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There were 2,053 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 189 were Europeans. The maximum temperature last month was 93.6, on the 25th, and the minimum 73.3, on the 6th. The mean for the month was 81.2. The rainfall amounted to 4.97 inches
The stamp revenue for the half-year ended 30th June last amounted to $110,014, being an increase of $28,362 ou the amount collected dur ing the corresponding half of last year.
Surgeon-Captain Yarr, who served a term on the Hongkong station some years ago, has been appointed Physician to the Crown Prince of Siam, and will be seconded from the Army while he holds the appointment..
A telegram received at Singapore dated Raub, 4th July, reads follows:-
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:-" Crushing is finished. 2,400 tons stone realized 1,500 ounces smelted gold. Prospects remain unchanged. Battery resumed cru-bing on Wednesday."
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An accident happened on Tuesday morning at the back of 18, Bank Buildings. Some coolies were engaged in fixing up a telephone wire, and one of them missed bis footing and fell to the ground. He seriously injured his head
and is now being treated in the Alice Memorial Hospital.
The four prisoners charged with arson at Yaumati were brought before lon. It. E. Wode house at the Magistracy on Saturday. Two of the prisoners, a man and bis wife who lived next door to the matsbed which was fired, wero committed for trial, and the other two were discharged.
A. C. Barradas, who was charged at Yokohama
with attempting to obtain money under false pretences, has been acquitted, the evidence being insufficient to prove that he was an accomplice of Morikawa, the Japanese who was charged with him, and who was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
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[July 18, 1895, The following is a neat sentence from the The Government has received a telegram German, sent to us by a correspondent-"I bitte stating "Entrance Amoy harbour is now free of
ein vasterliches Einjaehrig-freiwilligen- torpedoes." Dienstesantrittserlaubniss-und Verpflegungs- The death rate last month was, for the kostenuebernahmsbereit." The last word, it will British and Foreign community, civil popula- be observed, consists of eighteen syllables. The tion, 14.9, and for the Chinese community 19.7. sentence is a form in which a father certifies that he permits his son to enter the one year volunteer service and the eighteen syllable word signifies that he makes himself responsible for
all costs of maintenance.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitals:-
Man On Insurance Co.. Yuen Fat Hong Chow Hing Ki Li Sing
Wong Chuk Yan
Li Shu Ying..
Liao Tze San ...... Mok A Kun...
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We regret to hear that Mr. George Caldwell met with a serious accident on Saturday after
He was fixing some blinds to the verandah on the upper floor of his house. No. 2, Stewart Terrace, and to reach the place had spliced three bamboo ladders together. While he was engaged on the work the ladder gave way and Mr. Caldwell fell to the ground. He carried into the house and laid on a mattress and doctors were sent for. On the arrival of Doctors Hartigan and Jordan, about an hour and a half later, they found the scapula was broken and that a concussion of the spine had been sustained. The patient was made as comfortable as cir- cumstances would permit, but has since been in a good deal of pain
Here is a nice little opportunity of making a modest competence. A correspondent writing It is notified that the torpedoes laid down in
to the China Gazette with reference to the rule the channel off Chuenpeo last year have been introduced at the British Post Office at Shang- removed and that masters of vessels passing hai of taking the ten cent piece at vine cents that place need not any longer wait for inspec- says:- Eventually I was informed that if I tion. Vessels coming from the south are, how-gave them a Mexican dollar they would give me eror, cautioned against using the Bremer
The 15 cents worth of stamps and the change at Channel until due notice is issued that it is free the rate of 9 cents for the 10 cent pieces. I
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did accordingly, and the result was that I re- At the Police Court on the 12th just, the fourceived $4 cents in change, and conse- pris uers charged with stealing and receiving ofble chains and a busy from the mine field at the north side of Stonecutters' Island were again brought up.
One prisoner was sent to gaol for eighteen months, being convicted of thres differnt thefts, two were remanded for further evidence, and ono was discharged.
The Marty. Prouchandy case has been settled. The writ in the case was issued about three months ago, and adjournment after adjournment has been made, until at last the Hearing was definitely fixed for yesterday. The parties have come to an agreement, however, and so the Court has been saved considérable trouble, as the case would have lasted two days.
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The membership of the new Hongkong Phil. harmonic Society has, we are told, already mounted up to a sufficient extent to assure the success of the venture. As it is intended to hold a general meeting shortly, the Committee request ns to state that they will be glad if those ladies and gentlemen who are intending to become members and have not yet sent in their names will do so promptly.
MISCELLANEOUS.
According to a Peking telegram to the N. C Daily News Yu Kèng, a Manchu and a protégé of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, was appointed nominated last month to. the Swatow Taotai- Minister to Japan on the 11th inst. He was ship, but this post will now be given to Lu Yuan-ting, an expectant Taotai of Kiangsu and at one time Shanghai wagistrate.
From the Chung Ngoi San Po we learn that an Imperial edict was received by telegram in Canton on the 9th inst. to the effect that owing Tartar General is to be temporarily filled by to the death of the Tartar-General, the post of Viceroy Tan, who will hold it in conjunction with the duties of bis Viceroyship. The 11th inst. has been appointed for his taking over the seal of the Fartar General.
to levy, in direct contravention of treaty, addi
The Mercury says:-Taotai Liu has been trying tional revenue by an irregular tax on imported opium of from ten to fifteen taels The principal houses engaged in the trade have, per chest. wo learn, sent in a strong protest to H.M. Consul-General pointing out the illegality of the proposed levy, directions for which are said to have come down from Nanking.
A Foochow despatch; the N. C. Daily News says, reports that Chou, ex-Brigadier-General, and Chen, Chief Civil mandarin of the Pes cadores Islands, were brought under arrest to Foochow early last month from Formosa, and were tried on the 13th ultimo by Pien, Pao- chuan, Viceroy of Min-Chê, for the loss of those islands to the Japanese. It is very probable that these officers will lose their heads.
quently got my 15 cents worth of stamps for 6 cents, which I consider good business." And he adds the following postscript "If you ask for one 5 cent stamp and tender a dotlar you will get 105 cents change and the 5 cent stamp The Chefoo Express says:- We understand for rothing." Therefore send dollars up to
that some arrangement is being made between Shanghai and get as a return for each one a five-France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia to cent stamp and 165 cents change, which will make Chefoo a kind of police station for North pass in Hongkong at par.
Chiua. Each of the above nations is to keep two men-of war on the station, making in all eight, of which four are to be in port and four on oruise. We sincerely hope that this be true; it would make Chefoo more than ever the neutral port of North China.
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Lieutenant Sato Monsaku, of the Imperial Bodyguard, returned to Tokyo from Formosa ou account of a bullet wound received in the face, says the Japan Gazette. He recovered from the injury, but the bullet had not been extracted. hile sitting to dinner a few nights ago, however, he felt something tickling in the nostrils. He sneezed and coughed, and a bullet rolled out of his month without giving the slightest pain.
At midnight on Friday a small party, under Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, and Mr. W. E. Crow, Assistant Sauitary Superintendent, set out from the Central Polica Station to make an inspection of many of the basements in the The Acting Colonial Secretary at Singapore city. The basements have been regularly in informs the local papers that owing to the exspected for a long time past at short intervals, istence of cholera in Singapore the Hongkong but this was the first time the tour had been Government has requested, by telegram, that made after midnight. It is far from a pleasant masters of ships may be informed that if task that the officers have to perform, as the cases of diarrhoea occur on the voyage to Hong basements are, of course, situated in the worst kong they must proceed to the quarantine parts of the town, and in order to get to them, station on arrival at that port for medical narrow, dark. unwholesome, and most evil inspection.
smelling lanes have to be traversed, and steep. alinost perpendicular, and ricketty steps have We (NC. Daily News) mentioned on the 25th to be climbed. Thanks to the rigorous action ult. that the Sinwanpao stated that the American. of the Saintary Board, the basements are Howie had made a number of charges against now cemented, and, for Chinatown, fairly Mr. Schnell, We now learn that enquiry having clean, but to European eyes most repulsive, and been made into this, Mr. Howie has declared emphasize the difficulties which the authorities before witnesses that he never made such accusa- met with last year during the plague in clearing tions against Mr. Schnell. The fact is that the out these vile deus. It speaks well for the fall of such a fortress as Weihaiwei demanded a efficaciousness of the work of the Sanitary scapegoat, aud it was endeavoured to put Mr. Board's officers that only three coolies were, Schnell in this position; but the whole truth during the search, found sleeping in the base about Weihaiwei and the final capitulation will ments, and the owners of these places will be soon be mado public. summoned. The officers are to be congratulated on the result of their work, and highly com-lain ware called gunshu or jewel-inlaid ware, mended for pluckily sticking to it when they have to encounter so many loathsome stinks in the course of a round. One of the party, who had not been in these districts before, was very soon overcome with the stuffy, obnoxious, and ill-ventilated dens, and had to sit on the kerb stone and vomit. He bad seen nothing worse than the slums of the East End of London and of one or two provincial English towns, and the atmosphere in the slums of Hongkong was altogether strange to him.
A carious paragraph has been going the rounds of the Japanese papers to the effect that a Tokyo match manufacturer recently made consiguments to Hongkong. The cases were marked Made in Nippon," instead of "Made in Japan," and the Customs authorities at Hong kong, it is said, would not allow them to be landed, on the ground that there is no country called Nippon. The goods were returned to Yokohama a few days ago.
The match manufacturers in Tokyo and Yokohama are described as much excited over the matter, and propose to make it a diplomatic question. The tale is obviously a fabrication." There are no Customs authorities in Hongkong, and although the Harbour Master has cer- tain duties thrown on him in reference to the prevention of fraudulent marking of goods, he would ordinarily only take action upon complaint of some person aggrieved. In the present case no one could be aggrived by the markin of the matches as alleged, and it is unlikely, if t point should ever be raised, that the description" made in Nippon" would be officially held objectionable or insufficient.
The Kokumin calls attention to a new porce- specimens of which may be seen among the exbibits in the 4th Domestic Industrial EX- hibition now opon at Kyoto. This fin-de-siècle departure in keramics was invented by Mr. Higuchi Harubane, a shizoku of Saga Prefecture. His family have beou porcelain manufacturers for generations past,
After fifteen years of experi menting Mr. Higuchi succeeded in turning out the new ware, which is semi-transparent and inlaid with jewels. He made it first in 1886 and patouted it next year.—Japan Advertiser,