August 25, 1902.]
WATER RETURN.
LEVEL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESER- VOIRS ON THE 1ST AUGUST.
Tytam Pokfulam
LEVEL. 1901.
1902.
Below overflow. Abovegrerflow.
26 ft. 4 in. 0 ft. 2 in. 15 ft. 0 in. 0 ft. 1 in. Wongnaicheong 45 ft. 0 in. 2 ft. 0 in.
STORAGE GALLONS.
1901.
Tytam
145,280,000
Pokfulam....
34,000,000
Wongnaicheong
000
Total 179,26 1.000
1902. 384.800.000 66,000,000 $3,260,000
481,060,000
CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRICT DURING THE MONTH OF JULY.
1901.
Consumption
Estimated ropu-
lation Consumption per
1902. 128,131,000 122,179,000 gallons
213,0 6 214.700
19.4
head per day
18.3 gallous CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON PEN-
INSULA DURING THE MONTH OF JULY.
1901.
1902. Consumption 13,295,000 16,703,000 gallons Estimated popu.
37.000
57,000
lation
11.6
Consumption per head per day
9.4 gallons The Government Analyst reports that the
W. CHATHAM,
Water Authority.
water is of excellent quality.
HONGKONG.
Several hundred natives have been rendered destitute a:.d homeless by the burning of their huts on Cheung Chau Island on the 17th inst.
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. R. T. Wright has been appointed a member of the Church Body vice Mr. Slade resigned, and that Mr. Wright has also been appointed Hou. Treasurer of the Church Body.
The Gazette notifies that information having been received that Macao is now free from plague, H. E. the Officer Administering the Government in Conneil has been pleased to rescind the proclamation, dated 21st April last, declaring Macao to be a place at which an infectious cr contagious disease prevails.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Hongkong A.D.C. proposes to give this autumn representations of Liberty Hall and His Excellency the Governor. |
The return of stamp revenue for the months of July, 1901 and 1902, sbows a decrease on the latter month's figures of $679.04. The prin. cipal gains were:-Banknote duty, $1.580.13: bill of exchange and promissory note, 8840.80; and adhesive stamps, 8837.45. Conveyance or assignment showed the large decline of $2,562, while transfer of shares decreased by $-93,90.
We regret to record the death on the 16th inst. of Mir. Ronald Maitland Hutton Potts, the youngest member of the family so well known out here. He died in the Peak Hospital. Mr. Ronald Potts, when he left England, joined the Constabulary in South Africa and, we believe, won a medal iu one of the native wars there. Leaving Africa before the Boer War just terminated was even anticipated, Mr. Potts has been a familiar and popular figure in the Colouy for some time past. Numerous friends accom- panied his fun ral down to the Happy Valley on the 16th inst.
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. C. McI. Messer, cadet, passed his final examination in Chinese on the 1st August.
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The water polo match n Thursday afternoon at the V. R. C. between A and "B" teams resulted in a win for the former by 6 goals to 0.
A corporal in the Royal Engiusers who had died of malarial fever after two days' illness, was buried on the 21st inst.jat Happy Valley with military honours.
The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week were 161 non-Chinese and 40 Chinese to the former, and 51 non-Chinese and 1,452 Chinese to the latter institution.
The Zafiro, locking fresh and trim after her recent accident, was towed out of dock on Thursday afternoon, and is now ready to take her place in the run between here and Manila.
H E. the Governor Sir Henry A Blake, G.C.M.G., and party did not, as had beeN expected, return to the Colony by the C. P. R. steamship Empress of India on the 19th inst His Excellency is now expected to arrive about the 9th prox., which it seems was the originally
Ar. Charles Cameron (28), third engineer of the steamer Sungkiang Messrs. Butterfield & Swire), died in the Government Civil Hospital from cholera at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, and was burled in Happy Valley yesterday morning. The deceased was unnell when the Sungkiang arrived from Cebu, and on Sunday was removed to the Government Civil Hospital, where cholera developed. He lost conscious- ness on that day, and remained insensible till he died. The unfortunate young man had numerous friends in the Colony, and the news of his sudden and untimely death will prove a sad shock to them. Mr. W. Ramsay, superin- tendent engineer to Messrs. Batterfield & Swire, reprisented the company at the funeral, and Mr. S. Farrell, chief engineer of the Sungkiang, the ship. Mr. Cameron was a native of Blairgowrie, in Scotland. The Sungkiang went into quarantine.
intended date.
Mr. Arthur Manners had a narrow escape on the 18th inst. at about 3.30. He was going across to Kowloon by the launch when be accidentally fall overboard, and in doing so struck his head against the side of the boat The blow stunned Mr. Mauners, and Mr. R. John, seeing his condition, jumped overboard
and saved the drowning man.
On the 16th inst., on the application of Mr. E- H. Sharp, K.C., the Chief Justice (His Honour W. Meigh Goodman) approved and admitted Mr. Francis Paget Hett an attorney and proctor of the Supreme Court of Hongkong Mr. Hett, who is a Solicitor of the Spreme Court of Judicature in England, was formerly with Messrs. Collyer, Bristow and Co., of Bedford Row, London, as conveyancing clerk, and latterly with Messrs. Grover. Humphreys and Son, of No. 4, King's Bench Walk, Temple, London, as manager. Mr. Hett has recently come to this Colony to the firm of Messrs. Mousey and Brutton, solicitors.
We understand that on the recommendation of H.E. the Officer Administering the Govern. ment. Police Constable 23, Counsell, is to be awarded the Bellios Medal for saving life in the barbour during the typhoon on the 19th ult. The circumstances were reported by us at the time, and are as follows At 1 am. on the day mentioned a junk in Yaumati bay was seen to be in distress. No means were at hand to rescue the unfortunate occupants, five in number, and it seemed that all hope for them was gone when Gustable Counsell, carrying a life-line, entered the water, and, swimming as near as possible to the junk, threw the line aboard. By this the lives of the five people were saved. It was extremely dark at the time, and the heavy sea and wreckage tossing about on the wares made Constable Counsell's task an exceedingly dangerous one. The immersion brought on an attack of cramp, and Counsell had to go to hospital. He is the man who recently dived into the water after three thieves who were escaping in their sampan and who finally took to the water; one of them, it may, be remembered, he captured after a struggle. We are glad that Constable Counsell's bravery is not to pass unrewarded.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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The laws of British North Borneo have bee so amended that in cases where rebels agains the Government of the Territory have been convicted of murder, the sentence shall direct that the convicted person shall be shot till he is dead.
The Osaka Asahi pub`ishes a Peking telegram to the effect that the Russian authorities have been in communication with Prince Tuan and sent arms to him. The Viceroy of Shensi and Kiangsu is stated to have asked for instructions of the Peking Government as to the measures to be taken.
L'Echo de bine says that three hundred and thirty thousand obligations have been subscribed to the French Indo-China loan.
It is stated that Mr. Rivett-Carnac, Financial Adviser and Comptroller General to the Siamese Government, will shortly proceed home owing to had health.
The following appointment has been made at the Admiralty-Con mander-F. L. Field, to the Albion, to date August 5; the appointment. of O. De B. Brock is cancelled.
The Nagasaki Press learns that when the expansion of the Japanese army is completed its peace strength will be 156,000 men, which can be increased in time of war to 509,000. Several critics have already pointed out how much weaker numerically is this army than those of Furopean powers.
A report was current in Seoul, apparently previously in American hands, was to pass well-founded, that the Seoul Electric Railway,
inst. The stock is largely held by Japanese, but definitely into Japanese control on the 15th
American concern. the Company has hitherto been ostensibly an
At Chiranfu, the capital of Shantung, cholera of a very virulent type is at present prevalent, and the number of those who have already succumbed to the epidemic is alarmingly large.
The commanders of four ships of the German East Asiatic cruiser squadron will be relieved from the Hansa, von Semmern from the Thetis, next autumn, namely Commanders l'aschen
Jacobson from the Schwalbe, and Shamer from the Iltis. Capt. von Semmers has been appoint- ed commander of the Hansa, whilst Captains Dick, Wilbrandt, and Count von Platen zn Hal-
lermund have been appointed commanders of the Thetis, Schwalbe, and Iltis respectively.. Capt. Jacobson will assume command of the coast artillery forces in Kiaochau, whilst Capts. Paschen and Sthamer are at the disposition of the admiral in command of the Baltic naval
station.
A Chèngtu dispatch to the Shanghai man- darins states that it is freely reported in that city that Li Lai-chung, the Principal Chief of the Boxers of Shensi anl Second Chief under ex-Prince Tuau (who was the Great Principal Chief of the Boxers of the whole Empire") has arrived at the Szechuen-Shensi borders having, it is stated, lain in hiding in Han-chungfu, Shensi, since April, 1901, after accompanying Prince Tuan to Ninghsia, Kansu. It is also reported that Li Lai-chung was sent back from Niughsia by Prince Tuna" to wait for some- thing to turn up and try to rekindle the Boxer enthusiasm whenever possible. The recent disturbances in Szechuen it would seem have again brought out the notorious and blood- thirsty Boxer Li Lai-chung, who is credited with baring slain 80 men, women, and children with his own hands in Peking and Shaatien prefecture alone in! 1900, and have encouraged him to creep out from his hiding place once more. It is further telegraphed from Chengtu that the mere news of this man's reappearance has wrought the excitement of the professors of Boxerism in Szechuen to the highest pitch."- N.-C. Daily News.
The attitude of the Press of Japan over King Edward's Coronation is thus described by the Tokyo correspondent of the N-C Daily News, writing on the 9th inst.:-All the Japan- ese journals fill their pages with pictures of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, and with congratulatory odes, while the leading articles are full of the warmest tone of rejoicing at the Coronation, and say that Heaven evidently guards England, since a threatened calamity is speedily &verted. The native papers declare that tue development of Great Britain's great- ness commenced in the reign of Elizabeth, and reached its first climateric in the reign of Queen Victoria, and will assuredly reach still higher under King Edward's sway, as already his short reign is marked by three great historical events; firstly, the unification of the British Empire, covering a quarter of the habitable globe: secondly, the restoration of peace in South Africa; and thirdly, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which they all ray sy expand and endure. The Native Press considers the postponement of the Coronation fortunate in one sense, Fince delay dispelled apprehensions concerning the efficacy of the South African arrangement, and they believe King Edward's reign will be memorable in history for peaceful triumphs, whereof an earnest has already been afforded.