-February 9, 1901.]
SPECIAL MEETING OF JUSTICES.
ANOTHER APPLICATION FOR THE EASTERN HOTEL RÉFUSED.
A special session of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held in the Justice Room at the Magistracy on the 5th inst. to consider an application from one William Godwin for a publican's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquor on the premises situato at houses Nos. 192 and 194 Queen's Road East under the sign of "The Eastern Hotel." Mr. F. A. Hazeland (Acting Police Magistrate) presided,
and there were also present, Messrs. E. W. Mitchell, F. J. Badeley, (Dr.) F. Clark, H. P. Looker,
and C. A. D. Melbourne.
Mr. Reece, who appeared for the applicant, produced evidence as to character.
Mr. Hazeland observed that this was the third time an application had been made for that house and refused. The objection was not so much to the character of the applicant as to the situation of the house.
The Justices further considered the application in private, and Mr. Hazeland subsequently in- formed Mr. Reece that the Justices were unani- mously of opinion that the application should be refused, as they did not consider that there was any necessity for a public honse in the place indicated.
A HORRIBLE STORY.
INTENDED ATROCITIES-THE FATE OF CAPT.
WATTS JONES.
A Northern correspondent writes:-It is ments have been found in Peking proving reported from fairly reliable sources that docu- that the assailan's of the Legations during the recent siege had instructions not to kill the in- mates but to take as many as possible alive, as all prisoners were to be taken to the Temple of Heaven and there put through the process of being boiled.
It is also said that Liu Kung-yi, Viceroy of Nanking, had repeated instructions to attack and massacre the residents of Shanghai, and that had Tientsin fallen and with it Peking there is some reason to believe that these instruc- tions would have been carried out-that is, as far as it lay in the power of the Chinese.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE RÉPORT.
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Swatow. On her way a strong gals occurred for the head of the house. The latter at the which upset her, and throw the passengers and time happened to be upstairs, and seeing a lot crew into the sea. It happened that a steam of unknown people below, suspected that the launch was passing by, which saved some of the game was up, and therefore closed hastily a fold- people and took them back to King Shan, bating door leading to his room, so as to prevent nineteen were drowned.
A TROUBLESOME TIGER SHOT.
In the Ching Yuin village on the hill of Tai Po-kong there was a tiger that used to Prowl around
and car.y
away children, pigs, dogs, and fowls.. This caused so much alarm to the villagers that they mustered to the number of twenty or more, armed themselves with rifles and spears, and proceeded up the hill to attack the tiger. They found him lying derbusses, and the tiger, being aroused and very down asleep. They fired their rifles or blan fierce, caught one man under his paws and wounded several others; but he was subsequently shot dead. He weighed over 400 catties, and was sold for over a handred dallars, part of which was paid over to the wounded as com- pensation.
ANOTHER PIRACY CASE.
There were four passenger stern-wheel boats taken in t: w by the two steam-launches Kwong Sang and Kwong Lee plying between Hoi Ping and Fatshan and back to Canton, and sailing together for mutual protection against the at- tacks of pirates. They were well guarded and provided with fire-arms, Their usual route was to pass the Chu Tao Shan (the Pig's Head Hills), the headquarters of the pirates.. The latters' usual practice is to disguise themselves as man. darin soldiers, and travel in steam-lanuches under the pretext of searching for contraband, so as to commit depredations. On the 1st inst. at about 9 p.m., when the fleet of
passenger
the men from entering. In the meantime he collooted a bundle of notes and secreted them in his socks. The forced their way up, overhauled the man, and men below, however, soon found the bundle of forged notes on him. They subsequently arrested him and another man in the house, and had these two, as well as the other accomplice, taken to the Yamen to be kept there pending further investigations.
A GANG SUSPECTED.
here, possessing all the necessary machinery for It is rumoured that an extensive gäng exists turning out forged notes. Mr. Munro, the head of Bradley & Co., in the meanwhile in- formed the British Consul here as well as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong about the occurence.
SCARE AMONG NATIVE MERCHANTS. The aboro described incident caused quite of anxious enquirers besieged the local bank a panic among the native Hongs, and a string to find out if the notes thoy possessed were genuine or not.
TIENTSIN.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.].
* Tientsin, 11th November, 1900. THE PAOTINGFU EXPEDITION.
Never was military expedition conducted with less excitement and less incident than that which the Allies have just concluded to Pao-
ed; found themselves forestalled by the French; tingfu. There was fine weather throughout, no fighting, and no loot. They started; march.
blew up a gate and a temple; held a military trial over a few officials; left guards or garri- sons and returned to Tientsin. The soldier people are not a little nettled at the ridiculus inua which their parturient mountain brought · forth, all the more accentuated because of the load flourish of trumpets with which the coming event was heralded to the world. They are all blaming each other; the British are, as usual, the recipients of the greatest amount of objur- gation. A strong initiative was expected from victims of local atrocity: they put down Sir them, as British subjects had been the chief Arthur Gaselee's timidity to the presence of a political officer, who would do nothing that was not in strict accord with the jota and tittles of official procedure. No doubt this gentleman's version of the story would be something quite different.
Hills, they saw two launches ahead with pirates boats and launches was nearing the Pig's Head
on board clad in military uniform. The latter shouted out to them to stop, as they wanted to search for contraband. refused, as
They they suspected that at that locality there Was
to n ver likely
be any mandarin cruiser searching passenger. boats. So they went on with full speed. The two pirate launches opened fire upon them and they retaliated, and the naval engagement kept on for about an hour, until at last the Kwong Sang and Kwang Lee cut their ropes and abandoned the passenger boats and steamed away. The With regard to the murder of Captain Watts their firearms and then left. Meantime the pirate launches pursued them and took away all Jones, I learn that he was received in a friendly
passenger-boats were left at the beach near the manner in the Yamen of the Taotai of Kuei Hua temple of the Three Ladies. The passengers Chang (Shansi), and was in the act of receiving after being robbed of all their valuables marched his passport when his hands were struck off into the village of Wangkong. At first the He was then taken outside the Yamen, sliced in villagers suspected that they were robbers, and several places and his head cut off. The whole thing is said to have lasted only about a quarterwards upon enquiry they learnt that they had
were going to open fire upon them; but after of an hour. His companion, a Roman Catholic | been themselves robbed by pirates, and that they
I hear from private sources that many things Bishop, was not so fortunate, for his captors came to seek succour. The villagers then open-managed in not a few cases to put their own wore bungled, and that the Chinese officials tortured him for several days before death re-
ed their village-gate, received them and eased him,
pro- vided them with accommodation at their ances- tral temples, until the Kwong Sang returned and brought them back to Canton.
CANTON.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Canton, 5th February.
INTENSE COLD AT CANTON.
On the mornings of the 4th and 5th inst. there were little flakes of snow falling and the weather was very cold, many beggars being frozen to death, same on the bridges in the city and others on the jetties. The philanthropic institutions, such as the Kwong Chai hospital and Oi-yak Tong were providing coffins for them, and the rich and charitable people were giving away cotton wadded jackets and hot conges to the poor.
BLACK FLAGS BETUEN TO CANTON.
In December last year the Black Flag general Liuyungfu and his troops were sent to garrison Walchow, with a view to the suppression of rebellion, as reported before. He and his four regiments arrived at Nim Shan, the principal seat of rebellion, and were quartered there over two months. The place being now quiet, he and three regiments have by order of the Viceroy returned to Canton and taken up their quarters at the East Gate, leaving one regimena
at Nim Shan to watch and preserve peace.
A DROWNING FATALITY A
cargo-boat owned by Wong Po Cheong and fully laden with coconuts and betelnuts was sailing the other day from King Shan to
SWATOW.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Swatow, 20th January. FORGERY OF HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK NOTES.
branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Not long ago the native office of the local had a ten-dollar note tendered to them by a stranger, who demanded silver coins in exchange. After the departure of the unknown person, the Chinose in the office, on close examination, revelation put them on the alert. It so hap found the note to bo a counterfeit one. This pened that a person of rather suspicious aspect went to the same bank to-day and offered a ten-dollar note for change. On careful obser- vation this also proved to be forged. The Chinese in the bank tried to elicit from the man whence he got the hote, but he would on no account toll them. They therefore arrested bird and threatened him with all the ter rors known only to a Chinaman, which had
the desired offect, for the man related tho whero- abouts of the house where he got the note. On receiving this information ton Chinese of the bank proceeded to the place described by the stranger and when they arrived there enquired
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THE EXECUTIONS.
gloss on affairs. Thoy, for instance, came out. to meet the troops, and were received with the courtesies usually accorded to honourable men; this led them to suppose that they were after all going to be let off very gently, and they acted accordingly. I am told that there was an official notice at or near the ga'o of the General's quarters, stating that he was the military gaost of the officials and was to be, treated with courtesy by the people. Great was the astonishment and dismay of these officials when they were subsequently put on their trial. The information that has been
made public about this trial is very scanty and mandarins were charged with taking an aotive exceedingly vague. Five or six of the higher share in the recent Boxer sedition, and with
just a touch-and-go if they did not all escape being actively concerned in the deaths of the martyred missionaries; from all I hear it was through the excessive scrupulosity of the political agents. At last a document was the Provincial Treasuror and Acting-Viceroy, discovered in which the infamous Ting Yung, had expressed his conviction that he would have his jurisdiction, or a native Christian disgraced no rest as long as a foreigner was alive within his territory. This of course finished the highly placed villain: he and four or five others were condemned to death. The tomatoes once sent to Peking for the confirmation Count von Waldersee. I have not been
sentence was a
Delayed in transmission,