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Eutimations.

A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

HIGH CLASS

BRANDIES.

A.--OLD PALE

B-SUPERIOR VERY OLD

$20.00

COGNAC..

27.00

- C. VERY

OLD LIQUEUR

COGNAC...

VO.-D.-HENNESSY'S FINEST

VERY OLD LIQUEUR

COGNAC...

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIE,

held this afternoon in the Council Chamber, A meeting of the Legislative Council was

There are eight members of the Brigala

Chinese at Yaumati Temporary reinforce peans at Tsim-sha-tsuj and 2 Europeans and 3 permanently stationed at Kowloon; 3 Euro

official members. This is another and a very, flagrant instance of the farcical repre- sentation obtained by the community on the Council as at present constituted. The Present: His Excellency the Officer Adminis-ments are sent from Victoria as required. prerogatives enjoyed by the Farmers will re-tering the Government, F. H. May, C M.G., Hon. ceive a further and substantial addition, A. M. Thomson, (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Sir

in spite of the fact that they will pay Henry Spencer Berkeley, Kt. (Attorney-Genc- no more into the revenue of the Colony ral), Hon. L. A. M. Johnston(Colonist Treasurer), during the currency of the present agree

Hon. Capt. L A. Barnes-Laurence, R.N. (Har ment. There have been enough com-

bour Master), Hon. P. N. A. Jones, (Director plaints on the part of those addicted of Public Works), Hon, Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G., to the opium habit of the. levy which

Hon Dr. Ho Kai, CMG, Hon. Wei Yuk, has been-imposed upon them by reason of Mr. S. B. C. Ross (Clerk of Councils).

Hon. H. E. Pollock, Hon. W. J. Gresson, and the enormous increase in the value of the farm. Were a like taxation to be raised on

tobacco it might be interesting to speculate upon the attitude that might be taken, in such an event, by the European community.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hongkong (elegraph This N. Y. X. has chartered the British

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1904.

THE OPIUM ORDINANCE.

·

sleameis Knight.

Ocean Silverlip, and Harder

To-Day is the anniversary of the biribilay of Alphonso XII, King of Spain, who was born eighteen years ago.

د العطا

FOUR cases of plague were notified during the day ended at noon. Last week there were 26 cases, and the total to date for the period end- ed 14th inst. was 100 with 97 deaths.

Two Hongkong problems of the very greatest importance to the native community MONDAY and Tuesday next haing Government have been discussed of late-that of reserv- Holidays the General Post Office will be open. ing the Peak as a place of residence for ed from 8 toy am. only. The Money Order persons other than Chinese, and that office will be entirely closed, checking and ultimately preventing the sale of opium in the Colony by unauthorised 33.00 persons,

The first of these was the outcome of repeated agitation on the part of a section of the European community and has now been solved by the introduction, into the Legislative Council, of a measure providing for a reservation area in the Hill District. The Bill went through the turd reading last month. The other measure, which also directly concerns the Chinese of the Colony, came up for its second reading this afternoon.

40.00

All out Brandies ate guaranteed to be The Attorney General on behalf of the PURE COGNAC, the differences in beng merely a question of age and vintage.

price

For a "Soda" Brandy we strongly

recommend the "B" quality.

Crown submits that in the Prepared. Opium Opium" and "preparation" are not sullirient Ordinance, 1891, the expression Prepared

to prevent the drug from being sold by un- authorised persons in the shape of pills and wine, and that while this has resulted, it is alleged, in the farmer sustaining consider able loss, the slicit sehers have been acquit

SIR Hram Wilkinson, Chiel Justice, accom paned by M, WA. C. Pitit, Crown Advocate, will probably leave Shanghai shoutly for Can- 100, where a Sikh is awaiting tal on a murder charge.

FOR assaulting David Anderson, third engineer of the s.s. Hinring, and disobeying orders, a

month for aiding and abelting hiai. native seaman, was fined $40 or six weeks' im-

prisonment, and another was fined $:0 or ont

THE Police Court was pretty well packed this morning when a party of owenty-seven gam blers fell into line before Mr. Kemp. The first

NEW MENDER.

sat as a member of Council vice Hon. C. w. Mr. W. J. Gresson, having taken the oath, Dickson.

MINUTES.

SEATS ON PUBLIC ROADS

The Hop, Pollock also asked the following

question:-

for the use of the public on the Kennedy Road, 5. Will the Government provide more seats Bowen Road, Magazine Gap Road and Barker

Road?

The Colonial Secretary replied:-The Direc tor of Public Works has been instructed to provide a reasonable number of additional seat as far as the funds available will permit.

He also asked:

LIGHTING OF PEAK ROADS.

6. Will the Government state what would The minutes of the last meeting were read be-(a.) The capital cost of erecting lamp.

and confirmed.

FINANCIAL

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 27 to 20 and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded and the notion was agreed to.

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the moved its adoption. report of the Finance Committee (No, 6) and

The Colonial Treasurer seconded, and the motion was carried.

PAPERS. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the reparts of the l'o Leung Kük, the acting Har hour Master, the Government Bacteriologist, and on the Post Office, for the year 1903.

THE FIRE BRIGADE.

questio:s of which he had given notice!--

The Hon. Pollock then asked the following t. Is the Government satisfied that the pre- sent means for extinguishing fires in the City of Victoria during the dry season are sufficient? If not, does the Government propose to take any and, if so, what steps, and when, to remedy

the deficiency or deficiencies?

1. as the Government considered the ques-

tion of the advisability of adopting a special service for extinguishing fires by pumping up

water inains? Does the Government propose sea-water from the harbour by means of special pumping-stations on the Prayz into special fire

racter? is it not the fact that the Government Fue Engine hose has proved, during this pre- sent dry season, to be of insufficient strength to pump up sea-water to Jervois Street, or Lyndhurst Terrace, and has repeatedly burs:

to take any measures of that or a similar cha-

In so doing?

3. Is the Government satisfied that the present means for extinguishing fires in the

any remedies which will help to cure the Chi 5. Tant it would be contrary to public morat- fere, even in the interest, of the revenue, with for the Legislature of this Colony to inter

neso residents of this Colony of the habit of opium-smoking—a habit which, when carried to excess, is universally admitted to be bath injurious to health and destructive of the happiness of Chinese family life.

pray And your petitioners as in duty bound will

[Here follow signatures.]

ever

NO HARDSHIP TO OPIUM FARMERS. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY SUGGESTED. To the Honourable Members of the Legisla tive Council of the Colony of Hongkong

The humble petition of the Undersigned sheweth as follows:~~

of years which are set opposite to their respec- 1. Your petitioners have during the periods

posts, with the necessary gas-burners and aptive signatures been carrying on business in at the following places at the Peak, namely: opium wine or in both those articles. pliances and connections with the gas-main this Colony in (inter alia) either opium pills or (i.) On the slope up to Plunkett's Gap, near the, Approach to the Commodore's Bungalow; (ii) At the junction of Chamberlain Road with the Road Gap, near the entrance to "Brockhurst?" Mount Kellett Road; (iii) At the Plantation

(4.) The estimated annual expenditure for the gas required to keep such lamp-posts lighted at night?

The Colonial Secretary replied:-The three $roo lamps complete at the sites named would cast

be $140 per annum,

The cost of lighting and maintenance would.

The Government is considering the question of erecting lamps at the places indicated,

THE OPIUM BILL.

pectfully bring before your Honourable Coun 2.-Your petitioners beg leave to most res-

cil certairi objections against the Bill which is Opiumu Ordinance, 1891, and which has been entitled an Ordinance to amend the Prepared

read a first time.

3-lo the first place your petitioners beg leave to submit that the trade which they are carrying on-in opium pills og wine and which has been carried on in this Colony for so many years as a lawful and legitimate trade under the British flag is deserving of some considera. tion at the hands of the Legislature of this. Colony, and that your Honourable Council will not lightly deprive merchants of an old estab lished lawful business,

In moving the second reading of the bill

4. In the second place your petitioners sub- entitled An Ordinance to amend the Prepared it and they can call witnesses in support of Opium Ordinance, 1891, the Attorney General this submission, that the trade which they ara dealt at length with the question and obsadarrying on in opium pills or opium wine is tion to the Bill, had led him to the conclusion and wine afford a means of rescue from the that the result of his inquiries into the opports of this Colony, on the ground that such pills actually beneficial the Chinese inhabitants that it was factitious rather than real. He degrading vice of opium-smoking, such pills proceeded to deal with several of the objections and wine containing many other ingredicats in raised and referred to the alleged hardship there addition to opium or opium drosa. habit of dealing in them, and also to the argu would be in preventing the sale of opium pills and opium wine by those who had been in the ment that by so doing the opium habit would be forced upon persons who were strugglingagainst it. Neither of those assertions, when examined, could stand for a moment. Apart from the ques tion of hardship, the Farmer was the person they had to protect, and while he was not prepared to permit the sale of opium either by license or otherwise he was willing to sell the pills and wine at a price 25% less than the

opium, dross constitutes only a comparatively mit that, in view of the fact that opium or 5. In the third place your petitioners sub.

small percentage of the solids contained in opium, pills or wine, it would be extremely unfair to your petitioners to pass the proposed measure, making their business illegal which has hitherto been legal, and placing their trade the Opium Farmer, inasmuch as the latter is in opium pills or wine entirely at the mercy of

not bound by the proposed Bill to allow your their possession at all, and can, therefore, secure for himself the trade in those articles which has hitherto been enjoyed by your peti- tioners.

ted when prosecuted owing to the dificulty two, as landlord of the gambling-den, and Kowloon Peninsula during the dry season are ordinary charge and supply them free of cost petitioners to have any opium` pills or wine in

12;, the rest $5 each. master of the game respectively, were fined sufficient? If not, does the Government pro-10 inpatients of the Tung Wa Hospital

of proving that opium pills and wine come within the definition necessary to secure a

A. S. WATSON & CO., conviction under the Ordinance. While

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Hongkong, 7th May, 1904.

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E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

"OLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.

Salvage Work undertaken.

Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam

and Motor Launches.

Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders..

A lage stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocel goods kept,

Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical

Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.

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Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.

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[1 is intended by the U.S. Navy Department to use the General Alaru ultimately as a training ship for the Frites, and also assiga her to her former task surveying, etc. It is understood, however, bat such a step will not go into practical effect for some months to

affording the Opium Farmer legitimate pro- tection, provision is made to exempt from the operation of the amending Ordinance op when prescribed or sold in recognised medicinal forms at in turopean or American patent medicines. We understand it is the come. Chinese dealers m opium pills and opium wines who are opposed to the passing of the Bill which they maintain, will have the effect of depriving then of an old established and lawful business, besides interfering with the remedies that help to cure the habit of opium smoking. Among those given to consuming the drug it seems

to be generally admitted that the taking of

were patriots.

THE two men executed at Harban for trying to destroy a bridge were not Japanese army officers at

all, but they Yokokawa Seizo was an adventurous soshi, and Oki Teisuke was a teacher of Japanese at Peking who joined the Red-beards at the beginning of the war.

pose to take any and, if so, what steps, and

Hoa Dr, Ho Kai thought the proposal was when to remedy the deficiency or deficiencies? like robbing Paul to pay Peter, and, in the

4. is there only one fire engine in the Kow-

course of strenuous opposition, argued that, to loon Peninsula in the service of the Colonial him, the question resolved itself as to whether, Government, and from what source or sources tegully speaking, the trade in opium pills or during the dry season in the event of a fire was not, and asserted that the Ordinance gave would such fire engine be supplied with water

wine was illicit or not. He maintained that it occurring during the dry season at too great a

the Farmer the exclusive right or privilege of distance from the sea for salt water to be avail-dealing in prepared opium, but he had no able for extinguishing purposes? How many members arethere in the Kowloon Fire Brigade? The Colonial Secretary replied as follows: 1. l'ending the construction of the rider main system under which there should always be water in the mains available for all fires even when water is cut off from houses, the means is considered reasonably sufficient On the oc

power whatever to deal with an ounce of raw opium.

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The Hon. Pollock, as about to rise, when H.E. asked to be informed exactly what the hon. member's position was in the matter. Members of the Council bad petitions-one from the gederal members of the Chinese community and the other currence of a fire during the intermittent supply from the shops dealing in the pills and wine. He asked whether Mr. Pollack, in the exercise of his profession had drawn those

water is always turned on in the mains and is

mit that, altogether apart from the beneficial 6-In the fourth place your petitioners sub- feature in their business which is referred to in paragraph 4 hereof, the present Opium Farmer has no genuine grievance. In support of this out that, at the time when he tendered for the latter statement your petitioners would point

present Opiam Farmer must have been per Opium Farm about July or August last, the fectly well aware that large quantities of Opium pills and wine were being sold in this Colony, over two years pass the Opium Farmer of this, inasmuch as he was then and had then been for Colony, under his then current contract with

the Government.

7.-Your patitioners also submit that the fol lowing figures which show the increase in the twenty years (during the whole of which period Revenue from the Opium Farm during the last opium pills and wine have been sold in this Colony) furnish most eloquent testimony to the tection at the hands of the Government.

OPIUM REVENUE From 1884 to 1904.

these pills and wine which contain opium THE following is the return of visitors to the available at adequate pressure on the average petitions and was to be remunerated for ad. fact that the Opium Farmer requires no pro-

or opium dross, in addition to other medi- City Hall Library and Museum for the week 15 minutes after the alarm of fire is given. cinal ingredients has been effective in curing ending 15th May, 1904-

Non-Chinese Chinese...........

Total

Library Museum

225

82

04

1,616

319 1,704

even habitual and confirmed smokers of the Barculic. Whether this is so or not we are not in a position to say: Apart, however, from the benefits which may, or may not, be derived from the use of the pills and wines the dealers in these luxuries" con THE solicitude of H.M. the Emperor for the tend that it would be unfair to pass the pro

soldier at the front is such that no provisions posed measure and thus place the monopoly are sent forward until they have been per- of the sale in the hands of the Opium sonally inspected by His Majesty. Moreover, Farmers who, by reason of the revenue

it is reported-we quale the Japan Times- derived, require no protection at the hands that flis Majesty was pleased, a few days ago, of the Government. As far as we are aware pressed satisfaction with the results.

to test the quality of the provisions and ex- the native druggists are not alone in their opposition to the amendment in the law.re- gulating the sale of opium. While the Bill was under the consideration of the Council, petitions were formulated and presented to the assembly praying the Legislature to hold in abeyance the introduction of the Amend ment Ordinance until Government has had the benefit of the opinion of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate into the question and ascertain if there are sufficient grounds for the Farmers allegation that legitimate inquiry is inflicted on them by reason of the sale of the pills and wines. In another column we print the test of the petitions. fut tour through the Far East, United States, The petitioners' request appears to us and Canada. They will remain for about three a perfectly reasonable' one, and one months in Victoria, and start off again in July

hampa Specie Bank the market prices of Japan- ACCORDING to reports received by the Yoko- esel bonds in London have advanced very much since the news of the victory on the Yalu became known. The four per cents. have advanc, d to £68, a rise of 12 per cent.; The war bonds to £85 45, tod., a nise of 1 per cent; and the five per cents. to 48: 135. id., a rise of 1 per cent.

'OLLARD'S Lilliputian Opera Company has returned to Melbourne after a two years' tour. Mr. C. A. Pollard stated at Brisbane that his company was just finishing up, after a success.

There are also three steams fire engines for use in Victoria and vicinity, and during the inter- mittent water supply the floating engine is moored on the Victoria side of the Harbour, The engines used by the Fire Irigade are quite efficient and have not in any way de- teriorated through age. They deliver about 300 gallons of water a minute and will stand a pressure of 120 lbs, to the square inch. Gov- any steps to increase its fire extinguishing ernment does not at present propose to take apparatus. To do so would prove expensive

and later on unnecessary,

vocating the prayer contained therein..

The Hon. Pollock admitted that be had drawn them up, but said he thought it was hardly necessary and burdly proper that such a question should be put regarding remunera. tion. Those who had followed bis public career for appearing before the Council, and it would in the Colony knew that he did not accept pay have been obviously improper for bim to have done, or to do, so.

His Excellency. The question was simply put to define the hon, member's position.

The Hon. Pullock then proceeded to address 2. This question has been considered by the

the Council against the proposed measure and Government. The scheme has not been was speaking as we were about to go to press. adopted as it has been ascertained that it would cost nearly as much as increasing the rain-water reservoirs.

3. The hose is strong enough to pump water to much greater heights than those mentioned in the question. It is regularly tested, and ausound lengths periodically replaced. The hose has burst on very few occasions only uch accidents occur at times in all Fire Brigades.

4. The Government is not absolutely satisf. fires in Kowloon during the dry seasen. The ed with the present means of extinguishing completion of the new Kowloon water-works will, however, give water at pressure in the It is hoped that the new water-works will be in mains available by fire hydrants as in Victoria,

working order in about 18 months, Govern ment does not, for the reason stated in Answer

which should have commended itself to for a two or three years' tour in the East, visit-1, intend to take any immediate steps.

Hising China, and afterwards they will go to San

Francisco.

OPIUM PILLS.

PETITION AGAINST PROPOSED LEGISLATION.

1884 1885

$ 113,825.13

........................ 153.751.64:

1886

178,500.00

1887

182,400.00

1888

182,074.13

1889

428,403.00

1890

477,600.co

1891........

389,900.00

1892

407,900.00

1893

340,800.co

1894

-349,800 00

1899

295+133-34

286,000.00

1897 *******

286,000.00

1898-***

******** - 359,216,66:

1809

373,750,00

1900

373,775.00

1901

688,892.00

1902

752,140,00

1903

751,895.00

1994

vagonom o .4975,000.co 8-Finally your petitioners submit that it

would be contrary to the general principles of munity and dealers in opium pills and opium drastic and hard measures, as these which are Petition presented by the Chinese Comlished vested interests, and that, before such British legislation to interfere with old estab wine against the proposed legislation, under proposed, are enacted against your petitioners, the consideration of the Council, for restricting a Commission ought to be appointed to inquire the sale of opium pills and wine.

The petitions read as follows:-

Hongkong, 28th March, 1904. To the Honourable Members of the Legisla-

which is presented on behalf of the Chinese tive Council of the Colony of Hongkong,

The humble petition of the undersigned,

community in this Colony, Sheweth as follows:-

into the merits of the contentions which are set forth in this their humble petition.

And your petitioners will ever pray!-

[Here follow signatures.]

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

Indian (Lightning) 18th inst. English (Coromandel) 19th inst. Indian (Kumsang) 23rd inst.. Amencan (Garlic) a3rd inst., German (Bayern) 24th inst. Canadian (Empress of China) a3rd inst. American (Mongolia) 4th prox.

Hongkong on 23rd fast

The American Mail ex Garlic will come for- ward por Empress of China, Irom Japan due

Coromande!

the favourable consideration of Excellency the Officer Administering the

5. There is only one Government fire engine 1. Your petitioners crave permission to most Government and his Council. When offers

in the Kowloon Peninsula. It is stationed at respectfully submit certain objections which aumati. The floating engine is kept at Tsim- they entertain against the Bill entitled an for the Farm were invited by the Govern

BEFORE taking his seat on the bench at the sha-tsui except in times of an intermittent Ordinance to amend the Frepared Opium Or. ment, the tenderers must have been perfectly Police Court this morning Mr. Gompertz called water supply when it is kept on the Victoria dinance, 1891, which is now before the Council. cognisant of the existence, in a legitimate the staff of clerks and interpreters together side. The sea is the only source of water form, of the business in the Chinese anti-in Mr. C. D. Melbourne's room, and addressed supply for fire extinguishing purposes in Kow to the said Bill are as follows:

2. The grounds of your petitioners' objections dotes for the opium habit. With a perfect who has for many years held the position of neighbourbond of the sea

a few words of farewell to Mr. Cheung Tsoi, loon at present. In cases of fire in the 3. That the taking of opium pilis and opium frame their offers, and it was not until after leaves to join the firm of Messrs. Johnson, from the sea direct to the fire. knowledge of the sale of these pills did they third clerk at the magistracy, and who now and Yaumati engines would both pump the proposed measure is directed, has been the floating wine, which are the two articles against which

did they take exception to the tights vested interpreter. His Worship spoke of the excel; engine would feed a portable dam from the sea vice of opium-smoking, inasmuch as such pills due here on 19th inst. the new farm had commenced to operate Stokes and Master, solicitors, as clerk and of fires, at a distance from the sea the floating even habitual and confirmed smokers of the left Singapore for this port on 14th inst, at 6′

In cases found by experience to be effective in curing The P. & O. S. N. Co's in the dealers by long-established custom leat work done by Mr. Cheung, and wished and the land engine would pump from the dam

pm, with the Outward English Mails, and is or wine contain various other medicinal ingre The CPR Co.TEL E him every success, and speedy promotion in to the fire, 1,800 feet of boss is kept at Yaumati dients in addition to oplum or oplum dress. Arrived at Nagasaki. at 9 am! reading of the Bill has passed the Coun-kind words he had spoken, and then shook 1,750 feet of large 4" bose This is considered with

thanked Mr. Gompertz very heartily for the ries also prer, 1,800 feet in addition to over the community as a whole and cil, mainly with the aid of the official hands with him and with all his late colleagues ample to reach any bouse P.Korloggna phalanx,- the dissentients being the Hon. before leaving to join his new office. Mr. Tong estimated that no house in Old Kowloon H. E. Pollock and the two Chinese 'un- | succeeds Mr. Cheung Tươi, an promotion."

situated at more tha

a custom, by the way,' countenanced by his new sphere of usefulness. Mr. Cheung with the engine and the floating.engine car.4 That it is for the welfare and benefit of left again at 3p the laws of the Colony.

The second

she is due to:1

The

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