the qu
of
Mr. Sharp/pointed out that the Ordinance called both the sides a frontage. and therefore that obligations imposed only on the rear of houses did not apply.
The Puisne Judge said there was no such thing as a house with two frontages under 50 feet referred to in 55b; if under 50 feet it came under Section 55a.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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[July 3, 1902.
HONGKONG CHESS CLUB.
The games in the Hongkong-Singapore cable match have progresssed to the following points:-
ALLGAIER-THOROLD GAMBIT.
White.
IP KA 2 P KB4
3 Kt K B3 4P KR 4 5 Kt Kt5 G Kt t. P 7 P-Q4 8 Pt. P 9B Beh
10 Bt. P ch 11 Castles 12 P KP +
13 Kt B3 14 P
B5
K2
B4
13 K 16 K 17 4
R3 KPK J
19 P-B6 20 Kt K 4
Black.
RUY LOPEZ. White.
Black,
P-K 4 1 P-K4 Pt. P
2 Kt KB 3
P-K 4 Kt-QB3 Kt-B 3
P-K Kt + 3 B-Kt 5
P -K+3 P- KR3 K t. Kt P-B6 B--K 2
P Q
4 Castles
5 Kt t. P
6 P-Q4
7 Pt. B.
8 Kt-BJ 9 B-K 2
K Kt 2/10 P-K 04 P -KtG 11 P-K 5 Kt KB3 12 Kt -Q 5 P KR 13 B-Q3
Kt Kt5 Bt. RP
Kt-B 7 Q-Kt 4 Kt B3
14 B B4
15 Q-R 5
16 B-Q-2
17 Kt-K 3 18 B-Q3
B-B 4 Ktt. Kt Q-K 2 Qt. P Castles Q-K 2 Kt R3 Kt - K sq t}-}st} PB 4
·K--R sq
K+ -Q5 P-B3 P--Q4
Q K 2 Pt. P
K-Kt 19 P- B 4 Ktt. KP 20 Ktt. P The gambit tournament at the local chess club, which has been neglected owing to the interest taken in the cable match, has to be completed by the end of this month, when At present unplayed games will be forfeited. Messrs. Sergeant and de Souza lead, both being undefeated.
SARTOR RESARTUS.
The Wnchang correspondent of the N-C Daily News wrote on the 17th June
We have had an amusing incident in our Those city annals over a question of cloth 8. who have seen the assortment of colours that. adorn the retinue of an official might think that it would be impossible to think of any. thing that a Chinese servant would object to wear.
As far as coa's are concerned. I do not know where a line could be drawn; but in
14 The Chief Justice r marked that the inten-, that every existing domestic building must be tion of the Ordinance was to better supervise provided by the owner with an open space in sanitation including the ventilation of houses the rear by opening out on each floor half of in Hongkong. Up till 1889 there was no the tire spa e intervening between the proper supervision of buildings and plans, principal reci or rooms and the main wall and a great number of houses covered pretty at the back of such building as well as a corre narly the whole piece of ground that sponding portion of roof unless snch build-¦ (Singapore). (Hongkong), (Hongkong). (Singapore).
ап was already provided with opan. belonged to the landlord, who naturally wanted to get the best rent he could and put on his unobstructed backyard of at least 50 square feet land as many buildings as the law would allow in area; and the building must be provided on him. The law did not necessarily approve every floor with a window of at least 10 square of it but there Tas no Act passed to feet of superficial area opening into such open forbid it. If there had been large open spaces space. His Lordship understood the argument left it would not have matered, but every of the learned counsel to be that inasuinchi as landlord did the same and the result was there the street was at the back of this house as well was no ventilation except by the public streets. as at the front of it, there was sufficient The new law dealt tenderly with them and said | ventilation and air in the house to render it un- "We must begin with existing domestic build-necessary to have this opening required by the ings and have a bit of the roof removed; we Ordinaner. All his Lordship could say was must have a piece of that man's land uncovered that he did not agree with the argument of the to the sky and air, so that the light and sun-counsel upou that point. He could only say shine may come in; therefore we must have half that it might have been an argument which of the roof at the back taken off so as to might have been addressed to the Legislature | open out, on each floor, one half of the entire asking them to make a second exception when space intervening between the principal room they passed that section which he l`d referred or rooms and the main wall, at the back to that these provisions as to opening out of the building." The question is: if there | should not be required where there was an open. happens to be street at the back as unobstructed, backyard of at least 50 square well as in front of the building, has feet, or if there was a street both back and front, this opening got to be provided by the But they were not there to decide whether it owner ? and the real meaning the was reasonable that such a provision should be Sections is that the owner must uncover his made. If he were asked, he thought it would be property because it is too far covered up. most desirable to get a portion of these exist- Under Section 55b they met the problem bying buildings, where they covered nearly the making it still more onerons on the man because whole ground, unroofed so that some little he might then have to leave his open space in portion of sunlight and ventilation could fil. the middle of his building, and two of them in trate down through the well, which had the stead of one. If under 50 feet it did not apply, name given it in the Ordinance of the back; stion then was that he had not got yard. If a one-storeyed building, a backyard the extra burden of two open spaces, but he had was a very good thing. When it was a twa still to provide one open space just as if zection storeyed building, the reutilation by te back 55b did not exist.¿
yard was not so effective. When the wild
than that the open space ing was
well. You could see degenerated into a the sky if you looked up from below, or you trousers the boundary is clearly marked-the could look down the well from the top. Chinese "Tommy" or "Bobby" leaves his but it was little good so far as light and ventila-wife in undisputed possession of red trousers. tion went. Fatit was better than othing. Were Somebody who has something to do with our Who they, the judges, to introducé a second ex-
new police force overlooked that fact. ception with regard to the requirends of
that somebody is I do not know; but a glance For his
at the costume that has been devised for our The Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, the law as stated in Section 55a7 said he did not think it was necessary to call part, he said they had no power to introduce upon the Attorney-General to reply. This was such an exception. If it was proper to be an appeal from the decision of the Magistrate-introduced it must be done by the Legis'ature an appeal purporting to be both on fact and law. The only fact that appeared to be in dispute was as to whether this house at 26, McGregor The Puisne Judge' concurred. Street had a rear at all. It was suggested Mr. Sharp said that was a case where that it had two fronts, because there were their Lordships might take the question two streets running-one on what would of cost into re-consideration. ardinarily be called the back and the other on what would ordinarily be called the front Now it was admitted by the solicitor who appeared for the appellant before the Magistrate, it was, as appeared by the Magis trate's notes, expressly admitted, that the rear of this house was upon Albany Street; and indeed he did not see that the solicitor was in the slightest degree to blame, in the interests of his client, in making that admission, because one had only to look at the plan to see it was perfectly right to make such an admission. Any one who know Chinese houses knew that the kitchen was usually in the rear of a Chinese house. When they looked at the plan they saw the kitchen in the rear, and there could be no doubt that the proper front was in McGregor Street. It was No. 26, McGregor Street and was not numbered as being in Albany Efreet. That being so, it was quite clear that, as the only fact disputed now was whether there was a rear or back to the house at all and as it had been admitted very properly by Mr. Looker before the Magistrate that the rear of the house was in Albany Street, it had a rear; and therefore, the only question that was in dispute as to the facts being settled by the admission it was quite clear that the appeal, as far as the facts went, must be dismissed and that there was no occasion for the Court to grant a re-hearing upon the facts. Coming to the point of law, that was stated in a somewhat elaborate special case, but, wheu ole got to the kernel of that case, one saw it was really a very simple matter that the Court had to decide. To understand that matter of law it was necessary to read Section 55a of the Public Health Act No. 13 of 1901. It said
Consequently the appeal upon the law must be dismissed with costs.
police would quite suffice to clear the English chief of having any say in the matter. The dress seems to have been devised on the same eas that have ruled Chinese watchmen and caused them to warn any thieves to run by the use of a clapper or gong. What the noise has done at night time a brilliant combination of red and green and white and black and blue seems to have been hit upon to do by day. The Chief Justice replied that the only The hat is adorned with a tawdry bit of gilt like matter he felt some difficulty about was that the
one sees on a gingerbread at home, and is topp- Magistrate should have imposed a penalty of ulyed with a nob of blue wool work like a baby's $1 in this case. The maximum fine was 50, hat that one sees out here. The coat is of red and So for each day the offence continued. bunting edged with green, and bearing a plain If the question had come to this Court for white square of calico, some seven or eight decision he would have considerably increased inches broad with the policeman's number in that fine. They were not called upon to do that unadorned black. The trousers are, or rather in this instance, but certainly it was clearly a case where costs should be given.
Mr. Sharp explained that the reason he had asked the Court to re-consider their decision costs was that since the with regard to hearing of the case at the Magistracy the Sanitary Board, at whose instance these pro- ceedings were taken, had issued a certificate that the new identically similar houses in the row complied with the requirements of the Ordinance as to open spaces.
The Chief Justice said that perhaps these proceedings were taken by the appellants to frighten those who had to giant or withhold certificates.
Mr. Sharp was proceeding to state further what had been the action of the Board before the bearing of the ca-o, when
The Chief Justice (interposing) said he hoped the Board would read the decision just given and see that the law was carried out fully and he hoped the Magistrate would give a heavier fine thần ȘI for the next offence.
The Court afterwards adjourned.
The captain and officers of H.M.S. Talbot were to have given a dance at Kobe on the 27th ult., but postponed it on account of the King's illness.
were,
of plain red bunting. The effect on the police of the first sight of the new garments was marked. At first it seemed that there would be a strike. One thing however bas saved us from this calamity. The colour is not fast. On the 1st of the 5th month when the new garments were donned, not one per cent, of the trousers matched the coats in colour. Some had washed the offending garments in purely Chinese style, others had tried Sunlight," yet others had boiled their breeks with soda. result was a study in reds step by step, from the one or two unwashed full bright bunting red to the palest blushing khaki.
The
A Mr. Darmapala, who is on a visit to Japan in connection with a scheme of Buddhist revival, has beeu arranging for a yearly pilgrimage of
Japanese to Buddhagaya in India, from a company called the Buddhagaya Saneik-ko, consisting of 500 members, 50 of whom will be chosen by lot to make the journey. Mem. bership is not limited to religious folk. Special arrangements as to passage are said tɔ have been made with the Nippon Yuzen Kaisha. It is alto- gether a novel programme, says the Japan Mail, and as each member will not have to put more than 10 yen annually, the thing will probably work well.
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