.

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"That the object of the Chamber shall be to watch over and protect the general in- "terests of Commerce, to collect information.

"on all matters of interest to the Mercantile "Community, and to use every means within "its power for the removal of evils, the redress "of grievances, and the promotion of the "common good; to communicate with au

Cities and others thereupon: to form a

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code of practice, whereby the transaction of "business may be simplified and facilitated; to receive references, and to arbitrate between "disputants-the decisions in such references "to be recorded for future guidance."

How the Chamber can "ose every means within its power for the removal of evils, the redress of grievances and the promotion of the common good" without taking part in what Sir Thomas calls "local politics" we,

A. S. WATSON & Co., fail to unders.and. If he wants to be con-

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ESTABLISHKO A.D. 1841.

THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS

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sistent, he should cease to be a member of the governing body of the Chamber.

as

ÆRATED WATERS ves infinite credit for having so completely

IN THE FAR EAST.

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OUR FACTORIES are construct ed with every attention to the best principles that sanitary science can suggest; and our NEW FACTORY

at WEST POINT is the LARGEST and BEST EQUIPPED in the FAR EAST

A perfect Systein of Filtration is

· ́employed guaranteeing Absolute pur ity.

A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS attends to every detail of the Manu- facture.

less statements gamered from the columns. of the public press, is itself à most reckless and founded assertion on his part. The letter is an insult to the Cham ber of Commerce and ought to be withdrawn and apologised for. There is only one redeeming feature about it, its appreci ation of the honourable non-entity, who is now figuring as the acting representative of the Chamber in the Legislative Council. The Chamber might request hin, to bring forward these questions in the Council but, we are very much afraid, it would make nothing by the motion.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. * ITALY AND CHINA.

LONDON, June 15th. Signor Prinetti, Italian Minister of Foreign. Affairs, speaking in the Italian Chamber, said that Italy adliered unreservedly to the Anglo- German agreement concerning China, and that she only desired a settlement at Tien tsin, and elsewhere as occasion arises."

LATER.

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. ENGAGEMENT WITH DE WET. General Elliott engaged the Boers under De Wet near Reitz on the fith instant. After |sovere fighting the British captured 45 pri- soners, and a cowoy of 71 waggons. The Boers lost seventeen killed and three wound- ed, the British, the officers and Seventeen men killed, and one officer and twenty four men wounded.

THE WARMBATHS SURPRISETM

The surprise of the Boers at Warmbaths is now confirmed. It appears that the official denial related only to the statement that it was Beyer's commando concerned.

THE CHINESE IN AMERICA. The Chinese Merchants in America are forming a strong movement for a repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. ⠀・・

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. BOERS SURPRISE A CAMP OF COLONIALS.

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bound up with the welfare of this great port Wong Cheving, a cook," of Station Street, that they feel it would be a grave omission did was found in possession of three pounds of they fail to point out how, in their opinion, the arsenic, for which he could not account Batis-sponsible for the sad state of things prevailing Government have made themselves largely re- factorily. Mr. Hazeland imposed a fine of $5. If this were not a matter of notoriety, it or seven days. Wong chose the latter.

would only be necessary to refer to the speech of the Medical Officer of Health on the drainage system at the last meeting of the Sanitary Board, when proposing the following resolution,

HARD FOR HIS WORSHIP, Laura Callado summoned. Eugenia Lopes her. Laura's tale was that Eugenia said, for using abusive and insulting language to

"Yott cow-looking prostute, you are the ugliest ghin the street" and Laura then ap peated to Mr. Kemp as to whether she answer ed that description or not.

Summons dis missed, Mr. Kemp not satisfying Laura as to her appeamace,

WE would call the attention of our readers to the offer of a prize of fifty dollars, inade in our leader

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column last Tuesday evening. As will be seen, the prize is to be given for the best sketch of project for the capture of the Island by a hostile force with a view to the destruction of the Naval Yard, Arsenal and Barracks. This is a subject which should readily interest our rearleys, and we trust that we shall have a good batch of manuscripts to consider. Articles should not exceed two thousand words in length; they must be written on one side of the paper only and should reach this office before 5 p.m., on Saturday, 29th inst. All articles to be address ed io

The Editor,

"Hongkong Telegraph."

50, Queen's Road Central,

We learn that the coolies employed by the Sanitary Department are most keen on the collection of rats in order to obtain the reward offered for them. Every dead rat found about the streets is eagerly snapped up by them and so jealous are they of one another that each man carries his collection of dead rats in his pockets for fear one of his fellow coolics should appropriate them. They have even

been

known to take their morning haul home with them and lock it up in their boxes amongst their clothes until next morning when

the rats were paid for. To prevent this it has been found necessary to pay for rats twice a day instead of once, as formerly. Evidently the Sanitary Department coolies have not much faith in the rat plague theory, if they are willing to run the risk of carrying any plague stricken rats in their pockets for the reward of three cents!

THERE appears to be very little control ex crcised by the Police over traffic in Kowloon Where the road to Kowloon City turns out of

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port has continued to increase, while the recurring outbreaks of plague in various ports have added greatly to the work of the allotted to that official, with the result that Health Officer, no further assistance has been steamers are not infrequently detained through his inability to board them promptly on. arrival. The annoyance to passengers and the loss to shipowners consequent these detentions have been growing more and more "That the Board recommend the Gov pronounced; nid in illustration thereof am ernment to utilise all the fresh waters instructed to forward for the information of the which now run to waste in the trained Government, the enclosed copy of a letter and untrained nullahs of the city, by bulid-recently received from the superintendent of ing dams and forming tanks for the auto the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation matic flushing of the sewers and storm- Company on the subject. water drains." Dr. Clark then enumerated a number of recom. mendations made by Mr. Osbert Chadwick in 1882, all of which were necessary, but few of which had, up to the present moment, been had been simply ignored. carried into effect, while in most instances they

This letter has been submitted by the Cham- ber to all the Shipping Firms and Steamship Agencies in the poit, who anstiimously concur To the suggestions made therein as 'promising temporary relief pending the appointment of a second or assistant Health Officer,

There is ample work for two doctors in this Department. The tonnage of the port has doubled within the last twenty years, as will be seen by the following figures, inken from the Harbour Master's annual return of the shipping, trade of the Colony :-

1886. Vessels entered,4,185,845 Vessels cleareal.4174149.

Thus, with regard to the separate system of Colony, one of Mr. Chadwick's recommend drainage, most unhappily introduced into the ations was that flushing tanks for sewers to be filled by the flow in the nullahs should be erected. The Comminilec, while apposed to the separate system as eminently unsuited to the

1899. 5 405,50 tons circumstances of the Colony, recognise that, if the system has to be endured, its evils will

9,048,808 clearly be mitigated by provision being make

$1350.994 (8,101,300 for the frequent and copious flushing of

Yet the machinery for medically inspecting fact was not also long since recognised by their was in 1850, and the expenditure on the the sawers, and they regret that this obvious

the shipping remains on the same scale now na Government.

Other recommendations made by Mr. Chad. wick were (1) The formation of continuous back alleys() the provision of 6po cubio feet of space per head in all rooms sub-divided by cubicles; (3) the formation of.a fund to carry out larger sanitary schemes; (4) the construction of all roads and drains prier to the sale of the building lots; (5) the acquisition by Govern- ment of all existing public latrines, their the abatement of the nuisance caused by hawk- reconstruction, and the provision of more; (6) ers squatting in the public streets; (7) the increase of the market accommodation; and (8) the provision of public bath-houses with a Kood supply of water (which last suggestion the Committee note with satisfaction is now being acted upon with good results). The report in which the foregoing recommendations were embodied, 'concluded "with the following remarks, which, in the light of subsequent should the suggestions be found undesirable events, were most prophetic:-"I trust that

or impracticable, my report will show the necessity for strong and complete measures of sanitation, and I trust that they will be under. health, without, waiting for the necessity to he taken for the immediate benefit of public demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic."

As Dr. Clark truly remarks:-"The logic came twelve years later, when the necessity for these reforms was demonstrated by an out- break of babonic plague in epidemic form. Almost all these matters are crying needs in Hongkong, nineteen years after this report was written."

In the opinion of the Committee, the Colony possesses in the Medical Officer of Health

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department is pracically, allowing for advance in prices, unaltered. In the opinion of the Committee there should be two medical officers. permanently employed, and giving the whole of their time to the work, unless perhaps the right of private practice among the shipping he conceded to them.

Sence, however, the medical staff of the Gov- ernment is now already much undermanned and the exigencies of the public health remand the exercise of all their energies, the Cominit. tec agree with Mr. Ritchie that temporary. They strongly endorse his suggestion that the measures, might be adopted for the moment.

master of any vessel carrying a duly qualified surgeon, provided such master is prepared to sign, a certificate (countersigned by the sur geon) if required, that there is no sickness of an Infectious nature on board, should there- moorings. This would materially help, under upon be permitted to proceed to, his barth orë

present circumstances, to prevent much unne- cessary delay and consequent loss to shipping.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,

Secretary.

The Acting Colonial Secretary.

(ENCLOSURE.)

l'eninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. 17th May, 1901,

R. C. Wilcox, Esq.,

Secretary,

Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. Dear Sir-I beg to draw the attention of the Chamber to the pressing need there is for im- provement in the manner in which the medical

carried out, in the hope that the Committee will urge on His Excellency the Governor the necessity which exists, for the revision of a system which is entirely-inadequate. for the present-day requirements, of this important centre of Commerce.

Paluable and encirctic officer, whose untiring inspection of shipping visiting this Harbour is efforts to promote the sanitation of the city merit every encouragement; whereas his recom mendations, live those of Mr. Chadwick, have been frequently ignored, shelved, or pared down when adopted.

LONDON, June 16th, A superior Bour force surprised a camp of

Transvaal, on the 12th instant. The enemy 256 Victorians near Middleburg in the

crept to within short range, from whence they poured in a deadly fire, killing two Hung-hom near the Police Station, a lus of ulicers and sisteen men, and wounding four earth cutting is being carried on. The earth officers and thirty eight men. Two Pom-is taken in wheelbarrows some half a mile pants were captured. Only two officers and down the road to a spot near Bailey and Co.'s fifty men raped; the remainder were Engineering Works, where reclamation is

being carried on. We should like to call the My Committee desire to draw attention 10. captured, but afterwards released.

attention of the authorities to the fact that no the folly of allowing the prejudices of officials, control whatever is exercised over these earth the fear of expense, or the dread of unoficial coolies, who are allowed to straggle over the opposition to stand in the way of the execution of sanitary measures which are known to be whole of the road with their wheelbarrows, necessary and which have been insisted upon The Observatory report says On the 18th at 11.53 m. barometrie, changes dropping carth here and there, to such an ex-time after time by experts. If any doubt be entertained as to the practicability or ex are slight. The depression over S.E. China, tent that the whole of the road has been will probably pass to the South of Shanghai rendered almost impassable for rickshas, bepedience or otherwise of such recommend ations, no time should be lost in referring moving Eastwards. Gradients moderate within full of ruts and, in wet weather, inches them to higher authority for decision. The strong S. monsoon in S. China and the N. part deep is mud. We think that a very little con- time has now arrived when vigorous action S.W. winds; squally, showery. of the China Sea. Forecast:-Strong to fresh trol exercised on the part of the Police would should be taken to secure the continuance of The barrows, which only go in thes progress of the Colony, and flequately protect the great, commercial interests so single ble, could be confined to one portion of adversely affected by these disastrous annual the road and so the nuisance could be stopped. epidemics. There is a great deal of traffic between Kowloon

WEATHER REPORT.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

It is reported that a dead rat has been found

in Government House.

obviate this.

City and Hung-bom, and it seems to us that a bit of reclamation work should not be allowed'} to abstract the traffic in this manner. This is

THE Hon. T. H. Whitehead returned to the by no means the only instance of similar Colony by the Fawata alaru to-day.

TOO AMOROUS.

obstruction we could eite. There is far too much latitude allowed to contractors in the Bhagat Sing, watchman, being of an amor blocking or otherwise obstructing of roads in ous turn of mind, put his arm round a married the vicinity of their works. A coolie who woman's waist. The embrace cos: him $10,

NO LIGHT,

P. C. 88, J. Hodgson, prosecuted Tong Chung for failing to exhibit a light on his boat between sunset and sunrise. This neglect cast" $5 or fourteen days.

VERY poor prices were realized at the auction Hough, the highest price being $110 for of horses held yesterday by Messrs. Hughes & Favourite Rose Fame had a bid of 5170, but was withdrawn.

The reply of the Acting Colonial Secre. tary to the letter of the Chamber is worthy of the best efforts of STEWART LOCKHART When we read it we jumped to the conchr sion that he must have returned to the Colony, and resumed his functions Colonial Secretary. On searching the passenger lists we found we were mistaken. The Acting Colonial Secretary deser entered into the spirit and assimilated the style of his principal. A more insolent and ill tempered letter never emanated from the Colonial Secretary's office since the Colony The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial was founded, and we hope the Chamber of and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge Commerce-Pace Sir Thomas Jackson-will with thanks the following donation to the have spirit enough to resent it. The letter of funds of the Hospitals the Chamber was a model letter as the Chair- man phrased it "most carefully drafted and most moderately expressed. There is not a single statement in it that is not sub-

stantially well founded art is te band proof is asked for, the proof is to be found in the official utterances of the heads of the Government departments and in the Colonial Blue Books: As to the reply, it is quite true that all the subjects referred to in the Chamber's letter "have

Edinburgh Morningside Cong. Ch. S+5. $80.47 THE THREE CARD TRICK.

canses a temporary obstraction by having a basket on the path is promptly dealt with but

the contractor who ruins a full half-mile of a busy road gues free.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

(Carrespondence.) SANITATION.

THE CHAMBER TO THE COLONIAL. SECRETARY.

:

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

R. CHATTERTON WILCOX, Secretary.

Hon. Acting Colonial Secretary:

THE COLONIAL. SECRETARY TO THE CHAMBER.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, '13th June, 1901. Sir, I am directed to acknowledge, the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, and to inform you that His Excellency the Governor joins with the Chamber of Commerce in the regret that here, as in India, the anxious efforts of the Government have failed to control Bubonic Plague, or to materially check is ravages,

The main defect in the system is the fact that, notwithstanding Hongkong bas attained the distinction of ranking as the third port in the World in point of tonnage, the duties of Boarding Medical Officer still remain in the hands of a private practitioner, I am as anx ious of disclaiming any intention of casting a reflection on the present incumbent as the Secretary of the Chamber was in his letter to the Colonial Secretary, dated 19th July 1897, pointing out how necessary it was to the Boarding Health Officer to give undivided attention to his shipping duties, a necessity which increases with the growth of the Port, but the disadvantages of the present arrange.

ment are manifest.

A Medical Inspecting Officer with private practice, however con scientiously he endeavours to perform his daties, must, at times, neglect either his private patients or his Harbour work.

During the time quarantine was recently imposed on arrivals from Singapore there were several instances of avoidable and wholly un- necessary detention to mail and other steamers and their passengers through the failure of the Medical Inspecting Officer to board the vessels on anchoring in the Quarantine ground. The Government realising that the delivery of Mails was liable to delay from this cause, notified the Agents of the Mail Lines that the Mails and the Post Office Officials, who take charge of the Mails from Singapore, were to be allowed to land before arrival of the Health Officer," provided the Medical Officer of the steamer. certified that the latter were well and free from infectious disease_

The Cdromandel with the Outward Mail, passed Gap Rock at 4:16 am, on April 13th showing, tail signal lights which were duly acknowledged. At 7.18 am, the vessel anchored in

quarantine ground with the yellow flag flying, as there was a case of suspected chicken pox, which is both contagiousand infectious, on board, Not until roló am, did the Health Officer board the Coromandel. As the Health Officer was doubtful whether the case, which was landed

As to the various matters on which the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce bave been good enough to give their views, they

The cases of the Royal Mail steamers Ceram- have long been subjects of most anxious con-

andel and Ballarat illustrate very forcibly the sideration by those whose professional know-evils and possibly very serious consequences ledge and experience best fitted them to advise caused to Mail'steamers at this port of call; upon them, and some have been dealt with by where every hour is precious, through delay the Legislative Council. His Excellency would "on the part of the Boarding Health Officer in Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, suggest that as the Chamber of Commerce is attending to his duties.

directly represented in the Council, it should Hongkong, 7th June,, 1901, request its representative to bring its views be Sir,The present severe epidemic of Bub- fore that body, where the grounds for assump onic Plague, which seems now to have become tions which appear in have been somewhat an annual visitation, presents so serious a hastily adopted may be clearly stated and fully menace to the general prosperity of this port answered. His Excellency instructs me to add and Colony, that in the interests of trade my that nothing could more contribute to the Committee deem it their duty to made auchi commercial losses pointed out in the 4th Chu Pin, only sixteen years of age, was representations to the Government as they paragraph of the letter than reckless statements, practicable calculated to limit the spread of that have appeared from time to time trust may lead to the adoption of every measure some untrue, and others greatly exaggerated this disease.

I am therefore directed to point out that acceptance of these statements by the in the Public Press and the apparent although it is now seven years since the dismembers of ille Committee of the Chan case first appeared in a fatally epidemic form, ber of Commerce withque investigation or and notwithstanding all the experience gained, adequate knowledge, is for calculated to allay alike of its fatal character and rapid spread fears that if continued, may permanently affect and of a serious dislocation of business and the prosperity of this, Colony, dependent as it are now practically as helpless in its presence, ping port of call. The Governor observes with as they were in the meinorable year 1894. satisfaction that the Committee of the Chamber The numbers of cases; now as then, are little of Commerce are prepared to accept cheerfully of the Chinese has, now as then, commenced necessary to meet the heavy expenses of con- in excess of the numbers of deaths; the exodus the increased taxation that will probably be to be on a formidable scale; and the virulence templated measures for the general improve of the pest seems now to be even more marked ment of sanitation be

A!! than in 1894.

i have the honour.to be, Sir, It is unfortunately'true that niedical

Your most obedient servant,

(54) SERCOMBE SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

found trying to turn a disanest dollar by doing the three card trick and some soldiers. ir. Hazeland thought a good birching would best meet the case.

MORE ABUSE,

F. Callado summonsed E. F. X. dos Santos

long been the subject of most anxious Remedios for threatening him with a stick special loss to the shipping trade, the authorities is upon the businesspreidenfal to a great ship: commence discharge at, the wharves. By dint consideration by those whose professional The Defendant said complainant "used the knowledge and experience" ought to put word goat, which is a very dirty word, not them in the position of being "the best fitted. ... . . ...

to advise upon then" for slaves," Case dismissed..

fit

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and sent to the Cive itsspital mal aos preve being vaccinated before disembarkation, much to be smallpox, he insisted on all passengers. to their dissatisfaction. After diagnosis at the Hospital the case was declared to be 'impetigo contagiosa (a form of ring-worro), and at 2.30 pan. the Coromandel was granted pratique, but it was not until 5 pm, that she was able to of working all through the night the vessel succeeded in completing her discharge and continuing her voyage at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, April 14th. The limit of time according to Mail Contract for arrival of the Mails at Shanghai was 2 p.m. on Wednesday April 17th The Coromandel fortunately was favoured with fine weather and succeeded in saving her time, but had she encountered fog it would have been impossible to have done this had the Company would have bean liable to a fine, ofsoo, and, what is a matter of mote serious monient to them, their reputation for punctu MEDICAL INSPECTION..

ality in the delivery of His Majesty's Mails CHAMBER TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. would have been impaired. Had the Health, Sir-In July, 1897, this Chamber, in response yon anchoring and granted pntinue the ** Hongkong, 1st June, 1901 Officer boarded the Coromandel immediate-

to a request by the Government for its opinion should have been alongside the Wharf by to Street, West Point, part of an upper storey, The loss sustained by the suspension of on the subject of the medical inspection of mand could have proceeded at daylight on tree men were killed, two others being rehe reduction in imperts and exports, and the increase of the tonnage in this post, it was Coffic, saling at rumble to proceed using which, was being added, tumbled down, and emigration, the imposition of quarantine at shipping entering the water of this Colony, the following day, working up to mid-night neighbouring ports on arrivals from Hongkong, made the suggestion that, in view of the steady. only. There were 33 passengers for the ported injured. The house belonged to a Chi-diversion and destruction of trade generally, becoming necessary for the Health Officer to several of whom were unable to proceed oxing hese contractor. We suppose an enquiry will be constitute à serious drain upon the commer- give undivided attention to his shipping duties, to the detention, and a Military Officer for held on this collapse, though it certainly is not cial community, the fadre disquieting since it adding that, whenever the post should fall Tientsin missed his passage per Transport needed. We have said so much on house The Committee are loth to intervene in any to engage in private practice

threatens to be of annual recurrence. vacant, its next occupant should not be allowed Former which sailed in the aftemonn. collapsing in foriner, issues, that further com- matters even apparently outside the domain. Since these, suggestions were thrown out, ment is unnecessary and fullo

of trade, but tôle queation is so intimately, and in spite of the fact that the trade of the

There are very grave doubts entertained IT may be. noticed that we are publishing a The Machinery used is of the Latest whether the persons referred to are the gazette of interest to the shipping community best litted to advise on such questions, but, generally, giving the names of officers on leave, Type.

letting that pass, the question raised by promotions, transfers, cic. We imagine it will the Chamber of Commerce and by the be found useful by many shipping people here, community is, how does it come-10 pass that all this consideration given to these who can see at a glance, where their friends are subjects for such long periods and by these at the time. We shall be much obliged for professional people have had no results, that any information from our readers tending to no action has been taken nothing done? keep the column up to date, The Chamber of Commerce complaint is Tur house-collapsing season has begun. About -that-after all these years-of-thought--and study and consideration we are in no better 4 pm on Saturday, at a building in High when the Sanitary Board first tackled the position than on the Toth, May 1894 plague' in Hongkong ? The statement in this letter of the Governor's to the Chamber of Commerce for it is the Governor's letter and not the Acting Colonial Secretary's-that the Committee of the Chamber has, without investigation or undequate knowledge, ac cepted and put forward untrue and reck

The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence; us testi- fied to by the beat English makers.

A6 WATSON & GOL LIMITED. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hoogkong

has not yet discovered any means of success. fully grappling with the plage, but, that fact should not stand in the way of measures being To the Secretary, Chamber of Commerce. taken to arrest its spread, or of the adoption of such precautions in the handling of the sick, the cleansing of drains and houses, and the THE inspection of slums, as might lead to curtail the ravages of this scourge within certain limits.

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The case of the Ballarat is as follows The vessel's signals were answered from Gap Rack Staljpg at BIL OR Kibiapiri End.