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59 cases of plague and 53 deaths occurreh on the five days preceding noon of the 25th inst. The cases for the week ending 19th inst. were 96 and the deaths 86. Only two other cases of disease are reported, one of enter- ric fever, and one of small-pox, which ended!
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At the Magistracy on the 18th inst. a Chinese firm of arms-dealers carrying on business in Praya Central were charged with removing arms without a special license. Mr. Looker appear d for the defendants. There being no suspicious circumstances connected with the case, a fine of $5 only was imposed.
On the 17th inst. a Japanes; seafaring man went up to the American Consulate in Glenealey. and because he could not have all his own way he gan to make a disturbance. Consul-General Wild- man asked him to be quiet. cautioning him as to the consequences if he refused. and as he took no notice the man was given into custody. He was brought before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy on the 18th inst. Mr. Wildzan said he did not wish to press the case, and in conse. quence the man was discharged with a caution.
The Colonial Secretary, of Macao, Senhor Alfredo Pinto Lello, arrived here, with his wife, last Saturday by the French Mail steamer Indus. Senha Lello is going to assume the administration of the colony, pending the arrival of the new Governor, and he takes his oath to-day as Acting Governor of Macao. The Portuguese Government is considered to have done a very wise thing in appointing Senhor Lello as Colonial Secretary, as it has proved that, during his past term of office, his duties have been performed with great assiduity and correctness, whereas during the Governorship of Senhor Galhardo, the then Colonial Secretary, Senhor Bandeira Lima, was recalled home and dismissed from the service. Senhor Lelle is much congratulated on his re-appointment as Colonial Secretary. He left for Macao by the Heungshan, a large number of the Portuguese community seeing him off.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals:--
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Dinner and Souvenir Balance “ 82.57 The Mutual Store
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Notwithstanding the strenuous exertions of the police to put down gambling among the Chinese there is not the least doubt that the vice is as prevalent in the colony now as it was some years ago. A house raided one week may be used for a similar purpose the next. The Louse 244, Hollywood-road, where the police captured 19 men who were gambling, had been twice raided before and heavy fines imposed. On the first occasion a man who was endeavouring to escape from the police was killed by falling down the smoke-hole.
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In a recent number of The Times we were plead to notice amongst the names of those who had passed the examination for Associate Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers that of Mr. Frederick Southey, who was educated at the Diocesan School and was the fortunate winner of the Goverment Scholarship in 1890. At present he is Resident Engineer in the construction of waterworks at Milford, Surrey. Mr. Southey's father was for several years Superintendent of Lighthouses from Foo- chow to Hongkong.
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The Gazette notifies the receipt of information from the Naval Anthorities of the discontinu- ance from the 23rd inst. of the Typhoon Signals usually shown from H.M.S. Tamar, owing to her going into dock.
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At the Magistracy on the 19th inst. Mr. Gom. pertz fined Captain Lunt of the 8.a. Fushun, $10 for neglecting to deliver the mails from Canton until three hours after the ship's arrival in the colony. The Acting Posmaster (Mr E. C. Lewis) said Captain Lunt had three bags of mails on board. They should have been delivered immediately, at latest on the 7th at 7 o'clock in the morning, but they were not de- livered till three hours afterwards. He did not it was altogether the fault of the master, but such occurrences as these causel a good deal of inconvenience. Mr. O. D. Thomson, who appeared for the defence, said that the Fu- shun very rarely brought the mails from Canton to Hongkong. He believed this was the only occasion on which she had done so. the mails from Canton to Shanghai.. The ship arrived on the Sunday night and the mails should have been delivered next morning. They would have been delivered had the Captain been on board, but he left it to the second officer to do, and it was an oversight on the part of that officer that the bags were not delivered in time. He forgot. in fact, that he had the Hongkong
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The Tokyo correspondent of The Nagasak Press announces that on the 10th inst. there was
On Saturday night Chief Detective Inspec-mails on board. tor Hanson. Lance-Sergeant Terret. Sergeant Sullivan, and some Chinese lukongs, made a big haul of gamblers at 244, Hollywood-road. They found a large number of men engaged in play- ing "pai kau." and succeeded in arresting 19 of them. The men
were brought up at the Magistracy yesterday. The first defendant was fined $50, or two months; the second $30. or seren weeks; the fourth $20. or six weeks; the third and fifth 35. or 14 days. and the rest $3 each.
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At the general desire the Portuguese ama- teurs repeated their performance at the Club Lusitano on Sunday evening, in aid of the
There Indian Famine Fund.
was again crowded house. The two pieces were very well acted and showed a decided improvement, the amateurs going through their parts with much greater confidence. By kind permission of Cap. tain Burke and the officers, the band of H.M.S. Orlando was present and played an excellent programme during the intervals under the guidance of the handmaster. Mr. Vassallo.
At the Harbour Office on the 23rd, before Mr. Basil Taylor, George Osmond. carpenter of the s.s. Japan, was charged by Captain Wright, the master. with disobeying his lawful commands on board the said ship on the high seas on the 18th and 19th inst. Captain Wright said that on the 18th May. at 7 a.m. he sent for the de- fendant and told him to go to work, whereupon the defendant went forward and went to bed, and refused to turn out. He also refused work the following day. The Chief Officer (Mr. Le Mair) corroborated. The defendant, who is get ting on in years, admitted the offence, but added that he had been driven to drink by the bad treatment he received on board. He was fined 10 days' pay.
At the Magistracy on the 3rd inst. four Chinamen were committed to take their trials at the criminal sessions for being concerned in two armed robberies at Ma Tau Wau, Kowloon, on the 7th inst.. the robbers first visiting No. 129, which is occupied by a single woman named Chan Hi Tan, and then going across to No. 35, where Li Cheung, the mother of the other woman. lives. The daughter's story was to the effect that at about eleven o'clock on the even- ing in question she was asleep in the cockloft of her house when she was awakened by see- ing a light. She then saw ten men enter the house. four of them carrying torches made of paper. She came down from the cockloft and pulled out Thieves." One of the men had a word in his hand and another a revolver. One of the men put his armis round her while another took off her silver bangles. This man had a knife in his hand. She called out Thieves" three times, when one of the men put something in her mouth and covered her mouth with his hand. The men then broke open her hoxes, and ultimately went away with some clothing, etc., also taking her servant girl with them. There were in the The fête arranged to take place on the house this girl, another and herself. She re- Cricket Ground in connection with the reception cognised the third defendant. In the other of H.M.S. Terrible, which had been post- case Li Cheung said that shortly after 11 poned from the previous Tuesday on account of o'clock on the evening in question she was the weather, came off on on the 19th inst. The asleep in her room on the ground floor at 35, weather was somewhat unsettled during the day, Ma Tan Wan, when she was awakened by cries of and it frequently looked as if there would have Save life" from her daughter who lived opposite to be a further postponement. Fortunately the at 129. She then heard a noise as if her door evening turned out fine, a pleasant breeze blowing was being pushed. Her daughter-in-law called and adding much to the enjoyment of the proceed. out to her to open the door. and she did so. ings. The ground had been suitably prepared asking what was the matter. Then the third for the occasion. Chinese lanterns artistically defendant came forward, seized her by the hair. arranged bordered three sides of the ground and struck her with the blunt edge of a and the effectiveness of the illuminations was knife on the back of hor neck, asking her. "Which do you prefer; your money or your life ?" Other men pushed into the house and ransacked it, snosequently carrying away the contents of her boxes. After leaving the house the robbers fastened the door from
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enhanced by numerous fairy lamps placed in the trees. Over the pavilion H. M. S. Terrible was outlined by fairy lamps, the dorice, however, not being very successful on account of the lights being continually blown out. There were a couple of bandstands, one the outside. The complainant forced the door being occupied by the band of the Hongkong open, and going to No. 30 called a foki, who Regiment and the other by the band of the Royal went with her to Kowloon City, where her has- Welsh Fusiliers. A refreshment tent for tes band was working as cook. Her husband went had been provided, whilst stronger liquors could with her to Kowloon City Police Station and be obtained in the Pavilion. Here cheers were made a report. The defendants were sub-raised every now and then for Baden-Powell, sequently arrested by Sergeant Cameron and Maleking, or the Terriole. There was a good an Indian constable.
attendance, and altoget`isr the fête was a success.
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to appear in Tokyo a weekly paper entitled the Fujo Shimbun (woman's paper) under the au- spices of well-known society men and women. The prospectus just issued says that the paper will be devoted to the promotion of interests affecting the fair sex in Japan and will also conduct warfare against social abuses, to which no quarter. will be given. Editor, reporters, and other members of the staff will consist of
women.
The Nanking correspondent of The North China Daily News reports the return to his duties there of the old Viceroy Liu Kun-yi, who had surrendered his official seals but has now taken them back. He also notes that some Japan- ese have established themselves near the Drum Tower. Nanking, and have opened a school for the study of languages. When the school is in full running order some two hundred Japanese are expected to be in attendance. They are to squdy Chinese, while Chinese students are to re- ceive instuction in other branches.
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We have received a pamphlet entitled Osaka as a Free Trade Port: also as the National Capital of Japan, by Mr. Nakahashi Tokugoro, who warmly advocates these schemes. author has no difficulty in demonstrating the importance which its position gives Osaka; and he claims that there is no more practicable scheme for the establishment of Japanese supre- macy in the Pacific than the making Osaka a free-trade port. He goes carefully into the positions of the capitals of the principal countries throughout the world, and confidently asserts that ten years hence the project will be seriously discussed, in ten years more carried into prac tice. The author is very enthusiastic, but he marshals his facts with skill.
A a Rangoon Gazette correspondent with the Burmese Boundary Commission, says that the net result of the conferences between the British and Chinese commissioners, "in, spite of concessions offered by us, is that the Chinese stick to their idea of the treaty line which is geographically ridiculous, outting natu- ral features here, there and everywhere, and politically objectionable, as it divides the Wa country in two; and we adhere to the line- indicated by the treaty, the country passed through by this line having been more or less. completely mapped during the tour. The ideas of the two Commissioners will be submitted to their respective Governments, and it may rea sonably be hoped that our line will be accepted The correspondent continues:-- as it stands."
The British Commissioner tried to persuade General Liu to accompany him to the spot where the boundary first touches the Nam Hks river and jointly erect a cairn; this be refused to do. Mr. Scott is, therefore, going to set one up independently; when this has been done we shall be able to start homewards.”