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the robbers, but as the latter greatly outuum- bered them, they were no match for them,- 80 that the robbers were able to carry away the valuables from all the houses. They also barnt some houses. Some days 'previously to the attack the leaders of the robbers had written to the town demanding a large sum of money under threat of burning and plundering all the shops if the demand was not complied with. * There are now about ten thousand bad char. ters banded together under the style of the Tim Society, in the Hingling district, in prefecture of Kaying. They all reside in atness of the mountains and occasionally issue forth to commit robberies or demand money by Zoros in broad daylight. The villagers have kad many encounters with them and mostly came off second best, as the robbers generally have a superiority of uumbers. A few days ago they made an attack on the city of Hingling, the Magistrate of which, having no sufficient foros, was obliged to shut all the city gates to prevent the attack. The Canton authorities have been telegraphed to and a military officer named Mok Shin-chek has been sent with several hundreds of soldiers to cope with the bad char- Soters, who are about to raise the standard of rebellion.
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Several days ago thirty prisoners made their escape from the prison of the district of Kwai- sin. Twenty of them have been recaptured, but the rest have made good their escape. The superintendent of the gaol has been ordered to go to Canton for trial on account. of his neglect of daty.
On the 10th instant a junk heavily laden with silk valued at about four thousand dollars was despatched from Patlai for Cantou. When she was sailing near Samshui, on the West Hiver, nine boats carrying robbers rowed up to her and carried away all the silk from her. The robbers did not molest the passengers nor plunder their luggage.
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The appointment of Mr. J. H Dandy to be Chief Inspector of Nuisances is gazetted.
There were 1,853 visitors to the City. Hall Museum last week, of whom 192 were Europe-
Rules for the payment of Crown rent on agricultural land in the New Territories are published in the Gazette.
The appointment of Mr. A. Watson to be Acting Inspector of Live Stock during Mr. C. V. Ladds's absence is gazetted.
With the exception of plague there were no onses of communicable disease reported in the colony last week.
It is notified in the Gazette that the Governor
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The Straits Times of the 11th July says: Recent news from Raub is that, in crushing a sample parcel of a recently discovered lode at Raub. the yield-from the sample-was at the rate of a thousand ounces to the ton.
The appointment is gazetted of Major M. M. Morris, R.A., to be Acting Commandant of the Volunteer Corps during the remaining period of the absence on leave of the Commandant, Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. W. Carrington, C.M.G., in succession to Colonel R. B. Mainwaring, C.M.G.. resigned..
On Saturday Charles Bonnoad, fourth engineer on the Hyson, was doing some repairs to a steam pipe in the engine-room when a plug flew out and he was severely scalded by The doctor from the hot water and steam. Empress of Japan came and attended to him and he was afterwards taken to the flospital.
On Tuesday afternoon Messrs. Hughes aud Hough offered for sale by auction Howard's Godowns at Nos. 262 and 263, Praya West, to gether with the site. There was a good atten- dance. The bidding started at $80,000, $100,000 was the highest bona-fide bid, and as the reserve was not reached the property was bought in. ·
At the Magistracy on Wednesday two pri- vates in the Royal Welch Fusiliers were sen- tenced to two months imprisonment for robbing an American blue-jacket whom they had come across theprevious evening. The blue-jacket was drunk. Another private who was charged with receiving the money knowing it to have been stolen was discharged.
The Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart having returned to Hongkong and resumed his duties as Colonial Secretary the criminal cases arising in the New Territory are sent to Hongkong to be disposed of, and in other matters the natives are allowed for the most part to manage their own affairs under the Village Communities Ordinance.
July 22, 1899.
At the Magistracy on Tuesday the Captain of the steamer Indrapura was charged with not pro- coeding to the quarantine anchorage on arrival in Hongkong barbour from Amoy. P. C. Ashmore, said defendant arrived in the harbour at II-45 a.m. on the 17th instant. Witness went along- side and asked the Captain where he was from. He replied, “ Amoy." Witness then told him to put up the yellow flag and go into quaran- tie. Defendant put up the yellow flag, but, instead of proceeling to the quarantine ground, nade fast to the buoy.-Defendant, who pleaded ignorance of the regulation, said he merely made fast to the buoy so that he could turn round and go into the quarantine ground. His Worship thought a nominal penalty would meet the case and only imposed a fine of $1.
MISCELLANEOUS,
According to a local vernacular paper the people living out ide the Lien Gate of Amoy were startled to witness pinkish coloured rain for an hour or so during a thunderstorm on the 29th ult., in consequence of which the local wiseacres prognosticate that "there will be an era of blood and war within the next twelve months for Fu- kien province"-N C. Daily News.
In their circular dated Manila, 8th July, Messrs. Waruer, Bares and Co. says:-Reports have reached us of the destruction, by insur- gents, of many plantations in the Island of Negros, and the political situation seems to be such as to preclude the possibility of further arrivals of any importance so that owing to these disturbances, the present crop may be considered as about finished, falling long way short of previous estimates. It is, moreover, likely that the crop of next season will be extremely small, as the growing cane, according to reports, has been more or less destroyed, as well as the machinery, and plant. In sympathy with the decline in beet, local values have ex- perienced a retrograde.
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On Saturday afternoon, Messrs Hughes aud Hough, by order of the trustee in bankruptcy. offered for sale by auction three lots of property
"Looker-on." writing in the Japan Gazette at Hamghom. Lot No. 1, on the south side of
of the 6th says :-The American-mara þas come Market street, was sold to Sang Sou for and goue most people have forgetten about her $8,150; Lot No. 2. No. 16, Hunghom West, to
detention in quarantine. But the fact that Mr. and Mrs Campbell and their children begin Loong Kee for $10,000, while Lot No 3 was
at daybreak to-morrow what I hope will be a bought in, the reserve not having been reached
On Tuesday midnight a mat-shed at Kounedy-safe passage back to Hongkong reminds me of town belonging to the Kowloon Godown Com-
some other facts- that may be of interest to pany and stored with coal owned by the Mau fatalists as seeming to portend the disagreeable Wo Shop was discovered to be on fire. A thing that happened to the American-maru and despatch box was brought on the scene by an
her freight. She left Hongkong on the 13th.--- Indian policeman, but the mat-shed was des- inauspicions number! She departed from troyed in a very short time though no damage Shangbai with, so I am told, 13 first class fore- was done to the coal. Damage to the extent of ign passengers she was sent into quarantine on about $10 was done.
The result of all this a Friday-unlucky day! was that thirteen passengers went to the quar- antine station on a Friday, and they and the ship were released on a Friday.
Ou the 14th July a meeting of the Water Polo Association was held at the V.R.C. Gymnasium. Mr. F. Lammert (secretary) oc has been pleased to appoint Viscount Su-cupied the chair and there were also present irdale, A.D.C. to be, His Excellency's Private Lient. Lewis, R.A.; Lient. Williams. RN.. Scoretary with effect, from the 12th instant, (H.M S. Tamir, Sergeant Deane, R.W.F. vice Major T. C. F. Somerville, resigned. tor Hanson, went over to Namtow to give evi-Humphreys, Kowloon; Messrs. W. Armstrong, On Monday afternoon Chief Detective Inspec- Quartermaster-Sergeant Canne, R.E.; Mr. A. dence against a man arrested by the Chinese authorities for being concerned in the Un Loong
murders.
On the 14th July Messrs. Hughes and Hough offered for sale by auction Kowloon inland lots Nos. 482.1483, 484, 485, and 48h, containing in the whole 5,250 square feet, situate at Station Street North, Mongkok, Yaumati. The property was purchased by Mr. Ko Yu-tung for 82,400.*
A Chinaman who has a fish stall in the Western Market. was fined $25 at the Magi. stracy for being in possession of unjust scales. Inspector Duncan said the scales were five per cont, against the purchaser. Defendant tried to run away when he saw the Inspector.
On Wednesday at noon an inquiry was held at Magistracy tonching the death of a coal coolie who fell into the hold of the Tsinan at Quarry Bay on Saturday night and fractured his skull. The man died on Tuesday. A verdict to the effect that death was caused by a fracture of the skall was returned.
e. We hear that the Customs are putting up four-mat-sheds for their new stations one on *Tuoniang Island, off the point of the peninsula
• forming the eastern shore of Mirs Bay, one at Bbatowkok, at the bead of Mirs Bay, one on “Lintin - Island, at the month of the Canton River and the, fourth on Taishan Laland, near -Na intow,
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W. A. Stopani, T. Meek. A. A. Alves, and A. E. Alves. It was decided that the competition should be played under Cup Tie rules. The first match will be played on Wednesday between the V.B.C."A" team and H.M.S. Tamar, and the second on Thursday between the Fusiliers "A" team and the R.A., 25, S.D.
Inspector Gillies, who had been in charge of the Police Station at Cheungchow for some time, died at the Government Civil Hospital of fever on the 14th July. It was only on the 12th that he came in from his station. but he had been suffering from fever for some days previously. Being the only European member of the Force at Cheungchow be strug- gled on with his duties until compelled to desist by exhaustion, and it was probably this delay in availing himself of hospital treatment that allowed the disease to get snch a hold on his system. The deceased Inspector, who was a native of Skye, came out in 1885 with a batch of men from the Glasgow Police. He was a very efficient officer, bigbly, respected in the Force and by many civilian friends, and his death will be deeply regretted. The funeral took place on the afternoon of the 14th and was attended by all the available European mem- bers of the Force. The hearse was covered with wreaths.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd of the 8th instant mentions the moorings that Messrs. S C. Fara ham & Co.. Limited, bave contracted to lay down at Woosung for the three principal mail companies, the P. & O., the Messageries, and the Norddentsoher Lloyd, which are acting jointly in this matter. Bixteen six-tou anchors and 720 fathoms of chain are to be used, with eight buoys, which should accommodate six steamers moored stem and stern. The position chosen for the new moorings is below the Har- hour Master's station near the Railway station, so that passengers by the mail steamers can reach Shanghai either by train or by tender.
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The body of a well-dressed foreigner was dis- covered floating in the River, close to the Public Garden, at. Shanghai, ou the evening of the 13th July, and was identified the following afternoon as that of Mr. Wm. Charles Percival Spong, lately a sergeant in the Police, and later in the River Police, who had been missing for some days. Mr. Consul F. 8. A. Bourne opened an inquest into the case, and in the absence of any evidence to show how, deceased got into the water, the evidence of Dr. W. A. C. Cooper showing that there were no marks of violence on the body, which had been in the water for from 50 to 60 hours, the jury found drowned.” De- returned a verdict of ceased was last seen alive on the Japanese wharf on the 11th, when he was in his usual health and spirits. Deceased was a sober, respectable man in comfortable circumstances and there was no reason why he should take his own life.