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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND CORRESPONDENCE.
The conditions for "The White Horse, Tropby" competition are appended :
1. The Trophy shall be known as "The White Horse Trophy."
2. It shall be open for competition to teams from the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association,
3 It shall be shot for once in each year, and shall be won three times in succession, or five times in all before becoming the property of the
winners. Both teams shall fire on the same day. 4. The Trophy shall be held by the winners each year, who shall be reponsible for its safe custody.
5. The competition shall be conducted under Bisley Rules on the King's Park Range, if available.
6. Teams shall consist of ten meu a side, all
scores to count.
7. The Ranges shall be 200, 500 and 600 | yards.
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8. Rifles shall be any Pattern of 303 calibre.
9. The number of shots shall be seven at each range with one sighting shot at each range (not to count) one blow off" shot. shall be allowed at the 200 yards range only.
10. Targets and scoring shall be the latest Bisley.
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BISHOP HOARE MEMORIAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS."
SIR-We shall be glad if you will allow us, through the columns of your newspaper, to inform the many friends of the late Bishop Hoare that it is proposed to erect a stained-glass window in the Cathedral Church of S. John the Evangelist, Hongkong, as a memorial of his eight years' tenure of the see of Victoria, Sonth
China,
It is estimated that the cost of this window will be at least 35, 00, and to procure this amount it has been decided to initiate a fund to be called the Bishop Hoare Memorial Fund Mr. J. C. Peter, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, has kindly consented to act as Hon. Treasurer and will be glad to receive donations towards the proposed memorial.
We are, &c.
J. M. Atkinson
G. A. Banbury Hou. Secretaries.
F. T. Johnson
THE CUBICLE QUESTION.
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11. Ammunition shall be issued range and no other shall be allowed.
12. The expenses of the Match shall be horne equally by the competing clubs.
13. Not less than two months' notice shall be given to competitors of the date on which it is proposed to hold the competition.
NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LD.
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SIE, With reference to the above question which is at present occupying the attention of our Legislators the following proposals with regard to dealing with cubicles as applied to existing houses, may not be out of place.
Mr. Osborne is no doubt, right when he says have to have them," therefore the only ques- tion to be solved is how to make them as little objectionable as possible. The Government The sixteenth ordinary annual meeting of when dealing with this question must be shareholders in the National Bank of China, prepared to give a little, if they are to receive Ld. was held at the bank at noon on Saturday. anything in exchange and where, in my opinion, Mr. J. Scott Harston presided, other share-they should be prepared to give, is with rega d holders present being Messrs G. C. Moxon to the "external air" or the 13-feet clause of the (managing director), J. E. Joseph, E. S. existing Ordinance. I am quite convinced in my Kadoorie, E. Howard, Ellis Kadoorie, E. own mind that a hard-and-fast rule cannot be Haskell, H. Pinckney, P. Loureiro, Yeung laid down to legislate for cubicles or rooms in Pat-leung and Chau Ki-peu.
existing houses, but every house must be taken on its own merits: and, therefore, the Government must be prepared to give
The notice calling the meeting having been read,
The CHAIRMAN said: Gentlemen-The report and balance sheet for the year ending 31st December 1906, having now been some time in your hands I will, with your permission, adopt the usual course, and take them as read. I do not think the figures call for special com- ment, but I am sure you will be pleased to see that profits exceed those of the preceding year. Your Board still desires to carry out the policy set forth in the Hank's report for the year 1905 and pay no dividend until reserve funds show a substantial sum-as they feel sare that this is wise and
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prudent course to pursue. I
am glad to be in a position to inform you that by a recent decision of the House of Lords the appeal of the Founders against the finding of Mr. Justice Farwell in the Chancery Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England has been dismissed with costs. The net result of this is that the Bank is now absolutely the property of its ordinary shareholders and its accounts may be presented in the form now before you. Before formally moving the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be glad to answer any questions in my power.
No questions were asked, and the CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and accounts.
Mr. ELLIS KADOORIE seconded, and the motion was carried.
Mr. MoxON proposed, Mr. HASKELL seconded, and members agreed to the re-appointment of Messrs. Low and Bingham as auditors.
The CHAIRMAN That concludes the business, gentlemen. Thank you for your attendance.
Sportsmen who are fond of shooting big game might not go wrong if they paid a visit to the Kowloon-Cauton Railway wo ks at Shatin. here, for the past week a tigress and ber cub have been visiting the camp aud carry ing off pigs, and have to riak only an occasional revolver suot from the miners wuo, apparently, are not keen sports.
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certain amount of latitude when dealing with this matter. The erection of cubicles! or rooms should not be refusel in a house, where, say, it is impossible to obtain within a foot or two the exact floor area as laid down by the Ordinance, but what might be insisted on is that an owner should do the best that is possible with his house, and if, when a plan is sent in which the Government considers could be improved upon, it should be returned for amendment.
Now it seems to me that for windows to cubicles or rooms to open into a space of 13 ft. should not be mada a sine qua non for the existence of such cubicle or room. My own personal experience makes me think that the great point to be acquired is that cubicles should, have a window opening into the outer air, and to obtain this I propose that an area should be made in the centre of the house, the width of the area to depend upon the length of the house.
I attach plans showing my proposal as applied to two, say, common types of houses, one a seventy-five foot house with a kitchen and area of 50 square feet at the back, the other a fifty-foot house with half kitchen and half area in the rear.
In the former case I propose to cut an area 10 feet wide in the centre of the house through out its height. This will have the effect of lighting the centre of the ground floor as well as the upper floors.
On the first floor (if the Government are prepared to waive the 13 feet clause) we can obtain four rooms all having windows opening directly into the outer air and two cubicles without windows. The two halves of the house would be congested by a bridge, ou to which window- cat dowu to the for level would open. Under the Ordinance as at present t is house could only have thr-e cubicles o rooms even if the 13 fo, takuuse were #sived. My scheme under 'similar losuos admits of six. The same arrange-
ment applies to the top floor,
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The fifty-foot house is treated in a similar manner but with a six-foot area, admitting of four rooms all with windows opening into the outer air.
I do not pretend that this scheme is a perfect one and there exists a slight objection on the first floor in the case of the inmates of the upper floors having to pass over the bridge from оnе staircase to the other. But the actual staircases would be shut off from the rooms by wood screens as is the present custom, and I think this objection would disappear when the inmates had got used to the arrangement. On the top floor this objection would not occur.
There is no doubt that this scheme would not be as effective as that proposed by the Hon. Mr. Chatham by pulling down the upper storeys of every third house, but I submit that mine is much simpler and less expensive. His scheme gives no benefit to the ground floor and involves resumption, whereas in this scheme the owner retains both house and land, and instead of weakening the houses, as in Mr. Chatham's scheme, the introduction of cross walls is a considerable addition of strength. On the ground floor the area would be formed by building two arches which would carry the walls above,
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The whole question hinges on whether the Government (with regard to existing houses) is prepared to waive the present law, that a room to be babitable roast have a window opening into a space of 13 feet. In my own opinion it is far more important to get landlords to provide
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where it is possible to get a number of rooms, each with window of its own opening into the outer air, than to insist on the present rule by which it is impossible in ninety-nine houses out of B hundred to provide more than one room and one cubicle, and where the rest of the house is divided up by means of filthy hangings supported by bamboos hung from the ceiling. I am, Sir-Yours etc.
H. W. BIRD. * Definition of a cubicle from Public Health
and Buildings Ordinance:
Cubicle means any portion of a room which is partitioned off for the purposes of being used as a sleeping place, and which is not provided with a sky light window or windows of its
own (independently of the window ares of the room in which such cubicle is erected) opening either directly or verandah or balcony with the external air etc.
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THE SUBSIDIARY COIN WORRY.
The current Gazette contains the following announcement: - Whereas there is an excessive amount of Chinese coins at present in circula- tion within the Colony and whereas residents may be deceived as to the value of these coins it is hereby notified for public information that the proper market value of a nominal dollar's worth of so called subsidiary coins minted at Canton or other places in China is only about Colony. Thus ten of the Chinese ten cent pieces 9ths of the value of the standard coin of the
are worth only about 89 cents of the Mexican dollar. Residents are therefore warned against accepting these foreign coins at more than the value stated unless they have previously agreed to do so.
The legal limit of tender of Hongkong subsidiary coins is $2 nominal value in silver and S1 in copper. The public is also informed that whereas at
present the Hongkong subsidiary coinage is at a discount in the market all such coin received in accordance with law by Government Departments is being retsized and not re-issued. It will from time to time be melted down and sold so amount, in circulation, of such coinage to that ss to reduce the required by the necessities of business in the Colony. Any person Company doing business in the Colony may, on application to the Colonial Secretary, or Registrar-General for notice for posting up on their premises. Chinese firms, be furnished with copies of this
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The missionaries are naturally gratified whsu the Chin-se show sincerity for e form H-re is evidence of nudoubted sincerity. A native paper states that the Chiñose Ministry of War has decreed that say officer e private found to be an opium-smoker is to be decapitated.
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