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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1901.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. MR. ASQUITH AND THE LIBERAL PARTY.
LONDON, June 21st,
THE Mysore Government have adopted the commendable rule that policemen who die of plague contracted in the execution of their duties may be considered as having been "killed in the performance of duty attended with extraordinary bodily risk." DISQUIRTING rumours were afloat in Calcutta lately to the effect that one of the first acts of the Federal Government in Australia would be to raise the duty on tea,, a cable to that effect,
Nunst E; L Gray, the first of the nurses engaged to work in connection with the Hong- kong Nursing Institution, arrived in the Colony by the last English mail,
WE note from the Gazette that the Jinrick ha Regulations have been amended so as to allow of the number of public vehicles being increased from one thousand to twelve hundred.
A VISIT to Messrs A Ling & Co.'s new furni- it was said, having been privately received.ture emporium is well worth any one's while. Next door to Messrs. Watkins & Co. in Queen's The report requires confirmation.
Road Central it is replete with every article of THE anniversary of the late Queen's Birthday use in the ordinary household from gridirons in art china, lessrs. A Ling & Co. are making a speciality of Foochow lacquer work, of which they have some beautiful specimens. 'THERE was a dinner at the Kowloon Hotel on Saturday night and afterwards, somewhere | about midnight, one of the guests strolled out and over a wall at the back of the Hotel, fall ing some twenty or thirty feet into the back yard of a Chinese house. He landed on his head, but, strange to say, did.not kill himself. A doctor was called and, a large wound in the man's forehead paving been stitched up, he was removed to the Government Civil Hos pital. After-dinner tambles are generally the
was celebrated at Windsor. Early in the moru ing the bells of the parish church were rung, and at mid-day a Royal sahtte was fired in the Long Walk and the boys of Eton College had a holiday in honour of the occasion.
ACCORDING to information received from Rio de Janeiro the volunteer, punitive expedition Mr. Asquith, speaking at a dinner of sent against the Macanbe savages, who recent Essex Liberals, demurred to the suggestions murdered several Italian priests and sisters of mercy, has been cut to pieces. The Indians that he and his friends were apostates of the
are said to number 10,000 and to be well Liberal party." He condemned the resolu armed. The authorities are sending ton regular tion passed at the Pro-Boer meeting of troops to rescue the survivors of the mission, Wednesday, and inotested againe being but it is feated that this force will be insuffi- called a pronouncement of the Libe
party. cient,
/ OBITUARY. Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins, C.Che
THE BRITISH NAVY. THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON DEFICIENT. A private letter front Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, B. which has been published, calls attention to the lack of strength, and Wam of proper organization in the Mediterranean squadron.
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THE AMERICAN ATTACHE ON BRITISH BRAVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, June 22nd.
The report of the American Attaché on the Boer war declares the British troops to be brave to a fault. If they were less brave,
there would have been fewer fanits and more
victories.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says - On the 23rd at 12.15 p.m. the barometer has risen in S. China. The depression in the North has probably reached E. Japan. Pressure is high ever the N.pan of China Sea. Gradients slight for S. and S. W. in S. China. Forecast Moderate S. winds fair, squally.
On the 24 21 12.10 p.in. the bardheter has risen in 5. China. Pressure remains high over the S. coast and N. part of China, and gradients continue slight for S. winds in S. China. Forecast-Moderate or light 5. winds;
fair.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hongkong. 24th June, 1001, EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- | H.M,5, Hermione sails for England via Bang-
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This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light.
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Intimation.
THE Meeting of the Legislative Council sum- moned for Tuesday the 25th inst., at j.p.m., is postponed sine die,
It is notified ip the Gazette that the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M., baving returned from leave, has resumed his duties as Colonial Secretary.
MESSES. Campbell Moore's premises were closed to-day at one o'clock, owing to the death of Mr. Leon, their secretary, which occurred at to p.m. last night.
THE dredger was to be raised to day or to [G45morrow.
At least, another attempt to float her was to be made.. Up to the time of going to press we have not heard that she is afloat again.
SUBJECT to the approval of His Majesty's Government, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognise Mr. Anguste Pierre
A. S. WATSON & Co., Marly as temporarily in charge of the Spanish
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THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS
OF
IN THE FAR EAST.
Consulate here.
THE Green Island Cement Co. have a grand crop of moving grass on their premises facing Kowloon new road. The Indian cavalry and Seige Train would, we should think, be glad to
make a bid for ì.
Juckiest.
SOME time ago, says the China' Gazelle, we
A Goettle, notification states that the Hou. T. reported that Mr. Mueller, fourth engineer of. Whitehead, having reported his return from the N.D.L.. Pacuasen, did not return to the steamer after he left her on May 16th, and it was supposed that he was drowned. On the 12th instant, about 7 o'clock pan. a hunan body was found floating in the harbour, antin though it was in an advanced stage of decom. position, it was identified as that of the missing, engineer. Next morning the remains were handed over to the local agents of the steamer to which the deceased belonged.
INDIAN papers report-A Mahomedan youth was picked up in a river at Calcutta recently by a country boat and when made over to the River Police made the following strange state- iment." He said that he had been in the service of the Captain of a steamer which left Calcutta lately. While the vessel was dropping down the river he went to the Cap tain's wife and made a demand for his wages, upon which she suck him. On complaining
To the Captain the latter, laid hold of him and threw him overboard and he was, resented by a country, buat.
He will be placed before the Commissioner of Police and inquiries will be
instituted to test his story.
An expedition against the anopheles mosquito is to be despatched shortly to West Africa under Major Ronald Ross by the Liverpoot School of Tropical Medicine.. A leading Glas- row chizen has placed at the disposal of the school and Major Ross a sum of money saffi- cient to defray the expenses of one year's trial in some malarious city. A staff of workers with all necessary appliances will, therefore, be maintained for the period of a year at a selected West African city, attacking all kinds of mosquitoes in the city and environs. The ex- periment will begin almost immediately. The town selected will depend upon the promise of
assistance from the local authorities.
MR Fisher Unwin, has just published in his Colonial Library Mrs. Amelia E. Barr's new romance "Souls of Passage" and Eden, Phil pott's new novel "The Good Red Earth" Two characters claim particular. atention, in the latter that of Johnny Boringht, a unique canting, mily-tongued hypocrite; who beguiled the natives of a Devonshire village into making him their pastor at sufficier salary to enable him to discontinue his trade of ped. lar, and the silent Mary. Gilbert, a great, type of womanhood and wifehood. The story is unbackneyd, and breathing through the whole romance is the scent of the orchards and the breath of the country.
For the last few days a great nuisance häs existed just behind the Tsim-tsa-tsuri Police Station at Kowloon. Here the dust car which
caters for the district is stationed, zid, for
some inexplicable reason, there has bees a piíc
of rubbish left alongside the cart to nt and fester in the sun. It is evidently not always the same heap, but it is very filthy stuff and is allowed to lie about all day and be picked over by any coolie who happens to come along. This comer is bad enough at the best oftimes, as it is right alongside one of Mr. Oslorne's We shall be obliged if any subscriber oppet urinals, which smells enough, as ouiAme- ÆRATED WATERS receiving his paper late or irregularly will rican cousins would remark, to stop a'clock, write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of and now that the garbage, smell is addid one delivery, etc, and forward the Wrapper to the has to force one's way through the stink Will Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ld, so those responsible for this state of affairs please Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will note?. enable us to check the delivery coolies.
The Chinese Gots of Literauire and Wa went THE Ferrylaunches have again been victorious.
on the warpath this morning against the pague. They have not only knocked the very substane They certainly conducted their hunt in the fial buffer erected at the end of the Ice House Plague Devil with a great deal of noise, which Street, Wharf guide out of time, but have even managed to make one of the struts part com- presume meant that the chase was a warm one. The procession was accompanied by the pany with the guide. A little more patience,
OUR FACTORIES ure 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 System of Filtration is employed guaranteeing Absolute pur ity.
perseverance; and healthy-bumping on the part of the launchies and the guide will be completely demolished... Whether there will be
leave of absence, has resumed his duties as as Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, representing the Chamber of Commerce. The Gazette, however, quite forgets to mention that consequence of the Hon. member's return debates in the Council may be expected to bet trifle more lively, and also that the Chamber may expect its reasonable demands with regard to sanitation to be pushed in the Council.
·CONCERT AT THE CENTRAL
WATER POLO.
* POLICE STATION.
The following undermentioned matches will be played at Victoria Recreation Club, Kow- Those who attended the first promenade loon, commencing gach day at 5.30 p.m. sharp. concert given by the Police Force of the Colony
Tuesday, 25th June,.-V.R.C. v. agth Col were agreably surprised on reaching ille well- known grim compound to see the transformation
E.D., R.A.. V.R.G-Goal-L. E. Laminert; Backs-C. that had taken place. Flags of all nations, with numbers of Chinese lanterns, a taste E. A. Hance, Back-A. E. Alves Forwards. fully decorated little stage, and the light-J. Midar, A. A. Alves; J. H. R. Hance. dresses of the ladies present, made up an
Wednesday, 26th June.-V.R.C. v. unusually pretty and effective scene. The
R. W. Fusiliers. programme wast a long one, continuing till
V.R.C.-Goal-R. Henderson; Backs-L. past midnight. Our space available will not allow us to notice every item, but special credit
H: Alves, F. M. Roza Perein; Back-A. is due to Miss Parker for her rendering of, the Alves; Forwards-A. Humplirey, F. Jorge, pianoforte accompaniment in the instrumental H. Kenvett. trio, Mrs Brand gave "The Old Countrie"
No. 5 HEALTH DISTRICT. in a very artistic and pleasing manner. Mr. Viggers, as usual, put the audience in a good
A FILTHY QUARTER. temper, his "O Mother Darling" being patti- cularly good. One of the best numbers was the duet "Excelsior" given by Messrs. Sini-Health District this morning, just to see in mers and French, who had to respond to an what sort of state the place was in. I cannot encore. Mr. Burgess' patriotic songs were also congratulate the inhabitants of the district well received.
upon the state of their premises, nor can I speak well for the landlords, for a more miser ably ruinous collection of hovels it is seldomn been my lot to view. The majority of the teneinents have the stucco hanging in mgs and tatters from the front, the brickwork slimy and rotten and the woodwork of the floors and partitions is in a most delapidated state. As for the drains, the least said about them the better. They are blocked where they ruu down the sides of the houses, the traps in the yards are broken and the drains choked up in many places with filth and garbage of all des criptions.
The greatest credit is due to those of the committee who worked so hard to make the concert a success, particularly Mr. George, Mr. Lander, Mr. Grant, Mr. Withers and Mr. Hanson, Chairman. Also to those ladies who dispensed the light refreshments.
We noticed Chief Inspector Mackie pre- sent, taking a lively interest in the proceed. ings but looked in vain for any recogni- tion, by his presence or otherwise, of Captain Superintendent May. Here was a body of men puiting their hands in their pockets (everything was free) and working their hardest to relieve for once the dreary monotony of their lives and give pleasure to their friends and relations, and it was an opportunity for the Captain Superin tendant, by taking a lively interest in their doings, to somewhat mitigate that ever growing feeling of discontent that is said to exist in the Police Force. We congratulate the Force on their initial attempt, and, in spite of this hehalf on the part their head, wish them con. seeming want of any consideration on their
inued success.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
A BEASTIN OFFENCE.
AT the present time, remarks the Asian, the mere fact of having ridden a few lasers, let
P. C. 294 said he saw Ping Hing empty alone winners, in America' seems almost suffi-night soil in the channels of the public street cient to get a jockey an engagement in either at 3.30 on Sunday morning. Defendant was Great Britain or Europe. It is improbable fined $5 or 14 days. Fine paid. that all the American boys being engaged at high fees at the present,tine are exceptional horsemen in fact, some of them have such poor records that in their own country it is regard. their services, and it is bound to be brought ed as rather a joke that anyone should seek
home to the employers of some of these trea- sures that it is possible for very bad riders, as well as good ones, to come from America. Meanwhile, the American jockey is the master of the situation, as will be shown by z New York paper's estimate of what some of the riders who have gone abroad will make in "Cash" Sloan, £1,000: fees this season. Henry Spencer. £2,400; Joe Scherrer, Looo; Fred Taral, £1,000; Sam Doggett, 1,000; "Danny" Maher, £4,000; Lesten Reiff, £5,000; Johnny, Reiff, £3,000; J. Morgan,.800; E. Rigby, £1,200; W. Simms, 1,000; E Vittatoe, £8,000; Tony Hamilton, Looo; Elmer James, 800; the Waldo Brothers, Dave and Edward, £600 each; Moyni, £1,600; and J. M'Intyre, £1,000,
· SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE
PEAK TRAMWAY,
We regret to say that Mr. Byers, the mana ger of the Pe. Tramway met with a serious accident on Sunday evening. It seems that Mr. Byers tried to board a tram when in mo- tion, near the Peak Station; inissing his footing or nisjudging the speed at which the car was approaching, he was forcibly thrown against a post of the fence which at this spot is very close to the lines. The impetus carried him over the fence and he fell a distance of about 12 feet to the bottom of the nullah. On being picked up he was conveyed to the Peak Hospital and found to be suffering from a severe scalp wound, fractured collar bone and rib and badly bruised all down the right side. Mr. Byers is progressing as favourably as can be expected, under the care of Dr. Harston.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
(Before flis Honour Sir John Carrington, Kt., C.M.G., (Chief Justice).
June 24th..
COUNTERFEIT COIN. Pang Lun was charged with rit: Selling coun-; terfeit coins, 2nd. Uttering counterfeit coins, 3rd. Having counterfeit coins in his possession, 4th. Uttering.
On the court sitting Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C.,
who appeared for the defendant, said his client pleaded guilty to the 3rd count.
The Acting Attorney General agreed to enter anolle prosequi on the other three counts.
Mr. Francis, K.C, said the coins were waste money found and collected and were from.old. boxes, drawers &c, not being in everyday use. Mr. Francis pleaded that, by the powers of a statute which he read, His Lordship should.
only inflict a fine.
recognisance of $1,000 to be of good be- A fine of $500 was inflicted and a personal
haviour for 6 months
LARCENY.
usual tawdry trappings and, the same cowd of Lamb Check Yeufs charged with stealing
certain goods pleaded not guilty. The Acting Attorney General conducted the prosecution, Mr. Sharp defended the accused,
REFUSING DUTY,
Alfred Cunningham, journalist, charged Cheng Li, his chair coolie with refusing to obey lawful the unpardonable offence of refusing to carry commands. The defendant hatt on previous occasions refused duty, but yesterday committed the complainant to church. The defendant said he was kicked by the complainant several times and driven away. He went to prison for 14 days on two charges, sentences to be consecutive.
STEALING.
Cheung Fat retired from public life for the space of 3 months for stealing a brass' gear wheel from the Military Authorities.
*
* AN IDLE LOITERER.
Chong Wing Ki was sitting quietly cooling himself in Wing Sing Strect and, having a con- stitutional dislike to policemen, started run- ning away when he saw one coming. He was caught and received 14 days as an idle vagabond.
PILFERING,
Chan Wun, following the example of Nebu- chadnezzor of old, acquired a pair of shoes in an irregular manner. He went inside for 14 days' hard labour.
THE PLAGUE.
Number of cases reported (Chinese......1,354 up till noon of the 22nd Other Asiatics 46 June, 1991 ............ (Europeans..............23 Number of cases reported (Chinese 3 during the past 48 hours Other Asiatics
(Europeans...... I
Total number of cases reported to date 1,456 Number of deaths reported (Chinese,314 up till noon of the 22nd Other Asiatics 31 June, 1901...
Europeans 9 Chinese...34 Number of deaths reported
during the past 48 hours Other Asiatics 1
Europeans Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,389 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and deaths are
Cases Chinese......
Other Asiatics European
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D
Total
33
Deaths Chinese ....
Other Asiatics Europeans
34
Total
35
The plague returns for last week were — ..
Cases......
..........155 Deaths
.152 "The returns for 22nd June, 1894, were:→→
Total deaths to date
New cases in previous 24 hours... 24 Deaths in previous 24 hours Patients under treatment.
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39. 153
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Chunnat, of the s.s. Huiching, and. Mr. F. Rios, Mr. D'Agostini, of the Naval Yard, Mr. A.
of Bridges Street, have all been discharged from Kennedy Town Hospital, we are pleased to report, having recovered from plague..
For curiosity's sake I went through No. 5
Enter one of the miserable back lanes and you do not wonder that the whole district is a hotbed of disease. The lane is but a few feet in width, probably blocked by an archway at either end with rooms built over it, and the houses tower up on either side so that the sky appears at the top as a narrow blue streak Down the middle of the lane runs a gutter, full which such a fearsome stink: (one can use no of decaying animal and vegetable matter, from
milder word) goes up that the whole atmosp bere of the lane is poisoned and one feels giddy and sick from it. The surface
the lane has,
at some remote period, been covered with con- crete but this has been worn into ruts and broken through in places, so that foul water and other mastiness collects in the cracks and crannies and must soak through and poison the earth below.
The
But look at the houses. They run up three or four storeys in height and are about as unhealthy tenements as one could desire. They are built back-to-back so that the only. light and air that can enter silters in from the reeking lane in front, already poisoned by
and, as the houses are only some fifteen the foul emanations from the drains. windows are small and half blocked up fect broad and run back in a great depth with only one window to the fluor, only one of the cubicles gets any light. The rest, which run back along the wall, with a narrow passage- way running along the front of them, are dark and unventilated; not a ray of light nor a breath of fresh air can penetrate to them. Hehind these lies the kitchen. That on the ground floor stretches the whole width of the house, but those of the upper floors are ex- tremely curtailed in area to allow of an air "well" running down. In these small spaces the inlinbitants have to cook and wash and do
all their household work. These places, in the majority of the houses visited, were filthy beyond description. Each for seemed to its own particular collection of filth, either swept
into the corners or allowed to lie rotting underneath the Chinese fireplace. The walls and floors of the cookhouses or kitchens were reck ing with moisture and slime and the stench on the top floor, as it rose up from the kitchens. below, gaining in strength and intensity as it ascended, beggared all description. It was simply a glimpse of Hell, and a very dirty Hell at that!
And in these places hundreds and thousands of human being beings are barn, live and die. They mostly die, I hope, for life in such surround- ings must be insupportable. Living constantly ed by dimp and recking walls with never a in an atmosphere of the very foulest, surround breath of fresh air or a gleam of sunshine from year's end, to year's end, it is little wonder that when plague makes its appearance it quickly gets a hold upon these hovels and goes through them with the rapidity of fire.
Here and there were to be seen gaps left by bad either collapsed or been pulled down. These houses in which a fire had occurred or which seemed to be regarded by the neighbours as handy dumping grounds for filth and contained a very miscellaneous collection of rubbish, and, as they also serve as dormitories for the homeless or handy receptaciess for plague bodies, they must aid the spread of the disease.
FILTH FILTH ||| FILTH H.
At the time of my visit the Sanitary folk were busily, at work removing fifth. There were dustcarts and baskets all over the place and these were filling rapidly with the filthiest, rottenest, and most stinking Int of rubbish Í ever saw.
One burly Policoman, who was dircting a gang of canlies in a reeking slum, and sweating at every pore, explained that from three kitchens alone he had taken a whole dusteartful of slimy, stinking rubbish and slush and that there was plenty more to coine. This did not include various piles of garbage on the pavement and in the gutters. It was being brought out in baskets, shovels, buckets and boxes, and every minute the pile grew and the. smell became worse.
Here and there along the street were parties" of Chinese squaiting amidst their household belongings, consisting of a miscellaneous collec- tion of old boxes, old boards, old rags, old tins, old bones, filthy clothes and so on, that would. disgrace any rag and hone shop in the dirtiest European slum. Yet these things constituted their household goods and were eagerly prized and looked after by the people as they waited for the arrival of the cleansing party.
In some of the houses which had not been
turned out in this manner the inmates were busy bringing out rubbish by the cartload, so that when the cleaning party came along their premises would not be subjected to too great The remaining European patients are alla disturbance. Files of lumber, which had doing well.
Mr. Johannis Wacker, manager of the bank ing department of Messrs. Cariowitz & Co, was removed to Kennedy. Town this morning suffering from what is supposed to be a very mild attack of plague.
that plague was on the decline last week,
People seem to have got it into their heads.
apparently never been shifted for years, were being overhauled and the filth cleared from amongst it. Truly the cleansing looked, and is, a stupendous task.
Some of the Chinese, generally' the "more" respectable ones, seemed to be entering into the spirit of the thing, and were giving the Sani
tary folk a good deal of assistance, but others simply stood and looked on. The cleansing some of them, for those that gave willing assis work may, I fancy, prove an object lesson to
very diny little boys in very dirty tinel and silk over filthy, ragged garments, and alot of much of the launches left when this happy end tent a certain amount of official pomp to the A. Sims, W. Hardick, J. S. Ezekial, S. F. Da those very intelligent Lukongs of Mr.May's
The following jury were sworn: Messrs. W. is accomplished we really don't know.
proceedings. The public certainly, trid to Roza, A. M. Roza Pereira, Martin Meyer, and We would call the attention of our readers to the scare the poor devil with crackers, and. must J. Benjamin.
The Acting Attorney General in his opening offer of a prize of fifty dollars made in our leader have been a perfect De Wet to have caped The Machinery used is of the Latest column of the 11th instant. As will be seen, the great hunt. We don't know which the remarks said The complainant is a farmer living dear Kowloon City and was in his house the prize is to be given for the best sketch of a more powerful of the two Gods, but wfancy on the night of the robbery. He heard some Type.
project for the capture of the Island by a hostile the Plague Devil would be most featul of men on the roof and tiles were thrown down. force with a view to the destruction of the Naval Literature, for some of the statements mide by He fired a rifle at them and some of them ran though how they make it out we don't know. tance were not to nearly so much A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS Yard, Arsenal and Barracks. This is a subject Chinese under the protection of this ad are away. He found a chopperan the roof, which he As will be seria by the returns published above, as the rest. Not that I mean to my that the archanded-over-to-the-police-The chopper was last week showed an increase of four cases Sanitary folk were rough in handling either the attende to every detail of the Manti-which should readily interest our readers, and enough to scare a Sanitary Inspector, lehlone identified as belonging to the defendant and one death, and this certainly does not look people or their goods, but it stands to reason we trust that we shall have a good batch of a poor miserable Plague Devil. In Salation Evidence would be called to show that theas though the disease was dying out. Possibly that there is much less liklihood of things get- manuscripts to consider. Articles should not Army parlance, the Devil raged furiouly a defendant purchased the chopper from a black-
ting broken in a house which has been already. exceed two thousand words in length; they day and, we are assured by our Chinese reprter, smith. The blacksmith would prove the sale the wish was father to the thought.
mostly cleared out by its own inmates? must be written on one side of the paper only that after most heroic struggles on the art of of the chopper to the defendant
On conclusion of the Acting Attorney Gen- The fumigation of No. 5 Health District was I expected to see a great deal of fear shown and should reach this office before 5 p.m. on the two Gads, ably assisted by their grit un-eral's address His Lordship held there was not completed at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon; by the people, for our Chinese Members on the Saturday, 29th inst. All articles.to be address washed following; the Plague Devil reeived sufficient evidence to warant going on with and the Sanitary folk are now turning their Sagitary Board are always preaching this, but ed to:
such a thrashing that he was fain to fry for the case, at the most it could only be a grave attention to thoroughly cleaning the houses in not one of them seemed to be at all alarmed. The Editor,
quarter. We understand that terms desur suspicion and, addressing fury to that effect, the district. What a task they have before They were quite orderly and no resistance
they, without retiring, brop ronder are being considered as wego to not guilty and the defendap verdict of them may be judged by reference to another was offered. They certainly seemed to discharged. column, where a correspondent describes what think it a most horrid bore to be made to turn dom
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facture.
The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence; as testi fed to by the best English makers.
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