May 18, 1908.1
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
by the market for
opium is so weak at Į purpose the servicenofen Buidbint or Taoist resent. The lea
seventy-two gailds | bọnne are called into requisition to wiscover the waɛheldɛaɛinee
ke preparations to deceased's iniquity, and the bonze, after obenting ressive His Excellancy, and they decided to and galloping on horseback around the coryne, eme to Hongkong to welcome him upon his plated in the open air for the purpose, declared arrival, gy His Excellency rendered invaluable that he had learnt by inspiration that deceased services and was greatly esteemed and respected | hd committed perjury in a land dispute, and by all the people when he was provincial tres- had thereby misappropriated a piece of sufer of Canton.
his neighbour's ground. This may or may not have been true, but the bonze bad doubtless done his best before the per-|| formance to assure himself of the fast. · Öne cannot help feeling sorry_that the poor nalives should have such simple faith ju these incanta- tions and so-callei inspirations as allows these bonses to drain them of their hard-earned savings,
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PAKHOI
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.j
RỊCH AS DEAR AS EVER.
Notwithstanding that all the steamers from aiphong and Hongkong Lara recently been bringing full cargoes of rice, this staple is as dear as ever. Importera ate doing a thriving trade, and if they continue to do so until the next harvest, which will be about the end of Juze, they will rapidly make their fortunes. “
PROPERTY-OWNERS”AND THE BUILDING BILL.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PEAK SCAVENGERA
^TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DA
ke Hongkong, 8th May:: SIR-If the responsible oficials of 'i Sanitary Board desire to kno what becomes the rubbish taken from the Peak) houses- them take a walk down the nd · lendings fi the Peak to Aberdeen, Unai Mit D | There are tons of filth damped on the rõnd- side, from which myriads of fllis vitem on to any unfortunate pedestrian who happens choose this once delightful road for an airing. I would suggest that the sanitary off:fals should make the contractor at gnon remove every scrap of rubbish so dumped to the proper tip lower down the road.Yours, sto,
--MOUNT KELLET
9th May. KROUTION OF A BLUE-BUTTON MANDARIN
AT LIMOHOW. Amilitary mandaria was decapitated at Limehow on the 29th ultimo for the crime of high treason. He was alleged to have surreptitiously supplied arms and ammunition to the rebels in Kwangsi, whom he was ordered to subdue. This unfaithful officer, Yuen Chio Cheong by name, was in charge of one of the thired oðlumbus för soppreming the rebels on the Krängal "and" "Kwangtung borders. He has Tately invariably come out with flying colours in his encounters with the rebels, while the other two columns had but indifferent successes. This, undoubtedly has aroused not a little jealousy and suspicion on the part of his brother officers, who, in their endeavours to discover the best means to obtain better resul's for themselves, questioned one of the rebels, taken prisoner in previous, engagement, as to the strength and tactics of the insurgents, when he stated, amongst other things, that the force under commander Yuen was never able to cope with the rebels as has been generally believed. The rebels only simulated defeat on the approach of Yuen's troops, who usually follow the enemy far in their camps, where some rifles and ammunition would be laid down by the troops before harking back, probably through some preconcerted arrangement be- and unobstructed internal air space shall be carried away it-would be better to have one
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tween commander Yuen and the rebel leader On the return of Yuen's force from the last expedition, however, acting on the strength of the rebel prisoner's information, a search was made, when it was found that some rifles and ammunition were fanaccounted for. This was taken to confirm the rebel prisoner's information and served as evidence that Yuen was in league with the rebels, for which crime he most deservedly lost his head. It may as well be noted that Yuen was formerly at the head of a turbulent party which gave the government au immense amount of trouble. He had been offered his pardon and appointed to a post in the army to persecute the evil-doers, as is often the case in the mobilisation and reorganisation of the Chinese army, especially in the southern provinces
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Mr. G. A. Woodcock, secretary of the Sanitary Board, announces that it is proposed to hold a meeting of property-owners in the Board Room on Monday next, 18th inst., at 3 p.m., for the urpose of considering Sections 46 and 154 of the Public Health and Building Bill (No. 1 of 1903),
The sections referred to are as follows:-.
OVERCROWDING.
46. Every domestic building and any part thereof found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every fifty square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area and fire hundred and fifty cubic feet of clear
deemed to be in an overcrowded condition :
TO: THE BZITUR÷QF THE “DAILYE The Peak, 9th BIB,--In:referanse ta the letter of. Kelett" in your issue of this › tượ to your leading article on the
·I-can fálly, dorroborate--the azapů | practions of the nonvenging coliés.
from the house. I live in is invariably along a small hillside path at the back house which runs along what I am please call the garden" and in thrown on the; hill- side just outside the boundary limits of the lot Sometimes it is thrown amongst the bushes i the garden itself. This practice is, no doubt highly beneficial in promoting a luxurian growth of hillside vegetation and undesiranie Insect life. But, if the object of it being taken away is to promote the health of the inmates of the house and the pleasantness of the surroundings, it seems open to questionsif, in any measure, it is attained. If it is im- possible to ensure that the rubbish is properly
open and recognised rubbish-heap on the grounds which could be kept under sanitary control than have these miscellaneous colles- tions all over the surrounding neighbourhood.- Yours, etc.,
HERBERT, W, LOOKER.
Provided that every domestic building being within the Europeap Reservation, within the Hill District, and any part thereof, which is occupied by more than one person to every one thousand cubic feet of clear internal space, shall be deemed to be in an overorowded "con. 'dition, with the exception of quarters occupied by servants which may be inhabited in the pro- portion of one adult to every afty square feet £JE,—All inhabitauts of Hongkong -haye floor space or superficial area and five hun- to thank you for your lending artiole in dred and fifty cubic feet of clear and unob-to-day's issue as they are also much obliged structed internal air space.
floor space or superficial area and four hundred onbic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space.
CUBICLES.
154. The following requirements shall be observed with regard to cubicles or rooms in existing buildings:
And provided further that any cúbicle in any existing domestic building which has a window or windows opening directly into the external air of a total glazed area of not less than one tonth of the foor ares of such cubicle may be A SUPPOSED CASE OF VENGEANCE. inhabited in a proportion not exceeding one About a fortnight ago, a passage boat run-adult for every thirty square feet of habitable ning between this and Adpow in the Koochow Prefecture was attacked by pirates. On board- ing the boat they killed and mutilated the captain leaving the passengers and cargo in the bost undisturbed. The reason for this strange behaviour on the part of the pirates remains a mystery; but it is surmised that the skipper of the passage boat had either refused to join the secret society to which the pirates belong, or he had resisted the payment of the blackmail so often imposed by the pirates on these bats, but most probably, it in raid, the skipper" suspected of being the party who lately gave information to the gunboats and the guard-boats regarding the whereabouts of the pirates. Whatever may be the cause, it had a deterrent effect on the boats trading on this route, so *~much so that the junks to and from Anpow are *now sailing in convoys of five or six to the detriment of trade already so much hampered through different causes.
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“A CHINANAN 8TBUCK BY LIGHTNING.- ***During a thunderstorm on the afternoon of the 4th Instant a peasant was killed by lightning western part of the town; several parts of his body were blackened and 'is curious" le ob erve the practices föflowed "by the halfies here on such a thing Lappening. They firmly believe that when an individual is killed by lightning he is supposed to have been guilty of hideous crime which must be discovered and !
ad made patent before the corpss is allowed a decent funeral. For this
** (1) No cubicle or room which is not pro- vided with a window or windows or a sky- light opening directly into the external Hair and having a total glazed area of not less than one-tenth of the Roor area of such cubicle or room, may be erected or if already erected be maintained in aby storey of any domestic building. (2.) No cubicle shall have a less floor area than sixty-four square feet, and a less length or width than seven feet.
(2.) There shall be a space between the top of every portion of the partition walls of every cubicle and the ceiling or under side of the supports of the floor above or of the roof as the case may be of not less than four feet, which space may be closed only by ire netting, lattice work or barred wood-work arranged in such a vay as to leave at least two-thirds open and
für as practicable evenly distributed. Provided that in the case of existing buildings the Governor in Coune 1 shall have power, la special cases, to modify the requirements of this section in respect to the external air upon such conditions if any as he may deem expedient,
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS:
•Hongkong, 0 h
to Mr. Hewett for the initiative, takon, stItĝis a shame and a pity that contrasters instead of being forced to carry awayɛall rubbah nés allowed to have carother ohanes of unimply throwing it behind other bushes, mert a ne
Precisely the same complaint may be made of the way in which the coolies whose duty it is to remove the sewage smo doing their: work, and it is happening all over Hongkong, from the Peak to the Prays. The sewage is either dumped into the drains or thrown over the ground. Why are not the contractors bound to send to every house two coolies, instead of one with the necessary baskets, buckets and cart to have the sewage or rubbish properly remove I to the boats?
I appeal to the ratepayers, especially those in the upper level districts and the Peak, na»ng[] as to all land owners, among whom many haye for years had to suffer great loss by reason of the growing unhealthiness of their property, to openly proteat and ask the Government to teke immédiate action in this matters, ad
Hongkong will always be subject to eat of plague and typhoid fever natil aro make to properly carry out thei
Drains are known not to be in the of repair in Hongkong, and wh thrown into them and the gro saturated with it, from ons terrace next all over Hongkong, it is no epidemics breed here so constantly.
*Whole districts hayo already theso prnotions, and I have known of alleged malaria in such districts really been osaes of typhoid.
I feel sure that if in future this matter received Sanitary, Boards would soon become The Colony ought to
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