THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Mr. H. McCallum, Secretary to the Sanitary | PROBATES AND ADMINISTRATION board, said that on the 16th June lasta man
ho said he wrote the letter on the previous day called on him and witness explained what was required to be done before the cocklofts would be permitted.
In answer to Mr. Hastings witness said he received the application for permission to main- tain the cocklofts on the 10th June. The plan produced certainly showed that the partitions would be removed. The defendant was told last mouth what to do, but he had not carried out the instructions.
Mr. Hastings said there had been only a technical breach of the Ordinance. At the present time the cockloft at 92, Winglok Street was legal.
His Worship said Mr. McCallum had warned defendant over a month ago that the cooklöfts were illegal, and Inspector Reidie had from time to time requested their removal. Nothing, however, was done until the summons was issued. The full penalty, $25 for each house, would be imposed.
Dr. Clark asked his Worship to order the removal of the cockloft at 142, Praya Central.
Mr. Hastings asked that no such order should be made, as the removal of the opium bed or partition would make the erection quite legal.
His Worship agreed with Dr. Clark and made the order asked for, the removal to be accomplished within twenty-four hours.
Six other summones were heard against pro- perty owners for maintaining illegal cocklofts, and fines ranging from $10 to $25 were imposed
THE POST OFFICE.
The Postmaster-General, Hon. A. R. Travers, in his report for 1895, saya :-
The present Post Office is utterly inadequate for the requirements of the colony. So far back as Mr. Lister's time and frequently during my tenure of office the necessity for a new office has been urged upon the Government. (See Postmaster General's reports for 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1893.) The work of the office continues rapidly increasing, and it is hoped that the erection of the new office, which I understand is in contemplation, will be pushed forward with all possible celerity. The rate at which the business of the Post Office is increasing also renders it desirable that the dimensions of the new office should be far in advance of actual present requirements.
I would draw attention to the extreme in. convenience which is caused by the shortness of the stay made at this port by the outward French mail, which frequently arrives on the same morning that the homeward mail leaves, and leaves again the same afternoon after a stay of from 8 to 10 hours. In that time the homeward has to be sorted, the outward mail prepared; and despatched, and the Shanghai and Coast and Northern mails sorted. The result is that there is not always time to sort the whole of the Shanghai mail, which has therefore frequently to be despatched only partly sorted. All this inconvenience might be obviated if the French authorities could be induced to allow the mails to be sorted on board the steamer, on her way up from Singa pore, by an officer of this department as is done on the English mail. Such an arrangement was actually completed at one time (see my reports for 1889, 1890. and 1891); but the French authorities suddenly withdrew the privilege. I think the time has arrived when the question should be re-opened.
The Agencies at the Coast Ports have been managed satisfactorily, with the notable ex- ception of Hankow, the Agent at which port has given an infinite amount of trouble by his repeated delay in forwarding his accounts and neglect to reply to numerous letters from this office on that and other subjects.
The question of illicit Chinese Post Offices has again occupied the attention of the Gov. ernment, and a large number of Chinese who ere found to be illegally forwarding, corre- ondence to Manila, Haiphong, Bangkok, and her places were warned that from
1896, the law would al and the exception December would seem action taken has
Tigo-
IN 1895
The following is the calendar of probates and administration granted by the Supreme Court of Hongkong during 1895, exclusive of Chinese estates under $1,000":
L
Name of Testator
or Intestate. George William Hayden Helen Christina Joseph.........
HARBOUR MASTERS REPOR FOR 1895
The following is Harbour Master
The total
amounted to 15,6 1,883,443 tons over
tons, and 36,853 departu
The increase in European consti amounted to 1,056,404, of this a tion is to be found under the British owing to a new river steamer, the which during the year made
Value of
Effects.
1,300
7,900
were 36,908 arrivals wit
Thomas Henry Dalby
2,918
Baron Jean Miller Grandmaison...
200
Leong Yut Hoi ......
6,000
Christian Friedrich Rapp............
22,572
Ching Kwong Ming
8,000
Ernest Arnold Linck..
5,700
Robert Fraser-Smith
1,000
Ng Tun Yuen alias How Qua Henry Bridges Endicott Charles David Bottomley
10,000
25,200
92,772
Harry MacDonald Becher Li Yam
300
3,000 2,400
. £33,130.18.9.
Marens Octavious Flowers
Ng Tat Cho........
George Hughes
Leung King Ham
Chan Ynen Koon Samuel Walker
John Copeland
George William Soelling
Henry Steele
Le Choong:
Robert Lyall
Peter Hunter
Wong Tsing Ngan alias Wong Chuen José Miguel Victor de Figueiredo.
Li Yik Chi
Ho Yat Cho..
William Mann ...............
Alfred Bowe
John David Kiley
£7,870.17.9 4,500 9,000 11,675
100 10,500
6,000 9,300
400
£16,076.9.8
16,000
17,000
2,000
7,000
Alexander Pope Porter
7,800 2,250
Tong King Sing
2,500
Yeong Liu alias Yeong U..
4,000
Francisco Simao Rangel
2,500
Mak Chan Nam alias Mak Mow Ki
3,500
Sui Shun Kwong
1,750
Cheung Luk U
12,000
Leung Shek Tin..
11,000
Chan Ping Tso
35,000
Lum Tai otherwise Lam Nang Mi
otherwise Lam Shing Chi...
14,000
Shek Ching Chuen.......
5,900
William Jones
GO
William Thomas
2,600
Joaquim das Neves e Souza
6,090
Chow Yung......
4,000
Agostinho d'Azevedo.....
4,000
Wilhelm August Ferdinand Schmidt
4,500
Henry Charles Abbott Harris
6,100
Isaac Bernard
43,902
21,100
50
3,900
1,244
3,000
1,414
...
2,200
8, 200
10,000
1,600
67,400
7,100
2,000
2,200
8,750
140,500
Robert Francis
14,415
18,000
Venancio de Aranguren y Larando
14,300
Fan-A-Sing alias Fan Yuen Sing.....
4,200
John Digby French
Zachary Brooke Dinge
20J 1,450
Hans Christian Heinrich Hoppius
43,000
950
Walter George Dickson............. Donald Frater...
22,141
2,800****
Lau I-Sham .........
5,000
Gothfried Weber-
400
Chow Ping
བབས།
Burjorjee Rustomjee Mody John otherwise John Huddow. Mac-
donald...
8,500 11,000.
61,200
Albert Deacon
3,200
Louis Mendel..
9,000
Lo Man On alias Lo Siu Francis Simpson Orumanney William Ro
George Whitlock ....
Januario Antonio dos Remedios Yam Wing
Ng Ho......
David Moncrief Wright
Lam Hi Ying.
Mok Chi Wing
Alice Marian Goddard
Edwin Byrne
Adolph Alexander Emile Meyer... Yeong Shuey Lun
TEO Lo Kiu
· Charles Button
and thus accounted for 21,888 the transfer to the british flag durin of certain vessels usually flying flag," but 638,631 tons of this 8 per cent.) represented bona fide British tonnage. An increase of 245,1 is found under foreign flags, chiefly Here again the temporary transfer of of the belligerents plays an important here again 147,249 tons (or 5. represented in the more direct mar junk trade also shows a very satisfactor crease of 201,576 tons in the foreign:
.r
125,463 tons in the local trade; about 88,000 tons of the former is owing to an addi departmental regulation; the remaining 115,000 tons, however, represents increased trade.
It is an interesting statistical fact the total tonnage entering and clearing at Hong- kong last year (exclusive of local trade) exce the 1894 tonnage entering and clearing at don (exclusive of coasting trade) by 775,706 also that, excluding our junk trade altog the tonnage entering in 1895 exceeded the tonnage at Liverpool (exclusive of con trade) by 1,036,008 tons, and at Car 1,047,195 tons; while at Hongkong in 1895 British tonnage alone exceeded the British Foreign tonnage (exclusive of coasting trade) at Newcastle (the next port in the United Kin dom) by 3,641,524 tons.
The actual number of ships of En construction, exclusive of river steamers entered the port during the year being 336 British and 250 foreign. entered in the aggregate 3,051 times, a total collective tonnage of 4,114,403 tons. The 336 British ships, exclusive of steamers, that entered the port in 1895 2,410 British officers and 42 foreigners. proportion of foreigners in British. therefore 1.8 per cent. comprising nationalities.. The 250 foreign shipe entered in 1895 carried 1,588 officer
by
132 were British. The proportion of Brit in foreign ships-was-therefore 8.3 per cent. distributed under three different flags, of which the Chinese takes over 6 per cent.
A DAS TRADE VIUNO
4,450 steamers, 96 sailing vessels, and junks entered during the year, givi
average of #85 vessels as against (It is worthy of note that on and
during the year, viz., at 10a.m. 5th April, th were in the harbour 241 trading vessels,1 69 steamers, 8-sailing vessels, and 164 For European constructed vessels daily entry would be 12:45 as against 1894, and of the steamers arriving 73.5 were British, including all the river ste of which the daily entries. aver Having been absent from the
six months of the year under re
a position to offer any ge the influences at work during
they appear from the shipping the general trade of the
however, that th
may have been, were
isposed
us. The March quarter of net increase over the same trade
represented by
tons
The Russian Volunteer Fleet steamer Tam-224,371 boff, Capt. Ivanovsky, from Odessa, arrived on Septem Saturday, bound to Vladivostock She has on the
| board 64 passengers, 23 officers, and 775 soldi
As she passed, the French mail ste
ner:
at anchor, all the Tamboff or passenƒ sembled on deck and loudly cheered the French-
man.
year!
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