July 21, 1900.]
We were informed by the Telegraph Com- panies on the 16th inst. that communication with Chefoo was restored.
For anchoring in the central fairway on the 15th inst. two godown lightermen were yester- day fined $10 each.
On the night of the 18th inst. a number of men armed with revolvers broke into a house in the Shatin district and stole property of the value of $365. The matter was subsequently reported to the police, and early on the 19th inst. Inspector Macdonald arrested four men on suspicion.
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At the Magistracy on the 18th inst. a man named Tan Li was charged with unlawfully hav ing in his possession a'die for making fictitions postage stamps. Sergeant O'Sullivan wason duty in Bonham Road early on the 18th inst. when he met the defendant, and on searching him found the die in his possession. The man was sen- tenced to two months' hard labour.
Chan Tung, wishing to get some trousers on the cheap, visited a mat-shed at Tsim Sha Tsui in the dead of night and seized a couple of pairs. The owner happened to be awake at the time and chased him on board a junk, where he was arrested by an Indian constable. The trousers were found in the son by the junk. The wan on the 17th inst. was sentenced to two months hard labour. A similar sentence was inflicted upon a coolie for stealing a jacket, the property of a needlewoman.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT,
Up to noon on Friday the total plague cases for the year were 925 and the total deaths from plague 869.
A Chinese girl about 12 years of age fell into a well behind the Kowloon Godowns on the 12th inst, and was drowned.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
57
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
The other day a boy fell off a verandah in Square Street and seriously injured his hond. While being taken to the Tung Wa Hospital | Yokohama he died.
On the 18th inst. the keeper of a brothel at 34, Gage Street, was sentenced to nine months, im- prisonment for allowing a girl under 16 to he on her premises.
Apart from plague cases there was only one instance of communicable disease in the colony last week- viz., a fatal case of puerperal fover in the City of Victoris.
The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week included 394 non-Chinese and 130 Chinese to the former institution, and 157 non-Chinese and 1,866 Chinese to the latter. On the 12th inst. a girl about 18 years of age, residing at 88, Wellington Street. was found to be seriously ill through having taken some opium. She was removed to the Tung Wal Hospital, where she died soon afterwards.
For being in unlawful possession of a number of old horseshoes, a Chinaman on the 13th inst. was fined $5 or 14 days. He said he got the horseshoes from the place he was working at. He saw them about, and thinking they were no At about two a.m. on the 16th inst. a fire good he picked them up and was selling them broke out at No. 11, Tai Wong Lane, Wanchai, when the district watchman came on the scene. a two-storey building occupied by Tenn Tai
A Chinaman was sentenced on the 13th inst. Hung, a cinder-dealer. The ground floor is to two months' hard labour for stealing a pair used as a cinder-shop and the upper floor of shoes. The footgear was of a most dilapidated are the quarters for his fokis. The fire is sup-character and was not worth more than 20 cents. posed to have originated in a bundle of grass-The defendant's excuse was that the owner of mat coats in one corner of the upper room. Inspector Ford and the firenien of the district, assisted by Deputy Superintendent Mackie and some men from the Central Police Station, were soon on the scene, and the flames were extinguished by about half-past three. The damage was but slight, amounting to about $45 only.
On the night of the loth iust. half a dozen Jap- anese from the Miike Maru were behaving rather noisily in Des Voeux Road, Kowloon, having evi- dently had something to drink. By and by Mr. Sherrington (of Messrs Caldbeck, Macgegor, and Co) came along in a rickshaw with a couple of friends, and two Japanese endeavoured to upset him. P. C. New and P.. Birchall (the latter in plain clothes) saw what took place and the two men were taken into custody. The others seemed inclined to attempt their rescue, but ultimately cleared away.
The men
who were taken into custody were brought before Mr. Bazeland at the Magistracy yester- day and fined $10 each, or a month.
Early on the 19th inst the Yaumati launch, which had been missing since the 17th, was met returning to the Harbour by the No. 2 police launch.
After leaving Praya Central for Yaumati at half-past eight p.m. on the 17th inst. no more was seen of her, and it was con-
cluded that a party of 20 men booked together as passengers had cleared away with her. The launch was placed in charge of a lukong and taken to the Police Wharf at Kowloon. The crew.reported that about ten minutes after the launch had left the 20 men in question took possession of her and made, for the Canton River. Later on she came up with a junk, and after ransacking the latter the men cleared off in boats. The men had four girls with them and these also cleared away.
The Criminal Sessions were opened on the 18th inst. and three cases were disposed of, the Chief Justice (Sir John Carrington) sitting in the large court and the Acting Puisne Judge (His Honour T. Sercombe Smith) in the small court. Tam Yan, charged with being a member of an unlawful society, was found guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labour. The defendant was arrested in Queen's Road East by Sergeant Sim and found to be. in possession of insignia and a book relating to the Triad Society.-Ip Fak Ko, Yung Wa, Li Chat, Chan Chung, and Chan Lung, charged with committing an armed robbery at Ms Tan Wai, were found not guilty and discharged. - Tsang Lui Fuk, Ng Chung, and Chan Pang, charged with wounding with intent to do grievious bodily harm at Pingshan were found guilty and sentenced to six years, four years, and three years respectively.
the shoes owed him 25 cents. He had asked him for the money several times but could not get it, so he stole his shoes.
Among the passengers who arrived by the P. & O. steamer Coromandel on the 19th inst, was Lieut. C. S. Peart, who joins the Chinese Ex- peditionary Force as Transport Officer. Lieut. Peart probably, has been selected for the post owing to the fact that he has only recently returned from China, where he had spent ten months' leave.
Our readers may remember that on the 21st ult. some men attacked the occupants of a boat, in Kowloon Bay, and, having seriously injured an old man who was on board, decamped with what property they could find. The old man was taken to Hospital, and has since died. Two men who have been identified as among his as sailants have been arrested and on the 18th inst. they were brought before Mr. Hazeland and charged with murder. The case was adjourned.
Mr. Hazeland had quite a number of petty larcenies to deal with at the Magistracy on the 18th inst. Kwok San, & coolie, charged with at- tempting to steal & ponch containing mo from another coolie, was sentenced to a monta's imprisonment. The complainant said he was in the employ of Luk Wong, contractor. Peel Street. At four o'clock that morning he was standing at the door of the shop, when the defen- dant came past and attempted to steal his He arrested him.
purse.
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Kobe
1900-11899-00
lbs.
lbs.
8,177,099
8,384,093
3,140,747
3,999,880
·11,323,846
12,383,978
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EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA? 1899-1900 1898-99.
lbs.
Shanghai and Hankow... 9,595,307
SILK.
lbs. 14,832,251
CANTON, 6th July Silk.Tsatlees. No set- tlements are reported. Re-reels,About 100 bales of No. 1 Re-reels are said to have been settled at $675 and $690. Filatures.-There has been a considerable movement in this class during the fortnight under review, and prices - have advanced $30 to $40 per picul. Added to this a further advance of 2 per cent. must be allowed for the recent rise in exchange. From prices paid we quoted: $815 avge. for Min King Lun 11/13 and 13/15, $800 for Wing Hing Lun 18/15, and Po King Cheong 10/12, $705 for Kwong Sun Hang 11/13, $785 for Kung Wa Lun 11/13° and Sai Sill Lun 11/13, $780 for Kwong Lun On, Sing King Loong, Yut Cheong Wo and Chung King Lun and Wing Wo Lun 10/11, $700 for Lee Sun Hang 10/12, $770 for Victoria 10/12, Wing King Lun 11/13, Chung Sun Hang and Kai Cheong Lun 13/15, and Kam Lun 10/12, $750 for Soey Wo Cheong 10/12, $725 for Quan Hing 11/13, $715 for Chung Sun Hang and Wai King Wo 18/22. Short-reels. Have been in very good demand for America, but there being no IIIA filatures, business was limited to Best and No. 2 chops. From prices paid wo, quote: $840 for Yu King and Yu Wo Cheong 14/16, $800 for Kwong Wo Hing, Vo King Cheong, Sai Sill Sam Choy, $785 for Wing Hing Lum 14/16, $780 Lum, and Kwong Shin Tai 14/16, $790 for Hip
for Kwong Chiu Lun, Ying Cheong and Yut Cheong Wo 14/16, $775 for Kwong Wo Tai, Kum King Cheong and Wing Ching Cheong 14/16. Waste. - Steam Waste has been in fair demand, but business was limited owing to the higher prices asked by dealers. We append quotations in Canton, with laying down cost in London and Lyons. Exchange four months' sight, 2/-, and Fes. 2.55 per Dollar:
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EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO AMERICA.
Shanghai
Canton Yokohama
1899-1900 bailes.
1898-9
bales.
15,650
6,928
7,645
7.901
34,734
30,787
58,038
45,610
· EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO EUROPE.
1899-1900
For stealing a couple of metal smoking-pipes Shanghai... from a cabin on the Leung Mun a Chinaman | Canton.. named Chan Hi was on the 18th inst. sentenced to | Yokohama two months' hard labour. The complainant, Li Shui, is a merchant at Shanghai. He left Shanghai on the 13th July as a passenger and reached Hongkong at 4 p.m. on the 17th inst. He slept in his cabin at night, and that following morning he saw a hand take the pipes away. Ho gave chase, and the defendant was arrested by
an Indian constable.
The
At the Magistracy on the 19th inst. alinaman was charged with being in unlawful possession of 13 piculs of sugar, valued at $103. man is the owner of a cinder-boat. At about nine p.m. on the 18th inst. a Chinese constable who was patrolling in a bcat saw a boat emerge from Stonecutter's Island with two men aboard. He went towards her to make an examination when the men jumped into the water and en- deavoured to escape. One of the men got away, but the defendant was captured. He said he had brought the sugar from different boats. As it was in flour bags there were no means of tracing where it had come from. adjourned.
The case was
1898-9
bales.
bals."
62,473
51,722
21,78-1
94,138
21,413
19,874
108,070
165,784
CAMPHOR.
HONGKONG, 20th July-The upward tendency continues, the market being brisk. Quotations for Formosa are:-$03.00 to $08.25; sales 400
piculs.
SUGAR.
HONGKONG, 20th July.-The prices are declin ing a little, the market being slightly weaker Quotations are:- Shekloong, No. 1, White $7.77 to $7:88 pcl. Shokloong, No. 1, Brown 5.38 to 5.40
do.
do.
Swatow,
do.
Swatow,
2, White...... 7:20 to 7.25
2, Brown No. 1, White.
1, White.. No. 1, Brown do.
2, Brown Foochow Sugar Candy Shekloong
13
5.18 to 5.203) 7.83 to 7.88 7.23 to 7.27:: 5.20 to 5.25 6.08 to 5.12- 11.70 to 11,75 10.25 to 10.80