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It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. H. F. Carmichael has been authorised to be a surveyor of boilers of unlicensed steamships under 60 tons burden during the absence from the colony of Mr. W. Ranisey.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The Taikoo Club announces a bicycle tourna ment to be held on the Taikoo Grounds on Saturday, 6th November. The programme in- cludes four events, namely, one, three, and five mile handicaps and a veterans' one mile race. It is also intimated that a ladies' race can be arranged on the ground if sufficient inducement offers.
It is notified in the Gazette that under in- structions from the Secretary of State H. E, the Governor has appointed Dr. J. C. Thomson to be Assistant Surgeon in the Medical De- partment, with effect from 1st August last.
Another light was on 12th October thrown on On 12th October, on the application of the the case in which a man was charged last week Attorney-General (Hon. W. M, Goodman), with sending a threatening letter to the Captain the Chief Instice admitted Mr. Henry
Superintendent of Police and also with being Hursthouse as
in possession of a forged bank note. an attorney and proctor to
It seems that the man was not able to write and it was practise in the Supreme Court of Hongkong. on a coolie named Leong Wah for the murder The sentence of death passed at Singapore of his recruiter by throwing him overboard from the On Sang on the voyage down to Singapore has been commuted to penal servitude for life.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the hospitals:-
tening letter to Mr. May. On the day of the thought he engaged his son to write the threa- trial the son, whose name is A Ping, was seen at the back of the Court and he was detained for enquires to be made. While under deten- tion Sergeant Scott asked him if he would like to write a letter to his father. The boy replied The characters in this letter were compared with that he would and he thereupon wrote a letter. those in the threatening letter and an expert H.E..Sir William Robinson, G.C.M.G., $25
from the Registrar General's department de- clared them to be written by one person. Bradley & Co....
The Owen Ordish
boy was at once charged with sending the threa- The flag at the German Club was flying attening letter to Mr. May. After some evidence had been given the prisoner was remanded. On the magistrate, who committed him for trial, 14th October the boy was again brought before
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death of Mr. F. Hempel, of Messrs. Jasen and Co., of Amoy, which occurred at the Govern-. ment Civil Hospital on the morning of that date. The deceased was buried at the Happy Valley the same afternoon.
We learn that the defence of the south side of the colony has formed the subject of much correspondence between the Hongkong military authorities and the War Office during the last two or three years. Plans for the erection of forts were submitted a long time ago, and we understand they have now been approved. The necessary works will be undertaken with as little delay as possible, and it may be taken for granted that in a few months the safety of the south side will not give any cause for anxiety, It is said that the forts will be armed with Howitzers and mountain guns.
There was some keeu bidding at a land sale conducted by Messrs. Hughes and Hough on 13th October. The properties sold are known as Inland Lots Nos. 543 and 542, and upon them are the tenements known as Nos. 35 and 357, Queen's Road Central (abutting on the Western Market). The annual Crown rent of Inland Lot 543 is £1 13s. 9d. (88.10 and of Iuland Lot 543, £ 12s. 78. ($7.82), he properties are held under leases direct from the Crowns for the respective terms of 999 years each from the 16th November, 1857, under the usual terms and conditions contained in the Crown leases of this colony. The whole of the premises are let in one letting to a monthly tenant at $120 per month (the landlord A telegram received by the Singapore Secre-paying the outgoings), but as the houses con- tary of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., tain only two stories and a basement the rent Limited, from Raub, dated 11th October, states: might be (the advertisement said) considerably Rough cleaning-up of battery yielded 2,450 increased if the houses be rebuilt to the height ounces of amalgam, the estimated quantity of of the adjoining premises. The upset price stone crushed being 1,450 tons." The.propor-
was $20,000 and the bidding was very, brisk tion of gold in the amalgam, says the Straits antil $23,100 was reached, and it was for this Times, may be taken at 35 per cent., so 2,450 sum that the property was sold to Cheong Yau ounces amalgam would give about 860 ounces of To. gold, say 12 dwts. to the ton. On the 6th Sep- tember a general clean-up took place for the previous nine weeks' work, when 2,334 tons yielded 1,517 ozs. 5 dwts. 0 grs. of smelted gold, being an average of about 13 dwts. per ton.
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The Postmaster-General (Hon. A. M. Thomson) prosecuted a Chinese postman and a shop coolie at the Police Court on 12th Oct. for contravening Ordinance 1 of 1887. The post man was seen to carry letters to the steamer Honam just before she left for Canton on the 8th inst. The letters were ordinary mail matter and they contained money, but they had not been through the Post Office in the ordinary course. It was proved that the other prisoner collected the letters from Chinese hongs in the colony. The Magistrate ordered each de- fendant to pay a fine of $50. Another postman was charged with taking or sending letters to Canton by means other than through the Post Office, but this case was adjourned until Saturday.
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Messrs. Blackhead & Co. received information on 13th October that their loroba Johann Carl had gone badly ashore near Wong Cha, close to Shui Hing, on the West River. The vessel was chartered by Chinese and the cargo was general.
The finding of the Court Martial on Sapper McClintock, K.E., not having been confirmed by the Officer Commanding, the accused has been acquitted and has resumed duty. The charge against him was that of being incapa. citated for duty by alcoholism.
District Inspector Howe, of Newport, Co. Mayo, who was reported to have been appointed
He took up his duties on 18th October as Police Force, arrived here by the Kaisar-i-Hind. Deputy Adjutant General of the Hongkong
Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Shanghai Gas Co. have decided to raise the price of their commodity on 1st November. House lighting gas will be charged $2 per 1,000 feet instead of $1.85, while gas for heating and machine driving purposes will be raised from $1.65 to $1.80.
The German steamer Albingia (1,800 tons register) owned by Messrs. Becker & Co., of Kobe, has, we learn from the Hyogo News been sold to the Nippon Shosen Kaisha, Tokyo. She has been re-named the Toto-maru and will be employed in the coasting trade.
News has been received at Kobe by telegraph, London of Mr. R. N. St. John on the 9th inst. we learn from the Hyogo News, of the death in It is only a short time since he passed through Kobe as an invalid on his way home, animated by hopes of a speedy and complete recovery. All of bis-numerous friends in Yokohama and Kobe shared in that hope, and that he might return to Japan to resume his many interests and
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Although years of age Mr. St. John is an old resident of the Far East. He was formerly on the staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, but has been busy for some years as a broker on his own account in Yoko- hama. He took a keen interest in Freemasonry and enjoyed high rank in the Brotherhood. All sympathise with Mrs. and Miss St. John in their bereavement.
The China Gazette of the 7th September says:-"During the British Supreme Court pro- ceeding in Chambers to-day, in the case of the Emperor of Chius v. Bennertz & Co., Mr. W. V. Drummond aunounced that Tseng Taotai, Chief Director of the Kiangnan Pay and De- fence Department, died suddenly at Nanking last night. The Chinese are not slow to attri- bute his demise to his troubles in the notorious Bennertz suit, surmising that the Viceroy had called upon Tseng to make good all the losses incurred in this matter and that Tseng conse quently decided life was not worth living and acted accordingly á la Chinois." In a subse- quent issue onr contemporary says:-De mortuis nil nisi bonum; but we cannot help thinking that poor Tseng must have been sorely afflicted mentally and not physically, which caused him to shuffle off this mortal coil. He was a fine looking man, a Hunanese, of some 40 years, a near relative of the late Marquis Tseng, and nn. doubtedly had a high career before him.
On 18th October the new Japanese first class battleship Fuji, a sister ship to the Yashi- ma, arrived in Hongkong harbour on her way to Japan. She is the largest vessel that has yet been in these waters and as she steamed into the harbour she was the object of much admira- tion. The vessel, built by the Thames Iron- works Company, was successfully launched at Blackwall on March 31st, 1896, and named the Fuji-or The Peerless-the original intention being to name her the Fuji Yama, after Japan's celebrated mountain. The official trials in March this year proved entirely satisfactory, the first day's trial for six hours steaming over a 10 knot course off the month of the Thames with open stokeholds, giving a mean speed of 16-937 knots, with 10,200 indicated horsepower, The second day's trial for full speed gave a mean
The Taiyuan gold robbery to this day speed of 18-655 knots, with 14,100 indicated horse remains a mystery, the only possible solution power, the vessel being loaded to her deep being the filing of a duplicate key on board the load draught. The principal dimensions of this steamer; but a vacuum which occurred at the fine ship, which is an improvement upon the Tingwo Bank, in the French Concession at We have received the P. & O. time table Admiral class of the British Navy, she having Shanghai, on Saturday last, is accounted for in showing the proposed movements of mail | an additional deck forward and aft of the citadel, a very singular not to say cock-and-bull sort of steamers for the year 1898. On the homeward giving 8ft, more freeboard and providing ex- way. An employee of the bank stated that just route. the accelerated service commences with cellent quarters for officers and crew well above as he was getting futo bed he noticed a single the mail leaving on Saturday, 19th February, water, are as follows: Length between per- human hand, very much larger than life, rise after which Saturday will be the regular day of pendiculars, 374 ft.; length over all, 406 ft. from the floor from out of clouds of blue smoke. departure. The day of departure from Shang-6 in.; moulded breadth, 73 ft.; depth to top of It remained so for a few minutes and then hai is Tuesday, at 6.00 a.m. The time allowed for keel plate, 44 ft. 9 in.; mean water draught, disappeared. Next morning the man informed the mails to reach London from Hongkong is 26 ft. 3 in.; and displacement, 12,450 tons. his superior of this uncanny occurrence, and, twenty-nine days. On the outward ronts the She was designed by Mr. G. C. Mackrow, fearing mischief was portended, the pair ex- accelerated service begins with the muil leaving Naval Architect to the Thames Ironworks Com-amined the safes containing the treasure of the London on 4th Feb., which is due at Hongkong pany-who has had a very lengthened experience bank. Surely enough $300 was missing from on Sunday, 6th March; from the 2nd Aprilto 1st in such work-and her keel plate laid on one of them, and although a rigorous search October the day of arrival is Saturday, and September 1st, 1894. The time for her com. was instituted the safe bore no marks of having therafter it changes to Sunday again. No pletion was originally to have been five years been tampered with. The detectives were ac- -doubt, however, the voyages will continue to be from the date of signing the contract, but the quainted with the case and they are now
made, as heretofore, in several days less than war with China having broken out, this was looking for the owner of the mysterious hand. the schedule time.
subsequently shortened to thirty-three months. Mercury.
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