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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JULY 5 1911

DAY BY DAY.

SANITARY BOARD.

The Burial of Chinese Christians

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soul that can bo honest, is the only perfect man.

REUTER'S

TELEGRAMS.

ISIT TO DUBLIN.

REUTER'S

TELEGRAMS.

AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.

Roplying Mr. Browin said he objected to the board sheltoring behind roligion. Religion was fuot at the bottom of the matter. He sympathised with the desire which European Christinus had A mooting of the Sanitary Board to preserve the comotory, which DOMINION DELEGATES. was held yostorday afternoon hind long been looked upon by when the Head of the Sanitary them as a place for European

GERMAN INTERESTS. burial, and he was quite sure that Monagorio opens at Causeway Bay Department presided. Those pro was possible, with tho co-operaŠARVIOR TO THE " TELEGRAPH."]

sont included Mr. A. Sholton tion of the Chiffeso, to preserve it...

[SREVION TO THE " TELEGRAPH:""} Hooper, Col. Bedford, Mr. Ng Hou more effectively than in the way

London, July 4, 11.35 á.m. London, July 4, 8.40 p.m. Tse, Dr. F. W. Clark, Medical which was proposed. Ilo was on-

The Imperial Conference dolo- A Paris dospatch, says that Ollicer of Health, The Registrar tirely in sympathy with them, tieneral, Mr. Browin, and Mr. but he was opposed to the means gates of the over-sons Dominions telegram has been received from Bowen Rowlands, the secretary. at prosont proposed to carry out visited Dublin and were onter-Taugior announcing that tho Agadir region (whore a Gorman foreo linded a few days ago) is absolutely quiet.

The Hippodrome Circus and

to-niglit.

Last night, quarters at the Carrison School were broken into andabout $140 worth of jewellors

stolon.

the idén,

An Insanitary Nuisance. At the conclusion of the busi-

Lained to luncheon at the Vice-

Regal Lodgo.

The Lord Lieutenant said the

Offensive Trade Bye Laws. The board went into Committen By the courtesy of the Colonial Secretary, wo are informed that to consider the proposed draft byo Amoy has been declared an infect-laws dealing with the conduct of new, Mr. 1looper said he would ed ports, and that Pakhoi has been offensive trades. The president like to ask by whose authority tho

It is estimated that the Gorman releusou.

said they had boon drafted to deal Observation Placo Wharf was with a number of flow trades that used for the carting away of rub inclusion of Ireland in the tour interests in the country amount had recently sprung up, such us bish? It was so offensive that

to three thousand pounds sterling. Bugges rag-picking, hair cleaning and tenants in the houses on the of the Delegatos was the fonthor aorting............

Praya had been complaining. He tion of one person only who FLOODS IN BULGARIA.“ had since lonrusel ilint half a cart

3.

Ono caso of plaguo, fatal, oc- eurred during the 24 hours onded at noon yesterday. No caso was reported during the 24 hours. ended at noon to-day.

The Hanglungkwang bank with branches in this city, Tientsin, Kalgan, Fulon and Shanai, has susponded payment. Tts liahi-

The Burial Question.

A further report of the com-loud of rubbish was left on the should bo nameless. mittee, relative to the interment wharf that day. He wanted to

Mr. H. A. Olivor, Mayor of

of the remains of the late Mr. Chon know whether it was with the Tung Howo was laid before the knowledge of the Sanitary De- Kimberley, South Africa, said partment. While on the subject, that from what they lind seen

board.

The President stated: In coin-o would also liko to know whellier

lition roach tho figure of tuels Pany with Mr. Hooper I interview. it was true that the same thing Great Britain was not declining |

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ed the Bishop of Victoria, who and occurred at the bottom of the prontised every assistance in the Lower Tram Station, as they had but was progressing. matter of preventing death-bed read in the papers.

The President said the work At the dinnor given in honour Famino has raised its hond in | baptisms. I think that a more Is a ratos por quarter al por mensam, proportional. Subscriptions for sny. Wonchow and the dearth of rice thorough investigation of each case was done with the full knowledge, of the delegatos at University

las precipitated a sories of riots on our part, even if it necessarily in fact with the authority of the The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to assenger.in which the rinters plundered involves delaying the funeral, may Sanitary Board, and with the con- College, Mr. Christian Botha,

Penk subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without the rice shops of the city. enable us to ascertain the merita sent of Government. It was cur- muy extm charge. On copies sont by post na additional $1.80 per quarlar is charged for postage.

period less than one nonth will be charged as for a full month,

Typhoon signals may now be

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London, July 4, 8.40 p.m. There has been a doluge of rain for fifty-six hours in South Bul garin, causing devastating floods. Wholesale destruction of crops and of villages is reported.

The damage done is estimated

of encl enso more fully, Should ious that the tenants had been replying to the toast of the "Ovor-at four million pounds sterling. the above means prove insufficient, complaining that day, for the sea Visitors," said the British

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5th, 1911.

INSANITARY METHODS.·

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Sution, where they are hoisted upon an imposing device in front of the ouging Louse,

The dry-dock ovorimul of UL.M.S. Monmouth having been completed, she has resumed her old berth at the man-of-war an- chorage.

A "grub" dredger started work this morning alongside Blake Fior, at the point where one of the big city sowers dolouches into the harbour.

length of time which we can ac- past month. The proper place cept a proof of convorsion and the for the work to be carried on was with the people of South Africa period, say three to five years, Ship Street Wharf, Int a new should, if required, be fixed by wharf was hoing built there, and and given them a position among Ordinance. It is proposed to con- it would be there weeks before the free nations of the Empiro. socrate the Pokfulam, Chinese the bouts would be able to lie

Hon. J. T. Moltenu, President Cemetery. If this is dono, it will here. With regard to the Lower be as suitable for burials of Chris Tram Stution, the President said tian Chinose as the Colonial Ceme-his only surprise was that the of the South African House of papors and those connected with them took so lungin finding it out. Assembly, in toasting Ireland, Mr. Hooper: A long-suffering said that South Africans were public, sir (laughter),

The President: Quite likoly.happy and prosperous because of The Boned then rose,

their fros institutions. Thoy wished prosperity to como to Ireland.

lory.

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL.

Prize-Giving.

Hon. Mr. Hewett minutod: The Sauitury Board will, of necessity. only havo a few houra in which to consider such cases, and 1 do not soo that anything can be gained by waiting. A ruling should be made on the subject now. In the At the Calcutta auction yester case of a grown person, a deatli day 195 chests of opium were sold had baptism should not entitle for China at 3,100 rupees and that person to burial in the Colo- 2,620 chests for the Straits, Hong-lal Comotory unless we can be kong and other places al 1,000 satisfied that for some time prior to death the person had seriously

An interesting ceremony touk Mr. Waber (2), an English ad-coute platod accepting the Chris-place at the close of the Diocesan In the case of Boys' school yesterday afternoon, tian religion. young children, a death-bed bap. won certificates for proficiency.

in Pitman's shorthand wore pro- tism should only be accepted il the parents are Christians.

sontod. There are the outcome of an examination in the system held, in April Inst, undor an examining committee approved by the Pho- the United States and Canada, notic Institute. The succosses

rupcos.

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It has been the complaint of many a prossman that his task is Bike Hoot of Sisyphus, who continually rollod a stone up a hill without making any progress, and we have an example of fruitless effort in our has been taken prisoner by the Turks in Sann, Asia Minor, the mutter of the treatment of garbago, which at cartain intervals of and, after being subjected to the day is allowed as be about the thoroughfares of the City. Sever-various insults, has been impri-

soned at Bodeta. al months ago in theso columns attention was particularly called to the practice followed by rubbish gatherers in Garddon Road, where,

The Harbour.

After the typhoon weather that as late is eight and half past in the morning, an accumulation of we have experienced in Hongkong filth is strewn over the road, and sorted, omitting all the time offon- during. the past two days, the sive odours which may or may not be deleterious to health. Despite harbour resumod somewhat of its

Strong Criticism.

The Rogistrar-General said he was dead against any interforence in religious matters, and would like to know what authority the Board had to determine whother man was a Christian. They wore

a

famino is imminent.

Many of tho inhabitants are leeing to the mountains.

SHOOTING OF LIONS.

IN EAST AFRICA.

[SERVICE TO TUE,'' TELEOBAFI."]

Loudon, July 4, 10.35 p.m. In the House of Commons, Mr. David Davies, mombor for Mont- gomeryshire, naked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whothor the Government was prepared to

HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA. inodify the restrictions against

MANY DEATHS.

[SERVIOR TO THE "THLMGRAPH."

London, July 4, 6.45 p.m.

A heat wave has passed 'aver

this year were particularly satis with the temperature varying from factory, as fire candidatos obtained 102 to 117 degrees in the shade.

first class or speed certificates.

the shooting of lions in Britisk East Africa, in view of the damage which the boasts had done to the

settlers.

Right Hon. L. Harcourt replied. that there was a considerablo

the Colonial Office as com difference of opinion thoreanoat.

municating with the Governor in

The Rev. F. T. Johnson, after a There have been many deaths, the matter.

the certi-Thirty persons succumbed at

The fact that we held forth on the dangers that such a proceeding was fraught with, no apparent notice was taken, and the practice sampaņu, junks and launchos death-bad baptism, and to sficates ns follows:-

having emorged from the refuge.

Rear-Admiral Ewart.

-was continued, 'It may well have boon, that bur efforts were not well directed; it may be they were not strong enough, but the fact romains that we, in those columns, draw attention to what we well known on the China Station, Rear-Admiral Ewart, who is considered to be an evil. in the hope that a word would have been has been placed on the rotired list. suflicient. As it was not, on Saturday Just, wo again drew attention Ile was promoted to flag rank last to the fact, that the objectionable practice was still continued. March, and was last employed in Yosterday, in the board room of the Sanitary Departmont, Mr. command of a division of special Shelton Hooper drow attention to another instance of the same

mind they might just as well question the validity of a Euro pean baptised when an infant. Thoro were many men buried in the Colonial Cemetery who had no moro right of burial in the ceme- tory than the Chinese. He thought

1st class or speed: William Pittsburg alone, e Hall, Peter Abesser, Mok ling Cheong, J. Anderson, T. Rowan. C. Breitenfeldt, Mok Chenk Sang, 2nd class or theory: J. Hall,

M. Humjam.

3rd class or elementary: John

GOLF IN FRANCE.

Thousands of people have beon MASSY WINS CHAMPION

SHIP. prostrated by the heat,

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London, July 1, 10.35 p.m.

FOREST FIRES.

it was u most preposterous thing Yow, Alex. Abwee, Geo. Aivee, notice of religion. The only Sing Fai, Leung Kwai Lum, and the speaker wanted to know if it were done with the know-

Victoria Theatre.

authority they could have was thie Kong Ho Choung, Pak Shu Tong, ledge of the sanitary authorities. The reply is most astonishing, The Australiani Huxham Trio certificate of a minister of the Pak Shu Huen, G. Owens, A In the caso mentioned by Mr. Shelton Hooper, it was done with made their first appearance in church. In this caso, he took it Alarakis, Mok the full knowledge, and on the authority of the Sanitary Depart fongkong at the Victoria Thontre that they held a baptismal corti- Brockett, Geo. Mottock, William Hing. Jolin mont, and moreover with the consent of the Government. As last night and got a littoring licato from a clergyman of the Gittins, Arthur Gifford, Wong regarded our own complaint, the defence was an expression of reception. They are a remarkably Church of England, and they Pak Tong, Frank Whitfield. surprise by the President of the Board that we had not found it clever trompe of variety artistes, must accept it. If they had any out before. That wo of the Press are it as energetic in these Some good pictures, ton, word reason later on to question the inations as our duty to the public domands we must admit; but shown on the screen.

truthfulness or sincerity of the we will promise the "President" to endeavour in the future, not

cortificate, then the Board had a

kind. The site of the now nuisance is Observation Place Poservice vessels of the Home Float that the Board should take any Peter Wong, Cheung Sik, Lok!IN CANADIAN GOLD-FIELD.|· The French Open Golf Cham-

to be so remiss in our duty with referenco to matters sanitary, The New Steam Trawler. right to take it up.

Christian Sclence.

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Mr. Hooper's Remonstrance

THE STEWARD TRAGEDY.

to interfore.

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Loudon, July 4, 0.45 p.m.

fires in Ontario, Canada, some Owing to the outbreak of forest

destruction has been caused on- the Porcupine gold-fields. ̧ ́

The Provincial Minister of

BOY SCOUTS AT WINDSOR.

INSPECTED BY THE KING.

SeaVICE TO THE “TELEGRAPH."']

Fondo, July 4, 6.45 |

and hope he will not again be able to say that "his only sur The trawler of the Hongkong From whom were the Board The "Straits Tinos" guys that Mines, who was inspecting tho prise was that the papers and those connected with them look so and South China Steam Fishery going to make their investigations? Mr. Proudlek has received a cable long.in finding it out." Which elicited from Mr. Hooper the ro-Company, which started on its Were they going to question the in reply to the cable to His new railway, marrowly escaped mark:-A long-suffering public, sir. This the President did not first trip recently, returned to the widow and children? Thepeople jesty the King, intimating that with his life, in a canoo. rofute, merely adding: Quito likely.

port to-day. On account of the who had the right to object were the exercise of the prorogative of As to the caso cited yesterday with regard to Observation storiny weather no catch was tho Christians and they should mercy is a matter in the disure- Place Pier, the only justification at forward is that the refuse had made, the vessel, the Hoi Fang, object through their ministers. tion of the local Government, with had to be shipped somewhere, and if it were lying about, the coolies having to take shelter,

To was entirely opposed to the which His Majesty does not desiro were not doing their work properly. We leave that where it stands.

moans adopted. with the sole remark that it is the duty of the Sanitary Board to sea,

A cable has also been received that its instructions are carried out to the letter. In the other matter Apropos the forthcoming loc- Mr. Hooper said he did not wish in reply to the cable to Ifor Ma. no attempt at justification is made unless the sanction of the govern- ture on Christian Science by Mr. to enter into any theological jesty the Queen, intimating that ment can make evil, good. The duty of the Sanitary Board is to W. D. McCracken, M.A., in Hong-discussion, but he would appeal to Her Majesty is unable to interfore. protect the health of the inhabitants of the place. That they aro kong, it may interest our roaders the Registror General, as the in Highness the Sultan of doing well, it is only just to admit, but there is at times a lack of to know the rapid strides Cliris protector of the Chinese, to ap- Selangor informs Mr. Proudlock consistency that woukens our protection. On Saturday wo naked tian Science is making in Eng-proach the subject from a slightly that as an appeal has been entered three questions anont the matter:-Is the Sanitary Department not land as well as all over the world. different standpoint. The space against the verdict, till tho result aware of this practice? Are they moved by a spirit of economy? There are over 17 cities in Eng- at the Colonial Comotory was of the appeal in doclared or the Are they indifferent? The president answered the first question in land having Christian Science small and he would ask why the appeal proceedings are abandon- the affirmative. The second can be replied to by the statement that churches and over 80 different remaining spaces should be good, the petition for pardon will not there can be no true economy where danger to health is involved, cities and towns whore Christian cupied by Chinese when they bo considered. and as regards the third, it seems that a nogation is impossible. Ssionco sorvices are held. At could be buried in another come-

Mr. Prondlock saw his wife re- The Sanitary Board have in their hands the health of over a quarter least 55 of them have recognised tory. He asked the Registrar contly when she appeared fairly Lieut. - General Sir R. Baden- of a million people, and instead of devoting time to academic dis- branch churches or societies. General to reflect, and if he well.

Powell, Lord Charles Beresford, cussions as to burial of those baptised on their death beda, they Twenty years ago there was prao- approached the subject broad He says that it is as yet un- should remember their duty to the living and, "Let the doad bury tically not a person interested in mindedly he was sure to be with decided whether the appeal will and Lieut-General Sir Herbert their dead."

the whole of England.

be proceeded with

them.

P.J

His Majesty the King received forty thousand Boy Scouts at Windsor Castle.

The gathering was auctableone, Amongst those prosent' wore

Plumer

|pionship at La Boulie has been won by A. Massy, who defeated H. Vardon and all the British cracks.

[Mossy was recently defeated in the final for the Open Champion- ship of the United Kingdom by Vardon. He held the Champion- ship in 1907.]

HOME CRICKET.

KENT v. INDIAN XI.

London, July 4, 10.35 p.m. Kent defeated, the Indian Ele

ven by nine wickets.

COUNTY CRICKET, London, July 4, 10.35 p.. In the County untoli, North Hants won by 107 runs,

Lancashire won by an innings and 455 runs.

Yorkshire won by nine wickets. THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM,

London, July 4, 10.35 p.m. Foster, Hobbs and Strudwick have accepted places in the Eng;:: Ish Eleven which is to go to Australia shortly.