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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
December 16, 1899.] commanding all approaches from the North and East.
1894, I gun under Captain A. Chapman, Volunteer | 1895, Corps, and accompanied by Lieut. G. C. Ful- 1896, lerten Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with an
1897, escort from the Field Battery Hongkong Volun- | 1898. teer Corps, was placed on the road to the North ofthe Pumping Station commanding approaches from Kowloon City.
I gun under ". ▲"Coy. Bergeant-Major F. Smyth, and escort Royal Welsh Fusiliers were placed in the vicinity of the Yaumati Polios Station to command approaches from the direc- tion of the Rifle Ranges.
These approaches were further held by de- tachments of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The Yaumati Police Station was told off as the tem- porary Head Quarters of the Force and Hos. pital arrangements were here made by Surgeon-
497
Including Plague Excluding Plague. | MARRIAGE OF British subjECTS
30.37 21.59
24.25
19.13
...22.71
19.85
21.74
19.79
19.05
17.98
IN CHINA BY THE CLERGY OF THE C..URCH OF ENGLAND.
The following letter has been issued by the Bishop of Viotória to the Clergy of the Diocese
All the above death rates exclude the Milit-in South China :- ary and Naval populations and deaths.
Francis W. CLABE. Medical Officer of Health, Hongkong, December, 1889.
WATER RETURN.
LEVEL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESER- VOIRS ON THE 1ST DECEMBER,
1898
LEVEL.
1899 Tytam 8ft. 1 in. below overflow 4ft. 2țin, below overflow Captain J.A. Lowson, Hongkong Volunteer Pokfulam 8ft. 7in. below overflow 7ft. 7 in. below overflow Corps.!
Wonguelcheong
40ft. lin. below overfow STORAGE GALLONS.
1898. 352,800,000 51,640,000
Pioqueta were placed to hold important points, not under the fire of the Machine Guns, and patrols from both the Royal Welch Fusiliers and Field Battery, Hongkong Volunteer Corps were sent out to patrol the approaches some mile to the front.
Nothing occurred during the night and at 6 a.m. next morning the force re-embarked at Yaumati Police Pier for Hongkong.
The members of the Hongkong Corps pre- sent on parade were as follows :—
Staff. Field Battery.
Officers,.....
Non-Commissioned
"A" Michine-
Gan Do.
Tytam Pokfulam Wongneicheong ap-
proximation...
Total
1899. 349,700,000 49,350,000
1,000,000
404,440,000 400,050,000 CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRICT DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER,
1898
1899 96,841,000 96,697,000 gals.
Consumption Estimated popu-
2
Officers and Mon, 2
50
26
lation
197,500
203,000
Consumption per
Total,
5
61
28
head per day... 16.3
Grand Total all Ranks 94.
I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient
servant,
WM. ST. C. BLAND, Captain, R.A.,
Adjutant,
Hongkong Volunteer Carps.
SECRETARY OF STATE TO GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, 26th October, 1899. Bir. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 265 of the 15th altimo relative to the services rendered by the Hongkong Volunteers in connection with the occupation of the New Territory.
2-I have read this despatch with interest and satisfaction, and I highly appreciate the readi- ness with which the Volunteers responded to the call to duty.
8.-I have caused a copy of this correspon dence to be forwarded to the Secretary of State for War.-I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
J. CHAMBERLAIN. Governor, Sir Henry A, Blake, G.C.M.G., 20., &0. &o.
THE HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE DEATH-BATE.
|
14.88 gals.
CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON
PENINSULA DURING THE MONTH
OF NOVEMBER.
1898
Consumption .6,712,000
Estimated popu-
TO THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN SOUTH CHINA.
My dear Brethren,-As some doubts exist with regard to the legality of marriages solem. nized by Clergy in China, I think it well to give you the following information.
Many years ago the Law Officers of the Crown decided that the "Marriages in Foreign countries facilitating Act," by which Consular officers were authorized to perform marriages, did not affect the established validity of marriages solemnized by Clerks in Holy Orders. In accordance with this decision marriages have throughout been regularly solemnised in Shang- hai by the use of the religious ceremony alone, and have been duly registered by the Registrar- General in London. No subsequent Act has in any way affected the position in respect to the validity of such marriages.
In A. D. 1829 certain difficulties having arisen with regard to the verification by a Con- sal of the signature of a Clergyman in the certificate of a marriage solemnized in West China, various questions about such marriages were referred to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The reply, dated "Foreign | Office Deo. 6th, 1899 was as follows:-
"
"I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd ult. with reference to the legality of marriages celebrated by a Clerk in Holy Orders between British subjects, whether in the interior of China or elsewhere within that Empire, as to the certificates to be granted of such marriages, and their registration by Her Majesty's Con.
1899 8,750,000 gals. suls in China.
lation......
26,300 27,500 Consumption per
head per day... 8.5
10.6
gale. The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
W. CHATHAM.
Pro. D.P.W.
SERIOUS OUTBREAK OF BERI-BERI AMONGST THE CHILDREN OF THE
BERLIN FOUNDLING HOUSE.
THE CHILDREN ARE TAKEN TO MACAO AND CARRY THE INFECTION WITH THEM,
BANITARY INSPECTION IMPOSED ON
ARRIVALS FROM HONGKONG.
Under date of 12th December our Masao correspondent writes as follows, the Mission referred to being the Berlin Foundling
House :-
"A few days ago some German missionaries A return showing the death rates for the came over from Hongkong and took the house last twenty years is published in the Gazette, next to Hing Kee's Hotel (lately the Telegraph and must be regarded as to some extent satis Office) and another house on the Praya gear factory, as it shows that the efforts made to Government House. On last Thursday or Fri- improve the sanitation of the colony in recent day they brought over about a hundred children, years have not been altogether fruitless. Ex-all Chinese, who were placed in the two houses cluding the naval and military populations the named, about seventy in the one adjoining average death rate for the fifteen years 1879-93 Hing Kee's Hotel and the remainder in the was 27.16, while during the last five years it other. Unfortunately the day before yesterday has been, including plague, 23.67, and exclud- two or three deaths occurred. A licence was of ing plague, 19.68. The detailed return is sa
course required for the interment, and what was follows:-
the certifying doctor's surprise when be found the houses crowded and a large number of the children suffering from beri-beri! The autho- rities on learning this at once ordered the removal of all the inmates of the two houses to the new plague hospital.
THE DEATH RATES FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.
...33.147
28.71
...24.07
26.11
1879, 1880,
*
1881,
1882,
1883,
1884,
30.04 26.91
1885,
...
...32.36
1886,
31.79
西哥臂
1887,
...28.59
1888,
31.72
1889,
28.64
1890,
1901,
1892,
OUR
23.19
$23.80
20.70
22.70
Average 27.16
"In reply I am to state to you that it appears to be well established and free from doubt that such marriages are perfectly valid according: to English law."
It is further stated in the same letter that such marriages cannot be registered in British Consulates, but that instructions would be issued to H,M. Consular officers to verify, if requested to do so, the signature of a clergyman in a certificate of such a marriage.
Such marriages are frequently solemnized in the Dioceses of Mid, North, and West China, in Shanghai, Tientsin, Chefoo, Szechnen, and elsewhere; copies of the Registers are sent to the Registrar-General in London, and duly acknowledged by him.
There need therefore bo no doubt as to the validity of marriages solemnized by the Clorgy, without any civil form, whether in the Treaty ports or in the Interior of China.
In order that the solemnization of such mar- ringes may be duly safeguarded, I request that the following practice be followed by the Clergy in South China.
(1)-Banns should be published in accordance with the rules of the Prayer Book.
(2)- Full entries should be made in Registers kept for the purpose; and copies should be for- warded to the Registrar-General in London, and also to the Bishop for entry in the Dioces san Register.
(3)-Marriages where either of the parties is not a British subject should not be solemnized without full consulation with the Consul of the nationality concerned.
(4)—In all cases it is the duty of the Clergy to assure themselves, as far as possible, that those who dean saei services, whether they be British subjects or not, understand the laws of the Church, and will not be violating canonical regulations by their union.
I append a form of Application for the solem. The sanitary inspection of the Hongkongnisation of marriage, which I recommend for steamer, the Heungahan, was commenced yester
use.—Believe me, yours faithfully in Christ, day.
J. C. VICTORIA. Hongkong, 17th November. 1899.
"Beri-beri is considered by many to be worse than plague, and much indignation prevails at the introduction of the diseace into Maoso in this way. Btriot precantions should be taken by the Government to prevent such an occurrence. The unfortunate people affected must be suffering much inconvenience by being confined in a small building like the plague hospital, but the Government must protect the health of the pablie.”
Madame Konorah's performance in the Theatry Royal on Saturday evening was well attended, and the War Relief Fund, towards which ten per cent. of the proceeds are to be devoted, will benefit thereby. Mr. Muskett gave a capital rendering of Kipling's stirring
sopies of which were soft in aid of the
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