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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
EXCITING INCIDENTS IN THE HARBOUR.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
account of the occurrence :-We were abont a
attempted, though without success, to inove an amendment requiring compulsory physi- cal and military instruction in all schools supported by public funds. Nothing, wo should imagine, would more please Mr. fell overboard from the last launch leaving E. E. Smallwood, ship's mate, aged about 35, KIPLING than such a scheme. The military Hongkong for Kowloon on the 10th iust., and training to which Lord CHARLES BERESFORD
was rescued by another European passenger, referred included, it appears, the teaching who gallantly jumped into the water when it how to march, to swim, and to give orders, was seen that Emallwood was incapable of and, if possible, to fire a rook or small-bore reading the I fe-bouys thrown him and was in riff at a target. Physical training implies imminent danger of drowning. A passenger on drill and, we suppose, athletics too. Now the launch gives the following interesting there certainly is no lack of athletics at the couple of hundred yards from the Hongkong present time, and the real point raised by wharf when I was startled by a sudden splash Lord CHARLES BERESFORD is the question and shouts from below, on the lower deck. I of compulsion. Discussing this subject, the | sprang up aud could just see a dark object float- Naral and Military Record contends that ing past the stern of the launch. I detached most lads lack the opportunity rather than one of the fe-bouys and threw it as far as I the desire to exercise their muscles, and could in the direction of the man in the water, that the multiplication of gymnasia, and but he made only a feeble and futile attempt to increased facilities for mauly exercises, such launch was stopped and backed with remarkable reach it, and I thought he had gone down. The as sculling, cricket, football, cycling, &c., celerity, considering that she had been going will bring about a great change in the fall speed, and as we neared the spot where the physique of the youth. Nevertheless, says moan was last soen we caught sight of him again. the service paper, Lord CHARLES BERES-foating helplessly face downwards a little below FORD's proposal is a goo.l one, and the War the surface of the water, with his arms and legs Office and the Board of Education should extended. cumbine to give effect to it. We agreei with our contemporary, but imagine that the joint efforts of the War Office and Board of Education to draw up a scheme in which sport and work will be properly combined in the physical programme of publicly supported schools might be rather painful to watch.
TERRORISM IN HONGKONG.
While the recent arrests in Hongkong and seizure of arms in connection with the threatened rising in Canton have brought in their train the usual number of alarmist rumours, founded or unfounded, of developments to be expected there is one aspect of the affair which is of a very substantial character and is deserving of ruost serious consideration. It is a notorious fact that there are men, not one or two, ia Hongkong whom the Chinese Government would gladly get hold of. Momb rs of the Reform party, they hav. preserved their seenrity from rm by the protre ion of the British flag. Among the Reform pa.ty in Houg koug thero may be some who use that protection as oak ander which to schemes against a friendly Power, but the persons refarr d to are not iu that category. They are men intimately associated with the movement perhaps, taking a keen interest in it and fostering it with a vier tits a'tinaté peaceable cousammitión if possible, but not lifting an armed hand against the Chinese Gd- vernment. Of that class it can safely be said tha: there are at present in the Col ny more than can be counted on the ten fingers who find themselves in the position of being just now in co stant fear of kidnapping or bodily violence at the hunds of Chinese emissaries It is an open secret that there is quite a number of secret agents here sifting the recent plot and striving their utmo to bring the plotters to book. The danger is that in their ze they wid work harm to inng cent men. The murder of the Reformer ip Gage Stieet is not you forgutten and it still serves to show to what lengths the Chinese will ge in gtt ug rid of any man who has made himself objectionable to them. Kang Yu-wi saved his head by light only. He is now in Darjeeling and his family are safe at Macao. But his intimates and sympathis B
still objects of aversion, m
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their heads. upou
Warrants sail to are boen issu d from Cinton for the arrest of a vera! well-known Chinese in the Colony. How these can be pu into execution in a British possession remaids to be seen, but it b hoves the objects of them to give no opportunity to the secret agents to work evil upon them, in Hongkong at any rate, though" nufortan.tely there is no seen i ageinst the persecution of their families and clangs in the interior. The authorities, it is rumoured, are fully on the alert in the matter and have taken all possible precautions.
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We shouted to him and threw more lifebuoys, any of which, had he been able, ho might easily have secured, for he was so close to the launch that we could drop the buoys almost on top of him. One, indeed, strack him, and I thought had sent him to the bottom, but he rose again to the same position. buoyed up by his coat, which spread out mat. like and kept him from sinking. Just then there was another splash, and when I looked I saw that another European passenger, a German. I think, whose name I do not know, was striking out for the drowning man. He reached him in the nick of time, and swam back with him to the launch, where refdy bands dragged both on board. I thon ght at first that the man in the water was a Chinaman, but as 1 helped to lift him over the side I saw that he was an European. He appeared to be quite
lifeless as we laid him down, and from a cut ou
his forehead it was evident that he had struck the side of the launch in falling and prob.bly stunned himself. Fortunately there was a doctor amongst the passengers-Dr. Mcses, of the U. S. transport Sherman-aud to him no less thu to the plucky German who took him from th water Smallwood owes his life
[February 14, 1003,
WEDDING AT S. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
On the 9th inst. nt S. - Jolin's Cathedral a negsed between Mr. Jo eph Hooper, of the pretty and well attended wedding was wit- Hongkong and Kowlon Wharf and Godown Company and eldest & r of the late Mr. H. D. . Hooper of Bristol. and Miss Mabel Elizabeth Saver, daughter of Mr. G. J. B. Sayer, of H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong. The ceremony was perform by the Rev. F. T Johnson, M.A., assisted by the Re. E. H. Good, M.A., R.N. was charmingly attired in a gown of ivory The bride, who w s viveu away by Ler father, duchesse satin, profns ly trimmed with Honiton lace and silk accordion-pleated chiffon, rel ‹ved with dainty knots of orange blossom and medallions of appliqué; a white fall veil and
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wreath of orange blossom completed a
most effective costume. The was attended by three bridesmaids. Mis es Fdie Enyer, Gussie tiny child just able to walk. The beat mau Hinds, and Phyllis Drew-the_last-uamed a was Mr. II. N. Tibbey. The service was oboral and concluded with Mendelssohn's Wedding Marcb. the organist being Mr. A. G. Ward. The char col of the Cathedral was decorated for the
Occasion with plants and with palms fashioned into arches, producing a very pretty effect. After the careшony was over, the popular young bridegroom and his bride, followed by their relations and a large body of friends, proceeded by a specially adorned lannah to Kowloon, where the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs G.J. B. Sayer was extended to all the guests at Sir Paul Chater's bungalow, generously lout for the occasion. The newly married couple start on a brief wedding tip on the Itik inst.
POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIANS AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.
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public some eight years ago at the Savoy, its Paul Jones w、s first given to the fanciful plot aud entrancing music canght the nothing of attractiveness whether considered as public fai cy; and since then the opera has lost standing alone on i's merits or as put into contrast with contemporaries. The prevalent tas e for comic opera so well gauged by Gilbert and ulivan found itself suited'in no less a de, roe by Planquetto's numbers, Paul Joues Dr. Mo es. us« s'ed by other passengers, adopt dhrs uever lost. is hold upon the ffections of was a success of the kind called “immediate." It restorative measure, but about ten minutes ha elapsed before Smallwood showed signs of life. The launch was strered for te steamer Rubi, were some braody wes procured and adminis tored. Smallwood, in an uncousci us state, was eventually carried by the same passengers who had atte ded him on the lan ch to Tsimshatsui Police Station where he was looked after. Smallwood was in the water for a space of ouly five minut-s, but he remained insensib'e for hours, and had not recovered full consciousness at five o'clock in the morning, when he was sent to the Government civil Hospital, where he saccambed yesterday moroiug
PICE CONSTABLE TO THE RESC E.
P. C. Counsell, of the Water Police, seem to make a hobby of saving people from 'rown'ng. Quite recently he received at the han`s of H. É, the Governor the Royal Humane Society's rouz med and the Belilios stur, carrying with it a donation of $25, for saving the lives of five Chiuse whose junk was wrecked in the last typhoon that visited the Colony, and who would have 1erished but for P. C. Conus-ll. The latest ins ance of h's bravery occurred at 4.15 on the morning of Friday, the 6h inst P C. Couns-ll was on du y in the harbour in » steam p'anace, and when near the Express of India he heard cries for assistance. The pinn co was immediately headel for the spot, on reaching which a capsized sampan and four Chins struggling in the water explained the resou for the shouts. Life-buoys were thrown from th Empres of India, but on account of the strong wind nud tide the unfortunate people could not reach them. Thereupon P. C. Counsell dived from the pinnacs and rescued three per-ocs the fourth, wh. like the others, was very magh exhausted, bing saved by the Chinese fireman of the launch, who followed P. C. Counsell into the water.
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the public. Ik fresh 88 appears to be perennial. Each time one I cars a repetition one discovers a new charm, hidden before in very profusiou. There was little wonder there- form that when the talented Pollards announced the opera to be upon the'r repertory during their pre ent visit to Hongkong, a general desire to renew acquaintancs with it should manifest itself and that the Theatre Royal in afternoon and opening of the 7th in t. on the consequence should be filled in every part on the
cersion of the first productions. For those no- for tuante beings who had not had the foresight to book their places for the evening performance there was nothing but chagrin and disa, oint- ment. Only the capacity of th building limited the numbers of the audience, and many modation. had to be turned away through lack of accom-
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itself there appear d to be no two opinious. With regard to the performance
The house was delighted and showed i.s appreciation in no n cert i fashion. The Lilliputians won all bear's 1 heir randering of Paul Jones was on the traditional lines laid down by George Edwardes and was excellently carried out in the best Lil iputian mauner. course there were apparent deficiencies which mast always be present where a juvenile com b`uation attempt a full-groru pieca; but (and it 18 a most important but) what is lost in one direction is more than compensated for ivan. other; for if the children in some cases suffer in comparison with the ellers regarding individuality and stage business," the: is no doubt that considered as a whole the Lilliputians possess a freshus both of voids and action, a buoyancy and obarming niïveté that are largely denied to their more experienced com. peors. It would be erroneous, however to say that the Pollards are lacking in individualism, Come of the little people: evinced a cleverness
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