[ June 2, 1900;]
Our late Siamese visitors, under the charge of Mr. Carter, of King's College, Bangkok, were back in Siam on the 14th inst. We are glad to be able to state that Mr. James, who was obliged to remain behind through illness, is now much better..
Owing to the presence of mind of Indian con- stable No. 530. a Chinaman was saved from drowning at West Foint on the night of the 29th alt. In attempting to land at Jardine's wharf from a small boat the Chitaman missed his footing and fell into the water. Be could not swim, but managed to keep afloat by paddling with his hands. His cries attracted the notice of the Indian constable, who forthwith took off his turban and threw the end towards the China- man, who grasped it and was dragged ashore. | Had the Indian constalle not been on the scene the man would assuredly have been drowned, as the current was strong and would soon have taken him out of reach.
On the 28th ult. a Chinese youth was arrested for stealing a jacket from a shop. When detected he threw the jacket towards a confederate and both of them ran away. The youth was chased by the shopkeeper. who caught him and handed
him over to a district watchiman. He was taken
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The United States transport Hancock, which arrived on the 17th ult. with Judge W. H. Taft board, left for Manila on Friday. On the 29th and the rest of the Philippine Commission on ult. the Commissioners, accompanied by Consul General Wildman, called upon H.E. Major- dined at General Gascoigne, C.M.G., and at night they the American consulate. On the 31st ult. the Commissioners and party of ladies and gentlemen were
a large guests of Mr. D. Gillies, chief manager of the Dock Company, who took them out to Mirs Bay in the tug-boat Fame. Taipo and other places being visited.
the
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May were 89 (45 in Victoria, 44 outside) and The plague cases for the week ending 26th
fever in the harbour, and one case of small-pox the deaths 82. There was one case of enteric in the town, neither fatal. From noon of the 26th ult. to noon of the 1st inst., there were 69 cases of plague and 68 deaths reported.
On the 4th inst., Whit Monday, the Hong- kong Regiment will troop the colours. The Parade ground, and will be open to the public; ceremony will take place at 6 p.m., on the New
ceremony on the Queen's Birthday, that this in fact so much interest was taken in the last
witness. has been specially arranged for the public to
lation were sent to Lord Roberts at Pretoria On receipt of the report of the capture of Pretoria. The following telegrams of congratu- and the Secretary of State for the Colonies:---
tion has been received from the Government of The Government Commission which to inquire
The Gazette notifies that additional informa- Indo-China that immigration of Asiatics from Hongkong to the ports of Indo-China is pro- bringing them to a scale more in accordance with as to the salaries of public servants, with a view to hibited until further notice; and that the salaries paid to those engaged in the general following articles of commerce interdicted: Every kind of grain, meal or flour,ing statements from the different servants as to are similarly business of the colony, is now engaged in collect- and food made of dried paste or dough; also rags, drill cloth, old clothes, articles of bedding and report is expected shortly.
their emoluments, duties and responsibilities, and all goods of Asiatic origin or manufacturé.
The last English mail brought news to the colony of the death of Mr. Carlo Zanella, who as recently as 1894 was the Austrian Lloyds' to the Police Station, where he was searched. Agent here. Mr. Zanella first came to Hong- Eight picklocks were found in his possession. kong in the interests of the great Trieste ship- He could give no satisfactory explanation as to ping firm in 1884, as Assistant with Mr. Oscar how he came by them, and accordingly at the Magistracy on the 29th ult. he was not only Agent for his Company both in Bombay and in charged with stealing the jacket but also with Singapore. He was an unobtrusive man, and being a rogue and vagabond. For the first endeared himself to all with whom he came in offence he was sentenced a month's imprison- contact. He retired from the service of his ment, and for the second two months' hard Company some three or four years ago. labour.
was a nephew of Zanella, the well-known Italian Among the curiosities to be seen at the Cen-poet, and was himself of unusually wide and tral Police Station is a little animal apparently belonging to the sloth family. As yet no one has been able to christen it definitely, and. it would not be amiss if some of our local zoo. logists inspected it and gave it a name. It was
Bachrach. Between this date and 1894, he was
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of 45, although fortified with the last rites of cultured reading. His early demise, at the age his church, will come as an unexpectedly severe shock to his numerous local friends and acquain-
tances.
TO LORD ROBERTS, PRETORIA. congratulations to you and your Army on your Fur Distant Hongkong tenders heartfelt entry into Pretoria.
GOVERNOR.
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, LONDON,
Hongkong tenders heartfelt congratulations to Her Majesty on Lord Roberts's entry into Pretoria.
GOVERNOR.
captured in Stainton Street the other night by Japanese sailors when in port is to pick a quar. Į stated a rent collector was alone in his house
Detective Grant. The officer, noticing some. thing playing about a lamp-post went nearer, thinking that some pet monkey had escaped. He had considerable difficulty in capturing it. as it climbed and ran with great repidity. As soon as he got hold of it he found that it was not a monkey, but a little animal with a head like a bear and long claws which should enable it to climb easily.
One of the favourite amusements among the rel with the Chinese with the object of giving a rehearsal in miniature of the Chino-Japanese War. Sometimes the Japanese do not come out of the fray so creditably as they did some six or seven years ago. One in particular who ap- peared at the Magistracy on the 30th ult with four others for being concerned in a disturbance at Hung Hom the previous evening appeared to A daring attempt was made in Queen's-road almost completely closed up while his face and have been very badly mauled. One eye was Central at about half past seven p.m. on the jacket were covered with blood. The Nippon 28th ult to steal S100 in silver from Chan Chin. Maru was in dock at Hung Hom on Tuesday stallholder in the Western Market. The nian evening and the sailors were strolling about the had taken a hundred dollar note to a money-village. Sergeant Cameron met between 20 and changer's in Queen's-road Central, near to the 30 of them in Bulkeley-street, and as they were end of Pottinger street, and changed it into armed with sticks and seemed bent on mischief, silver, which he carried in a bag. When return- ing home he was set upon by five men near
he went aboard their boat and made a report to the junction of Ladder-street and Queen's-road. Sergeant went to Hang Hom Police Station an officer, who came ashore with him. The They snatched at his bag and threw pepper into his face. He, however, munnaged to retain his found the Japanese brandishing sticks and and on his returning with five constables he hold on the bag and began to call out. His chasing the Chinese about. He arrested three of them without much trouble, but two others who were taken in hand by P. C. Devaney Devaney informed Mr. Gompertz that at about were inclined to be obstreperous.—P. twenty past nine p.m, on the 29th ult. he was called to Hung Hom village, where he found some 20 or 30 Japanese armed with stones and He saw Sergeant Cameron arrest three of them sticks striking all the Chinese they passed.
As he did so the fourth defendant rushed towards the sergeant.
Witness closed with him. The he had to get assistance to take him to the Police man struggled violently and Station. In the meantime the fifth defendant came and struck him on the arin with a piece of stick. Witness knocked the stick out of his hand. The man then drew a knife out of a sheath he was wearing and struck at him. He Constable No. 155, who was stabbed in the back. evaded the blow, which was received by Chinese
Witness then broke away from the fourth de. fendant and closed with his assailant. The man struggled and kicked but was finally secured. An Indian Constable took the fourth defendant to the station.-Chinese Constable Nol 155 also gave evidence. For being disorderly the fined $5 or 14 days and the fourth $15 or a first, second, and third defendants were each month. The fifth defendant was sentenced to three months hard labour for cutting and wounding the Chinese constable,
assailants then made off, but one of them named San Fat was caught by some people who were standing near the "Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle," and held until P. C, Brown came up. On learning what had taken place the constable took the man up to the Central Police Station. Inspector Warnock told Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy on the 29th ult, that when he came to the Station on Mon: day night the complainant's eyes were inflamed and his face was covered with pepper-When asked what he had to say the defendant said: I was passing along Queen's road when I
heard a noise and heard some one call out 'Steal things." I saw a man running and I ran too. I was arrested. Then the constable release me, but the complainant said there were tanée or more men and that I was one of them. Ton this the constable again arrested me and took me to the Police Station. I am a coolie and was returning from my work. I saw one or two people running, so I ran too. The complainant, on being recalled, said he was quite sure the defendant was one of the men who at tacked him. His Worship said that if there had been any previous convictions against the defendant he should have sent him to the Criminal Sessions, as these offences were getting very common in Hongkong. Under the cir- cumstances he should sentence him to six
months with hard labour.
Another daring robbery has been reported to the police, the outrage being prepetrated at eight Hung Hom, in the midst of the fairly thickly- o'clock on Wednesday night, in Dock-street, populated neighbourhood. At about the time when four or five men entered, one being armed with a sword and another with a revolver. They covered the rent collector's head with a cloth and demanded the key to his safe, threatening what they would do if it was not forthcoming. The key being produced, the safe was opened and $200 in money and $100 worth of jewelry stolen. After the robbers had left the affair was reported to the police who at once scoured the district but withou result.
to the police recently. The other day the s.s. Several drowning accidents have been reported
Cheung Chau and Tantau, and a couple of Kwai Lum dropped her propeller between divers were engaged to set things right. One of them went down to make fast to a rook, and second time, however, he kept down, and the came up again all right. On going down a
the bodies of two men who were in a junk which body has not yet been recovered. On Sunday was capsized last week at Aberdeen were re- covered and sent to the Mortuary. Two ser- vants employed by Mr. Hughes, of Shatin, surveyor, have been drowned at Shatin. They were bathing when one of them got out of his depth. The other went to his assistance with the result that they both lost their lives.
Under the head of Revenue and Expenditure, 1899: the Registrar General says in his report for. The revenue collected during the year amounted to $135,248.65 as against $127,601.78 collected in 1898. Of the total increase of the Markets. The latter increase comes prin $7,637.92, the sum of $6,133.30 is derived from
cipally from the Central, Western and Saying pun Markets, and is due to the increased rent obtained from stalls, which were put up to tender the increase is due to the opening of a market on being given up by their holders. $944.03 of
most of the other headings of revenue. The at Taikokteni. There are small increases under item Certificates of Identity issued to Chinese proceeding to the United States of America,” accounts for the principal decrease of $1,425, This decrease was anticipated by the Acting Registrar General, Mr. Brewin, in his report for 1898. It is difficult to estimate in advance the revenue to be derived from this uncertain decrease next year. The expenditure during source, but it is not likely that there will be any the year was $13,090,15 as compared with
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$13,128 in 1898.