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scoorded much credit for it. The latter part of the book is in different type from the first part and the proofs have been badly read.
Stand United. Patriotic Song. Words by W.
WILSEY MARTIN. Music by ARTHER E. | GODFREY. London: Robert Cocks & Co. THE is the Referee prise patriotic song and is dedicated by permission to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. It is an anti. Home Rule song and will doubtless be popular at Prim- rose gatherings. The music is bright and lively and has a spirited choras, but the words are rhodomontana. Oso verso runs :----
English, Irish, Bootch, and Welshmen, We are many, we are one!
One by dangers dared together,
One in union, fearing none,
Hound the globe our flag is dying,
Shall we let old Ireland go,
Maimed and bleeding, sever'd from us No! No! Our millions answer No!
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
| larger employers give notice at once that unless the carrying coolies and stevedores return by a certain hour to their work they will all be turned into the street and their
Pay stopped. If the ordinary coolie and his master can abrogate their labour contracts as they are doing and call it a dead letter, surely the general employer can do the same with im punity. If the throwing out of employment of such numbers of people leads to disorder and riot the police and military will know how to take care of that, and we shall thes come to a per- haps speedier settlement than in any other way. No public spirited shareholder in any of the local companies will, I am sure, begrudge the possible small loss this radical step may entail. The coolis must be put down this time.—Yomes truly,
ANTI-MOB RULE. Hongkong, 28th March, 1895.
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[April 3, 1895.
The notification of the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart's appointment as Colonial Secretary appears in Saturday's Gasette.
It is notified in the Gasette that Mr. F. Howell has been appointed Acting Marshal of the Admiralty Court during the absence on leave of Mr. F. A. Hazeland.
H.M.S. Archer, Peacock, and Linnet were re- commissioned on Monday, and their paid-off crews will proceed to England by H.M.S. Gibraltar, which is timed to leave on the 8th inst.
The number of in-patient treated at the Alice Memorial Hospital last month was 56 and there were 1,339 out-patient visits. At the Nethersole Hospital the numbers were 23 and 47 respectively.
We hear that Surgeon-Major Westcott har been seconded from the military service for tem- porary employment as Officer of lealth for the colony and has gone to Hainan to investigate the alleged existence of plague there.
At Saigon the other day a European named Landry, in the employ of the Customs, throw his boy, aged twenty-four, through the window of his room, on the first floor. the boy received serious injuries to his head by the fall and had to be taken to hospital. Landry was arrested.
On Wednesday morning His Excellency Lieut. General Barker, C, B., attended by officers of his staff, held an inspection of the Hongkong Royal Four com- Artillery on the Parade Ground.
The coolie strike still continues, but for tunately there are signs to-day of a speedy ' ́e do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions | break-up. During the week several meetings of
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importance have been held to consider the posi- tion of affairs, and various suggestions have been madɔ. On Thursday a Committee was ap- pointed at a public meeting held in the City Hall to consider the best means to adopt to put an end to the strike. Unfortunately the "bestpanies, numb ring about 380), were on the ground, mesos the committee adopted consisted of and presented a smart and highly creditable suggestion to the Governor that the landlord, appearance, Two companies were composed of instead of the common lodging house keeper, Sikhs and two of Mohammedans. should be registered. The Governor was waited
The stock, plant, and good wilt of the Hong. upon by the Committee and the suggestion was hong Telegraph were sold by auction on Thursday made to him; but his Excellency wisely refused to afternoon. in one lot, by Mr. J. M. Armstrong, submit to it, and expressed the determination under instructions from the Official Administra- of the Government to maintain the position it tor. The bidding commenced at $15,000 and had taken up At another meeting of com-reached $25,100, at which the property (was mercial men at the City Hall on Monday the knocked down to Mr. 8. Rustomjee, who was Committee resigned, a vote of confidence in the noting, we believe, on behalf of a syndicate. Government was voted, and the coolies are now left to reason amongst themselves and sub- mit to obey the present laws of the colony, or else other means will be resorted to to being the rebellion to a close. On Thursday a meeting of the Legislative Council was held, and several bills were read for the first time. The Sanitary Board also met on the same after noon. On Friday evening the members of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders gave their final dance of the season at the City Hall. On Sunday the Volunteers' Church Parade took
REGISTRATION OF SERVANTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS. DEAR 818.-It may be of interest to some of your readers to know how servants are registered in Haiphong. Books about the size of penny account book are kept for this purpose at the oflow of the Chief of Police. These books have one column for the date, and are ruled into about six spaces on each page. Before an em- ployer engages a servant he sends him to the Chief of Police, who arranges to bave the ser. wart's photograph taken. This photograph is stuck inside the cover. On the first page is writ ten the servant's name and a sufficient descrip tion to identify him. On the next page the date of application is stated, and in the top space whether “known" or "unknown" to the police, concluding with the signature of th. Chief of Polios. If satisfactory the servant is engaged, and the employer keeps the book in his possession until the termination of the engagement upon which he makes a note of the date, and in one of the spross states whether the engagement was terminated for any fault, or otherwise, and signs it. The servant must then take the book again to the Chief of Police to be certified, dated, and initialled by him. And so on after each en. gagement. The photographing and police
give place.
Work is done at Government expense. this for what it may be worth. Of course
The following provisional and temporary any registration scheme, to be of service, appointments in the Supreme Court are notified must be axanimously adopted and strictly in the Gasette-Mr. A. Seth to be Acting earried out.—I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, Mr. R. F. ONE FOR HIS NOB. Lammert to be Acting First Clerk of Court, and Mr. L. d'A. e Castro to be Asting Second Clerk of Court.
Hongkong, 27th March, 1895.
THE COOLIE STRIKE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE
DAILY PRESS.
SIR-At the general meeting held to-day one speaker observed that the only way to meet combination on the part of the Chinese was by combination ou the part of employers of labour. Let the Government issue dae notion and after › certain date, say next Sunday, all Chinamen who cannot show a certificate showing their means of livelihood should be impressed by force and made to work. It is averred that the soolies are afraid to work for fear of being beaten; let them be besten if they refuse to work. It a few influential Chinamen are im- pressed so much the better. The crisis in the solony must be met by bold if novel measures.
Yours obediently.
Hongkong. 28th March, 1895.
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About 3 a.m. on Saturday morning a fire broke out in a dried fish shop at 352. Queen's Road Central. The outbreak occurred on the ground floor and the tire spread through the whole premises. The top floor of 354 was also damaged by fire. The shop was insured with Messrs. Siomssen and Co. for $5,000.
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The Volunteers Corps annual Carbine Com. petition was concluded on Saturday and produced among the members of the two branches a keen and healthy rivalry resulting in bigbly satisfac- tory shooting. The Corps Championship was carried off by Gunner G. P. Lammert (Maxim Gun Co.) with 93 points. The Ladies Purse fell to Ganner E. C. Shepherd (26 points), and the first, second, and third prizes of the Ladies" nomination to Gunner Smyth, Sergeant Lowrie, and Gunner G. P. Lammert. The Officers' Cup was won by Captain McCallum of the Field Bat tery. A keen contest was witnessed for the Volley firing priz3, which went to the Maxim Gau Company but the Field Battery tied with them on the points. Signaller Hance won the Signallers' prise and the prize for the best team shooting fell to the Field Battery,
Captain S. Reid, of the steamer Taichow, On Thursday afternoon a meeting of the sub-died at Bangkok on the 18th March. The Siam scribers to the St. George's Ball was held at the | Observer gives the following account of the City Hall, when it was decided to refund to each circumstances: The Taichow arrived on the of the subscribers $1.50, as there was a balance 18th March from Hongkong, and cast anchor off to the credit of the ball fund of $300. If the Messrs. Clarke & Co.'s. when Capt. Reid, who subscribers do not choose to accept the money it appeared to be in the best of health, se usual, will go into a fund for the next ball.
went ashore, and, after having received his instructions, went back to the vessel and brought her up to her usual auchorage opposite Mesars.. Windsor's - wharf. As he passed the steamer Devawongse Capt. Reid was noticed waving his hand to his former comrades. About an hour after his vessel anchored Capt. Reid suddenly dropped on deck, and in a few life was extinot, It has not yet minutes been ascertained what his death was due to, bat it is thought probable that it was heart disease. Capt. Reid had been in the service of the Scottish For over two Oriental line for many years. years he was chief officer of the Dewsongse, and when Capt. Unsworth went on leave in August last Capt. Reid was promoted to the He retained com- command of the vessel. mand of the vessel till December, when Capt. was the so3. Perkes, of the Tacoma, who nior to Capt. Reid, was transferred to the Devawongae. Capt. Reid then made a few trips in the Phra Chom Klao as chief officer, and stopped ashere in Hongkong awaiting orders. He eventually took command of the Taishow, and the present trip was his maiden one. Capt. Reid was a man of very temperate habits, was well known in shipping circles, and was much liked and respected by those who knew him. The vessels in the river floated their ensigns at half mast in respect for the deceased.
The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders gave another of their enjoyable dances, the last of the season, at the City Hall last on Friday. There was a large attendance and all the guests must have carried away with them pleasant re- collections of the courtesy and hospitality of their hosts. The music was supplied by the Band of the Hongkong Regiment.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PEEKS. SIR,-The Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at this afternoon's meeting touched the keynote of the situation when he aug. gested that the soolies' combination be met by Zoreign combination, but he seemed then to come to a stop. Why not have gone on and proposed a general lockont on the part of all the leading smployers of labour in the colony. That is the omly combination possible that I know of The Dock Company's employes are already talking of going out. Why does not the foreign element take the initiative and conjointly with the Naval Yard, the Kowloon Wharf Co.. the Sugar Refaeries, the Rope Co., the Brick and Cement Co., the Military Authorities, and all other Grimble.
At the regular convocation of the Cathay Chapter, No. 1.165, held at Freemasons Hall on Friday evening, M. Ex Comp. E. C. Ray. assisted by the officers of the D. G. Chapter, installed Ex Comp. G. L. Tomlin as Z., Ex Comp. P: R. Simmonds as H., and Ex Comp. S. L. Darby as J M Ex Comp. Tomlin then Invested his officers as follows:-Scribe E., Comp. E. C. Ellis; Scribe N., Comp. H. W. Robertson; Treasurer, Comp. St. A. Baylee; Principal Bojourner, Comp. 8. Hanisoh; First Assistant do., G. P. Lammert; Second Assistant, Comp. A. Camming; Janitor, Comp. J. R.