February 23, 1903.Į
years was too long. He moved the deletion of the words during the preceding five years.”
This was agreed to.
When the various clauses requiring adjust. ment had been dealt with,
The Council resumed.
The ATTORSBY-GONERAL-I beg, sir, to move the third reading of the Bill. I think there is no necessity for the Bill to be any longer on the Council table. It has received most careful consideration at the hands of hon, mem- bers and has incurred, as it very properly should, a searching enquiry by persons quite competent and able to deal with the matter. I think that the Council may congratulate itself on haring produced a B.ll that will be of great bauefit to the community at large.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded the motion and it was unanimously agreed to.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR-[ must
say I think the community Owe a dobt of gratitude to hou menibers for so carefully considering this Bill, and I can only say, so far as I am concerned, I was very auxious to meet the views of the commanity in the matter as far as possible, and I think that this Bill will be of enormous service to the town and the community. (Applause.)
The Council adjourned sine die.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held immediately afterwards, the Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G.) presidia g.
NEW POLICE LAUNCH.
The Governor recommended the Council to re-vote the sum of $15,000 unexpended in 1992, and to vote an additional sum of $250, making a total of $15,250, for payment for the new police steam launch just completed.
The CHAIRMAN said the launch was not com. plated last year and the vote was then not necessary.
The recommendation was appr.ved.
PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $21,970 for public works extraor-. dinary, made up as follows:- Governor's peak residence Police Station at Tai O
New shed, sheep and swine depot... Cattle crematorium and refuse des
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Fence round plague hospital Erection of derrick on new site, Gap
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Typhoon and rainstorm damage... Widening Conduit Road
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300
670
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
14th inst.
RATS CAUGHT
taken to rid the district of a danger threaten- | of these tenement houses, a total of 643 were ing the public health, stated that Dr. Harston, limewashed during the fortnight ended on the who had drawn up a report on the subject at Mr. Ho Tung's request, was of opinion that the main contributing factors in rendering the honses in ques ion unhealthy were a marsh at the rear of the Bikh temple and a nullah to the south of the building, the close proximity of such breeding-places leading to the presence of mosquitoes in considerable numbers.
The following minutes by members were attached to the papers:--
Mr. Lan Chủ Puk- I submit that the Board should recommend to Government that every locality where malaria is prevalent should be attended to at once.".
Mr. Fung Wa Chun: - -"It is very important that all places where malaria exists should he properly attended to."
The PRESIDENT moved that the letter and a minute by the Medical Officer of Health be forwarded to the Government, with a recom- mendation advising the training of the bed of the nullah and the cutting down of the brush- wood in the vicinity.
Colonel Webb seconded. Mr. FUNG WA CHUN asked that tho motion include the training of two streams in Richmond Road which he said were the cause of malarial fever in the neighbourhood.
This was agreed to, and the motion was adopted.
ERECTION OF A PUBLIC LATRINE,
A minute by the Hon. Dr. Clark recommend. ed the erection of a public latrine at Tai Hang Village, Cansoway Bay.
Hon. Dr. CLARK made the necessary motion which was seconded by the PRESIDENT and carried.
BRIDJES IN BACKYARDS OF HOUSES.
Further correspond nce WAX submitted relative to the bridges in the backyards of three houses on Hungbom Inland Lots 195, 195, and 197. When the Board dealt with the matter at its last meeting, the fact was mentioned that in recommending exemption from providing the open spaces required by the Ordinance the Board stipulated that the bridges should be reduced to a width of two feet, Messrs. Leigh & Orango, civil engineers and architects, replied to this stipulation by stating that the width of the bridges had been reduced to three feet, and 3,00 requesting that, as they were built of concrete 1,490 and iron and could not be further reduced
permission be granted for this width instead of 3,500 that of two feet laid down by the Board. The 1980-circumstances having been then explained by the 800 Hor. Dr. Clark, it was decided that the architects should be asked to furnish an explanation as to why the conditions of exemption from providing open spaces by reducing the bridges to a width of two feet had not been complied with. Messrs. Leigh & Orange now stated that the bridges had been built 3 feet 6 inches wide-the usual width, it was added parenthetically-by a mistake on the part of the contractor in not following the plan.”
$21,970 Items 1, 2, 4 and 5 being re-votes from un- expended balances for these services for 1902; itom 3 being a re-vote of $380.93 plus $280.07 additional sum required; and items 6, 7 and 8 being to meet unforeseen expenditure.
Hon, Mr. SHRP asked if item No. 7 (typhoon and rainstorm damage) referred to buildings, boats, or what?
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORK replied that it referred to various things, all of which were combined in one general vota,
The recommendation was approved. This was all the business.
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
A meeting of the Board was held on the 19th inst, in the Board Room. Present:-Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Ofoor (president); Hon. Dr. F. W. Clark, Medical Officer of Health; Hon, W. Chatham, Director of Public Works; Col. Webb, R.A.M.C.; Mr. E. Osborne, Mr. C. McI. Messer, Acting Registrar General; Mr. Fang Wa Chan; Mr. Lan Chu Pak; and Mr. G. A. Woodcock (secretary).
REPORTS.
The annual reports for 1901 of the Medical Officer of Health, the Sauitary Surveyor, and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon were submit- ted and adopted.
WAT MALARIA AT MORRISON HILL.
Mr. Ho Tung addressed a letter to the Board draw.ng attention to complaints by his tenants as to the prevalence of malarial fever of a malignant type in the neighbourhood of Morri- son Hill Gap, Happy Valley. The letter, which asked that the necessary steps should be
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The PRESIDENT-I think this matter might be allowed to remain as it is; we cannot very well advise them to take down t'e bridges now. Hon. W CHATHAM-I think they ought to be warned that if ou a future occasion anything of this sort happens they will be required to take them down and reconstruct them accord- ing to the Board's requirements.
Mr. USBORNE-I agree with the Director of Fublic Works. I think a letter ought to be written to the architects saying that when the Board makes a concession it is at least expected that the conditions laid down by the Beard shall be observed by both contractor and architects, and that this case must not be con- sidered a precedent for any futuro cases in this connection.
This was agreed to.
MORTALITY STATISTICS.
The mortality statistics of the Colony for the week ended 24th January showed the death-rate per 1,000 per annum to bɔ 12.5, against 17.1 the previous week and 17.5 during the corres- ponding period last year.
PUBLIC WATER KUPI LI* 8.
In the City of Victoria' during the week ended on the 16th inst., 1,415 rats (58 infected). were caught, and iu Kowloon 2,231 (16 infected) fell into the bands of the rat ostobers.
CHOLERA AT MANÍLÁ,
The outbreak of cholera at Manila having ceased, the Hon. Dr. Clark in a minutė -res commended the advising of the Government to withdraw the proclamation declaring the port infected.
The motion for advising the Government to withdraw the proclamation was made by the Hov. Dr. CLARK, seconded by Mr. OsnORNE and carried unanimously.
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This was all the public business.
REV. DR. PENTECOST IN HONGKONG.
· As the san cometh down from heaven, and reinrngth not thither but wateroth the earth and causeth it to bud and bring forth that there may be seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so shall My Word be that proceedeth out of my month. It shall not return to the void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it."
Reports by Mr. F. Browne of the analyres of the public water supplies for the month of January showed the water in all cases to be of excellent quality,
LIMEWASHING BETURN.
This was the text (from 55th Isnish) takon by the Rev. Dr. Gerge F. Pontecost when bé preached on the 15th inst. in the Union Church as a commencement of his evangelistic campaign in Hongkong. The church was filled. In bo giuning bis sermon Dr. Pentecost said there
was a confidence and assurancs in the Word of God that were found in no other literature. The difference between all speculative roligions and the religion of Jesus Christ or of revelation was that in all the speculative or philosophic religions of the earth, and there are many, you constantly detected a halting, struggling, doubtful, questioning feeling of the human heart and intellect after something which they had not positively grasped. Philosophy was the effort of the human mind to reach from out of itself and the earth upwards to heaven after the truth; but revelation was not a philosophy or a speculation. It was the communication of the truth put down from God to man. This portion of the Bible from which the text was taken con- taiced many precious promises Now, the world was sceptical as to these promises, sceptical as to the practical purposes of the Gospel. What shall I do to be saved? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Gospel, and thou shall be saved; be that believeth not shall be damned. Practically the whole mystery of the Gospel was contained in that one fruitful sentence. But man; was sceptical as to these. He said "I do not believe that God will save a sinner just for turning to Jesus Christ nor will 1 believe that He will damn a sinner for not turning to Christ." On the one hand he rejected the Gospel because it was too simple and on the other because it was too severe. A very disi tinguished Unitarian clergyman in America some years ago Was Laked the difference between the Unitarians and the Universals, and he said “Well, there are some people who think there is no difference, but there is; an Unitarian believes that he is too good, to be damned, an Universal believes that God is too good to damn him." Now, there was sometimes a tendency to take outs little portion of the Scriptures, apart from its connection, and make a shibboleth of vitše Such was the case concerning the words of the text where God said. “My. Wordahall not return to Me void." The Gospel preached for 2,000 years now, yet not ope quarter of the world were conv Gospel had been preached in Hongkon years and ever it
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Multitudes that even came to char, converted. The trouble was that teo narrow in our exegesis-of-this- Scripture. Jesus Christ as He sat Jerusalem said to his disciples, "* No of it shall be left que upon the othe shall be scattered."Nov". humourist Mark Twain sald that
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