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THE CANTON SCARE,
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
[February 9, 1903.
ng well as making less public the unloading of freshly-kill d ̈"meat, the PRESIDENT moved that th se persons keeping stalls for the sal, of tinned provisions be given six months' notice, and that s me of these stalls be utilised for the sals of fresh fruit and vegetables,
perty. During the year certificates had been Į accommodating fruit-salesmen at the Queen's grasted for 818 new houses and I addition--an †† Road entrance, for the convenience of Europeans excess of 102 over the unmber issued last year. The work of laying out the new plague cemetery at Cheung Sha Wan was proceeded with, and the majority of bodies dead of plagne during the year had been buried ther. In. Caroline Hai Cemetery 10 new terraces were fo med.
The report was adopted, on the motion of the PRESIDENT, Seconded by the Hon, W. CHATHAM
THE BRIDGES OF HOUSES.
An application was considered from Messrs. Derison, Ram and Gibbs, architects, engineers, and surveyors, for exemption from reducing the bridges of six houses on Inland Lot No. 578 to a width of 3 feet 6 inches, on the gronuds that | (1) the alteration would involve a change in the positions of the doors at eich end of the bridges, and (2) that the encroachment beyond the prescribed width of 3 inches was so small as not materially to affect the distribution of air
On the motion of the PRESIDENT, Seconde l
by Mr. BADELEY, exemption was granted
A SIMILAR APPLICATION.
With ref renes to the bridges in the back- yards of thr e houses on Hunghom Inland Lots Nos. 15, 19%, and 197, where it was stipulated | by the Board, in ro ommending exemption from providing the open spaces required by the Ordi-. nauce, that the ridges should be reduced from
feet 4 inches to 2 feet wide, Mossrs. Leigh & Orauge, civil engineers and architects, stated bridges in question had been reduced to 3 feet. and requested that, as they were built of con- crete and iron and could not be further reduc›d, permision be granted for this width instead of the 2 feet originally granted.
iu a letter to the Board that the width of the
It will be seen from our Canton corres- pondent's letter of the 20th ultimo that the anticipations of trouble in that city about the time of the Chinese New Year, which obtained considerable currency here, though they were not justified by the event, at least succeeded in creating no little panic in Canton itself. The seizure of what our correspondent describes as some few cases of arms and ammunition is not in itself a very notable fact. It is well known that the smuggling of arms into the Kwang provinces is a chronic occurrence; were the native officials more honest, and more vigi- lant they would certainly stop the entry of far more arms. We constantly here of the rebels," alias bandits and pirates, being armed with the most modern weapous, and though some proportion of these no doubt come over the southern border, many must inevitably come from other sources. It is not, however, to be wonderid at that the discovering of arms masquerading as "biscuits" should, on the top of the rum- ours provalent in Canton and hère, seriously alarm the nervous Cantonese officials and merchants. Canton is prone to panic, and we need not therefore marvel at the maguitude of the rumour, which correspondent reports, of the intended assassination of the Chinese officials, followed
Hou. Dr. CLARK explained the conditions by a massacro Ou the Shameen. It is
under which exemption from providing open gratifying to note that the authorities at
that the architects to asked to furnish an ex- Canton took immediate steps to guard there was granted, and Mr. OSBORNE moved approach to the foreign settlement, for itplanation as to why these conditions bad not shows that they are aivake to their ben complied with. responsibilities—if they really suspect any cause for alarm. Were the Shameen to be seriously threatened, of course, a few hundred braves along the Canal Road would be of little use; but fortunately the European residents do not rely on such aid. No hint of any actual trouble reaches us up to the time of writing, and we trust that our neighbours passed through the New Year festivities in the usual state of quiet and rejoicing. Cantou is a. pauių centre, but the evidence of those who have traversed the country between that city and our own borders on the mainland during the past few days is that all is perfectly peaceful. It is possible that the Chinese authorities are only making use of easily raised fears to gain some private end, and in this connection we would point to what we Saturday, with regard to the men arrested here last week,
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HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
A meeting of the Board was held on the 5th inst, in the Board Rom. Present: -Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer (president); Hon. Dr. F. W. Clark, Medica! Officer of Health; Hon. W. Chatham, Director of Public Works; Mr. F. J. Badeley, Captain Superintendent of Police; Mr. E. Osborus, Mr. C. Mol. Messer, Acting Registrar-General; Mr. Lau Chu Pak; and Mr. G. A. Woo:lenok (secretary).
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Hou. W. CHATHAM seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
MORTALITY STATISTICS. During the week ended 10th January the -death-rate in the Colony was 18.3 per 1,000 per annum, against 26.2 in the previous week and 17.1 during the corresponding period last year.
LIMEWASHING RETURN.
During the fortnight ended 31st January 30 houses on! of a total of 2,006 in the Eastern district were limewashed.
RATS CAUGHT.
From 5th January to 2nd February 15,2 7 rats were caught in Victoria and Kowloon, and of this unmber 120 were infected.
RATE AND PLAGUE.
The PRESIDENT moved that the Board obtain
authority to insert in the local paper advertise- ments rewinding house-owners that rat-traps and bird-lime could be obtaine ! from the Sere. tary, on application. It was highly desirable at this season of the year to destroy as many rats as possible and to fill up the rat-runs with concrets. From the rat return it was evident that the percentage of infect d rats had in oreased, and it was worthy of note that this should have occurred now seeing that six cases of plague had been reported within the past two days. The President thought it was not generally known that rat-traps could be got
frea of cost by applying to the Sanitary Board, and it was well that public attentio shoull be drawn to the fact
Hou. Dr. CLARK seconded the motion which was carried.
MARKET BTALL WANTED.
The Board went into committee to consi·ler an application from Mr. G. W. Gegg, manager of the Horse Repository. Causeway Bay, for a stall in the Central Market for the supply and sale of wilk.
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The letter embodying the application wàs addressed
C. Mcl. Messer, Acting Registrar-General, who, in passing it to the Secretary of the Board, miunted that he did not recommend the granting of the application on the grond that there was no room in the market,
SANITARY Surveyor's report. The annual report of Mr. J. Bryan, sanitary The report surveyor, was laid on the table. showed that during the year 1902 plans had been dep sited sud passed for the drainage of 492 hʊnses, and out of 1,453 such plaus in haud during the year, 713 were carried forward to 1908. Of notices for repairs or additions to drainage arrangements 525 out of a total of 619 had been completed, leaving 94 to be carried forward. The drains and sinitary fittings of 63 buildings had been tested and reported on, and 22,78 houses visited by the draiuage
After a short discussion as to the present inspector and overseer, with the result that
wer, discovered, distribution of the stalls in the Central Market, 2,026 drainage nuisano:a The drainage inspector had also cleansep during which the idea was mooted of transfer- 3,952 oboked drain-traps on private pro-ring the meat-stalls to the Praya end and
Mr. F. G-ORNE minuted :—“ "Tara out the tinued provision dealers. A milkman has much more right to be in the market than they."
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Mr. Messer secɔnded, and the m tion was carried.
The PRESIDENT—It is necessary to ecnsider this application for a stall for the sale of milk? Hon. W. Chatham moved that it be refused. Mr. MESSER seconded.
Mr OSBORNE-Can they sell the milk outside?
Hou Dr. CLARK-Yes.
Mr. MESSER--It is only a matter of paying higher rent,
The motion was carried.
FUMIGATION OF HOU878. Correspondenca was laid on he tablo relative to the fumigati n of the basements, etc., of the näuses in Kennedy Road and Macdonnell Road. This included letters from the occupants. some of whom were willing and others unwill- ing that the proposed fumigation should be carried out.
This was all the public Lusiness.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
At a mouthly meeting of the Committee of the Hongkong Gener 4 Chamber of C mnieres held in the Chamber Rom, City Hall,' on Tuesd y. 2th January, at 347 pm. Pre- sent:-Hon. C. S. Sharp (Chairman). Mr. W. Ponte (Vice-Chairman), Hou-C. W. Dick- sou. Messrs. C. Michelan, N. A. Siebs, J. R. M. Smith, R. Chatterton Wilcox, Hon. R. Shewau (cz-officio), and A. R. Lowe (Secretary).
A. INUTES,
The minutes of the monthly meeting of the Committee held on the 16th December and also of the special meeting of the Committee held on 23d ultimo were rezd and confirmed.
STURM WARNING1, ·
The SECRETARY reported that, in accordnuca with the decision made at the last monthly meeting, the report of the sub-committee was forwarded to the Government and the following correspondence on the subject was read:-
Hongkong General Chamber of Co.umerce,
Hongkong, 13th January, 1903. STR.-I am directed to reply to your letter of the 27th September last, intiating that, should this Chamber eutert in the request of the shipmasters to form a committee to report on the question of storm warnings issued by the Hongkong Observatory, His Excellency the Govern. r would consider very carefully the statements and suggestions laid before the Committee with every anxiety to give the fullest information to all these persons for whose safety and that of their ships the Observatory was primari y established, and to inform you, for the information of His Excellency, that the Committee decided to gather the opinious of the whole of the shipping community of this port.
With this end in view, a circolar latter, of which a copy is enclosed, was, on the 13th Octo- be: last, addressed to all the shipping firms and agencies in the Colony, drawing their attention to the correspondence already published in the 1-cal Press on this subject aud asking them to ba good enough to oblain and forward to this Chimber the views of the shipmasters in their employ as to the methods they would consider best suited to their requ roments in this respect.
Aumerous replies showing the great interest taken by the shipmasters in this matter having been received in answer to this request, the Committee appointed representatives from the shipping departments of the P. & O. 8. N. Co.. Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield & Swire, and Melchers & Co., to examina and report on the opinions and suggestions on- tained in the correspondence.
Their report copy also enclosed herein, was unanimously adopted by the Committee of the Chamber, and it was decided that the recone
and meudati,ns sugges ions puade therein should be forwarded to the Government with a view to instructions being given. for their ultimate adoption by the Hongkong Observatory.
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