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Japanese Minister in his visit to the palace have now returned to their camp
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The appointment of Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, B.A., LL.B., barrister-at-law, to be Acting Police Magistrate during the absence from the colony of the Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., is gazetted.
The King has issued an edict ordering that there shall be a strict line of demarcation be- tween the Ministry and the officials of the Royal palace. The Tai Won Kun will attend The Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, Police Magis- to all affairs connected with the Royal house-trate, left for home the 16th inst. by the M. M. hold.
steamer Melbourne on leave of absence. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith took over the duties of Acting Police Magistrate on the same day.
We hear through a private correspondent in England that the King's Own Regiment was to leave Portsmouth on the 24th September for Malts and after putting in a term of service there is to come to Hongkong to relieve the Rifle Brigade.
The customary change in Ministers has taken place, and as the result of a fresh deal of the cards several ex-Ministers have been recalled to office. Viscount Miura is reported to be in consultation with the Ministers regarding the future.--Kobe Chronicle.
THE KING'S PROCLAMATION.
Seoul, 11th October. The King's decree dethroning the Queen has been issued. It runs as follows —
During Our reign of thirty-two years, and while the people had not yet fully enjoyed the benefit of Our regime, Our Queen of the Min family resorted to all the evil means of nepotism, blinded Our intelligence, extorted Our people, set at nought all Our laws and orders, sold offices and titles, and thereby caused disturbances everywhere, endangering the existence of Our family. We knew the extreme vices of Our Queen, but allowed her to remain unpunished. Though this is due to Our lack of intelligence, the nepotism which had caused the Queen's partisans to fill Our Court was largely accountable for the impunity she has enjoyed.
In order to restrain her influence, We swore at the altar of Our Ancestors in the twelfth month last year not to allow the Queen or other mistresses of the Court and their relations to interfere in the affairs of State, trusting the Queen to re- pent the wrongs she had done in the past. But the Queen still did not correct herself; she continued to call her relations and numerous mean partisans to the Court, to estrange Us from Our own relations, and to restrain Us from personally seeing the Minis. ters of State. Recently she forged Our com- mand to disband Our troops, thereby causing -a serious disturbance, and when the disturbance had broken out she left Us and sought her own safety somewhere, as she had done in 1882, and did not come out when wanted. All this being not worthy of her rank and title and showing her extreme vices, We are forced hereby to dethrone her, Our Queen of the Min family, following the examples set by Our predecessors,
HONGKONG,
The lawyers have had a busy time during the past week, several cases of interest having been decided at the Supreme Court. The Criminal Sessions were held on Friday. Three concerts have been given, and at two of them Chevalier de Kontski gave a pianoforte recital. On Saturday a meeting of the Canton Insurance Company was held, and the members of the Jockey Club also held their annual meeting. On Monday an extraordinary general meeting of the Douglas Steamship Company was held, and in the afternoon of the same day the sup porters of the Hongkong Public Library met in the City Hall. The liability of marine store dealers led to an interesting argument at the Police Court on Tuesday, and yesterday an opium appeal case was disposed of."
H.M.8. Daphne arrived on Thursday from Swatow,
The Regatta is to be held on the 12th and 18th December, Captains and crews for the Chairman's Challenge Cup will be picked on the 28th inst.
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A private in the Hongkong Regiment tried to shoot himself on Friday evening. He loaded his rifle all right, put the muzzle near his heart. pulled the trigger, and then fell down. But there will be no inquest, as the bullet simply tore part of his clothing away.
Fears are entertained for the safety of the steamer Utan, which left Hongkong for Naga saki on the 14th ult., and has not since been heard of. The Utah was a small wooden vessel which had recently been sold by a Singapore firm to the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
The British steamer Sishan, Capt. Murphy, reports that whilst on the voyage from Swatow to Saigon in lat. 19.55 N., long. 114 E., she sighted a dismasted junk, and bore down on her and picked off the drew of ten Chinese in a very exhausted condition. They hailed from Chin- chu and had been adrift for eight days, having been caught in the typhoon on the 26th ult.. when the junk had been completely gutted out. When rescued they had been three days without water, and could not have survived many days. They were kindly taken care of by Captain Murphy and on arrival in Saigon Messrs. Ban Soon An, Messrs. Bradley & Co.'s agents, raised a subscription amongst the resident Chinese, which will enable them to be forwarded to their homes. They are at present on board the Sishan and will probably be sent on from Hong- kong. The junk was set on fire and scuttled.
There was
a disturbance in Queen's Road Central on Sunday night between four Japanese, who had come off a ship, and some Chinese coolies. The Japanese had bought some boxes which a number of coolies wanted to carry, but they demanded too much money. The Japanese told them to go to Taipingshan or some other place, whereat the coolies became angry and threatening. The Japanese went away followed by the coolies, whose numbers quickly swelled. and some commotion was caused. The noise was soon over, however: no one was injured, and no one was arrested. An Indian constable, who WBS on duty at the time, became s alarmed that he rushed up to the Police Station and gave an exaggerated account of the occurrence. Fourteen constables turned out, but everything was quiet when they got to Queen's Road. The Indian constable got into trouble for giving a false report.
Belilios Public School were entertained by the On Thursday afternoon the scholars of the Hon. E. R. and Mrs. Belilios at their Peak re- sidence. The Tramway Co npany, by their agent, Mr. Wylie, generously conveyed the children to and fro. After a sumptuous tea in the honse. they amused themselves in the grounds with the ancient and modern means of recreation so amply provided there. the local imitation of the Aud- ley Court wheel proving an unceasing attraction. So infections was the happiness with which the youngsters brimmed over, that two well-known residents forgot their age and dignity and tested their relative weight by a game at see-saw. At the conclusion of the festivities, the Attorney-General, the Hon. W. M. Goodman, elicited, by a humorous speech, frequently interrupted by spontaneous bursts of approval on the part of the children, a succes- sion of rousing cheers for the generous host and hostess, and for Mrs. Bateman, the Head Mistress. Mr. Belilios, in responding to the Attorney-General's eulogy, mentioned that he Mr. C. F. A. Sangster, Acting Registrar of contemplated making yet further efforts to the Supreme Court, was on Tuesday presented promote the interests of education in the colony. with a handsome service of silver plate by the On departing, all present were presented with a- staff of the Registry, as a mark of their regard pretty souvenir, which, no doubt, will be trea- on his retirement from the service. The pre-sured by the children as a remembrance of one sentation was made by Mr. F. A. Hazeland. of the red-letter days in their lives.
An address to the Hon. T. H. Whitehead thanking him for the services he rendered to the colony during his recent visit to England is now being signed.
The Volunteer Corps went into camp at Stonecutters' Island on Friday night. Large mat sheds have been erected for their accom- modation. The camp will break up on Sunday
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[October 24, 1895.
The Spanish cruiser Don Juan de Austria, which arrived on the 16th inst. from Manila, brought back the European foremen and Chinese workmen, who were sent over by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company to fit up the gunboats Lanao and General Blanco in the Lake Lanao in Mindanao.
It is proposed to present a piece of plate to Lieut.-Colonel Barrow on his departure from the colony and a similar piece of plate to be designated "The Barrow Plate" to the Regi- mental Mess, in commemoration of Colonel Barrow's connection with the colony and the Regiment which was raised by him and of which he has been the first Commandant.
Two amusing exonses were urged at the Police Court on Saturday. A hawker charged didn't expose it for sale; I exposed it for with exposing tainted food for sale said, "I
with being in unlawful possession of a bar of people to look at." A coolie who was charged
"I bought it from a shop, and the Soap said, shopkeeper told me to put it up my sleeve so that policemen might not see it." Both men were sent to gaol.
About eleven o'clock on Tuesday night (15th inst.) a fire broke out in the cook-house of No. 149, Queen's Road Central, which is occupied as an oil shop on the ground floor and by the Yang Cheong photographer's shop on the upper floor. The Fire Brigade was quickly on the spot and fortunately the fire was put out by a couple of extincteurs before it had obtained any hold on the building. The premises are insured with Messrs. Siemssen and Co., but the damage was inconsiderable.
There was a large attendance at the Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon when two racing events were decided. The first was between Captain Loveband's The Friar and Mr. W. D. Graham's Baccarat, owners up. The distance was.five furlongs over hurdles. Baccarat fell at the first hurdle and his rider was dismounted, but happily he was not hurt. Mr. Graham quickly remounted and overtook Captain Loveband, who had pulled up. The remainder of the hurdles were well taken, and a good race home resulted in The Friar winning by a neck. The second match was between Mr. Manners Australian mare Australia and Mr. Hart Buck's Voltigeur. Lieut.-Colonel The O'Gorman rode Australia, and Mr. Buck rode Voltigeur. The start was from the rock, once round and in. The race was al capital one. On passing the post for the first time Voltigeur was leading, although Australia had caught him up at the bend. Voltigeur maintained a long lead for a considerable distance, and at the bend Australia again came up with Voltigeur, who was beaten after an exciting run by three-quarters of a length. Australia took the hurdles in fine style and was greeted with much applause on returning to the onclosure.
In the Manila Government Gazette there ap-
pears the following notification dated the 7th October- notices transmitted by the Spanish Consuls ati
Having regard to the favourable
Hongkong and Amoy with referance to the bubonic plague, whose epidemic character may be considered to have disappeared, there having twenty-nine cases and twenty-six deaths since the been registered in Hongkong a total number of 26th April last, and no case having occurred at Amoy since the 9th August; considering, how- ever, the convenience of maintaining the precau- tions adopted against the introduction of cholera, which although greatly decreasing still exists in varions ports of the China Sea and in Japan and Formosa, arrivals from which are admitted at Hongkong and Amoy without the sanitary precautions prescribed by our laws; in agreement with the Civil Government and on the recommendation of the Sanitary Depart ment, it is deemed convenient to modify the pro visions of the decrees of the 1st May and 9th August last in the following manner: Vessels ar riving from Hongkong and Amoy without sick- ness on board and not having had any on the voyage, which have put to sea since the 20th September last without Chinese immigrants as passengers, shall be subject to a quarantine of observation of three days, and of five days if they carry passengers of the class mentioned; and shall be disinfected as the Sanitary Authorities of the ports may deem advisable Quarantine against arrivals from Singapore ar has also been reduced to five days.
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