The doctors ars unable to dete: mine the exact cause of the of Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, which occu red after a snake dinner on Saturday night, unless there is an. autopsy and the family will not ce sent to this course, 'The following facts, however, have been established. ' Mr. Chu Chao-hsin attended a' snake feast rior to a dinner to Admiral Sir lowerd Kelly, Erith in-Chief on the China Sts 'The dinner to the adi the Naval Headquarters and. Mr. Chu sat beside Mr. Herbert Phill British Consul-Gener ed cheerful, but when he 'Afterwards' he was seized "with violent vomiting and a severe headache.
According to one story Mr. Chu jowed a snake bone, which red poison and so caused hi Hence the others who pa ticipated in the feast were not afwe may find odd numbers used from 51, 53, 55, ete., to 121 say, but the other side of the road ili al distance no even number used until 120, which will be. opposite Nobody can find fault with that.
My only criticism in regard to in numbering is "that a deal of money would be saved applying the said system rapidly, for the following reasons:
Rapid application of the system save the huge expense of prolonging the. salaries. of highly aid foreigners supervising " the work far too slowly, and would also save thousand taels, in the cost blue number plates. These plates cost in the neighborhood of 50 tael cents, I believe. At present wherever @ Chinese building is torn down and replaced by a new building (on main road that still has the old system of house numbers) the old tin number plate such as XY724 is, discarded and a new blue plate labelled merely 724 is placed instead. Now such new building may have 20 doors requiring blue plates, which 20 doors requiring blue p an expense of 10 taels that building alone. Multiply his by all the new buildings in the course of years and we have many thousands of "taels es 7 ray as the new system is applied. On. some roads. nearly, half the blue plates are Road there were. ovens of sucha
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