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for the National Treasury, receiving Customs duties and all other taxes, issuing no'es and granting loans, etc. The bank would be under the supervision of the Minister of the Treasury, It is regarded as doubtful, bowever, if the capital can be raised within the Kingdom, and if not |
a loan will have to be raised.
HONGKONG.
During the 24 hours ended at noon on Thurs- day the 26th case of plague for 1913 cecurred, a dead Chinese being found at Glencaly.
The Chinaman who is charged with the murder of his wife and grandfather at Kow. loon City on the first ult. was on the 24th inst. committed for trial at the Magistracy.
On the 21st inst. a badger was ought and killed in a coppice just below Stewart Ter- race, at the Peak. It was first seen by a dog belonging to Mr. Layton, and a number of coolies aided by dogs ran it to earth and killed
it with n bamboo. It was a fine specimen.
To the members assembled in the Union Church on the 2nd inst., the Rer. (. H. Hickling made the announcement tha inpressed by the rowth of population au 1 the success of the Sunday School inaugurated in October, 1902, the Eession had determined to
commence Sunday services in Kowloou forth
with.
The authorities at the Central Police Station reported on the 23rd inst. thala Chiuaman, sup- posed to be a passenger on the steamer Dardanus, was drowned in the harbour on the 22nd iust. It is not known how the man came to be in the water, but when he was SUPO an European quartermaster on the steamer dived to his rescne. 'The Chinaman, however, sank bef re he could be reached.
Mr.-L. A. M. Johnston, the new Postmaster General of Hongkong, arrived here last evening by the P. and O. 8.8 Valetta, Mr. E. Cornewall Lewis, who has filled the post of Acting Postmaster with much acceptance during his tenure of that office and has earned noiversal respect for his faithfulness to duty and general courtesy to the public, will suil by the next German mail for Eigland on leave
On and after 10th March the Messageries Maritimes homeward mail steamer will be despatched from Hongkong on Tuesdays, in- stead of on Mondays as at present. The new arrangement will be inaugurated by the ss, Annam (Capt. Girard), on the date given above. The next fortnightly Finch mail will leave at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and subsequent mails will leave alter- nately at 11am, and 8 a.m.
She will leave at 11 a.m.
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A meeting of the Royal Hongkong Yacht On the 21st inst, the U.8. monitor Monterey Club will be held on the 5th prox, in the C.C. | arrived from Canton and the British battleship Parilion to consider the question of amalgamat- | Glory from Manila Three German warships ing with the Hongkong Boat Club.
left the Barbour on the 22nd-the Geier for Singapore, and the Iltis and Tiger for Canton.
We learn that the vacancy in the post of Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforesta tion Department, caused by the retirement of Mr. Charles Ford, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. 2. T. Daun, B.A., F.L.S., formerly associated with Kew Gardens.
A cable received in Hongkong on the 21st inst. announced the death, at Johannesburg, South | Africa, of Miss Kate Vaughan, the well-known actress, fr so many years connected with the Her sister, Miss Gaiety Theatre, London, Susie Vaughan, is at present in Hongkong with the Brough Company.
The ignorance in London of "the third largest shipping port in the world." or indeed of anything beyond the sound of Bow Bells was illustrated by a paragraph which went the round of the Loudon papers on 18th January; stating that
"Sir C. Bruce, Governor of Hongkong, telegraphs that for the week ended 15th January there were eighteen cases of bubonic plague, of which ten proved fatal."
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The crews of the three Japanese warships in the harbour were granted leave in considerable numbers on the 25th inst. and attracted general attraction on the streets of the oity by their smart appearance, Rear-Admiral Kamimura landed at Blake Pier in the forenoon and was received by a guard of honour and the band of the Bherwood Foresters The Rear Admiral afterwards called on H.E. the Governor al Government House.
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It is notified in the Gaulle that at a meeting of shareholders and subsoribers of S. John's Cathedral, held on the 27th Janu ry, the follow- ing were elected Lay Members of the Chach Body, for the year 1963:-Mesars, J. Atkinson, M.B., A, Bryer (Hoa. Sec ), H. H. J. Gompertz, His Honour Sir W. Meigh Good. man, Kt.. K.C., Hon. R. Murray Rumsey; Retd. Commander. R N., and R. T. Wright (Hon. Treas.). Mr. R. C, Edwards was elected Anditor.
The sailing of the Pacific Mail 88. Co.'s 8.8. Korea on Friday was not only the record so far as the passenger-list is con. cerued for trans-Pacific lines, but also the record in respect of cargo taken out of Hong- kong. She wout completely full of cargo, in which connection it may be interesting to recall that her toupage is 7,285 net and 11,300 gross Sir Chen Tung Liang Chang, the new Chinese Minister to the United States, and his suite were among the passengers.
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Among the list of the passengers who left on the 23rd inst, by the Fre ch mail steamer Salazic we notice the name of Dr. Arunjo, of the Macan Board of Health, who goes home together with his family on a well-deserved furlough. He left Macao on on the 22nd just. by the 8.A Wing Chai; at the wharf an immense crowd of people were present to wish him bon voyage. A good number of friends came over with him and accompanied the popular doctor on board the mail steamer Dr. Ar njo was much esteemed. both in Macao and in Timor.
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Another public roup of horses and ponies took place at half-past twelve on the 2ft inst. near the fountain at the City Hall, Messrs. Hughes & Hough being the auctioneers, Lient. Col. Hughes's Brilliant (brown waler gelding, 4hds. 2 in.), which won the Hongkong Derby and the Garrison Cup, was included in the catalogue. Five years old, in fine condition, and holding an unbeaten record-the horse has also figured successfully on the Australian turf – Brilliant might have been expected to become the object of, keen competi ion. The con- The police are investigating a case of alleged trary. however, proved to be the case, and shooting at Sau Twün, in the New Territory op- the finish of some spiritless bidding saw the posite Capsaimun, on the 21st isst., as the result waler tought in at $675. Chee Sai, second in of which two Chinamen, following the occupa- the Derby and first in the Grand Stand tion of ballast-boatmen, are lying under treat- Stakes, also failed to arouse interest, and was ment in the Government Civil Hospital for bought in at $525, as were Lady Lena (bay wounds in the leg. So far as we have ben Waler mare) at 8275 and Lady Mary (brown able to gather, the circumstances of the affair waler mare) at $695; the former, it will be appear to be ss follows: ~The two victims were recalled, wou the Chee Sai" cup and was employed on different boats, and did not visit second in the Maiden Stakes. Mirabel, a chest- the village at the same time. The first boat nut waler mare 14hds. lin. high, was told called for ballast sometime in the forenoon, for $400, and Dodo, a brown wafer mare of and, according to the story related to the 14hds. lin., for $375. Disgust, the China authorities it no sooner approached the beach Lony which won the Visitor's Cup and ran than the villagers fired upon the crow. Only third in the Exchange Plate, fetched $225 one was hit, in the leg, as we have indicated, Altogether prices were regarded as most un- and the others immediately pulled back into the satisfactory, and,comment on the fact and on stream oat of danger, making for Hongkong the disinclination of owners to invest in Some time later the second bost pulled ashore purchases was not wanting. The failure of the at the village also for ballat, and its occupants Jockey Club to publish details concerning were treated to exactly the same reception, with the proposed meeting in April was set a result similar to that in the previous case—–—– down as the principal reason for this back-one man wounded in the leg. war.lness, and it was also remarked that indic- | village people were left to themselves and at a ations did not point to walers being in much later period a police launch took on board the favour for next year's races, which would injured man from each ballast-boat and con- probably see Chins ponies in the majority. veyed them ashore and to the hospital.
The Haskidate. Itsukushima, and Matsushima, three cruisors of the Japanese instructional feet, arrived in the harbour on the 24th inat, from Yokohama. H. M. sloop Algerine left for Anoy and the Japanese cruiser Naniwa for Japan.
Two German gunboats arrived from Canton on Thursday—the Iltis and Tiger. ·
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha has deci·led to make Dainy a port of call for its North China liners. The Tairen Maru, which left Kobe-on- the 21st inst. for Taka, will be the first to call
at Dalny.
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The U.S. warships Kentucky and New Orleans- left Cavite on the 20th inst. for North Borneo, where Admiral Evans was lying with the Zafiro. They are then to proceed to Singapore, Hanoi, and the North, The U.8,8. Helena is dus here about the 15th prox.
The Emperor of China has conferred decora· Field-Marshal tions on about 200 Japanese officials, including Marquis Oyama, General Terauchi, and others who performed Farious duties in connection with affairs in North China.
News has been received in Hongkong of an accident which happened to the Eastern and Australian 8.8. Co.'s new 8,8. Empire at Moji
at the end of last week. The vessel was at when she was ran into by a Japanese steamer, sacher, cooling, before departing for Kobe, said to be the Hakwi Maru, running between Shanghai and Japanese ports, and sustaine | some damage. It is further reported, though
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caunot vouch for the accuracy of the statement, that the Japanese steamer, admitted adv rtised to sail from Hongkong for Australia liability for the mishap. The Empire in
on 19th March.
A rumour having been current in Japan that Dr. Omori had predicted a great earthquake this year, the eminent seismolog st has given an emphatic denial of the story. Seismology, be sɩys, has not as yet made such advancement that it is possible to foretell when an earthquake will occur. He could only gauge a subter- ranean tremor or measure the force of a volcanic The Duc or added that it is good for a volosnið eruption by means of a seismometer.
earthquakes and their non-occurrence often contry such as Japan to have occasional minor causes a gre:t upheaval. In Tokyo, on an there is a great earth nike every
average, 28 years.
It will be remembered that we recorded recently some troublesome tim s on a British sailing ship at Bangkok. We find in the Siam Observer of the 11th inst, the following:-Ôn the representations of the Hon. Hamilton King,
the American Minister here, three of the crow of the British sailing ship Banffshire (Williams. Hall, and Colignon) who possess papers of American citizenship, have received their dia. charge from the ship and leave to-day, per aN. Keongwai for Hongkong. The Bangshire's troubles have been many since she reached Bangkok, and how she is now to proceed to sea with a very much depleted crew remains to be seen. Her departure, which was to have taken place to-day, has been postponed. It is next to mpossible to fill the vacancies in Bangkok.
The Hongkong Maru took to San Francisco on her last trip oce Tatsuo Yamasaki, Japanese Buddhist priest, on an unusual and interesting miss'on. He was to study Mor monism, not for the purpose of embracing that religion. but, on the contrar, for the purpose of furnishing himself with information which will enable him the better to oppose its growth in Japan. The Japanes seem to regard Mormonism with some misgivings, but they are willing to investigste it before under- taking a cruale either for or against it. Tatau Yamazaki cannot up akˆEnglish~ yet, and means to remain in Ban Francisco" or Sacramento for the next tw - or three months The militant||studying English, which he hopes in that tinse to master sufficiently, for his purpose. When his knowledge of English is sumolent, he means to proceed to Salt Lake City, where pursue his investigations of Mormonism.