June 8, 1901.1
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
the channel which he really did not mean to | HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. steer in. Then again, if Mr. Bridge could see the Glengyle going past the Empress off the Kwonglee, the Hangchow could see her coming past the Empress towards her. This further
went to show that a careful look-out was not kept by the Hangchow. His Lordship was also advised by his assessors that, if the Glengyle had been moored with that tide running, a very moderate outlook would have shown that the anchors were taut, He was also advised that the Hangchow did not keep out of the way of the Glengyle as she was required to do by Article 19 of the Regula tions for Preventing Collisions at Sea. She had the Glengyle on her starboard bow, and it was her duty in these circumstances to keep out of the way. She did not do so, and must be held to blame on that account. Under Article 20 she must not attempt to cross the head of the Glengyle, and on that ground she was also to blame. It was alleged in
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Undernoted are the best scores made on
Saturday in the Short Range Cup competition. Mr. Horley recorded his first win-the leading man not being an aspirant for cup honours -
200 500 600 Handi. To. yds. yds, yds. cap. tal.
27 34 26 50 33 32 31 31 29 33 31
* C. A. Ormsby... + H. Horley A. Watson ... *Q.M.8. Wallace, R.E. 32
A. Mackenzio
J. Cramer
•
"Brown J. J. Andrews Ar.-Sgt. Blair
Sgt. Bowery, R.E.
* Winners of spoons.
*XXX23XFRE
12
99
95
94
93
27 35 30
92
28 34 28
31 26 31
88
28 32 28
88
29 27 26
27 29 29
85
Winner of cup.
the preliminary acts that the Hangchow did HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
not slacken her speed or stop or reverse her engines according to the requirements of Article 23. His Lordship made no finding on that point. She did stop and reverse, but too late to avoid collision. His assessors advised him also that the Hangehow did not keep that side of the channel which was required by Article 25. Her duty clearly was to keep on the starboard side of the channel. She did not do so, and was still on the port side when the collision took place. Therefore she was to blame for having broken that rule of navigation. He was also advised by his assessors that, even
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"C MACHINE GUN CO.
The May shoot of "C" Machine Gun Com- pany for the Keswick " Cups resulted as follows. There were no spoons.
200 400 500 H'cap. Tl. 26 33 22 9 90 20 33 26
88 85
Sergeant Sherwin
Bomb. Shoolbred........ Sergeant Smillie Corporal Gloyn Sergeant C. Lee
28 29 23
1
29 23 13
10 16 14 14 21
75
475
Mr. W. J. G. Whiley has been appointed Consul at Hongkong for Peru.
We understand the local Government has ordered an enquiry into the cause of a recent suicide at the goal.
The Sanitary Board are adding to their staff in order, if possible, to cope with the present plague epidemic.
A Chinese workman fell from a building in course of erection at Hunghom on Wednesd y afternoon, and was killed.
The City Hall (including the Museum, Library, and Theatre) will be closed for month for decoration and repairs.
A month's leave of absence has been granted to the Hon. T. H. Whitehead from his duties as a member of Council. He is now in Manila on banking business.
H.M.S. Lizard is leaving very soon for Singapore, probably on her way back to the Australian station, whence she was borrowed
during the Chinese crisis last year.
H.E. the Governor has been pleased to appoint J. J. Bell-Irving an unofficial member of the Executive and Legislative Councils during the absence on leave of the Hon. J. J. Keswick.
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Apart from plague cases last week (of which there were 215-161 in Victoria-with: 207- deaths), there were reported 2 cases of enteric fever and on; of small-por, the latter proving fatal.
We learn that certain correspondence has 65 recently passed between the focal Govern
ment and the Portuguese representative hers with regard to the description in some official in Hongkong. We believe that the matter is documents of the various classes of Portuguese
at the time when Captain Pearse said collision ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
was inevitable, he really could with proper care and skill have gone to the other side of the Glengyle. It would have been possible to avoid the collision by the manoeuvre of letting go the port anchor and putting the helm hard to star- board, which would have swung her round. As regarded the case of Glengyle, the assessors found that an efficient look-out was kept. Then as regarded her not flying the blue pennant it was not necessary, according to the custom of the port, to fly a pennant while navigating this particular channel. The Glengyle had the right of navigating down this anchorage, and therefore could not be held to blame in coming up in the way she did to her buoy. The last point made against the Glengyle was that she did not stop and reverse full speed astern. His Lordship confessed that he was a good deal impressed with the arguments of Mr. Francis on this point. He supposed a landsman would take a very different view from an experienced navigator on a question of this kind. He was advised that the Glengyle did right, bearing in view the stringency of Article 21 and the position she was then in. The assessors advised him that it would not have been a prudent or safe course for the Glengyle to go astern earlier than she did. Had the assessors tendered different advice to that point, he probably would have taken it also because there was по doubt that the collision would have been averted had the Glengyle gone astern earlier than she did. He was inclined, however, to think, and did think, that the assessors were right. His view was that a master of a vessel was bound as a last resort to do what he could to avoid collision, and in this case the Glengyle did endeavour to avoid collision by going astern, and it would not, he was advised, have been a safe and seamanlike manoeuvre to have done it earlier. The assessors advised him that the Glengyle did everything that was right and proper in the circumstances. and that she contributed to the minimising of the collision. The result of these findings was that the Hangchów must be held solely to blame for this collision, and there must be a refer- ence to the Registrar, assisted by merchants, to ascertain the extent of the damages to the Glengyle. The Glengyle would also have her
him on
+
costs in the action
The Shanghai mandarins have been informed from Hsian to the effect that it has been de- cided that the province of Kiangsu shall contribute every year 3 million taels towards the payment of the foreign indemnity, and that the duty of arranging about the collection of this sum shall rest on the Governor of the province.
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CAPTAIN'S CUP AND SILVER MEDAL FOR JUNE, The heat during the competition days probably accounts for the scarcity and poorness of the returus. The following were the only scores banded in :--
CAPTAIN'S Cup.
TUI
Mr. J. H. T. McMurtrie 87 Mr. C. M. G. Burnie Mr. B. J. Grist Mr. W. L. Gill, R.N.
0364
87
****
96
93
TUR
99
93
1!3 14
99
(Nine entries.)
POOL.
Mr. J. H. T. McMurtrie Mr. C. M. G. Burnie ... Mr. E. J. Grist
(Ten entries.)
**
87
96 99
HONGKONG.
O♡♡
87
888
93
93
The retura of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week showed that 195 non-Chinese and 53 Chinese visited the former institution, 62 non-Chinese and 1,17) Chinese the latter.
Three 12-inch guns for the Navy were being unloaded at the Kowloon Docks on the 1st inst. from the Blue Funnel steamer Prometheus. The Dock Company's tackle was used, and two of the guns were safely landed. Just as the third reached the top of the hold, the sling broke, pre- cipitating the gun into the hold and starting some of the steamer's plates. The gun has since been got ashore and the vessel docked for repairs. The damago, it is understood, is not serious.
The state of affairs engendered by the present epidemic of plague in the Colony is having a very bad effect on Chinese generally, and is much felt by all foreigners employing native labour, workmen running away as soon as they receive their pay. On the 3rd inst. we noticed a hard-working medico, who has been much engaged of late in dealing with plague cases, being trundled round town in his ricksha by a decrepit old coolie, his private coolies having disappeared.
At the offices of the Public Works Depart mert on the 3rd inst. Mr. G. J. W. King offered for sale by public auction two lots of Crown land, one situated in Victoria (Barker Boad) and the other in Mong Kok Tsui, Kow loon. The former, known as Rural Building Lot No. 107, is 11,049 square feet in contents, and has an annual rental attached of $63. The purchasers, Messrs. Denison and Ram, paid $1,456 for the lot-$20 above the upset price. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,127 (contents in square feet, 1,300 annual rental, $16) fetched $1,320, Mr. E. M. Hazeland being the buyer. 'The upset price was $1,300.
now satisfactorily settled.
We understand that the Chinese in the Colony intend petitioning H.E. the Governor to be allowed to return to their homes in the country should they be seized with plague or other infections disease. The granting of such a petition, it is not necessary to point out, would be a breach of the Venice Convention:
The appointment of Dr. Robert Lamort tem- porarily to be medical officer in charge of the gaol is notified in the Government Gazette, This is a step in the right direction, as the appointment will enable Dr. Thompson to attend more to the plague hospital, but it is net sufficient. We need half a dozen more medical men at least to assist in grappling with the plague and bad sanitation.
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Even the Peak district is not safe from the attentions of those who have dead bodies to dump. At about 8 a m. on the 5th inst., at a spot about 20 feet from the Junction of Plantation and Pokfolum Roads, the dead body of a Chinese coolie might be seen by any passer-by, with a policeman standing guard near and a coffin ready at hand for the disposal of the body.
The steamer Haishing, from Taku, which left the harbour on the 4th instant carrying Major-General Cumming, D. S. O., and officers from the North back to India, encountered rough weather outside and had to put back. The vessel again put to sea, but a case of plague occurred on board, and for the second time the Hatching was forced to return. The steamer will leave on her royage when she has been thoroughly disinfected.
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A feast will be given at No. 3 Police Station on Sunday morning to Hindas and Sikhs, to commemorate the laying on that day of the foundation stone of a new Dharmsala (or temple) at Happy Valley. It has been a long standing grievance with Hindus and Sikhs in the Colony that for those followers of that faith
who are not members of the police force there is no place of worship. A movement, infinent ally headed, was recently started, the object of which was to secure a piece of ground whereon temple could be erected. An application to Government resulted in the gift of a site a Morrison Hill, Happy Valley, on the spot where the Hindu and Sikh cremation ground is at present located. Subscription lists were then opened and encouragingly subscribed to by those interested, with the result that a sum of $8,000 is now in hand to proceed with building of the Dharmsala. This is only 81,500 short of the estimated cost of the temple, which will run to about $9,500. The building will be a two-story one. The arrangements connected with the ceremony of laying the foundation stone have not yet been concluded.
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