December 10, 1898. |
NAVY,
Mr. Bedwell, b.w, b Vallings.
Mr. Wall, o Dyson, b Lethbridge.............
Lt. Gillett, a Lethbridge, b Vallinge...
Capt. Dormer, o sub, b langhorne
Capt. Barton, not out..........
Lt. Egerton, o Johnson, b Langhorna : Mr. White, st Thomson, b Vallings
Lt. Nicholas
Capt. Hardinge did not bat
Mr. Redman
Lt. Ingles
Extras
Total
Lethbridge
Galloway
Vallings
Langhorne
***
81
9
2
28.
27
1
4
107
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets.
10
32 1
0
8
0
17
0
11.1
3
34
3
7
3
10
2
10
0
G. D. Campbell... 2 0
SHOOTING.
MACHINE GUN CO. H.K.V.C. Only eight members took part in the Decem- ber competition. Sergeant Skelton won the "Aggregate" Cup and scored his third win on the No. 1 Cup, thus winning it outright. He made the grand score of 100 over the range, including a possible at 400 yards. Sergeant Lammert ran him very close with the excellent score of 97, including a 34 at 400 yards. Guu- ner J. G. Smith registered his third win on the No. 2 Cup, thus making it his own property. Below are the scores :—
CUP.
AGGREGATE 13
Sergeant Skelton.
02 83 80 93 89 84 93 91 96 95 93 100-1089 av. 90.75 Sergeant Lammert.
86 92 67 85 89 89 97 84 94 90 91 07-1081 av. 00.08
The conditions were the best 12 scores to count out of 14. Skelton knocked out 72 and 78, Lammert 84 and 83.
Sergt. Skelton *
Sergt. Lanimert *
Gunner J.-G. Smith
30
34
"NO. 1" HANDICAP CUP.
200 400 500 H'cap. Total 32 35 33
100 33
97 26 23 12 89 26 28 27 4 25 27 25 21 10 83 23 12 20 79 15 30 75
Sergt. Major Crombie... 24
Gunner Holmes.. Gunner King Gunner Duff
24
21
į
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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country. He was sent many years ago by the DISASTROUS FIRES IN SHANGHAI. British Government to Calcutta to keep him
out of mischief. From there he escaped to Pondicherry, where he placed himself under French protection and he was afterwards trans- ferred to Saigon, where he is kept under surveillance by the French authorities in accordance with an agreement to that effect made by France with Great Britain.
THE STORE OF HALI, & HOLTZ, LD., ENTIRELY DESTROYED,
Shanghai, 28th November. Saturday night witnessed no less than two big fires in Shanghai, both of which were of the most serious aud destructive character. Of these by far the most disastrous occurred on the premises of Hall & Holtz, Limited, and obtained
TRE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S WAR- such a hold and spread with such astonishing
LIKE MEASURES.
self a new body guard consisting of 40,000 men The Empress Dowager has formed for her. of whom 10,000 were picked from the Imperial Guards; 10,000 from the Vanguard Division of the Imperial Guards; 10,000 from the Peking Field Force; and 10,000 from the eight Banner Corps organisations. The pay of the new " Em- press Guards" is two taels per month more than that of the old Imperial Guards.
rapidity that in less than an hour it was obvious that the entire block was doomed together with A Peking special télegram to the N. C. Daily the whole of its valuable contents. The fire Press dated 30th November says:— -Considerable was discovered at twenty-five minutes past additions in men and material to the troops not six, smoke being detected issuing from the furni- only of Peking and its vicinity, but also of ture department, which is in close proximity to Mongolia and Manchuria, are being energeti- the kitchen, where it originated, access to which cally but quietly pushed on, and the explana is gained by a narrow passage leading from the tion of these warlike measures is that they are Szechnen Road. The alarm was at once given, to "fight foreigners with." In consequence of but before assistance arrived the portion in ques this, the rowdy masses in the north are an- xiously awaiting the signal, which certain count of the inflammable nature of the goods tion was well ablaze, and partly no doubt on ac2 officials of the Conservative party have promised stored therein, wood, varnish, etc., gave every evi. to give, for a general uprising against foreign-dence of developing into a dangerous conflagra- by the Empress Dowager since coming into ting the hydrants at work, but their task speedily ers and their China friends. The ediots issued tion. The fire brigade lost very little time in get- power have inflamed the foreigners to a dangerous degree.
masses against assumed a most difficult aspect. The flames
adjoining tenement occupied by Mr. J. D.. Nanking Road and seriously jeopardised the spread towards the front of the buildings in
Clarke, proprietor of the Shanghai Mercury, and Mr. W. E. Kahler of the Temperance Union, to whom a portion of the block is sublet. Large crowds collected in the streets and the police under Chief Inspector Howard had no little difficulty in keeping the firemen. By seven o'clock the fire had assumed throng from hampering the movements of the
doubt as to the ultimate fate of the building. a firm hold of the entire upper floor and left no Fortunately a high wind which ruled in the parative insignificance, allaying all anxiety as morning had subsided and dropped into com. to the safety of the premises on the opposite side of Szechuen Road. At the same time the contiguity of the Mercury premises furnished grounds for the gravest fears, and the efforts of the firemen were mainly directed towards checking a spread. An engine in Szechuen Road and the fire float at the Nanking Road jetty were rapidly got to work and good streams were poured on to the burning mass from practically all sides. No effort however was made by anybody, either in or out of au- thority, to salve any of the stock in the lower floor or basement and when some time later
Native dispatches received from Peking exhibiting considerable enthusiasm in mili- state that the Empress Dowager has been tary matters and on the 28th ultimo held au inspection of the newly-raised additional re. giments of the Peking Field Force outside the western gates of the Palace. The Empress Dowager at the end of the inspection commanded that the troops be informed of her pleasure at beholding their fine appearance and discipline, and further stated that she depended upon them in times of danger and felt assured that they would prove a wall of strength to her in the present critical time." Such military in spections by the Empress Dowager as this were unknown prior to the coup d'etat of September last.-N. C. Daily News.
* Winners of Spoons. During the year a great amount of interest has been taken in the competition, and no doubt even more will be taken when the new Martini- Metford carbines. are issued to the Volunteers. Several promising young shots have come forward lately, including Gunners Barrett, RUSSIA AND THE RECENT PEKING the galvanised iron roof fell in, carrying with it
Holmes, Head, and J. G. Smith; they have the making of good marksmen if they will only go in for steady practice.
CRISIS.
what remained of the second floor, the work of des- The Tientsin correspondent of the N. C. Daily what imposing exterior the ravages of the flames truction was complete. Notwithstanding its some- News, writing on the 25th November, says :-
A significant bit of information has just come
disclosed the fact that the premises were anything to me, which I have not seen or heard referred floor, instead of being steel or iron girders bear. but well built. The supports of the upper the time of the demonstration of the British to heretofore. I believe it to be correct. Ating a concrete bed, as one might have expected fleet off Shanhaikuan in the gulf, the Russians were prepared and about to send 5,000 troops doubtless prevented by this demonstration. The across country to Peking. Their dispatch was meaning of all this is unquestionably this: that
THE MEINGOON PRINCE AGAIN,
We translate the following from the Avenir du Tonkin :-
"The English police have arrested on the Cambodian frontier a Burman coming from Saigon and carrying letters from the Meingoon Prince, who is kept under surveillance by the French Government at Saigon in pursuance of Russia knew what was preparing in the Palace. by the same rule. Before nine o'clock the store
the Empress-Dowager. and was sending these troops to the support of
a convention with the English. The letters were addressed to the independent party of Barmah by their former king (sic). It will be remembered that two years ago the Mein places in the early part of the season could not The calling of troops from Shausi and other goon Prince escaped from Saigon and was arrested in Tonkin as he was about to cross the withing easy distance of Peking is now made be explained at the time. But their massing frontier into his former kingdom. Notwith-plain by the coup d'état. Possibly had the standing the failure of his attempted flight the Russians reached Peking, the native soldiers ex-Prince does not seem to have abandoned his projects. The relations he maintains with his
would not have been ordered to the capital, but in any event, the two forces would have co- partizans proves this. If ever England should operated against any other foreign force that be in conflict with a European Power she might have been sent to Peking, in case the would have in this Indian Prince a terrible status of those in possession-which meant adversary. The exciting incidents of his flight Russia-were objected to by any other power. from India are well known, BS well as the energy he displayed or that occasion and
These coincidents were not a “happen," but are the cruelty with which he avenged himself on
very significant. his mortal enemies the English in the last insurrection that he provoked and in conse- quence of which he took refuge in Saigon."
Our contemporary exaggerates the importance of the Meingoon Prince in the foregoing by speaking of him as a former king" and of his former "kingdom." He is a pretender to the throne of Burmah, but never reigned, and he has now practically no influence in the
On 25th November a fire broke out in the Ewo Cotton Mill, Shanghai, but fortu. nately it was overcome before it had assumed threatening dimensions by the twenty-four Grinnelprinkers in the mixing room, with eight lines of hose laid on by the mill hands with commendable promptness. Damage Tls. 5,000.-China Gazette.
in the construction of such an important place of business, proved to be wooden beams and as a
below, the upper floor, would have been doomed consequence it was a matter of impossibility to save the basement. Had the outbreak occurred
was a wreck and although still burning firemen had obtained the mastery and effectually pre-
dore's room being burnt out, whilst a portion of vented an extension. The Mercury office suf- føred some appreciable damage, the compra- the staircase was burnt and a large quantity of paper damaged by both fire and water. The adjacent store of Hung Cheong, the well known silversmith and curio dealer, was also threatened, but the cauny proprietor with the perspicuity to a place of safety. A number of bluejackets of his race lost no time in removing his wares from H. M. S. Phoenix landed and assisted him in the work of extinction. As we have already in the performance of this task besides aiding stated, it was most fortunate that the wind lent no force to the flames or without doubt the hongs and premises -abutting from Kinkiang Road would have shared in the catastrophe. As it was, a window in Messrs. Wisner's tea godown became ignited and had it not been for the prompt action of Mr. Burgoyne, who got it under, the warehouse itself might have been demolished. For an hour or more showers of sparks shot upwards from the rapidly disappear- ing Fuh-lee and fell uncomfortably near the