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The Hongkong Telegraph.

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CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Doàth.' Leading Article:-

The Pensing Proposal,

Tests of Hobriety.

Hongkong Sanitation.

Widows' and Orphans' Fund. The New Peak 'Tramway.'

Hongknog and the

Agreement.

ew Anglo-Japanese.

Registration of Hongkong Firms.

Telegram:-

Ambiguous News.

Tanjong Pagar.

Baron Komura Convalescent,

Manchurian ailway

Retvizan Reftonted.,

Part Arthur.

The Mikasa,

The Outrage at Pek ng. - Opening of Manchuria Anglo-Japanese Agreement, The China Squadron, Foochow Amoy Railway. Conservancy of the Huangpu Bengal Opium. Hesting::--

Douglas Steamship Co, Ld, Legislative Council William Pawell, Limited Police.

The Alleged Murder. The Beach and the 'llar.' Trouble on a Wind-Jammer, Alleged Swindler.

The Des Voeux Road Fire

A Skipper's Worries:

Correspondence:-

騎二初月九年一十三光

The Hongkong slegraph

THE PENSION PROPOSAL.

(a3rd September.) Within the narrow compass of a single article it was impossible in our last evening's issue to deal fully and satisfactorily with the omprehensive speeches, delivered at the Legislative Council meeting on Thursday, te have covered such grounds as seen) to ell for comment, and while dealing with another subject to-day there is no implication that, in taking it after those dealt with yester day; it is of minor importance and hence merits less consideration. It is of equal im portance with those that have already been brought under noifer, and deserves earnest consideration by those whose duty it is to den with the subject. We will revert to the question of the Widows' and-Orphans' ension Fund which, on a former occasion, we dealt with so exhaustively. We apprehend tate the Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart's ap preciation of the subject is based on some what misconceived premises when he asserted that the taxpayers would be taking upon themselves the responsibility of a life insur- ance company in the transference of the administrative funds, under the Board of Directors as at present constituted, to the Treasury of the Colony, as we are led to believe will be proposed under the provisions of the new low. If anyone is to gain by the transference we enntend that it will ultimately te the Colony, at the individual-and-col lective sacrifice of that, body of wage-cammers conting under the general category of the Civil Servants of Hongkong. The Hon. Mr. Shewan hit the right nail on the head

when he advanced the statement that the money it is proposed to appropriate belongs to the government servants front whose salaries it has been deducted. It is, as he says, it. the nature of a trust fund, and should be treated accordingly. In-law the adminis tration of all monies under trust is justly hedged in by hard and fast restrictions from

which no departure can be taken, and we

The Proposed Pasteur Institute for the connotated with His Excellency the

Straits. The Kowlona Hills,

The Y.M.C.A.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-

Our Mineral Resources:

Fancy Sale.

Hongkong Cricket Club.

Canton Insurance Office, Limited.

The Admiralty Dockyard

Naval Notr

Shipping Jelsum.

The Cruiser Sully,

Craigengower I ticket Club.

Police Recreation Club

Earthquake Shocks,

New Ordinances,

Land Sale.

ling Harbour Roles.

Evading Volunteer Reserve Associatior.

Hongkong

Birthday Greetings.

Death of Mr. Claude i eykum.

A-School-Girl's Death.

Abolition of Torture.

Alleged merican Boycost.

Canton Notes.

The Weising Lottery. Progressive Swalow,

A Brutal Crime.

The Prosperity of Wuch w The Proposed

Ch'win-han Railway.

Chinese Banking System The Griffin and the Wail. Significant Changes in China. Foreign Troops in China. The Japanese and the Peace Terms. Naval Scandals,

apa

Liastung after the War.

Japan's Financial Position.

The Mfiknia

Disastrous Typhoon.

Mefractory

Sailors in Manila. “

Straits Currency.

Sir Henry #lake.

Australia and Hongkong. Seventy-one Lives Lost,"

A Terrible Voyage.

Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report, Freight.

Bhanghai "hare Report. The Chartered Bank.

Hemp. Exchange

Opium. Looal and General.

BIRTHS.

O aand August, at Darjeeling, the wife of Captain H. R. STOCKLEY, R.E. (D.A.A.0, Calcutta), of a daughter.

On 17th September, at Singapore the wife of KENNETH A. STEVENS, of a son.

On 21st September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. R. C. PHILIPPO, a daughter,

On 21s September,

at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs, Į. R. MILLIGAN, & HOT.

On 22nd September, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. F. Born of a daughter (premature),

On the 27th September, at "Alpha Villa," Kowloon, the wife of V. I. MCLOUGHLIN, of daughter. fl.ondon and Dublin papers please

copy).

MARRIAGES.

De 16th August, in Bostam; U.S.A., by the Rev. J. A. Biddle, Rector, PRIIR MULLER, of Shanghai, to MAPRL 1.YDIA, eldest daughter of the late J. Lyman Harnes, and Mrs. Barnes of On 26th August, at New Southgate, W. ADA ROSE, only dragter of Charles, denton

West Brooksold, Mass.

of

of New Southgate,

On gib Beptember, at Tientsin, Épward FINGER to ELIA BALDAMUS.

On 16th fast, as Singapore by the Rer. B. F. West, M.D., A. J. AMERY, Pastor of the Church, of Newton Abbott, Devon, to Miss R. M. ALLEN, of Manchester,

DEATH.

On fth September at lankal (Tongking), JULIUS NAY MANN, Commissoner of Customs, Brod 53. YEATH.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1905.

TESIS DE SUBRIKTY,

man

HONGKONG'S SANIZATION.

(26th September.)

sum.

競十三月九英港香

$13 PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY, 35 CrNTS.

in Hongkong under the present conditions vice junior clerks at the measly wage of premises and cars and for any other pur-? how much went would the outbreak become #10, a month and whose maximum after a poses of his own. That sentence has been [if these precautions were neglected 7 So far continious period of service will only be struck out and in its place we find the follow- (15th September.) turing the hearing of a charge of as plague concerned, although thorough that of $180 a month when thirty-two ing inserted Provided alaala Akal MAIL SUPPLEMENT,

As to the deposited ar aforesaid if he obtains the con- drunkenness the other, week, the senior believers in all precautions suggested by years of employment with the Govern Promoter may deviate from the cild pling ISSUED GRATIS OSUBSCRIBERS.

Magistrate at the Police Court remarked science, we cannot blink at the fact that its meat had been attained. JONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1905. that in London one of the tests of sobriety termination here in Hongkong synchronizer igher branch of the Service and those sent of the Governor in Council to do so, with that in Canton year after year. Although who draw the double exchange compensa A few minor alterations have been made in was for the accused to be called upon to reit is difficult to any what are the health con- tion we cannot refrain from the obser the sub-section dealing with the route to be peat, for a certain number of times, the ditions of a city like Canton, and there is vation that they are treated with a measure followed by the Tramway. There will be words mixed biscuits." If our memory serves us correctly the defendant in the case really, no ground for arguing that the health of liberality in a ratio with the niggardiness a double line track about a mile in length In question denied having partaken too freely statistics of that city can't be compared which doles out the wages to their poorer commencing at the lower end of Battery of the cup that cheers, and desired to be in with those of Hongkong, where exact brother officer. Never was the truth of the Path near Queen's Road, thence proceeding formed an to how the police officials knew records of the presence of disease are saying more forcibly exemplified than in by the Public Gardens and Glenealy Ravine But to revert to the Superannua- of the Peak and Chamberlain Roads. Three he was the worse for drink, when arrested.published for the information of the people, this instance that Peter is robbed to pay to the Peak, and terminating at the junction Evidence was clear on the point, and a con. there is nevertheless, the curious coin, Paul viction was recorded against the man. In cidence that an epidemic of plague in the ion subject. The Accountant approves entire clauses which dealt with the repair of which the question of perslons maintenance and level of rails, and the 'con- other column will be found a list of cases neighbouring city has not been known to a scheme quoted by a financial contem roads on which the tram will be laid, the ted Kingdom, which involves struction of temporary tramways when of drunkenness dealt with at the Magistracy outlast that in our own midst. We cannot porary

seem large. It has been urged on us a year lay of over two and a half necessary, have been eliminated. These to-day, and these, while being satisfactorily deny the fact that the sum of $491,645 does in the proved, point to the fact that there may that no amount is too large if the million sterling, might be satisfactorily solved. clauses have been mainly covered by ad- be occasions in Hongkong when tests of

health of the residents is to be preserved. The scheme suggested is on the basis of that.ditions to the previous provisions and, wo Of course, AS sobriety are necessary.

The real question, however, would seem in force in the London and North Western take it, the essential spirit in which they the Pall Mall Gasette pointed out a

to be whether the Sanitary Department Railway Company. It consists in the de- were originally framed has not been lost, few weeks back, when

gives value for the money which it expends. duction of 1 per cent, from each Civil but merely curtalled in language. There is a clause dealing with the protection of found, as one was a little time ago, There are many opinions on that point, and Servant's salary which goes to create a in the Holloway Road, at two o'clock in the morning, kissing a pillar box and it is out of the question for the laity to superannuation fund. This should super cables, etc. which may be affected by the asking it to come home, it is almost a challenge expert opinion on the subject. sede the iniquitous Widows and Orphans' operation of the new tramway. The original waste of time to apply any test, but on The officers of the Department are thorough Fund. The company use the fund at 4 per provision mentioned "Government Depart Should the and China Telegraph Company, and the the other hand, just because a person aus-ly convinced that not a penny is wasted, cent. interest, and in the result it appears to ment, the Eastern Extension Australasia

and the fact that the death rate is decreasing work out most equitably. pected of drunkenness begins to compose a poem in the surgery of the doctor who is every year is their forcible argument that member, before attaining the superannuation Great Northern Telegraph Company," an. called upon to certify to his condition, the seems to give colour to that view. We hold age (sixty years permissive, at sixty-five likely to come within the scope of the the opinion, however, that 11.15 per cent of compulsory), resign the service or be die Ordinance. To these names there is now Medical Officer is scarcely justified in giving this as one of the signs of inebriation, the Colony's revenue that is now applied to missed for any reason except fraud, the added that of the China and Japan Tele- The same journal cites cases to prove that sanitation, even though in view of the im- whole of his own contributions to the fund phone and Electric Company, Limited. the word-test of sobriety is dangerous to portance of having an adequate and satis are returned to him. Should he die before Clause 18, which was intended to protect apply, and says that the most satisfactory factory system in operation, might not superannuation, his representatives receive those parties who have at present the right are those in which the accused is called up unreasonably be described as an excessive the whole of his contributions and of the com- of opening roads along which the tramway It will probably come, as a revela- pany's contributions as well, or one half-year's is to be laid, is, done away with'; but the to perform certain, actions, such as standing tion to the vast majority of people, to average salary, whichever is the greater sum. rights are no doubt covered in another on one leg and picking up a match-box, standing without swaying when the eyes are learn that over 500 men are employed by After superannuation, should the member section, although at a first glance it is not closed, walking across the room carrying a the Sanity Department. The average die before he has received in pension the quite clear that such rights have been con glass of water, hopping twelve feet on the person seldom comes into personal contact total of his own and the company's contrinidered. However, it is impossible that the right foot and the same distance on the with the Sanitary officials and is therefore buttons, the difference is paid to his repre tramway would override the rights of the left, and walking down a chalk line. These accustomed to fancy that they number a sentatives. If he retires in the ordinary gas and electric light companies to open This is not so, course he gets a pension calculated upon his roads, or of the Public Works Department are rent tests upon which some reliance can handful at the most.

however. We are most willing to acknow-average salary and the number of years of to repair water pipes, so that we may rest be placed, whereas in the word tests even a Member of Parliament may fail. In Hong ledge that the employes of the Sanitary his service. If he has only served ten years assured that due provision is made for the Board are constantly engaged in clearing his superannuation is 224 per cent,; eleven protection of these rights. One of the mont kang it is not often that a person before the Court on the usual "Monday morning put the slums in the weat and east ends and years, 25 per cent, and so on; forty-five important alterations proposed in the Bill charge" denies his guilt, whatever allegations in preventing the accumulation of dirt years service would give him rog per cent. has reference to the clause dealing with the he may have made at the time of arrest, among the lower class Chinese; but the of his average salary, After forty years purchase of the tramway by the Government. The police know pretty well what they are necessity for the employment of such a service (to make a more exact comparison It was originally set down that at the expira. about weiten taking intemperate individuals large number of persons is at times disputed, with the Civil Service) the railway servant tion of one hundred and fifty years from the The Sanitary Board is beyond doubt one of gets an annual allowance equal to 944 per date of the commencement of this Ordin- into safe custody, and should there be any

the most important public departments in cent, of his average salary," The system is ance or at the expiration of any subsequent Governor when, in justify the appropriation doubt on the matter the application of one to the general revenue of the Colony the

f these tests should furnish satisfactory evi Hongkong, and no one would desire, we not only equitable and reasonable, but it period of five years the Promoter or pro venture to think, that is utility should he helps also to solve the problem of "widowsprietors of the line should receive notice of 2 now stonding to the Fredit of the

dence as to sobriety.

curtailed in the slightest degree. So long as and orphans." We have had it pointed out the intention (if such an intention existed) to us that the chief recommendation of the of the Governor in Council to purchase the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fond. he

it performs its duties efficiently it will re advanced the argument that the principle

ceive the support of all citizens ; whenever it Royal Commission is to the effect that the line at a valuation, Very properly these of the proposal was accepted by the Govern

fails then it becomes a danger to the city. rate of pensions should be counted in figures have been reduced very considerably, ment in Council and by the Director of

With no idea to advocate the impairing of eightieths instead of sixtieths (until recently At the expiration of twenty-one years from the date when the Ordinance comes into the Fund several years ago, We had heard

In the course of their remarks in the its efficiency, we share the opinion of the it was fiftieths in British Gulana, and in previously from the lips of the hon. member

years the intention of the Governor in Coun for the Chamber of Commerce that the Legislative Council on the Estimates for Unofficial Members of Council, that the Hongkong it is reckoned on sixtieths) of the operation or any subsequent period of seven cil to purchase the tramway system will be money belongs to the Government ser-next year hoth the lion. Mr. Shewan and 949,645 stated to be required next year to retiring salary, while special provisions are vania"-and-tie-could-hol-understand how the Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart directed at maintain the Colony in a sanitary condition proposed in the event of a public officer re- the Government can propuse to appro- tention to the large amount devoted-to-the-is-susceptible of a reduction. In his fate tiring through ill health or dying in the notified to the Promoter or proprietors, six priate this large amount of $220,000 Sanitary Department, and expressed, the well address to the Council, Sir Henry Blake service. To such proposals the Accountant months notice being given; Of course, to opinion that the sum estimated was con said: "That any system of sanitation with replies that the London and North Western that provision is guarded by other clauses without even saying by your leave the men to whom

The siderably in excess of the Colony's require oven scrupulous cleanliness could render Company's scheme is far to he preferred, which take effect should the working of belongs." decision of the Directors of the Fund'itments. Mr. Showan characterised the Es healthy areas i 1 which the registered popula- Our present pensions scheme need not be the tramway be discontinued for a period it had been given on the principle, of timate for sanitary purposes as "enormous "tion is 1,000 to the acre, or 640,000 to the tampered with; but when it comes to the of six months, or should it appear to the the transference is, we must hold, irregular, and cited the example of Canton where square mile, (and I have reason to believe Widows and Orphans' Fund the Unofficial Governor in Council that the Promoter is even though empowered under the law although modern sanitation is unknown the that the registered population is considerably Members of Council should fight tooth and insolvent. Another clause grants the Pro- mortality from plague is not greater then it below the real density), is not to be expected: nail against the perpetuation ofan iniquity, and moter the power of selling, assigning and by which they were nominated, An a trust fund each and everyone of the contri- is, in Hongkong, while Mr. Gershom The difficulty must be solved by the creation the President of the Council might annction absolutely disposing of the whole of the of the new Bill according to the dictates of poration or company, by public auction or butories should, we inngine, le consulted, Stewart said "The amount of $491,054 of a new city by resumption, re-sale, and the Official Members to vote on the principle undertaking to any person or persons, cor their conscience, instead of being compelled private contract. But it can only be done and it must be taken for granted that unless put down for sanitary expenses seems en reconstruction."

ormous," This is a subject wherein there

to abide willy nilly by the hard-and-fast rule with the approval of the Governor in a very large majority voted for the transfer. ence we do not see how the appropriation is the greatest divergence of views. There

are many realdents in Hongkong who do WIDOWS AND ORPHANS FUND. which enjoins the official voting in obedience Council," and the tramway can only be dia- to arbitrary commande from Downing Street. pored of to such parties as are approved by the Governor in Council. The buyers will could be forced on them against their will, Et is fair to nesume that the Government "not agree with the remarks of the Ung

of course, assume all-the-responsibilities of took the legal advice of the law offices of official Members of the Legislative Council

the Prominter under the Ordinance,. When the Crown before bringing forward the pro- under this head. They contend that it

this Bill, first came before the Council, it posal. under discussion, and it is not to be is eminently desirable that the sanitary

was laid down that the fares for passengers expected that, any dissenting contributor conditions of the Colony should be main

should not exceed-for the single journey- will lodge a protest in Court against the aptained in the highest state of efficiency: propriation, but were this likely and an action In the past Hongkong has gained a for plague

For every first-class passenger, 40 cents ; for every second-class passenger, 30 cents; and be brought for decision by the Court, we are somewhat unenviable name not quite so certain that the attitude of the epidemics, and in the South as well as in Government, could be upheld. We recall the North it seems to be an axiom that, if

for every third-class passenger, to cents.

the effect of the absorption, same thirty years any disease is floating around, Hongkong

Nothing was said about a reduction for the ago, into the general revenue of the Colony, is certain to afford a lodgment for the epi-credit of the Widown' and Orphans' Pension

return journey. The Standing Law Com of a fund similar to the present Widows' and demic. The curious part of the belief is that Fund, to provide for future payment of pen-provisions of the proposed Ordinance. A mittee now recommends, and their recom It is evident the fares should be--For every first-class Orphans' Pension Fund, and then known as people in Singapore and 'Shanghai are undersions to the Widows and Orphans of deceas- the request of the Hon. Sir Paul Chater mendation will naturally be adopted, that the Superannuation Fund.. We do not re- the impression that plague is endemic ined Public Officers, and to make the pay the Bill was held over. collect the exact details of the transference | Hongkong, whereas the residents in this ment of the same a charge upon and payable from the report that the Committee carried passenger for the single journey, 30 cents; for every third-class passenger, of the money standing to the credit of that Colony seldom hear of the plague cases and out of the said general revenue, is down for out their duties with the utmost care and for every second-class passenger, 20 cents; And the Committee has Fund in the Treasury of the Colony, but af certainly do not allow themselves to be the third time. It will be recalled that on diligence, and the amendments which they and this we are certain that as the contributors affected by the reports as to the cases the two previous meetings this Bill was propose may, in the majority of cases, be died, or as the necessity for further pay treated. While admitting that it is neces10 be taken on; but a representation considered as safeguarding the rights of the also inserted a provision for reduced fares ments into the Fund ceased, the entire sary to provide for the extinction of disease | (against it, it may be presumed) was public without infringing the value of the for the return journey. The addendum amount lapsed to the Treasury, and no more in the Colony, we do not fall in with the view submitted to the Governor, who, being scheme in so far as the Promoter is con reade: "And for the return journey, that has been heard of it to this day. What that this desideratum can be attained only desirous of giving it his careful considera cerned. Naturally in a Bill which contained in to say, For every Arst-class passenger, there were many trivial literal errors. which 30 cents for every third-class passenger, The Promoter is at liberty, to has become of the capital amount, or by a thorough system of sanitary inspection, tion, postponed the first reading of the draft originally 128 clauses (now reduced to 134) so cents; for every second-class passenger, to what extent the beneficiaries and others as is believed to be the case in certain quars Ordinance. A correspondent has sent us a

Another recommendation of the who have been entitled, have profited ters. It is an admitted fact that the mortality sensible article on the subject of "Civil Ser had to be amended, and with there it is 15 cents." by the fund raised by the contributions from statistics show a marked reduction in deaths vice Pensions," which appeared some time unnecessary to deal; but there are many large reduce these fares but he cannot locream salaries of the public servants should furnish which might be attributed to the more sani- ago in the Accountant. It is a comment on emendations and changes which will give them.

Chinese passenger will receive attention, mailer for interesting information by the tary conditions of the city, and such being the report of the_Royal Commission on the public cause for thought. The short Standing Law Committee which relates to "Separate Car or separate RC Government to the public and especially the case the efforts of the Sanitary Depart Superannuation. The Accountant strongly title of the Bill is altered from the Tram the pan Civil Servants who might have had ment cannot be too highly praised. It is upholds the view which lays down as a car way Ordinance, 1904," to the Hongkong The Bill when first framed laid it down an interest in the old Superannuation Fuud: not disputed that Hongkong, the leading dinal principle that benefiting members Tramway Ordinance, 1995." and the larger that Primarily, as we can remember, the Widows shipping port in the world, stands in a should contribute to a superannuation fund. title is expanded by the addition of the commodation shall be provided by the and Orphans' Pension Fund was called into peculiar position. Anything that affects the Incidentally it replies to a familiar argument words "From Battery Path to the Peak." promoter for Chinese third-class passengers.

the clause now reads: "Separate care of existence to meet the objections under which health of the Colony, naturally affects the employed by those directly interested. In the Bill as originally drafted, it was not The Committee will have none of that. The former compassionate allowances were shipping trade of the port. Hongkong as "True," says the Accountant, "the servant apparently contemplated that any tunnels word "Chinese" comes out altogether, and granted to widows and orphans of deceased the nearest port to Canton is apt to be over- argues that he contributes indirectly, inas would have to be built, although in an in- public servants, but we contend that the run with any disease which may originate in much as he calls his pension 'deferred pay.' terview which we published with the Pro separate accommodation shall be provided Fund in question, as at present con- that sink of insanitary conditions and it is but with a few exceptions the salary of the moter, Mr. A. Findlay Smith, when the by the Promoter for first, second, and third stituted does not satisfactorily meat that against Canton that the Sanitary Board of average civil servant is quite equal to, if not scheme assumed a definite form, it was ex-class passengers." An increase in the weight. end, since, as argued in our previous article, Hongkong have to be especially watch more than, market value." While it may be plicitly stated that it would in all probability of luggage carried is allowed. Passenger under certain circumstances and contingen ful. While all the precautionary measures quite true that this condition prevails in the be found necessary to tunnel near the Public may not take on the tramway personal lug cies that may arise it sometimes happens that commend themselves to the Sanitary particular Colony our contemporary refers Gardens. At all events the Bill made no gage, other than small hand baskets, bags or that contributors and unmarried officers authorities should be adopted, sigid to, we are not so ready to admit that, so provision for tunnelling, but that has now parcele any one of which shall not exceed six "for under" in Clauses which now reads that the weight should be kept down to ten suffer by the operation of the present enact economy might be exercised whereby the large far at any rate as the lower branch of the been remedied by the insertion of the words teen pounds in weight-the first idea being a seat nor prove an annoyance to the other ment, A provident fund framed on the vote of nearly half-a-million dollars might Service in Hongkong is concerned, lines of those provided In most of the banks be capable of considerable retrenchment, el salary it anything like the present "The expression 'road' or 'roads' shall pounds. But such luggage must not occupy and other leading and large mercantile firms Little or no precautions are taken at anion market value. We have already denounced mean any roadway over or under which the in the Colony for their officers has much to to prevent the annual recurrence of plague the proposed Grading Scheme for salaries tramway Authorised by this Ordinance passengers. There are the usual clauses ku commend itself for adoption by Government, and the outbreak is never worse there than of the subordinate officers of Govern shall pass." There was a sentence in to agreements with the owners "of lande It removes all the objectionable devices of it is in Hongkong, where a small army of ment. Any one at all familiar with the the Bill after it had passed the second the Widow and Orphin' Pension Fund inspectors are employed in keeping the city high cost of living prevalling in the reading which allowed the Promoter these remain practically the same as before, while it meals in its entirety the purposes uncontaminated, The question might be Colony cannot but ridicule the proposal to generate and use electricity for the pur- only verbal alterations being made, Buch for which that Fund was called into existence, suggested. If plague or any dispass exists | which seeks to enlist for the publip seri poses of lighting his own buildings, erections, are the main alterations, in the Hongkong!

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(27th September.)

We make no excuse for urging once more upon the attention of readers the subject of the Widows' and Orphans' Fund which has occupied much space in these columns within this month. In the agenda for the Legislative Council meeting to-morrow after noon the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to transfer to the general revenue the moneys standing in the Treasury to the

THE NEW PEAK TRAMWAY,

(a8th September.) The third reading of the Bill for the construction of the new tramway to the Peak was to have come before the Legislative Council this afternoon, together with the report of the Standing Law Committee which was appointed to consider striatim the

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through which the Tramway will pass, and

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