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The actual work, proposed Kowloon Paint have been dealt with by my Honourable friend the D. P. W. and the Sessional Paper when published should put Hon- ourable Members in possession of the detailed proposals

As regards the vehicular ferry service, this matter has received considerable attention from Go vernment during the year and Mr. Nicol, who has been making en quiries in England and America is expected back shortly. "It is intended to publish a Ses- sional Paper giving detalls of the proposed scheme. The scheme, if approved, cannot be financed from revenue, and it will be necessary to finance it from loan. After full consideration it is the present opinion of the Government that the scheme should be carried out as a Government undertaking and not left to private enterprise.

Transport Services,

As regards transport services, a very important matter, for Kow- Joon, the Government is of opinion that trams would not be as satisfac tory as buses, and it is, therefore, #not the intention of Government to propose a tram service either on rails or rull-less..

The Government considers that thered by bus service run traffic problem in Kowloon can by private enterprise rind is not in favour of the creation of any

monopoly.

But I am also much indebted to the unofficial members for their helpful criticism, and to those official mem- bors who have taken part in the debate for replying to this criticism so fully that there is Uttle loft for me to say. There are in fact only two points on which I propose to touch, namely the Colony's water supply and the subject of education. Ever since I first know Hongkong, more than a quarter of a century ago, the insufficiency of the Colony's water supply has been a cause for anxiety. I'van well remember the days when I lived in a tonement house in Pa Hing: Fong at a time of acuto water shortage and had to send my servants with buckets down to the Praya, where they stood in a queue to get water from boats which brought it across the harbour from Tai Lam Ch'ung on the mainland.

The Kowloon Question It is therefore with every sym- pathy for the Chinese who inhabit the low-levels of Hongkong and with fall understanding of their trials and tribulations during a water famine that I have studied the pro- posal to make the island dependent on the mainland for much of its water supply.

Let me, however, first consider this matter from the point of view of Kowloon. I am convinced that the limitations which Nature has in years to come, owing partly to imposed upon Hongkong.and partly to the advantages which Nature has bestowed upon Kowloon, the greater

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1926.

sessional paper giving full infortan tion on every aspect of our watered in splling to Shanghai the Ined up wore then taken off toned from Java coca leaf. In the nipply problem and furnishing all the data necessary for formulating our futuro policy in this respect. Until then it would be premature to take a final decision.

Education Questions. On the subject of education, I will only add to what the Colonial Se erotary has already said that, situ stod as we are in Hongkong, money spont by us on education is of the utmost value to British interests in

China

JAZZ IN TURKEY,

goods, the cases after being faston amount of this drugda manufactur- case of the acizure mentioned 'the packet bore on the inside wrapper EASTERN MUSIC IN DANGER. ship about to leave for Cebu, and

a Japanese trademark, but on the shipped as cargo in the usun! way, special atowaga having been ar

German manufacturers; these stevedores.lt ranged with the connivance of the outside the labels of well-known labels on being submitted to the German authorities were at once pronounced forgeries.

V OPIUM DIVANS.

Wan; he was also deeply interest dian, raw opium Imported by the French, authorities at the port. It appears cortain that of the In- Wan for sale by the French autho- dlan opium sent to Kwong Chow rities In Indo-China a larger quan- Amoy Opium and Malaya.

An occasional seizure was made tity is smuggled to Shanghai al- most entirely through. Hongkong, of Amoy oplum on its way to the and sold there at prices up to as Netherlands, Indies and Malaya much as $15,000 per chest. Owing and in some cases it was possible to the political trouble which has to furnish Information which led to boon constant recently in the large seizures at these destinations.. neighbourhood of Shanghai there The Amoy opium was found to be This is an era of advertisement is said to bo a large accumulation of a very interior quality, and very and propaganda. Fortunately or un of Indian oplum at Kwong Chow much adulterated; such oplum Is The 500 chests put up for tender nambers of Amoy natives are very fortunately wo, ne a people, are not Wan in the hands of the dealers, not in deranad here where the good, nt advertizing ourselves and we are fory bad at propaganda annually give rise to an active few. As a rule, kttle information But the public schools and the uni-market, quotatione are constantly obtainable here concerning the versities of the United Kingdom are cabled from Shanghai via Hong- huge flood of Amoy prepared bore of the admiration of the whole world kong, buying forward, selling opium which has overwhelmed were and the initiation of the typically short, and general speculation are Malays during the year, but when English boy-soout and girl-guide common, and apparently a very information is obtained every movements during our own lifetime large number of persons are en-endeavour is made to intercept the shows that in educational matters a gaged in opium dealing apart from contraband here, vitalizing impulso still goes out from the comparatively few licensed desters who alone are permitted England,

to tender for the actual availabio supplies.

I firmly believe that, it we can mocessfully introduce into Hong kong something of the spirit of the British public schools and universi ties, we shall do more for British, interests in China than can possibly be achieved in any other way

Education must, of course, be conducted on sound lines and all political propaganda must be rigor ously excluded from our educational establishments. But, subject to the money we spend on

Divans

divane

Constantinople-Oriental music, as a living art is likely to dis appear in Turkey if the special commission on the Fine Arts, which is now sitting at Angora under the auspices of the Ministry of Education," sanctions, as it is

Turklah National Conservatofre. pected to do, the creation of a

will mean the elimination of one The modernisers consider that this abre cultural barrier between

The campaign against illegal oplum divans was continued with lttle success, so far as reducing the the height of the political trouble number was concerned. During this work ceased, for some weeks, dealt with

"The Conservatoire will have a 1610 compared with but in spite of this the aum East and West. 1672 last year. It was found State grant to teach Western music.

specially to look after divana. It Along Occidental lines. Its func that persons were being brought and Western Instruments, and to down from the interior of China develop the national musical taste was therefore decided to deport tion in regard to Turkish airs com- such persons, who were convicted after only a short residence here.Posed in the Oriental, mode will be The number of recidivists among simply to preserve them for their convicted divan keopers was very historical interest and adcasional.

For the past year a small com high. Apparently, once men or ly to perform thera orchestrally. lucrative life of a divan-keeper women have taken to the easy and nothing will deter them, and no mittee of experts has been going sooner they have paid their fine or round the Anatolian interior tak- completed their sentence of im-ing complete records of the re- prisonment than they at once remaining popular and native airs. often than not at the old premises. cadence has already set in, and The divans relled chiefly on that Jazz hns penetrated into the burn to their old occupation, more. It has reported that musical de

the Kwong Chow Wan and Macau unlikeliest recesses of the country. as prepared opium, it was rarely that When its collection of airs is com they were found preparing their plate the new Conservatoire musi own opium. A good deal of dross cians will be encouraged to adapt. oplum in consumed in these dizans them to Western modes. But there especially those frequented by the poorest class of casual labour. will no longer be any Turkish The retail price of the filleit opium composing on the old Oriental- consumed in the divans was in the lince. The composers of the fu neighbourhood of $8 per tael, ture will be urged to keep the

Persian Opium. Perslan oplum has not been en- countered to any extent; the seizures made, were very small In one case raw Persian opium was Shanghai and Indian Opium. The receipt of coples of the found in sealed containers bearing

Macau opium farmer. Macau o documents seized at 51, Canton the elaborate decorations of the Road, Shanghai, enabled come tained Inrge supplies of Persian light to be thrown on the source of the Raw Indian oplum sold opium direct from Buahiro, and thore; this was proved to have sold in its raw state, and was the been imported through Hongkong

was probably derived

the In the beginning of from Kwong Chow Wan and Indo-source from which that seized here China. The names of the local mem-

such 'opium was to some extent

The present bus systems are portion of the Colony's population these provisos. I ar, convinced that bors of the syndicate were dia-year little was heard of

will

than the island.

rather

is a very good investment, and I

and his colleague do not grudge it.

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taken against them.

fewer than six steamers engaged They were found to have

in the traffic to the China const, opium carried on their

busi-

Including the notorious 8.5. Tal the under

of guise

Tak, mentioned in the report for a shipping, company, and owned a 1924; two fly the Chinese and four small steamer running to Kwong the Japanese fing. Slace the in- Chow Wan: the business had been troduction of the Persian Gulf

The towr-planning scheme and am glad to learn from the speech of Colony before any action could be the year closed, there were is expected that an improved type of bus will be placed on the roads the harbour development scheme the Senior Chinese Member that he very shortly. The Police

for Kowloon have been prepared exercise such powers as they vory wisely on n generous acale and possess to regulate the bus services it is not improbable that in futuro to invents the northern shores of our but it may be necessary crease the powers of the police harbour will be inhabited by for this purpose, and if so the population of a million or more due course Chinese and that there will be re- Government will in

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I now put to the Council the mo- tion, which has already been moved and seconded, that the supply Bill be read a second time.

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Sir Henry Pollock rose to speak carried on for some time under Order-in-Council,, so' far as is Distribution of the dally supplies originality of Turkish music, while take auch steps as may be necessidoncics all along the slopes of the but was informed by His Excellency various names. Opium smuggling known, none of this contraband | of illicit opium was chiefly per- combining it with the use of poly

sary.

Vehicular Ferries.

While the Government is in favour of retaining in its own hands the running of the vehicular ferries, it is in favour of open competition for road transport in Kowloon as being most likely to meet economically and efficiently the needs of the local population. I find it a little difficult to fol- low my Honourable friend Mr. Bernard in his remarks about the The Imports and Exports office. revenue collected by that office amounts to about $6,800,000 per

annum.

Kowloon range, and especially at its easter end, as numerous as in

A the Peak District.

Population Increase.

The population of this Colony has in the paat increased at a 'pheno- menal rate and there is no reason why it should not continue to do so in the future. It has doubled dur ing the past ten years. Now we are at present only completing the first stage of the Sheng Mun valley water works scheme.

But, when that scheme has hero.

after developed to its utmost capa- city, the water supply from it will, so I am told only suffice for a mil addition must be lion souls. considered the whole of the needs of the shipping of this groat port, which should be supplied entirely from the mainland.

His Excellency remarked that un- der Standing Orders the Hon. Member was entitled to only one speech. The mover only had a right the second reading. Of to reply and he had only formally moved

speak more than once.. course, no member had the right toy

The motion was put and carried

and after being considered clause by clause in committee, the Bill was read a third time and became law. Council then adjourned sine die.

OPIUM TRAFFIC.

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phony, harmony, counterpoint, and all the inventions by which West- ern civilisation has expanded and enriched musical expression.

on the large scale appears always trade has been carried on by formed by women and girls, who to be combined with the shipping

carried the opium concealed on that he was out of order, the motion

The B.6. Gorgistan arriv- their persons, and were largely having been put to the mooting.

Sir Henry But it is the usual business, the ownership of a small means of British steamers..

pur-immune from search on account custom. My friend, the late Mr.ship being essential; such ships de edat Bushire for the

much perfectly genuine shipping pose of taking on cargo of their sex.

of opium for Macau. On preson.... Holyoak............

VI OPIUM IN CHINA.

All the primitive Oriental in- business, and to a great extent the

Opium Taxation in China.

struments there are half a dozen and more, varying from monster communications between Pakhol, tation to the British Consul of Holbow, and Kwong Chow Wan certificata purporting to be an im

are of a very eau Authorities, that official was The taxation of opium through guitars as tall as a man to baby and this Colony depend on this type port certificate issued by the Ma-

not satisfied with its contents out the adjacent, provinces of decrepid type and officered" main- of ship, which

and refused to allow the Captain China still continued, and it was violins and wired zithers will go. The Philippines (Manila). to take the opium on board his very rare to find a cake of Chinese They are already hardly in use ex- by Chinese or Portuguese. Enquiries resulting from three ship, which flow the British flag. raw opium without a revenue cept, by. the orchestras of small Subsequently a Nor more than one kind. The revenue European violins and cellos and large seizures of opium and dan The ship therefore sailed without stamp of some kind-in some cases Turkish cafes, and even there extent of the trade in prepared wegian steamor, s.s. J. L. Mowin-stamps were well printed, and in pianos are coming in to swell the gerous drugs revealed the huge the opium. opium between Macao, China, and ckel, was chartered, and delivered a very recent case, precautions body of sound, and to attract to the Philippine Islands. Large a large consignment of Persian bad been taken against forgery by If the cost of the purchase of

quantities have been imported opium at Macan and 190 cheats of using a well printed geometrical day's clients," There is no ten- raw opium be deducted from the

from Macae already packed up Benares opium; also shipped at device similar to that used on bank deney among experts to regret total cost of the department it will

with other goods and only trans Bushire; all of this opium. was notes and serial numbers in their disappearances, as Western be seen that the department costs

stamp was said to have originated cognised to be on a much higher shipped in Hongkong. In one declared at Bushire as destined for Arabic numerals; this interesting instruments are universally re-

Vladivostok.

in Canton.

level. only about $200,000 per annum to

Indian Opium. the U.S.A. Post Office were seized run, apart from the salaries of the

case, three mail bags belonging to

Regarding the out-and-out adop of issuing opium in the General Post Office, the Very small amounts of Indian A fresh device was noticed, two cadet officers in the depart ment and one or two members of

whole of the contents proved to be raw opium were found, and the that

from India venue stamps valid for only, one tion of European musical forms, the clerical staff who are provid-supply the growing needs of the

In his report for 1925, the Super-prepared oplum and drugs and in- contraband trade ed for elsewhere.

northern side of the harbour ...The Department's Work.

especially if (as I hope may be intendent of Import and Exports vestigations proved that employees seems to be of small proportions; month after the date filled in on there is still a conservative musi in the General Post Office both here documents were, however, seized each stamp. Apparently, the opiam, cal party opposed to it, but the and in Manila had been auborned, towards the end of the year refer unless consumed within one month Angora Ministry of Education up- If my Honourable friend in re- the case) the supply to Kowloon atates:

Amoy of Turkish music is finished, and ferring merely to the cost of the is by meter all over the peninsula

The net revenue collected durand that the parcel post had been ring to dealings in Malwa opium from the date given would be pears to be convinced that the role

called coilcquially" "small oranges," liable to further taxation. searching staff and considers that, and rider-mains are not insisted

ing the year was $1,796,858.52 as extensively used for the convey from the shape of the balls, but no continued to send out prepared that, like the civilisation which too much is spent in searching

compared with $2,007,105.01 in ance of prepared oplum and drugs success was obtained us regards steamers for opium and illicit

Evidence was also found pointing there would be 1924... Eventually

Belzare of Chinese raw opium large primitive, it is doomed. In its those 'concerned. drugs I would observe that a pre-

In spite of the loss of populato a large trade in morphin pills discovering the local depot, or duty revenue stamps. On a large gave it birth and which was itself

Amoy, Manila" end

IV-Dangerous Drugs. revenue scaling labels were found view the laws of artistic progress ventive service is absolutely neces-nothing laid under the harbour,

Cebu. Frequent references were

The number of seizures of Dan on the oustide of the cases, to are universal, and there is a cul- portance, closely situated as it is compel the construction of the in the summer, the collection of found in documents discovered to gerous Drugs, Was is None of indicate that the contents had tural disadvantage in Turkey even sary in a port of this size and im the result would. merely be to tion caused by the political unrest between to foreign country. Search has second, third and further stages duty remained fairly satisfactory. the aid rendered by employees of these drugs were intended for been duly examined and had paid trying to maintain the outdown

at This is explained by the closing. to be made for excisable and cuti- of the Sheng Mun scheme

the Post Office and Customs in the local consumption, and the Colony the proper duty, there was no and outclassed modes of a period the of most avenues for smuggling. by able articles and for prohibited an earlier date and hasten the boycott, which also prevented Islands in aiding the introduction appears to be free from the re- attempt at concealing the nature Imports: We have also certain in-day when water supplies additional the sale in China of the brands of opium and drugs. A very large j tail trade in drugs. Evidence was of the contents; the label would before the days of harmony. ternational obligations in these

number of names and addresses discovered that morphia and mor- have allowed the case to pass with- matters. and ships are searched as

of opium and drug importers were phia pills had been sent regularly out further examination, discovered and the information was through the Post to Manila in con- A very interesting prospectus. a matter of routine.

at once passed on to the US. au- siderable quantities. Dairen and of a Shanghai Company for the fluence of heat; its amoking pro-

Japan seem to have been an active thorities.

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of amount

Therefore in my opinion the progressive development of the GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS AT Sheng Mun scheme stage by stage will probably do no more

upon.

than

SUPPRESSION,

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opium stamped with special export Shing Mun Development.

to those in the Shong Mun valley

mainland.

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would have, to be found for the of the British American Tobacco Co., the brands chiefly handled by It is quite impossible to give

This is no figment of a wild imag the smuggler.

A marked improvement was exact figures in answer to the ination. My honourable friend, Mr.

In one case, , series of centre for the drug traffic during protection of oplum smuggling perties were pronounced to be This company equal to those of y good Bengal questions raised by my Honourable Bird, has reminded us of the conf-shown by many of the smaller,

year, and It is prob was seized here. friend.. The fact that 4,023 dont hopes entertained in 1918 that Chinese manufacturers in the con-

that miany of the was formed for the protection of opium; it was put up in 16 tnel pounds of opium, 274 firearms and

the construction of the Tytam-tuk. duct of their business, due to the letters from smugglers in the the

to the opium trade in Shanghai and packets, with the maker's name originally consigned 54,000 rounds of ammunition, reservoir would place Hongkong atrenuous efforts of Revenue Om Philippines was intercepted men- able

cer Pearse, the officer in charge, to tioning large consignments of drugs 87,000 contraband cigarettes, 3,600 island beyond danger of a water

introduce an orderly system to opium. During a period of two those destinations are merely district as the direct outcome of and trademark on a fancy label gallons of spirits and 6,600 ounces famine for fifteen years at least.

facilitate better control..

weeks only, mention was made of transhipped there to destinations the quarrel between the Fengtien printed in colours. The label of dangerous drugs were seized Yet, within five years of the success.

III-Oplum

orders for 81,300 tele of opium in Chian, as soon as the Chinese opium investigation commission gave a guarantes that the whole during 1925 shows the need for an ful construction of that reservoir

The gross revenue Was It was always realised that the buyer has paid the Japanese and the local officials in May. The of the contents were produced in effective preventive staff.

Hongkong was again confronted by

The letter press " went on Moreover the preventive staff water shortage such as occurred $3,466,521.00 as compared with traffic in opium with the Philip broker, who then in turn gets his estimates of the consumption of China, and appealed to the public

for consumption elsewhere....

to

state that the contents deals with the Investigation of also in the earlier part of this year. $5,224,309.65 in 1924. By the time pines was on an extensive scale, documents from a bank, and clears foreign opium only given were 100 to support home production.. "Illicit onium divans which alone in- I think the conclusion is inevitable the political trouble had commenc- but the actual extent, judged from the cargo for transhipment in chests for sale in Shanghai but.

The framework of the com- ware specially prepared for that there is a limit set by Nature od in June sales had already de- the investigations of three firms bond. In one case investigated volves a very large

and recommended it on the pro-eating, work On a careful consideration herself to the possible expansion of creased to about 5,000 taels per of smugglers only, far surpassed here the bills of lading for a con-

from Germany to a Japanese tection of the commanding as a panacea for many all able friend will agree that the staff Indeed, quite apart from the water year they remained fairly steady opium was consumed in the at broker in Japan, and reforwardeder of the 31st Regiment ments. Heat had been applied in of the facts I think my Honour-population in Hongkong island week; for the remainder of the all expectations. If most of this signment of morphia were sent pany was built

at about 4,000 taels. The great lands then it must be assumed that is not excessive for the work which supply question, the configuration of

decrease is partly due to the poll- tue consumption of opium by the to the Chinese smuggler here. In of the Maschurian Army. Vari- the manufacture, but probably it has to be done.

the island sets very strict limits to Finally, members will have no the practicability of human babita tical troubles, partly to the large Chinese population must be taken this case the principals here were ous options could be given by had not been boiled with water amounts of cheap Chinese opium to be at least as great as it is in found to be well educated Chinese: the company to its clients, the but simply worked up in a hot pan ticed one omission from my re- tion.

of innumerable brands which were this Colony, and that the suppres- connected with prominent Chinese army, navy, or police would pro- over a fire till it had attained. s More Cogent Reasons. marks. This. omission is inten-

on sale at a fraction of the Gov-sion of opium there has only nancial circles; some had been teet the oplum, the navy would very thick consistency and would tional, as His Excellency informed There are, moreover, cogent ren

ernment price, and partly to the meant the transference of the educated in Japan, others in Hono- land the oplum, the oplum could readily get hard on rapid cooling.

Tulu or America. They had been be stored in various military Head- Anti-Opium Medicine, ine that he would deal with the sons against making the island do question of the water supply of the pondent for its water upon the main large amounts of Macao Opium trade to underground channels and } dealing in drugs on a very large quarters or on gunboats stationed

Imported into the consequent widespread corruption.

These facts seem to prove the im-scale, and had large dealings with at various places. For those ser- Small amounts of prepared a firm in Japan and Formosa in vices the company would only opium were met with, which had Colony and with the remarks of land. Therefore, although I fear which, were

that we shall never be able to dis- Colony by every ship and junk Hon. Members on the subject,

on the leaving that port. This opium is possibility of suppression while I should like to thank Hon. pense with rider mains

previously.

cheaper rate than the old company bureaux, and bore the official label The? had Members for their remarks they islanda fact which doubtless will sold in several grades, so, that all supplies continue abundant and respect of Persian opium two years charge $1,200 per chest, a much been issued by various Anti-oplum

nisa · charter.

cine for the cure of opium have made and for the restrained operates us an encouragement to classes of smokers are accommo- the demand remains unabated.

The company had also the mono-smoking The contents, however, tone of their criticisms and their additional population to settle in dated; the best grade contained a The origin of this opium le Macased a steamer for the Persian with whom they would compete describing the contents as medi-

of the Kowloon rather than in Hongkong, high percentage of Indian opium, (and Kwong Chow Wan to somo Gulf opium trade, and bad had generous appreciation members of the various depart-it is our plain duty to examine and even fastidious wealthy smok-extent), for the best grades, transactions in opium specially poly of transporting the other 100 were in every case just ordinary

this Chow Wan and brand in preference to the dearer the inferior grades. Amoy has This syndicate was also experi-suming districts, and so intercept why the official revenue collect-- Hongkong opium on account of the supplied more and more of the in- menting In other druga. A sample ing the Shanghai middleman's difference in cost.

ferior grades at a very cheap packet of what was a type of profits. This opfum would be covering bureau, should resort to this Illicit Oplom Sources.

price. Whereas in former years synthetic cocaine from Japan wased, by revenue inbela issued by the subterfuge in describing their that the description would deceive The Chief sources of illlelt the demand from the Islands was seized; this was called "antiseptic company, which would protect it products la hard to fathom, seeing no-one except non-smokers or the opium were Pathol, Holhow, for the best brand of Macau dentifrico" and was cleverly scent from all official interference. Kwong Cho Wan and Macao, Raw opium, recently, while supplice of ed to make it correspond with the

New Type of Opion. ignorant, His Excelloroy the Governor

Chinese oplum originating in Yun- Macao opium have probably not description. They had special

Amongst a miscellaneous. lot of said: My cordial thanks are due

nan was imported chiefly through decreased, a large amount of in pills for sale in China manufactur

ferlor prepared opium of Chinese od in Germany toplum seized, originating in Too-During the year valuable In- both to the official and to the unoffi-

Pakhoi,

Kwong Chow Wan origin has been entering.

Drugs for cial members of this Council for the

One method of smuggling Information was repeatedly re- chow, was found a distinctly new formation was supplied to the to authorities in India, and Malaya, Propared opium in largo quan- time and care which they havo de- We ought also to deviso means of voted to the consideration of the economiting our fresh water supplies titles. camo from Kwong Chow was discovered here: goods colved of large amounts of danger-type. It was impossible.

Wan, by practically every steamer. were purchased locally and ous druga being smuggled to Cal classify it either as prepared Germany, Japan, Netherlands budget. My debt is greatest ba the in Hongkong by using salt water on Colonial Secretary, who has the low-levels for sewerage, street As the result of a large packed into cases, those were cutta from Japan, but only in one opium or raw opium; it was of a Indies, Indo-China, the Philippine the Chinese captain sent off to a junk in the har case did success attend the abarch fot bind colour, very hard and lelands, Honolulu, United States apared no pains in preparing, in eleaning, fire-fighting and generally seizure expounding and in defending the for non-potable purposes. This of one of these ships recolved a bour together with some empty There is, however, no doubt that brittle with a fracture stollar to of America, and the Chinese Mari matter is like-wlae under in-severe sentence. His owner was cases; the prepared oplum was there is strong demand that of bitamen it had something time Customs Valuable Informa supply bill, and who (as I am sure the whole Council will agree) has vestigation and I trust that proved to be one of the Indian then brought from another junk, Calcuta for cocaine, which ap of the aroma of raw oplura,, button was received on stvaral ocen discharged a difficult task with before long I may be able to opium dealers licensed by the some of goods taken out and the parently can be easily obtained in contained practically no moisture sions from the Authorities in the

lay on the table of this Council a French authorities at Kwong Chow aplum packed in the cases with the Japan where considerable it easily softened under the in- Netherlands Indies conspicuous abilty.

He then moved the second read- ing of the Bill.

THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.

storage on the island itself and those possibilities are now being investi- gated.

In particular ens potential reser voir with an estimated capacity of 200 million gallons has been located and it is calculated that the cost of constrasting it would be no greater than the cost of the pipe line under the harbour as designed by the Ooh- salting Engineóra

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