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port for sixteen days, and is the first British war ship to visit us this year. The British Admiral is daily expected to arrive.-Mercury correspondent.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
At the Magistracy on 23rd Sept. W F. Giles, an A. B. of the Khelat, was sentenced to 14 days for absenting himself from the ship without leave. George Horsley, charged with a similar offence, was ordered to be put on board by the
Four small river gunboats for the reinforce- meut of the China squadron are being sent out in sections and will be put together by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company. Their names are the Woodlark, Woodcock, | Sandpiper, and Snipe.
The commanders, officers, and engineers of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, have received an advance of 20 per cent, in their pay. The pay of the senior officers new stands at one half in sterling of what it did twenty years ago.
COOLIE VIOLENCE AT NAGASAKI. | police.
Nagasaki, 20th September. Last Friday afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, Mig Jesselsen, who was walking home through the private road leading to Ipponmatsu. was wantonly attacked by a Japanese coolie. Miss Jesselsen was aloue and the coolie was walking up the hill behind her, when he called out to her in Japanese. Where are you going Miss Jesselsen made no answer and walked on, but the man soon overtook her, and asked in an insoleut toue, What did you say?" He then seized her by the neck and pushed her against the wall, holding her there by both arms. Miss Jesselsen cried out in alarm, and the coolie then threw her to the ground, and immediately ran away. This oc- curred close to Mrs. George's house, and Aliss Jesselsen at once took refuge there.
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Miss Jesselsen had noticed that her assailant wore an apron and carried a note-book, and ¡for this reasou it was supposed that he was coolie employed by a rice-merchant who was transacting some business with one of the houses in the neighbourhood.. At the request of Mrs. George, the rice merchant sent up the suspected nian, who was identified by Miss Jesselsen and was promptly arrested by the police (who bad in the meantime been sent for. We understand that the arrested man deujes all knowledge of the affair.
Mr. Müller-Beech, the German Consul, kindly informed us yesterday, ou enquiry, that he had taken a deposition concerning the assault from Miss Jesselsen, and that he had had inter- views with the Inspector of Police and the Governor of Nagasaki, requesting them to take necessary steps to secure the proper punishnjent of the offender. Mr. Müler-Beeck added that, while this was the most wanton and disgrace- ful assault on a German subject that had been brought to his notice, it did not stand alone, several complaints regarding coplie insolence and violence having recently been lodged with him-Nagasaki Press
HONGKONG.
There were 2,432 visitors to the City Hull Museum last week, of whom 186 were Europeus. The City of Rio de Janeiro arrived from Mapila ou 25th Sept, en route for San Francisco with invalided troops on board.
Amongst the passengers who left for the North on 48th Sept. by the Empress of Japan was thie Hod. T. H. Whitehead, who is taking a mouth's holiday.
The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China bare received telegraphic advice
from the Head Office in London that at the approaching meeting of shareholders of the Bank the directors will recommend a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, free of income tax.
Inspector Duncan finds plenty to do in bring ing the possessors of unjust weights and scales light. On Saturday at the Magistracy he gave evidence against Ho Henng Po, of 93, Queen's Road East, stating that be found scales in his possession 25 per cent. against the purchaser. Defendant has two or three other shops. A fine of $150 was imposed.
At the Magistracy on Saturday the occupiers of 88. Wellington Street; 28. D'Aguilar Street; and 24. D'Aguilar Street were each fined $10 for obstructing footpaths with their goods, The occupier of No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace. was fined $15 for a similar offence, and the occupier of 3, Graham Street. $29, the latter having been fined $10 recently for a like offence, At noon on Thursday Mr. Hough (Messrs. Hughes and Hough) offered for sale by auction the screw steamer Wing Foo, with all her gear, boats, anchors, chains, etc., on board. Her gross tonnage is 95-62 and net 59-26. She is 93ft. 4in. long, 15 feet wide, and 8ft. 2in. deep. She was built in Hongkong in 1897 After some spirited bidding she was knocked down for $15,300,
At the meeting of the Sauitary Board held on 22nd September it was agreed, in ¡view of the unanimous opinion of medical experts that rats are an important factor in the dissemina- tion of bubonic plague, to request the autho- rity of the Gorerament to expend a sum of money, not exceeding $1,000, in rewards for live rats, which would have to be delivered to an officer of the Sanitary Board or of the Police, and forthwith destroyed by him.
For assaulting an Indian constable on Mon- day a Chinese fireman was fined $10 or a month by Commander Hastings on 27th Sept. The con- We are informed that a private telegram has stable found defendant and another man fight- been received stating that the tributors haveing and he arrested them. While taking them struck a rich Lody of ore at the Balmforal Mine.
H.M.S. Blenheim is under orders to leave for England on Sunday next, after exchanging crews with the Barfleur. The latter is now flying the paying-off penant.
The transport St. Paul arrived from Manila on Thursday with niue Chinese passengers and 33 European passengers, the latter consisting of 11 officers, 18 soldiers, and four sailors of the U. $. army and navy.
The appointment of Mr. Mackie to be Acting Deputy Superintendent of L'olice. Assistant Superintendent of the Gaol, and Assistant Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, during the absence of Mr. Badeley, is gazetted.
We hear that au arrangement has been ar rived at by the various Companies, foreign and Chinese, interested in the Canton River trade, which will put an end to the extreme competi- tion that has prevailed for some time past.
A coolie named Chang Sing was charge at the Magistracy on 27th Sept. with assaulting a widow. It seems that he was squabbling with the widow's son, who put him out of the house, whereupon defendant thraw a pot at him. It missed the son and hit the mother ou the lead, injuring her so much that she had to be taken to the hospital. A fine of $7, or 28 days, was imposed, defendant being further ordered to pay $5 compensation, the alternative being 14 days.
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We are informed by Messrs. John D. Hum- phreys & Son, General Managers of Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited, that they have re- ceived a telegram from the mines as follows :--- “400 tons stoue crushed yielding 7 dwts, to the ton; milling delayed owing to breakdown in the mill; mill working again; plenty of water.” A capital concert was given in the Kowloou Institute on Wednesday evening. Several well-known vocalists appeared and also the po palar elocutionist Mr. W. Muskett, who recited with considerable effect "Kissing Cup's race
Shamus O'Brien." Mr. S. H. Somerton sang Thursday" and Out on the deep," Mrs. Hands Dear Homeland and "One summer noon." Mrs. H. L. Stringer "Why must wo say good-bye," and Mr. Carter "Be brave, be true," the last named also contributing a banjo solo. Several pieces were played by the orches tra. Messrs. T. G. Hughes and A. J. M. Farr were the accompanists.
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Philip Maret, of the Blenheim, appeared at the Magistracy on 23rd Sept. to answer a charge of being disorderly in a public street. P.C. 514 said at one o'clock that morning he was on duty: in Stanley Street, when he saw defendant, who was creating a disturbance and striking some Chinese. There was a crowd round him. He took defendant, who
Was not sober, to No. 7 Police Station. Witness did not go into a house and wake defendant. The sergeant in charge of No. 7 Police Station said defendant was not drunk when brought in. A fine of $5, or 14 days was imposed.
A day or two ago two Chinese postmen wait- ing on Pedder's Wharf for the launch were overheard discussing the recent conviction of
one of their fokis in whose box were discovered stoleu letters from which the stamps had been removed. One of them made the remark that the man was a fool and that he should have burnt the letters, when all the evidence against him would have been destroyed. The remark was perhaps rather an obvious one, but it suggests the question whether the speaker himself is in the habit of acting in accordance. with his suggestion.
The Germau steainer Daphne, which arrived on 25th Sept. from Nagasaki, reports that about forty miles east of fougting she spoke a dismasted Chinese junk. The people on board said they were from Amoy bound for a Nor- thern port with salt and that on the 20th Angust they, with two other junks sailing in company, were caught in a typhoon and driven out to sea, their mast being carried away. Their provisious being exhausted the Daphne provided them with provisions and water. It was line weather at the time with a light easterly wind. Nothing was seen of the other two- junks.
An Australian Chinaman named Charles Dane was charged at the Magistracy on Thursday with being in possession of seven taels of opium without a permit. Constable Land, by virtno of a warrant, visited No. 2, Stanton Street, on Wednesday night with five other officers, who had been searched before leaving the Central they had no opium in their possession. On the Police Station for the purpose of seeing that
ground floor in a cubicle the opium produced was found under a bed on which defendant was
to No. 2 Police Station defendant called out, Fight." There was a crowd following them, and the constable was seized from behind and and two other constables came to his assistance. defendant assaulted him. He blew big whistle
At the Magistracy on Thursday Mr. Reece asked for a mitigation of the sentence of three months in the case of the woman charged with assault-lying smoking opium. Defendant admitted he ing a girl the other day. He said the girl was quarrelling with some children in the street and her mistress fetched her in and corrected her with a rattan. The woman was a respectable person. Commander Hastings said he could not see his way to granting the application. The girl was one mass of bruises from head to heel. There had been too many of these cases lately. He had tried imposing the maximum penalty of $100, but without effect.
At the Harbour Office on 27th Sept. William Calder, boatswain of the s. s. Empress of Japan, was charged with assaulting John Hogan, an A. B. of the same vessel, in Victoria Harbour. Complainant said that at twenty minutes past ten on Monday morning he was cleaning paint-work ou the port side of the saloon deck. When he had finished he went below. Defendant came down and asked him if he had a pot. He said he had not, whereupon defendant struck him with his hand. Complainant told him he would have to pay for this, and that if he could not get satis- faction on board he would get it on shore. Com. mander Rumsey dismissed the case.
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was the occupier of the room. He produced no valid certificate for the opinm. A fine of $100, or three months, was imposed.
At the Magistracy on 26th Sept. John Varnabo (Swede), Calla Lappala (Russian), Olaf Olsen (Norwegian), and Petey Anderson (Swede), of the Norwegian ship Prince Arthur, were charged with being drunk and disorderly in the Govern- ment Civil Hospital. Wong Hing, ward-master at the Hospital, said that at half-past five on Sunday afternoon defendants came into the hospital to see patients. They were drunk and it was after hours. He asked them to go away and first defendant struck him on the forehead. A coolie came to his assistance and first and second defendants knocked him about. Then an Indian sergeant came, and there was a free fight. Defendants also struck the gate-keeper when he tried to stop them. Witness tele- phoned for the police," who came and arrested defendants. They were each fined $15, or six months, and were each fined a farthur 815, or six weeks, for assaulting the ward-master and the others