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[April 14, 1900.
SUPPOSED CASE OF SUICIDE,
A sad case of supposed suicide was reported to the police on the 6th inst. For the last three or four months Mr. S. B. Terry, O. E., has been ou. cupying No. 16 room at Connaught House Hotel. He came to the colony a out six months ago from the Straits, having been in the em loy f the Raub Gold Mining Company there. On coming to Hongkong he joined Messrs. Leigh and Orange, architects, but had left them on securing an appointment with the Punjom Mining Company. He should have left for his new situation in the steamer Lightning yester- day.
Your actions have been founded on knowledge shall zealously exert myself and will fearlessly · SAD DISCOVERY IN A IGNGKUNG and have been based upon common sense. Con- strive to be equal to the occasion. Your words fucius must have had in his mind such a mau as of recognition are highly valued and will prove you when he wrote: The superior man is a strong incentive to a life of usefulness. In correctly firm and not firm merely"."
respect of public questions let me state that any Being the elected Representative of the Gen- little snccess achieved is not due entirely to my eral Chamber of Commerce in the Legislative efforts but to the invaluable assistance extended Council, you represent the commercial interests to me by Chinese and other friends. Though of every nationality in Hongkong. Of these the progress this important and progressive Interests the Chinese hold the principal share, Colony has already made is remarkable, I firmly and so we not annaturally, look to you, with believe that Hongkong is only in its infancy your untiring industry and wide experience of and that with your co-operation its future business and of public affairs, to use your best must be great and prosperous-perhaps more endeavours, while in England, on behalf of Hong- so than the most sanguine expect I live kong, more especially at the Colonial Office, in hopes that one day, which may not with Members of the Imperial Parliament, and be far distant, we will obtain the reward at the meeting in June next in London of the of our labours and that some substantial mea. Fourth Congress of the Chambers of Commerce sure of popular municipal government will be of the Empire to which you have been appointed conceded to us. The opposition of the
per a Delegate, We sincerely trust you will con- emanent official" and the "so called " reasons tinue to exercise your influence in support of through which we have been denied our reason- Free Trade and of the ever increasing com.able aspirations and rights are so well known merce of this growing British Colony, upon which so largely depends the welfare, the good and the happiness of your many Chinese friends. We shall reckon each day as two days until you return to the Colony, with and we fervently hope, a fresh store of health, vigour, energy, to con- tinne in the position of Manger of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which you have so ably represented since 1883, and to again take up your duties on the Legislative Council and in the Chamber of Commerce.
Though Mr. Terry had not been well for some days and had been attended by Dr. Jordan, there was apparently nothing serious the matter with him. He seemed better on Thursday and went ont about three o'clock in the afternoon, return- that I need not dwell upon them here. The ing alone between five and six o'clock in the deplorable and disastrous war now pending in
evening. He asked for his dinner and his boy South Africa must entail a complete reorgani- took it to his room at about half-past seven. zation of Britain's Colonial policy and a more
He rang the bell at about half-past eleven and adequate recognition of the value of even Crown asked for a ginger-ale, which his boy obtin Colonies, notwithstanding their system of gored for him. Nothing more appears to have ernment, which, in view of the completely been heard of him until a quarter to seven changing conditions of the times and things yesterday morning. His boy had taken him generally, has grown inapplicable and anti-
ap a cup of tea as usual, and, having quated.
placed it on the table, turned round to awaken bis master, who was apparently sleeping on the couch alongside the table, and was horror- stricken to see that he was lying with a revolver clasped in his right hand and a large patch of clotted blood reaching from above the left ear into the couch. The boy took fright immedi- ately and, running ont of the room, informed the Hotel servants and went straight over to Kowloon, where he communicated with the friends of the deceased.
luformation was conveyed to the police, and the body was removed to the mortuary, where an examination was made by Dr. Rennie. It ap pears that the bullet entered just above the right eye and came out above the left ear, and there is no reason to doubt that the injury was self-inflicted, though, as far as we are aware, there was no motive for the deceased laying violent hauds upon himself. i ho inquest will be held next Tuesday afternoon.
Permit me to sincerely thank you for the We earnestly wish you a safe journey courteous reference to the Bank with which through Siberia to Europe, and an enjoyable I have had the honour to be so long connected. reunion with your family and friends. We Out of 26 years' residence in India, Japan, pray, honoured Sir, that you will speedily re
and China I have lived very happily two-thirds turn to us in safety and resume your residence of that time amongst you. My deep affection among us. With the greatest sincerity and as
for Hongkong is natural, having spent many of a testimony of the high esteem we have for you the best years of my life in the Colony. The We respectfully beg you to accept of this Ad.
relations which have existed between the Chi nese and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia dress the accompanying Embroidered Silk Scroll, and an Allegorical Piece of Plate (which | aud China have ever been most cordial. Six will be delivered to you on your arrival in years ago when we met in this hall it was grati. England by the Gold and Silversmiths Com-fying to me to be able to bear conclusive testi- pany, Limited) as a small testimony of our
mony to the commercial solidity and financial good will and friendship and as a token of our
soundness of the Chinese Merchant and Banker. gratitude for your eminently meritorious pub. I feel rejoiced that I can do so again and can lio services.
affirm that during my sixteen years' manage ment here. though the Bank's transactions with Chinese have aggregated many hundre is of millions of dillars, the Bank has not sustained any loss through its Chinese constituents. may be allowed o add that there is no people I that I hold in higher esteem. It me sincerely wish each one of you, my friends, a long lite of many happy days, health an increasing pros- perity. I shall be glad to re uru to those deservedly well-loved shores and to be back amongst you toward the end of the year, stimuis lated by the words of your address as well as the bracing eff-ots to be derived from the noble with the desire to enjoy for a further period
game of Polo "the King of games”—and au exercise which yields a far better tonic than the most eminent medico can prescribe. Mens sana in corpore sano is an old proverb, but I believe that for the preservation of the men * sana the corpus sanum is absolutely essential.
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would sooner trust than the Chinese and none
kindness, for the exquisitely embroidered silk I offer you my heartfelt thanks for all your Scroll, and for the allegorical piece of silver plate (Confucius holding an arrow in his hand,
The Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD, in acknow- ledging the presentation, said-Gentlemen. friends, and Mr. Li Pak, I am extremely sorry that your father, Mr. Li Pak, is not here to day, Mr. Li Sing is one of my oldest friends in Hongkong. He is the head of the Li Hing Hong and Yik Loong Bank, and I have known him now for close upon twenty years. The la- mented and highly esteemed Poong Pong, the head of the Wai Sing Hong and the head of the Min Tuck Bank and be pulled together for many years, and I watched with the very closest and greatest interest their noble efforts on be- half of the trade and commerce of Hongkong They were pillars of this Colony in every sense of the word. (Applause.) I am especially sorry that it ja on account of indisposition that Mr. Li Sing is not here to-day, because it would have afforded me still greater gratification to have received from his own hands this exquisite y embroidered silk scr ll and the address which has just been read by Mr. Ho Fook My heart is filled with feelings of gratitude, so much so that it is no easy matter to adequate ly reply to the Address you have honoured me with or to find words to shitably express my appreciation of the chivalrous spirit which has prompted your too great kindness. When ask- ed some weeks ago in regard to an Address, I did not hesitate to express the earnest desire to be allowed to leave on my proposed trip to Europe without display of any kind, This was natural, because in repect of my humble endea vours to further the interests of all classes of the community and in trying to work for the public good, I felt that I had not done more than my duty, certainly not anything more than electors, who reposed their trust in me. A rather rǝsions gunpowder accident is re- had a right to expect. Such a feeling is, I think, ported to have taken place on the 3rd iast. on duty's best reward. In 1894 the Chinese Mer-board a sailing vessel engaged in patrol work at chants of Hongkong were in my opinion Woosung. It appears that a large quantity of too generous, and this further manifestation, powder was stored in her lower deck, and with of good will embarrasses me. Still it is an utter disregard for their safety several of a source of the greatest gratification to the crew had been smoking near. As might be again assured that I continue to merit have been expected a serious explosion was the your approbation. Your action has the ef- result. Six of the crew were badly burned and fect of causing me to more clearly realise that were conveyed by train, to Shanghai. where my responsibilities henceforward are very largely they were placed under treatment in the Shan augmented. Nevertheless, with your suppert, I tung Road Hospital.
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inscribed with his words * The superior man is
correctly firm and not firm merely "), which will be treasured unto the end of my life. In the truest sense of the words I sincerely wish you all a temporary farewell and
Three cheers were then given for Mr. White- head. and, in reply. Mr. Waitsboad said—I think you most heartily again and I wish you all again every prosperity and good health,
RUSSIA AND COREA.
The following remarks of The Kobe Chronicle bear out what we said in our leading article on Wednesday about the probability of Russin's latest move forcing Japan to recognize that thore
no question of trifling incidents."
"It is evident," says The Kobe Chronicle, that the country is gradually being roused to a condition of considerable excitement regard- in Russian policy in Cores. A Tokyo dispatch to an Osaka journal declares that the movements of the Russian warships in Corean waters during the past few days require the close attention of the Japanese nation, seeing that alarming news is being continually received question, the despatch declares, that the bject by certain authorities in Tokyo. It is beyond of the movements of the Russian vessels is to obtain a naval station between Vladivost k and
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Port Arthur in order to protect the line of comminuication between the two places. The despatch goes on to declare that the Russian Government has failed both by diplom- shall long retaincy and by a demonstration to attain a lease of the most pleasant recollections of y ur generous
Massampo. Russia, therefore, having now come kindness. (Applauš~.)
to the conclusion that it is impossible for her to attain her object by peaceful means, it would app-ar that she has decided to forcibly occupy tuat part of the Corean territory suited for the purpose. It is even reported that the Com. mander-in-Chief of the Russian Asiatic Squad- ron is in receipt of instructions from St. Peters- burg permitting him to oo upy a port, and he is to have decided to do so. The despatch goes on say that it is specially significant at the pre- sent juncture that a British subject should have obtained a concession to work the Inzan gold mine, which, it is thought, may have been grant- ed because of direct or indirect Russian assist- auce Russia desir
desiring to placate Great Britain before the move she contemplates actually takos place. However that may be, dipiomats who are on the alert expect every moment the
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