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taining water the larvae of anopheles and calex abounding side by side in the same vessels.
This observation does not affect the practical deductions I have already drawn regarding the usual breeding-grounds of the anopheles; but, though I think it will be found that what I have above noted only occurs in the immediate vicinity of anopheles-containing ravines, it greatly intensifics what I have said as to the desirability of every one doing his best to prevent vessels containing water from standing about yards or verandahs without being fre- quently completely emptied.
With reference to these Chinese gardens at West Point, I would recommend that the Sani- tary Board should be requested to cause an officer to periodically inspect them, and treat as a nuisance any vessel containing visible larvae.
Before making this recommendation I have received the assurance of Mr. Tutcher that the vessels containing the larvae were not in a stagnant condition for any reason connected with the flower producing industry, and could equally well be kept fresh; and in a neighbour ing garden which I visited this morning in pursuance of my enquiries I found as many vessels containing water, but hardly any con- taining larvao. The owner of the garden told me that he frequently empties all dishes on ac- count of what he called the water-mosquitoes. It would therefore be no hardship to insist on these nurserymen keeping their gardens in a condition better calonlated to promote the public health.
In conclusion, I ask permission to quote a passage bearing on what I so urgently insist upon from a speech delivered so recently as 3rd October at the London School of Tropical Medicine by Sir William Macgregor, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.D., &c. He says:-
We have also to face the immense fecundity of the mosquito. Ficalbi says one mother mos- quito may in the fifth generation be the pro- genitor of twenty milliards. Howard shows that one rain barrel may contain 19,110 larvae, and that they may produce at least twelve generations in one summer. This at seventy eggs & mosquito would produce in a summer a number of mosquitoes expressed by twenty-five figures."
HONGKONG.
No 1026 held on the 23rd ult., Bro. F. D. Goddard At the regular meeting of Victoria Lodge was elected Wor. Master, Bro. 8. H. Joseph, re-elected Treasurer, and Wor. Bro. A.O'D. Gourdin re-elected Secretary.
H.M.S. Sandpiper was raised on the 22nd ult. from the position in which she has been since the typhoon of a fortnight ago. By means of pumping she was brought to the surface, and will now undergo a thorough cleaning and restoration.
Among the arrivals by the Hatching on the 23rd ult. we Mr. G. M. H. Playfair, H.B.M. Consul at Foochow, and the Rt Rev. Bishop of Victoria. The Haiching reports H.M.S. Isis, the German Hansa, and the Japanese Miyako at Amoy on the 21st, and the German
Bussard at Swatow on the 22nd inst.
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Last night the Annual Ball of the St. Andrew's Society was held at 9 o'clock in the City Hall. A very large attendance of members and guests was secured, and the proceedings passed off most successfully. In spite of the unusual economic conditions of the present year in Hongkong, the hospitality of the Society was as lavish as ever. The decorations, into which some novelties had been introduced, met with universal approval. A full notice of the Ball appears in to-day's issue of the Daily Press and will also appear in next week's issue.
At the annual meeting of the Preceptory and Priory held on Tuesday night Sir Knight G.J.B. Sayer was installed as Eminent Preceptor by Past Preceptor Sir Knight G. C. Anderson. The Eminent Preceptor then appointed and in- vested his offloors as follows:-1st Constable, Sir Knights W. Farmer; 2nd Constable, J. Lochead; Chaplain, G. A. Watkins; Treasurer, B. B. Harker Registrar. E. Ralphs; Marshal, J. J. Bryan; Captain of the Guard. J. W. Gra- ham; Almoner, E. C. Wilks; Herald, J. T. Douglas; 1st Standard Bearer, J. F. Lemm; 2nd Standard Bearer, G. H. Morris; Organist, F. W. Hall; Guard, J. Maxwell.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. :
MISCELLANEOUS.
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The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to he funds
H. M. S. Terrible has left Weihaiwel for of the Hospitals:-Ip Lou-chi $10.
Club Race No. of the Royal Hongkong Yokohama. Both officers and men will proba- Yacht Club will take place on the 2nd Decembly appreciate the change after their long stay
at Weihaiwei. bor over Course No. 17. The postponed Club The men-of-war in Amoy harbour on the Race No. 1 will be held on the 9th December 24th alt. were H.M.B. Teis and the two Ja- over Course No. 9.
panese cruisers Miyako and Takao, the latter of which arrived from Foochow on the previous day.
A fresh plague case, resulting in death, occurred during the 24 hours ending at noon on the 26th ult. This was the first case which had occurred since Saturday, the 27th October, but another was reported during the next 24 hours. This also resulted in death.
Notice is given in the Gazette that on Novem ber 28th and until the dredger Canton River is raised, the passage between her and Praya Wall west of Murray Pier will be blocked by chains, &c., and that no bosts or other vessels should attempt to pass between the sunken dredger and the shore.
In a Government Gazette Extraordinary issued on Thursday morning, Singapore is pro- claimed a "port or place at which an infec tious or contagious disease prevails." In the same Gazette is published the letter re the release from quarantine of vessels arriving in the Netherlands-Indies from Hongkong, which by the courtesy of the Dutch Consul-General we have already published in these columns.
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The National Pressmen's Club of Tokyo held meeting at the Kitagawa, Shimbashi, on the night of the 18th ult., and adopted a resolu- tion condemnatory of the atrocities committed by the Russian and French forces in North
China.
The Japanese oruiser Katsuragi, which foundered in the vicinity of Oshima, Isu, was fosted on the 7th ult, and towards the night of the same day she was safely brought to Tateyama Bay, Boshu, towed by the cruiser Musashi. She left subsequently for Yokosuks. It is stated that the Japanese Government has decided to grant subsidies of 170,000 yen and 160,000 yen respectively to the Australian and Bombay lines of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The amount of the subsidies for the other lines will probably be decided at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
A scratch race was held by the Hongkong Boat Club at 5 p.m. on Thursday over the Regatta course, a distance of three quarters of a mile. The following crews competed: No. 1.- 8. Stevens, J. Fredericks, E. Carpenter, C. White Herbst, F. (cox.) (Station No. 2); No. 2.
F. D. Bain, A. Wicke, L. Lambotte, Cing to a despatch from St. Petersburg, is try Hance, J. R. Hance (oox.) (Station No. 3); No. 3.-T. Wild, H. Kennett, G. Pappier, A. Ellis, A Somerville (oox.) (Station No. 1). The race ended in a victory for No. 3 orew, No. 1 being second.
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Mr. George P. Lammert on Thursday at noon, in his sale rooms in Duddell Street, disposed by public auction of the British steamer Glenavon, 2,986 tons gross (wrecked at Lung Tùng Island), with all her gear, bunker ooals, and cargo (about 1,000 bales of hemp). auctioneer intimated that 3,400 bales had al- ready been salved. Bidding was confined ex. clusively to Chinese dealers, and started at 8100, rising rapidly in jumps of 825, 850, and 8100 to $1,150. There the figure remained for some the steamer was knocked down to one Lee Sing time, but it finally rose to $1,200, at which price
Kai.
Fire broke out on the 27th ult. about
eight o'clock in a lodging house situated in Market Street, Hunghom. It originated in the first floor, and rapidly spread to the second and ground floors. The police, assisted by the European employees in the dock, with the dock fire engine and some Chinese small manual engines, prevented the fire from spreading to the adjoining premises. The whole building, comprising two lodging-houses and a shop, was completely gutted. The damage amounts to about $800, and is not covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a burning joss-stick setting alight the partition at the head of the stairs on the first floor of the lodging-house. No one was injured.
Seoul telegrams state that, in connection with the burning of the palace, the Corean Foreign Minister has been deprived of his office and sentenced to exile. They also report that the Belgian Consul is at Seoul in order to negotiate
■ treaty of commerce and amity with Cores.
The East Chinese Railroad Company, accord- ing to effect a loan in the United States and France through the Russo-Chinese Bank. The Frankfurter Zeitung's correspondent, who gives 855,000,000 as the amount, says that Director Rothstein is about to start for New York in the interest of the loan.
A Seoul telegram to the Osaka Mainichi states that the contract in connection with the monopoly of ginseng in Cores has been effected between the representatives of the Corean Im. perial Household Department and the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. The agreement has been drawn up, and the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha will shortly advance 200,000 yen to the Corean Government. The Daiichi Bank of Tokyo obtained the mono-
office at Seoul in two instalments. It is now poly a few years ago for 300,000 yen, which sum was forwarded through the bank's branch reported that the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha will open a branch office at Seoul in the near future.
The British telegraph steamer Sherard Osborne, the Danish boat Nordiske, and the German vessel Podbielski, are employed in lay- ing the cable between Klaochow and Shanghai. The latter vessel will take the cable from Kisochow to Shawelshan, the Osborne will then splice it and convey it in lighters to Block House island, where the Nordiske will fasten on and ran out the cable to Woosung. Here it will come on to Shanghai overhead along the existing lines and will take off at the German Post Office in Kinkiang Road. The_Glenfurg has brought out part of the cable. Later on, another cable will connect Kinochow and ' Cheloo.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
1900-1 ibe.
890,874 9,587,610
Hankow and Shanghai ...... Amoy
1899-00
Iba.
321,077 9,401,174
9,908,284 9,812,251
Information of what is supposed to be an- other act of piracy similar to that perpetrated recently on the launch Perseverance was re- ceived in Hongkong on the 24th ult.. but the details that so far have come to hand are still meagre. It was reported that the launch Kwang Sang, which left Hongkong on Saturday EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED last at seven a.m. for Tai Chan, was seen by another launch at nine o'clock going in the direction of Macso-a course altogether different from that usually steered by the Kwang Sang. The second launch reported the matter at the Customs Station near Nam Tal, and the authorities there despatched a launch to make investigations. The piracy seems to have taken place between Castle Peak and Doop Bay. Later details show that the customs launch succeeded in finding the Kwang Bang. The vessel had been abandoned by the pirates, who were supposed to have landed at a part of the coast not far from Macao. There was a European Customs officer returning to Tai Shan on board the pirated launch. The authorities at Canton and Macso made searching enquiries into the matter, but no arrests so far have been made.
Foochow Canton
M
EXPORT OF TEA. FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1900-1
1899-00
18,140,905 9,723,098
Shanghai Amoy
Foochow
... 6,808,684
2,848,007
19.756,629
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