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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY DECEMBER 2 1900

LOCAL AND GENERAL Mt. D. Cinatti, the assistant Portuguese mit stirn Commissiouer, is confined to his room

with a severe attack of influenza. `` CHAM-IT is not the fact, although it was alleged by certain Scotch members of the Legislative Council this alterpoos, that the official clock was one of these who attended the St. Andrew's Ball. The clock, it is true; stood at twonly minutes to twelve-but that might mean any. thing.

ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.

STONE GINGER BEER.

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pasonal consideration and endeavour ameliorate the condition of affairs,

Mr. Murray Stewart said that in thein cir cumstances he would not press the resulation,

STEAM BOILERS, On the motion of the Colocial Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, the draft Rules underibe: team Boilers Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 33 of 1909) wein adoptad,

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TRADE MARKE, Council again considered in Committee the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Trade Marks.

When Conncil resumed, the Bill was report:

The Bill was then read a third time and

STAMP ORDINANCE, The Attorney General moved, and the, Colonial Becretary reconded the first reading of Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance, 190".

This is it proposes to further mead the Stamp Ordinance.

Class 1 to 3 are designed, by the imposition. of penalries in sespect of delayed applications, to induce interested parties to make early application for the grant of probate of ike estate of deceased persons and 10 prevent evasion of duties,

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Clause & relates to the stamping on a coas co veyance or assignment po salo and fucorporates allie Section 55 of the Imperial Act 1891 1

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the first reading of a Bill entitled' An Ordinance to p amend the Code of Civil Procedure was passed.

The object of the amendment which, in effected by this Ordinance is to restore the right of either party to ask for a Jury in ciril causes which sight existed and would appear to have given satisfaction between the passing of the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure in the year 1873 and the passing in the your 1901 of the Code of Civil Procedure which repealed the earlier Code.

EQUATTERS ORDINANCE. The Attonery Geceral moved the first read, ing of a Bill entitled An Ordinace to amend the Squatters Ordinance, 189ni

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Agreed,

Now, we suggest, that is an excellently-con-All anch liquor shall contain not more than simmering canidrons stood out in the the Colony. As Hongkong has not since ceived non-committal answer. "It says "no" 45 per cent of alcohol by weight.

roadway smoking over the passer-by. Our then been favoured by a visit from Royalty -4. $0,95 a gallon on the native liquor known stranger might have recognised the process the condition of the plot in question has been to a question that was never asked. Obviously, as Fan, That, it containing 50% or under of of tarring macadam and wandered what uninterruptedly declining from bad to the leading question was to the effect that alcshel by weight with the addition of two this, had to do with the work on the worse. Are we faced with the prospect clerks should work till bone and sinew failed. cents for every one, per centum betwees (Post Office. It would hava had be explata of this process continulog until the Post And if they refused-but, then, that was only and 55% of alcohol by weight.

red that this far macadam lactory is the Office is completed? This question was A. S. WATSON & CO., an insinuation. After all, whyshouldn't clerks, 5. $.50 cents a gallon with the addition of Public Works Department's separate contri- inked at our last meeting. My aim is even thipping clerkt, have their rights?- We eight ceas for every one per centum above bation to the chaor, for which it cannot be asking it was to ascemalo, if possible, are all willing to work past the ordinary hours 55% of alcohol by weight on any pative liquor claimed that it is covered by any sort of no whether the Goverment realised the extent of business when work has to be done. There containing, above 51% of alcobol by waightcessity whatever I do not see how any of, and recognized reasons for, a growing

·are even some Christians who will work on Stops per gallon on all native gaan diepälogist of Government can even excuse it. Impatience over the long continued use of tilled in abs New Territories, not including suppose it will be said that, as the Post Office this particular piece of public land for the Sundays and many, very many, Jews work on New Kowiada, for consumption in, the amid contractor had already made an unsightly purposes of a contractor's yard. The Hon the Saturdays. The whole thing is a game on the

meas there was no particular barm in Director of Public Works said that the quened with amendments, part of the German Consular authorities" of

Further resolved that on native wines and making it worse. But surely the officials of the tion-the third of a saries-was disposed of by Shanghai to impose a condition of coercion spirits declared or labelled as belonging to any Public Works Department should restrain; no: the answer vouchsafed to the second. I am | passed. on their employer. We will put it no higher of the above divisions the appropriate duty lead, disorder. They owe this duty to the ueable to be that the answer to the second than this: Given a good firm, a considerate therein laid down shall be paid except that on public. To their immediate superiors they question bad any relation to the third at all.. any native liquor however declared or labelled || recogoirs & duty well enough. They would res The Hoo. the Director of Public Works did manager and the employes will work till, in found by the Government Analyst or such alise the impropriety of making a tar macadam not catch the drift of the latter question. If he an expressive Spanish phrase, the sweat runs

person as the Governor may from time to time factory opposite the entrance to Government had he would have foreseen that it could not out of their bones.

appoint in that behalf to contain more alcohol House. Why then upon the threshold of the be so easily disposed of, that it was certain to chan is permitted in the division" to which Colony? This is a glaring instance of that want crop up aguio, as it has done to the resolutlep. it is declared or labellast as "belonging there of a proper sense of the finess of things con- The fact that he goders ood the question to shall be paid the appropriate duty of the divi carning which there is just fible public com refer only to the improper occupation of bell-sion in which the amount of alcohol found has plaint, The Praya opposite Poyal Square in the these worksteds as tenements argued an im. placed it: each division in such case shall re city's front door step. It theu'd be kept clear perfect realisation of the far larger aspect of present nilive liquor of the limit of strength in and swept clear. It is no more suitable for such the nuisance, and I have therefore felt con alcohol therein stated and inespective of any Borpbies then is the front door step of a private strained to refer to it again, and to indicate the definition or description of such liquor, sad on house suitable for cooking the dinner, Walking hope, which underlay the original question, of any native wines and spirits our declared "or

on round that part of the plot enclosed by a finding the Government willing to admit that the labelled as belonging to any division there sbali palisade the stranger would wonder why the time has now arrived to improve matters. It be paid the duty appropriate to the division in lessen in allowed to leave about, outside on doen not seem to me to be unreasonable to ex> which the amount of alcohol found by the the sidewalk, old cart wheels, and slope road pect this. I have no wish to add to the work- Government Analyst or such person as the rollers, drain pipes and logs of wood. And from and worries of any bard-pressed oficial. To a Governor may from time to time appoint on what he saw on tording to the right, he might man overwhelmed with the numbers of files THE steam-lausch Douglas wass. I'd by Messrs.

that behalf has placed it.

reascuably suppose that not only was an indus thawheap themselves up upon his office desk, Hughes and Hough at public auction in the

Further resolved that stills in the New Terry in connection. with road-making being awaiting minutes, it may seem bard to be mača forenoon, to-day. Bidding was very keen.rities (not including New Kowloon) shall be carried on from the enclosure but also the responsible for what is happening on the The first offer was for 5403, and competition prohibited from sending liquor produced in business of a laundry. He would have noticed Praya. But it is not the public's fault if between Chinese competitors ran the price up these stills to Hongkong or to New Kowloon: dangling on bamboos above the weedgrown the system on which the Department is worked to $1,050, at which the launch was knocked provided that any liccosse of a distillery who heaps of bricks, which top the palisade on the calls for improvements, which would enable down to Kwong Wo..

desires to send such liquor to ongkong or east, numbers of old coats and pants, ard.. the Hoo, the Director of Public Works to use GENERAL Sir Joachim Machado, R.C.MO, the New Kowloon may be granted a permit to do whop, he came round to the west, another his pea less and bir eyes more. But this opens so, payment of the duties charged in Hoogauronment of similar rags flaunting be- a larger question, I desire to confice the diu- REFRESHING. Portuguese Delimitation Commissioner, pro-

ceeds on a visit to Canton on Saturday mora. koeg or New Kowloon. “'.

hind the statue of 'His Majeury the King. If cussion to the plot in question, Surely, now it ing, returning to Hongkong by the Sunday

Further resolved that on intoxicating liquors, he had been, with me one day recently he would might be possible to abate the nuisance created Bight boat. His cretary, Capt. J. M. Rolier than spirits of wine, arrack and sative have teenibe crew of junk, evidently mistaking by its present condition. The ost Office is built Norton, who has gone to Macao, will meet wines and spirits, imported into, distilled, made the land on which the statue stands for waste up to the top storey. The edifice awaits only or prepared in the dolcay above proof strength land, using it as a place to spread and mend Its roof and the tower which is to crown it. If, there, shall be paid an additional dury of 4 their sails. If he had been with me'a day as 1 understand, the only work, connected with cents for every degree above proof is the case fater, he would have seen the Monarch's the building of the Post Office, now belog car- of brandy; 3 cents for every degree above proof effigy closely invested, up to the steps of the ried on in the yard is the, sawing by hand in the case of whisky, and a cents for every pedestal, by ramparts of large ion pipes. Often of timber-a method somewhat antiquated in degree above proof in the case of any other he might have seen, since the beginning of the these days of bandsaws cutting teak like butter liquor.

N.E. monacon, smoke from the coal-ar factory-surely there is no necessity for renewing the pouring over it, of perhaps from the kitchen lease? The contractor will say there is no chimneys in rear. The stronger might have other place to saw it. But if he were to receive questioned the propriety of erecting this statue to-morrow.three months' notice to qu't, in that until it could be treated with proper tespect. He time think hecould find away. Where there's might ask, How did this state of matters begin? a will there's always one. And if the Public Hi cicerona might not be able to tell him Works Department had the will they could Only an old resident could give him an idea. find a way to do without the drawing (ffice. Here I might come in. My recollectio would and the far factory in the sen front. The be that the Public Works Department did erasure of the drawing office, the removal of Hor. Mr. Murray Stewart: rise to move not start the nuisance now complained of. the road surface factory, and an issue of

steps should be taken to abate the nuisance it of late years. Ligber powers in the the immediate steps called for under the cir created by the condition of the plot of Govers: Government began il 1 can't remember cumstances and this is the 'messing of the meat land between the new Law Courts and exact dates, but I recall the circumstances, word niet--the meaning which it carica in the Praya" Forhaps the best way to realise remember as one who can recall local law when coupled with the word buisas ce. the nuisance referred to is to put one-sell events far lorger than } Cars to re- Thus strengthened it is the equivalast of in the pastion of a stranger. Any observant lise. But one need not confess to having abolish; thus I intend it to be read in and interested stranger loading on the Praya taken, a continuous interest in this parti- the resolution which I DOW move: to opposite Queen Victoria's statue sed looking cular matter for more than, a decade. Only speaking to it I have endeavoured as far as first to his right front and then to his left would then did the question arise, What is to possible to repress the poot up feelings of years mark a striking contrast. On his right he would be done with the plot of Government of irritation. They are not personal toy Dota with pleasure a well-kept grass plot, land between the wild fixed, for the new particular Mcial. Theyaredirected, gainst ibe bordered with flowers and enclosed by a Law Courts and the Praya? In those days idea that the Hon. the Director of Public Works handsome" railing. On his left he would Hongkong was prosperous. She occupied a is a law unto himself and that his subordinates see an unsightly conglomeration of ram deminating position as a docking centre. She and contractors in carrying out Government, shackle and tattered matsheds, piles of still held her own as a mart and distributing work are free to display indifference towards ratting poles, odds and ends of old timbers, centre. We were all filled with pride and valo con iderations which it should be their pride to untidy heaps of granite chippings, weedgrown glory. And when we discussed the question advance. I appeal to powers in the Govern Macks of bricks; co khouses-other outhouses of what ought to be done with the plot in ment overruling this department to put an |—all the stagnani squalor which collects in a question, some of us maintained that the Goyend on the plot of ground in question to * builder's yard. The fact that the tattered maternment should here erect a building to serve condition of things which has grown to be sheds are in the occupation of a certain Chinese the purposes of a Town Hall, a noble gracite discreditable to the Administration as a whole. contractor is advertised in large letters over building in the classić style worthy, fihe most

Hon. Mr. Osborne:-1 beg to second this property are bot affected by the Bill. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHÝ, The minutes of the last meeting were read the entrance to them, and the observent beautifully situated city in the King's Domi- resolution. It will no doubt ha contended by

The Bill satitled An Ordinance to amendin and confirmed.

stranger, noticing this, might imagine that glory. That dream will someday, I hope, those who are responsible for the retention the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1993; and berd way & fligrant case of private owner come true, though it seems further off now than

of these unsightly straciares that they are the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinanco, 1909, was✨] ship in land resulting in public wrong theo, But even then, in the days of prosperity, necessary for construction work on the "Here," he might say, "is a case where it we saw that it could not be realised until new Post Office. That the site in question General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary.

read a first time on the motion of the Altorney 5+ would obviously be sight for the State the new Law Courts and Post Cffice had is a convenient and economical, one for the This Ordinance provides popuition-for-the to step in and to force the owner of this been built and the claims of waterworks

contractors, "Messrs. Song Lee and Co, is | violation of the Ordinances relating to wireless ( prominently situated plot either to put it to satisfied. And, consequently it was hoped

no doubt correct, but to contend that work telegraphy. The Colonist Secretary, laid on the table some less unseemly use or submit to a forced and expected that, in the meantime, the

for the Pst Office cap be done nowhere

ORDER AND CLEANLINESS. Financial Minutes Nos. 5 1 to 54. It was agreed | sala.” He might contend, without going Government would clear and maintain av

elsa than in Royal Squire is an absurdity; for The Attorney General moved the first reading. that they be referred to the Finance Committee. all the way with the Chancellor of the an spen space the plot in question, as well there is not a vestige of material prepared there, if a Bil caltitled Ao Ordinance to amend the

Exchequer, that no rights of private 'owper, as ibe 75 feet to the west of it. This last,

Dor an atom of material stored upon the ground, | Order and Cleanliness Ordinancë, 1867. ship should carry with them such as the Government, filled with emulation by the which could not equally well be accommodated uiter want of consideration for the proprieties example set on the other side of Quee on any piece of waste land outside the City limite

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Agreed. of city government and so imperfect Victoria's Stalne, actually proposed to do, if the Governmen', Sir, is bent upon con. sense of the fitness of things, as to lease just sight years ago. But this Colony suffers tinuing this puisacce, to the disregard of public

mixed with aerated or plain water

make excellent refreshing beverages.

His Excellency al Canion. THIS evening at the Union Church Literary Club, Kennedy Road, Mrs. W. J; Willams, Litt. B., wil deliver & lecture entitled "The many sidedness of Charles Dickens as seen in David Copperfid," with illattrated readings, The lecture will be open to the public, and the chair will be taken ́at 9 p.m./shorp by Mr. P. H. Holyoak,

Guaranteed to be made from the Ar about three o'clock on Saturday morn

pure juice of sound ripe fruit.

ing, a Chinaman landed from the sa. Shun Lee | with twenty (sele, of opium.in'bis possession. He was duly brought before Mr. E. Rallifax (First Magistrate) and fined the maximum com of $500, Mr. J. Hi Gardiner, who appeared for

The Attorney General seconded. Agreed.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded..

Mr. Moray Stewart inquired about the question of breaking into cases of whisky, ju

The Colonial Secretary explained that such procedure would seldom be necessary.

NEW LAW COURTS SITE.

A. S. WATSON & CO., the defendant, at the time asked for a rechear that "in the opinion of this Council immediate They have only increased, and intensified marching orders to the woodyard, these are

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, December 2, 1903.

SHOULD CLERKS WORK OVERTIME,

How many hours a day should clerks-or, an they are dignified here, assistants-be compelled to work per diem? There Is a question for the economist, the free trader and the sportsman. Of course, we are well. aware that shipping clerks are the salt of the earth, and do not work at all, but we are speaking now of the humbler fry, those who do the business of the Colony. The ques- tion has arisen in Shanghai, as the result, if we remember aright, of a civil action, the details of which have escaped our memory. It was a German case in which a clerk was required to work till the work was done. It now appears that the German Consular Court has taken up the matter and these

are the questions which have been submitted to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, for "expert opinion":

1. Does here in Shanghai exist a local cus- tom for the employees of commercial houses according to which, unless 'exceptional, cir cumstances require working after the regular

when Mr. Hallifax upheld his decision,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber this after DDDD, Present His Excellency the Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., 'His Excel Jancy Major-General R. G. Broadwood, CB, (Commanding the Forces), Hon. Sir Henry H. May, K C.M.G..{Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. F. A. Hareland (Attorney-General), Hoo. Mr. A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer), Bon. Mr. P."] N. H. Jones (Director of Public Works), Hon. Mr. F. J. Badeley (Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon. Mr. A, W. Biewin (Régistrar General), Hou. Dr. Ho Kai, M.B., C.M.O., Hon, Mr. W. Greison, Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk,...C., Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart, and Mr. O. Clementi (Clerk of Councils).

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The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table a memorandum on the licensing of public houses in Hongkong.

FINANCIAL MINUTES.

FINANCIAL REPORT.

The Colonial Secretary, by command of is Excellency the Governor, Isid on the table the report of the Finance Committee (No. 18).

SANITARY BYE-LAWS, "

On the motion of the Coloriaf Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, bye-laws under the Pubile Health and Buildings Ordin-

office hours the offices are closed at o'clock ances, 1903-1939, relating to:- p.m. on Saturday and 5 o'clock p.m. on other days of the week?

Does. Here at Shanghal exist a local custom according to which the working bours of the clarks of commercial houses.eu/ployed in the cable departments exceed the customary close of business, i.a. in cm:o'question

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· answered in the affirmative, said clerks have to Work as a rule after 1 o'clock p.m. on Saturday and 5 o'clock p.m. on other days of the work ? Isn't it a shame that such queries should have to be submitted to expert opinion at all? Who ever heard of a clerk, or should

(a.) Derds of Cattle, Pigs, Sheep and Goats.

(5) Cemetery Bye-laws Now 10 and 31. (c) Cemetery Bye-law No, 13; were adopted .............................

resolution

CHINESE · LIQUOR DUTIES.

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The Colonial Secretary moved the following Resolved that the duties to all cative wines sad spirits referred to in Section 3.of the said Ordinance be repealed and the duties following be substituted therefor

put for such a purpose land adjoining from lack of conticully, the word which sentim pt, then let it at least mitigate the off-

ence by interposing a suitable screen so that we may be spared the indignity of bebolding the state of our Kisg embroidered as it is by workmen's shaoties, by a famber yard, and by a tarred macadam factory.

Mr. Howell also spoke in favour of the abate- ment of the suisance in question,

This Bill amoods section 12 of the Squattern Ordinance, 1897.

la certain cases squatters' claims have been allowed by the Board, but it has been deemed desirable to withhold the grant of losses antit sanitary buildings have been constructed and it is now proposed to give the Director of Public Works the stjernative power of arranging for the grant of new sites in approved positions in exchange for the original holdings.

In the event of the arrangement not balag effected the amount of compensation payable to the claimant is to be assessed by the Director of Public Works.

NEW TERRITORIES FORESHORE.

The Attorney General moved, and the Colos Dial Secrtiry seconded, the first reading of a Bli entitled Au Ordinance to exempt Crown Lesses, granted in respect of, Foreshore,and).1 submerged lands in the New Territories from one boy! certain condition imposed under the Fores shores and Seá Bed Ordinance, 1981,

.Carried.

The Foreshores and Saa Bed Ordinance,. ́igot, requires that Crown leases proposed to be

granted in respect of foreshorn or sen bed. should inter alia be published in the Garctis

for a period of one month,

The Bill proposes to dispense with this con dition as regards the New Territories where the Gurette is seldom seen and the cost is deemed" unnecessary.

The other conditions in the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1921, requiring the publi- ́cation in Chinesa of the terms of such' lanids

by publicly posting them near the site of the

LIQUORS ORDINANCES.

Bill etliked AD Ordinance to amend,iba Liquor Licences Ordinance, 1898, and the Liquor Licence Extension Ordinance, 1908, and to repeal the Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance, igaz, was withdraws.

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POSTPONED. ARZIANAGARAMA The following Bill:was postpondópolo escanovil ku Second reading of the Bill entitled An-Orill stoE dinanca to amend ihs. Tramway Ordinance," 1903,

• ADJOURNMENT. The Council adjourned until the gih'installer

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

PRINTING AND BINDING.

public square. If the stringer, as well as being Lord Kitchener left as a legacy to the Indian observant and interesed happened also to be Army. A new raler-ibe plea of necessity distinguished, and had been mei and taken alleged by a Director of Public Works, able as charge! of on landing by an emissary of the baginear, but apparently lacking in artistic Government, say by the Hon. the Director of parception, and en, instead of a garden, a draw Public Works, how could it be satisfactòria ofice, and a matsbed for some ladian police ly explained that there well-kept gardens were | mbose quer ers had to be re-built. Then, when the ontward and visible sign of public spirit, thats were completed, the rebuilding of the

The Colonial Secretary, in reply, remarked.| displayed by private citizen, and that the bideous Volunteer Headquarters was decided upon, sed spectacle of disorder tying to the left was created the matsheds vacated by the police were ntilised that they would all agresibat the laddin question and maintained by the governing powers? The a temporary te dquarters. The public indul. should be tidied up, but be thought members did not realise the difficulties in a Colopy soch Government apologist recalling certain saswers d'a hope that it would not be for long. But

as Hoogkong of providing facilities for the con- A meeting of the Finance Committee was to recent questions would say that the nisance upon the completion of the Volunteer Hold-

held immediately after the meeting of Council, was necessary to the work on the new Post Office, quarte:s a new reason was found for delay, tractors of buildings such as the Post Office "1. $0.15 cents a gallon on the native which building would be pointed out in the dis-The contractor who had undertaken the build and Law Courts, by fax the largest buildings | the: Colonial Secretary presiding. It was wo repeat an assistant, refusing to work liquors known as Lin Tun ind Sheang Ching. tance, possibly with pride, as one whose four ing of the Post Office induced the Government the Government of this Colony had undertaker, agreed to recommend that the following votas beyond the regular hours? And from the and on the following weetened, prepared stories it bad taken five years to raise. Passing to let the plot to him. There was thep little He referred to the erection of Jardine, Matha- be adopted by the Copacil German Consular Court too! It has always | and medicate I winet ;--

along the Prays towards the Clob the stranger realisation, of the length of time it would take on & Co.'s buddings and how difficult the been the admiration of people who are not No Mai. Trau, Hak No Mai, Mau Kuo, would first note a quat bungalow. He would to erect the edifice, and no notion that for five or contractors of that structure found it to obtain A sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, clerks to watch the young and innocent Yok Lau, Ning Man Tean, Tsing Moi, be fold that it is a special drawing office for new six years this use of the plot would be ground for the regalemenin of their workmen, lo aid of the vote Miscellaneous Services, printe

He entered into details on the subject and salding and binding misceliaceous papers. German -fledgling working till his back

Muk Kwa Cuz Foog, Wa Tau, Shui Li Post Office pisos, the building being now up alleged necessity of its even ual existence. Had breaks, hours or no hours. In Scotland,

Teno, Sam Kat, Lugg Sau Tau, Tai. He would make a mental note that such an ugly there beau, dissatisfaction would have been more that the whole works would be tidied up as Ireland and England employes have to work

Kuk, Sam Pin, Tit Ta, Fung Sbap and strocture ought never to have been erected in a widespread and more entspokes. Ever since soon as possible. He concluded with's most Wat Shang.

prominent position on the sea front. Next bis hep the condition of the plot has been an eye-amusing description of the Star Ferry Wharf -particularly if they are clerks, but here in

All such liquor aball contain not more than curiosity would be aroused by the sight of soxe. At first, there was no surrounding, pali- which, he suggested, was as much of a nuisance China' we are all getting too, big for our' as percent, of alcohol by weight..

fur lean and susty iron chimneys sticking up made. The Hoogkong public owes the im- the matsheds jo question,, boots. But to return to the Expert opinion. 2.- $3.20 cents a gallon on the native | quor | at varying sugles ons ont of'sịch of the four provenint due to the erection of these: pali. The Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai in known as Sam Ching, containing not more corners of a small enclosure immediately in rear sades to the Ganter Mission to the visit

than $5 per cent of alcohol by weight. *delightful, letter which we must quote as a gallon on the native liquor known that ench-of-these chimsays 1096 cut of Prince Arthur of Connaught. I remember the of the ugly bungalow. He would look in and sen pald 16 the Colony by His Royal Highness

prepared or medicated wines - as Fa. Taan and on the following sweetened, brick oven. He would son sand lying about | real displayed, by the Public Works Depart.

and small stones in heaps. He would smell ment in tidyleg things up on the eve of his very fully in sympathy with the object of coal tar. He might even taste it. He would arrival. The samo neki was once again display. the resolution, but he objected to the word if we imagine him to bave landed befire ed when His Royal Highness the Duke of Con- "onisasca," except in the ofdinary conversa nation of this resolution was

YOR, TW6] Bayckt zubosquently spent a day or two in- tional use of the term. He would give kin awa

in full wrote:

Skref have the honour to inform that your letter of the 15th instant was facesivame A meeting of the commlitas kelder til and, when it was decided that the ansier to the first question is in the negative, 23

Ng Ke Pei,Mui Kwai Lo, Sz Kwok Kung, Fa Kwat Muk Fa, Yan Chan Lo, and Ko Lang Kon,

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CUSTOMS AND EXCISE STAVE, -- -A sum of nineteen thousand three hundred' / and fifty dollars in aid of the vole, Harbour Master's Department, Cimports and Exports ́Office, salarice and expenses of Customs and Mr. Osborne spoke on babali of the Star | exciso staff Ferry Company, laying the blame for its con. dition on the Government.............

Mr. Marray Stowart replied.

t 'MAGISTRATE'S "ALLOWANCE."

A sum of three hundred and twenty-five

----) doilars ($323) in aid of the vote, judicial and.

› Him Excellency the Governor said ba was | Legal Departments, B—Magistracy,

Charges, allowance of $5.00 a day to the

trict Officer, New Territories, acting at First Police Magistrate in Hongkong.

Thia una all the fussiness: