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Mr. William Ah Ket, a Chinaman, qualified as a barrister and solicitor at the recent law
into the question, we are strongly inclined to | A six-wheel Follett Numbering Machine the belief that the large mortality amongis just what you need. Call and see them fat infants results from the complete ignorance Le Munyon's-Adva, of the laws of hygiene which characterises the lower class Chinese, and their apparent contempt for these laws, even when appic hended, are well-known to all foreigners who have had any dealings with them. It is admitted that the Chinese marry al a
Miss Sarah Wolstenholms, the oldest resident very early age and that the desire for in Radcliffe, Lancashire, Eng., has lived for posterity is their one ruling, passion.nety years in the ams house. She is now
burdening on ber nnely-sikh year. - The result of this is not far to seek ; and as
examinations in Melboume, and was awarded the Supreme Court prize.
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It will save you time to get a Numbering race for ascendancy between the diff rent Machino from LeMunyon, They are some commercial.countries; and the commerce of, thing grand and are guaranteed in every our country, still in its infancy, requires close respect. They can be had at LeMunyon's, 31 | attention and constant nourishment. It is Des Voeux Road, Hongkong.-Advt.
therefore my cament with that you, gentle. THERE is no penying the fact, obseves elh
men, will always bear in mind the duties
to each o.her as fellow-country- S.F. Chronicle, that it is a most desirable men, and work with combined efforts for thing to San Francisco that our commerce ameliorating the condition of our commerce so with the Orient and the Philippine archipelago | as to be able to enjoy the boundless benefits should be encouraged so as to attain its highest which commerce brings in Its train, Gentle development. But the assumption that this men, I again thank you for your kindness, can be reached only through the leasing of the (Loud applause). Government transports to some commercist
Mr. Tam Tez Kong proposed the least of the altachés, line for profit-making at the country's expense nust commend itself to every thoughtful citizen as a mere delusion. All of the steamship companies interested in the transpacific trade 5 are arranging their respective equipments to accommodate the growth of commerce, without regard to the Anay transport service. They naturally covet control of the latter because it will be the nieans of giving them all of the Government's oversea business.
| a well-known writer has observed, "THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial is wonderful that so many children escape and Netherole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with a fair amount of health to carry on the with thanks the following donations to the increasing round of human life and toil in funds of the Hosp tals:- this populous land of China." -Bo it is not ay View
Duly... with China that one is at present called upon to deal; it is with a people protected by the laws and life of a British colony where westem science and hygiene is brought to bear on Eastern civilisation, and where every endeavour should be made to study from birth to death the welfare of the human ixing. It is recognised that the large majority of the Chinese have a great aversion to hospitals of whatsoever a nature, and even if this could be overcome-and there is reason for believing that the superstition is gradually fading away-there is a class of hative, quite apart from the lowest stratum of
Chinese, whose interests have an equal call
1ri. reported that M. Deloncle, Deputy for Indo-China, las proposed in the Chamber a resolution asking the Government to distribute the complete text of the agreements concluded with China on the 7th of September 1901 (the Protocol, etc.), the diplomatic correspondence in reference to the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of the 5th of September 1902 and the evacuation of Shanghai.
HAMBURG paper brought by the mail have it that the directors of the Hamburg-America Line are going to propose to the meeting of shareholders a dividend of al per cent (last year 6 per cent.) The net profit for the year 1902 is M16,000,000 (£800,000); in 190; it was M19,354,521. This year there is to be written
THE Superintendent of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the Building Fund of the Nethersole Maternity Bospitali
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A. Rumjahn C. Ewens... Francisco Tse Yat... Leung Pik Shin U Yuk Chi Leung Yan. Po
off at 1,500,003 (last year Al 14,429.453). This Yung Yik Ting result is said to be much better than was
expected.
THE sale of the famous and historic Chateau d'lf, the fabled prison of Monte Cristo, so familiar to all passengers in or from Marseilles, French War Department. It was pointed out was prevented owing to the intervention of the
that the chateau would be an invaluable site for a signal station to an enemy off the coast in time of war. A syndicate had been formed to buy the place, and turn it into a casino with
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mon professional aid when cases demand it--that some attention should be given. why should not the Government open #lass in connection with one or other of the hospitals where Chinese and or Eurasian ladies could be trained by members of the local medical profession in this most impor-gambling saloons. ant branch of hygiene. We admit that con- siderale difficulty must be experienced in obtaining a desirable number of ladies who would volunteer to be trained as pro- fessional nurses, but surely among the large number of native women there must be those who should certainly furd profitable employment in the direction we have indicated. Attendance should be paid for by Government during probationary period, and when a sufficient number of skilled nurses have made themselves proficient certificates should be granted them, and they be allowed to praether numbers seven members, including two tice as any other duly quatified person in the profession. The should be that Govern different in appearance from ordinary mer- ment invariably afford the pecuniary assist-chants. It is added that the Viceroy has issued ance necessary to endow a scholarship or
the party the passports required. some other form ofgrant, whether yearly or for such other period as may be deemed most ex-
the
A perusal of the report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1902, which was laid before the members of the Sanitary upon the attention of those whose freedom Board at their meeting on Thursday, and they enjoy. It is to that class-the native published in our columns the same day, artizan and clerk, those whose position is again bears testimony to the efforts of the
above that of the ordinary coolie with Hon. Dr. Clark to provide for some mater whom they are naturally disinclined to as my charity in this Colony. The suggestionsociate and yet who cannot afford to sum. is by no means of recent date, but is one which the MH, has for several years past been submitting to the Board for considera tion, and upon which no action appears to have been, or is likely to be taken if the subject is shelved as hitherto "In previous reports for 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901," he writes, “I have called attention AUSTRALIAN CLARETS AND to the great want there is in the Colony
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for some maternity charity, in addition to the Maternity Hospital attached to the Government Civil Hospital, and some attempt will hope, be made to meet this want when the new extension to the Tong Wah Hospital is opened." But we are strongly inclined to the belief that accommodation for maternity cases in the new wing of that admirable institution will prove far too inadequate to have any very beneficial effect upon this most important A. S. WATSON & Co., subject. To analyse and tabulate the various reports issued by the Medical Officer of Health with a view to illustrating the number of deaths in maternity cases would be a most useful task, and the result would certainly present the case for remedial measures in a fresh and forcible manner. But space does not permit of such an exhaus-pedient, to nurses who have qualitied them tive investigation, although evidence is not wanting in the mortality statistics furnished in the two recent reports issued by Dr. Clark. In 190 it appears that no less than 47 deaths were registered as the to Since the above was in type we have re- child birth and to morbid conditions in-
ceived from the Superintendent of the Alice cident to parturition, and, as the M.O.H. Memorial Hospital a donation list to the then observed, "this represents a very building fund of the Maternity Hospital serious loss of young adult lives, and is attached to that institution. The list is undoubtedly due Tu want of proper published in another column, and we attention, and to uncleanly surroundings," must congratulate our Chinese friends According to the statistics
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in the report for 1902, the estimated Chinese population of the Colony to the middle of last year was 293,300, while the births registered among the native community during that period was go6, although, as he points out, the figures do not give an accurate record of the total number of births as many infants that die during the first month or so of life remain unregistered. In the absence of trustworthy statistics we must be content to arrive at conclusions in a You can get a Numbering Machine from general way, but, unfortunately, in this Le Munyon's that will number from I to matter it is impossible to go too far wrong.
1,000,000.—Advt. The corrected birth-rate among the Chinese alone is 5.3 per 1,000, while the number of deaths of inlants under one year of age was 1,199 or 17,6 of the total deaths, a rale which, as Dr. Clark observes, is far to high even for a tropical climate. The infant death rate among the non-Chi- PHOTOGRAPHIC nese community during the year was 196.6
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THE Maharani of Jaipur has given one lakh o rupees (7,000) to the Indian peoples' famine fund.
THE show of hands, at a recent Y.M.C.A. debate at Shanghai, proclaimed an overwhelm
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UNITED States statistics for 19oz show the unprecedented total selling valuation of the year's crops to he £511,539,083.
duly registered in Hongkong; and letters of THE Weiheiwei Gold Mining Co., Ld, has been
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THE Hai Wapu has received telegraphic advice from the Viceroy un Fang, of the Shen-Kan Provinces, to the effect that five Russians had arrived in Kanseh from li (the New Dominioa) and asked for passports to proceed to Thibet. The Russian party alloge
Chinese servants and they are described as
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TYPHOID lerrors need oppress the oyster- eater so longer. An expert has come forward to prove that by a course of cold water treat- ment the bivalve can be made to disgorge any immersed in a tub of pure, cold running water germs it may contain. The oysters are to be
for a few moments, and a fresh supply is then to be introduced, together with a large lump of salt. This in the emetic. With the next supply of water a handful of oatmeal, with a sprinkling of salt, may be given as a peace- offering, and the oysters are left there for twenty-four hours. Then the water is again changed, and the oysters are ready for con- sumption.
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COLLISION IN CAP-SUL-MUN.
ACTION FOR DAMAGES,
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The Supreme Court sat in Admiralty juris- diction this morning, with Mr. Basil Taylor, late R. N., Assistant-Harbourmaster, as w. Meigh Goodman, to hear the nautical assessor to the Chief Justice, Sir
of Marius Guion, plaintiff, versus the ra. gistered cargo junk No. 11, defendant. The.. plaintiff sued-be-defendant for damages. alleged to have been caused by a collision: between the s.s. Eclair and the junk. "Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C. (instrueled by Mr. l'aget Helt, of Messrs, Moussey and Brullos), appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. B. E Pollack, K., (instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Al- mada e Castro), for the defendant,
In the pleadings it is stated that the collision occurred at 7.30 on the evening of the sth November last, acar the S. end of the Cap Sut Mun Strait, on that side of the channel lying on the Eclair's starboard side. A moderate 50Nly wind was, blowing, the weather was dark 5 and fine, and a flood tide was setting from two or three miles an hour. When the junk was first
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25 the Eclair ported the helm, and reversed the engines to full speed astein. The bow of the junk struck the port baw of the Eclair about three feet from the stern. The plaintiff attributes the following faults to the junk':-(1) She carried no lights, (2) improperly starboarded her helm, (3) no proper lookout was kept, and (4) was navigated in a reckless and unseamanlike manner.
Last evening, the Chinese citizens of the Colony tendered a farewell banquet to Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, KCMG, the Connaught Hotel, which was profusely decorated with bunting, evergreens, variegated electric lamps and Japanese lanterns. Fully one hundred and fifty persons sat down to dinner, and at 7p.m. the guest of the evening arrived escorted by some of his attachés. He was received by the Hon Dr. Io Kai, C.MG., Hon. Wei A Yuk, and Messrs. Fung Wa Chun, Chan Kung Yue and several others. The Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., was in the chair, Sir Liang being supported on his right by the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, and on the left by the Hon, Wei A Yuk.
The following was the menu
Hare Soup.
Pigeon on toast.
Pate fals gras on toast, Lagled Chicken and Spinach. Fillet of H. Pate this gain aspic Jelly. Reast sucking pist Roast Saddle of Mutton. Roast Turkey and hamu, King's pudding. Chocolate pudding. Marchina jelly. Fruit in Senso11. Τεή, Coffee,
Coces
The Chairman submitted the health of King Edward, which was right royally drunk, the band of the Ocean playing the National anthem. Following that, the Hon. Wei A Yuk❘ toasted the Emperor of China, and subre quently.
Mr. Fung WaChün rose and, after asking the company present to drink to the health of the guest, said-
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. We meet here this evening to bid farewell to His Excellency Sir Chên Tung Liang Chêng our own country man. I ask you all to join me in heartily drinking his health and wishing him a bon voyage (applause). As you are aware His Excellency is possessed of eminent abilities and wide experiences, you may rest assured that on his mission to Amenca, Spain, and Pera this time he will be able to prove not only to be worthy of the high esteem SHAREHOLLERS in the Shanghai Dock Com-
in which he is had but also to the outside pany will be glad to learn that in addition to the
world that in time China has appointed a ordinary winter overhaul of steamers 1 elonging proper man in the proper place, as regards to Incal shipping firms, and the order lately international dealings (loud applause). By secured for five cruisers for the U.S. Govern.
his present appointment His Excellency has ment of the Philippines, they have since
a good opportunity of utilising to the best ad- obtained orders for one screw and three paddle-vantagehis enlightened education and of render wheel tow boats, 18 cargo lighters, of from one hundred to six hundred tons each, a steam
gardage boat, several steam launches, and new boilers both for ocean and land purposes. The U.S. Transport Burnside is also having extensive repairs and alterations effecient and
is also to receive a thorough overhaul, which the Spanish steamer Vizcaya, daily expected,
will occupy the Company several weeks.- Shanghai Mercury.
per 1,000 as compared with 129.2 per 1,000 in the previous year, but among the Chinese population the deaths of infants under one year of age exceed the total number of Chi- nese births, 966, and even when all deaths under one month are assumed to have been unregistered the infant death-rate THE highest regularly inhabited place in the works out at 79 6 per 1,000. As the M.O.H. world is the Buddhist monastery, Halme, is THE habit of ether drinking is known to be VIEW HOTEL. observes this means either that the Chinese Thibet, which is sixteent ousand feet above sea prevalent in some parts of Russia as of East
infant death-rate is enormous or that a con- siderable number of births remain unregis tered or perhaps that a number of infants are brought into the Colony from the main land and die here. In either case the con. dition is a most unsatisfactory one and
Tua funeral of Prince Komatsu took place calls for some remedial measure. The
today in Japan. in Hongkong, flags were great bulk of these deaths of Chinese half-masted, and warships in harbour fired infants are attributed to diseases of a con- minute-guns. vulsive type, but further investigation. is needed into the question of the causation of AT the annual meeting of the Shanghai Land lavestment Co., Ld., it was unanimously agreed this high death rate among Chinese infants." to increase the sum devoted to the Board of While agreeing with the Medical Officer of Directors from TIs. 2,500 to Tls. 5,000 per Health that further investigation is needed annum.
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ing valuable services both to his country and his countrymen trading in the states (applaust). I am sure when I say, may be, on his retum, be promoted to the highest position in China, I simply echo the feelings of all you present. Let us give three hearty cheers for His Ex- cellency (loud cheers).
His Excellency Sir Liang Chêng responded. He said Mr. Chairman, Mr. Fung Wa Chin and gentlemen. I pass in Hongkong en route to America, to which I am being sent by my Im-
the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day A PLAGUE Victim found at Glenealy during fruitless. An idea of the extent to which the banquet for which I am extreme'y grateful. makes the 26th case since the opening of the
new year.
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perial Master. Not regarding me as herb and Prussia, and all the effts of the authorities to "grass`but with genuine feelings of countryman. combat the evil have hitherto been almost ship. you have so kindly invited me to this grand
I have been appointed Minister to three coun- tries, I am afraid that with such poor ability as I possess, (no no!) I shall not be compet ent to discharge my responsible duties to the satisfaction of my countrymen, but, how ever, any opportunity by which the com mercial interest of China can be benefited I will not let slip by but take fit advantage of, in the hope of repairing ton
habit prevails may be gathered from reports given in the Russian hewspapers of a recent accident- which occurred at a place called Trossno. Ether is drunk by firmers on festive occasions, when it appears to be consumed in pailluts, says the British Medical Journal. | A farmer celebrating his son's wedding in the fulness of his hospitality got in two pails of
ether. During the process of decanting the ether into bottles a violent explosion took place, by which six children were killed, and one adult dangerously, and fourteen others more or less severely injured. AG. Girault.
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small extent the kindness of my Imperial Master and also meeting the wishes of my countrymen trading abroad (loud applause). You are well aware there is, at present a hot
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The defendant, vis, Ching Hin Cheung, master and owner of the junk, which is named Sun Shing Lee, says that the collision occurred at about seven o'clock, about zco cheongs past the S. end of the Cap Sui Mun pass. A light N.ly wind was blowing, and it was a clear stary night, the moon, a very small one indeed, wat about to set behind the hills. It was about slack tide, the junk was travelling about two miles an hour in a SElly direction, and a white masthead light was exbibited. When first seen, the other ship was about 300, or 400 cheongs off, and nearly end on; she exbibited a white and a red light To avoid collision, the junk was kept on her course till it was seen that the only chance of avoiding a collision was to put the helm hard aport, which was done accordingly, 'mmediately before the helm was put over, the six men aboard the junk shouted to attract the attention of those aboard the steamer. The bow of the junk struck the port bow of the steamer, The defendant attributes fault to the other ship as follows Those on board the Eclai, did not keep a proper lookout, and the Eclair did not keep out of the way of the junk, as she ought to have done. The engines of the Felair were not slackened and stopped ard reversed in sufficient time to avoid the colli. sion.
Evidence was led, and the case adjourned.
V. R. C
FORTHCOMING RACE:
Yesterday afternoon the stroke oarsmen of the different boats to row the mile race on the 21st March selected their crews as follows:-:
Thistle). A. Fredericks, stroke; R. C. Wit chell, H. S. Holmes, 1. M. Bain, and R. Hen derson, cox.
A.
Rose-A E. Alves, stroke; G. H.. Rubie, L
Musso, F. K. Tata, and C. M. Alves, coré Leek~~~A‚ ̈ ́A.--Alves, stroke; F. D. Bain, J Millar, J: P. Jordan, and F. W. White, cox.
Kornblume-J. H. Hance, stroke; H. C Austin, H. Eyre, H. W. Sayer, and 5. A1-Sethi
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SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE. Indian (Sulsang) 28th inst. - English (Valetta) 28th inst.“ German (Preussen) 3rd prox. German (Prins Heinrich) 5th prox. American (Hongkong Maru) 5th prox. American (Doric) 21st prox.
The N. P. S. Co.'s steamer Pleiades sailed from Yokolima for Victoria and Tacoma on the 24th inst.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s R.M.S. Empress of China left Vancouver p.m., on Tuesday, the 24th inst., for this port.
The N. Y. K. Co.'s steamer Kinskiu Maru
(Bombay Line) left Shanghai for this part on the 25th inst, and is expected to arrive here on the ist prox.
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