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About 3 p.m. on the 15th the Yosemite's stern tilted high in the air, and she went down bow first, her stern bursting open as she disappeared. The Justin had a miraculous escape from destruction. Chief Engineer Nichols succeeded in getting up steam in wonderfully short order, despite the fact that he was totally unprepared. The Justin's anchors dragged. When the wind changed and it cleared for a few minutes, Cap- tain Scott found that his vessel was but 100 yards from the cliff where the Yosemite was battering her life out. Fortunately his anchors held and the change of wind drove the Justin into deeper water, where she managed to ride out the gale.
The Yosemite was formerly the El Sud of the Morgan line. She was pressed into service as an anxiliary cruiser at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war and afterwards retained
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The Yosemite was to have been transferred | to Cavite in the near future and was to have been the flagship of the fleet there. She was valued at $1,000,000,
The warehouse of the Western Commercial Company store was blown down. The loss will be about $30,000. About six months ago the same Company sustained a loss of $12,000 through a typhoon. The natives say that the storm of the 13th was the greatest in the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
None can estimate the damage sustained by property in general, says our Manila contem- porary. Not a house of any pretentions re- mains standing, and the crops are a total loss. Scarcely a vestige of green remains on the island. As copra is the only export the natives will have no income for years to come.
HONGKONG.
Lieut. Col. H. E. Passy, Field Controller, China Expeditionary Force, who has been on a tour of inspection in North China, has returned to Hongkong.
The space set apart at the Happy Valley for Hindoo interments being fully occupied, the bodies of all members of that community who may die in the future either in Hongkong or Kowloon, are to be interred in the Hindoo Cemetery at the latter place.
A Chinaman was attempting to commit a burglary in a house in Queen's Road West on Monday night, when he alarmed the inmates, and in trying to effect his escape by jumping to the street, sustained an injury to his leg. He was taken to the hospital.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals: -
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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The return of the number of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum shows that the former institution was visited by 441 non- Chinese and 126 Chinese, the latter by 194 non- Chinese and 2,226 Chinese.
A sham fight took place at Yaumati on the 30th ult. between the bluejackets and marines from H.M. ships at present in the harbour. The bluejackets formed the attacking and the marines the defending force.
The Robinson Piano Co. inform us that the Pollard Opera Company is due here on the 9th January. It will be remembered that they were expected here from Singapore this year, but owing to a change of plan the company went to Rangoon, where they have met with much
success.
At the offices of the Public Works Depart ment on the 3rd inst. Mr. G. J. W. King offered for competition Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,112, situate "at Ma-Tau-Kok. The lot comprises 5,000 square feet. The upset was $300 and the price realised was $320, the purchasers being the Naval Yard contractors, who bought the lot as a site for an overseer's bungalow.
A sham fight took place on the 4th inst. when a force composed of sections 2 and 3, re- presenting the defenders, under the respective commands of Major Grifin, R.G.A., and Major Everitt, R.W.F., was opposed by a force under Major St. John, R.G.A., re- presenting the invaders. The idea was the landing of an invading army at Sandy Bay or Tokwawan Bay, or both bays, with the object of capturing the Belcher's Group of Batteries, and then marching on Victoria. The task of the defending army was to repel the attack by preventing the landing of the force.
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Viscount Suirdale, A.D.C., is among the passengers for home by the Sobraon to-day.
The following appointments are notified in the Gazette:-Mr. John Smith to be Inspector. of Nuisances; Mr. J. S. Kemp to be until farther notice a Police Magistrate of the Colony; Mr. J. R. Wood to be until further notice Police Registrar of the Land Court vice Mr. Kemp.
At an Emergency Meeting, held on the 20th November, of the Ararat Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners, Wor. Bro. G. P. Jordan, assisted by Wor. Bro. A. O'D. Gourdin, installed Bro. G. J. W. King as Wor. Comdr. for the ensuing year. Wor. Comdr. N then invested his officers as follows:--J., Bro. J. Lookhead; 8., Bro. G. P. Lammert; Treas., Bro. J. A. Whoal; Scribe, Bro. H. W. Wolfe; J. D., Bro. Kent; D. C., Bro. E. A. Hickman; J. G., Bro. R. Bowery; Steward, Bro. C. Robertson; Warder, Bro. J. Maxwell.
At the Magistracy on Tuesday, before Mr. Hazeland, C. J. Gonsalves, a clerk in the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank, summoned Adso Soares, of 9, Richmond Road, for assault. A cross summons had been taken out by Soares, who had summoned Gonsalves for assault and for using abusive language. Mr. Gedge ap- peared for Gonsalves and Mr. Grist for Soares. His Worship suggested that the parties should endeavour to settle the matter. Mr. A. F. de J. Soares, the father of the defendant, had pur- posed bringing an action for damages against the complainant. At the meeting of the parties and their respective solicitors (at which Mr. A. F. de J. Soares was present), which meeting took place in consequence of the expression of opinion by His Worship, Mr. Gonsalves with- drew all the allegations he had made against Mr. A. F. de J. Soares and assured him that he would not speak against him in the future, and Mr. A F. do Soares in return agreed not to proceed with his intended action for damages for slander against Mr. Gonsalves.
The chaplain of the Missions to Seamen appeals to the public for old newspapers and magazines for the use of the seamen on the ships in harbour. Parcels may be sent, we are told, addressed to Mr. Ashman, manager, to the Star Coffee House, D'Aguilar Street, or to the Kowloon Institute. If more convenient to
It is with great regret we have to record the donors of books, &c., a coolie will be sent to any death of Dr. Dennys, District Judge and Pro- address on receipt of a note intimating that tector of Chinese in North Borneo, who suc parcels are ready for delivery. The Chaplaincumbed to cancer at the Peak Hospital on tenders his hearty thanks to those who have kindly contributed used literature to the sea- men in the past, and trusts this appeal for a renewal of their bounty will not be in vain.
A notice from the Acting Harbour Master is published in the Gazette that, whereas certain junks, cargo-boats, &c., were sunk in the Har- bour during the recent typhoon, and now cause obstructions to navigation, all sunken craft that are not raised, destroyed, or otherwise removed by December 20th will be destroyed by the Harbour Department, and no claim for com- pensation from any person claiming to be the owners of such vessels destroyed will be enter- tained. The notice quotes Ordinance 26 of 1891, section 28, sub-section (d.)-" Every The steamer Australian brought to Hong-person who shall neglect within a reasonable kong twenty-two more Australian ponies, the present consignment belonging to the class known as "Derbies." The ponies arrived in better condition than the previous batch of ponies who met with such a rough time on the voyage up.
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time to remove any sunken vessel or other obstruction (in the said harbour belonging to him or in his charge or keeping shall be liable to a penalty of not more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour."
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the 5th instant. Dr. N. B. Dennys in the course of a long career in the Far East had a varied experience. He originally came out as Assistant Paymaster in the Royal Navy, and from thence was transferred to the Consular Service, and was for some time in the Legation at Peking. Wielding a ready pen, however, he thought journalism was his vocation, and left the service to take the editor- ship of the China Mail, of which he also became part proprietor with Mr. G. M. Bain. Dennys was Secretary of the City Hall Com- mittee from 1869 to 1877, and made all arrange. ments for the opening of the building and the reception of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in 1869. In 1875 he retired from the editorship of the China Mail, and became in 1876 Secretary of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce and Curator of the City Hall Museum. During his short tenure of the latter post he added materially to the somewhat scanty collection in that institu- tion. It was not a little due to his skill in taxi- dermy that the nucleus of the present collection A conflict occurred on the 3rd inst. between in the Museum was formed. In 1877 he joined British bluejackets and marines and a body of the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements, and French sailors. During the day the latter continued there for many years as Assistant amused themselves by marching in a body Protector of Chinese and subsequently as Ma- through the streets of the town, headed by one gistrate. Towards the close of the eighties he man bearing the tricolour and another playing accepted a pension and retired, but a few years' an accordion. At first they conducted them residence in the old country proved sufficient selves quietly enough, but later on, as the effects for him; he longed for sunnier climes, and of frequent visits to various saloo began tons eagerly accepted employment in the service of be felt, they grew rather noisy. Marching in the British North Borneo Company a few years body to an establishment in Ship Street back, and took up his residence in Sandakan. where a number of British sailors were collected, His health had been failing latterly, and he these Frenchmen attempted to clear the whole came over to this Colony for a change a few ...$100.00 | place, but found the task beyond their weight, weeks ago, but without receiving any benefit, 25.00 and had themselves to clear out. Determined for he died at the Peak Hospital on the 5th inst., 6.00 on having revenge, they gathered reinforce- at the age of 62. Dr. Dennys was the author 5.00❘ments, and returned to the scene of the en- of several useful works on China and the Malay counter. During their absence, however, the Peninsula, and his book on Hongkong and the Englishmen had had their numbers swelled by Treaty Ports of China was for many years the the arrival of a crowd of bluejackets and standard work on the subject. He was not marines, who had learnt of what was going on, only a facile writer but also a linguist of con- and hurried to the scene. The reception ao-siderable attainments, a ready speaker, and a corded the Frenchmen may be better imagined sparkling convertionalist. His brother, Mr. than described, as the phrase goes. Suffice it to Henry Lardner Dennys, of the firm of Messrs. 'say that the sprinting exhibition they gave up | Dennys and Bowley, was lately Crown Solicitor Queen's Road Central was a revelation in what | of this Colony. He leaves a wife and several
children. men can do when they are put to it.
The funeral took place at Happy Valley on the 4th inst. of Bombardier Turton, 25th Company Southern Division, R.G.A., who died in hospital on Sunday night from fever. The coffin, draped,with the Union Jack and covered with wreaths, was mounted on a gun carriage. The band of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at- tended.
The Mother Superior of the Italian Convent begs to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following sums for the extension of the Convent and other necessaries for the coming winter :--
Aug. J. do Rosario Sir John Carrington E. Niedbardt A Friend
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Another performance of Our Flat was given in the Theatre Royal on the Srd inst. by the Amateur Dramatic Company. There was again a good attendance, Lady Blake and the - Maharajak of Bikanir being among thoss'pre- sent. The performance was in every way as successful as the preceding ones, the rounds of applause and roars of laughter being frequent, The proceeds on this occasion are to be given to the Italian Convent extension fund.
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