November 13, 1895.]
peans.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
There were 2,014 visitors to the City Hall A chess match between the City and Suburbs, Museum last weak, of whom 163 were Euro-arranged by the Hongkong Chess Club, was
played at the Club's rooms evening. Twenty-eight members of the Club on Thursday took part in the context, which resulted in an easy win for the Suburbs by ten games to four. There were no drawn games. During the even- ing Madame de Kontski visited the Club and played exceptionally interesting games with Mr. H. E. Pollock, the hon. secretary. The following are the results ---
CITY.
II. M: Bastos
B. L. Battliwara E. Bischoff
L. F. Carvalho
E. J. Commissariat. O A. P. Guterres Consul Hunt
SUBURBS.
969
Owing to the attempted insurrection, Viceroy Tan Chung-Inn is now doing his best to prevent Provincial Treasurer, the Provincial Judge, the any disturbance. A fow days ago he ordered the
Grain Commissioner, the Prefect, the two local Magistrates, and the Captain Superintendent of Police to visit the various charitable institutions in Canton and to advise the directors and the San-sz of the respective institutions to hire policemen at their own expense for the protec tion of Canton. They have all promised to do do.
MISCELLANOUS.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha is re-chartering. 1 a large number of steamers whose contracts had 1.expired.
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G. Piercy, Jr.
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J. H. Pidgeon
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Lt. Col. O'Gorman. 1
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T. H. Reid.
J. 8. Ruchwaldy
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H E Pollock
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C. S. McKinley
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R. H. R. Burder
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H. 8. Cooke
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T. Cowen
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G. T. Crook
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W. C Barlow
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D: McDonald
C. A. M. de Jesus
J. A. Jupp
H. M. Mehta
E. J. Moses W. H. Purcell
An ash-boat coolie was charged at the Police Court on Friday, before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith with stealing $80 worth of cylinder washers from the German steamer China. At six o'clock yesterday morning the prisoner was seen by the chief officer on the upper deck carrying three washers. As the officer went towards him he dropped the washers and jumped overboard. He was quickly overtaken by the chief officer, who put off in a boat and gave him into the custody of P. C. Campbell. It was discovered that the thief had taken $80 worth of washers from the engine room to the atoks hole and he had evi- dently determined upon taking them off the yessel three at a time. If they had been lost the steamer would have been delayed three days while new castings were being made. The Ma- gistrate gave the prisoner the maximum penalty -six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
A Chinese coolis does not mind a few hours' discomfort if he can succeed thereby in a swindle of a dollar. On Friday morning Detective- | 8. D. Setna Bergeant McIver was searching the luggage of Chinese passengers about to proceed on the Haitan to Swatow when he caught sight of a hamper lying on the deck. He decided to have it opened in order to see if it contained arms. The hamper was bound with ropes and the coolie in charge of it reluctantly unfastened them. The detective lifted the lid and saw two arms lying there, also a pair of legs and other parts of a human body. Then the contents" crept out of the basket. It was only a coolte who had wedged himself into the basket so as to obtain a free passage to Swatow. As the di- mensions of the basket were only 26 inches by. 18 inches by 19 inches the coolie'must have had an exceedingly tight quarter of an hour; indeed it is somewhat puzzling how he got himself into the basket at all, as he is rather a tall specimen. He and his companion who had ag sisted him in the trick were taken before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith on Friday and fined $3
each.
The following returns of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of spocie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st October, 1895, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks, are published in the Gazette:-
Average amount.
$
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China
1.797,101
Hongkong and Shanghai
Specie in
reserve. $ 1,000,000
2,500,000
419,571
Banking Corporation. 4,285,108 National Bank of China,
Limited
212,000
Tot l
7,101,780 3,712,000 The Hon. Trasucer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersols Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the hospitals:-Net proceeds of concert at Mount Austin Hotel on th ult, per W. E. Crow, Esq.. $278.15. Mr. Crow forwards us the following financial statement of the con- cort:-
Sale of tickets.
RECEIPTS.
Mears. Kelly & Walsh
Mount Austin Hotel
At the door
Donations.....
EXPENDITURE.
Extra charge on account of postponement.
Hire of piano
Mesra Robinson & Co.
Printing.
Messrs. Kelly & Walsh
Messrs. Guedes & Co....
Advertisements.
Daily Press
China Mail
Hongkong Telegraph Miscellaneous.
Usher
Extra tram Balunce
$122.00
156.00
40.00 13.00
$341.00
Dr. J. C. Thomson. 0
Total
M. J. Danenberg ·
Total
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The steamer Guthrie left Australia with twenty-five Australian horses which were des- tined for Yokohama. Only seven reached this port. Rough weather was experienced and the poor animals had a dreadful time. One day five of them were hurled from their stalls on the starboard side over. the winch and they sustained such frightful injuries that they had to be shot. Thirteen others were also so badly cut and knocked about that they also had to he killed. The seven survivors, on riving at this port, were taken to Mr. Kennedy's stables at East Point, where they will remain a week and then be sent ou to Yokohama. The horses are the property of Mr. T. J. Burke, of Melbourne, and were very valuable. There was a four-in-band team amongst them, also a pair of cobs, and five racehorses, and the others were of a mixed
sort.
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Mr. Burke had received a special com- mission from the Japanese Government, and five of the horses were intended for the Japanese cavalry. They were of a similar class as those constantly being shipped to India.
THE ATTEMPTED INSURRECTION AT CANTON,
There is still much alarm in Chinese official quarters at Canton in connection with the insurrectionary movement. The chiefs of the movement have not been traced, and it is believed they will not be, but enough has been ascertained; it is reported, to prove that a serious movement is being cautionsly worked out and on a large scale.
The following in connection with the affair are from the Chung Ngoi Sun Po:~
The fifty men arrested in connection with the recent attempted insurrection were released after final trial a few days ago. They were each given a dollar to return to their native places When they were brought forward for trial. they all said that they were quite ignorant of the proposed rebellion and that they were told to come to Canton to be soldiers.
The four assistant leaders of the attempted insurrection were tried in the military court on the 7th instant. Three of them, named Chü Kwai-cheun, Yan-sz, and Luk Hoo-tung, were identified by the men who were taken from Hongkong to Canton on board the Powan on the 10th ult. After final trial the three were carried in baskets to the Tin-tsz-ma-tau to be 6.25 decapitated.
$12.00 8.00
11.00
7.30 5.30 7.00
The big mansion named Wong-ka-chi, in Sheang-mun-ti, and the large house in Ham- ha-lan have been sealed up by the Canton officers as already reported. The former is the pro- perty of a rich family in Tung-kun district and 1.00 the latter belongs to a well-to-do gentleman in 5.00 Canton. The owners have gent petitions to the 278.15 Canton officers to he allowed to reopen the houses, for they say that they did not know $341.00 that their honses were used as the' dens of the
conspirators.
The tailors strike at Shanghai has ended and most of the journeymen resumed work on the 3rd inst.
The Kobe, Chronicle hears "it is by no means improbable that before many months are over Herr von Brandt will return to Peking as Minister for Germany."
The body of Ma, the late Governor of Can- ton, has been conveyed to Foochow by a gun- boat, which brought down a number of Can- South Formosan army. tonese soldiers who had formed part of the
expectant Tabtai and ex-Consul-General at The Hupao states that Huang Kung-fu, an Singapore, is now in Shanghai commissioned by the Viceroy Chang to settle French Catholic mission claim in the provinces of Kiangsu, Chekiang. Kiaugsi, and Honan, some of which have been cutstanding since 1888. Huang Taotai, who is now Commissioner of the Nan- king Bureau of Foreign Affairs, had already been conferring with M. Dubail, the French Consul-¡ General, and the Roman Catholic Bishop since Tuesday, 26th October, and the conference was expected to last a week or ten days.
The N. C. Daily News of the 4th inst. has the following note on the weather at Shanghai : We have had abnormal-weather this year as far as the cold is concerned. Snow was lying thick
in the Public Garden on the 19th of March, and the first snow which was preceded by hail, this season fell on Saturday night, the 2nd instant, some of the housetops being quite white. On Saturday night and Sunday morning there was ice. On Saturday evening, owing to the atmo- sphere being so much colder than the water, a thick white for rising some twenty feet appeared over the river. An inch and a half of rain fell on Saturday, before the snow.
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The China Guzette of the 4th inst. says:- The passengers who came up from the Empress boats early on Saturday had a most unpleasant experience and will not forget their stay in Shanghai in a hurry. A great many travellers came by the tender early in the day and took up their quarters in the Astor House and other hotels. 'They all left at about 6 p.. to catch the tender returning to both the Empress boats at Woosung, and as soon as they relinquished their quarters other guests were installed, as latterly the hotel accommodation of the place has been entirely inadequate to the demands upon it. To the intense surprise and disgust of the that the steamer would not go, in consequence travellers, on arriving at the jetty they learnt of the bad weather, until next day, but worse still, on their return to their hotels they found their ooms all filled up. Not one of the hotels had an empty room and the result was a general doubling up," something like what Lakes place when a crowded ship picks up a large number of shipwrecked passengers at sea. In the arctic weather prevailing any shelter was welcome and distinguished travellers were only too glad to get a chair in the smoke room "a shake-down on the floor.” A word. of explanation must be added in justice to the C. P. R. agents. The gale which prevented the working of the vessels at Woosung sprang up so suddenly that it was impossible to communicate the news sooner than it was communicated, and though the tender could have gone down to Woosung all right, it is probable that some of the passengers would have lost their lives in try. ing to board the steamers in such a blinding · snowstorm and heavy sea. But the incident once more emphasizes the pressing need which Shanghai feels for increased hotel accommoda tion.
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