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of Hongkong must not be diminished in order to provide further episcopal supervision,'
We have referred above to another circum stance which led to the non-issue of new Letters Patent in 1874. This was the decision about that time that the Queen's power to give
titles,"
* was doubtful in the colonies. Thus, strictly no new title was conferred, but the consecration of the Bishop was ordered by man- date and gazetted, and he received by courtesy the title of Bishop of Victoria The same thing has taken place in other colonies, aud in- variably the title held by the preceding Bishop under Letters Patent has been accorded by courtesy to his successor, and the territorial signature is recoguised as ecclesiastically cor- rect.
"We are indebted for some of the foregoing facts to a memorandum given us by Mr. E. F. Alford, who received them from his father, the late Bishop Alford.
"One point more has to be mentioned. It is asked, sometimes, whether Disestablishment in Hongkong has not made some difference. This act does not in any way touch the ecclesiastical title or jurisdiction. The see was practically disestablished in 1872, after Bishop Alford's re- tirement, that is to say the Crown ceased to nominate to the Bishopric. Fortunately it could not be disendowed, and ecclesiastically it exists as before. It is a matter of regret that this act afforded the opportunity, to those only who wished to do so, of ignoring the social and ec- clesiastical position of the Bishop.
The disestablishment and disendowment (1891) was chiefly in regard to the incumbency of the Cathedral, whereby the office of Colonial Chaplain was abolished and the duty of making provision for the due performance of divine worship in the Cathedral was put upon the Church Body, the members of which were then nominated by the Government, and thereafter to be duly elected.
"St. John's Church is called St. John's Cathedral because it is the principal church in the diocese, and contains the Bishop' seat. Although a part of the Bishop's work lies in various mission stations in Hongkong and in South China, he is still ecclesiastically Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong,' and we trust that dur ing his residence here Bishop Hoare will often be able to take part in the services in his Cathedral."
In connection with the above another ques- tion arises, not touched upon by Mr. Cobbold, namely,-Is the Bishop entitled to be addressed as a lord? On this subject we note in a Japan contemporary the following extract from Notes and Queries:-
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
| venience if the letters by the French mail were delivered first and the newspapers left to be dealt with afterwards we do not think it was intended to convey the idea that the newspaper portion of the mail was of no consequence and could be laid aside indefinitely. Residents at the Peak will no doubt have been disappointed at having to wait for their mail papers until to-day instead of receiving them yesterday, more especially as the English mail is due to- morrow, so that they will not have time to get through one mail's reading before receiving another.
It is a fallacy to suppose that the title "lord," applied to a bishop, belongs to him ouly as a member of the House of Lords. There is a spiritual hierarchy as well as a temporal peerage, and the one has as much right to a title as the other. Just as a priest was styled "Sir," so a bishop is a "Lord," and graduates are still called "domini at the universities. In Elizabeth's time the Suffragan Bishop of Dover was styled My Lord of Dover." The following extract from a letter written by the Right Hon. R. A. Cross, Secretary of State (now Viscount Cross) to the Archbishop of Canterbury, May 22, 1874,
reads:-
"
There is ample documentary evidence that predecessors of the present bishops suffragan were, up to the disuse of their office in the reign of James I., every whit (whether by right or courtesy) as much lord bishops' as the diocesan, peers of Parliament.”
DELAY IN THE DELIVERY OF THE MAIL.
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6th July. The French mail steamer arrived about six o'clock yesterday morning, but it was not until half-past seven in the evening that the news- paper portion of the mail was delivered. To a written enquiry addressed to the Post Office about half-past three in the afternoon we received the following reply:-"Owing to pressure of work it has not been possible to sort the newspapers. They are being sorted now." What the pressure of work could be we do not know, but it must have been something extraordinary to justify the post- poning of the delivery of a mail for so many hours. When the Chamber of Commerce recently expressed the opinion that it would be a con-
7th July.
We hear of newspapers by the French mail which arrived at six o'clock on Tuesday morning having been delivered as late as half-past eleven on Wednesday morning. In the matter of dilatoriness the Hongkong Post Office could easily take first place.
8th July.
Mr. H. L. Dalrymple writrs :-Adverting to your paragraph in this day's paper re delivery of French mail, a much more glaring case of delay has been my experience. A registered London letter did not reach me until noon yes- terday. Wednesday.
[July 9, 18.8.
our civil service England would not occupy the position she occupes to-day. Mr. McCallum will derive satisfaction from the resolution which just been proposed, but I feel sure he will led these shores with a far higher reward -the highest reward which can be given, and that is the cousciousness of duty nobly done."
The funeral of the deceased gentleman took place on the 1st July and was largely attended.
THE JUSTICES AND WATERFALL BAY.
A LICENSE GRANTED. At noon on 5th July a special session of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held in the Justices' om at the Magistracy for the pur-
pose
of considering an application from one James Edwards, for a publican's license to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at. Waterfall Bay, under the sign of “The Waterfall Inn." Commander Hastings, Acting Police Magistrate, occupied the chair, and there were also present Messrs. E. W. Mitchell, A. 8. Hooper, and C. W. Duggan.
There was no objection, and the application was granted.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The Hon. R. D. Ormsby, Water Authority, favours us with the following return:-
voir was 19 feet 4 inches below the overflow, On 1st July, 1898, the water in Tytam 'reser- representing a storage of 241 million gallons,
while the water in Pokfulam reservoir was
foot 2 inches below the overflow, representing a storage of 64 million gallons. The total storage was thus 305 million gallons,
The following are the figures on the corres- ponding dates last year.
Storago. Tytam... I ft. 9 in. above overflow 410,000,000
Level.
Mr. Gedge, who appeared for the applicaut, said this was an application for a license to sell liquor by retail at the mat-shed at Waterfall DEATH OF MR. HUGH McCALLUM. Bay in consequence of the recent prosecution. Mr. Edwards had applied to the Colonial Our last issne contained a brief announcement Secretary for a temporary license, which was re- -au announcement which we made with ex-
fused on the ground that the Colonial Secretary treme regret to the effect that Mr. Hugh Mc had only power to grant licenses under Callum, late secretary of the Hongkong Sani-seotion 8 of the Ordinance, which section only tary Board, died at the Government Civil Hos- applied to places of public entertainment or to pital at ten past ten on the evening of the 30th public occasions for a short period. This place June. To those most intimately acquainted with
was inaccessible and ont of the way, and it was the deceased gentleman the news did not come not likely drinking to any extent would go on unexpectedly. He had been in failing health
during the short time in which the applicant for several years. In 1887 he had a severe at proposed to use it--for an hour or so each day tack of remittant fever-so severe that his life and perhaps twice on Sundays-purely for the was almost despaired of--and in 1894 his con- recreation of bathing, The applicant had star- dition was such that he was obliged to go home ted this bathing club, and he thought it was for on leave. He returned to the colony in 1895, the public benefit it should go on. when he resumed his labours. Three or four months ago he was taken ill in the office and was conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital. He subsequently left for Japan, hoping that a change of climate would be beneficial. Varying reports were received with regard to him from time to time, but when he returned to the colony on the 12th June he was so ill that he had to be carried to the Hospital in an ambulance. A few days afterwards, feeling that his health would not permit of his returning to duty, he sent in his resiguation, which was laid before the Sanitary Board on June 16th, when a resolution fras passed in which the Board placed on record its appreciation of Mr. McCallum's work and re- gretted the cause of his resignation.
Mr. McCallum first came to the colony in 1878 as apothecary and analyst to the Govern
In 1883 he ment Civil Hospital. transferred the Sanitary Board as Sanitary Inspector and Secretary with a seat on the Board. He was subsequently appointed Sanitary Superintendent and Secre- tary to the newly-constituted Board, but with- out a seat on the Board, which appointment he beld to a few weeks ago.
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At the meeting at which Mr. McCallum's resignation was an- nounced the President of the Board (Dr. Atkinson) and the Vice-President the Hon. F. H. May) bore testimony to his untiring energy in furthering the interests of sanitation in the colony and the excellent work he had done, the Vice-President remarking :-" If any section of the British nation can claim any special share in the work of rearing our empire up to the stupendous position which it now holds it is the civil servants of the empire, who Something of a scene occurred on the Bund at Canton on Thursday last in consequence of may more justly than any other section claim a special share in such work. And in referring an attempt to capture a couple of Chinese girls. to civil servants I mean not the few brilliant The incident is thus described by a correspond- and favoured ones-the Governors, Governor-ent writing on Friday Yesterday morning Generals, and Viceroys of the empire-but the rank and file of the civil service, whose industry, whose experience, and whose tact and discretion in many cases enable their more gifted and more brilliant colleagues to carry out large ad- ministrative successes which without the aid of their experienced and hard-working subordin- ates they would not be able to do. I think in Mr. McCallum we had a very typical specimen of the rank and file of the civil service. It is men like him who have made the British civil service what it is. I believe it is the finest civil service in the world, and I believe that but for
to
was
Pokfulam full
66,000,000
Total 476,000,000
The total consumption for all purposes during June was 89 million gallons, giving with an estimated population of 177,450 an average daily consumption of 17 gallons per head.
For the corresponding period last year the total consumption was 99 million gallons, or an average daily consumption of 19 gallons per head for the population.
The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AT
CANTON.
we had some excitement here owing to a party of pirates coming up alongside the Bund and capturing two children and making off up the river with them at full speed. The amah began to shriek "Save life, save life," a Chinese constable on the Band blew his whistle, quickly summoning a few of his comrades, and for a time there was much shouting and confusion. The British Consul took the matter in hand, however, and promptly sent off some constables in pursuit. They fortunately succeeded in rescuing the children and capturing the pirates, all being brought back the same afternoon.
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