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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

OFFICIAL SALARIES.

NO INCREASE.

27th inst.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. Present: His Excellency, the Governor, Major Sir. Matthew Nathan, X.C.N.G., RE, His Excellency Colone! Dar ling, 8.8. (Commanding the Troops), Hor. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith (Coloniat Secretary), Hon. Sir H. Spencer Berkeley, C., (Attorney General), Hon Mr. A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer), Hoo, Captain F. J. Hadeley (Cap tain Superintendent of Police), Hon. Mr. W. Chatham (Director of Public Works Ilon, Mr. E A. Hewett, Bion. Dr. Ho Kai, M., CMS Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, Hon. Mr. W. J. Gressan, and Mr. A. G. M: Fletcher (Clerk of Councils),

ABSENT.

Hon. Capt. L.A. W. Barnes- awrence, N. (Harbour Master), Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, X.C., Hon. Mr. Edward Osborac.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

**HONGKONO'S CURSE," The hon. momber, continued His Excel. lency, had made a violent attack upon the Sa- gitary Department. (which he bad called "Hongkong's curse"). The working of that Department was now being investigated by. a special Commission, and therefore it was out of place to say anything about the Depart ment here and 'now.

PUBLIC WORKS,

Remarks were made that the Public Works

Department were very slow in getting ste matters. The figures would show that more money was being spent on the Department in an increasing degree, and His Excelle. cy said the fact that nearly 30% of the returns were expended on it was a very healthy sign.

NO INCREASE TO OFFICIAL EMOLUMENTS,

His Excellency said that he had now re ceived a reply from the Hon, the Secretary of State to His Excellency's despatch of the 13th July, in which the Secretary of State TOMAA for increasing the said he saw no salaries of officials, which already compared very well with those in other Colanies. mitting money in sterling they had an advantage The minutes of the last meeting were read they previously did not get, and the sterling rale was fixed to get rid of the custom_af paying and confirmed,

salaries at fictit ous rates of exchange.

MINUTES.

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FINANCIAL MINUTES."

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nes 65 to 72, and it was agreed that they lie referred to the Finance Committe

H. E. the Governor said that the item to minute No. 65 was due partly to the open- ing of a new cemetery, and partly to the in- stallation of waterworks at M Caroline Cemetery, as well as the work of burial of corpses and plague corpses by the Tung Wa Hospital. No. 66 minute is for the agency to be opened in Tientsin on 1st October. Personal emoluments will be defrayed out of the lapsed salaries of postal servants. No.67 minute is for the Gment printing and stationery. No.40 first instalment for the works of the

c Works Department, as it is necessary that the Director should be placed is possession of money for urgent work. Minute No 6was to cover the loss to the Treasury on subsidiary coins. Nos. 7, 71 sod 7a sufficiently explain themselves.

TRADE MARKS.

The Attorney General moved the first read ing of à Bill entitled an Ordinance to consolis dale and amend the Law relating to Trade -Marks.

The Colonial Secretary seconded and the Bill was read a first time.

CRIMINAL EVIDENCE,

On the notion of the Attorney General, seconded by: the Colonial Secretary, Bil entitled an Ordinance to amend the Law of Evidence was read a first time.

The objeti of this Ordinance is to introduce into the law of this Culony relating to evidence in criminal cases the amendment made in the law of England by the Imperial enactment 61 & Victoria Cap. 36, by which in all Crimin al proceedings an accused person and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such person, are made competent witnesses for the defence at every stage of the proceedings, whether the accused is charged solely or jointly with some other person.

The wife or husband can be called only on the application of the accused, except in the case of offences against the Ordinances specified in the schedule; in cases coming under those ordinances the husband or wife of an actused person can be called either for the prosecution or for the defence without the consent of such accused.

THE APPROPRIATION MILL Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewelt then addressed the Council at great length, animadverting chiefly upon the speech delivered by His Excellency the Governor on the Appropriation Bit! for 1907, the principal point of which was his advocacy of an adequate increase in the salaries of officials who are paid on a sterling basis, calculating Their salaries at such a rate that whatever the

fluctuations of the dollar might be they would never get less than $10 or more than $12 to the sterling,

Hon. Mr. W... Greason also spoke on the main points of His Excellency's speech and took exception to the annunt of expenditure for the Sanitary Department which, he said. might be more properly styled "Hongkong's curse," as the $454,220, appropriated did not include the immense amount of expenditure forced on landlords and householders for works Which neither the landlords or tenants' wanted Other Members having addressed the Conn cil,

THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.

His Excellency said regarding the re marks of the Hon. Members, upon the subject of a typhoon-shelter he was already enden. vouring to make arrangements to make i start upon it within the year (applause). But before doing so, they had finalty to decide. upon the most suitable site, which appeared in be at Mongkok, but it was a matter that could not be hurried. Then, haring fixed upon a site, there were plans and estimates to be settled, and the all-important question of how the necessary expenditure was to be imet, had to he considered.

As regards the remark of the Hon. Menber af the end of the table, it was very common thing in these cases to ask why should we pay for what the next generation Excellency, was not a fair way of putting it, for we had to ask ourselves if we are not reaping the benefit now of what the last genera- lion paid for.

BILLS PASSED

In re..

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Several Bills were read a second time and others passed into law

The Council then adjoined till Thursday, the 14th prox.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Finance Committee was held inmediately after the meeting of Council, the Colonial Secretary presiding.

It was unanimously agreed that the following votes be recommended for adoption by the Chencil,

SUPREME COURT.

A sum of two hundred and fifty dollars in aid of the voir, judicial and Legal Departments A-Supreme-Other charges, electric lighting and fans.

KOWLOON POST OFFICE.

A sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty-seven.cents in aid of the vote, Public Works Extraordinary, Building Post Office, Kowloon

NEW TERRITORY.

A sum of forty dollars in aid of the vole, Miscellaneous Services, travelling allowances in the New Territory.

MISCELANEOUS MINUTES

MY PA SAYS.

A REPLY TO "DOES WOMAN HELP?"

Special to the Hongkong Telegraph”)

Women, as my Pa says, are kitile cafile. They are six of one and half a dozen of the other. There is nu geving away from, them. They bob up on the waterways of the world, are in evidenca everywhere, and throng the highways and byeways. They have helped in the production, they have from the to time tried to ruin it. They are responsible for the world's heroes and heroines. They have mo thered countless villains, male and feniale. The world without women would prove no Elixir of Life to men. In marriage, women are in- dispensable. In life they loom largely as man's other half. Men by themselves are mere vulgar tractions of humanity; they need the addition of women to make up the composite number,

My Pa says that women are a compound of virtue and vice, of utility and uncleasdess, vi otuament and ugliness, a Infle bit

unequally mixed in the making by the shaking of the compounder's band. As I am writing of woteen only, it is not necessary to repeat what Ma Pa himself would never says about mao. believe it, and he would most certainly say all women are liars. I can't go so far as to any this myself, because a boy's best friend is his mother, at least l'a says so, and, as he has long since come to the age, of reason, it must be

true.

Finally, my, Pa says the restrains inordinate concupiscence, gives strength to bear the burdens of married life, to retain conjugal fide- lity and to bring up children religiously and well. Asman's helpmate she is second to none. My Pa says so and he ought to know.

WILLIE

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CANTON'S NEW WATER-WORKS.

TO SUPPLY PURIFIED WATER.

29 1906.

CANTON DAY BY DAY,

VICEROY SKUM'S DEPARTURE.

The following is a translation of the pros. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

pectus of the new Canton Water-works Com- Canton, 15th September. pany, soon to commence operations: The rule's governing the working and the supplying of it in reported that H.E. Viceroy Sbum's water to the public, are dmwn up from all that is SALK OF NS. DEL ROSARIO" leave is about to expire and that lie will leave best in the "Regulation of the Water Authority" Canton for Yunkwei Province after the Chi-in Hongkong, and Shanghai's waterworks bye- nese Autumn Festival (2nd October). He bus laws. The Superintendent of the water-works has went to Peking a telegram praying the Throne compiled the rules to suit, as much as pos to allow him to have his official seal temporsible, the needs of the citzens of Canton, and he

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-28th inst..

Under instractions from Messrs. Shewan,

Tomes and Company, My Hough, s Mesars, Hughes and Hough, nuctioneers, pararilystoufided to the care of the Tartar-General hopes that the general-public will_consider .

up for sale by public auction at their sales rooms, No. 8, les Veux-Road, the Spanish steamer A. S. del Rosurta, as she now lies ahore at Vaumati Bay, together with all her fittings, gear, etc, etc. There was a large number of Chinese interested in shipping pre sent, but it was some time before bids were offer ed, the prospective bidders wanting an assurance that they would be allowed to break up the vessel there. Mr. Hough said he had no power to give them any such assurance; that was the business of the Government, but he might point out that in no case had the Govern ment refused any applications for permission. for such breaking up. Finally, after much discussion amongst themselves, bidding was started at $1.000, rising slowly by bids of S100 each till $3,900 was reached; at which figure the vessel became the property of Mr. Leun Tai.

A BORGLAR'S DOWNFALL. My teacher read a long article to all the boys in my class, entitled "Does Woman Help

JUMPS OVER VERANDAJ TO ESCAPE. and he started off by saying that at the present lime a strong female wava was passing "aver

27th inst:- the country. That woman had pressed into A Chinaman, who is said to be well known service armaments both obsolete and up-to-to the police, got into a tight corner at about date, as if amtaments could be new and bid three n'clock this morning at Wanchai and at one and the same time. My teacher read

went in extreme measugestin order to evaile heaps more aboin the same subject and told capture. The measures he took made him a us to study the subject at home and give him.

or opinions on the morrow.

patient for hospital. The man, who gave bis name as Lam Hing, with no address, forced Now, I'm all to young to know much about an entrance into the first floor of No. 104, Woman's Help; but my Pa says she helps a Queen's Rord East during the early morning deuce of a lot and does so much good by

hours. The master of the hous—an ac- stealth that we men unwittingly forget to countant was asleep, and Lam searched about thank her. He was a bit puzzled aver the sex the room for a while. He was as the point of of the waves, and said he thought they were of mising the lid of a trunk when the accountant. neutes gender as for the engines of social awoke and, seeing a stranger in the room, gol warfare, he didn't recollect ever seeing woman-his police-whistle from under his pillow, and nandle implements more dangerous than a started blowin for all he was worth. The intruders way, was baulked by the accountant, poker.

who start the top of the staircase and threatened to do something dangerous the man tried to pass him. The intruder, who knew that his hours of freedom were numbered. if he remained longer in the house, made for the verandah and sprang over into the street, landing an his head Before he could pick himself up alukong was on top of him and the man was removed to the station. But for a few cuts on his head his fifteen feet drop did not prove very serious, but nevertheless, he was temporarily trested at No. a Palice Station and later Te moved to hospital. When he was searched al the Station quite a number of tonis were found on him. On his discharge from hospital Lami Pa asked "Who discovered radium?" and Hing will be brought before the Court to an when i blured out George Eliot he said "No,swer three charges. The first charge will be you little idiot! It was Madame Curie A that of entering a private house with the inten. women, my lad, who hesitated zot to call her ton of committing a felony, the second, that autle of fame over her husband's shoulders." he was armed with a knife when he entered the

house; and lastly, that he was in possession of asked Pa→

twelve picklocks and a screw-bit at the time.

My Pa says that when the voice of å woman is loud in the market place, the owner buils Other financial minutes, as laid ou the table from Billingsgate and would never be tolerated

in polite society. at the last meeting were also passed.

This was all the business.

CORRESPONDENCE."

jave dia cast nevestarily einlitst the opinions expreseiti

by Correspondents in the refe

QUEEN'S ROAD GUTTERS.

To the Butor of 192 “Fenukosu Trinida

also says that woman's in luence is won drously beneficicul, and he'd like the man who had anything to say against the missas to step on the tail of his coat. Pa's a marvet when he's vexed. I should be sorry to see is appointed" un up against him. I told Pa that it had never be claimed for women that they were wiser than men, and l'a says this is so, because many men owe their wisdom to wo ex-men, but are too funky to frankly acknowledge

the fact.

at Canton until the arrival of his successor.

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WOMAN'S SUICIDE. On the afternoon of the 6th day of this moon (23rd inst.), a village woman returned to her lodgings, in an eating house in Shakea Street, near the Canton Customs. House. At midnight when all the innates lind retired the woman committed suicide by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors. Next day the malter was reported to the Nam Hoj Magis. traie who immediately sent a waiyuan to the Jodging-house for the inspection of the de-

ceased's body,

The following items are from our Canton contemporary:-

YURT HAN RAILWAY, At a meeting of the Yuet-han Company on the zid inst. the directors decided upon the following questions. The ten-cent pieces, which were paid for stock shall be used to buy silver bullion, and this in turn shall be minted at the Canton mint into dollars. A letter was read from the second director Wang Shiu Ping saying that he will not place his name upon Any railway document. THE TAI LOONG GINGER MANUFACTURERS. On the 23rd inst. the Chamber of Commerce held a specialmeeting toiry and arrange matters between the bankers and Kwong Cheong Co. The $70,000 security beld by the Nam Hai Magistrate was jeopardized for sometime, but upon the guarantee of the compay it will re- main in the magistrate's hands until payment

is made.

The bankers were dissatisfied with the ar rangement and no settlement has yet been made.

THR-NEW VICEROY. Viceroy Chou Fu bastelegraphically instruct ed his son Chou Hok-iin, (the expectant Tantai in Canton) to detain Prefect hi' Shui Shu and spine others in Canton to be His Excellency's secretaries.

THE HONGKONG TYPHOON,.

[From A Correspondent.]

Officers

them favourable. But at the same time ha invites suggestions from the public, which sug- gestions should be sent in not later than the ath day of the 8th moon (September 17th). These suggestions will be considered, and it lound practical, will no doubt, be embodied in the rules, and due notice given to all con- cerned. The water-works are now in course of construction, and should

pravo à great boon to the consuming public. are being sent round, both within and without the city, inquiring as to who wishes to have water laid on in their houses, so that as soon as the works are completed, all may be at once supplied with purified water, the house-owner to pay the cost of auch laying on of the supply. The following are the rules 25 At present drawn up: (1) The Capton Water-works will be an official and mercantile concern, and H. E. Viceroy Shum has wired to the Board of Trade at Peking, notifying the Board of that fact. H. E. the Viceroy is assured that as soon as the water-works are completed, the people will have a supply of pure water, which must be sanitary. Moreover H.E, to ensure the water being up to the mark, requested Mr. Dallas, the chief constructor, lo ask the British Analyst at Hongkong, Mr. F. Browne, to analyse the water, and the latter, alter analysing samples, bus reported as fol ows: "The water from Koong Hui, one and a half miles from Camion, from Tsang To, where the water-works are situated,

and from Wong Shun Tong, are slightly opaque, but fit for drinking purposes, though they will be of a better quality after the process of purification it is to be put through; before being turned on into the pipes, which will be Inid all over Canton." "(2) The Canton Water- works intend to supply the public with the best water as regards purity that can be tarnished to them, AT all foreigners know that puri

a daily necessity, and fied waters are the management of the water-works sin.. cerely hope that the wealthy land owners and merchants will patronize them, as a full and copious supply of pure water is bound to keep down plague, and prevent it from increasing...... and it well patronized, the work can prevent the poorer classes from having to drink filthy water which breeds disease, for then they can

Canton, 27th September, 1906. The following charitable institutions have made the following subscriptions to the Hong-have pure water which makes them healthy kong Typhann Relief Fund -Kwong Chai and strong. The people of the Kwang Tung Institution $4,000, the Ching Charitable Province have acquired Western ideas more stitution $2,500, and Kwong Yan Institution $1,000. This first instalment has already been remitted to Hongking. Subscription lists are still being sent out by these institutions for donations.

·CANTON HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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Many telegraph ples of the Canton Hong kang Telegraph line were blown down during the recent typhoon. The work of repairing has been pushed on and now the line is cleared as far as Sam Shui Po Dffice. The Hongkong Office sends special messengers to the Sam Shei Pa Office with inessages for transmission to Canton,

518,--One hears a good deal about the cellent condition of 'tae roads in tongkong just now, and so late as yesterday the Hon, the Director of Public Works, speaking at the Le gislative Council, stated that the roads of the Colony were in very good condition, and men- Honed that even in London one gets spatiered with mud But, Hongkong and London! Cas! any compattson be mure absurd? It is des cending from the sublime to the ridiculous, and would be unworthy of comment, but for the fact that it has been abundantly made manifest lately that the roads are not in good condition. Let anyone take a walk or a ticksha ride no further thun from Arsenal Street to the Harbour. Office vid Queen's Road, and round along the Praya as far as Blake Pier, and then let him give an unbiased opinion as to the condi- tion of the roads, mentioned. Queen's Roafo-day. They revered woman; they exalted took in sea life, and probably be tepents it now, t'nited States; to ascertain the value of these

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Is woman then of man th'eternal curse." "Holding him back since first, the world.

began.". and my Pa a says—

"Blessing she is: God made her so. And deeds of week-day holiness

Drap from her, noiseless as the suow." My Pa says that the ancient Greaks and Romans, koew, what they were about when

Greece and Rome denied woman participation in their intellectual file, they did so in order that to save their ideal from contamination with earthly dross.

AN OFFICERS SPREE.

WAS IT TENPORARY INSANITY?

something about the yow then gathered.

27th inst William-Whyte, the second officer on board they denied women the freedom that is theirs the steamer-filin, made a mistake when he lver to a junnacle of lane. Their poets for if Whyte had gone in for the circus busi- East is full of rus, that

ness when he was young and was able to give even in the best condition, are-soon turned and sculptors. raved deliriously over her

his audience such an exciting and hair-raising fellowmen something worth undivided atten inte veritable bone-shakers, while anyone walk beauty. When they wished to show their

time as he gave a Chinese audience in Des ing along the part of the Praya mentioned runs

very great risk of a sprained ankle, on ac- 11005ething irradiating tise bright rays of Vaux Road Centrali last night the fates only count of the mass of loose stones strewing that good example they stretched their index fingers know how far up the ladder Wäỳie would have in the direction of woman. They invoked the been by now. He could have defied the police thoroughfare. A road can never be considered

aid of woman to embellish art. They hesitated then, but what can a poor officer do against to he in a good condition so long as there are

not to call woman the personification of all the the law when a policeman thinks he is attempt. not sufficient drains to carry off the water from the heavy rains with which the Colony is fre- Cardinal virtues.

My l'a says that if these old fogies of norienting to commit suicide? Practically nothing

That was why Whyte is $25 out to-day. quently ionnsated, "What did we find after the late devastating typhoon? Queen's Road flood. ed to a depth of two or three feet in places, rendering them impassable for pedestrians who did not cesie a pair of soatied feet and legs? a result of crossing the road, and the same con. disjons retail after every heavy downpour. Does the lying of the water on the road tend keep them in good under and condition? I contend not; for the surface and binding the stone below is naturally to a large extent, washed away, leaving the granite bed exposed, and bul ly exposed at times and in places. As it is, the proprietors of shops, and hotels along Queen's Rand Central, complain bitterly of what they had to suffer through the water inundating their ored premises, and damaging the goods therein, the water in some instances rising as high as three feet inside the shops, and in the Connaught Hotel passengers luggage and chairs were washed about like dotsam and jetsam in the harbour, while ane torcign shop alone reports that they suffered a loss of $3,00 through perishable goods being ruined by the sudden influx of the pod, And this is what after every downfall of rain which is particularly heavy, In view of these facts 1 fail to see hoy. anyone in his senses can claim that the roads of the Colony are in good order. No Nor will they be, until a proper system of draining shem is a fit accompli, and not a pigeon-holeil scherne for future considerationYours. etc..

CITIZEN.

Yes, but I don't blame them, my lad." says,' “Woman's star is in its zenith when is sheds mining light ever that womanly sphere- the Home."

MINING PROSPECTS.

than those of other provinces, and they understand this. The cost for the supply- ing this purified water will be made as reasonable as possible (3) The cost of the lay- ing on of the water-pipes and fixing taps, nust. be borne by the landlords, and if the tenants bave to pay at first, they can deduct it from the rents. This cost may be paid by 12 monthly instalments, but should the people pay all at once, they will be given the benefit of a 10% reduction (4) There will be three qualities of pipes and taps supplied, and the charge for the first quality will be from $2 to-14; for the second quality St.50 to $3.92, and for the third quality St to $2, and all public buildings jument, schools, and foreign residences, will be charged at the above rates... (5) All charitable societies, workshops, dyeing works, Chinese drug-shops, provision dealers, slaughter-houses, fish-mongers, hotels, restaurants, boarding- houses, and stores, where water is much used in their business, as well as opium dens, theatres, gambling-dens, brothels, etc, will be charged (6) at special rates, to be arranged later, Patrons should be careful in using dhe taps, so that they may be made to las: the longer, and in case any alterations are necessary to be made, they should communicate with the com pany, whose workmen will attend to it, the'ten ant to pay the cost when the company presents No workmen are to receive cumshas the bill. and patrons are requested not to offer them the same." No workmen are to be paid money on behalf of the company. (7) As the com. Tuotai Chow Hek Yin, who has been serving pany will require large numbers of water-car- under Viceroy Shum during his term of office,iers, the old ones will be taken on before new

tendered his resignation. Taotai Chow is the Bon of Chow Fu, the newly appointer Viceroy, and, according to law, he cannot hold nifice in the same province a his father.

It is reported that there are good mining prospects in Yumchow District of Kwangtung The local gentry has obtained the services of a Mr. Chan Kwong Yin, a mining expert, who has completed several years of study in the mines. -lle has found out, in Suk Wa, several good gold mining sites, which are worth work- ing. The gentry has floated a company, and dawn up regulations to open up these mines. A commencement of the work of this company

will soon be made.

TAOTAL WEN,

As Viceroy Shum will soon leave Canion. for his new post. Taotai Wen.has resigned and left Canton yesterday. It is reported that it is his intention to take a pleasure" trip through | foreign countries.

KOPHERY OF TIMBER+RAFT [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Last night,at about ten o'clock, Whyte walk- ed into Des Vieux Read Central and waited. When he saw a trancar approaching about a dozen paces away Whyte threw himself on My Pa says that if the woman of to-day has

the track. The matorama of the car pulled lost her charm, she has only herself to blame for coming down from her-lofty-pedestal to rub up in time. Whyte got up when the car came of the road, shoulders with obnoxious man. I asked Paif to a standstil, brushed his clothes, murmured women had the same indifference to all serious and stood asric. The

He repeated the performance a' second time questions as they have always had, and my Pa

and was successful in stopping another car, but. the third time Whyte got it. The car could not be stopped in time and Whyte was picked

-Canton, 27th September; 1906, up in the lile guard. The 'crowds thought that

On the 6th day of this moon (23rd inst.) a y la says that the assertion that men in

was part of the performance and the noise they business need expect little help from women is

miade attracted the attention of a police-ser timber ft at Chaschuen was robbed and regnated with falsehood.

That there is geant who dragged Whyte out of his upcom.

two of its steersmen were also carried away by a number of pirates, when flanting down from scarcely a millionaire alive today, who is will fortable position and removed him to the ing 10 attribute" his success in a greater

station before he could do more injury to him. Szewai to Taiwan, in the Nam Hai District. or lesser degree to a woman. Very often

Li, sent a letter to that shop asking for a sum the sweet encouragement given to men by self. At the Central Police Station à charge Next day, the ringleader, nicknamed Tyrant women has made a tottering commercial of disorderly conduct whilst drunk was entered

against him and he was held. Brought before of 1,000 taels for the ransom of its jokis. Yes house stand firm as going concera."

Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, at the Police Court this tentlay the master reported the matter to the Nam Hoi Magistrate and prayed for the arrest fined $15.

I remarked to a that it seemed to me that

hands are engaged, as they know their work if they send names and addresses to the com pany. These carriers used chiefly to carry water to narrow streels whose occupants are mostly poor, (8) Each bucket to be carried shall hold five gallons, and a charge, for two. buckets-full, will be made of one cent, if the purchaser, or his servant; caries it to his house, or two cents for the two, buckets if the com pany's carriers deliver it. (9) If any tenan! who has a private pipe' laid down removes to another house he must notify the com pany, so that the laps may be removed, and the monthly charges stopped, failing which hotice the Company will connue the charges In case of fire the mappe taps will be as if the tenant still occupied the house. (10) turned off, the water being red to extinguish the fire, but the water so used will not be charged for, Should a private individual require charged for fixing the pipe but not for tho water used in extinguishing any fire that may occur. (1) The Company's overseera will see that the pipes are laid properly and all damage to public roads made good. (12) The Company recognizes that many of the streets of the pipes will be difficult, so they ask their are very narrow and crowded, so that the laying patrons to be patient, as eventually they will get the water easier than before, and of purer quality.

will reap the benefit of?" That, said His theyallclaan they have to suffer, in.minor degree, marriage made a iness of a man's Empyrean. morning, the officer pleaded guilty and was of the despertoes and for the release, al his pipe laid on in case, of fire-unly he will be

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*A NIW RESERVOIR.

It had been said, when the Tytam reservoir white elephant" and was built, that it was a no use to the generation. As a fact, it is now found to be too small to meet the requirements, and a new reservoir is about to be built, cap able of containing 1,200,000,coa'gallons ol water. (Applause.)

REMOVING REFUSE. ·

The Hon. Member for the Chamber of Com merce had said the Shipping ought out to he called-upon to contribute to the cost of remov ing refuse, as it most affected those on land, and be added that the trade of the Colony de- pended on its shipping. That was a common way of putting it, but did not the shipping, His Excellency would ask, depend as much upon the trade of the Colony 7"

POLICE EFFICIENCY.

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Hongkong, 28th September, 1965

THE PORTUGUESE CONSUL

"AT HOME."

28th insi, To-day being the joint anniversaries of Their Most Faithful Majesties King Carlos, and Queen Amelie, of Portugal, Conselheiro A. G. Komann, 'Consul General for Portugal, and Commendador J. 1. Leiria, Vice-Consul, were "at home' at their residence, "Duart, Arbuthnot Road, from 12am. to p.m. la receive visitors wishing to call in honour of the occasion. Amongst the callers were Captain Coleman, representing His kx cellency the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, KCMG, Captain Muller, representing Com- modore Figgott Williams, Colonel Darling, GOC, the Chief Justice, the Hon, Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., Attorney General, the members of the Consular Corps now in Hongkong, and mber officials, Messrs. A. Eeth, 1.5.0., F. J. V. Jorge, A. H. M. da Silva, M. A. A. Souza, and other members of the Portuguese community,

This is not his exact remark, but what he did say amounts to the same thing. My Pa grows. fearfully vulgar when rifed, and mother shows the utility of women as guides to correct cgp: versation. Pa's opinion of the tragical mar ried man hausted throughout the day by the nightmare of instant disinissal is worth having My la says sitch men will be found to be woubless, weak-spined wretches withering daily under the splenetic vapourings of their bosses and too prone to make a meal of their wives' candle lectures. Meu without gumption, mirrors of man's weaknesses and men with that "Tired feeling" so vividly portrayed in the illustrated magazines.

My says any a prevaricator of the truth.

ROBBING AN INFANT,

- PRISONER TOOK ILL IN CELL.

28th inst..

After a short, but very exciting chase, in Reclamation Street, Yau-ma-li, yesterday after. non, in which a number of people took part, Leung Yau, a boatman, was caught by a woman and locked up in the Yau-ma-ti Police Station, charged with robbery. The complain ant is a young Chinese woman, who also resides in Reclamation Street.

workmen.

AMERICAN SAILOR FINED. It is reported that an American sailor was charged with committing the offence of throw. ing a Chinese into the river at Shameen. He was sentenced to 10 days' impitonment and to pay a fine of $So.. This punishment caused

some dissatisfaction among the Cantonese.

INSPECTION OF SOLDIERS,*

Viceroy Shum instructed the Military De partment to send a Weiyuan to go round to all the military stations and inspect the soldiers" from time to time taking with him a square brass licence to be used as a warrant of inspection of the soldiers instead of a written despatch.

TEA.

There were about 2,000 boxes sent on board 5.5. Hankow last night to be transhipped by the nut-going 1. & steumer to-day. There will he more to follow. The market has been kept open much later this season, but sales have been effected only in small lots. Good tea is still in demand for the English market,

THE BRITISH China SQUADRON,

ADMIRAL MOORE AT PORT ARTHUR.

The woman, accompanied by her two-year Touching upon the indictment, my Pa says old daughter, went to the market yesterday to we men must not let resentment render as ob- make some purchases. The market was packed livious to the fact that it was Jean of Arc who with people so she left her daughter on the wiped the feet of the French upon the necks of footpath and went in on her business. When Englishmen at the Baule of Domremy. That she came out she discovered that the gold. a jewish maiden delivered the Jewson of the mounted rattan bangle which was on the wrist hands of the Philistines. That Queen Eliza of her child but a few minutes before had disap beth lent her royal aid to Sir Walter Releigh peared. She raised a cry and a sympathetic crowd tipped the woman to watch the pawn leaving his ultimate destruction to a mere mau,

She at once made for the nearest That Grace 1 arling ventured on an errand of shups.

establishment and on entering pawnbroker's mercy where angels feated to tread. That sympathetic queen saved the necks of the Ca- saw Leung Yau holding her child's bangle in lais burghers, That Miss Nightingale breath-his hand and bargaining with the pawnbroker. ed the frightful miasma of rotting humanity in The man with the bangle brake away immediate order that men in England might see their ly he saw the woman and a hot chase followed chums again, and that to a woman's influence down the road. He was captured before he with Nelson we owe our present-supremacy on could board a ferry launch and it was alleged was roughly handled by the crowd before he the seas.

was lianded over to a policeman. When search ed at the station the bangle was not found on the prisoner, and it is supposed it was passed to a confederate, who escaped. This morning, when the police were gathering their prisoners at the station te ting them to Court for trial, boats. it was found that Leung Yau was ill and he We learn that Admiral Moore' will proceed was immediately transported to hospitel. The with his squadron from Tairen to the China cause of his illness is not officially known at coast an Saturday, kad during next week the present, as the hospital doctors have not made Admiral will pay a visit to Peking. Alter a reponto the police, but we understand that calling at Chefeo, about the 30th, the squadron the prisoner is suffering from theumatism, will return to Wei-hat-wel, where the annual

regatta will take placa, He is under observation,

In referring to the cost of the upkeep of the Hongkong Police, the Hon. Member at the end of the table appeared to desire to convey that the efficiency or otherwise of a department was cominensurate with the amount it cost for its op-keep.

His Excellency could scarcely thank the ffen, Member means thint. As regards the comparison between the Shanghai and the Hongkong. Police, Excellency had bad

bad My Pa tays there are many vamen in several conversations with gentlemen convers: ant with the subject, and had come to the

as well as many foreigners, who paid the the world, but their numbers compared with conclusion that the expenditure upon and the onsul General and the Vice-Consul the comthose of wicked men are as the oyster shells in efficiency of the Police were quite proportionate.pliments of the day, being, in turn, entertained our backyard to those still in the sea.

I asked Pa what had woman dose for the by them with lavish hospitality, the healths of their Majesties being drunk in bumpers. Sub- human race? and my fa says " Heaps, my lad. sequently cut gratulatory telegrams were des- In the wide field of literatura she is by no means the hindmost; in the realms of art she patched to E, the Governor of Macao, and to e Conde de Araoso, Secretary to His is fast advancing to the front; in the business Majesty the King of Portugal. This afternoon world she is leaving footprints in the sands of Mrs. Romano it "at home" to Jadies desiring time, in all that is virtuous she excola. She is a model of industry, of propriety, and of to call.

patience in time of distress."-"

PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.

The same Hon. Member called attention ta the fact that something over 30% of these venue was spent in personal emoluments. As regards that, fis Excellency had before him the figures of Singapore, Colombo, Mauritius, and other Colonies, which were all on an average 30%, so that Hongkong pould not be said to be out of line in that direction. (Hear, henr.),

Salve aRai & 4_Rainha....

FORTHCOMING VISIT TO PEKING, The China Squadron, under Admiral Moore, arrived at Tairen on Monday, says the Japak Chronicle of 21st inst. On Wednesday the. Admiral, accompanied by his Staff and other officers, proceeded with four destroyers to Port

torpedo Arthur, escorted by four Japanese

"THE DUTIES AT NEWCHWANG,

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

We recently reported that the Japanese Mil- itary Administration Office at Newchwanz bad abolished a fita duty is per cent, ad valorem) on white pean (daizu) and oilcake exported by We (Japan Chronicle) Chinese merchants. now learn from a Tokyo dispatch that the abolition of the duty was effected under instruc

Since Russia retroceded the Liacal district tons from the Governor-General of Kwantung. to China in October 1902, the Chinese Govern- tai and the Hopei station, on the shore oppo ment has established in offices at Tienshan- sile Newchwang, and has been collecting on the goods brought to Newchwang by the Line River. and the Lizupei Railway. When the duty is imposed by the Newchwang Cos toms, the Chinese have had to pay double on the same goods. Recoolly the Chinese mery chants addressed a petition to the Mukder Central, asking that the likin duty imposed by The Nowchwang Customs be abolished. Mukden General referred the petition Governor-General of Kwantung. result stated.

the the

THE Yokosuka Port Admiralty hava decide his dispose of their carrier pigeons, owing to be introduction and perfection of wireless days by the naval authorities at Yokosukas. graphy: Over 200 birds are to be sold in