17th Merch. Tae Watch Matters that follow have been so thoroughly di-cussed at the time in the papers, that we heed not linger over them., They include the question of the validity on the Cemetery Road of licenses granted on this side of the Yangkingpang, the Alhambra case, in which Fie Council's action is completely vindicated, and the question of disorderly houses, in deuling with which "the Council's position has, been' clearly defined, excluding questions of morality but insisting on the maintenance of decency, law, and order." Those who think that the Council have been lukewarm in their efforts to abate this nuisance will see that they were effectually checked by the wait Soasaly letter of the ain AB to the rewndalous Bihof August last. A cou lo of pages of Ma Teb-fong, 10 which the Frén-t Consul-General was somehow misled into defending the action of Inspector Mascarelli of the French Police. Four pages are given be the anomalous sition here of the crews of the rissian men-of-war that fled_here for refuge from the Jupanese. There are very valuable dissertations on the Mixed Court: it is satisfactory to know that the magistrate Huang Hatien, during whose tenure of office the abuses in this Court have reached a point never touched in the most unsavoury times of his predecessors, has been dismissed by Imperial Decree, never to be again employed.
is noted that the question of the imprisonment of female convicts in the Municipal Gaol is still under consideration, The provision" feniale ward in the new gaol was made in compliance with a suggestion from the Bri assessor last year; the ward "is separate from Ube your of the building, under the supervision of female warders and 0 tained under conditions more generally suitable than those obtainable ander native administration," xs may well be believed. The Taotai's reasons for ref.sing to alow the ward to be used are not known: probably hia chief objection is that it isan innovation.
The Health Officer's report is adorned with pictures of the north and south fronts of the Municipal Hospital, & dibtingtly stately sass of prickivork, Tt fs tmpossiblé in our Reprod i issi
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