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-Public-Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903

The objects and reasons for the ordinance are as follows

The objects of this amending ordinar ce is to effect certain amendments in the principal ordinance principally on the recommendation of the Sanitary Board.

The practical werking of the ordinance has shown, these amendments to be necessary. An Amendment is also maje in the arbitration clause by which power in confered upon the arbitrators, provided for in the ordinance, to take into their consideration, in determining the amount of compensation which may be payable in any given c.se, the fact that the rental of the premises is enhanced by reason of its being overcrowded; and by direction of the Secretary of State amendments are made to various sections of the Principal ordinance by which a sanitary department is created and the Principal Civil "Medical Ricer is constituted its administrative head.

In order to give effect to the Board's regnin mendation a new definition of the expression "external fir" is submitted to Council. The Bond having reported that section 48 of the Principal Ordinance as it stand is unworkable, that sertion is repealed by the amending ordinance and has been recast to accord with the Board's recommendation. The object is to expedite and facilitate legal action in case of overcrowding. The present precedure is too cumbrous.

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prifectly regular. After two engagements, in which the (nese displayed considerable courage in acting against regular troops, and suffered some lusses, the opposition collapsed That these attacks upon our forces were en- conraged by the then Viceroy there can be little doubt. My inability to permit the Chinese Customs to function within the limits of the Calo y was deeply resented by Ris Excellency, and he refused in send a hinese official to be present at the ceremony of hoisting the flag on the 17th, pui, in consequence of the evidence

PROMISING RESULTS.

19, 1903.

He assured him that the, tact and patience tions and the conscientious care given to the with which he had presided over their delibera, administration of affairs would abide with them for ever.

tive of Chinese, referred to the consommate Hon. Dr.. Ho Kai, as senior representa tact, courtesy, fairness and sound judgment displayed by H. E., as president of the Council. He had won the confidence and respect of the. Chinese, which would be fruitful of the best results in he colony and the New Territories Paul's remarks, and joined with him in expres

Hen. Dickson cordially agreed with Sir

prosperity for all times. ing a wish that H.E. might enjoy health and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

qualified medical practitioner has been station- of the New Territory establishment, a Chinosemond the formation of a body of Trustees, at ed, whose services have been freely availed of sary operation of remodelling this overcrowded who disposal funds will be placed for the neces- by the inhabitants and who is the public city. That any system of sanitation with oven vaccinator of the district. The question of scrupulous cleanliness could render healthy Education has been carefully considered, Aarens in which the registered population, is school is about to be established at Un-long 1,000 to the acre, or 640,000 to the square where English will be taught, and the pro- mile, (and I have reason to believe that visions of the Education Code are being ex tended to the Vernacular Schools of the below the

the registered population is considerably various districts.

real density), is not to be xpected. The difficulty must be solved by the creation of a new city by resumption, operation of such a Trust, as is proposed, there re-sale, and reconstruction, and with the steady

of Victoria, should not be effected within is no reason why this necessary improvement

twenty years a moderate cost to the the happy distinction of bearing the lightest inhabitants, who it must be remembered have burden of taxation of any Colony in the British ciples of sanitation by preventing surface over- Empire. (Applause.) In the elementary prin- crowding we are far behind the Chinese, who, even in their largest cities, keep down the gen eral height of their houses to one storey. When Victoria has been reconstructed I hope that the four-storied tenement house will have ceased to exist.

the complicity of the Viceroy with the leaders ofthe attacks upon our troops, it was decided to policy in the New Territory, as on their sounds I have recapitulated the general lines of occupy that portion of Sam Chun Valley lyingness will depend the success or failure of this to the north of the boundary line including the assimilation with the Colony of a large agricul important market town of Sam Chun. This. tural population with a reputation for turba- was eff cted by a joint Naval and Military ex- lance, suspicious of foreigners, and with a pedition which met with no opposition, and rooted objection to any interference with their the district was held for a month by a Military settled habits or customs. It is yet too soon force under command of Major Prendergast, to judge of the, results, but so far they are RE., who acquired the coufidence of the promising. The number of crimes reported people insured the security of their persons in the year 19:0 was 539, and this year 257, and property; assisted them in making good which is equal for the entire year to 343 reads; and ultimately, under instruction from Within the same period we have been able Her Late Majesty's Government, withdrew from the district amid demonstrations of good will

to reduce the police force from 171 to 104 Thanks to the firmness, fairness and tact from the inhabitants, to when the presence of of the public officers immediately dealing with our troops had brought freedom from taxation, the people, confidence has been established: security of their property, and a market for and the inhabitants have learnt to appreciate their produce.

the benefits of the honest performance of official duties, and freedom from that official rapacity so prevalent under the Chinese system. of this there was gratifying evidence in 1901 during the serious disturbance in the district adjoining the New Territory when the people who, two years before, had faced our troops with arms in their hands, sent a deputation of elders to request that would send out to the frontier a small military force to prevent the entrance of disturbers of the peace, with whom they were no longer in sympathy, deshing to pursue their avocations with the quiet and security to which us British subjects. they had become accustomed.

CO-OPERATION.

EDUCATION.

But no reconstruction of the city or advance of material wealth should be allowed to inter- fere with the development by education of the the foundation upon which our hopes must rest minds and character of the people. This is for the stability of the Colony of the future, and it is not being neglected. As the result of a Commission on the subject, new Code has been arranged that will improve the present system. Petitions were received from the European residents praying for the establish igent of a school for the separate instruction of European children, and from Chinese residents praying for the establishment of a school for the education of the better classes of Chinese. Both proposals were approved. The English HONGKOND' PROSPERITY.

School has been established in Kowloon by But in laying the foundations for the deve kindness of Mr. Ho Tung, by whose per fopment of the New Territory, the great mission a school just completed by him possibilites of which have yet to be fully at considerable expense, and presented to the realized, we must not forget the rapid growth Colony as a mixed school for both races, was of Hongkong and its shipping trade. In 1893 devoted to the purpose of a school for Europeans, inhabitants, its assessed value was $4,511,947,building a school in Yaumati, which is now in the Colony of Hongtoug contained 254,400 the Government undertaking to replace it by and the total shipping entered and cleared was course of construction. The school for the 17,265,7Bolens. In 1905 the population, includ children of the better classes of Chinese bas ing the New Territory, as estimated by the been established by private enterprise.. Registrar General, is 433,660, the assessed value $8,749,643, and the shipping 23,027,455 tons (Applause)

Order having licen restored, the question had A similar course is taken with respect to see- to be reconsidered as to the system on which this tions 15 and 154 of the principal ordinance; apparently turbulent population of the newly and on the recommendation of the Board sub-acquired territory should be governed. Two sections (3) and (4) of section 175 are transpos- courses presen ed themselves-repression, or ed in the amending ordinance.

co-operation. The leaders of the people had The amnding ordinance niso deletes the last been, almost to a man, actively engaged in the clause the proviso) of secti n. 46 of the operations against us, but if these leaders were principal ordinance. This has been done on put aside and degraded from the position of the recommendation of the Sanitary Board incal consideration and authority hitherto en bremse, as the section stands, it is found to jayed by them, we should have been face in prevent any finality, in determining the number face with a hostile population, without the of persons who may inhabt a floor as by

means of commusicaling with them through altering the size of a cubicle a man may at trusted local intermediaries whose assistance is present increase or decrease the number of

so essential to good government. I have had persons allowed The proviso was a concession some experience in coercion. In certain situa- made at the time when it was believed that

tions it becomes necessary. But it engenders every third house, would be taken down and an ever deepening distrust, atrophies local lateral windows in cubicles theirby provided.

The words "room" and "cubicle" heretofore of time, becomes day by day more difficult to interest in preserving order, and, with the lapse having in many instances the same meaning abandon without danger, to the public safety, will for the future have a distinct meaning and felt besides that these leaders would not have be dealt with under separate sections of the been guilty of such egregious folly had they ordinance, and by the amendmets made at

not believed the scandalous statements of our the 'oard's suggestion a "cubicle (ie, a sub-intentions that were sa freely circulated, and, division of a room) as soon as it has a window believing them, I could not withlinld a niced of one tenth of the floor area becomes a "room" sympathy for misga ded men who dared to The amendments theref re do not prevent ince in open fight an overwhelining power in "cubicles in future linuses but only prevent defence of their customs and their homes. the existence of windowless cubicles, except therefore chose the latter course, and, with the where such cubicles exist in rooms which are able assistance of Mr. Stewart Lockhart, whose themselves sufficiently lighted.

excellent work in the pacification and arrange- ment of the Ne Teiritory is well known to the Honourable Members of this Council, Instinct with boundless activity. met the elders and gentry of the districts at Taip tu and Ping Shan, disabused their aninds as to their fears, divided the Territory into eight districts and forty-seven sub-districts, and appointed the village elders as district elders with judicial power to deal with petty cases, giving at the same time to Mr. Lockhart a generi controlling power with coördinate jurisdiction. As a matter of fact the elders, being satisfied of our just intentions, havo never exercised their jurisdiction, bat have left these cases to be dealt with first by Mr. Stewart Lockhart, and, after his retum to the duties of Colonial Secretary, 10 Mr. Hallifax. Police Vagistrale at Tai-pó Ilu, whose services are more frequently in demand as an Arbitrator than as a Magistrate, his decisions being readily accepted.

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Bill read a first time.

COMMITTEE

The Council then went into committee m the following bills-An Ordinance to further amend the Magistrates Ordinance 1890, and an ordinance to provide for the recovery of Charges incurred by the Colony on account of certain undesirable persons introduced into the Colony.

The Magistrates Ordinance was subsequently read a third time and passed.

The Hon. Gersham Stewart asked, in the absence of the ton, Pollock, that the other ordinance be allowed to stand over as it con taired a very punishing clause to shippers hat they should be responsible for the health

eir passengers for six months

Colonial Secretary said that in iteri

The Qur'ony and in justice to the ratepayers the Government was called upon to take some measures

the w had no connection with the Colony at all from entering our asylum and excluding our own people. In fact the matter was very urgent, and only the uber day the P.C.M.O. 5. oke to him regarding the building of another asylum at an estimated cost of about $55,000..

H.E. said the principle they should go upon would be gine that was fair to the shippers as well as the Colony. He suggested that a period of three months might be inserted in the bill, but at any rate thought there should be a reasonable probability or something to show the owners or captains of ships that a per- son was not all right when he went on board.

The further consideration of the bill was postponed,

CITY BOUNDARIES

The Attorney General moved the third read. ing of a bill entitled an midinance to define the Boundries of the City of Victoria..

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Bill read a third time and passed, The Council adjourned sine die.

SIR HENRY'S 'FAREWELL. HIS FIVE YEARS' ADMINISTRATION.

H. E. the Governor then rose and said: Honourable Members of the Legislative Cou cit,As this is the last occasion on which shall have the hnuour of presiding over your deliberations, propose with your permission to review as shortly as I can the condition of the Colony during the five years of my adminis tration of this Government,

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The Revenue, which in 1898, was $2,784,840, is estimated for the current year at $1.583,295, and, in the Estimates accepted by you for 1904 thanks to the largely increased tender for the Optum, farm, it is stated at $6,208,308. In whatever direction we turn we and a Colony

OUR DOCKYARDS,

The reclamation of Western Fraya ia com pleted. The Eastern Praya reclamation is only delayed by demands by the Admiralty and War Office at home that this Government considers unreasonable and hopes to have modified. All around the Kowloon, Peninsula great schemes of reclamation are in progress. At Quarry Bay a graving doci is being con- structed by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, that will be capable of docking the largest ships afloat; while another dock is being constructed by the Naval Authorities in the very heart of the City. I wish that I couid congratulate you upon the latter, but, however we 'tmay, deplore the injury to the city by the severance of its continui y by the Naval Backyard, we must mot forget that no priest was made by the Co- lony until after the work of construction had the establishment of police stations was pro- advanced considerably and a large amount of ceeded with at once, and a main road laid out, money had been spent. Even now the Ad- which has since been constructed to T'ai pómiralty are prepared to hand over the dock. Hu a distance of 18 miles at a cost of $225,133. yard to the Colony, but on This excellent read gives access to the centre onerous that even by this wealthy community conditions 50 of the New Territory and obviates the necessity they could not be accepted. Still, the ex- of communicating by sea, a passage not un-penditure of some thirty millions of dollars in attended by danger in rough or foggy weather. the execution of the works on the Naval Ex- The construction of the road was carried out tension and Quarry Bay docks cannot fail to without difficulty or opposition, the claims of increase the prosperity of the Colony, owners whose lands were acquired being settled at once by arrangement or arbitration.

TUDIVE.

PUBLIC WORKS.

Nor has the Government been remiss in Having arranged for Police Stations and Public Works. During the term of my ad- the patrol of the territorial waters surrounding ministration $1,741,579 have been expended the 390 miles of newly acquired coast line, to Public Works Extraordinary. The reservoir check the prevalent robberies ashere and afloat, at Wong-nei-chong, of a capacity of 33,000,000 a, trigonometrical and cadastral survey was gallons, has been completed, and the reservoir entered upon, the services of a staff of sar- and gravitation scheme for Kowloon is being veyous and demarcators having been obtained carried out at an estimated expense of $852,000 from the Surveyor General's department of The initial works are in progress for the new India. The trigonometrical survey has been Reservoir at Tytam Tuk, to hold 1,200,000,000 completed, and 345,926 lets have been de-gallons. Blake Pier has been built, and the marcated.

foundations of the new Law Courts are now ready for the superstructure of which the found. ation stone was laid by me on the 12th instant. Thef undations ofthe large new Western Market have been completed and the superstructure of tract for that of the former has been let and for the latter building has been begun, while a con-

acquired for the new Post Office and plans for the new Harbour Office. A site has been it have been prepared and approved and a con- plause) These imporant buildings will be tract for the found tinns has been let. p. pushed forwardwithout delay.

CULTIVATION,

SANITATION.

A Land Court was established to deal readily and inexpensively with the holdings claims, of which 16,231 have been presented to the Land Court The principal cultivation is sugar, and in the Tsin Wan district, pineapples sugar canes were of a poor quality, and the are grown. I found on inspection that the neapples of i.ferior flavour, while the primi- five stone mills in use leave a large percentage of juice in the crushed megasse. A number of canes of the best varieties were obtained from Java and Jeming and have been distributed to I arrived at a time when a most importat the sugar farmers, and two Chatanooga steel and far-reaching change was about to be made mills were also imported, and lent to large cised the inds of fie community to a greater But the absorbing question that has exer in the condition of the Colony, Hongkong, growers for experiment. Good varielies of which was ceded to Great Britain in 1841, bad pintapples were imported from Ceylon for dis-this questa has beca debated year by year extent than all others is that of Sanitation. developed into a great port, with a populationibution. While the cultivated. land is now of 2187 00 Its area, including the point of

as in cach recurring year plague claimed its r: clically confined to the valleys it is evident victims by hundrede, and malaria scourged the Kowloon Peninsula, was 32-quare miles. The from the terracing of the hills that they too yield- northern shores of the Harbour were Chinese ed their share of wealth giving crops in the past, Colony of Professor Siguson and Mir. Osbert community. In May, 1903, the visit to the territory; at Sam-shui-pu, Cap-sui-moon and and I have life doubt that suitable cultivation Chadwick, G.M.G., resulted in valuable reports Fu-ti-moon Chinese Custom-houses were es will be sumed in the future. In the meantime tablished, and Chinese Customs cruisers

on the defective cons suction of Ch nese houses, operated within the ill-defined harbour is planted, a d experiments are now being inade consolidated Public Heath Ordnance has over 170,000 fir and cumpler trees have been and in pursuance of their recommendations a to the great irritation of the community. The Kowloon extension agreement, signed on the

with the Agave Riety, or sisal hemp plant, been passed, und-r the provisions of which the 8th June, 1898, remedied this anomalous state

that may yet, I hope, introduce an impart nt houses of the fature will be of a more sanitary of affairs in a harbour that, under the fostering ment of succulent grasses on the suitable ball the Chinese part of the City of Victoria will be industry into the Colony, while the establish type and the surface overcrowding that is found in care of Great Britain, had grown into the posi- sides aught, if successful, to go a long way no longer possible, tion of the third part in the world, the tonnage towards solving the question of the supply of

An able bacteriologist of whose shipping bad in twenty years increased fresh meat to Hongkong.

has been added to the permanent staff, for from 5,000,000 10 17,033,000 Under its pro.

whom a suitable Laboratory is being built, and visions it became my duty as the representative

from his original reseaches valuable results of Her late Majesty the Quees to assume the

have already have obtained, and still more government of over 400 additional square miles

important discoveries may be expected in the of territory, with a popa'ation of over 100,000,

been more successful here than in other count future. So far it cannot be said that we have and also over the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep

ries in discovering the causes or checking the Bay. This agreement gave for the first time complete control over the waters of the harbour

periments made during the epidemic of this ravages of plague, but investigation and ex and its approaches and removed the causes of

year afford a hope that next year may see a the long felt irritation.

step in advance in prevention and treatment epidemic form. should unhappily the plague again develop in

THE NEW TERRITORY,

LEPERS.

MALARIA.

TREATY PORTS,

It was with great pleasure that I saw at last accomplished the opening of additional Treaty Ports and ports of call on the West River. The proposals now sanctioned by Treaty were formally accepted by the Tsung-li Yamen in Iwo interviews that I had with that body at Peking in 1900. They had the approval of Sir. Robert Hart, and also of the late Li Hung Chang, but the Committee appointed by the Viceroy to report upon them reported unfavourably and the matter was shelved, in spite of frequent protests, until the whole position was considered by the Treaty Com- missioners and the proposals were definitely accepted. The value of Weichow on the East River may not be so apparent at present, but it was added at my suggestion as, in my opinion, it may one day be a valuable link in the direct North and Hongkong, the land communication trade between the rich East River valley to the

engineering difficulties. (Applause.) between Weichow and Mirs Bay presenting no

ABOUNDING CHARITY AND GENEROSITY, During the eventiul five years of my admin- istration Hongkong has been brought face to face with typhoon, war, pestilence and famine, and I look back with admiration to the behavi- Gur of the Colony in every, contingency, Ab. ounding charity and generosity accompany the buoyant cnergy of the community, and I find that within the five years over $425,000 have phans of our saldiers and sailors who fell in the been subscribed in aid of the widows and or

people of Kwangsi, in aid of the sufferers by South African war, in aid of the fanine striken

the destructive typhoon of 19:0, and in aid of the fund for the erection in London of a mem". orial to our late revered and beloved Queen, and this in addition to the local charities of the but few realize the extent, or the economy and Chinese portion of the community, of which

has been my pleasant duty to open two hospitals, ability with which they are administered. It within the year, built by the Chinese com

unity at an expense of $140,000, and affording accommodation to 136 patients. An equally pleasant task has been the opening this mouth of the Victoria Jubilee Hospital for Women and Children.on Barker Road, built by joint sub- scription and grant from Colonial funds in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her Majesty the tale Queen..

"GOVERNMENT FAIR AND JUST"

Hon. Gershom Stewart observed that the grow larger and larger. He referred to his Colony owed to Sir Henry a debt which would effort to combat the plague, and many other of the works with which he was associated, the much that had not been made public. remarking that they were also indebted to him

the Colony during the Governor's administra- Col. Brown alluded to military progress in ion, and on behalf of the officers and men under his command wished him and Lady Blake Godspeed and every enjoyment, in that interesting and beautiful island to which they were going, of many happy days.

members of the Council and public servants The Attorney General, on behalf of the official

respectfal farewell, and also referred to the generally of the Colony, bade Sir Henry a able officer who was now left to administer the Government.

1 R., in reply, thanked the hon. members for the kindness with which they had spoken, and said he felt it very deeply, but assured them that he entirely concurred in the remarks of the Attorney General, and thought. the Colony might be congratulated upon its administration being left in the hands of a man who had the confidence of the whole counmanity (applause).

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Finance Committee was held immediately after the Council, Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, presiding.

The following votes were submitted-and-the- Committee agreed to recommend that they be adopted by the Council —

PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY. works, extraordinary, to meet the cost of A sum of $1,200 in aid of the vote public supplying and erecting sixteen tanks in Nos, g and To Health Districts.

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.

A sum of $1,000 in aid of the vote, public Works, annually recurrent, to meet the cust during the current year of the work of con structing new roofs for the Government Civil Hospital.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE.

A sum of $150 in aid of the vote, public works, annually recurrent, to meet cost of pairing and removing the flag staff at the Harbour Master's office.

THE MYSTERIOUS CATTLE DISEASE. A sum of $1,500 in aid of the vole, sanitary department, under other charges, to meet the cost of investigating a certain periodically recurring cattle disease.

THE GAOL

A further sum of $1,500, in aid of the vote gaol, other charges, for the following items:- (1) Provisions for Prisoners....... $ 1,000 (2.) Materials for remunerative indus-

Try,

500

Total $ 1,500 VICTORIA HOSPITAL.

A sum of $1,133 in aid of the vote public works, extraordinary, to meet the cost of gas and water services for the Victoria Hospital:-

(1.) Gas service,... (2.) Water service,

Total,

This was all the business.

THE

.. S 666.

... 4447

...$2,133

Co-Day ́s Abvertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

on

MONDAY,

the 23rd November, 1903, at Noon, at the Wardley Street Wharf, The Sicam-launches

"LEUNG SHING"

AND

"LEE CHOY" The Leung Shing (Rising Stor) was built in 1894, of Teak with Steel Frames, by the Hongkong and Whampoa Lock Company, and the Lee Choy was built in 1902, of Teak and Wood Frames, by Chinese Boat-Buil.ers. PARTICULARS OF THE LAUNCHES. LEUNG SHING (RISING STAR).

HULL:

81 R. o in.

111

85 ft. 0 in.

Length, over all...... Breadth at main deck ................

between perpendiculars

Depth moulded.

at water deck ......................................... passenger accommodation Diameter of H. P. Cylinder

I will not weary you, with further figures. I desire but to emphasise some of the salient features of the time during which I have been

solved on the taking over of the New Territory, Governor of the Colony. I have especially dwelt upon the treatment of the problem to be

because on the experience of the 400,000 Chinese in this Colony is formed the Chinese estimate of British justice and of the security that is to be found under the British Bag, and as surely as the waters of the great rivers Blow surely will the estimate of our qualities as a from the snow capped mountains to the sea so nation flow from sea to mountain following the lines of trade to their extremest Imits. (Ap plause.) To every one of us who lifsis eyes from Stroke the immediale exigencies of the business of the hour and looks into the future, this conviction and apart from our national sense of justice carries with it a sense of great responsibility, compels us so to deal with the Chinese people with whom we come in conta as to satisfy them that in Hongkong they will find a Gov- | Length destinies of a free community where com. ernine fair and just, helping to shape the Breadth..

that security without which no commerce can mercial activity is sustained and developed by Engines....

Depth ...

Bailer expand. (Loud applause.)

"GOOD-BYE"

Length

Diameter Pressure

of L. P.

ENGINES:

13 ft. 0 in. 13 . 5 in.

6 ft. 9 in.

118

Jo it.

20 in.

12 in.

5

To-day's

Advertisements.

VICTORIA

山

CHAPTER,

No. 525, E.C.

of the above CHAPTER will be held at CONVOCATION of EMERGENCY

the FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, TO- NIGHT, the 19th instant, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting Companions are cordially Invited to attend.

Hongkong, 19th November, 1903. 183790

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

INFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that GUN PRACU TICE will take place from the undermen tioned Batteries and on the dates as specified opposite :-

Fly Point and Upper Belcher Batteries in a

direction to the South of Chung Hua) island at a range of about 4,500 yards, on the 25th November, 1903. Stonecutters South Shore and East Batteries in a South-Westerly direction at ranges from 2,000 to 3,000 yards, on the 27th November, 1903.

Lyemun (Pak-sha-wan and Sy-wan Batteries) in the direction of the entrance to Junk Bay at-ranges from 2,000 to 4,000. yards, on the 28th November, 1903. Practice will commence at 9 A.M. daily, and end about r A.M. daily, if the range is clear.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 19th November, 1903.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

[13886

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

on WEDNESDAY,

at

the 25th November, 1903, at to AM

H.M. NAVAL YARD, SUNDRY NAVAL, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES, Comprising:-

Boat's Boiler (about 40 H.P.),,

Old Brass, Copper, Iron, Paper Stuf

Rags, Canvas, Clothing, Implements,

&C.,

&

&c.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS OF SALE:-As customary.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers, Hongkong, 19th November, 1903. [13898

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA

THE Steamship

"ARRATOON APCAR," Captain E. Fey, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 24th instant, at 3 F.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,

Agents.

Hangkong, 19th November, 1903.

[13900

THE AMERICAN ASIATIC STEAM- SHIP COMPANY.

STEAMSHIP SERVICE FOR NEW YORK VIA THE SUEZ CANAL. *HE Company's Steamship

THE

#

HERMISTON,"

Captain W. T. Bain, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 25th November, to be followed by the steamship

#f

'HIMIRA,"

Capt. Lockbart, on or about MONDAY, the 21st December

For Freight, &c., apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Agents, Hongkong, 19th November, 1903. [г3840

Intimation.

V

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

IS.

"BLACK&WHITE"

•BOILER:

7 ft.

8 ft.. 120 lbs.

"

LEE CHOY.

65 ft. 12 ft.

6 fl,

..7 by 14 ft. 5) by 60. Pressure

120 lbs. The Steam-launches can be inspected from this date within the Breakwater'in Causeway Bay.

TERMS: As usual,

For further particulars, apply to

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 19th November, 1903. [13928 AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, FROM YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND SHANGHAI

In the treatment of malaria we have profited been actuated by a strong sense of public duty, E Company's Steamship

grateful remembrance of the assistance and I shall leave the Colony with a lasting and Near the town of Un-long 1 found on my first visit a settlement of about 25 lepers, who

support that I have invariably received from the extensive swamp on a slight elevation approa- were compelled to live in the middle of on

members of this Council which includes all the ched by a rough causeway and almost under

members of my Executive Council Fair and independent criticism no honest Government people had built, af pieces of board, miserable

finished Ordinances bear witness to the care water in rainy weather. Here these afflicted

need fear, nor prudent Governor ignore, and the changes between rough hewn Bills and the shanties that afforded no protection from rain

with which the members of this Council, especial- or the chill winter winds. Here they huddled It will be in your recollection, gentlemen, the villages where, though nut permitted to together at night, while by day they approached,

the unofficial members, have examined the that the taking over of the New Territory was

measures introduced, and the readiness of the enter the houses, they not accomplislied without some trouble. The supplied with food.

were charitably

Government to yield to sound objections. In a Hard by was an un- delimitation of the Northern boundary had to occupied hill

Council whose discussion and debates have be arranged, and when it had been finally Here a sufficient area was walled off, enclosing experiments of Celli, Ross and other investigate has ever entered, my duties have been light

with a well at its base. by the light thrown upon its causation by the settled on the 18th March, 1, at the request of the well, and small houses have been erected ors, and systematic arrangements have been indeed, and in bidding this Council farewell

and into which no element of personal rancour the Chinese Government made through the by the Public Works department that afford made to control the nullahs and pon's in which British Minister at Peking, deferred the hoist shelter from cold and rain. The lepers still the Anopheles masquito has hitherto bred along happy relations that have always existed ing of our fing to the 17th April. In the mean- obtain their food from the neighbours, or from the face of the hits that dominate the City. herreen us and an earnest prayer that the do so with a lively sinse, of gratitude for the time certain agitators inflamed the minds of their familles, or have done so up to the pre- the people by false statements as in the result sent, but-I heard just now the people of the this work, with the result that while in 1901

Ove: $93,000 have been expended already in int rests of the many peoples who form the of our occupation, to such an extent that armed villages are ceasing to give them the relief 3.795 cases were admitted to the various civil community of this great Port and Co'ony wit resistance to the trans er of the New Territory formerly given as they consider the Govern- was agreed upon. On the 14th April the mat ment, having built a

and military hospitals, the number of cases re always in the future be safeguarded by members house for them, parted this year to the present date is 2.408. It as able, impartial, and single-minded as you, sheds erected at T'aipó ilu were destroyed and a ghi to give them rice. Should the Govern is to be hoped that with perseverance and scnticinen, to whom as your Presiden! I row the police and troops, who proceeded to the ment have to do so it would be very in thoroughness in the destruction of the Anophe- say good-bye. (Loud applause.). place preparatory to the ceremony of the 17th, significant, The segregation is practical-les mosquito this danger to the community will were attacked by large numbers of Chinese ly as effcctve as in niora pretentions and be removed.

THE COUNCIL'S EULOGY, apparently under Military direction, Reinforce expensive establishments, while the victims of ments were at once sent out and formal posses the terrible disease have not perpetual im- sion of the New Territory was taken over on prisonment added to the miseries of their mast the 16th, so that our position should be made | miserable lives. At T'ai-po, the headquarters

RE-MODELLING VICTORIA.

To more effectually carry out the recom- mendations of the two experts, to whose reports I have alluded, it has been decided to recom-

*

Sir Paul Chater, speaking on behalf of the unofficial members of the Council, recipricated the expressions of good feeling which had allen from His Excellency, and allude Lio the progress ofthe Colony during Sir Henry's administration.

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