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is welcome to bis opinion and I see no reason why he should not be allowed to have bis ailments treated by a quack any more than he should not be allowed to commit suicide if be chooses to do so; but in the case of helpless children this is far otherwise ad. I beg to pro- test against this quackery on their behalf. They are helpless and they are state assets and no one should be allowed to hare such power even over their own children.
"Tar and feathers is far too grod for a p rent who-as happened in England a short time ago-allows a child to die of diphtheria with no other treatment than prayers by some old woman.-Yours faithfully.
J. BELL. [Dr. Bell writes as strongly as we have dorn, and we submit not without exense. Read. rs will remember it was for the child assets of the race that we first pleaded.- ED.)
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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS."}
THE HONGKON) WEEKLY PRESS AND
OF
A Sanitary Officer whose duty fakes him through numbers of houses and offices every week conld easily make notes of dirty housed <ffices specially offensive blocks of
on his next refara in this respect, and visit, if no improvement had ta en place in the meantime, then recommend the recupants to be dealt with according to the Byelaws.
In all such cases of non-compliance a fine would not only be justifiable but wenld do an immense amount of good towards wiping out this filthy nuisance,
Possibly something similar to the abwe in already being done; therefore, I should much regret if this reference to the question is taken in a dogmatical sense.
RAY
The long chein of history connected with the most tying y ars of experience in sanitation, to nothing of the financial outlay of the past, has surely taught ns the valuable lesson that any attempt to onfores arch a new measure for The better health of the Colony, without first making it generally known as suggested above, would obviously be unfair to the lower class of people. Yours truly.
P. HALL.
EVOLUTION OF HONGKONG.
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inevitable. She would have beu quicker and saved herself much after humiliation had Great Britain remembered herself the lesson of the
war.
She did not, Lord Elgia was followed by a series of dilettanti, each as feeble and west- kneed as himself, till at last even the stoutest began to lose heart. Still there was no recurrence for forty years of barbarities, such as the tortures f Hasiwa or the baraing of the Summer Palace to be ravanged on either side. For- a new generation has now arisen for tanstely whom these things are but history, and after a new lesson there are undoubted signs of a desire on the part of China to break away from Whether it may arrive soon her bad past. enough to avoid her final extinction as a power in Avis, is the question of the day.
But so commenced with Hongkong with The separation of the Colony it must we finish. from the affairs of China and the British Empire generally had on the despatch of Lord algin's Mission, and the removal of bead quarters to the capital become a matter of necessity, irrespective of the manner in which Hongkong, 22nd January 1908,
the colouisl government was administered; but, SIR, I have read with much interest in
as websre se80, the government had not bein well this morning's issue of your paper Mr Brace
administered, and had become, as Lord Ramell Shepherd's reply to Mr. Donn's " corrections"
at the time is said to have designated it, na and feel compelled-considering the importanca
Augean Stable. New meo, and new methods, of the discussion now going on-to place before
that the Colony WLA once and for your readers who are interested in the subject
all divorod from the seat of the Mini- the following:-Some two and a half or three
ster. had become A pecessity. [[ rool- years ago, a cousin of mine had a little daughte
Robinson, who bad served with credit who had the misfortune to fail down sairs and
some minor colonial governorships, and was at break her arm. Her father, notwithstanding
the time Governor of St. Christopher and the the protests of his wife, refused to allow a
Leeward Islands, was #lected for the post medical man to set the ir jured linh or attend Lord Flgin had not learned the first lason
and arrived in September 1839. No batter her in any way, but caled in the kaners of the ¦ of dipl macy, never to bodi ya without tangibl-
As the choice could have been made. On the appoint. Christian Science mor- ment ther, the himself evidence what is being told to lig
Wan the ment, to give him more eclat, he had bean having been a CLVr! fr some years). The . foro" was approaching thangk a
knighted, but he needed no extrageous title child under their ministratius showed nd Chinese commanders all at eus put on
to assist him in vis work. Eaffle it to my, signs of improvement but becane wer-, laving; sympathetic air. and offered thee serves in
Elgin, se de der bis role, and fortunately unfettered by in the meantime developed a high f. vor. The selecting as itable camping plane
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Chinese traditions, the island, Low become a -people thereupon edded to bal quarters in befitted his character, would have ac up of the Sir Hp Grant
trne Colony, commenced to advace. The open- the States for specia' prayers' en fer behalf. off-r un auditionally, but
ing of trade consequat on
the new treaty, with no better resuits. By the time the child more cautions thought he would have a littl
and the general advancement of Chios from was in a pitiable conditiou. The scts cam-
to his surprise he bghted on 2
north to sonth, begun at last to tell in favour of to the knowledge of R.S.F.C.C whose repre-strong Tartar picket, which suspiciously reviend
the Colony. Old feuds were healed and Hong- sentative promptly investigated the mater, on his appearance, but he saw strong b dies of with the result that the father was brought cavalry carefully posted in the hollow ground | kong to longer troubled with the quarrels of
number of banner parties nor individuals pat before the Stipendary Magistrale in the Man- | ab ut, and disturbed a chester Police Court and sent need to imprison. | barunginfoty. An ambush had been ca efully | "trength. Though she had now a separate and ment without the option of a fine. Medical | prepared, and Elgin with is whole arwy would distinct existence alongsid· China, yet not of it, Bat the plot hard and advancing with every step in China's assistance was then summoned. The be112, winch
bare que tiy walked into it. bad knitted in the meant ́m, id t· bir already on elu... tuo successful. Parker, Ich prosperity, she yet was in a position to takā broken and re-set. This child had to endure aud & i under of of ers attached to the intelli. advantage of its proximity.
The foregoing much unnecessary suffering.
gence 20. had ben went ahead to negotiate are actual facts, with Ly howledge, I Mr.❘ with a number of Chinese civil officials at Dunu or his "followers,” wish for further proefs,, Tanych-o, but a couple of miles away, and had I can give the names of the parties concerned I been treacher uely siz d, and made prisoners Yours truly,
with their escort; thenew thy were taken ou to Peking, cast into the common juil and put to the torture, under which the greater number Lord Elgin was temporarily cou. succumbed. fertel, but Prine Kung, brother to the Em. peror, being apointed to negotiate, the old farce recommened during the progress of which west of the prisoners je,ishel meerally Even st the end, through the weakness of Lord Elgin, though Peling wis at the mercy of the allied forces it was purer recapiel, but left intact as an everlasting memorial, till 1909 at least, of how a high British diploma'is', with the bli at his fet, e ul yet b. caj lled isto llowing him-elf at the last me lo ba check- mated by so innocent look.ng a nov ce se Prino» Kang.
E. J.
The two
[By a remarkable coincidence, a Manchester man in the Colony bad just informed us of the above case when this letter arrived. stories in all points tallied. These are the sort of facts we want widely circulated, though it is to be hoped there are not many II ugkong parents who need sucl. warning-En ]
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS "i
RE SPITTING BYE-LAWS.
Hougkong, ad Ja..uary 19us. SIE, Would not a much smaller fiue thisa the suggested 85 be a re reasonable on the poorer classes of Chinese and other aliens when seen spitting just where they please?
These poor and un-cuested classes ka » n:thing of the nusanitary rds and their con- comitants cans.d by this dirty Labit of -pitting against walls, woodwork etc, there to remain, as is too often the case, from a few days before Chinese New Year until the approach of the next New Year.
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But though Lard Elgin balthus at the list moment in his softness of heart all wed himself to be openly re1 bed of the most mport at frait of the while exption, he showed himself much on a par with his opp u ots when in face with a quest on co erning thar's of civiliss. tion He who e latt was ton tender so requir· The punishment of the of cisls washed tortured his
unliymeu to feath, shival calmly by while With regard to the sanitary state in our the torch was appaed to the Pales of the European quartiers, one has only to look at the Yumir gyner, where were stored the priceless corridors of our business Lones, more especially ; and irrecoverabl-toessures of c-otari-8, noticeable when lifts are s'opped for repairs,, the p'uid r was ema need under a F-such and one has to ascen.' the stairs -f these baild-fficer, but Lord Fleiu knew wil beforeban: ings. The wails, woodwork and staire ises are, in what was in the wied; and a word from him 75 cases out of a hindred, in a condition much . would have averted the greatest crime against to be deplored by all lovers of cleanliness,
If this new measure is to be enforced let it be hoped that it will at first o- gradually ru d- known to the Chinese and others through the agency of the Chinese Press and by Chinese circulars posted throughout the Colony.
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In consequones, so far trom harbaring the fear of being at no distant period shut out from participation in the commerce of the world, she now is able to bosst of being almost the eqasi in point of shipping of the largest ports and has direo steam communication with nearly every shipping port under the sun.
This is the moral of our story; needlessly long perhape, but well deserving to be studied and acted on as long as great Britain lives up to her tradition, and remains a great Power in the Pacific, so long mus Hongkong continue to grow in welth and prestige. - Long may she continue faithful to the traditions of Empire. THE END.
We learn that the flamburg-Amerika Linie is withdrawing from the Far Eastern passanger business. The ships of the "Rhenanis" claw are therefore likely to be replaced on the run by others built entirely for freight servics,
H.I.H Prince Hiroyasu Fashimi of Japan attend-d by Lieut. J. Kiyokawa, A.D C, arrived in the Colony yesterday by the steamer "Haksta Maru Tua young prince is a commvader in the Japanes navy, and was wounded in no sa- He is band for gig--' daring the war
course of Hingland wher ho is to audergo a
Yesterday invitatious study for three years Tru- for an ial dinner of 52 had been issa «d and -
over 50 10vitations had been prepared for a reception afterwards in his haoɑr." A、, how. ever, His Imperial Highness is travelling sa a private individual, the dinner has be a esas lied and the invitations to the reception not seat He continues bis jarusy to England, by the same ship, at daybreak on Wedneslay, thì Molostant. The ship was met on areira. yesterday morning, by Capt. Taylor, A.D.C. and Capt. Fleming, extra A.D.C.
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However a lesson severe ejongh to impress. -4-elf upon l'eking for a generation had at last ben delivered; China for sí me time was tract. ab'e, and in a halting shuffling sort of way began trying to accommodate herself to the
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