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fully the medical officer decided that there was nothing to indicate why any punishment which might be imposed should not be inflicted. He again appeared before the medical officer on the morning of his punishment, and the medi- ral officer, agreed to the punishment being in- flicted and certified that the man was not insane at the time.
With regard to the statement that Giles would bear the marks of his whipping to his dying day; the medical opinion is that the cuts produced by the
cat" were quite superficial, and that there will be no permanent marks at all. The fact that the flogging was administered the day before Giles was released would explain how it was that the marks showed up so when he left the gaol.
To show the beneficial effect the introduction of whipping for breaches of prison discipline has had it may be stated that during the last six years the number of cases in which whippings have been administered has steadily decreased. In 1895 it was 467; 1896, 168; 1897, 69; 1898, 69: 1899, 13; 1900, 16.
AN IMPRESSIVE NAVAL
FUNERAL.
The
The obsequies of midshipman Charles Krug of the Chilian training-ship General Baque- dano, who died on the previous day at the Naval Hospital from the hereditary complaint of tuberculosis, took place yesterday morning at the Happy Valley in the presence of a large and fully representative gathering. deceased, who was just completing his teens, was a bright lad, full of promise, and with every indication of a brilliant career before him. Selected from a number of his fellow collegiates in consequence of his exceptional talent at home, he had horne out the high opinion his superiors had formed of him by his complete submission to discipline and ready adaptation to his navalduties and instruction while on board the training-ship. His illness, which more or less had troubled him while at sea, did not take any acute form or cause any anxiety among those on board the ship till the vessel's arrival in port on Saturday when it was thought well to place him under medical treatment ashore. He was taken to the Naval Hospital, and although everything possible was done to relieve him, he died of his disease on Wednesday, as above stated.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND those of his sorrowing friends at home, but with the hope that he now rested under the canopy of a better and far happier State.
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The coffin, crowned with floral wreaths over the national flag, was horne to the grave on a gun carriage, followed by Commander Wilson of the General Baquedano, his officers and ship's company; the Commander of H.M.S. Tamar and a file of marines from that vessel; a similar party from H.M.S. Argonaut; a file of marines from each of the French and Portuguese men-of- warin port; Mr. Shewan, the Chilian Consul with Mr. Jorge the Vice Consul, and representatives from the several Naval departments in Hong- kong. The Rev. Father Espada officiated at the grave, and the usual volleys were fired by a party of Chilian marines. At the conclusion of the service, Captain Wilson of the Generul Baque- dano said that although they all deeply deplored having to leave their comrade so far away from friends and home, still it was a great consola tlon to them to feel that he would lie under the protection of the British flag--the flag of a country which had always been an example to the world in everything that pertained to goodness and the well-being of mankind. It was Great Britain which had set the lessons and taught the Chilians how to build and organize their navy: indeed their inception was the out- come of British instruction, and through British guidance they had been enabled to reach their present naval strength. The teachings of men likę Admiral Cochrane (whose name would be immortalised in Chilian nawal nomenclature, for, constitutionally, while that navy existed there would always be a vessel of that name floating on their waters) Captains Wilkinson, Porter, Simpson, and others would never be for- gotten, and Chili would ever remember with foelings of the deepest gratitude what Britain had done for them in the past. They had lost a young and rising officer, one whose life had shown every indication of a prosperous career in the profession which had been marked out for him. They mourned his loss that day with'
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A CURIOUS STORY FROM KIUKIANG.
The Kinkiang correspondent of the Echo de Chine relates a strange tale, stating that he is astonished at the silence of the English Press in the matter. The tale is this:-From the beginning of October the natives of Kiukiang began to grow more and more insolent. Three soldiers went so far as to insult the British Consul, knocked him down, and were on the point of putting him in the creek, when two Europeans, one of whom was the Rev. Mr. Nichols, arrived on the spot and with the aid of an umbrella vigourously wielded rescued the Cousul. The British gunboat at Kiukiang immediately landed a party. The Taotai hastened to the Con- sulate, declaring that it was all a misunderstand. ing, that no importance should be attached to the little affair, and he regretted it profoundly. Finally there was champagne all round. But there was a sequel, for later on 2,000 Chinese soldiers carrying flags, parasols, and boards inscribed with honorary characters, paraded the Settlement. The correspondent asks whether the demonstration was intended to show how mach the Chinese were at home there. In consequence some foreign troops are being placed as a garrison in the Settlement, and the correspondent expresses his perplexity at the report that the barracks prepared by the British Consul are intended to receive 200 Japanese soldiers. What is this new mystery ?
Reading this story, what any Englishman will want to know is whether there is any truth in it or is it a libel on the British Consul at Kew- kiang? If it is the latter, it certainly requires contradiction. The suggestion that a British representative allowed a gross insult like that described above to be
[November 10, 1900.
CANTON.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Canton, 1st October.
A BIG STRIKE.
There was a strike among the shop people shortly after 11 a.m. to-day; the street gates" within the old and the new cities were closed to traffic and business transactions suspended. The markets are also closed to buyers and sellers, and no provisons are to be had, for the simple reason that the officials are trying to squeeze the people. The fact of the matter is that during the reign of Li Hung-chang ar rangements were made through his subordinates with the gentry and the committees of the dif- ferent hospitals whereby a tax of 2 per cent. per month was to be charged upon the house rents, the landlord paying one half and the tenant one, to pay the soldiers employed to patrol the streets night and day during the Peking crisis. The soldiers of the On Yung regiments went on patrol service, and the shop people seemed satisfied. But when the rebellion broke out.. at Haichow, the officials had to send the troops there to combat the rebels, and put the Swatow soldiers instead on the patrol service. The latter were a lazy lot and spent the day lying asleep. or carried their uniforms under their arms, and sauntered about with pipes in their mouths, disappearing altogether at night. So when the time came for the collection of taxes the shot people refused to pay and upon the officials pressing them closed their shops and the street- gates, and thus imprisoned the officials in the streets.
Canton, 5th November.
END OF THE STRIKE.
The strike of the shop-people and traders was at an end on Saturday evening. At.5 p.m. all the shops and street gates were reoponed and. business was resumed, the officials having yield- "washed out in cham-ed to the demands of the gentry and merchants pagne," as the French correspondent suggest, by allowing the latter to engage soldiers to is intolerable.
patrol the streets and paying for it themselves. If the strike had continued for two days more there would have been a serious disturbances; fortunately the officials had sense enough to give in to the unwavering resolution of the people.
THE DEMANDS OF THE POWERS.
We have received from native official sources a copy of the demands of the Foreign Powers as presented by the Foreign Ministers to Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang on the 20th of October, a translation of which we below:-
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A MUSICAL MASTERPIECE.
On the 4th inst., the birthday of the Portu- guese Consul General at Canton, Mr. J. H. C. Crespo, the Portuguese band of Shameen played some selections of music at the Consulate among 1.-China to pay an indemnity of 400 million
which was a new piece entitled " Shameen in taels, to be paid in instalments in the space of Suspense," composed by the Bandmaster, Mostro 60 years.
V. Senna, expressive of the situation as pietur- 2-The Viceroys and Governors of pro-ed by a panic-stricken imagination. It com vinces to have Foreign Commissioners as their
menced in a soft mournful style, descriptive of colleagues in the Government of several jurisdic-general suspense, then little by little increased tions. No Manchus to be appointed in the future as Viceroys or Governors.
3.-Prince Tuan to be confined in perpetual imprisonment.
to molto agitato, bringing in the clink of bayonets and the roll of drums, imitating too, the cannonades of the Don Juan d'Austria with 4-China must suppress the Boxers and much animation and brilliancy, and concluded with a triumphal march of "marines. Alto- restore peace within three months.
5.---Russia engages to restore the three Man-gether it is a masterpiece of composition. churian provinces-Fêngtien (Lower). Kirin (Central), and Heilung chiang (Northern Man- churian)-to China within three months.
6. Foreign officials are to be employed in the collection of Customs duties, Lekin and Salt taxes. Deducting expenses, the balance is to be used in the liquidating of China's foreign loans. 7.-The present Heir-apparent to be deprived of his title and position.
8.-The Emperor and Empress Dowager must return to Peking within a certain limit of time.
SUPREME COURT.
2nd November.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. 8-RCOMBE SMITH (ACTIng Puisne JuDGE).
RADECKER V. GIRAULT.
饔
This was an action, adjourned from the 31st 9.-Two thousand troops of the various Powers to be retained inside Peking as a garri.ult., in which the plaintiffs sought to recover son, their expenses, etc., to be paid by the Chi- from the defendant the sum of $520, the price nese Government.
10.-The various ports in Inland Waters to be thrown open to International trade.
The ten clauses above quoted appear to he confirmed by the Shenpao, which further states that Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang have consented to the first clause, but that the other nine have not yet been settle.-N.-C. Daily News.
The Shanghai A.D.C., acording to the local papers, has scored another success with Our Regiment, which has been drawing big houses at the Lyceum last week.
of 80 cases of Pilsener beer.
Mr. Bowley appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Brutton for the defendant.
Mr. Paul Brewit, auctioneer, called by the plaintiffs, said that in the absence of any ex- press agreement the custom with regard to the delivery of spot cargo was that the buyer had to take it out of the warehouse or business place of the seller at his own expense. If the buyer wished to inspect the cargo the proper place to inspect it was in the godown. In the case of beer it was the custom for the buyer to be allowed to open every box and take out all broken or half-empty bottles.
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