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which er and also a supplementary or the general proceedings of the Although the Committee cannot great change in the commercial tween China and Great Britain as sult of their efforts during the year, here is no doubt that their work has been con- ble, and the vigilance they have exercised in keeping the authorities at home fully informed upon questions of the moment will have its reward when the time for action comes. The appointment of Mr. Byron Brenan, as a commissioner to enquire into the state of foreign trade in China, was possibly due to a suggestion from the Committee in April 1895, and when Mr. Brenan arrived here the Committee lost no time in having important interviews with him. Besides that, the Committee drew up a letter to the General Committee in London, dealing with a number of important subjects, which has been brought to the notice of the home Government, and there is good reason to hope it will lead to results beneficial to British trade. The broad question of tariff revision bas also had the lively attention of the Committee; who express the hope that the knowledge they have imparted to the responsible officers of the Crown will be of service, should the Chinese Government enter upon direct diplomatic_recommendations for tariff revision. Several other matters which have engaged the Committee's attention are referred to, all having been raised with more or less success.N. C. Daily News.
THE GERMAN MINISTER TO TOKYO AND THE ALLEGED
ASSAULT.
According to a Tokyo press despatch of the 23rd January, translated by the Kobe Chronicle, communication was recently made by the authorities of the Metropolitan Police Bureau to the German Minister in regard to the alleged Assault by His Excellency on two students of the Seijo Gakko. The German Minister has replied saying that he had no intention of striking the students, but if the whip did in fact touch them, he was very sorry and ready to apologise. The Police authorities have res ferred the reply to the Foreign Minister. As a question, was asked respecting this matter in the House of Representatives, it is said that the results of the negotiations will be
reported to the House and the German Minister will write a letter of apology. It has been rumoured that the German Minister would go home in consequence of the trouble. This is incorrect. His term of service has expired, but His Excellency will not return to Germany until the negotiations for the supplementary treaty are completed. He is therefore expected o remain in Tokyo till about March next. His intention to return home has no connection, with the students' trouble..
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT./
MACAO
FROM OUR CO
ONDENT.
5th February The launch Thomas Andrea, built by Messrs. Geo. Fenwick & Co., of Hongkong, to the order of the Macao Government for Timor, was brought over here from your port on Saturday by our Harbour Master, Senor Albano Alves Branco, of the Navy. The vessel is intended for Timor, to carry troops up the rivers and creeks to the interior of that island.
On Wednesday seven prisoners in the public gaol effected their escape by making a hole in the roof Up to the present none of them have been recaptured. It is said they are the same men that on a previous occasion tried to make their escape from the Monte Fort prison. This is another proof that neither of the prisons are safe and the authorities should see to the provision of a better one.
The Right Rev. Bishop Medeiros died on the 7th January at Timor. The news only reached Macao yesterday. Saturday is to be observed as a day of mourning for the deceased prelate and all public amusements are to be suspended. The church bells were tolling every quarter of an hour yesterday and are to do so to-day and to-morrow.
The China New Year holidays are past. Was the order that Government servants should not gamble strictly kept? I believe not. It seems the order was only meant to apply to some and not to others. Laws should be applied im- partially. If there are to be exceptions it would be better to repeal them altogether.
The Leal Senado at its meeting of the 20th January voted the sum of $400 for the im provement of the Barra Fort district. This district is not in a very bad condition, and in the meantime we have many important public works left incomplete and others not com- menced. Here we have another instance of how things are mismanaged by the Leal Senado.
HONGKONG.
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The Hongl officers of the Gar on the 4th Fe The weather was spectators were few pleasant one all throu terised by any
no period was the
the Club scored two goals and nothing.
Four pawnbrokers were che Court on the 4th Febru business during prohibite believe, been the custom for colony to keep open their shops on New Year's Eve, but the defen
to their custome special facilities a.m. and therefore they were proce The Magistrate inflicted a fine of $10 defendant.
Four British sailors" got into Thursday night. Three of them the Centurion and they damaged tw coffee shop in Queen's Road. Each $7 and ordered to pay $2 compensation fourth man is a stoker on the Grafton and got drunk at West Point and set a dog on a number of Chinese, one of so seriously wounded that he had to in the Government Civil Hospital. The was remanded.“
The services of Dr. James A. Lov Assistant Superintendent of the Gove Civil Hospital, who was due back fro a few months, have been applied Bombay Government in connection suppression of the plague at Bombay Hongkong Government has granted the cation. Dr. Lowson's experience of the in Hongkong and his well-known energy and
the Bombay Medical staff.
skill will render him a valuable aoquisi
The weather has been cold and dull during the past week and an occasional ray of sunshine would be very welcome. Nothing of very great
Lately there has been put into fore interest has transpired in the colony since the last mail, the topic of conversation of course colony an old regulation providing
wearing of a uniform kind of hat by being the celebrated Carew case. The share-ricksha and chair coolies, and on Tuesday holders in the Hongkong Ice Company, Limited, met on Saturday, and the shareholders in the Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited, met on Tuesday, and in the afternoon a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Alice Memorial Hospital was held.
There were 2,874 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 232 were Europeans We have received a copy of a report on the Deep (Tin) Lead at Herberton, with five ex- planatory plates, by Mr. S. B. J. Skertchley, presented to the Queensland Parliament.
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A case of suicide by hanging was reported to the police on Monday afternoon. The deceased, an old Chinaman, was found suspended from beam in his house in Nullah Lane with a cloth girdle round his neck.
A beachcomber made his seventh appearance at the Magistracy on the 4th February. He is a Liverpool Irishman named Solon and he was charged with vagrancy. He was sent to gaol for three months with hard labour,
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was a big parade of the coolies at the Police station. They looked much mo sentable than usual, as they were highly respectable round hats which are in two colours, blue and red, and most of also wore their best clothes. This a much needed one and it is to be hoped the regulation respecting it will not be allowed to fall again into abeyance, start
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We have to acknowledge receipt of January number of The Rattle, which quite so sparkling as some of its still very entertaining. Here is one jokes She: "How did you like the Choral Society
Concert P He: “Oh, very soothing but there
thing incongruous aboutit, She:" What was it ?. He: "Well, they called it a Hymn of
** but the singers were all
They don't speak now as th On the 1st Februaı
ion of the very unfo
In the Juji Shimpo we read that the affair of the German Minister has been at length amicably arranged. It is stated that the Police authorities after careful investigation, for The M. M. steamer Oceanien, which was ad- warded a report to the Foreign Office, from vertised to leave for Shanghai at daylight on the which document it appeared that the complain 1st February, was prevented by dense fog from ant had actually received a blow in the face going through the Lyemun Pass and as there
erman Minister, on his side, affirmed that was no sign of the fog clearing the captain | w ad not had the slightest intention of strik- later in the day decided to go through the Green | which hailed
lad, that he accepted the presence of a Island Pass. proof of the justice of the complaint, willing to make any reparation in his e should think that even the most patriotic agitators who have mour about this affair should Japan Mail.
to mar the
Upwards of four hundred people were taken was before Commander Hastings on the 5th February for firing orackers after the officially allowed time. The defendants who resided within the area i the Government Civil Hospital were fined and those who resided outside the area were fined $13
at Shanghai hasi
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