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modelled Brigade at Woosung to be also under the special orders of the last-named General. Of these troops one-third are armed with breech-loaders, and the remainder with muzzle loaders.-N. C. Daily News.
CO-OPERATIVE CARGO BOAT CO.
OF SHANGHAI, LIMITED. "
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The annual meeting of the Co-operative Cargo Boat Company of Shanghai, Limited, was held on the 3rd March, when the report and accounts were adopted and passed. The report showed that the balance at credit of working account was Tls. 17,480.79 or Tls. 5,609,36 less than the previous year. An interim dividend of 5 per cent. was declared on August. 5th last, leaving a balance at the credit of profit and loss account of Tls. 14,048.66, which it was proposed to appropriate as follows-To final dividend of six per cent. (making 11 per cent, for the year), Tls. 6,000, to be transferred to reservé and maintenance account Tis. 6,000, to be car- ried forward Tls. 2,048.66.
SHANGHAI FLOUR MILL CO., LIMITED.
The Directors of the Shanghai Flour Mill Co., Limited, in submitting the statement of accounts of the Company to the 31st December, 1897, say:-The profit and loss account shows a balance to credit of Tls. 1,206.24, which amount it is proposed to carry forward to new account. The mill commenced working on the 1st December last, but up to the date of this report operations have been almost entirely of an experimental character. The machinery is now giving every satisfaction; the products of the mill being of excellent quality, are gaining daily in favour with consumers and it is an- ticipated will very soon command a good posi- tion on the local and outport markets.
SEA SERPENTS IN TONKIN.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
hospital for women and children, but they have expressed themselves as in favour of the hos- pital being built on a high level. During the week the shareholders in the following public Companies met :--Humphreys Estate and Finance Company, Hongkong Rope Manufactur. ing Company, and Olivers Freehold Mines.
Jea serpents have made their appearance in Tonkin waters not one only, but a number of them. The gunboat Avalanche has seen them. The first occasion was in Along Bay, in July last, when one Was seen, its length being estimated at 65 ft. and its diameter
was
ut from 2 ft. to 3 ft. A shot fired at it from a distance of 650 yards, but fell short, and the creature disappeared. On the 15th February last, in Faitsilong Bay, several similar creatures were seen.
Chase was
given and shots were fired at one of them, at a
distance of between three and four hundred yards, and at least two of the shots hit, but they glanced off without inflicting any in jury. An attempt was made to strike it with the vessel's stem, but the serpent's speed was greater than that of the Avalanche. As soon as it neared shallow water, however, it doubled, which enabled the gunboat to keep up with it, and at one time it seemed as if it was going to be overtaken, but it dived and reappeared at the stern. The chase was kept up for an hour and a half and then had to be abandoned on account of darkness. On the 24th February two more of the animals were seen in the same Bay. The captain and eight officers of the Bayard were on board the Avalanche at the time. The account of the various appearances is published in the Courrier d'Haiphong on the authority of Lieutenant Lagresille, the commander off the Avalanche.
HONGKONG.
The situation in the North and the recom mencement of the rebellion in the Philippines have been sources of much excitement in Hongkong, during the past week. There is as little definite known about the one as about the other. Prince Henry of Prussia and his quadron, to wit one ship a quarter of a century old and the other a cruiser, arrived here on the 8th inst. His Royal Highness has been well received and next Monday in con- quence of his ship the old one-going into dock, he will be the guest of H.F. the Acting Governor until the repairs, which are very extensive, are completed. The Diamond Jubilee Committee bare abandoned the idea of purchasing Craigieburn for the purpose of a
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There were 3,105 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 235 were Europeans. The Rev. Samuel St. Aidan Baylee, formerly naval chaplain at Hongkong, has been appointed rector of Washford Pyne, Devon.
The Victoria Recreation Club proposes to hold athletic sports on the 2nd April, for which a programme of twenty-two events has been arranged.
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Two shopmen in the Central Market were on the 4th March each fined $25 or two months' imprisonment for being in possession of de- fective scales.
The maximum temperature last month was 77.2, on the 17th, and the minimun 46.6, on the 25th. The mean for the month was 62.7. The rainfall amounted to 2.52 inches
A Chinaman was on Thursday fined $100 with the alternative of three months' imprisonment for being in unlawful possession of three rifles, five revolvers, and a quantity of ammunition. The arms and ammunition were ordered to be confiscated.
Seventeen gamblers were charged at the Police Court on Saturday before Commander Hastings. They were caught by Detective Sergeant Gidley and his assistants in a house at 30, Aberdeen Street. The two keepers were fined $25 each and the remainder $3 each.
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It is with much regret we have to record the death of Mr. E. Tomlin, who left by the Yarra for home seriously ill. Mr. Tomlin was the second son of the late Mr. G. L. Tomlin, of the Hongkong Civil Service, and was a "Hongkong boy.' After completing his education in Eng- land Mr. Tomlin returned to Hongkong and obtained an appointment in the office of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, in whose employ he con- tinued up to the time of his death. He deve- loped excellent business qualifications and had the reputation of being one of the best shipping clerks in the Far East. He had latterly been stationed at the firm's Shanghai branch. Mr. Tomlin was prominent on the local turf as an owner of race poines, and his early death will be sincerely regretted in sporting circles and by his numerous friends and acquaintances. He had ponies running at our recent Race Meeting, at which he intended to have been present himself, but on his arrival in Hongkong the doctors recommended him to go on to Europe im-
mediately in order to undergo an operation, cancer in the stomach having declared itself, but it would seem the disease was too far advanced to permit of his reaching home. He died on board the Yarra between Singapore and Colombo.
The captain of the Bayern had an amusing experience on the voyage to Hongkong from Singapore. At the latter port the captain received mails for Prince Henry of Prussia and his squadron, and he was asked to hand them over should be meet the ships at sea. Оп Monday night the Bayern was nearing Hong. kong when the captain observed two warships in the distance. Thinking they were Prince Henry's ships he signalled to them to stop and take the mails on board. The ships did stop, and no doubt considerable curiosity was excited on board by what was probably looked upon as a strange request on the part of the Bayern captain. A boat containing an officer and sixteen men was quickly lowered from one of the ships and she was pulled through a very hoary. sea towards the German mail steamer, which was reached after a great deal of hard work. To the surprise of the captain of the Bayern there was not a single German amongst the whole boat's crew. They were all Russians, and they had come not from Prince Henry's squadron but from the two Russian cruisers that arrived here yesterday morning. Explanations of the amusing error were of course very easy, but the crew of the boat did not seem to relish the prospect of having to pull back through a lumpy sea to their ships, and so the boat was taken in tow of the Bayern and dropped when only a short distance from the Russian cruisers. The Bayern passengers enjoyed the fun immensely and they did not forget to talk about 'it on ariving in Hongkong.
[March 12, 1898.
The Committee met on Tuesday and drew the semi-finals for the Hongkong Football Challenge Shield as follows:-25th Company, S.D., R.A. v. Kowloon-to be played next Saturday, 12th March, at half-past four. Referee Mr. J. W. L. Oliver. G. Company, K.O.R., v. H.M.S. Centurion, to be played on Saturday, 19th March, at half-past four. The final will be played on 26th March.
We understand that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the leave of the Colonial Secretary (Hon. J. H. Stewart Lock hart). Mr. Lockhart will leave for Europe on the 19th inst. And will be absent from the colony for about six months. The reason of his departure is due to privato affairs. Hon. H. E. Wodehouse will act as Colonial Secretary, Mr. A. W. Brewin as Registrar-General, and Commander W. C. H. Hastings as Magistrato during 'Mr. Lockhart's absence
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Mr. N. J. Ede, who is shortly retiring from his post as Secretary of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited, which he has held for the last twenty-seven years, was on Thursday presented with an address from the members of the Eastern staff of the Society, the address being accompanied by a souvenir in the shape of a gold watch. Mr. Ede, we understand, does not leave until May, but the opportunity was taken of the presence in Hongkong of Mr. Douglas Jones to present the address yesterday.
afternoon Mr. H. Cook, manager and secretary Shortly before one o'clock on Wednesday
of the New Club, was found dead in bed. Mr. Cook was formerly the manager of the Mount, Austin Hotel and in that capacity he earned the respect of his employers and of the
visitors to the hotel. When the Mount Austin Hotel was closed he was selected for the secretaryship of the New Club, and in that capacity also be earned the respect of all who were brought in contact with him. His sudden death was at first supposed to have been caused by heart disease, but a post mortem examination disclosed the presence of an irritant poison, and en inquest will be held.
The following promotions in the Police Force were mentioned in Monday's orders.-Inspec tors Duncan and Hannah, from second to first class; Inspectors Robertson, Baker, and Moffat, from third to second class; Sergeants D.
Macdonald, Ford, and Cuthbert, to be third- class Inspectors; Acting-Sergeants Williamson, Withers, Collett, Gidley, Gourley, Coutts, and Sergeant Dymond, to be Acting Sergeant; P. J. Smith, to be Sergeants; Temporary Acting-
C. Ritchie, to be Lance-Sergeant; P. C. Clark, ing-Sergeant; P. C. Rogers, to be Acting-Ser- to be Lance-Sergeant; P. C. Hood, to be Act- geant; P. C. Dickson, to be Acting-Sergeant; and P. C. Fenton, to be Lance-Sergeant:
The Russia men-of-war Sissoi Veliky (Sissoi the Great) and Navarin arrived here on Wednes- Navarin is of 9,476 tons, 338 feet long, with a day from Singapore or their way northward. The beam of 67 feet, and was built at St. Petersburg in 1891, costing £772,995. Her principal arma- ments are four 12-inch guns each of 52 tons, and six 8-inch guns, and her speed is 16 knots. The Sissoi Veliky was built at St. Petersburg in 1894, and her displacement tonnage is 8,880, her length 341 feet, beam 66 feet, and horse- power 8,000. She cost £796,333, and her main arms are four 12-inch guns and six 6-inch weapons. It is reported that they are to re- main bere for the next two weeks.
Joseph Neubrunn, a harman employed at the "Land we live in " public-house, was charged before Commander Hastings on Wednesday with assaulting Stevens Dobbs, a fireman on a British steamer. The complainant's story was that he had breakfast in the "Land we live in" and afterwards drank two or three glasses of whis- key. Defendant and another man then dragged him out of the bar and defendant struck him across the nose with a bamboo. The conse- quence was that his nose was broken and he had to be treated at the hospital. The defen- dant's version was that he had to get the com. plainant out of the bar. Complainant struck him and made him so angry that he picked up the bamboo and committed the assault. The Magistrate fined the defendant $25 with the alternative of six weeks' imprisonment with bard labour and also ordered him to pay the complainant $5 compensation with the alterna- tive of further imprisonment for fourteen days,
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