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following terms "No cattle or sheep 'shall be admitted into the slaughter “house except those that have been marked within the previous twenty-four hours "by an Inspector of Live-stock as being
fit for slaughtering for human food," The regulations respecting markets are equally clear and precise. Registration of all market-holders and the due cleanliness of their stalls is provided for, while no flesh meat other than that which has been slaughtered in the slaughter-houses of the colony can be exposed for sale in any market till it has been inspected by an Inspector of Markets and marked by him as being fit for human food.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
SUPREME COURT.
April 30th.
BarOBE HIS HONOUR SIR JOHN CARRING TON (CHIEF JUSTIOR) AND HIS HONOUR T. SERCOMBE SMITH (ACTING PUISNE JUDGE).
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CHAN HIT SAN AND ANOTHER, APPELLANTS
V. HO FUNG HANG, RESPONDENT, Mr. Pollock (instructed by Messrs. Dennys respondent to set aside an order giving the and Bowley) moved es parte on behalf of the appellants leave to appeal to the Privy Council from the decision of the Fall Court delivered on the 14th March, 1900, on the grounds that It is clear, therefore, that when once (1) The decision appealed from was neither cattle and sheep have arrived in the colony a final judgment, decree or sentence, nor a rule or order having the effect of a final or definite every precaution is taken and every effort sentence (as required by the instructions made to expose for sale good wholesome food. The whole of the legislature of the governing appeals to the Privy Council) and (2) that there is no satisfactory evidence before Hongkong Government with respect to the the Court that such decision was given or meat-supply appears to us to have been pronounced for or in respect of a sum or matter exclusively devoted to cattle and sheep at issue above the amount value of £500 ster- immediately on their landing and subseling or that such Dacres involves directly or quently, and totally to ignore the voyage and approach of such animals to the colony before their disembarkation - for we are not aware of any regulations existing in this colony similar to those of the Board of Trade in England, which control the stall- ing and tending of cattle and sheep while on a voyage and which tend so much to their well-being, security and comfort and to the landing of them in good condi- tion at the port of their destination,
indirectly the title to property or so some Civil right exceeding the value of £500, The decision against which the appellants had obtained leave to Appeal was to the effect that the Respondents' claim to accounts, &c., was not barred by the Statute of Limitations. This decision was upon a preliminary issue in the suit and did not finally dispose of the case in dispute.
The full Court gave leave to Respondent to give notice of the motion to the Appellants for Tuesday next at 11.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING.
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Well earned holiday. It will perhap difficult to find any one of so 001 energy as our worthy representativ Whitehead, who during the long period he has represented the Chamber in the Connoil has been untiring in his efforts for the public good. I would propose to you, gentlemen, the name of a fitting successor to Mr. Whitehead, vis., Mr. Herbert Smith, the representative of Messrs Batterfield and Swiro, who by his well- known clearness and independence of mind and general ability is well qualified to represent this Chamber in the Legislative Council of Hongkong. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN, in seconding, mid-Mr. Smith's position in the colony is undeniable. I have had the pleasure of serving with him on the committee of this Chamber for a good many years, and I can testify to the great -in- terest he has always taken in the Chamber. (Applause.)
No other name being submitted, the motion was put to the vote and carried unanimously
Mr. HELBERT SMITH, in acknowledging the compliment paid to him, said—I am deeply sen- sible of the honour you have done me and the. firm I am privileged to represent in electing me to not as your representative on the Legisla- tive Council of this colony. I cannot but be conscious that the enlogistic remarks of Mr. Kes. wick and Mr. Gray are but indifferently de- served, but you may rely upon my best efforts to voice and to worthily uphold the interests of this influential Chamber and of its members. Holding a decided opinion that our policy should be to deal with commercial matters only, I shall hope to keep this point constantly in view. Gentlemen, I thank you and shall endeavour to justify your confidence. (Applause),
The CHAIRMAN-Gentlemen, I congratulate you on the election of Mr. Herbert Smith, than whom no one better fitted could have been ohosen. I now declare this meeting terminated.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The annual general meeting of members was subsequently held for the purpose of receiving. the report of the committee and passing the { Secretary's accounts for the year ended 31st Dec., 1899.
The Minutes of the last annual general meet- ing having been confirmed,
The CHAIRMAN said: Gentlemen, I pro- pose that, in accordance with our usual custom, the Report of the Committee and the Secretary's Accounts, which have been in your hands for senroth D. R. Crawford, J. J. Francis. some days. be taken as read. Our report exhl- Geo, L. Tomlin, D. W. Craddock, D. Gillies, bite no dimiuntion from past years in the nam- G. de Champeaux, L Berindeague, J. Thurber of ■ubjects with which we have to deal and, burn, G. T. Veitch, W. M. Watson, D. Haskell, | indeed, rather tends to show that the business J. A. Mackay, J. H. Lewis, R. L. Richardson, of the Chamber is steadily increasing in quantity, C. S. Sharp, A. M. Marshall, W Danby, Ho and at the same time in importanes. Fook, A. J. Raymond, A. Shelton Hooper, 8. D. amount of work done, however, needs no apology Setna, Murray Stewart, F. Urbig, D, M. Gilmour, from me. The voice of Commerce is making G. H. Potts, G. C. Moxon, D. M. Moses, M. M. Itself heard every year with greater emphasis all over the world whether it be by Chambers of Commerce, or Congresses, and as long as those bodies are directed by those engaged in Commerce, and only concern themselves with
Mehta, and E. W Butter.
It is a notorious fact that animals of all kinds deteriorate on a voyage, and if neg- lected particularly so. Sheep which are slaughtered in Shaughai and sheep which
A special general meeting of the members of are slaughtered in Hongkong are fed on the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce was held the same pastures and tended with the same at the Chamber Rooms, City Hall, to nominate care. But what a difference in the quality a member of the Chamber to take the place of of the meat! A difference which in some
the Hon. T. H. Whitehead in the Legislative Connoil during his absence from the colony. small measure is doubtless due to the voyage, Mr. R. M. Gray presided, and there were also but is mainly due to the neglect with which present the Hon. J. J. Keswick, Mears. N. A. the animals are treated on the trip down. Siebs, A. Haupt, H. Smith (Committee), R. C. All the wise regulations of the ordinance Wilcox (Secretary), Hon. C. P. Chater, C.M. G., above quoted and the bye-laws enacted there-Messrs F. Maitland, H. M. Bevis G. At under cannot bring up the quality of the meat, or restore the sheep to anything like the condition they were in previous to their embarkation at Shanghai. On the voyage they receive no systematic care. No one is specially appointed to tend to the sheep, unless, perhaps, it be the quartermaster, who throws them a little hay once a day and give to the more, vigorous a drink of water. The sick are left to perish. The mortality in bad weather is great and even in fine weather the sheep land in Hongkong the ghosts of their former selves. Cruelty, negligent cruelty, exists somewhere. Some- one is responsible for much misery to thous ands of dumb creatures annually. Is it the Government, the shipper or the ship owner? There is need, urgent need, for legislation in this matter. We have often wondered that there exists no Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Hongkong similar to such as exist in Shanghai and Singapore. The fact is that Hongkong is behind the times, Everybody seems too intent on money-mak- ing and has no thoughts for philanthrophy or for the care of these dumb animals that appeal to our mercy. As the Commission for the Enquiry into the Costs of Commodi- ties
is now sitting, the present
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The SECRETARY having read the notice con- vening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said:—Gentlemen, this meet-
ing, as you are no doubt aware, has been called in consequence of the receipt of a letter from His Excellency the Officer Adminstering the Government, which letter I will read to you. It is as follows:-" I have the honour to inform you that I have granted to the Hon. T. H. White- head, member of the Legislative Council, nins months' leave of absenos from the 14th inst., and that there is, therefore, a vacancy in the Council which I desire should be filled up with out delay by one who, like Mr. Whitehead, will represent the interests of the Chamber of Com- merce. I have, therefore, to request you to be good enough to call a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at an early date, and to submit to me the name of the gentleman whom the Chamber may desire to be appointed to the vasanoy." It will be necessary for some one to be proposed and neoonded. If there are more than one nominated election will be by ballot; but if only one is will be elected by a show of hands.
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matters which actually affect the continuance and development of trade, they are undoubtedly an element of good in their own sphere and, for that reason, will always command atten- tion.
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China of great progress generally though many sohemes have been hatched and some of them have made some strides forward, but, on the whole, the result is disap. pointing and not up to sanguine anticipations. In Hongkong, however, we have cause for con- gratulation in the extension of our boundaries to embrace a considerable addition of territory which will prove a most valuable aoquisition to the colony when it has had time to and the benefit of a complete system of roads and rough police protection, which it should be the object of this Government to provide as soon sa possible, so as to give oneouragement to the natives in the Hinterland to raise
|ista to establish industries under the British Flag, with the advanta enlation and withont onstoms dutie enter inte possession without one outsome of this want of of the Chinese Authoritie
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seemasongkong moment for bringing the proposed, the gentleman, with your permission, all sorts for our markets, and to
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Cattle and Sheep Trade before the notice of
The Hon. J. J. KESWICK observed-The the public, for by wise regulations of ship- letter from His Excellency Major-General owners in this matter the mortality among Gascoigne, as you have heard, renders it neces: sheep may be decreased, thus enabling mut-
ay for us to elest some one to represent the ton to be sold at a reasonable price in Hong- Chamber in the local Legislaturs in the room hong, and the quality of the fesh improved: af af, Whitehawky, wh gens home on a
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