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April 14, 1000.]
The Russian battleship Petropavlock sailed on the 9th inst. for Nagasaki.
Mr. J. R. Crock bas b-en elected a member of the Church Body during the absence of Commander R. M. Rumsey.
Lord Henry Thyuue, who has been here on a visit since the 4th inst., left yesterday morning by the Chingtu for Australia. He bad a most unpleasant experience on bis way here, as he was kept in quarantine for no less than three months at Honolulu.
Warren's Circus opened on the 12th inst, at West Point. The site chosen, opposite the Har- bour Master's office, is easily accessible to all. Thefine new tents have been thoroughly fitted up inside, and there is othing of that bareness usually associated with the interior of circus- tents.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REKORT.
It is notified that Consul Kallen is recognised during the absence of Dr. Rieloff. as in charge of the Imperial German Consulate |
The visitors to the Library in the City Holl Europeans and #1 Chinese those to the Museum | during the week ending 8th April incinded 3189 189 Europeens aud 1,252 Chinese"
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A cousiderable increase in the plague figures of the ith and uoon of the 11th iust. Five cccurred in the twenty-four hours between noon fresh cases and four deaths were recorded,
Chan Su, a partner în the rice-shop at 122, | bezzling $4.000, has been discharged by Mr. Bodhim Strand, who was charged with em. Gompertz the evidence brought forward not being strong enough to warrant a conviction.
Mr. Ugo Norvegna, late Italian. Consul in It has been found necessary to change the Mail for Rome, where he is assigned to staff this colony left on Monday by the French dates of the Indian Famine Fund Entertain-duty in the Army during the coming military ments, owing to unforeseen circumstances. They will now be given on Thursday 19th, Friday 20th, and Saturday 21st inst. The Box Office, it should be noted, will not be open until Tuesday, the 17th, at 10 a.m.
mauœuvres.
Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. inform us that they have received at legram from the owners, Mesure Rob. M. Sloman & Co., Hamburg, to the effect that their new steamer Verona, while on her way from New York to China, had to being an armed robbery at Causeway Pay were beached near Suez where she is undergoing the necessary repairs. She is expected, however, to be in a condition to continue her voyage on the 5th prox.
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aboard to see him off.
A large number of friends went
filled with new Rules made under section 18 Fifty pages of the Government Gazette are
of the Prison Ordiuance, 1899. As it is less than a year since the last set of Rules were promulgated there seems to be an attempt to rapidly attain perfection in Gaol administration. The five men who were arrested for committ- brought before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy on Saturday and remanded. One of them was banished from the colony in January. and he by saying that his mother was sick and he wish- excused himself for taking part in the robbery
from Bangkok with a cargo of rice, brought The_Tuksang, which arrived on Saturday
charge of the vessel, died on the voyage up of Bad news with her. Captain Smith, formerly in
inst. He was for many years engaged in the cholers and was buried at Puluwayo on the 1st Yangtse trade, and leaves a widow in Shanghai. The Taksang was quarantined on her arrival.
The increased cost of living in the colony is weighing heavily on all classes of the community, and agitations for more pay are general. Yester day the rice and kerosine coolies at West Poiut demanded a rise in their pay, and stopped work. They said that not only have they to pay more for their food, but that the rats are higher; the ornsade against cocklofts instituted by the Sanitary Hoard having made 'matters worse still. We understand that it is likely that some concession will be made to them.
Telegraphic communication with Iloilo, Be- colod, and Cebu was interrupted on the 10th inst.ed to assist her. owing to the failure of the Manila-Iloilo cabla. The police have not vet been a le to discover the three men who attacked two women in a jufk in Hung Hom Bay on the 9th inst. aud stole money, etc.. to the value of $100. We understand, however, that the men were armed with iron bars, and not revolvers.
At the Magistracy no the 10th inst, & Chi- nese doctor living at Shaukiwan was charged with neglecting to report a case of small-pux which he had attended! Tan Hing, of 147, Market Street, said his wife was taken ill and she sent for defendant, who t'ended her from February 18th to February 25th, when she died The defendent told him that she had been suf- fering from small-pox. Sanitary Inspector Mc Michael said it was reported to him that there was a case of small-pox at 147, Market S reet, Je went there and viewed the body and sent it to the Mortuary. ae subsequently received a telephone message that the womu had died from small-pox, aud he had the house disinfec ted.
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At the Magistracy on the 9th inst. a biliard. markerat the Hongkong Hotel named Su Op. was charged with stealing a go d watch from în At the Magistracy on the 9th inst.
officer couneoted with a coasting steamer. The Gompertz conducted an enquiry into the cir.
Mr. complainant was playing at billiards in cumstances attending the death of La Fo k, who
Hotel on Saturday night. He had taken died in Victoria Gaol on Satu day from inju-whien he bad let in his coat, he found
his cat, and on going to look at his wat ries received as the result of a tal on the 3rd inst. The deceased was admitted into the gaol | who
that it had gone. On Sunday the prisoner. was suspected of the theft, was taken on the 20th February under sentene of thres
to the Central Police Station months hard labour for inrcery
He sad that A lion a
f an officer would accompany him down to quarter past five on the morning of the Ard, inst he and some other prisons wete bei: g faken
he Hotel he would show him where the watch. out of the gaol into the yard so that they might down with him sultre prison, going to his was Accordingly Sergeant Murison was seul
ix, cook the watch out.
-remove some rations
a side way the deceased tripped and tel n his head, a distanco about eleven feet. Bell made a post-mort--m-xamination of the bóðv on Sunday, and as the r-suit he -xpressed the opinion that the mao died from bemorrage of the brain. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returued.
The Chinaman who snatched $150-in paper money from the hands of another Chinam o ov the Praya on the ist instant has been cap- tured and sentenced to six months' hard labour.
The complainant had come up from Singapore and was proceeding to Swatow. He had changed some money on the Praya and when a little dis tance from the shop stopped to count it. Whil he was thus engaged two meu stole towards him unobserved. One seized him by the queue and pulled him to the ground, while the other snatched the notes from him. Both then made off. This happened shortly after seven o'clock in the morning, so that there were but few people about at the time. The complainant could not supply the polico with a description of the men, but a hawker who happened to be near recognised one of them as a man who used to live with him. and this enabled the police to run him to earth,
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be plague regulations imposed at Calentía against vessels arriving from Japan bave been removed.
Penang on the 6th inst. to take up his appoint Mr. Kynnereley was to eave Singapore for ments Resident Conuci lor of Penang.
In the Government estimates for the coming financial year, a sum of £2.000 is provided for the completion of reconstruction, stc., of the British-Legat on House at Bangkok.
Bangkok is suffering severely from anepidemi just now. Cholera is the worst of these, ond there is little wonder at this, seeing that the Menam river, from which the water-supply is taken is brackish at this time of year.
At a meeting of the Singapore Club, on the 3rd instant, au emendation was made in the voting conditions applicable to candidates for election. Whereas one black ball in five has previously excluded a candidate, it was carried that one black ball in seven shall exclude. The decision has, however, to be ratified at a farther.meeting.
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arrived at £ingapore on the 29th ult., and was The new Japanese battleship Shikishima expected to leave on the let inst.
polo on her way from Vigan to Manila. The chartered American government steamer Anti. Manila exchanges annouuce the wreck of the
insula, on a reef of the island of Santiago. place of thewreck was just off the Bolinao pen-
that city on the evening of the 27th ultimo of A Wachang despatch reports the arrival at
General of the naval and military forces in the Li Ping-hêng, appointed last winter 1
Inspector
novations from the despised West, Li Ping-bêng Yangtze Valley. As a protest against all in. travelled overland all the way from Peking via Honan, but his houseboat was finally towed by crossing the Yangtze over to Wuchang. a steam launch sent by Viceroy Chang when
Chinese quarter of San Francisco seemed for a The vigorous sation of the police in the time to have had some effect. Very soon, how-
Chinese merchants were killed, and another ever, the highbinders' warfare became as bad as ever again and on the 5th ult. two prominent
put down the quarrels of the Tongs, and the wounded. Drastic measures are looked for to
become necessary to drive the Chinese out of Chief of Police has threatened that it may San Francisco altogether. The Chinese Consul- General, Ho Yow, questions the right to do this.
Intelligence comes from Vancouver that on Columbia, proposed in the Senate to place a poll the 5th ult. Senator MacDonald, of British
by Senator David Mille, Minister of Justice and tax on Japanese entering Canada. He was told
to adopt hostile legislation against the Japa. not in the interest of Canada at the present time Government Leader in the Senate, that it was
proposed poll tax. However, the Government nese, and that the Government would oppose the
tion might command, it is said, a majority vote is in a minority in the Senate, and the resolu in the upper house.
The site for the future capital of Batang. Padang, says the Perak Pioneer, has now been finally decided on, and a reserve of about 1,500
aores is to be marked out. It is about a mile and three quarters from the present town of Bidor, and adjoining the railway line. Con. tracts have been issued for felling a portion of this reserve. An assistant engineer is daily expected to be stationed there, and personally attend to the marking out of the town. The site chosen by Mr. Ingall, and approved by the Secretary to Government, is undoubtedly the best in the neighbourhood.
number of Chinese settlers in Korea is about According to a Tokyo contemporary, the 3,50, namely. 1,500 in Seöul; 1,500 in Chemul- po, and some 500 elsewhere. Yet they manage to do a larger part of the country's foreign trade in imports than the Japanese, The figures are :-
Exports.
1897 1898
Imports.
To Japan. Yeu 1,638.0 10 1,379.00 By Japanese Merchants.
Yen. 1,785,000 4.3 9.000
To China.
Yan. 357,000 1,097,000 Ey Chinese Merchants.
1,9 1,000 4,889,090
1997 1898 It will be observed tha: even in exports the Chinese are overtaking the Japanese.
A Jaausse .conomist, Mr. Seitaro Kamisake, says that a great feature in the relations of Japan and Corea is the number of Japanese In 1892 th-ir samber was 9,137; in 1896 it was subjects who have settled or are living in Corea.
12,57, Now it is probably more than 20,000, Gensen has 4,000 foreign residents, of whom about nine-tenths are Japanese, Fusan looks like a Japanese town. Its population is about 6,000, and the Japanese community is a self. governing body, possessing waterworks, common schools, &o. In the other ports. Japanese residents are everywhere influential. Mr. Seitaro asserts that if the econom o influence of Japan were withdrawn from the Peninsula, it would suffer from inanition. Japan is the real power which makes Corea live and sót as a nation. On the other hand, he points out that Russian influence only touches Cores at out. ward points, and he calls on Government consider carefully this important fact and take a wise diplomatic course in regard to the Penin. sula which is practically a Japanese possession