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THE ILTIS LOST IN A TYPHOON.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE “DAILY PRESS."]
SHANGHAI. 29th July.
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The German gunboat Illis was totally wrecked in a typhoon on Thursday` last Flat Rocky Point, Sangkun Bay (on the eastern coast of the Shantung Promontory.)
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
It is notified in the Gazette that Dr. Carring- ton, Chief Justice, has been appointed Chairman of the Board constituted under the Squatters Ordinance.
At ten o'clock on Tuesday morning the Edgar left this station for England. Unfortunately a beavy shower of raid fell soon after the buoy was left, and consequently the hundreds of sailors who had mounted the rigging of the men-of-war in the harbour to give their depart ing friends a warm send off got drenched, but, nevertheless there was no mistake about the heartiness of their lusty cheers, and, judging by the ringing responses, the Edgar men
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The intense heat which few days ago played sad- deaths from heat apopl many residents were laid pros fiercely high temperature. Early morning of the 23rd July Francis bailiff attached to the Supreme Court. suddenly. He was appointed to the only last Thursday and was at work up to yesterday mid-day. There is no doubt that he succumbed to the heat. He was formerly in the Naval Yard Police.
Seventy-seven men and all the officers were lost, including Commander Braun, Lieutenants Holbach, Franstadter, and Prasse, and Dr. Warmly reciprocated the friendly feeling D. Sassoon was summoned for failing to comply
Hildebrandt. There was no Paymaster on board.
Ten men were saved.
[The Iltis has been on this station since 1887. She was a gunboat of 489 tons displacement, 139 ft. 8 in. long, and 25 ft. 1 in. beam. She was launched in 1878.]
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A Chinaman was on Monday sent to prison for two months for practising a somewhat ancient but still very common dodge. He has been in the habit of passing himself off as a humble fitter in the employ of the Government and by this means he has succeeded in finding flaws in perfectly sound taps in Chinese houses. After alleging scandalous waste of water he has offered to
square the case for, a bribe, and in many instances money has been given to him. On Sunday night, however, he tried A big dose of sunshine, several heavy showers the trick once too often. He went to the and a gale which was the fag end of a typhoon house of a police interpreter at West Point, have given us something to talk about in the went through his regular or irregular-basi. weather line this week, and the visit of a circusness, and demanded 50 cents. In two minutes has provided some evening amusement. On he touud himself lodged in the Police Station, Wednesday the Legislative Council met and and he will not be set at liberty again for two passed a few bills. The shooting case on the months. German steamship Martha has resulted in the acquittal of the detendunt. News has been received of the loss of the tierman, gunboat Mix in a typhoon on Thursday last on the Shautung Promontory, with × loss of seventy- saven lives, including all the afficers Only Ten then were saved.
The P. & O. steamer Palawan, which left ou Saturday for home, had on board a hundred and ten time expired men and other details from the Navy.
H.M.8. Grafton, carrying the flag of Rear- Admiral Oxley, arrived on the 22nd July and the usual salutes were exchanged. The Grafton relieves the Elgar.
The Registrar-General's returns of births and deaths for the quarter ended 30th June shows that for the British and Foreign com- manity the birth-rate was 16.86 and the death rate 22.36, and for the Chinese community the
birth rate was 2.71 and the death rate 23.65.
The China Merchants steamer Chiyuen, which arrived on the 27th July from Shanghai, reports that at 9 a.m. on the 24th July she spoke the stermer Strathesk at anchor fourteen miles S.E. by 8.18. from Patahecock with her pro- peller disabled and in want of assistance to tow ber to Shanghai.
On Thursday afternoon a Danish seaman named Hans Jansen was working over the side of the American ship Sintram when he fell overboard and was drowned. His body has not yet been recovered. The deceased was formerly on the Glen Caladh which caught fire in the harbour, and after this occurrence he was traus
ferred to the Sintrom.
Mr 8. T. Moore, an overseer in the Public Works Department, died suddenly on the 22nd July in the Government Civil Hospital. He had been at his work until Tuesday, but as he was suffering from pains in the head, he then went into hospital, where he died about half past three yesterday morning. He leaves a widow and a large family.
At the Police Court on the 23rd July, before Hon. Commander Hastings, a Chinaman was sent to gaol for three months for stealing a silver watch and chain from 3, Blue Buildings. The property belonged to C. H. G. Wilkinson, of the Naval Yard, and it is supposed that the prisoner climbed a telephone post, jumped on to the verandah, and stole the watch and chain from prosecutor's clothes.
There was one case of plague on the 21st July, none on the 22nd, two on the 23rd, one on the 24th, one on the 25th, one on the 26th, one on the 27th, and none on the 28th. We much regret to learn that on the 27th Miss McIntosh, one of the sisters at the Civil. Hos pital who has been in attendance at the Plague Hospital, was pronounced to be suffering from the disease. She is, we are glad to say, -progressing favourably.
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Mr. St. C. Michaelsen has two * unmuzzled
· ferocious dogs" at his residence at Hillside. Peak. One, a large black Chinese dog, bit a chair coolie on the 19th inst., and injured his leg. The coulie was paid a dollar, but he thought the injury was wirth. 87, and so he summoned Mr. Michaelson at the Police Court on the 21st July. The Magistrate, Hon. Commander Hastings. declared that the dog had lost his character. Then a Chinese detectire came forward with a complaint about another numuzzled ferocious dog. He went up to the house and was met by a fox terrier which resented his intrusion by biting him. In this case Mr. Michaelsen paid $2 compensation and the Magistrate ordered a conviction to be recorded against the fox terrier.
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A houseboy and a ccolie in the employ of Mr. A. P. McEwen were charged at the Police Court on the 21st July, the former with disorderly conduct and the latter with assaulting the rolice and attempting to lesene the boy from custody. P.C. Samuel heard the Loy making a great disturbance at the Peak tramway station and told him in Chinese to be quiet. The boy thereupon hissed some very bad English words he had learnt and persisted in his noisy conduct. The constable arrested him, and then the coolie kicked and struck the officer and tried to get the boy free. He failed hopelessly in the attempt, and in a very short time both the unruly ones were locked up. The boy was ordered to pay $5, with the alternative of four- teen days, for the display of his little and dangerous knowledge of a foreign tongue, and the coolie was sout to gaol for fourteen days without the option of a fine.
Major Moore had a unique experience early on Friday morning. He was sleeping soundly in his bed at the Peak Hotel when a tile of uo mean proportions rattled down and fell plump about two inches from the gallant Major's nose Of course this unwelcome in- trusion of the lively though inanimate visitor woke the sleeper, who resolved then and there to go on an exploring expedition. To assist him in his researches he took with him a cane and it was not long before his diligence was rewarded. He found that a contractor had started taking the roof to pieces, or something ef that kind, and in reply to the Major's re- monstrances the contractor was insolent, where upon the Major brought the stick down on the back of the contractor. The contractor did not seem to appreciate this method of teaching him not to again work careless'y at an unearthly hour in the morning and he summoned the Major at the Police Court on Saturday. The Magistrate, Hon. Commander W.C.H. Hastings, decided to bind Major Moore over in the sum of $1 to keep the peace for a week. Should another brick come down in the meantime, will the gallant and popular Major lose the dollar?
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At the Police Court on the 22nd July, before Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings, Mr. A. A.
with a notice to abate a nuisance on the first floor of 8, Kwai Wa Lane. Dr. Clark spoke to visiting the premises on the 16th inst. The floor was tiled with the exception of a small portion, about 4 feet by 2 feet 6 inches. That portion was covered with a boarding with apertures below, showing the ground floor in the room below. An application had been made for the first floor to be licensed as a common lodging honse, but witness had recommended refusal until the floor was better lighted. Inspector Reidie said "he served the notice on the 16th May, but the floor was in the same condition when he visited it on the 17th inst. Mr. R. K. Leigh was called by Mr. Deacon for the defence, and he gave it as his opinion that the place was not insanitary. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of a dollar.
The Registrar-General, in his report for 1895, says :-The repeal of Part III. of Ordin ance 11 of 1890, which enforced the registration of brothels, has resulted, us was anticipated in a large increase in the number of what are termed sly brothels." L., thốse which have no sign. board and are not need as public houses of enter- taiument. In September the number was estimated by the Police to be 124 and the number of inmates 424. These brothels are largely used by pimps as places of assignation for married women, and as it is known that in them young girls are introduced to a life of -- prostitution by their owners, they have been searched from time to time under warrant and rescues have been effected of girls who were dealt with under the Ordinance. Most of the sly brothels only occupy one floor of a house and some even only half of a floor. The in- crease in their numbers is naturally very prejudicial to family life among the poorer classes, and has been viewed with great dis satisfaction by the Chinese, but they cannot be persuaded to take the prescribed legal proceed- irgs against brothels, as that would entail an appearance in the witness box, from which they have a great aversion.
Police Constable Hoggarth has cause to reflect on an interesting psychological problem. He escaped without any bodily injury when arresting the Wanchai marderer a few months ago, but when on Sunday night he arrested three British bluejackets he not only sustained a very nasty discoloured eye and a swollen cheek, but his trousers were torn and his uniform cap and whistle lost. The explanation of the two extreme methods of treatment he received is perhaps to be found in the fact that the murderer was a low, uncivilized brute and too proud to soil his fingers on a “foreign devil's" flesh, while the Jack Tars had doubtless been to school and taught modern civilities and given injunctions to love peace and concord. The sailors belong to, the Edgar, and their names are J. Green, ak Englishman, Ainsley, a Scotchman, and J. Donogan, Welshman. They had had rather a boisterou and wet night ashore and late in evening Ainsley misbehaved himself middle of the road at Wanchai. The man told him to conduct himself proper then there was a general row. in which the th men participated. Hoggarth knocked two of the men down, but before assistance arrived he was very cowardly assaulted, his eye blackened, his cheek puffed up, and his torn in the souffle. However, the thre were eventually got to the Police Station on Monday they were taken before Hon. mander Hastings. Each man was sen for twenty-eight days with hard further ordered to pay the pensation for the damage default to be imprisoned for of ten days.