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September 22, 1902.j
HONGKONG.
It is definitely announced that the Hongkong Regiment, which leaves the Colony shortly for India, will be disbanded at Jhelam, in the Punjab.
Five Chinese stowaways were found on board
the Diamante oo ber last trip to Manila. They were brought back on board the vessel on Friday.
Lady Blake's "At Home" at Government Honse on the 17th inst was favoured with lovely weather and was attended by a very large num- ber of guests. The music of a band playing in the grounds was much enjoyed. The reception lasted from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m.
Now that the Sanitary Department have rid¦ the Colony, for the time being at least, of the lague, the staff propose to institute a cricket club, and a meeting will be held to-day in the Beard Room to consider the matter. The Fublic Works Department will also participate in the venture.
Mr. John Barrett, the Special Commissioner of the Lonisi ra Purchase Exposition. left by the Haitan for Foochow, to interview the Viceroy there in connection with his mission. He will then go to Shanghai to see beng To jen, Chinese Minister of Commerce, and refure by the s.s. Korea, en route for India and Australia.
As an instance of the slackness which neea- sionally comes over the docking trade here, it was subject of remark among shipping peo; le on Friday that. at 11 a.m. there were no less than five out of the six docks in the Colony empty, the only ves el in hand being the U. S. S. Maclellan. The Empress of Japan came put of dock at 10 o'clock on Friday morning.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Mr. J. H. Kemp, cadet, has passed his final examination in Chinese,
Mr. W. J. E. Daris has been appointed As. sistant Surgeon in the Medical Department.
Major-General and Lady Gascoigne left by
the Preussen on the 18th inst. for Yokohama.
They will be away about two months.
the launch already engaged in carrying police A new launch is to be built to supplement supplies, etc., to the stations in Mirs Bay.
Captain Lyons, the new Deputy Captain- Superintendent of the Colony's police force, re ported himself at headquarters on the 18th inst. Beside the one case of plagu (Japanese) last week there was one fatal case of cholera (Chinese). Otherwise the Colony was free
from communicable disease.
The members of S. John's Cathedral Choir were entertained to a most enjoyable launch trip and picuie by the ev. F T. Johnson, the Chaplain, on the 15th inst.
There seems
to be a certain amount of misunderstanding as to the date of the meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock. We learn, however, on very good authority that the 8th December next will be the day appointed.
The rat-catching staff of the Sanitary Department have gone out on strike for more wages. Their present rate of pay is $2 a month with quarters and one cent and a half for each rat ki led. They gave no notice of their intention to strike.
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We notice both in the Graphic and in Nary and Army Illustrated pictures from photographs of the living display of God Save the King" on the sides of H.M.S. Terrible, which took place here. The photograph in the Graphic was taken by Mr. C. H. Aidron, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, who has just left us for
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General Gaselee has been appointed to the district command at Lucknow.
The Japanese despatch-boit Yaycyama, which i stranded recently off the Hokkaido, Was
refloated on the 1st iust.
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The inference, says a despatch to a Japanese paper, is that she intends to retain possession. to be dismissing a large part of its native staff, The Nippon Yusen Kaisha in Japan is said and taking on foreigners.
Russia forbids Jews to reside in Manchuria.
Contrary to expectation, the Coronation medal is to be worn by the troops, and that, too, in priority of order to war and other decorations.
The Mr. Wilson who died of cholera on the Saikio was a representative of the Duplex Press, Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan, who had gone to Manil to instal some of the company's presses.
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Count Matsukata has contradic'ed his report- ed depreciation of the Trans-Siberian railways says now that nothing could possibly have been more comfortable than the journey or nothing better appointed than the carriages.
The French Hesident in Annım, M. Boul- loche, who arrived some weeks ago at Marseilles,
in
conversation spoke most optimistically of the success of the policy of placing native muyors over the new hamlets organised by the French Government,
H.M.. Tureed has replaced H.M., Esk at Ichang. Most of the Exk's officers and crew are on board, but a new commission is shortly expected. The health of the foreign community at Icbang is not very good, several members being down with various ailments.
According to a return made by the Sanitary The body of an unknown male Chinese. Bureau in the Japanese Home Department on the 2nd inst.. the total number of cho'era cases apparently about 40 years of age, was found on the 16th inst. in the unllah at Hill Road, reported in Japan this year is approximately West Point. The base of the skull was frac-5,239, of which 2,625 ended fatally. tured, and from all the circumstances the police
fected are of opinion that the deceased was sitting on the edge of the nullal and accidentally slipped
over.
As the result of a collision with the Police Pier at Kowloon on the 6th inst.. Police launch No. 3 was for a time underneath the waters of the basin at Tsimshatsui Station. The launch, at the time of the accident, was in charge of a Chinese coxswain, who bad orders to bring her from the south side of the pier, where she was lying, to the west. Instead of doing this, however, he is said to bave The police have succeeded in arresting a attempted to facilitate his own time of release number of natives who are believed to belong to from duty by bringing the launch to the east a gang which make a business of plundering side of the wharf. Against this a strong eight-sampans in the harbour. They generally board knot current was running, and the result was the sampans as passengers, and at a favourable that the little vessel was driven on to the pier opportunity overcome the other occupants. with such force as to knoo a hole in her side whom they terrify with choppers and then below the water-line. She began rapidly to rob. fill, and a Dock launch which was passing, providentially, as it turned out, was hailed for
assistance. The disabled boat was taken in tow, and just as her head was touching the slip in the basin, to which a course had been immediately directed, she sauk. But for the
fortunate arrival of the Dock lanach, and the help she rendered, the Police boat for a certainty would have gone down in deep water, and the work of raising her would have been rendered a much more difficult ‹peration than it was found to be, for she was successfully brought to the surface on the 18th inst. She Las been docked.
A rumour circulated in the Colony on Friday that the Facific Mail steamship Korea, which nas four days overdue from San Francisco, had sunk during the voyage thence. On enquiry at the offices of the Company in the afternoon, we were informed that no 1 ews of any kind had been receiv d there regarding the steamer, and that in the opinion of the management no grounds exis ed for the rumour beyond the fact that the Korea had not then reached Yokohama, where she was timed to arrive on the 19th inst. The steamer, which is quite new, having only recently left the hands of the Luilders, was four day behind schedule time in leaving San Fran. cisco, having had to wait there for the Gaelic, which was bringing on, for transference to the Korea the crew of the disabl d liner Pking, whose shaft was br ken at Kobe. The Gaelic reached San Francisco en the 26th ult, and the Korea sailed on the 30th. She is a twin-screw
vessel, and there in a possibility, we were in- formed, that she has sustained damage to one engine and is working with the other only. New boats sometimes develop unfavourable traits on maiden voyages, and the Korea may be no exception to the rule.-The Kored has since been reported safe.
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It is now plannel that Lieutenant-General
Miles&nd his party will sail for the Philippines about 30th September, on the U.S. transport Crook. While this is the date now set, yet it is possible that the present plans may be changed. Meanwhile quarters for the party have been reserved aboard the transport.
Sir James Mackay, British Commissioner for the the Treaty Revision, left Shanghai on 10th inst. for Japan, where he will remain for The benefit concert in the City Hall on
a short time, and will then return to England the 18th inst. to the Francis Brothers proved via the United States. On the 9th Sir James
first class entertainmont, and
well entertained. the Chinese Commissioners Lu and patronised. The pening item was a sketch Sheng to lunch, at which Messrs. Erodon,' entitled The Colon I end was followed by Hippisley, Taylor, Dudgeon, and others were numerous songs, both comic and sentimental. also present. The displays by the men of the British vessels in port were very much appreciated, and so also was the cycling turn by Mr. A. M. Middleton, Mrs. Stephenson's songs were capitally ren- dered, and encores were demandled. All of the entertainers, in fact, did well, and contributed to an enjoyable evening.
An accident occurred on the naval shooting range at Kowloon on the 18th inst., a bluejacket from H.M.S. Amphitrite being wounded by a shot. It was at first reported that two men had been killed, but this rumour happily proved false. The men had been exercising with the Morris tub, and the injured man was disconnecting the tube from his rifle when it exploded, a cartridge, whose presence in the bore must have been overlooked, going through his belt and entering the stomach. Thngh the injury is a serious one, hopes for his recovery ute entertained.
It was reported on the 15th inst. that Suen Chuk (34), a coolie employed on the Naval Yard extension works at Ma Tau Kok, was accidentally killed on Saturday afternoon by the gib of a crane falling on his head. The unfortunate man's left leg was broken, and the gib also inflicted a terrible wound on the crown of his head. The deceased was engaged with others in moving large blocks of granite with the crane, and at the time of the accident was making the key of the crane fast to a block of granite. The wire rope suddenly parted, allowing the gib of the crane to fall on the deceased, who was killed instantane.usly. The body was removed to the mortuary.
The Osaka Asahi siates that Captain Rose. Marcus Island, hill, in his expedition to deposited $50,000 guarantee money with the United States Government, besides incurring heavy expenses. Now that the expedition has failed in its object, it is stated Captain Rose- hill will demaud the return of the guarantee money, and also compensation for expenses incurred.
The Russian Press continues the publication of alarmist articles ou the position of affairs in the Far East as regarded from Russia's point of view. The Novoe Vremya asks why the sanction of Japan and Germany should be necessary before the clause of a treaty between Great Britain and China can bз altered. There is nothing in the published text of the Anglo. Japanese Treaty or of the Anglo-German Agreement which reveals the existence of such intimate relations between Great Britain and Japan and Great Britain and Germany. Russia, says the journal, must face the fact that for all practical purposes Great Britain, Japan, and Germany form a Triple Alliance in the Far East, which is opposed to the realisation of all Russian aspirations in that qua fer of the globe. The Birshevya Viedomosti takes an extremely pessimistic view of the future of China, which, it declares, is in a hopeless condition owing to a " ех. large extent to the "pernicious influence ercised in Peking by Great Britain and other Russia, continues the enemies of Russia. journal, is the predestined ruler of Asia, the needs of which are entirely misunderstood by 'Western Powers.