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August 21, 1898
jest of considérable and prolonged controversy, I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
-RIPON.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.
Locality
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Valuation Valuation In- De-
1894.05. 1895-96. crease, crease.
$
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The City of Victoria 3,179,999 3,160,874 The Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong Villages
Hongkong.
THE ASSESSMENT.
The Aoting Assessor's report on the Assesa- ment for 1895-96 was laid before the Legislative Council on Friday. It is as follows:-
Assessor's Office,
8th June, 1895. Sir,—I have the honour to submit my report on the Assessment for the ensuing year 1895-96, 2. By order of His Excellency the Governor in Connoil, the existing valuation of the colony has been adopted for the ensuing year.
3.-Since taking over the duties of office as Aoting Assessor in June last, interim valuations have been made by me as follows:-
From 1st July, 1894, to 30th April, 1895.
IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA.
42 new tenements, rateable value...... $38,510 5 improved tenements, rateable
value
Replacing assessments.......
$4,290
3,280
assessments cancelled, tenements ro. moved
Increase in city of Victoria....
IN THE REST OF THE COLONY, 54 new tenements, rateable value....... 1 improved tenement, rateable value $5,000 Replacing assessments
3,600
61 assessments cancelled, tenements re-
moved
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and Hill District... Kowloon Peninsula.
19,125
216,987 238,364 21,877 291,808 || 295,434 4,128
$3,688,294 3,694,672 25,603 19,126
Deduct Decrease... ..$ 19,125
6,378-0-17 per cont.
Total Increase
HONGKONG SANITAKY BOARD.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held on Thursday afternoon. Hon. F. A. Cooper (Direc tor of Public Works) presided, and there were also present Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hast- ings (Acting Captain Superintendent of Police), Dr. J. A. Lowson (Acting Colonial Surgeon), Dr. Westcott (Acting Medical Officer of Health), Mr. N. J. Ede, and Mr. H. MoCallum (Secre- tary).
MINUTES.
SUPREME COURT,
19th August.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. BEFORE SIR FIELDING CLARKE (CHIEF JUSTICE.)
DISCHARGED BY PROCLAMATION.
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The Attorney-General (Hon. W. Meigh Good- man) mentioned the case of A. de Souza, who was charged with uttering counterfeit coiu. No in. formation had been filed and he proposed that the man be discharged by proclamation.
His Lordship consented and Sousa was dis- charged.
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT.
Leung Sze Man and Chan Tak were charged with bringing a widow, 22 years of age, into the colony for the purpose of prostitution. The two prisoners, together with Ko Ng and U Sam, were also indicted for harbouring the girl for the purpose of prostitution.
The prisoners pleaded not guilty, The Attorney-General (Hon. W. M. Good. The minutes of the previous meeting were man) prosecuted, and Mr. D. McNeill (instructed read and confirmed.
by Mr. Reece) defended the first prisoner.
The following were empanelled as jurors→→→
MORE WELLS CLOSED.
NO EPIDEMIO AT AMOY.
1,010 On the motion of the Acting Captain Super-Messrs. R. C. Edwards, J. Allan, F. J. R. intendent of Police, seconded by the Acting Sohwarzkopf, R. E. Kozhevar, H. 8. Cooke, C. $39,520 Colonial Surgeon, it was resolved to order the D. Danenberg, and Chow Dart Tong.
closing within seven days of eighteen wells 1,780 which were likely to prove injurious to health.
$37,740 The following letter from H.M. Consul at Amoy to the Colonial Secretary was read :-- $25,947H M. Consulate, Amoy, 2nd August, 1895. Bir,I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your dispatch No. 1,578 of the 1,400 30th ultimo, and in reply to state that I have communicated it to Dr. McDougall, the $65,087 medical officer of this port, who assures me that though (as might be expected) there are a few 1.844 cases here of choleraic diarrbon among the re- fugees from Formosa, there is certainly no epidemic of cholers in Amoy or neighbourhood. Dr. McDougall adds: It is a great pity such false and misleading reports about the health in this place should periodically appear in the Hongkong papers !"" [The misleading reports referred to by Dr. McDougall did not appear in the Daily Press. |
Total increase from interim assessments $68,243 4—The rateable value of the property in the enclosed area of Taipingshan resumed by the Government under Ordinance 8 of 1894 amounted to $58,805, including the old Taipingshan Police Station which was leassd
at an annual rent of $360, and excluding six tenements not rated for reason of occupancy, viz., free sshool and temples.
AN EIGHT YEAR OLD REPORT.
Correspondence having reference to the water 5. For the ensuing year therefore the rate-supply of the city eight years ago and also to the able value of property in the enclosed area of Taipingshan amounting to $58,805 has been omitted from the valuation list of tenements in the city of Victoria.
6. By including interim valuations and increasing the rateable value of several tenements somewhat under assessed, the amount of valua tion for the city of Victoria for the new year 1895-96 is $3,160.874 as against $3.179,999 for present year, or a decrease of 0 6 per cent.
7. The hill district, Hongkong villages, and Kowloon peninsula show an increase as compared with the preceding year, arising from new tenements having been rated for the first time, and aggregating an increase of $25,508 or 5.02 per cent.
condition of wells was placed upon the table. The following minutes were appended :- The Acting Colonial Surgeon-A lot of work has been done here, but the result must be poor, seeing that so many wells have been ordered to be closed during the last month. The bad wells appear to have The Director of Public Works -I am afraid the condition of a well eight years ago is not of much as- sistange at the present. The altering of the house numbers when the list was prepared may account for the apparent and not real errors.
been missed.
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MORTALITY STATISTICS.
corres-
For the week ended 3rd August the death rate was 20.1 per 1,000 per annum as against 18.3 per 1,000 per annum for the ponding week last year. The feature of most 8.—I attach a tabular statement giving a com- importance in the return was the death recorded parison of the valuations for 1894-95 and 1895-96 | from babonic plague. For the week ended for the whole of the colony.
10th August the death rate was 25 per 1,000 9.--The number of tenements reported vacant, per annum as compared with 19.8 for the and inspected under section 35 of the Rating corresponding week last year. The features of Ordinance has averaged 250 monthly, a number most importance were the high death rate somewhat in excess of any corresponding month recorded amongst the boat population at Kowloon in the preceding year, The above number, how- and Shaukiwan. This was accounted for by a ever, does not include some 60 tenements out-larger number of vessels from other places lying side the enclosed area of Taipingshan which were there during typhoon time. closed during the plague and unfit for human habitation, and at this date remain unoccupied.
10. The result of the valuation for the new year has, I venture to conclude, proved satisfac- tory when taking into consideration that an ex- tensive building area (Taipingshan) represent ing 417 tenements has been exempted.
The gain în rateable value of the colony has been 86,378 for the ensuing year or 0.17 per cent. 11.There has been no change in the staff. Mr. Chan Pai and Mr. Ip Yak Pui have con- tinued to discharge their duties satisfactorily. I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,
CHAS. C. MALSCH, Acting Assessor. The Honourable A. M. Thomson, Asting Colonial
Treasurer.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Board adjourned until Thursday week.
The Attorney-General said the prisoners were indicted under an Ordinance passed in 1889 for the protection of women and children. It was alleged that the first two prisoners brought the girl into the colony for the purpose of prosti- tution, and that the four of them harboured her with intention to sell her as a prostitute, She, was about 22 years of age and lived at a village near Hoihow, Hainan, and she was a widow. The second defendant, a woman, went and saw her and suggested that as she was in a state of poverty she had better go to Hongkong, where she could get a husband. She consented to go and the first two prisoners brought her here and took her to 82, Hollywood Road. The room in which she was was rented by the fourth defendant and the third defendant took charge of her. She was afterwards taken to a house in Wellington Street. At both places she was shown, as any animals of a lower grade might be, for the purpose of being sold. Sho Was told that she was too ugly to be the wife of . anybody and that she must become a prostitute, Au offer was made for her, but the sum was not considered sufficient. Subsequently the police received information and they arrested the whole of the defendants. The girl was detained in the house from the 7th to the 17th July.
While the evidence was being given the fourth prisoner was discharged by direction of his Lordship, as there was no evidence against him.
Mr. McNeill submitted that no intent had been shown on the part of the first prisoner.
The jury found the first prisoner not guilty, and he was discharged. The second prisoner was found guilty on both counts and she was sent to gaol for eighteen months. The third prisoner was also found guilty and he was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment.
FIRE INQUIRY.
At the Police Court on Friday the Hon. H. E. Wodehouse resumed the inquiry into the oir- cumstances attending the recent fire at No. 70, Jervois Street.
Mr. Gedge was present on behalf of the Hamburg Bremen Insurance Co.
Mr. Charles Jesumann, insurance olerk at Mesars. Carlowits & Co., was the first witness and in answer to questions put to him by his Worship he said he knew the premises in ques- tion. They were insured for $12,600 altogether. We (Mercury) regret to hear of the death of The policy expires in about three or four months. Mr. T. Tolliday, Chief Examiner of the I.M. He inspected the premised at the time they were Customs, which occurred at Ningpo on the 9th insured. The shop contained generally cheap inst. Mr. Tolliday was a very old member of cotton goods and piece goods. He had inspected the service, having joined in June, 1862, just the premises sinee about four months ago- after the conclusion of the China war. He and according to his opinion the goods in served during that campaign with the British the shop then corresponded fairly with those forces and was rewarded with the British war at the time of the insurance, In a business- medal and clasp for the China war-Peking and of this kind the goods necessarily varied from Taku. He reached the rank of Chief Examiner time to time, but there would never be moh a in April, 1876, and having been stationed for a difference as $1,000. The permanent stook. number of years in Shanghai in that position would be worth about $10,000. In insuring the | was well and most favourably known. He leaves property they usually took an average of the
many friends, who will deplore his loss.
permanent and fosting stock; the polioy read
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