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cargo boat heavily laden with earth for the Praya Reclamation got stuck in the mud at Yanmati, and in order to lighten the boat seven coolies dumped a quantity of the earth into the water. Fortunately they were caught and on the 1st October the Magistrate fined each of them $3.
Another,satire on the pure and clean hands of the community," as mentioned at the re- cent maiden sessions has to be reported Since the remark was made the community has been in a decidedly impure and unclean state and tragedies have been frequent. The present tragedy is unromantic and of a common order. A. ricksha builder named Old On Cheong has his premises at 68 and 70, Queen's Road East, and he has several men in his employ. One of them is Lam Hung, a ricksba Luilder, and on the 30th September be quarrelled with one of the fokis and with one blow of the fist killed him. Lam Hung disappeared and Inspector Manu, on being informed of the occurrence, at once telephoned to the Central Station and also sent out detectives, accompanied by the shop fokis, to look for the man, and at 3.30 a detective and a foki saw Lam Hung in Caine Road and arrested him. The accused has been committed
for trial.
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The coxswain of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, & Co.'s launch, the Tweed, has been arrested on a charge of unlawfully causing the death of Su Cho I, a married woman, 23 years of age. The launch was entering the harbour from Lyemoon Pass at 7.15 on Sunday night when she ran into a sampan. The sampan was upset and three
were thrown into the water. Two were resoned by P.C. Whybrow (63), who put off in a small boat from Shaukiwan; the third woman was also rescued, and all three were put on board the launch, which was ordered to go at full speed to the Harbour Master's wharf. On the way there Su Cho I died and the coxswain was thereupon arrested. The other two women were taken to the hospital. The coxswain was brought up at the Police Court on the 5th October and remanded.
The typhoon gun was fired at 7.20 a.m. on Monday and the sampans and cargo boats at once made for places of safety. Most of the steamers in port also thought it advisable to seek shelter behind Stonecutters or in Kowloon Bay. The weather was threatening during the day and a little sea got up in the harbour, and about five o'clock in the afternoon the Kowloon ferry launches stopped running. About 4 m. on Tuesday the wind was blowing in rather strong In reference to the recent assaulton a Hong-gusts, accompanied by heavy rain squalls. This kong shooting party, the following despatch has
weather continued throughout Tuesday until been addressed by the Consul at Canton to the about 6p.m., but the gusts of wind never reached Colonial Secretary :-----
full typhoon force, the maximum being 9. During the afternoon the wind worked round to the south-east and about 7 p.m. died away. A considerable sea was running in the harbour throughout the day and business afloat was almost entirely suspended. The C.P. steamer Empress of China arrived early in the morning and anchored in Kowloon Bay, her mails being hrought over by the stevedore's launch. Most of her passengers remained on board until the evening. She had, we hear, a very fine passage until within a few hours of Hongkong. The only casualty we have heard of was the breaking up of a dust boat near Old Pedder's Wharf. The typhoon passed about a hundred miles to the south of the colony.
Canton, 26th September, 1896. Sir.-In continuation of my despatch No. 107 of the 7th inst., I have the honour to inform you
that I am in receipt of a despatch from the Viceroy enclosing the preliminary report of the Hsin-an Magistrate on Mr. Potts' case, and stating that he has sent renewed orders prompt- ly to punish the ringleaders and to have the proclamation issued by H.E.'s orders in August fast posted in all the Deep Bay district villages. From the Magistrate's report, it appears that, in consequence of the Viceroy's very stringent instructions, police were at once sent to the Nin-kan village to find the coolie and to arrest the ringleaders.-I have, &c.,
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(Signed) E. H. FRASER, Acting Consul.
MISCELLANEOUS,
The U.S. Consul at Foachow, Mr. J. Court- ing his temporary absence Mr. William C. Hixson takes charge of the Consulate as Acting Consul.
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The Viceroy stopped and looked around at the reporters. Are you the best representatives of your papers ?" he asked. "Because you are very poor representatives of your papers." This occurred at a press interview granted by H.E. Li Hung-chang at New York. The Viceroy can be frank-at times.
We. have to acknowledge receipt of No. 5 of The Rattle and may say it is a rattling goodney Hixson, has gone home on furlough.. Dur- one. The subject of "Celebrities of the Turf" is this time Mr. Sidney Reynell. Under the heading of "Cricket we find several por- traits that will amuse and interest the friends of the originals. The full page cartoon is "All round the Racecourse in September," and introduces the various sports going on, including The Little Girls' Tennis Club." Terrible Domestic Tragedy in Hongkong" is the sensational heading to the tale of how three kittens met their death in the typhoon, in which an ode by the local laureate is introduced. The account of the sad affair is duly illustrated and one of the portraits is not half a bad likeness, barring stature. (N.B. We do not refer to the portraits of the kittens.) "The Little Minister Again is amusing though not for the Minister probably. We have not exhausted the list of contents, but would refer our readers to the Rattle itself for the remainder.
We regret to have to announce the death of Fleet Paymaster Bremner, of H.M.S. Centurion, who arrived here on the 29th September from the North by the Rainbow invalided. On his arrival he was removed to the Naval Hos- pital, but very little hope was entertained of his recovery, and he died on the after- noon of the 30th. Mr. Bremner was very popular both in the Navy and on shore, and his death will be sincerely regretted by a large circle of friends. Some twenty years ago he held an appointment in the Naval Yard here. The funeral took place on Thursday at the Happy Valley, full naval honours being accorded the de. ceased. The procession, which started from the Naval Hospital, was an exceedingly long one and was-composed of most of the naval and military officers in Hongkong and detachments from the men-of-war in the harbour and the various corps in garrison. A large number of private residents also attended. The funeral march was played by the band of the Rifle Brigade, and after the body had been lowered into the grave a salute was given:
At the recent trial of three men for coining silver dollars near Yangchow, the curious de- fence was raised that "the counterfeit dollars were not made with the object of being passed off as good money, but for certain shops to put into their safes in order to deceive bandits who came to plunder them!"-N. C. Daily News.
While on her way from Hakodate to Yoko-. hania, on the 9th September, we learn from a Japan contemporary, H.M. storeship Humber collided with the Kumagawa-maru, the quaran- tine vessel at Nagahama. The Japanese steamer had her bows damaged, and it is reported that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha have demanded com- pensation.
The N. C. Daily News of the 24th September says:-On Tuesday morning the American ship Luzon, from New York with a cargo of kerosine oil, consigned to the Standard Oil Co., stranded on the Woosung bar. The ship at the time was drawing 19 feet 9 in. and the water signalled at the signal station was 20 feet 4 in., but while crossing the bar she took a sheer and stranded, taking the ground on a right amidships. All ridge of hard sand efforts to float her on that tide failed and she remained until yesterday morning. As the tide fell the vessel remained suspended on the ridge, with the consequence that she became seriously hogged and it was feared that her back was broken. She was floated off at high water yesterday and towed up to Shanghai, The steamer Guernsey, which was following the Luzon across the bar, was run on shore to avoid collision and remained three until yesterday.
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In noting the ar British steamer Stru 23rd September, from 6,000 toms of rails and rail Peking and Tientsin Timi called at Labuan for the is interesting to note how rapidly gaining favour as a coaling station Mr. Huang, the Shanghai Magistr panied by several of the gentry of the
ber went over to Pootung on the 27th
here This survey the foreshore accretions owing to a report that large number: owners in Pootung while enjoying advantages of extended area have been taxes only according to original measurement: N. C. Daily News,
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The Nagasaki Express says:-The rice crops this year are estimated to be some 80 to 90 per the cent. below the usual yield, on account havoc worked by the floods and storms in the
In this island, however, the y north. very far above the average; in fact, is sai nearly double what it has ever beenfor Kumamoto the amount raised is said to be 1,500,000 koku, whereas 950,000 koku is the average amount produced in the district.
According to a Shanghái nitive paper, Chinese named Shen has gone into partner with a German merchant with the object of opening a manufactory for the making of tin. foil with foreign machinery. The foil is for the paper sycee which devout Buddhists burn. It has been calculated that, the Buddhists and Taoists of the three (prefectures of Sungkiang, Soochow, and Chinkiang in Kiangsu expend nearly a million and a half dollars yearly in burning silver joss-paper.
The steamer Oak Branch, now in Yokohama harbour with a cargo of case oil, is one of type of vessel which is apparently destined to come into wide use in the future. She is of the whale-back kind, but unlike that class she has a properly formed bow with a straight stem, her after part being also like that of an ordinary steamer. For this design it is claimed that cargo can be loaded and discharged far more promptly than in the case of ordinary vessels, and there is no rolling in a sea-way Japan Advertiser.
The Peking and Tientsin Times of the 26th September says:-The exertions of tho Taku Tag and Lighter Co. during the past three weeks to scour the river by means of centrifugal pumps have been partially crowned with success, and on the 21st inst. two lighters were able to reach the Bund. Since that date three or four. have arrived every day, but their draught does not exceed 5 feet. When the breach is closed the river will doubtless improve very quickly and it now seems within measurable distance of our having steamers at the Bund.
The British Consul at Amoy has issued an express warning masters, officers, and crews of vessels visiting, Amoy that thefts are very pre- valent at that port The Amoy Gazette says:-- This lamentable state of affairs is hardly as tonishing, when we remember that there is no Harbour Police here; that thieves, when arrested and sent in to the authorities, are either let off altogether or are only lightly punished, that there is no check on the pawnshops, which are allowed to advance money on things manifest! stolen, and that some of these shops are not on receivers of stolen goods, but instigators of theft. Lastly, there is no control or supervision exercised over opium dens and brothels, which form meeting places for thieves, where they can devise thefts without interruption.
The Shenpao reports that on the 26th Sept, a foreigner accompanied by his hunting. on a pleasure trip over to Pootu vicinity of the Oil Tanks ant Tang bridge was unaccountal party of roughs,, who aboun .The foreigner was pretty badly managed to escape with the lo several odds and ends, and his dog, cruelly killed. The Taotai upon of the outrage at once order Magistrate to investigate next day the tipao of the that official and
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