March 10, 1900.]
At the Regimental Dinner of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on Thursday night (St. David's Day), at, which General Gascoigus was present, the Governor caused great excitement by an- nouucing that he had received a telegram to the effect that Ladysmith had been relieved.
At the offices of the Public Works Depart ment on the 7th inst the Hon. R. D. Orunsby (Director of Public Works) offered for sale by auction Inland lot No. 1.491, which is situate in Winglok Street and Des Voeux Road.he lot contains 6,650 square feet. The nunual rent is $122. The upset price was fixed at $53,040. | On the lot being put into the market the price quickly rose to $97,000, at which it was pur. chased by Mr. A. Shelton Hooper for the Hongkong Land Investment Company,
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The annual athletic sports in connection with the Victoria Recreation Club will take place at the Happy Valley on Saturday, the 31st inst.
The Commandant's parade in connection with the Hongkong Volunteer Corps took place at half-past two on the 3rd inst., on the Polo Ground at Causeway Bay.
The Government Gazette on Saturday, 3rd March, announced that His Excellency the Governor has, with the approval of the Secre. tary of State for the Colonies, been pleased to appoint Henry Hessy Johnson Gompertz to be Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils, in succession to John Gerald Thomas Buckle, resigned.
Much commotion was caused in the neigh bourhood of Hollywood Road on the 1st inst. at Foochow is naturally proud, says he Foochow midnight by a fire which broke out on the Daily Echo, of Phito's successes at the Hong-ground floor of No. 11, Hollywood Road, occupied kong Race meeting, and Mr. Dorset, the for- as a furniture store. The Fire Brigade soon got tunate owner of the pony hes been almost over to work and speedily extinguished the flames whelmed with congratulations both locally and The damage-about $50-is covered by in from distances by wire. The following telegram surance in the Union Assurance Company was received from Hongkong:-" Club. Fon- (Messrs. Harry Wicking and Co.) show: Hongkong Jockey Club tenders to Foo- chow sportsmen heartiest congratulations on Pluto's Champions and best thanks to owner for cup."
We are informed that it is twenty-three years since the Hongkong Champion Stakes race was won by a Foochow-owned pony.
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'The number of prisoners admitted Victoria Gaol during the year 1899 under sen- teuce from the ordinary Courts was 4.164, besides 89 soldiers and sailors sentenced by Courts Martial. There were 55 person's admit- ted for debt and 501 in default finding security, making a total of 4,789. Of these 736 were old offenders, including 11 juveniles who merely sent to the Gaol to be birched, leaving a total of 725 old ffenders who actually under- went inprisonment. This is an improvement on last year, when these was a total of 5,427 (including 769 old offenders ). There have. moreover, been no attempts to escape during the past year, and the profits on Industrial Labour amounted to $16.822 as compared with the $6,204 of 1899 and the $2.620 of 1897.
At the Magistracy on the 6th inst. J. H. Danenburg, landlord of the Colonial Hotel. Jubilee Street, was charged on remand with permitting drunkenness and serving a drunken man on the night of the 20th February. The evidence for the prosecution was that at about 7.40 on the night in question Sergeants Garrod and Angus stood near the door of the hotel and
saw a drunken man served with heer, and that a number of men were rolling about the floor. which was strewn with tin pots Five witnesSES were called to contradict this story, and Mr. Slade, who appeared for the defendant, sug- gested that perhaps unconsciously-it might be the effect of Race week—a good deal of imagina- tion had entered into the accounts given by the
two sergeants. His Worship. however, did not
take this view of the case, and fined the defen. dant $5 for the first offeuce and $25 for the second.
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The last performance of The Yeoman of the Guard took place on Monday the 5th, and a most successful run concluded with an enthusiastic house. Encores were numerous, and the prin cipal ladies, Mesdames Campbell, Badeley and Ross received bouquets. Viscount Suirdale sad Mr. Parsons were also in excellent form And were often recalled. The A. D. C. has every reason to feel proud of their recent work.
The Season of Exodus his already commenced and our prominent citizens are leaving not as single spies but in battalions. There seems every indication that this year Hongkong will seon be, like London when Parliament has riseu. empty;" at any rate there are more people leaving, either for a permanency or for the suminer, this than in any previous year. The Garman Mail which departed ou Wednes. Amongst those departed day carried several.
Our Harbour Master. by the Ceylon was the Hon. Commander Murray Ramsey, R.N. Commander Rumsey has not always been in harmony with popular public opinion. bat
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who has done his work ably according to his lights, and Que who rendered ungrudgingly, outside of his official duties, very valua le services to the No one community during the plague times. has been more esteemed socially. By the public generally as well as by his own immediate circle he will be warmly welcomed or his return. The Ceylon also took away for a time one of the oldest, most popular, and best knowu of our mercantile men, Mr. E. Joues Hughes. Both be and Mrs. Hughes will be much missed by those of us who are compelled to remain behind.
MISCELLANEOUS,
A military correspondent at Odessa states that large quantities of both heary and light ammunition are being concentrated there from the various military depots in the eastern pro- vinces of Russia for early shipment to the Far East. A considerable number of guos chiefly for forts, are on their way out to supersede weapons of remoter make which were placed in positions in the Liao-tang Peninsula when it first came into the possession of Russia.
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On the 24th ult. the French Chamber decide to adopt a maximum tariff for foreign colonial products and the Senate rectified this. This is the occasion of rejoicings among the French of Indo-China. The minimum tariff continues in operation, however, for a while in order to allow some already settled contracts to be carried out
The Shanghai Sin Wan Pão
says that King Lien-shan and his father are really men of excellent conduct and kind-hearted, and bave raised millions of dollars for the relief of famines, ete, to various provinces and have done a great deal of good for which the throne has rewarded them several times, many patriotic men in Shanghai have taken pity on him and have raised money for the purpose of refunding the sum which King is said to have embezzled from the Telegraph Office in order to relieve him from getting into trouble on the pretext of
embezzlement."
It is reported from Shanghai that the Em- press Dowager. baring failed to capture Kang Yu Wei, bas ordered Lu Chuan-lin, acting Viceroy of Nanking, to arrest and decapitate three rather well-known Chinese residents of the Foreign Settlement of Shanghai. They are Wan Shi-li, a translator at the Kiang- nan Arsenal. Wong Yi-neu, brother of Wong Kan-neu, chief editor of the Universal Gazette, and Ye Han, the present acting editor of that journal. It is to be hoped that the police will actively intervene to prevent the first step to any such proposed atrocity being taken by the Viceroy's emissaries in the Foreign Settle- ments.
We learn from the Shanghai papers that the funeral of the late Mr. Sydney Reynell took place at the New Cemetery. Bubbling Well Road, on the 28thult, and despite the inclement weather, a fairly large number of friends of the deceased gentlement were present, including Mr. Pelham Warren, Acting Consal-General, Mr. F. Anderson, Chairman of the Municipal Council, mos of the Municipal officers, and others. The Rer. H. C. Hodges, Cathedral Chaplain, conducted the burial service in the Mortuary Chel and at the grave side. The staff of the Municipal Tax Office and others sent beautiful wreaths, together with messages of sympathy for Mrs. Reynell in her sad bereavement.
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A Shanghai writer says with regard to the local Volunteer Corps :-"I have been in. formed that the new regulations regarding the Artillery drill are due to the requirements of the Hongkong officials. Of course if this be so they have to be carried out. At the same time it does seem a pity that an arm of the Corps which has hitherto been so popular should be rendered dissatisfied in the way that the Company DOW is." The North China Daily News says that the new Maxima "unfortunately have not yet arrived, and the enforced changes do not al together appeal to the present members of the battery. That this feeling is quite natural every one must admit, but the high efficiency of this branch of the Corps is sufficient guarantee that all misunderstanding will soon be ended, and the new service taken up with the same enthusiasm which has always marked our artillerymen.”
An interesting letter, with reference to the case of King Lien-shan, reaches us from a cor- respondent, "I suspect," says the writer, "that King Lien-shan probably has been plotting against the hinese government. Yon know that Confucius taught the same doctrine as the Jesuit Mariana, that sovereigus are made for the good of their people, who have the right to depose them if they do not govern well. For this reason revolutions and conspiracies are of frequent occurrence in China. It is not possible to please all political parties and conflicting inter- est. The future of the empire is very gloomy. There are adventurous and mercenary for. signers ready to take part in any form of re- volution. Many missionaries, under pretext of
At the Magistracy on the 2nd inst Mr. Gom pertz enquired into the circumstances connected with the fire which broke onfat 25. Queen's Road West, on the morning of the 22nd February. when a woman lost her life through suffocation. The husband of the deceased woman said he and his wife and child wero sleeping in a cubicle ou the first floor when he was awakened about two Messrs. Stokes and Platt of Shaughai have o'clock in the morning by his wife calling out beau retained to look after King ien-shau's Fire; take the child and go." There was a interests and to procare, if possible his speedy lot of smoke in the room and he could see fire rélonse. A letter lately received here. says coming up into his kitchen from below. He N. C. Daily News, from a companion of Mr. picked up the child and left the cubicle. his wife King, states that they are apparently dogged going in frout. He låst saw her at the door of day and night by the emissaries of the man the room, when she told him to hurry up and darins; those sent by the Canton authorities take the child away. He did not stop to take having photographs of Mr. King sent from anything from the room, but made for the stairs. Shanghai in order that they may identify their He found that the stairs were on fire, but he victim. A very large sum of money is promis. jumped over the flames and got into the street. ed for his capture. Finally so auxions are the He then called for his wife, but got no auswer. mandarius to make away with Mr. King and The people in the street told him to report the so gain the applause of the Empress Dowagefpreaching Christianity, come to China to buy matter at the Central Police Station tie did so and her councillors, Prince Ching and Kang Yi and was sent back and instructed to tell the fire- that they have issued special orders to decapi men to search for his wife. He did so and when tute Mr. King without trial the moment he is the fire was ont he went with them into his room. arrested, as delay might compel them to ref] The dead body of his wife was found lying at lease him. A telegram from Peking seems to the foot of the bed. She had no bair n her show that Jung Lu tried hard to revent this head and her hands were burned. Further | persecution of Mr. King but that he had to evidence was given and the premises were re-give way to the greater inäuence of Prince leased.
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properties, to trede, to excite disorders, to make inouey and to gain political influence. The greatest and most disastrous rebellion, that of the Taipings, is recorded in history as having been fermented by the missionaries. Almost all the wars and serious complications which China had with Foreign Powers, had been caused only by those who pretend to teach the Gospel. of peace and forbearance.