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„Ing had been attempted. Encouraged, bow- Over by the apparent indifference of the Joreign representatives as to H.M. Kwang Han's continued existence, and especially by the cordiality with which their wives accepted the invitation to the Palace, the Empress now. ager, urged on by Kang Yi, the President of the Board of Punishments, has now determined to make away with Kwang Hsü altogether, and | the dawn of the New Year may see an- other person on the Dragon Throne The Empress Dowager, ever Bince the coup d'état, has always had persons on whom she relied to report to her daily the pulse of the foreign sentiments towards herself and her usurpation, and it must have been shown to her that no objections would be made to any of her actions by the foreign Ministers or she would not dare to put a new Emperor so soon on the Throne. Another Peking letter received by a second local mandarin shown to our Reporter merely stated that "the Emperor's bealth has recently grown suddenly worse and this appears to point to the fact that the Em- press Dowager has now learnt the secret of pit- ting the jealousies of opposing Ministers against each other and reaping benefits therefrom."- N. C. Daily News.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
LOSS OF THE “AND. LANA.”
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HONGKONG,
There were 1,938 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week of whom 118 were Europeans. Consul-General R. Wildman is in receipt of telegraphic information that the Philippine Commission has arrived at Yokohama
their offices after tiffin, and as there is no police patrol in Kote there was no chance of seeing The British ship Andelana, which left Shang- policeman. However, the ladies proceeded in hai on the 11th of November last for Port the direction of the pol ce-box at Ikuta, and on Angeles, where she arrived on the 29th of seeing this the coolies took up their cart and December-sailing for Tacoma on January 6th ran. Complaint has been made at the Central has been lost ander stringe circumstances. Police Station, and there should be no difficulty She capsized off Tacoma ou the morning of in discovering the actual offender, as the mud the 14th uit. and Captain Stailing and must have been intended for some place on the seventeen men were drowned. The gale hill where building operations are going on. which blew her over, says a Tacoma journ. It might perhaps be well if the Governor were al, was one of the most severe experienced to re-issue the warnings to coolies and take there in years. It blew at the rate of thirty-other measures such as those of last year, which eight miles an hour. The Andeluna was capsized certainly for the time being succeeded in pre- almost instantly and before her officers and crew venting these cowardly attacks on ladies. knew that they were in peril. A gale sprang up at noon on the 13th and it did not subside until nightfall or the Andelana probably would have pulled into a dock. As it was, she remained at anchor in the stream, being prevented from tip- ping over by heavy log buoys moored on either side of her. All of her ballast had been dis charged and she bad taken no stiffening aboard. There is no doubt that when the terrible vale sprang up during the night she partly turned over. This lifted her starboard ballast log out of the water and its weight caused a defective link to break. Thus released from the log, the ship turned suddenly on her beam ends, and in another justant the water was pouring down her batchways These were but loosely covered and afforded BO protection. With ber toppling masts and towering side to ie the gale full swing, the Andelana went over as though she were a racing shell. How the seamer struggled to escape can be imagined, but without doubt they hd scarcely leaped from their banks iutu the inflowing waters befo.e their vessel bad struck bottom, twenty-three and a half fathoms | below the surface. This is indicated by the fact that the vessel did not drift from her moor- The date of the opening of the lighthouse ating place, but sank almost at the spot where Hakusha is uncertain, owing to the material for she was moored. the work having been washed away by the inundations of last year.--Nagasaki Press.
LIGHTHOUSES IN FORMOSA,
The lighthouse at Hokuto in Formosa, now in course of construction, is considered the greatest work of the kind in the East. The total cost of the lighthouse is estimated at 203,800 yen and it is to be completed in three years.
A lighthouse at the entrance of Kelang, also under construction, will be finished within this year, its cost being estimated at 46,605 yen.
Besides these, a lighthouse at Fukikaku will be lighted in a short time.
DEATH OF A NOTORIETY OF THE
CHINA JAPAN WAR.
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NORTH FORMCSA:
[FROM A CORRISPONDENT.]
TAMSUI, 8th February.
The sauitary report euding 4th February shows 59 cases of plague, of which 41 were fatal, in the Tainan Prefecture, and 10 ses of small por in the Taipeh Prefecture. At present a thorough cleaning is going on in the city and I have seen the streets piled up with merchandizo and furniture as if fire had broken out in the neighbourhood and the people were removing their effects. With a marked street improve. ment and the enforcement of every possible preventive measure, I hope the disease will not assume such an epidemic form us we had experi- ence of two years ago,
We are told that the Csaka Shosen Gaisha will establish a steamship line between Tamsui and Hongkong via Amoy nuder a Government subsidy from April next.
The cable between Tumsai and Foochow having been relaid will be reopened to traffic before long.
COOLIE OUTRAGES AT KOBE.
The China Gazette of the 6th Fel ruary says: -Howie, the hero of the abortive scheme to blow up the Japanese fleet in November, 1894, has committed suicide. His death was officially reported at the U.S. Consulate here to-day by the Captain and officers of the steamer from which he jumped overboard. It will be remem bered that in November 1894 while the Japan- Chinese war was in full swing, Howie with another man named Brown or Cameron, was forcibly arrested at Kobe by the Japanese police and some sensation was caused by the protests of the French Government against the arrest of the prisoners while on board a French mail steamer. But beyond a brief diplomatic porrespondence nothing came of the incident. Howie and his companion were subsequently released upon giving their parole that they would desist from all attempts to assist the Chinese in the prosecution of the war against Japan. Howie's companion honourably carried out this undertaking, but Howie himself broke it and proceeded to China to After six or seven months of immuuity from carry out his crack-brained project coolie ontrages, we regret, says the hobe Chroni- of burning the Japanese fleet by cle, to have to report a most cowardly and un- means of some mysterious fluid with which he provoked attack upon two foreign ladies which was to food the sea and to ignite by a burning occured yesterday, 7th February. About half- shell fired' at long range. He got together past two in the afternoon, Mrs. Jones and Miss some junks and loaded them with some explo- Ida Smithers wer« proceeding down the bill on sive near Chefoo, but the premature explosion what is generally called the Sannomiya Road, of the junks by some mysterious means put when a cari laden with mud apparently for use an end to Howie's experiments, though he in house-building was met at the corner of turned up in Weihaiwei and was there during Shimoyamate-dori, near Messrs. Siegfried & the bombardment and we saw him amongst Co,'s offices. Without suspecting anything the the 18 foreigners who were taken prisoner two ladies were passing on, when just as they by the Japanese, who, however, did not recog- got abreast of the cart one of the coolies took nize him under an ssumed name. Latterly up a handful of the mud and deliberately and he has been doing some sort of semi-military with great force flung it ir Miss Smithers's work for the Chinese in the north and was lately face, part of the mud spattering over the cape in Port Autbúr, whence he was given a passage worn by Mrs. Jones. Fortunately Miss to Shanghai out of pity, as he appeared to be in Smithers was wearing her veil down or sh· very destitute and half crazy state. He be-might have received serious injury to the eyes. came so violent on the voyage that be had to be put in irons and yesterday morning he somehow managed to escape from his guards, one of whom be knocked over, and rushing to the side jumped overboard. He never rose again,
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The Italian cruiser Elba, the relief of the Marco Polo, arrived on Monday night and on Tuesday morning exchanged the usual salutes,
The hearing of the ease of Cheang Yau-Fo and others v. Choy Chan was concluded at the Supreme Court on Thursday, judgment being reserved.
A married woman 'named Li Ho, who'resides at 20, Pottinger Street, was sentenced to six months' bard labour at the Magistracy on 15th Feb. for child stealing,
The P. & O. steamer Brindisi, which was recently run into by the Yayeyama Maru at Bakau, Shimonoseki, is to be sold by public auction at Nagasaki on the 4th March.
The Hon. T. Sercombe Smith commenced his duties as Police Magistrate at the Magistracy on 16th Feb. He had a long list to Lo through, a crowd ofhinese being fined for letting off crackers during prohibited hours.
H.M.S. Grafton, which was reported to have gone to Weihaiwai, returned to the harbour on Monday evening, having only been out for firing practice. General and Mrs. Gascoigne were on board. The Grafton will probably leave for Weihaiyei on Monday next with the dredger St. Enoch, which has had the damage sustained on the voyage up from Singapore made good by the Dock Co.
Three Chipamen were charged at the Magis- tracy on 14th February with being concerned in au armed robbery earlier in the day. A woman who lives in a mat-shed at Taihang said that ten men, some of whom carried weapons, broke into her dwelling and took away property fulued at $136, She reported the occurrence to the police, who accompanied her to different houses, where she identified defendants as being of the party of depredators. They were re- manded for a week for further enquiries.
At the Magistrany on 14th February A. Fuk Tai Loong, compradore, was charged with selling brandy to which more water than the quantity allowed by law had been added. On the 5th- inst. Inspector Duncan visited defendant's shop and purchased a bottle of three star brandy. for 75 cents. On the brandy being analysed it was found to contain 10 per cent, excem of water. The man having been fined before for a similar offence Commander Hastings decided to deal with him severely on this occasion.
He accordingly fixed him $200.
The installation meeting of the Phoenix Chapter of Sovereign Princes, Rose Croix of H R.D.W., No. 17 A. & H. Scottish Rite, was held in the Masonic Hall on Shrove Tuesday, the 14th iust, when the following officers were duly elected and installed for the ensning year, viz., M. W. Sov., Sir Knight Wm. Farmer; 1. P. M. W. Sov., Sir Knight Thos. Spafford Deputy M. W. Sov., Sir Knight J. 1. Andrew; ~ High Prelate, Sir Knight Ugo Nervegna'; Senior Warden, Sir Knight G. Mollison; Junion War. deu, Sir Knight H. B. Bridger: Treasurer, Bir Knight Fred! Howell, 30: Secretary, Sir Knight Geo. A. Watkins, 32; Master of Ceremonies, Sir Knight J. Goodchild; Chancellor, Sir Knight Jno. F. Lemm; Standard Bearers, Sir Knight F. Uthe and Sir Knight Jas. Osborne: Stewards. Sir Knight J. McL. Farr and Sir. Köight G. 'Badolo; Inner Guard, Sir Knight Tease Bees
Lee; Equerry, Bro. J. Jorus.
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