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March 28, 1895.]
THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR MILITARY
ASSISTANCE,
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Magistrate said the case was clearly onetary Board, to be unfit for human habitation, of using violence to prevent a coolie carrying on even although cleansed and disinfected as his proper occupation. He should impose the herein before provided, may be fall penalty-three month's imprisonment.
closed by order of the said Board and the occupants of the same removed, if need be by force, If they do not remove themselves and their furniture and effects within 24 hours after notice of the order to close the buildings or premises or any part thereof has been served on the occupant or posted on the premises. And the Board shall have power to erect matsheds, or hire buildings, or charter boats or vessels for the housing of persons so removed."
The following communication has been for warded to us:- The Lieutenant-General Com- manding having anthorized the employment of troops who may volunteer in the work of cargo loading and unloading, etc., shipping firms desirous of utilizing their services may apply to Lieut. Colonel N. P. O'Gorman, Deputy Assistant Adigtant General (A), Commissariat Buildings, stating fall-particulars as to the number of men they require, the wharf to embark at, time of arrival there, and probable duration of the work. Applications should be made by letter between 9a.m. and 4 p.m. but if this is not practicable * letter delivered at any time after this hour to the native orderly on duty at the Commissariat Ghird Room will be duly attended to.
altered in several respects from those originally The by-laws submitted yesterday had been
submitted. Most of the alterations are of a technical character. bat the following are worthy of note:-
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Section 17 in the original draft provided for the removal of persons suffering from epidemia, endemic, or contagious disease to hospital. To this the following has been added: Provided that snch persops are not, in the written opinion of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, being treated without danger to the public health unless so removed."
bodies of persons dying from contagious diseases. Section 18 provides for the disposal of the To the words "shall be buried" have been added the words "or oremated," and the follow ing proviso has been added:" Provided always that the Sanitary Board, under the hand of its Secretary, shall have previously certified that it is necessary that persons dying from such disease shall be buried in such place."
Clause 19, formerly clause 20, provides for the reporting of contagions diseases. The diseases have now been specified as follows:--
"Bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox, or from such other disease as may be from time to time duly notified in the Government Gazette, or from any disease appearing to resemble such diseases."
these claims and attendance before the arbi trators.
those by others than owners, received, was 77. 4.-The total number of elaims, excluding involving 118 distinct Inland Lots and 417 houses, the total area of private property re- sumed being 8.25 acres.
27th March. The fatile attempt on the part of the coolies to force the Government from its position still continues. But fortunately one can still obtain ricksha, and the supply of chairs is greater than the demand. It can be safely said that the coolies are having the worse of the game, and in short time they will be checkmated. No doubt for a time they will be daily adding to their ranks by alarming those at work, I at their energy in this direction cannot last long against the pains of an empty stomach. As one gentle man remarked yesterday, all the police forces in the world will not prevent a strike, and this one will run its courseand die a natural death probably in about a week's time. But the presence of an alert force of police strikes terror into the heat to of the coolies, and hence there have been no acts of violence recorded. The men at the Taikoo Sugar Refiuery were not molested on leaving work at midnight on Monday, and this Clause 24, formerly clause 25, as oiminally peaceful condition was without doubt brought drafted provided that on the certiancate of a dur about by the ample police protection which authorised office of the Board or duly qualified wis afforded them. Yesterday mornisa of such dical practice by building, bedding. ever, they decided_fuente is that the refinery destroyed. The word “
or other article might be party, and the con. The coolies are now trying moved in the draft as finally passed.
building" has beən re- is at a stamen in other works to enter upon a to induy. Several steamers were yesterday un-
Clause 25, formerly 26, also provided that holid at Aberdeen by Riflemen, convicts, and a contagious disease should be” thoroughly cleansed every room or place in which there had been ber of coolies, all of whom worked under and disinfected or destroyed as the Sanitary er of the police launch. The coolies work- Board may direct." The words " at Aberdeen all went from the city unmind ul have been struck out.
or destroyed he menaces of the intimidating idlers, and, for sty's sake, slept in junks. On Monday the discharged her cargo at Aberdeen, and the ships that were uuloaded there yesterday Here the Propontis, Benmohr, Michael Jebsen, Holstein, and Hongkong. The cargo coolies at the Kowloon Wharf continue to work.
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is that the Board has power to order the cleans- The effect of the two last named alterations ing, disinfecting, and vacating of any infected premises, but has not the power to order their destruction.
5.- attach a tabular statement showing the number of the claim, the lot number, the area of property the number of houses, the amount claimed, the amount offered, the amount awarded, and the Crown rent payable by the late lessee in respect of each claim.
6-In many cases, the amounts of the claims the particulars furnished by the claimants were were altered on being referred to the Board, and
incomplete, compared with those they afterwards tendered to the Board, which accounts, in some cases, for the difference between the amounts offered and those awarded. In some cases, how, over, I was approached by the claimants, after an offer had been made, with a view to settle- ment without going before the Board, and as will be seen from the tabular statements, I was able under the authority of C.8.0. 1184 to obtain that object in several instances.
7.-The total number of claims--- (a) In which the Government offer
accepted was 33.
was
(b) ln which a settlement subject to no order as to costs was effected without going to the Board was 6, leaving:
(c) 39 claims dealt with by the Board.
8. The following statement shows the amounts claimed, offered, accepted, or awarded in each of the above classifications (excluding the Tang Wa Hospital olaim) :—
(a) Claimed $297,577, accepted $244,797. (b) Claimed $94,850, offered $71,414, accepted.
$74.700.
(0) Clained $624,773, offered $363,524, awarded.
$443 600.
9. The Board were therefore only called upon to decluse value of the properties resumed in 39 olaitas iu-hich the amount claimed was. $624,773, offered $38524, awarded $443,600.
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The difference in the amounts offered, and awarded being $80,076, or 21 per cent. more than the Government offered.
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24 cases against the claimants in two cases, and
10.-Costs were awarded to the claimants in’ no order was made as to costs in the remaining
cagos.
especial attention to are numbers 8 and 14 and 77, the first was for a rained temple in Tai- 12-The only claims which I wish to draw
pingshan Street, the second for the premises occupied as a school by the Italian Sisters, and the last for a chapel belonging to the London Mission.
tion, will no doubt bear a considerable proportion 11.-The costs, including those of the arbitra- to the difference between the amounts offered and those awarded, and it is to be regretted that, in several instances the claimants did not ap- In the original draft the following clause approach the Government with a view to settle- At the Police Court yesterday, before Com- draft:-"A select Committee of three or more awarded.
peared, but has been struck out in the amended ment for amounts approximately near those mander W. C. H. Hastings, twenty-seven sum-members of the Sanitary Board may be ap- monses were called on against keepers of common pointed by the said Board, with full power and lodging houses for not registering the same and authority to exercise under the authority of the obtaining a licenes from the Registrar General. said Board all er any of the powers or authorities In only three of the ass did the defendants vested in or exercisable by the said Board under appear. Ons of the cases was adjourned until Sa- these by-laws.” turday and the defendants in the two other cases were each ordered to pay a fine of $25, and a distress warrant was ordered to be issued in de- fault of payment. In one of the cases a coolie who gave evidence said he paid 20 cents a month for rent, and in the secon I a coolie told the Ma- gistrate he paid a cent a day for his lodgings. In the cases rich the defendants failed to appear the Magistrate-dered warrants to be issued for their arrest.
THE TAIPINGSHAN RESUMPTION.
Public Works on
The following raport by the Director of properties in the Taipingshan district in the city the resumption of certain of Victoria, was laid before the Legislative Council on Wednesday, the 20th inst.:-
Public Works Department. THE BY-LAWS UNDER THE INANI-
Hongkong, 6th March, 1895 Sir,-Now that the amounts to be awarded in TARY DWELLINGS ORDINANUL respect of certain properties resumed by the Government under the Taipingshan Resumption The by-laws passed by the Sanitary Board on rdinance, 1894, have been decided, I have the the 4th inst, were revised at a meeting is th houour to submit for the information of His Board held on the 19th inst., of which shape Excellenes the Governor the following report. notification was issued, and the amended to be 2. In accordance with the instructions con- with the exception of one classe, were appldtained in C.. 88. I at once, with as little by the Legislative Council on Wednesday, tuinterference with the work in hand and the 20th inst.
The clause not approved was No. 31, which read as follows
plans prepsmand other information collected, oraary routine of the department, had the that I deemed acervifor deciding the amounts to be offered by G Bovent in respect of the various properties concecd.
During the prevalence of an epidemic of bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox, or such other diseases as may be from time to time daly 3.-This was, of course, work of some mag. notified in the Government Gazette, any build- nitude, and as the claims rally came in after ings or part of a building or premises certified the appointment of the Board of rhitration, a in writing by two legally qualified and registered great deal of my time during theast three medical practitioners, authorized by the Sani-' months has been devoted to the consication of
13.-In each of these cases exceptional terms were claimed on account of the special nature of account of the "sacredness of the site." And I the occupation, and in the case of the temple on,
the authority granted me in C.S.O. 15 to take would state that I did not feel justified in using, such matters into consideration in attempting to settle the claims by going beyond the value of the properties ascertained from comparison with, the adjoining properties.
for the improvement of Taipingshan admitted 14.-In each case I had offered, if the scheme of it, to recommend to the Government the res storation of the properties or the granting of similar sites with allowances for rebuilding.
practicable, owing to the improvement project 15. As no definite arrangement was at once not yet being settled, the Board decided that ternative awards. they had better hear the parties and make al
lines is No. 25, viz., that of the Tung Wa The only claim settled at present on the above Hospital, in respect of Inland Lot No. 361
1-I expect at an early date to be in a posi dealing with a large portion of the resumed area, tion to submit to the Government a project for and in doing which to point out how far the restoration of these sites to the claimants in
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