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The Austrian cruiser Zenta arrived here on | the 10th inst. from Kobe, and the U. 8. despatch vessel Zafiro from Manila on the 11th inst.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals-L. Gibbs, $10.
Lieut. Col. G. A. Hughes, M.B., D.8.0., R.A.M.C., Principal Medical Officer, has been appointed to the Sanitary Board in place of Major H. H. Brown, R.A.M.C., resigned.
The German cruiser Luchs arrived on the 14th inst. from Canton. The French cruiser Chasseloup Laubat left on the 12th inst. for
Foochow
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week shows that 424 non-Chinese and 135 Chinese visited the former institution, 150 non-Chinese and 2,104 Chinese the latter.
Apart from the one case of plage, the only instances of communicable disease in the Colony last week were one fatal case of enteric fever on H.M.S. Burfleur and a case of small-pox in the City of Victoria. The latter was imported.
His Excellency the Governor has offered a reward of $500 for information that will lead to the conviction of the murder of Yeung Ku Wan in Gage Street on the 10th inst., and a* free pardon for any person giving information other than the man who fired the shots.
A Chinese workman employed in the building operations on the Praya Reclamation fell on the 10th inst. from one of the houses in course of erection, a distance of forty feet. He was picked up and carried to the Tung Wah Hos- pital, where he has since died.
The Burna anniversary (25th inst.) will be celebrated by the St. Andrew's Society in Hongkong by a Scottish concert in St. George's Hall. As Mrs. Mndie and Mrs. Lowson, Capt. the Hon. H. W. Trefusis, Mr. Alec Marsh, and others are. to appear, a good entertainment is promised, and the Band of H.M.S. Barfleur will play a-selection of Scottish- music.
It is intimated that the Board of Directors of Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ld., have decided, subject to audit, to pay a dividend for the 12 months ending 31st December, 1900, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on the paid up capital of $1,000,000, and to place $100,000 to Permanent Reserve Fund, carrying forward a balance of $18,275.70 to new profit and loss account.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Fire broke out at 1.50 a.m. on the 13th inst. at 29, Jervois Street, in the Kwan On Chun silk piece-goods shop. The building was a four- storeyed one, and the outbreak is supposed to have originated on the ground floor, in the stairway of which a tin kerosene lamp usually burned. The flanies spread with alarming rapidity, and the building was almost totally destroyed. The damage is at present unknown, but it probably will be fully covered by the in- surance, which amounts, in all, to $17,000- $14,000 in L'Union Fire Insurance Company, and $3,000 in the Western Assurance Company, The Harbour Department has issued the following regulations to be observed to-day at the regatta of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club-1. A red burgee will be hoisted at a staff on the judge's stand five minutes before the starting of a race, and will be kept flying until that race is finished. 2. During the time that this red burgee is flying, all boats, junks, etc., are to keep outside the western boundary of the course, in order not to interfere with the com- peting crews. 8. The western boundary of the course will be drawn from the judge's stand off the Kowloon Goodowns to the gunboats' moor- ing-buoys off the Royal Naval Establishment at Kowloon, and continued on to Taikokteni Point. 4. Launches following the races must keep astern of the sternmost of the competing boats. This last regulation does not apply to the launch of the umpire or other official of the club.
The steamer Natrung, which is stated to be one of the best known boats of Lund's Blue Anchor Line, and which broke her tail shaft a few days ago while on a passage from Taku to Sydney, has been towed into the latter port by the steamer Croham. The accident happened when the vessel was about 140 miles north of Cape Moreton, and she had drifted about for two days before she was sighted by the Croham.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Shanghai A.D.C. was playing Our Flat last week at the Lyceum Theatre before crowd- ed houses.
The trial of John Holst for the dealleg murder of his wife Nora in a hotel at Manila, under circumstances already reported, was concluded on the 7th inst. He was declared innocent. of the charge, and liberated from custody.
It is notified in the London Gazette that Major-General J. B. B. Dickson, C.B., who has Africa, is to resume command of the troops in been in command of a cavalry brigade in South the Straits Settlements, to complete five years in that appointment.
The following is the version of the Barfleur affair given in a telegram dated Paris, 4th January-"It is reported that the crew of the British flagship Barfleur, disappointed of a share in the loot after the capture of Peking, has mutinied and thrown the ship's gun-mountings into the sea. An officer was injured in the course of this mutiny.”
strong bid for the Philippine trade. As soon Business men in Portland, Oregon, make a as the war closed, they founded the “) Trade Association," and sent an agent to "Philippine the islands to investigate the conditions and make recommendations. Since then they are urging the Government to favour American products in the new customs regulations. This activity of the Portland merchants is another proof of the new life the expansion policy has brought to the Pacific Coast.
The
[January 19, 1901. Steps have been taken to establish manufactory in West Java from &c. Water power will be the motive force. produced in the island, such as lallang, bamboo, * The death last month of Mr. Adolph Dauw, ceased, who was a native of Hamburg, arrived an old resident of Kobe, is announced. De- in Japan in 1881 under contract as rice-miller to the Japanese Rice Milling Co. of Hyogo, and for sixteen years has held that position.
The China Mutual steamer Trinan, which called at Weihaiwei on her way up from Aus arrived in Kobe during the Christmas holidays,, tralia, discharging eleven hundred tons of fire- bareness of the country in the neighbourhood. wood at that port-indirect evidence of the
In consequence of the continued drought in famine. The local reservoir is almost depleted Japan, Nagasaki is threatened with a water of water and the stock at present is hardly sufficient for the requirements of the town. is feared that the water supply will have to be temporarily dispensed with.
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record the death of Mr. J. 8. Knowles, for The Shanghas Mercury regrets to have to
8th inst. He was well-known and respected Ltd, which took place at his residence on the many years secretary of 8. C. Farnham & Co.,
by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, having been in
China for nearly forty years. writing on the 23rd ult., says —“ Speaking the The N.-C. Daily News Peking correspondent, other day with one of the German officials on the (Peking railway) line, I learned that the Germans now direct the traffic from Tangku to Peking. The Russians have a few stations to Yangtsun, then the line is for some distance in the hands of the Germans, then of the Japanese, and finally under British control to Peking." The same correspondent under the heading of "How the different nationalities stand,” says :- sumably it is conscience money that buys the "The Russians have begun famine relief-pre- corn. At all events it is rather premature, The French are, making up their accounts, in-- cluding the indemnities to be paid to Chinese Catholics. That is a rather tall order, but quite in keeping with the policy that believes in the Vatican decrees and the sovereignty of the Pope. The Japs are quietly doing a * roaring trade selling their loot, it is said. The Americans are trying their prentice hands on the Eastern Problem and International Comity. The Germans, though the last to come, are now the best served with prestige and equipage. They boss the show. The British' are not in it,' to use the German summary of our posi- tion."
A new magazine has been issued in London by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, commencing in November last. It is entitled the Imperial and Colonial Magazine and Review, and from the opening number, a copy of which has been sent us by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ld., who are its publishers here, it should have a bright future. It is to be an organ devoted to the study of matters of Imperial and Colonial, as distinct from Party interest. standpoint, it is claimed in the Introduction to From the Imperial the first number, "there can be but one Party the Party sincerely pledged to maintain, strengthen, and unaggressively to develop the vast political system which girdles the globe, and under the British flag proclaims the free- dom, the equality, and the common rights of all its citizens. To that Party-to all, in fact, of English speech who are concerned in the stability of the British Empiro-the Proprie- tors appeal for support and encouragement in their efforts to make this magazine a worthy exponent of the greatness of these aims."
On the 7th inst. Messrs Boyd & Co., Shanghai, editors of the new venture are "Celt" and Mr. launched from their building slips two vessels E. F. Benson, already well known as a novelist. built to the order of the Russians. The first to With regard to Kung Chao, of whose pro- take the water was a very handsome yacht, which mised return to Shanghai we publish a is to be for the personal use of the Governor of telegram from our correspondent elsewhere, Port Arthur. Though the vessel is still un- the N.-C. Daily News of the 7th inst. named, yet the orthodox bottle of champagne says: The statement that Kung Chao, the was hurled at her bows as she glided down the man illegally arrested on the 22nd ult., "left slips by Miss Zina Dessino, daughter of Colonel the Settlement entirely of his own accord," Dessino, Russian Military Agent in China. is just such a subterfuge as the (hinese The yacht is a steel screw steamer of 53 tons. authorities delight in. Kung Chao was told Her dimensions are: length between perpendi- that he was wanted at the Mixed Court, and culars 62 ft., breadth moulded 13 ft. 11 in., said that as he had committed no crime he was depth moulded 8ft. 9in. She has a saloon for- perfectly willing to go there, and got into the ward. which was completely fitted up, with the carriage provided by his captors under the im- exception of the upholstery. The boilers and pression that they were taking him to the engines had been put in and she was launched Mixed Court, instead of which he was taken to with steam up. Miss Katia Dessins christened Colonel. Yen's camp, where he still lies, and the second ship the Zeia, which was built to the where we understand he is being threatened order of the Chinese Eastern Railway Co. and with torturs if he does not sign a statement is a vessel of 918 tons gross measurement and drawn up by Coloned Yen to the effect that he 800 indicated horse-power. She is a sister ship went willingly to the camp. It is possible that to the Burneia which was built for t he has under duress already signed such a state- Company and launched about a month ago. ment, but he has let his friends know plainly She is 200 feet in length, 30 feet in breadth, that he is acting under compulsion. We learn 18ft. in depth to main deck and 20 ft. in depth that the Municipal Council has given to the to the awning deck, with two pole masts, schoon- Consular Body the evidence that Kung Chao er rigged fore and aft, and derricks to work was decoyed into the carriage and as much cargo. Her engines are of the inverted triple kidnapped as if actual violence had been used. expansion type of the latest modern pattern. According to the Universal Gazette, H.E. Liu She has holds fore and aft and a cellular double Kung-yi has ordered the transfer of the prisoner bottom, with a large ballast tank forward. She Kung Chao to the Mixed Court. The N.-C. is specially built for ice and is double-plated Daily News believes, however, that Lin Kung-forward. Her boats are cut away for yi's promise to Mr. Warren was not unquali- up the ice and in case her own weight fied; and obviously what should be insisted on cient she can make use of 153 tons is that Kung Chao be put again in the position in her ballast tank. She is specially he occupied before he was kidnapped by for the Kamschatka trade and will run General Yen's runners.
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