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MINU The minutes of the last mesting were read", "new" and confirmed.
RAMFINANCE The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the report of the Finance Committee No. 9
But the concession made doni affect that aspect of the question upon which I laid most stress. It does minimise the objection which
to the introduction of a new and un- "destrabin element of uncertainty into the con- ditions of the ownership of properly.
THE SUPPLY BILL Council resume 1 committes on the Bill ea- titled An Ordinance to authorize beg appro priation of a supplementary sum
I say it minimises the objection. The dred and sixty-six thouined seven libodied element of uncertainty remains, but it is obvious and thirty-five dollars and eighty-five cents to that a contingent liability to contribute towards was reported without amendment, dafray the Charges of the Year 1907., Bill the cost of improvements is less of an objection
On the motion of the Colonial
thas a similar läbility to "contribute towards the cost of improvements and compensation aS seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill Well, I understand that the opinion of these passed through Committas.
activity; can hardly be expected. A really effective remedy for the financial malady, continues the Tokyo journal, can only be (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Mr. found in the introduction of drastic measures, (Director of Publik That is, the Government should readjust its Hon. Mr. E. A, Irving (Rep
Bail R. H. Taylor, RN. Gbance so as to keep the expenditure strictly Hon. Dr. Ho Kal, M.p within the revenue, and at the same time pro Yuk, Hon Mr. Mur vision should be made for the annual refund Heary Berkeley, H log of the loans so that the greater portion of the latter will have been redeamed twenty or thirty years hence. Apart from the ex- penditure of the Army and Navy, what proves the largest drain on the treasury is payment of interest on the loans. The ex isting loans aggregate 2,000 million yen lug amount, and when to this is, added the rail. way nationalisation loan amounting to goo million yen, the total will come to 1,500 millions. The annual payment of interest on these losus will not be less than too lion yen: It is proposed to pay interest on
Koupelen, the railway loan out of the profit accruing from the railways, but in the present state of things this will be impossible, as the fallway profit is insufficient to meet the expenditure: required for the improvement and repairs of the permanent way and rolling stock. When everything and every possibility is taken into due consideration the only way out of the difficulty must lie in the readjustment of the loans and a reduction of the military and naval expenditure. Again, this will be the only way to maintain the financial credit of the country at home and abroad. If the NASA FUBLIC HEALTH BILL D Government continues to seek a temporary Council resumed consideration in committee relief by its bolstering up policy, the financial of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the skein will become still more entangled sew Public Health and Building Ordinance, 1905 and The Public Health and buildings Amend years hence and may reach a stage here ment Ordinance, 1903 io measure of remedy will be of availe
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Further consideration of the Bill; entitled An Ordinance to prohibit the Exportation of Prepared Opium to China, was not proceeded with at this meeting.
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lon of pioperi;
ouncil and the matter could then
bald that the procedure suggest- the effect of giving an appearance: af
Mr. Stewart Not instead of but in addition to. The idea was that the recommandation shruld come from the Medical Officer of Health and be sent up by the Sanitary Board.
The Council procended to amend the clause as proposed.
A GOOD CAPTURE, V
WHITE, PAINT "ASSA CLUB,"
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the melanchol Overtook whose career of ployment on the Ca tragically brought the night of Monday
official
His Excellency, the Governor said, it prospect of the wells WAI - NOL. Ko matter that, wou'd be demolished upper stories, being actually rushed, through; A farmal re-
receptacles for abot rub commendation would come from ba. Medical circles this afternoop at of the Banking bogse it has Officer of Health or the head of the Sanitary wreck by her owosrs ited to me that this aspect of the Department. The money voted would have discussed. Followin
engage the attention of to appear on the Estimates. If it was the un-forthwith be made hent for which; "under its","animous wish of unofficial mombats that the--asu” Tacao. Steamt head the Government will be Sanitary Board should be inserted in ead of sured value sponsible;
Medical Officer of Health then he had no sonable suppositibo objection.
inquities at the Compan any definite statement yesterd Lo.'s divers were hard at work,, presumed that the report was the report of the exbanstiva wreck The bow of the Powan fourteen feet of mud and less than foxy feet of wat Yesterday, the party consisting of Mr. W. E. and Capt Black, and Mess Through the arrest of a man named Li Hok, Robson of the Ponds had who the police discovered later was a coolie noon at the wreck endeav recognised authorities on property has under-employed by the management of the Victoria much of the move the concessions made in them at a rorolt of British School, in Caroline Hill Road, two rob- Leaving Honako the concessions made: in the mailer of com- beries which were reported at No 2 Police reached Lastao, befor pensation and that in their opinion the re- Station, last week have been solved. It will launch alongside anising objection is not serious enough to be admitted by all our readers that the arrest taking away all the availa warrant continued opposition to the proposal was nothing short of cliver
not feel justified. At about two, o'clock yesterday afternoon" | "the o
• compasses," a quantity. clause on this ground. I object in principle C
pressing my individual
Coolie standing iron ventilator, iran buckels, caOTAL to the imposition of vague and indefinite con
on the sidewalk in Wanchai Road life buoys, preservert, fengihs of hose, tingent liabilitionu son any property of any kind having a quiet conversation to himself. The vas stretcher and a metal gun epiest it can be shown to be saabsolute neces- inspector became very interested in the man xity of the pubile welfare? I am not persuaded and watched his movements the coolie that this necessity has been made out. But 125 walking away Inspector Fen on noticed am oot prepared to ride my own idea to the that the back of his cost was stained with white death. This view of the mater is now, un paint. And then the officer's brain started. dorstand, shared by my unofficial colleagues, revolving. He remembered that the Victoria floats near the shore" and But though we are agreed about this we are School was being painted and whitewashed, drifting by means of lines also agreed in viewing with a certain amount of He remembered also that several days ago two, the ahora end. The salved uneasiness the nature and extent of the power larcenies had been reported as having beep up on the Steamboat Co. wharf which the clause as it stands, puta into the committed to the school-house, Without wait keng, while the thres boats, hands of the medical off or of health.
ing any longer inspector Fenton gave orders the pier. Some half a dozen However well assured we may feel that the to bis lukeng to take the man to the s ation, | of passengers!" Juggage ?were ; also fished present occupants of the offices upon which There, the suspect was searched, and a five up from the wreck, Claimants, have already. the responsibility rests are worthy of our un guinea gold watch, which Mr. W. H. Williams, bron found for them questioned confidence, we cannot commit the the headmaster, bad reported missing, ‘aome community to indefinite trust in the future days previously, was found, and I for one think, and hope others will rapport me in saying, that the public would prefer to have the practical working of the clauss. made subject to public discussion. Publicity can be obtained for discusBÍODE UPOA by reverting to the original wording of the
were successful to the exten
The Bill entitled. An Ordinance to provide a these circumstances, I doing to the while Inspector Fenton was on patrol several cable lengths of chains,
for the registration, of Chemists and Druggists and to regulate the sale of poisons, was deferted till next meeting.
| 11is Excóljency the Governor, referring to the resolution submitted at the last meeting of the Council by Mɛ Murray Stewart, said he was told the proportionate cost falling on the Government by way of compensation was way $5,000 is against 51.500 by the two owners of the adjoining bouter. „The Government would The French mail of the 'tath May was delibear rather, more the two-thirds of the im. vered in London on the sath jost.
provement Iristead of one-fourth proposed by the senior unofficial member last June. And
Mr. K." Mizumachi, Japanese Vice-Ministar
of Finance, has designed, on account of dis- the Goveramsal, pipponlod would be much ∙sersions in his Depătiment,
higher if the walls did not weed strengthening, Would this scheme depreciate the value of pro perfyned make investorria mortgages uncertain dibeirinvestments? Assuming the capital to be spent by the owner to be $1,200, if the interest
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A FIREMAN giving the name of Li Sui Tio; paid $3 in the Police Court, this morning, for boarding the steamer Køran yesterday, without permission. Lance sirgetur Jackson prosecute
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At the ordinary meeting of the Society of Arts, Admiral Li Chun, Tien Ping Kai-street, Cab. ton, and Richard Sco-Atkinson, M.I.EE., Jesselton, Biltish North Botaco, were proposed for election as members, and Lawrence Combe Brown, Department of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpor, Selangor, was elected a member of the Society.
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either secrecy or despatch does not seem to create any necessity for
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bres boats were also salved, and two whale boats, with a water compradore's office desk was in a ruined Condition. All NHS
started lot was taken off the burrican
What are you doing with this watch?" asked the inspector......
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My matter gave it me to keep the time for his liffin?" replied the coolie
Very well, concluded the inspector, take you to your master to inquire."
the coolie was being led out of the station
will
he incoed back and admittel stealing the watch, and also an umbrolla, which be carried, from son of the puplis. He was detained, and Mr. Williams notified,
fused
with
Second Engineer Robrod, with the all of divars had the good fortune of recovering Saco from his cabin, besides his gold ♥ watch and" chain and his certificate of competency.
It is a curious circummance that the saloon
can be seen intact below the burricane deck. The dining table is foaling with the three, disaster; the picture frames are still hanging on flower stands as they stood on the night of the ibe wall.
*.; THE DROWNED.
The list of drowned can now be ascertained with a tolerable degree of certainty. In all as, At the Police Coun, to-day, Li Hok was more than twenty lives ware lost in the. arraigned before Mr. J. H. Kemp on two wreck. After two days, constant emplayment. charge of ghalt. On the first count be cruising the Pass and the adjacent waters of the kid Focage:Lantag, iba scavenging launch of the Togg sentenced to three months hard labour
Way Hospital succeeded in recovering only funy bodies yesterday. Tores of them were consecutively,
BURGLAR CAPTURED.
A WORTHLESS CAREER ENDED".
hard to "put their house in order. By the The Wanchai police are apparently striving rest of a coolie, by name Yeung Wai, yester- day, they have succeeded in clearing up two burglaries which took place in that district as ar back as May last, and, furthermore, recover: ing the stolen property.
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women (two of whom had "smal),"that la, bound Ítet) and a may supposed to be of 40-50 years of age.
that sum were adiled loriha rental' of the first of "the clause which placed the ini," properly t
rly if would no doubt be regarded as an tiative with the M. O. H.." It was for him exits encombrance and as an additional Crown to represent to the Sanitary Board and for rent. To meet that objection it was proposed the Sanitary Board if they approved of his that the owner should pay the whole of the proposals to pass on his recommendation in cost at ong time of
time or carry if out at his own, writing to the Governor-B-Council, expense The owner by ptying it down. There seems to be no good reason why the ERVE of absence, to the United Kingdom; obtained valux of more thau duable the expense Government should teek to unmen veil of az beon granted to Major C. H. C. Grace, and the houses were really capable of accom-secrecy over the reasonsa adyan ed by the roth. Mabrattasan, follows: Privilege leave modeling is instead of 38 persons, it was M. O. H. for the demolition of insanitary probe second in three weeks, sentences to run from 13th June to 12th August, and leave on asked why in the face of such advantages this perly.. private affairs from 13th August to Igth Novem-scheme bad not been, adopted before by ownere |_ of property ? ___The Colonial Secretary point-
Theolice picked op two carpara yesterday ed out that these advantages could not
—a máu add a woman; and to-day (wo more have been obtained until the claurs is the Bill
(both males) were recovered, making eight in A)1,
ander special conditions. He thought the was passed reducing the cubic area demanded
10-day rom Capsofmoon hen, he came across Sergeant Davis, was steaming into the harbour
one of the two badles... The second, one was clause as it stood should commend itself to the Of course, if the Governor-in-Council had to
found Apating in the harbour near the Canton Council. Another lat was—is this measure confess his inability to carry out the recam
steamer's hard. It in Conjectured that the calculated to improve the sanitary condition of mendation of the Sanitary Board owing to the
body was that of one of the passengers of the the city? The answer to that was, he thought, state of the local exchequer he might con
Powan and that it drifted into the harbour with the tide. Ho bad all the appearance of a China- made abundantly clear jo ibe speech of Mr.ceivably prefer the Executive Council with
man of the better class; about go years of age, THE "Lugard Cup," the "Nathan Cup," the
Pollock last year and also in the speech of the its clored, doon, as a confessional box,
This is the way the capture was made, ordinary build, and dressed in white and "Blake Shield," the Gascoigne Shield," senior unofficial member speaking to the but I think the community have a right Some time yesterday afternoon a "boy," in brown fackets with a pair of black pants
resolution. * All agreed that the scheme as put to be consulted in such a case. In such a the employ of a European, scalding, at
From the table wa; compiled yesterday 30% The postage on the weekly laue to any part of the the "Championship Cup" and other prizes for forward was the best from the sanitary point of case the Governoria-Council would be able 175, Wanchal Road," was returning homa was shown that 27 were still to be accounted ride shooting will be presented by His Ex view, Apart from ibe question of finance, to throw the responsibility back upon the from the market. He had ascended ball drowned as stated above, the number cow
|-for in -drowned "rad missing. Deducting 8. Single Copies, Dally, in coin: Workly, twestycellency Sir F. J. D. Lugard, K.C.Ma, CD,
The suming of properties had not been suc- community. He would merely have to slate way up the staircase, when tie met a missing is reduced to 19. It is more thin D.S.O., at a smoking concert to be held at cessful in this Colony, A resumption scheme bir reasons and to put the problem thus for the coulis coming down with a parcel in his likely that several of them", had been"; Volunteer Headquarters on Saturday, th|was necessarily, very. Farge and one which ia. consideration of the laxpayers of the Colony band. The "boy" recognised the parcel at rescued by the fishing Junks, which most have:
proceeded to the fishing grounds almost imme. volved a largo immediate outlay, whereas this "If you think the work of demolition sufficient pace, and, pounced upon the coolie, who suc disisiy after. Until their return to their stations THERE WAS A large, attendance of friends to
scheme could be proceeded with gradually. Itly arent to justify wo is impening fresh, ceeded in escaping. The "boy" chased him in the New Territory there is every hope that way aw recair to Mr. T. C. Anderson, of the was urged that the roof of the third house might "tuza'lɔn I am willing joʻlmpore fresh taxen, down the rod, yelling Thief, thief Mr. N. there will be later secounted foregone
CUT THE "KAM SUUN's" -MASTE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, who left become a receptacle for rubbish from the ad- it is a matter for the community to decide." G: Nolan, interpreter of the Police Court, who
The Chinese master of the⠀ Yokohama on May 33, accompanied by Mrs, joining houses. He thought it should not be This would be a public benefit loasmuch as it was coursing home at the time, gave chase
returned from the wreck to-day, Anderson and his family, The Japan Gazette beyond the resources of the police and police would saddle public cl icism with the weight also and collared the fugitive, who was states that a large number of p:eting gifts and courts to deal with that matter by the fofliction of the proposed increase in the burden of taxa. handed over to the police, The parcel which by @reporter from this paper the the weather-beaten and browned bpaquets were presented to him, noticeable
of finer or other punishments. It had shio tion and would be a useful menar of-testing | be bad thrown away doring, the chase was the skipper unmistakable told his
¿for drástic, found to contain three oop-dollar noles, forty-in- very..intelligibló Pidgin Engli among the latter being a huge horseshoe been said the roof would be certain to leak but the sincerity of any outla ho qucation of financial readjustment is shaped bouquel on the ribbons, of which was that was a question for the engineers and he measures. Publicity in such meter's should be five cents, one half crown and funt cigars, graphic, narrative of the gallant oper nowadays almost a pérennial topic of dis-printed "Bon Voyage, N. R. C.", Mr. Asdenoo difficulty. Another question was Will this should be encourag
his crew accomplished that even matters which the bay recognised as his master's. There is nothing in the man's story which sock did not think the engineers were afraid of the encouraged. Discussion in”, such cussion_in_the_columns_of_the_vernacular having been-long-connected with the Racere involve the Government in Keávy ex-
property... On his person was found a platinom to make a revisjon of our brát detailed reports Press in Japan. The Chronicle, of Kobe, Clab, to which he has rendered valuable penditure beyond the resources of the Colney?
And both públicity discussion should be watch and a corded chair, which were reported | seedful. The Kam Sham was on her way back by the Government, in all (má as having been stolen from 29, Bowrington from Canton on Monday having left that part says: The difficulty of post-bellum finance service,
spared: It was much less costly than the present policy to which their became apparent, romarke the Manichi No LAH SAW, a coolie, attached to the Kowloos of resumption and could be applied piecemeal, inconvenient.
Canal Road in May lan. He was also found at one o'clock in usa ternoon, topchlug the Am He om Hom If the Go-to be in possession of a barglar's pick-lock and Taishan Customs station en roufe Dempo, in the 39th (1906-7) fiscal year, City Police Station, was charged in the Police The clause also reserved to the Governor-in verament are pre
ared ),accept 1k8;
a number of skeleton keys, when the Government appropriated a large Court, this morning, with being in unlawful Council tho' right to put this scheme into amendment is
spiri
"The" accused," who gave the name of Yeung amount of the surplus of the war expenditure. possession of a police whistle, and with assum-operation. Be thought therefore the schemation, is, mide it
the Wal, was charged before Mr H. Kemp in the Police Court to-day pleading guilty to the Subsequently the Government was compel, ing the designation of a police constable, "Not had much to recommend it from every poist udofficial mojbers have not been led to abandon ita loan projects, to consent guilty" was the plea, entered by the accused.. of view and he hoped the Council would adopt fading in agreeing 10 alihdraw the
three charges framed against him by Inspector to the postponement of Government under Inspector Morison prosecuted. It was alleged it unanimously in principle, the details being the deletio
Fenton of the clause Bef takings, and to have recourse to a further that accused, during the absence of the ins worked out afterwards we abbard live to unde Increase of taxes. All these expedients have proceeded to bully, the hawkers in the paigh mover of the deletion of this clanse, I desire honourably cover retrok
pector, removed his whistle from his tunic, and Mr. Murray Stewart said speaking as the point desire to make however, had little effect in saving the situa-bourhood. Unfortunatly inspector Marison to say that as far as I am concerned, I did of the ground I wish to Hon. The present, embarrassment is due saw him, and on his return in the station and not folly appreciate the effect of the altern-amicable intentions of the Gove
the reckless, expansion of the Govern- | him charged. The case was remanded for tion which had been introduced into lu
•ment's" expenditure regardless of the real defendant to call witnesses,
For that 1. submit we are not to blame, i was not notil the meeting had actually opened
The Hongkong Celegraph
Hongkong, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1998.
· JAPANASH FINANCIAL
READJUSTMENT,
iait, commencing, at 9 pm.
financial power of the nation, The Gov A WOMAN named Jeaune Webber, who had that the new draft of the Cze ernment appears disposed to regard the previously been twice charged with the 'mura ong to where I fit and
ustrial lever that, raged some time ago as dams of children, is in custody at Commercy sion in understanding of its responsible for bringing about the existing (Meuse), charged with the murder of a boy of tirely ex-usable under the circu State of affairs, but the real responsibility six years of yeld peculiarly atrocious circum termin
seats with the Government, who not only stances. Under a difoient name the
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