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The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com- pany were charged at the Magistracy on Thurs- day with allowing No 3 launch to be without a certificated master on board on Tuesday morning. Constable Gourlay said the launch was along. side Bank Wharf. He was on board No. 3 police pinnace. He called out for the Dock launch to more. She did not more at first, but eventually she did so. He called her back and on boarding her found that there was no certificated master on board. The man at the wheel said the master had gone ashore. Ng Kam Hi said he was the master of the launch in question. His mother called him ashore, and when he returned he found the launch bad mored away. Fined $10.
Chenng Ming is a prisoner in Victoria Gaol and he was charged before Commander Hastings on 23rd Sept. with attempting to take out of the gaol a letter entrusted to him by another prisoner. An Indian guard said that on Thurs. day at noon defendant, who was in bis charge, was washing the floor. He was removing his jacket when he saw him take the piece of paper produced and secrete it in his waistband. When he found ont he had been discovered defendant tried to swallow the paper. but witness seized him and took it out of his mouth. The prisoner who wrote the paper saiú be gave it to defend ant, as he un erstood he was to be discharged on the following day. He wished him to give it to his wife. Defendant, who said he picked the paper up, was fined $25, or six weeks.
Commander Hastings sentenced Lam Tak Wing to six months imprisonment on Saturday for stealing a brass watch and chain, a pair of trousers, and a pair of shoes from a school boy on the 14th September. It appears that com- plainant wont for a walk with defendant and another man named A Sui. When near Pok- fulam road defendant seized him by the throat and tied a handkerchief round his neck, A Sui The boy tying his hands behind his back. called out "Sare life," and a man from the church close by rushed out, and the other men decamped with the articles in question. Last Friday the boy and some school fellows were bathing in the stream abore Glenealey when he saw defendant, and he and his companions seized him and gave him into custody.
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The officers of the coasting steamers, having petitioned their employers, have been offered au increase of pay. Chief officers are to receive 890 a month for the first year and $105 for the next, while second officers get 860 and $80 res- pectively.-Union.
A Japanese paper learns that on the 7th inst. the Hongkong and Shanghai Bauking Corpora- tion purchased 520,000 silver yen from the Bank of Japan. It is surmised that the silver yen have been purchased for circulation in Hongkong.-Nagasaki Press.
Among the vessels at Colombo when the mail left was a Norwegian steamer, the Olga-a whaling boat from South Shields and bound for Nagasaki, prior to proceeding to the Siberian coast, where she has been chartered by the hussian Goverument for the purpose of whale catching. The vessel is of the usual small des- cription with a gross tonnage of 36, and she is mauned by a crew of twelve meu, in command of Capt. F. Olsen.
It is reported that Mr. Macdona, M.P., who is at present in the North, has signed a contract with the Chinese Government for the construc- tion of a railway connecting Hangchow, Soo- The Belgians (?) are chow, and Shangbai. also endeavouring to obtain a contract for a line connecting Hangchow with Shaobsing, Ningpo. and Wenchow; the survey for which is being made by an Italian engineer named Licordi.— China Gazette.
A fire broke out at Shanghai about 11.40 pm. on Friday, 16th September, in an opium shop at No. 161. Shanse Road, which rapidly spread to the adjoining honses. Although the Fire Department soou appeared on the scene, the fire bad made such progress that it was not until thirteen houses had been destroyed that it was got under control. The proprietor of the opium shop has been arrested, but so far has given no information regarding the origin of the couflagration. The property was owned by Messrs. Lester, Schultz, and Dowdall and Hanson. Most of the property was insured, but to what extent we have not been able to learn. The companies involved are the Hongkong, the North British, and the Imperial.—N. C. Daily
The damage inflicted in Yokohama barbour оп the Italian cruiser Marco Polo by the collision with the British ship Lyndhurst dur- ing the recent storm was more important thau was originally supposed, says the Herald. The sailing ship drifted bow on to the Italian man- of-war, and what sailing ships can do in the way of damage has only lately been proved in the lamentable Bourgogne disaster. The Marco Pulo was luckily only hit above the water-line, so that the damage can be repaired without her going into dock, which would occasion extra expense, which up to now amounts to about yen 18,000. It is an open question who will have to pay for the damage, but we hear that a claim has been lodged by the Italian Consul against the Standard Oil Co., the owners of the Lyndhurst,
In his report for 1897 Dr. Atkinson, PriucipalNews. Civil Medical Officer, says-Plague made its appearance again towards the end of May, no cases having been reported since the previous November. Three cases
were admitted from Heung Lane between the 21st and 25th May; this is one of the narrow lanes off Queen's Road West. It was here that some of the rst cases occurred in 1895 ;.this lane and the houses abutting thereon were declared an infected area on the 20th May and promptly dealt with. The re- crudescence of the disease in lanes such as these, which are
hemmed in by the neighbouring houses and are practically devoid of light and ventilation, shows the urgent necessity of the Government's resuming such insanitary areas, demolishing the buildings, and reconstructing the streets and houses. Fortunately this disease did not obtain a footing in the colony this year. The American-Spanish war has not been without causing serious consequences to the staff of the British Consular Service. Already we have recorded the death of Mr. Rawson Walker at Manila and the home papers lately have reported other casualties elsewhere of a fatal character. By the last mail we now hear of the death of Colonel Allan Maclean, R... Her Majesty's Consul in the Canary Islands. According to a home paper, the extreme anxiety connected with the war and the antagonism of the Spaniards and the excessive work of constantly receiving and sending off the statë cypher telegrams to which he alone had the key, fatally prostrated him. Colouel Maclean, who was a son of Major-General Maclean, R.A, and a near relative of the Norfolk, Somerset and Calthorpe families, and had a brilliant career before him. died in London at St. Thomas' Home, whither he had been taken for treatment, on the 20th August, and was buried at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, the family seat, on the 24th. He was heir to the Lazenby Hall
estate, Somerset, which will now revert to his eldest son, Henry Somerset Maclean. Colonel Maclean was, we understand, a brother in-law of Mr. J. W. Nortou-Kyshe, the Registrar of the Supreme Court in this colony.
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The Weihaiwei correspondeat of the N. C. Daily News writes:-It is said that two battle- ships and a destroyer will be stationed here for the coming winter. The rest of the ships will go South. There is talk of Admiral Seymour in company with Sir Claude Macdonald taking a voyage up the Yangtsze this autumn, on one of the destroyers it is surely well that the highest English officials stationed in China should now and then in person visit that region, thongh such a journey on such a craft cau scarcely be called a pleasure trip.
The Universal Gazette's Wuchang corres- pondent reports the arrival at that port of 10,000 additional spindles the other day for the Hupeh Cotton Weaving Mills, the machinery having been ordered through the agency of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co., of Shang- hai. The same paper says the mills in question are now running short time. Business since spring had been exceedingly good, most of the output having been sent to the order of Szechuan merchants. Lately, however, owing to the bankruptcy of a number of Szechuan hongs, aggregating it is said a total of some- thing like three million taels, there has been no money to take over the yarn and piece goods of the two mills in question, in consequence of which the authorities there now have nearly 3,000 bales in excess on their hands.
The San Francisco Chronicle of August 23rd, alluding to the death of Mr. H. Hennessey, purser of the Doric, says :—“By the death of Harry Hennessey, who bad served as purser for fully thirty years in the employ of the Pacific Mail Company, one of the most familiar figures on the run between this port and the Orient has been removed. Hennessey was taken sick about ten days ago, and for the first time in many years the steamer Doric sailed without him. He gradually grew worse, and the end came yesterday at the Westminster from a complication of troubles culminating in Bright's disease. In his many voyages across the Pacific Hennessey gained the friendship of a large circle, both in this city and in the East. was a native of New York, where he was born in 1849. His wife, Mrs. Mary Hennessey, and a daughter, Miss Minnie Hennessey, snrvire him.'
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A Te Deum was sung at Macao on the 22nd September ou the occasion of the anniversary of the great typhoon of 1874. The Lusitano says this annual service is one of the most numerously attended of all that take place in Macao and many people are seen there who are hardly ever seen at other religious observances. Nor is this matter for surprise, for all who were in Macao at that time recall with horror the dark day when two terrible elements swept over the city-tempest and fire. Those who passed through the erents of that day still preserve mementoes of it, and there is not a house in which its sad memory does not remain, a day when it was thought the city was about to disappear altogether. Therefore on each 22nd September the people of Macas go to church to render thanks to God for having preserved them from greater perils and to im- plore his protection against any similar cata- clysm.
The British barque Heathfiell, which put into Yokohama on the 12th September, had a rough experience While on a voyage from Shanghai to Tacoma she was caught in the typhoon about 80 miles off the Japanese coast. Her sails were blown away, the stanchions of her hold broke, and the ballast shifted. The The Masonic Hall at Shanghai was ou Thurs- crew were set to work to put this right, but in day night, 22nd September, the scene of an in- trying to do so, through a heavy lurch to star- teresting ceremony, when Right Wor, Brother C. Thorne, on behalf of Bro. Dr. Cooper, pre- board, the mate (Mr Grant) and a seaman were buried above the waist in ballast. They for-
sented the District Grand Lodge with a portrait tunately escaped serious injury, but it took some of the present District Grand Master, the time to dig them dut, and meanwhile every hand Right Wor. Brother Lewis Moore. The por-. was badly wanted on deck. Some of the ship's
trait, which is a most excellent one of over life boats were washed away, and she lay for a long size, was painted by Dr. Cooper's brother, and time in the trough of the sea with her main completes the series of portraits of District yard buried in water and frequently seas washed Grand Masters of the province. On the same over her topsail yard arms. Fortunately the occasion it was determined in conjunction with rale moderated, or the barque would probably the entire Masonic community to hold the in- have been lost. When the weather cleared allauguration ball, as well of the new building as hands were set to trim ballast, and to pump out the large quantities of water which had got into the starboard bilge. The voyage into Yokohama was made with difficulty, as the steering gear had suffered badly. The bad weather lasted altogether some four days, and
the Captain, Mr. McKenzie, has seldom in a long experience seen such heavy seas. He was accompanied by his daughter.-—Japan Mail,
of the seasou, at as early a date as possible. The new building is considerably extended in size and accommodation, while the defects in
the old which rendered it as a place of public entertainment for some time inadvisable bave been carefully avoided in the new, the floors of which are carried by rolled steel girders, replac ing the original wooden beams.-Shanghai Daily Press.