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aster of the ferry launch Ting Ting, ich plies between Samanipo and Hongkong, was fined $25 on Saturday for carrying ten passengers in excess of the number allowed by his licence.
At the regular mecting of the Perseverance Lodge on the 16th inst. Bro. F. W. Edwards was elected Worshipful Master for the ensuing year and Bro. A. H: Bottenheim Treasurer.
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The appeal from the decision of the Magi- strate in the case in which the Captain of the Chingtu was fined for illegally detaining on board in this harbour certain Japanese stowa- ways has been abandoned.
A time-expired Portuguese sailor fell from the gangway of the Africa on the night of the 16th November and was drowned. His body was picked up near the Victoria Recreation Club next day.
The inquest on the body of the Diocesan School and Orphanage pupil was adjourned until this afternoon at the request of the Police. No further evidence was taken.
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We have to acknowledge receipt of the Records of the Second Triennial Meeting of the Educational Society of China, held at Shanghai, May 6-9, 1896. The book is printed at the American Mission Press, Shanghai, and must prove of interest to all friends of educa tion in China.
A smoking concert was given at the Institu- tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong- kong on Saturday night and notwithstanding other attractions the room was crowded. Mr. D. Gillies presided and a most enjoyable even- ing was spent, all the items on the programme being well received.
The chartered transport Cephalonia, with the Rifle Brigade for Singapore and details for Engby the Doric land, left on Monday afternoon at four o'clock. The troopship. went alongside the Kowloon Wharf on Sunday and the Brigade was em- barked at half-past nine on Monday morning.
A big seizure of opium was made on Saturdayodical. in the China Merchants Godown at West Point. 432 taels was the total and a foki admitted being in unlawful possession of it. He was arrested and on Monday was fined $500, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment.
Early on Saturday morning a fire broke out in the cookhouse of 188, Queen's Road West, a birds' nest shop. There was no trouble in extinguishing the flames and very little damage was done. The premises were insured with Messrs. Scheele and Co.. for $10,000 and the contents of the ground floor in the Northern Assurance Co. (Turner & Co.) for $2,500.
The fifth shooting competition of the Hong- kong Volunteers for the McCallum Rifle and Spoon took place on Saturday last. Best scores as under:-
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Total. yards, yards. yards. Gunner Deas 28 30 31 89 Sergeant McPhail 27 - 32 29 88 Gunner Gow
32 84 Sergeant Wylie... 28 29 19 76 On the 20th November a race was run between Mr. V. H. Deacon's pony Throstle and Mr. George Potts's pony Presto, the distance being half a mile. There was a small number of spec- tators present. Mr. Deacon rode his own pony and Mr. Ronald Potts rode Presto. The start was not a good one, Throstle getting a distinct advantage. He led by half a dozen lengths on passing the village, but nearing the straight Presto got nearer. He could not, however,
overtake the leader and the match resulted in a win for Mr. Deacon's pony by three lengths. The time was 1 min. 5 secs.
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On the 19th November Mr. George Grimble We have received a copy of the Doric Shim- gave a most enjoyable organ recital at Union bun, published at San Francisco, and dated Church. The congregation was a large one, 30th September. Apparently the passengers though the church was not quite so crowded as on her trip across from at the last ital. The programme furnished Yokohama had adopted as one of their forms an agreeable contrast to that on the last of amusement a ship's journal, illustrated, occasion, the pieces selected having all wit and this is a reproduction in permanent form exception been written for the organ, of the matter contained in that ephemeral peri-instead of being pianoforte music transcribed. The editorial staff is enumerated as The result was that Mr. Grimble's fine greater ad.: follows-Burton G. Squier, George Frederick execution was heard to much Clark. Miss Minerva Hennessey, Miss Belle vantage and was proportionately more high- Smith, Jesse Piver (Caricaturist), and Bob ly appreciated. The organ items were the
The (Sporting Editor). Shewan
cover Grand Offertoire in F. Major, by Lefé is a very elaborate pictorial production, bre Wély; Edouard Batiste's Andante in giving views of the good ship by which the G.; Sir Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord, conductors of the journal travelled. There is transcribed for the organ; the March of the a fund of humour in every page and the Medes, by Geo. Shinn, Mus. Bac., and the How Allegro movement of Handel's Concerto in caricaturist has done his work well. greatly the passengers enjoyed themselves. G Minor; all of which were very finely ren- may be gathered from the following para- dered. The vocal items were a sopraño solo graph:-"Noah said that a man who would by Senora Barbat, "Ave Maria," Bach Gounod, go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a tenor solo by Mr. E. Mirow, “If with all pastime. We do not agree with this ancient your hearts," from Mendelssohn's" Elijah"; pilot of a floating menagerie. Our trip and another tenor solo, by Mr. A. van Nierop,
to leave sincere "The Star of Bethlehem," by Stephen Adams has been so pleasant as regret with each passenger that it must end all of which must have given much satisfaction 80. BOON. Sixteen days of smooth seas, to the congregation, though the last named without the racks on the table, abundance solo, notwithstanding its title, is rather in the of food, cooked to suit epicures, and piss, oh! character of concert room music than of church those pies: they melt in your mouth; bowling, music. cricket, shuffleboard, quoits, chess, cards, sports, tank swimming, concerts,-all that we could do on shore; solid comfort and good-natured fan ruling each day; in short, any passenger who hasn't thoroughly enjoyed this trip must have a disposition that will sour fresh milk." AP pended to this are characteristic eulogiums on the captain and all his officers.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Spanish transport Covadanga passed through Singapore on the 9th November with nearly 2,000 troops from Spain for the Philip- pines.
At Foochow a fire broke out at nine o'clock on the night of the 9th November on the opposite side of the river a little to the west. ward of the road over the long bridge. It was a terrific conflagration and, lasted until the small hours of the morning. Upwards of a hundred houses were consumed and a great deal of valuable property destroyed, including a vast quantity of timber.-Echo.
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On Saturday night at the Volunteer Institute Surgeon-Colonel Evatt repeated his excellent lecture on The medical arrangements of an English Army in time of war." On the last occasion he lectured there was only a small at- tendance owing to the miserable weather, and it was unfortunate that on this occasion the At the Police Court on Saturday Mr. Van lecture clashed with other entertainments in Eps, Queen's Road Central, was summoned for the colony. As a consequence there was only removing and burying a body in the Roman a small though thoroughly representative au The production of gold in Peru is now. Catholic Cemetery without obtaining a permit.dience. Mr. T. Jackson presided and mentioned attracting much attention. According to a Mr. Dennys defended. Under Ordinance 16 that he met Colonel Evatt on the way up trade report dated Lima, 31st August, of 1896 a permit must be obtained from the from Shanghai to Hongkong and found him a animation and enthusiasm in connection with police when urgent interment is necessary. In medical enthusiast. The question of medical the production of gold are increasing every day
war to troops in time of this case the defendant advised the deceased's aid
in Sandia and Carabaya. In all parts of the friends to get a permit, but they did not do so vast importance and yet it was not fully recog-country syndicates and companies are in course of formation to exploit these territories, which and defendant in removing the body became nized, although the carnage in the wars of the liable. The Magistrate told the defendant that future would undoubtedly be much greater than some persons affirm surpass in richness those he would be held liable whenever he did not in the old days. Surgeon-Colonel Evatt then of South Africa." A nugget weighing 25 lb. get a permit. This was a new Ordinance and delivered his lecture and it was listened to with is reported to have been discovered at Carabaya. under the circumstances a fine of only $1 would as much attention as on the first occasion. The The country, however, would seem to be some- be imposed.
Chairman proposed a hearty vote of thanks to what dangerous. A Pisco letter of the 28th July From the Courrier de Saigon we learn that Surgeon-Colonel Evatt and said that the Army to the Lima Comercio says "The commission the German steamer Holstein has been seized Medical Corps was of the highest importance, appointed to explore the Inambaria river, on at Saigon for opium smuggling. The Customs and none could be higher in the whole army. arriving at Carabaya mountain, had had received private information as to there. There was nothing nobler in the world than fortunate adventure. Seven foreigners being opium on board and on the arrival of the ameliorating suffering and the medical profes- by the North Americans Lotarto and steamer found it immediately amongst the cargo sion was the highest calling a man could follow. were lost in the forest for ten days and were in the hold. The affair came before the Court The lecturer returned thanks and Major Car- attacked by the Campas savages in immense on the 10th November, when the master, Capt. rington, Commandant of the Corps, proposed a numbers. They fought desperately. Bruhn, was sentenced to a fine of $7,500 and to vote of thanks to Mr. Jackson for presiding and of them having been killed, two of the pay an equal amount to the Customs as damages. said that the Chairman had been ill during the fled, protected by the thickness of the The ship was held under arrest pending pay-last few days and it was a sacrifice on his part and the darkness of the night. Cooper remained ment of the money. This affair, our contem- to take the obair that evening. He (the Com- alone fighting and his fate is unkno porary adds, has produced some excitement mandant) would have to take the men of the who escaped were Germans and t amongst ship captains, who are inenaced every Corps to task for not turning up in larger num- the Santo Domingo mine in a pitis voyage with a contravention by the clandestine bers. The Chairman, in reply, said he hoped This mine, which has been purchas introduction of prohibited articles on board, it that Colonel Evatt would repeat the lecture, as North Americans who have not yet may be by the malevolence of Chinese-The the subject was one which appealed to every possession, produced in the first ten d Holstein arrived at Hongkong on the 21st man, woman, and child, and he did not think the July seven arrobas of gold. An arro November.
great body of the people were alive to this fact. equal to about 25lb.”
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