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placed his services at the disposal of the Govern- ment free of charge, and Dr. Gomes da Silva, the Colonial Surgeon, has already availed him. self of Dr. Marques's assistance. Everyone knows the generosity of Dr. Marques in giving bis professional services to the poor whenever he is able to render assistance and his action on the present occasion will be most heartily appreciated.
The Chinese population have requested per- mission to conduct religious processions in order to move their gods to restore health to to the colony and permission was grauted for four days. There is now much noise of gong and drum,
Yesterday there were twelve new cases and fourteen deaths.
The preparations for the grand festival in commemoration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama are now being conducted with less energy, so much so that I understand there is to be a meeting of the Sub-Committee on Sunday at which proposals will be brought forward to postpone the Chinese section of the programme or abandon it altogether. It would be better to adopt the latter course aud apply the money to something that would be of permanent benefit to the colony. The present circum- stances are not conducive to a festive state of mind, but on the contrary inspire gloom and sadness.
The Sub-Committee appointed to arrange for the erection of a combined monument to Colonel Mesquito and Governor Amaral have abandoned the idea.
MACAO, 8th May. The Sub-Committee appointed to arrange the
festivities in connection with the celebration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama held a meeting to-day and the programme was reduced to the following-Royal salutes, thanksgiving services at the Churches, placing the garland of bronze on the bust of the poet Camoes (no procession), laying of the foundation stone of the monument of Vasco da Gama, inaugura- tion of the re-named Avenida Vasco da Gama (formerly the Campo da Victoria), and publica- tion of a special commemorative journal. The days on which the different events are to take place will be decided hereafter.
It will be seen that there is now nothing in the programme calculated to attract the atten- tion of the Chinese population or to lead to an influx of visitors from the surrounding country. Great care has been taken to aroid anything of that kiud.
We hear that an Englishman staying at Hing Kee's Hotel at Macao, who had been gambling and lost his money, cut his throat the other day, but the wound is not expected to prove fatal.
The Bishop of Macao has issued a circular recommending that public prayers be said in the churches of Macao and Taipa on three con- secutive days for the abatement of the plague, and that Mondays be observed as days of abstin- ence during the continuance of the epidemic.
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[FROM THE CHUNG NGOI SAN PO.”] Plague has spread all over the City and several hospitals have been established for the reception of the sufferers. It seems that the disease is not so extensively fatal this year, for it is said that so far nearly fifty per cent. of the patients admitted to the hospitals have re- covered, and in one hospital, in which there were altogether thirty-six patients, only one of them succumbed.
The Government has sanctioned the proposal of the Sansz who petitioned to be allowed to finish the reclamation work on the river bund. A Company has been established in Po-wa-fong and will raise capital for the work by the issue of shares.
It is stated in the Soo Pao that, on the 1st inst., the management of the Lekin Office in I oochow was handed over to the foreign Com- missioner. He is said to bave appeared in Chinese mandarin attire. Red button and pea- cook feather!—Mercury.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
HONGKONG.
[May 14, 1898.
The colonial revenue last year amounted to $2,686,914, being $248,091 more than estimated and $77,036 more than in 1896. The expendi- ture was $2,641,409, being $166,499 more than expended on public works chargeable against in 1896. In addition the sum of $321,705 was the loan.
Some commotion was caused in the city on Saturday last by the arrival of the Hugh Mc- squadron at Manila. The news that the Span- Culloch with despatches from the American ish fleet had been annihilated was confirmed, it being also stated that the Spaniards had lost It is notified in the Gazette that H.E. the Act- had come out of the fray almost scatheless. 1,000 killed and wounded whilst the Americansing Governor has been pleased to appoint Lieut. Francis Shand Byam Johnson, The King's The Hugh McCulloch started on her return Own Regiment, to act as Aide-de-Camp vice tions, and honours for Commander Dewey, the voyage on Sunday with instructions, congratula- Lieut. Thomas Duncan Legh Whittington, who honours including his elevation to the post of health.
vacates that appointment on account of ill Admiral. On Thursday the British gunboat Linnet arrived from Manila with the Spanish day things were at a standstill, the replies to and American mails. When she left on Mon- Admiral Dewey's despatches being awaited. Our Tuesday morning's issue continued an ac- conut of a sad affair which took place in Caine road the previous evening, Mr. F. X. de Jesus, of 2, West Terrace, being shot by a clerk named given at the Magistracy on Thursday afternoon Joan da Matts Ozorio. From the efidence there would appear to have been no provocation day the Victor Emmanuel was sold for $46,500. whatever on the part of Mr. Jesus. On Mon- A Siamese cruiser was launched at Kowloon on Tuesday morning.
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H.M S. Rainbow left on 6th May for home. May.
H.M.S. Pique arrived from Chefoo on 11th
Monsieur Giraud, the French Vice-Cousul, goes home on leave by the next French mail, accompanied by Madame Giraud.
The Japanese cruiser Nanisa arrived on the 9th May from Yokohama and exchanged the
usual salutes.
It is with regret we bare to record that the the person of Miss Ruchwaldy, aged fifteen plague has claimed another European victim in years, who resided with her mother at No. 4, Blue Buildings. Like the rest of her family the deceased yonug lady was an accomplished musician.
The Singapore Free Press of the 3rd May saysThe steamer Cheang Hock Kian, which leaves this afternoon for Penang, will probably change owners on arrival there, as we hear she has been sold to Messrs. Bradley & Co., Swatow, steamers. the managing owners of the Shan line of
Portugal, requests us to state that the festivities Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul-General for of the Portuguese community of this colony in commemoration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, which were to take place at the Club Lusitano on the 17th and 18th inst., have been adjourned sine dic.
The steamer Suisung. Captain Payne, which arrived on 11th May from Calcutta and the Straits, reports that on the 8th May, in lat. 11.04 N. and long. 110.18 E., she spoke the British barque Nanaimo, from Bangkok for Shanghai, forty-nine days out. The Nanaimo signalled "short of provisions" and the Suisang stopped alongside and put provisions into her boat.
Lieut. Newton S. Allen, of H.M.S. Grafton, died at Chefoo on the 3rd April of hemorrhage of the brain, cansed by a tumour. The funeral took place on the 5th, and was conducted with fall naval honours. The deceased officer leaves she expected to meet her husband, the Grafton a widow, who is at present at Nagasaki, where being due at that port shortly.
offered by H.E. the Governor of Hunan the Ex-Inspector Quincey has, we learn, been appointment of Superintendent of Police at Yochow. Mr. Quincey has accepted the ap- pointment and will shortly proceed to Changsha He is to train four hundred men to form the nucleus of a force which is subsequently to be brought up to a larger number.
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for keeping a Waising gaming house at 110, The hearing of the charge against five men Jervois Street, was concluded at the Magistracy. on 11th May. On April 19th Detective. Inspector Hanson with the aid of the detective staff raided the house and arrested fire men. He found that the place had been the centre of of the men was sentenced to three months' hard a large business in the Waising lottery. Each labour and fined $1,000 each, in default another six months. The money found in the house, which amounted to $1,105, was confiscated.
The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, advises us that he has received the clean-up for April:-"The mill ran 30 days following telegram giving the result of the crushing 2,500 tons of headings yelding 230 concentrates treated in Berdan pans yielding 16 ounces of melted gold. Twenty-four tons of ozs. melted gold.
The following notification appears in the Gazette:-" Whereas the practice of fishing by and is contrary to the spirit of true sport, His means of dynamite is unnecessarily destructive
Officer Administering the Government, requests Excellency Major-General Wilsone Black, C.B., the inhabitants of Hongkong to abstain from indulging in the practice."
At noon on 9th May Messrs. Hughes and Hough offered for sale by auction H.M.S. Victor Emmanuel as she lay in the harbour, with the exception of the anchors, mooring gear, boats, and boat gear. There was a large attendance. The bidding was started at $10,000, and the price quickly rose to $45,000. After a slight pause 845,500 was offered and then $46,000, at which price the vessel was knocked down to a Chinaman.
General Managers of Oliver's Freehold Mines, Messrs. Johu D. Humphreys and Son, Limited, inform us that they have received a telegram from their Mr. Hart Buck, who is down at the Mines, to the effect that a crushing of 675 tons of stone from Eureka has realized 6 dwts, to the ton, and that a competent and reliable expert is now engaged in making an exhaustive examination and report on both the Oliver and Balmoral Companies' properties.
A telegram from Raub dated 4th May states: Crushing finished, 2,450 tons stone realised of gold produced at the crushing just finished 2,222 ounces of smelted gold." The quantity is the largest yielded monthly, yet, at the crush- ings. It is 2,222 ounces against 2,050 ounces at the crushing which finished on March.
the 3rd 18 dwt. to the ton.
The average at the last crushing is It is slightly below the result of the crushing which finished on the 3rd March, when the average was nearly 181 dwt. to the ton. The crushing, which finished on the 3rd April, realised 15 dwt. to the ton.- Straits Times.
The American ship Daniel Barnes, bound from New York to Hongkong, struck upon a rock in Alus Straits, off the coast of Lombok, on the 16th April. seventy thousand cases of petroleum. Owing The cargo consisted of to water pouring into the vessel from allsides, an effort was made to discharge immediately the pet roleum into prahus. The Sourabaya Courant, hears that the vessel is full of water, and is
wholly or partially be salved, if boats were sent probably a total loss. But the cargo might to the wreck soon. The Daniel Barnes was built commanded by Captain Arpe.-Straits Times. in 1877, was of 1,485 tons burden, and was
Two farm labourers were charged before Com- with assaulting a widow at British Kowloon on mander Hastings at the Magistracy on 9th May the 25th ult. "Complainant's story was that on the morning of the date in question she went to the fountain for some water and as defendants In the evening defendants came to her honse. tried to push her out of the way they quarrelled. One of them threw a lump of granite weighing ten pounds at her, hitting her in the face and knocking out six teeth, and the other gave her two blows with his fist, some other men who were with them also assaulting her. She was found she was in the hospital. Corroborative left senseless and when she came to herself she
evidence was given, and one defendant was sentenced to four months' hard labour and the other to two months' hard labour.