AFFAIRS AT DALNÝ.
A despatch received by the Osaka Asahi from its correspondent at Dalny states that the Russian Government undertakings at that port have been making very slow progress of late, owing to the absence in Europe of Dr. Saharoff, Superintending Engineer at tached to the staff of the Russian Governor. General of Liaotang Pevinsula, Dr. Saharoff is to return very shortly and the works will then be carried on more briskly. There are about 28,000 labourers now engaged in harbour work. The construction of the No. 2 Dry Dock and the long breakwater was at one time reported to have been suspended for reasons of finance, but a recent telegram from St. Peters- burg stated that, as a result of Dr. Sabaroff's consultation with the home authorities, arrange- ments have been made for the carrying ont of the criginal specification. This construction work, together with the constraction of the remaining portion of the No. 2 pier, is to be completed during the present year, the
appropriation for that purpose being six million roables./
The deahi's correspondent adds that the Chinese Eastern Railway Company's Steamship Department, now established at Port Arthur, will remove to Dalny on the 13th August next.
POLICE DETENTION IN JAPAN,
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
HONGKONG.
H.E. the Officer Administering the Govern- ment has appointed the following gentlemen members of the Governing Body of Queen's College until further note: His Honour Chief Justice W. M. Goodman, the Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, M.B, and the Rev. G. A. Banbury. 239, Queen's Road West on the 2ist inst. at 10.30, and two floors were practically destroyed. The damage is covered by insurance. The fire, the cause of which is unknown, was exciting whilst it lasted, and would have been an effective feature of the Coronation illuminations crack ers of every description shooting into the air and rattling like musketry.
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The new Attorney-General of Hongkong, Hon. Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, K.B., arrived in the Colony, on the 24th inst., by the Favata Maru, and assumed his new office next day. He travell f om Fiji to Hongkong vid New Zealand. ir Henry has been Chief Justice of Fiji since 1889, and for the four years preceding he filled the position Attorney General there; previous to that he was Solicitor-General of the Leeward Islands from 1878. On Sir H. S. Berkeley's arrival, Mr. Justice Wise, who had been acting as Chief Justice from the time of the departure of Sir John Carrington till the recent promo- tion of His Honour. W. Mei.h Goodman to the post, and who since then has acted in the capacity of Attorney-General, will now resume Sercombe the Puisne Judgeship. Mr. T Smith went on leave on Wednesday, sailing by the Empress of India.
The Japan Herald says:-A chat with Mr. P. B. Clarke, who is at present undergoing five days' detention at the Kagacho Police Station, Yokohama, in conuection with the celebrated
On the 20th inst., at 8 am, the 5tb Maples slander case, convinces us that many worse ways of spending a week or thereabouts Infantry Hyderabad Contingent left for India might readily be devised than this. The life in the transport Jelunga, after having been led by one in Mr. Clark's position is simple, stationed in Kowloon for nearly two years. severely intellectual and strictly hygienic-a H.E. Major-General Gascoigne, KC.B., accom- most important factor. As a nerve sedative panied by his staff, visited the ship the day we can strongly recommend it. No tobaco, no before, and after inspecting the regiment, which intoxicants, a scrupulously cleau cell with a was drawn up on deck, addressed the officers high barred window; two tatami on which the and men. In the course of his speech His futon is spread at night; a small tatle and stool Excellency remarked on the bad luck the regi- for the foreigner's benefit; regalar hours, and ment had had in not being sent to the front in regular exercise such are among the most 1900, but said that it had given him great pleasure admirable features of the life led by a foreigner to have the regiment under his command, and the greatest satisfaction that undergoing detention in a Japanese police it was with station. The change from the soft and dele- he was able to inform officers and men that the terious spring mattress, especially objectionable China Medal would be granted them, owing in the warm weather, to the harder and more to his exertions on their behalf. His Excellency bracing futon, cannot be other than highly further stated that he greatly regretted the fact beneficial. Thanks largely to Superintendent that the regiment would not be present to take Ikariyama, the most thoughtful and courteous of part in the forthcoming Coronation festivities. hosts, Mr. Clarke's experience has been ameliorat- to which all ranks had subscribed so liberally; ed as much as possible. No lights are allowed in but that he wou'd use his utmost endeavours the cells, but this difficulty is overcome by permit. to obtain the grant of the Coronation Medal for ing Mr. Clarke to read until 10 p.m. in one of the the regiment. He then wished all ranks good other rooms of the police station, and visitors Inck and bon voyage, and left the ship about may freely see him at 8 p.m. By paying for noon, amid hearty and prolonged cheers from it, he can have what food he likes brought in the men. from the outside. One rather peculiar regula- For many years those interested in the - tion is that while books of every description, health and welfare of the Chinese portion of the including novels, are permitted, newspapers and community have thought that something more magasines are strictly prohibited. But this might be attempted to reduce the very bigh is a detail, and assuredly the person undergoing death-rate among parturient women and children detention can find more mental pabulum in born in the Colony. A scheme therefore to a hospital specially set apart for Boswell's Life of Jehnson, Gibbou's Decline and built Fall of the Roman Empire, and a volume of maternity cases and affiliated with the Alice Shakespeare, than in the Strana Magazine of Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals has been set the local dailies. A month in the police station, on foot to which many friends at home and in The under the conditions above described, might be the Colony have already subscribed.
little too much of a good thing, but for a few Maternity Hospital will be erected immediately days the life has a great deal to recommend it, behind the Nethercole (Women's) Hospital on a and we are seriously thinking of committing site which has been granted for that purpose. an offence which may bring us within the scope Plans have been drawn out and passed by the of the penalty in question.
Public Works Tepartment and the Medical Officer of Health. In these plans provision has been made for the accommodation of patients in Up the 10th inst. the Tientsin Provisonal two private wards and a larger general ward. Government, which has been making daily and for Chinese nurses who will be instructed reports and posting them for the information of in the Western methods of treatment. The sum the public, gave 134 cases of cholera, of which required for preparing the site, retaining walls, 96 had proved fatal. In the Settlements there etc., and the building itself is $12,000, in are now. says the P. & 7 Times of the 14th addition to which $1,500 is necessary for inst., from four to six cases daily with a fatality furnishings, instruments, etc. Dr. MacLean of from two to three. There have also been one Gibson, Alice Memorial Hospital, will be glad or two suspected cases among the coolies working to receive and acknowledge in the public press at Mr. von Hanneken's canal. So far, we have any further subscriptions for this object, and heard of no case whatever among the foreign would respectfully request that those who have residents. There have been one or two among promised help would send their subscriptions ke troops, but the søldier of any nationality is at the earliest opportunity; so that building kdom very careful in the matter of his operations may be begun without delay. drinking water:
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June 30, 1902
Mr. W. A. Crake bas been appointed Supernumerary Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
The following appointment has been at made the Admiralty :-Engineer G. R. Byles, to the Tamur, for Hongkong, to date May 24. Director of the Widows and Orphans' Pension
Mr. C. MI. Mes er has been appointed a
Fund rice the Hon. A.W. Brewin, absenton leave.
We regret to sta'e. that His Honour W: Meigh Goodman, the Chief Justice, bas been indisposed for the past day or two. He was unable to attend the Cathedral service on Thursday, but has now recovered.
Theolonial Secretary informed us on the 21st inst. that the following telegram has been received by the Colonial Secretary from H.M, Consu'-General, Bangkok, dated 20th June, Vessels from Hong ong or China ports must call at Kobphai for pratique."
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We very much regret to have to record the death of Mr. H. Matheson Brown, manager at Swatow for Messrs. Batterfield and Swire, who only left Hongkong a short time ago to take up the post at Swatow. The deceased snccumbed to an attack of cholera on the 24th int. The sin cerest sympathy is tendered to Mrs. Brown, who was absent on a holiday in Japan and only returned to Hongkong on Friday..
A Chinese stonecutter employed in the shipyard at Quarry Bay is lying in the Tung Wa Hospital dangerously injured through the explosion of a dynamite charge on the 22nd inst. It was his duty to cut the holes in the rock for the reception of the charges, and he was deepening ono in which, unknown to him, an unexploded charge was lying, when it went off with the result stated. The unfortunate man, the lower part of whose face, in addition to other injuries, was blown away, is not expected to live.
Passengers in Queen's Road Central on the 20 h inst. stopped to stare at a police in- spector who, assisted by an Indian constable was energetically clearing the street in the vicinity of Thomas's Hotel, Enquiry alloited that a report had reached the Central Police Station that the building situate at the corner of Duddell Street, opposite to Thomas's Hotel, was likely to collapse. Information was sent to the P. W. D., but the officials there seemed to think that the building was as safe as the average erection in Hongkong, for some hours later the police inspector and his Indian assistant hed vanished and traffio resumed its wonted aspect.
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Other Chinese fire-
Thomas Henry Knowles and Huga Ilanter, second and third engine: rs pectively of the steamer Num Shan, were arrested by the police on suspicion of causing the death of a Chinese fireman on board the ship on the 19th inst men alleged that the accused men struck and kicked the deceased because he did not do his work properly. The deceased, who was alive but unconscious when picked up, was carried by his comrades to the Tung Wa Hospital, where he died shortly after being admitted. The
en were liberated at noon on the 20th inst. in consequence of a report by Dr, Hunter, who found on examination that the cause of death was pneumonia.
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The police reported on 27th inst. that at seven o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, the 25th inst,, a daring robbery, with violence, committed in the shop of a Chinese contractor at 9, Hollywood Road. The victim, an old man, was sitting at the door when three countrymen approached and suddenly seized hold of him, They carried him inside and down to the basement of the premises where, to stifle his cries, they attempted to It broke in the gag him with bis own queue. operation, however, and the robbers then stuffed some paper and a piece of wood into the old man's mouth. One was left to guard him, and the other two pro- coeded upstairs and ransacked the place. wooden boxes were broken open and money and jewelry to the amount of over $3,000 stolen. When the robbers had gone the old man regained his liberty and reported the matter st the Central Police Station, with the result that later one of the man was arrested, and about $500 of the stolen money found in his possession. His two accomplices were still at liberty yesterday, and are b.lieved to have succeeded in getting away from the Colony.
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