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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JULY 16 1910

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

THE number of Chiosas living at the Peak and Stonecutters' Island le maticiated at 1,700.

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THE Imperial Russian Coosal advises that the "fog syren at Skrypleff light-house has been re- A S. WATSON & CO., stored from the 32nd June, 1910.

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A NATIVE was fined Size at the Magistracy this morning for being foposession of quantity. of opium on board a Macao steamer..

Colowan Blockade.

PIRATES TREACHERY........

PRISONERS AND ARMS CAPTURED, [From Our Own Correspondent,]

- Macao, 16th July, 1910, ... From day to dayʻl bave chronicled the tragic events; and others, that have been enacted, in- the linnd of Colowan and surrounding waters during a inserable week. There was little of

BLUE SOUVENIR HUNTERS » are not gwanting. I have seen quite a number of ball" cartridges that have boon, captured. It is said by one who has, been to the "front" that the Chinese have even bain using Dum- dam expanding bullets. . These i hava not seen myself, but some empty cartridge shells are finding their way in the private collections of those who have a liking for treasuring souvenirs of the kind. The arms that have fallen into the hunds of the Portuguese are said to be of the Maitiol and Mauser palierus, uvan

troops.

CHINESE AND PUBLIC, GARDENS, A

"CONDITIONS IN, HONGKOKO,

(Spectal so the "Hongkong Telegraph"} We notice that in the Shanghai papera of late, there has been a considerable discussion going de anunt the use of misuse, of the public gar dens by the Chinese, with particular reference to the pxclusion of Chinese from the public | gardens of the Model Settlement. 5.Samog-

'dabarred' from entry to the gardeon which pertala purely to the Foreign Settlement, and the same thing may be said to apply to many weitiaments · contiguous geographically" 10 Shanghal. But the whole question is an intens-ly interesting one, bringing input it! does, the capacity of the Chinese, race to enjoy and appreciate the beauties and de- lights of a made garden.

CANTON DAY BY DAY.

COINING OF COPPER CAFE,

(From Our Own Corresponimi.)

Canton, 13th July, igo. The Canton branch of the Imperial Mint has obtainda permissino, from the Ta-chih Pü (Ministry of Finance) to resume mia:ing of copper cash for circulation in Canion.

"CHINA FOR THE CHIMESE?- Mr. Joseph Lind hai for several yaaru keld

Faishan-Bamshui branch of the Canton- Hanków Railway of the "Thres Pro- vinces. It is now reported that the railway

The Waiwopu proposer to examine into the 90te to forward by the wall of Friday morning, superior to those in ufo by the Pa.tuguese | hal, as is well known, tha, soos of the important position of superintendent of the merits of the Chinese Consuls abroad and to remove or retain them as may be advisable.

since when, however, although no momentous occurrence has transplied during the Injerval, evapts of father more than carunt laterent to IT is notified that the English Mission Church, your readers have to be recorded. In the order -Kowloon,-is-deleted-from-the-list-of-places-of-of-importance, though not of chronological worship licensed for the solemnization of mar narrative, I have to place the arrival of some of ringan.

the captured pirates. Handcuffed and

Ds. L. P. "Marques, the popular medico, in back from bis trip to Mexico. He gives a glowing account of the future prospects of South Amèrica.

The correct designation of the church of the Church Missionary Society, situate at Yaumati, on Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1985, is All Saints' Church, Yatmati.

An aged shopkeeper was awarded four months', bard labour at the Magistracy this morning for

Maltinging a cestalu trade-mark of the Oriental

FINE MELLOW` FLAVOUR.

Robert Porter & Co.'s

BULLDOG

BRAND

GUINNESS' STOUT in PINTS and SPLITS.

Tobacco Company.

THE total amount of fans received from tha

Civil Hospital and its antexes (excluding Victo sim Hospital) last year was $14,346.90 as com- pared with $16,170.30."

H.E. WU TING-FANG; ex Minister to the United States, has prevented a memorial to the Throne advocating a change in Chinese costume and th: canting off of the queue.

THE master of the Bawin reppnis that on

UNDER AN ARMED. ESCORT

CANNONADING TO BE RESUMED,

I had a conversation with a paral officer yesterday. He made no secret of the fact that, unless the Chinees surrender by x p.m. to-day, a naval contingent will be land- ed by the gunboat Patzia, who will co-operate with the land forces and march against the

THE CITY OF THE DEAD,

a gang of some eighteen sea rovers-linőal | Chinese. The plan is to shell their fortified descendants of men who some centuries ago positions. It is hoped that the demonstratlon terrorised the maritime coast of South China, of force alone will convlace the Chinese of the and who have led a life of plander and depreda-fatility of hopalass resistance and that they tloadisembarked at the Naval Whati at Barra will yield to the inevitable situation without ot: 5.15 p.m., yesterday. I just happened to a resort to physical forca which may be at- be in that mighbourhood at the time and tended by painfully disastrous consequences. was an aye-whipers of the dispmbarkation. The man were a desparate-looking lot and to all appearances hardownd to a life of adventure which was sustained by the proceeds of murder and blackmail. The gang was the object of curiosity by their posceful trading compatriots on the waterfront. All were manacled and as adon as they stopped ashore from the Govern most launch which conveyed the prisoners to Macso they were marched up to the Munts Fort, there to be incarcerated in the military prison, where chances of escape are impossible, pending trial.

THE RESCUED BOYS,

who had been held in captivity by the pirates are also all now la Macao. They were brought IEN Chinese appeared at the Magistracy this over yesterday and, sad to relats, had been un- morning forgambling at No. 74, Temple Street, wittingly made to suffer by the charges from Yad-ma-ti. The two keepers, were each flood the Portuguese troops who proceeded on the $50, one man was fined $s and the rest $3 each.offensive to act the part of their redeemers. The deliverance has been effected true enough, but at the price of much blood, such in the irony of Fate. All the sight boys are ander surgical treatment at the military hospital of San Jacuario, where they are tended with all care and solicitude by the officer in charge As their injuries, in most cases, are of a minor character, they are expected to make rapid progress towards recovery..

the tail inst, he passed so wreckage, is Lati- suda 5" 32" N., Longitude 106 a' E, apparent ly an overcatoed junk or lighter, about 25 feet in length and 3 fest above.water.

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MR. C. N. M. Backwith, Assistant Harbour Mater, has beto permitted by the Admiralty 10 retire from fan activa list of H. M, Navy on penelon and to assume the rank of Com- mander as from the 4th June, 1910..

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The Hongkong Gelegraph

Hongkong, SATURDAY, JULY 116, 1910,

RUBBER AND PERUVIAN',

RAILWAYS.

A little, but only a little, has been heard

the mapper in which the masqulin breeds.

The Chisest masters and pupils at Queen's Collegs have subienbed the sum el $101.60 towards a fùnd which is being raised with the object of purchasing rice and selling it at a very low price to the poor people of Canten

and neighbourhood.

A man was 'charged belore Mr. J, R. Wood at the Magistracy this morning with spatching gold rattan bangis and'a jadestone,bangle from the wrist of a' five-year-old child outside the Government Civil Hospital. The case was remanded.

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Office of this branch lino bas written to Mr. Lind informing him that his services will ba no longer required and that his connection with the Company will terminals at the end of the Coinose 6th moon. It is also reported that a Chicco soglass, named Tsai Tin Fook, has been appolated Mr. Lind's successor

VICEROY INDISPOSED

H. E. Yuan Sho Hsun is slightly indisposed and has not received hay visitors during the

pant few days,

there is little dubiely fals on the subj.ct aither on the part of the public ar of the (inver.ment, for the opinion appears here to prevail' that as the Chinese are the Grst and best gardacers in the world, naturally they must be the first and

* CHEAT RICE. foremost in appreciating the beauties of a pub, The proceedsroulised from the sale of cheap The market-place of Golowad is a verliable lic garden and of conserving those amenities rice at the four steds in the city of Canton on

which maka it what it is.... city of the dead. The abominable emanations

the ith instaut wuro, as follows:-Exaturin It has always seemed to us reprollable shed, $3,489.501 Western slied, $3,433-30). Ho- from the corpsen in a rapidly advancing state of putrefaction renders the task of burying the dead that in the Northern Settlement selection cam shed, $4,819 and Woogaba shed, $1,585.60. amosi nauseous affair. A returning rancheira should be allowed to play a part in the Os the same day a sum of $3,000 worth of rica

who shall be was sold to the villagers. (ie, a stoward of the camp mess) from Colo-setting down of thos wan, who is attached to the Artillery Corps, tells of the dificulty encountered in burying the dead bodies fist enough. The task is rendered doubly more difficult for the men who have to toil, under the blaring heat of the sun. This same man. is my authority for the statement that men, women and children innumerable have already been buried. The icavenging duties in the malo village, now a heap of bopeinss ruio, ara poy. thing but easy to carry out in the present try. ing circumstances.

A PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION. Mr. Luis Nolasco da Silva and Mr. Silva Mendes, both of the legal profes sion, hava identified themselves promin ently in a public subscription which invites money from the citizens for the purchase of little comforts, like tobacco and fight refreshing beverages, for the soldiers at Colowan. When I saw the list yesterday already three foolscap -pagna of paper were fully inscribed with names, which goes to show the tangible appreciation of the Portuguese of the services rendered by their soldier brethren,

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denizens of the public gardsos, although the argument of the North China Daily News may

a very sound to the affect that the old order of things must eat be changed and that what has been provided for the Foreign Settlement in Shanghai shall be preserved for the inhabit sals of the Foreign Settlement. It is no doubt too far away from Hongkong for us to venture, to dispute an assertion, made by such a staid and reputable joumal as the Daily News which combiner absolate accuracy with a perfect ken of things Chinese, but at the same time it seams to loss the

FOINT OF ITS ARGUMENT.

when I admits that the lack of Foreign consideration for Chinese feelings tends to iad to the Chinese belief that Forelga infla- caces in the Empire are incompatible with Chinese interests and are to be combated on

avery possible occasion.

dealing with the entres to ear public gardens, In Hongkong we have a different mode of

so far as the Chinese are concerned.

JARNCH FESTIVITIES;"

" ... hành July, Today being the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, sports liave been arranged to take place in Shameen this afternoon in the French Coccassion. In the evening, fire-works will be let off in the barbour and illuminations will be a feature in the Fresca Concession. The French steamar Charles Hardouin' will

gro bably not Isave for Hongkong at the usual hour but after the pyrotechnic display kas' bɛon" concluded, in order to afford visitors an oppor munity of wildessing the fireworks before their departure. In the forenoon the French Consul at Canton, Monsieur Reao, receiveda number of officials both foreigs and Chiasse and friends who called on him to offer him their con gratulations on the occasion.

CHINESE AERONAUT.

in foreign countries for a number of years, has A Chinese named Hui Cheung," k ́mativa of the Haungsbau district, who has been residing

been successful in making a balloon which be Every one has a sight, whatever bis rank, to is said to have exhibited on several occasions at enter into the Botanic Gardens and enjoy the dongkong (110) andother places. This balloon as beauties of that loveable spot. No one is advertised by the man can ascend to a height of gainsayed. As a matter of fact, there used over 6,000 fect. He has now brought the balloon to be some signs of resentment on the part of to Canton for exhibition and has obtained per- Europeans (fading expression in the local tion from the Total of Constantary for Dewspapers) that the Gardens were made free the purpose. The show will take place for two of access to all classes irrespective of cleanli- days on the 18th and zgth istant at half past ness or decency. At the same time, Hoogkong fant each day in the afternoon is a spacious would never dream of shutting its Chinese ground at Tai Sha Tou in the vicinity of the citizens out from the pleasures to be begoten Tung Kwan theatre. Admission fees are se io a sojourn in its public gardens for follows:-ist[claus $1, and class $1 mudjjed the season that a few cookies also obtain class 50.50. admission "uabskoown to the kaspars of the gate. Better far. Ist one vagrant enjoy The total amount of money realised from the himself in the secluded beauty of the sale of cheap rice in Canton, on the sath lost, spot ibao that ODD dozen righteous was 59,057.90, of which: $3,769-40 were collect- man should suffer, tå this direction we imagine ad at the Bauters Shed, $1,816 at the Western that Hongkong can "show points" to Shangbai. Shed, S1,5 at the stogam Shed and $4,502 50 There is for here, as there, the community is made up at the Woogsba sted; 'ió,addition to a sum of

for the main part of Chirose who are our about $13,000 collected from the distribution

I don't remember having seen it stated la any of the reports of the correspondeat of the newspapers to Hongkong that a Chinese jook

DEPARTURE OF THE "DONA AMELIA." loaded with the sinnws of war for the beleagur. ed natives was sunk the other day. This vessel

The Ponuguese crunst Rainha Dona Amelia, was lying in shallow water in one of the sheltered which was to have left longkong the other bays. Report has it that at one of the earlier day, did dos proceed to Macao o Weiss stages in the first encounter of the first day, day. We understand that the delay was some of the pirates and the junk as a point due to soms slight repairs to her boilers. of vantage from which to direct their life However, at abou to-day the cruiser cast off fires at the commanding officere directing bor moorings at the men-of-war auchorge and eperations from the gunboat Mecam. The shaped a course, westward with destination to use of smokeless powder did not disclose Macao.. Owing to ker greater draught it will the position whence the stray bullets mis-20 bo possible for the Doss Amelia to sp sed their targets, but it so happened, that aproach too close to the island of Colowan, soldier on shore at Colowan discovered that but her presence in the Macso roadstead the junk was no peaceful fishing smack bat will be useful in an emergency. Her larger was a dangerous enemy, on mischief bent. complement of mas will enable a bigger This information was promptly conveyed te naval contingent to be landed if occasion calls First-Lient. M. Althougia Pinto Bisto, who, for further retoforcements ashore, thereupos, commanded that the muzzle of his little Ekelihood, however, that the Dona Amelia

CHEAPRICE

in the outer world about the new railway A CHINESEL-tologram-says-that-the-Navy Da. death dealing weapons on board be turned in will be requisitioned into activa -service to biggest taxpayeri and therefore the largest of cheap rice at the four shade to villagora,

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which are to connect the rubber grounds of the tributaries of the Amazon with Pacific Cout. The Central Trans-Andean rajlway: starts from the port of Callao and. runs through Lima and the coast region till

the direction of the "war" jook. Order-to patient has telegraphed to the Minimers ac credited'abroad, instructing them to study the

"open fire" was promptly given and in-the regulation of Daval navigation in territorial. next few 'seconds the boat lay a helpless dare- "waters and high seau in those countries, and to lict on the shores of Colowan with ber higb submit a report to the Depalment on the sub-stern standing out of the shallow muddy water of the bay. The junk was a valuable prize; as

it mounts the Andes and pierces that rangeject

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large number of rounds of ammunition.

AN UNCONFIRMED 'REPORT.

Late yesterday afternoon the report was free of India today, M.; Smith accompautes befly discussed of the sinking of a refugee junk by husband bome.

one of the Chinese croisers watching operations off Galowan. The story is to the effect that

B. Smith way entertained at

a (krowell dinner at the Waylong Junior Mess

on Toursday last.

JAMES Perkios, a wealthy white planter, was, on June 12, discovered 10 a nude condition chained to a stake in a cloating in a wood neat Lake Charles, Louisiana, U. S. A. a fire

bad becu lit sound the victim, wao receivei

Macao'n "' little-wark

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AVAILABLE DAY AND NIGHT.

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A MEDICAL-DELEGATE,~~-~- PUBLIC REVENUE.

sch July. When it comes, to' a matter of consider. Dr. Cheong A-Huli, a returned. American -tion between_the_merita_or_demarits_of_the___student, who was deputed to Norway to altand

rospective_races" who make up the com. The Leprosy Conference held there last year nu - manity in such disproportionate Dumbiri, Chlox's representative, has returned to Ganton."

A complete ambulance service has been it appears to ha foolish to think of shut established throughout the City, and"ambul- [ting out the Chianid from any benefit that ances can now be procured not only at any the good governance of Great Britain bas be hour of the sight or day by telephoning (No. stowed upon this or any other Colony. We are 361) to the Disinfecting Station, Taipingshan, all aware that as a race the Chloere are vary but additional ones have been stationed at the shy, indeed jealous, of the appearance in public following places for use by the Police in all of their women kind and nothing can be more pleasant than to observe the freidam. with which Calpese womenfolk enjoy themselves with immunity from invult or even impertinent observation in the beautiful pärlions of the Botanic Gardens.

case of emergency :—

The Bay View Police Station." No i Police Station,.

The Recreation Ground, Happy Valley, Easter District Sanitary Matebed (near

No, à Police Statiss). The Sailors Homa, Arsenal Street. The City Hall,

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CHEAP RICE,

The procesde realised from the distribution` of cheap rice in Canton on the 13th instant were at follows:-Eastera abad, $1,786; Westorm shod, 51,843, Honam shad, $3:349 and songshu shed, $,1971 In addition to the above figures, a sum of upwards of $10,000 worth of rice was sold to villa,ora, who came to Canton to obtain the supply of the daily staple on that day..

SANITARY BOARD,

Following are some of the items to the good list for the Sanitary Board meeting on Tuesday next(-

at. a height of over fifteen-thousand feet MR. J. R. M. Smith, chief manager of the subiequent inspection lead to the discovery of a through a tunnel more than a mile long. At Hongxong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Oroya, "136 miles further 'ón, it separates tolt for England, via wanada, by the Emprats into two branches, one northward to Pasco, and one southward to Janja and Huancayo, These two lines are of the very greatest in- torest. They penetrate right into the rubber country. Starting from Callao on the Paci. fic coast' this railway has at its back a third part of the country. It is destined to be the principal artery of the Andean railway system. Few countries possess system of such lujuries from the flames that he died with navigable rivers such as those of Peru. out having revealed the identity of the persons There are more than 15,000 miles of tribut-who perposiated the outrage. aries of the Amazob navigable by steamers of four feet draught and over in Peruvian ter ritory. The route of the railway takes it to the port of Cumaria on the river Ucayali, which is the channel of greatest com- mercial activity, next to the Amazon, in Peru. On this river are the ports of Contamana and Masinca, various small towns and rubber estates, where the vessels which do the river traffic are in the habit of stopping for merchandise, Steamers up to 400 tons belonging to business firms Government sorvauts were admitted and of despatch to His Excellency Governor Marques | Water Police Station at Taim-sba-tsal and asident in equally so to the Chinese who make | nullah near the Military Hospital.

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one of the gunbosts under Commodors Wo, the commander-in-chief of the mosquito flotilla observed a boat putting off from Colowan. Its intention appeared to bo to shapo a course clear of the combined naval cordon. While the junk was thus marce avring witbip the maritime limit of the Fortuguese, the Chinese commander was contentonly with watching her movements. But no sooner did she crosă the line than she was halled to stop. This injunction the junk failed 15 Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect Chinese territorial waters, thanativa erniser xent to observe and as by this time`sha was within

to Ordinauce No. 39-ol 1909, entitled an Ordin-

a shell through heraad the junk tank. I have ance to authorits the constatiction and main authority to vouch the accuracy of the report, tebaqce of a bathpur vi teluge upon and over but as it is circulating with a great deal of per- certata portions of the sea bad and foreshoresistency I am reporting & only 41.8 rumour, situated upon the harbour frontage at Taikok, tsui, Mongkoktatu, and Yaumati, Kowloon, in this Colony.

DURING last year there were 176 patients under treatment in the Lunglic Asylum. Seven

these, four were treated for alcoholism, one was under observation and thren were certified tu ba rosaan (1 Indian paliceman sade Chines lightboosskeeper), Eighty-seven cases were brought to by the rolics. There were 34 paying patients, (39 a 1968). The deaths numbered 14, nearly 5% of the number under treatment

5% in 1958);,

of Iquitos on the Marauon ply between that pon and Contamans, seven hundred and fifty miles away. Iquitos is the capital of the Department of Loreto, and it is the centre of an enormous rubber trade which is now occupying the attention of great European and American financiere. A glance at the map' will show what a revolution in the rubber trade will be created by the safe carriage of INFORMATION has been received by the Police rubber by rail acron the Andes to a Pacific from the "Te Ching Government Bank, Can- port instead of the present casual and ton, that a considerable number of forged bank wasteful transport by river across dangerous notes purporting to be tea-dollar bank notes rapids and over thousands of miles along issued by the Ta Ching Buck are in circula- the Amazon river, through Brazil, to Pará. tion. As a considerable number of these ten The new Southern Trans-Andean Rail will. dollar motes have been found to be lo oxist unite Palts, a port of growing importance on ance in this Colony, all persons are warmed the Pacifo Coast, a port on the Marah against accepting the forged notes. The imita op, thus placing it irect 'communication tion ton dollar "Ta Cilng" notes are a very the richest rubber disdict on earth with the clavar and exact imitation of the genuine notes Pacific Ocean. There is also an inter-issued by the "Ta Ching Back" path as 4 Andean section of the Southern Railway, which with basis between Puno and Cueco gards the general design, the English lettering is penetrating into the hollows of the River and the Chinese characters and would pro Madre de Dips and of the river Urubamba bably deceive any ordinary person to whom where rubber is indigenous and apparently the differences between the gennine and free

dalent motes had not been explained......

SUING FOR PRACE.

At dawn yesterday Bags of trace were seno on the eminence of several of the bill-tops or the island. I was told that directly they were observed the commanding officer in charge of the field operations at Colowan, sent a flying

his Chlef was that, he was to comply with at Macao, and the reply which he received from

iostractions.

In other places as well one only needs to seo to know the pleasure which the Chinese take in bils of beautiful cultivation and the rear jog of flowers In Hooam, for instance, oue cannot go to the house of any Chinese The Fire Brigado Station, Qconn's Road gentleman without being charmed by the

Central,

The Supreme Court,

The Central Police Station.

The New Western Market. Tha Tung Wa Hospital. The entrance gate fu Queen's Road, West

to this 'Government Civil Hospital. The Western District Sanitary Office. The Cattle Depo, Kennedy Town. Ouride the City limits ambulances have also been stationed at the Pokfulam Police Station, at No. 6 Police Station, Peak, at Aberdeen, Shaukisan and Branley Police Stations, at the

house gardeo-sometimes, It is trae, hidden Away amongst most unpromising surround. ings- but almost always full of a beauty of itself. There is one suggestion made by our northern contemporary which we would like to quote, and it is this that if the Chinese up lo taose regions shoud decimo a publić park or gardens of their own there would be little Trouble is getting the projici sot on foot and acc.asfully accomplisted. We in Hongkong appear to think differoolly, for the general opinion is that what is good for one is good for all and what is beneficial to the European xe

POBLIO BATH-HOUSES.

Kowloon Disinfecting Station (Telephone No. the Kowloon-Canton Railway camps. The ap the bulk of our population.

44 K) also serves Kowloon in the same man. Dor that the City is served. by the Taipingahan Disinfecting Station.

Later in the day a small body of Fortoguese troops started out to ascend the heights in the direction of the White Flag To their sur These are all band ambulances on bicycle or prisa and as leading to saspicion on the light wooden wheels, with rubber tyres, and of Those the St. John Ambulance patlers, part of the Chinese brigands, a musketry volley stationed in the Oity are in the charge of the was fired by the latter from tale commanding various District faspectors, whose duty it is to position, whereupon the European soldiers see that they are kept clean and efficient, and retrested. To force a march under cricums that they are disinfected affer use. At the tasces pointing to a desire on the part of the Sacilary Stations coolins are always available Chinese to surrender but in reality to greet the for the conveyance of these ambulances, but at Portuguese with an unexpected fusillade would of angage street coolles for this purpose, while the other stations the Police pbiela volunteers have been reckless, especially when every" ifaka ambulance has bean soiled or used for an opportunity was being given to allow the infectious case, the Sanitary Department is Chinese to give up arms and to decide oposed at ance

aptified so that it may be cle

I cleaned and disinfect asconditional submission as they must foovit- ably have to do before many days are over,',

The European embulances at the City Dis infecting Station were used 148 times last year la conversation with a passenger by the, while those at the Eastern and Western Sanitary Hongkong stazmer last evening I was told Offices in the City were used at times, that, the White Flags10431 The European Ambulances at the Kowloon Disinfecting Station ware wood 15 times and the them-were distinctly visible from the dock of Obiners Ambulances 143 times, while the am: the steamer, of course, with the aid of marine balance at the compound of Water Pallon

"basig was used to timrude!

Reply from Govamment relative to ' Waler: closets.

Report of the Committeo ro certain com, plalote against the Kowloon Conservancy Copiracior. 1

Report of the Committen re a complaint against the Kowloon Conservancy Contractor. ....... Raport of the Assistant Medical Oficer of; Health relative to ratiostching in Kowleon, = 4;

Minuts by the Medical Oficer of Health relative to the cullah to the East of the Mili- tary Hospital.

Correspondence relativa to an untrained

tory,

Correspondenca relative to Chai Wan Jame-

Correspondence relative to Section A of Ma. Tan Wal Cemetery.

Correspondenca relative to limewashing houses in Shaukiwen and Aberdees.

Application for permission to erect = water closets and a urinals át Taikoo Dockyard, Marine Lot No, z Quarry Bay. *****

List of legal proceedings taken by this D4-

The free Public Bath-houses erected by the Government at Wanchal and. In Pound Lane, Taipingaban, and also the temporary bath houses, fitted up to Ohiness tenement houses rented for this purpose, a 97 Second Street and 1 Sheung Fong Lace, bave been in con: siderable demand by the poor class of Chinese sad the following figures show the total num- ber of persons who have used those bath- Public Health and Huildings Ordinances 1993-, houses during the year 1999:-**

sgep for the month of Jaan, 1910. Wanchai wininio di "min 149,747; (2)

Correspondence relative to the-storing of Pound Lane

210015 poultry at Nagy Lower Lascar Row, ⠀⠀ Second Street adeummurar „þófő........ Sheung Fang Lane..... 207

partment against parsons "for breaches of the'

LONDON RUBBEN PRICES.

THE MARKET CONTINUZS FIRM AND STEADY

London,July The Rubber Market keeps firm; and pricés

Tolliamemuoni 452,676

·Separate baths, with an amplo sapple of hot water, are furnished at each of these bath houses-that at Wanchai is for men only, and is largely used by the coal coolles gagnged In coating ships in the Harbour, and that at are standy, Second Street 11'lso for man and boys only. The Found Lane bath house has expirts build: ings for man and for women and childern, and the Bhang Fang Lanna bath house for women sed children on AIZ

s selling at 0/110 10/15 Which better than the auction prio