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Debember 14, 1903.]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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THE MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
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His Excellency
an examination. A depot tax of 50 cents per | steamer wharf, is well under way; foundations head on re-export cattle is levied. Beautiful | have been laid and walls commenced. airy accommodation-the Inspectors boast that be a three-storey building covering much the they have never seen anything in England to same ground as the present Harbour Office in equal it-is provided for the beasts. There are
The lighthouse tender Stapley steamed to Des Voeux Road does. The old building, by the Blake Pier yesterday afternoon and took on no unpleasant odours in the sheds; they are way, will soon have its harbour view shut off by board, at two o'clock, the Peak and Victoria cleaned out twice a day. In the centre is s new houses. For that reason alone, one would | branch of brick water-tank, always running. The water think that a shift of quarters to the reclamation League.
the Ministering Children's is not taken from the Hongkong community would be necessary.
H.E. and Mrs. May, a A watch-tower and flag- ber supply; it is taken from a private reservoir staff will adorn the N.W. corner of the new
of ladies, and some 70 children made up at Pokfulum. There are separate pipes harbour office; the building is to be of brick | Stanley cast off her moorings and steamed over the party. All on board, the laid down from another reservoir for the and granite. On the ground floor, smigrants to Kowloon Police Pier. inspectors' private use. New sheds are
The Kowloon branch will be examined, under the Emigrant Ordinance. of the Leagu, consisting of Mrs Birdwood being erected to meet the increased demand for The examination of emigrauts is not con- housing cattle.
and some two dozen children, were waiting There is accommodation for a ducted from a health point of view, but to see for her. couple of thousand head.
Some distance away
Again under way, a course that the men are leaving the Colony as free steered for Mataakok. On landing, the party is an isolation shed. A cattle infirmary, also, men, and not, to
use their is one of the features. There is no disease on
own language, went to the mission school, kept by Miss being exported as pigs." There will also be a Bishop and another lady, for girls picked up the slaughter-house premises at the present boarding officers' room, a boat-honse, the Import from the street. time. Cattle are very often fed there for and Export Office, the Junk Office, and Marine
Miss Bishop took them around the school; in the school-room the from seven to ten days before slaughtered; Surveyors' Office. On the first floor will be sometimes they are killed off immediately after
Chinese girls sang "God Save the King," after- situated the Harbour Master's office, in the being found fit. On cattle arriving at the N.W. corner; next to this comes the ssistant formance of musical drill.
wards entertaining the company with a per- depot, they are examined by C.V.S. and, if Harbour Master's office; while, in the N.E. made a speech in presenting the school with found in good condition, stamped with his chop corner, is to be the Board of Trade ex- $50 of the Lagus's funds. Afterwards the they are subsequently, abortly before slaughter, amination room. The bick part of the first examined by one of the inspectors and marked floor will be atilised as the Entrance and
League went to the school for blind children, with the broad arrow.
situated some 15 minutes walk distant. Here Cattle re-exported are Clearance Office and Correspondence Room, and they saw the blind girls knitting and reading by mostly shipped to Manila by the China & the Marine Court Room. Quarters for married fingering specially prepared books; Manila steamers Rubi and Zafiro, and the Toyo | boatman, and for the constable, will also be on Kisen Kaisha's Rosetta-maru and Rohilla-maru. the first floor. Fire-proof record rooms are to
of the girls were writing with instruments not unlike awls. The visitors were Regarding the local supply, the cattle-dealer be put on the ground and first floors
also The shown knitting work done by the inmates, selle daily to the butchers; the condemned" senior boarding officer will hare quarters, with cattle are then driven to an enclosure adjoining a private entrance, on the second floor. Our After
who, by the way, sang a song in Chinese, the cattle slaughter-room. They are poleaxed,new Harbour Office will be more spacious than returned in the Stanley over the same course as bidding good-bye, the League etc., at night time. Buffaloes, having very hard the present two-story affair. It is a much they had come. skulls, are hot. The cattle slaughter-room needed improvement. is provided with over-head hook trollies leading from the slaughter room to the cooling chamber the unprogressive Chinee, however, prefers his old-fashioned bamboo to this labour-saving apparatus it is left unused. Every joint of meat is marked with the Government chop before it leaves the premises, A heavy fine would be levied upon a man offering for sale meat not so marked. Cattle weighing from 5 to 600lbs fetch about $40 to $45 apiece: about an average of 60 are killed per day.
SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE.
Sheep and goats are brought down from Shanghai in large shipments; pigs come in great quintities from Pakhoi aud Hoihow. Many die on the voyage during heavy weather. Que instance in which a whole shipment of swine died is memorable. There is berthing accom- modation for from 4 to 5,000 sheep, and 10,000 pigs at the depot. The pigs are imported by pork-dealers who keep salesmen in the slaughter house to sell to butchers of the different markets. When sold, the pigs are brought to the slaughter- house, where they remain till midnight, when they are again inspected before having their throats cat. Afterwards, they are scalded, scraped, and dressed. Each market has a separate 'door leading into the slaughtering room; the slaughtering is done by Govern ment contractors. There is a scarcity of pork just now, some of the dealers having had a bad season and gone out of business. average the pigs weigh from 100 to 10lbs; some of them are so fat that they have to be carried to the slaughterhouse. A sheep, weigh- ing from 70 to 80lbs. would fetch about $12; pork is sold by the catty. About 15 sheep and 460 pigs are killed per day.
On an
Beef and mutton, of course, are the chief meat supply for Europeans; goat's flesh-about 100 goats aweek-is used by the native regiments; pork is mainly used by Chinese.
NEW HARBOUR OFFICE,
A new Harbour Office for Hongkong is now in course of construction. It will be remem- bered that Sir Wiliam Meigh Goodma", our Chief Justice, when welcoming Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, the new Attorney-General, on his first appearance at the Hongkong Supreme Court, urged him to use all influence possible in hastening work in connection with the new Law Courts. For similar reasons as those expressed by Sir William Goodman in relation to the new Courts, speed in con. structing the new Harbour Office should be called for. The new building, situated on the water-front a little to the east of the Canton
THE CHARITY BAZAAR.
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In the City Hall on the 9th inst. was held a bazaar in aid of Chinese orphans now be- ing supported and educated aader the auspices of the Asile de la Sainte Enfance. The bazaar was informally opened at 2 p.m. when the girls of the Asile paraded round the room in which the work, all of which was done by themselves, was about to be sold. By 3 p m. the spacious room upstairs in which the bazar was held was crowded, and a brisk sale of the dainty goods offered immediately commenced. Shortly after 3 p.m. Mrs. May, under whose patronage the bazaar was held, arrived. accompanied by Mr. Ponsonby, Private Serretary to H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, who was himself unavoidably prevented from being present. The work displayed was of excellent merit, and reflected the greatest credit both on the workers themselves, teachers, the Sisters of the Asile. A large number of Chinese ladies were present, and freely patronised the stalls, all of which were most tastefully arranged by the stall-holders themselves. The following were among the stall-holders: (1) Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Birdwood, and Miss Denton; (2) Mrs. Wylly, Miss Wylly, and Miss Berkeley. (3) Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Leigh ; (4) Mrs. Dinby, Miss Danby. and Miss Hunter; (5) Mrs. Goetz, Mrs. Siebs, and Miss Siebs; (6) Mrs Vou de Heyde, Mrs, Fitz Williams, and Mrs. Drew; (7) Mrs. Maitland and Mrs. Gordon; (8) Mrs. Hancock. Mrs. Tomes, and Mrs. Saunders; (9) Mrs. Harker, Miss Harker, Madame Marty, Mrs. Berindoague, Siguora Volpicelli, Mrs. Ehmer, and Mrs. Midhart; (10) Mrs. Hall Wright, Mrs. Douglas tory, Mrs. White, Mrs More, and Mrs. Masters; (11) Mrs. Grimble, Mrs. Preston, and Mrs. Bateso. Wright; (2) Mrs. Laing, Mrs. Atkinson, and Miss Blair; (13) Mre. Hawkesley. Mrs. Stedman, and Miss Goodman, refreshments; (14) Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Wetherstone, Miss Rodger, Mrs. Seth, and Miss Seth, toys; (15) Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Droze, Misa de Champeaux. A bevy of charming little girls were selling trays of sweets and buttonholes and were making lots of money for the orphans. They were the Misses May (2), Gerty Jones, Mary Lockhart, Hettie Jones, and Eileen Lambkin."
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During the afternoon, by kind permission of Major Colville and officers, the band of the 114th Mahrattas played an excellent selection of music, under the leadership of J. Francis, bandmaster. The bazaar was altogether, an unqualified success.
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The Ministering Children's League, it will be remembered, natted over $1,000 proceeds from the recent sale of members' contributions, held at the Volunteer Parade Ground. The money
is all being used for charitable purposes. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of the active membership of the European Department was held on Wednesday evening at the Hongkong Christian Union Rooms, Beaconsfield Arcade, under the pre- sidency of H E. the Officer Administering the the purpose of completing the organisation. Government, Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., for
form, providing for various distinct depart- The constitution proposed the metropolitan
board of directors, was adopted. ments - -European, Chinese, &c., under one
ment was appointed to work out the details of The following strong committee of manage.
the European department, viz., Messrs. J. H. W. Armstrong, J. Dyer Ball, H. D. Bell, A. S. D. Mackie, R. S. Pierey, W. A. Sims, H. W. Cousland, P. H. Holyoak, H. Harsthouse, A. J.
Slade, 8. T. Wenborn, G. E. Woodward, and W. J. Wright. At a subsequent meeting this committee elected its officers, as follows: Chairman, Mr. J. Dyer Ball; Vice-Chairman, Slade; and Recording Secretary, Mr. H. D. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, Treasurer, Mr. H. W.
Bell.
of Directors of the Association in general, The following gentlemen comprise the Board having been elected at a previous meeting:- H.E. Hon. F. H. May. Č.M.G. (President), Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Mr. H. W. Slade, Major Benson, A.PD., Messrs. P H. Holyoak, W. J. Anstey, R.N., Ho U Ming, A. Ah Wee and W. J. Southam (General Secretary).
It is expected that the fiue commodious rooms of the Association, in the new Alexandra Build- ing, at the juncture of Des Voeux and Chater Roads, will be ready for occupation on the lat March, au, it is needless to say, that those interested in the organisation rejoice in the excellent promise there is of its complete
success.
A large number of native artisans, engaged here by Russian agents last year and the year before last to work in Port Arthur, have re- turned to Shanghai from that place, says the N.-C. Daily News, and report that they had been ordered to leave the port owing to the near approch of hostilities between China,, assisted by Japan, and Russia. The Russians in Port Arthur, the refugees report further, talk freely now of fighting China and Japan together, whereas formerly it was only war with Japan.
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