+
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVII.]
१ 4
CONTENTS.
Hongkong
Lending Articles ----
The Scavenging of the Peak
Anglo-French Relations
France and Siam |
Bailway Fares in China
The Infectivity of Plague
The Far Eastern Mails.
China's Currency
Supreme Court...
"Coffin-Breakers." }.{.i.
The Kwanggi Famine
Interesting Legal Contest âi Manila,
Two 2140-ton Freighters for Pacific Trade
The State of North Forneo.
British Irade with ( hina
German Firms in China
Chinese Treaty Revision....
The Valletta" in Collision
HMS "Glory" Avenged................
Canton......
Pakhoi... 122 pp.) 46,
Property Owners and the Bulding Bill Correspondenos
Japanese StowaWAYS |-- Gubernatorial Commendation Terrible Collision in the Inland Sea Another Case of Alleged Arson
Sequel to the Span th-Ameriörn War The Manila Hemp Trade
The Anti-Foreign Attitude in China. Assaulting in Excise ( filoer Dalby
A Complaint from the “Argonaut" The V.E.C....
Miscellaneous.
Commercial.
Shipping
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 18TH MAY, 1903.
For dumping on the street the dead b dy of a child, Li Sam, a coolie, was fined $200 at the Magistracy on the 11th inet, the alternative 319 being two months' hard labour.
PA
.840 840 .840 341
..341
On the 9th inst, between eight and mine o'clock a fire broke out in a matshed at the Kennedytown I lagus Hospital. The structure was quickly ablaze and the flames spread to the 842 neighbouring wood-yard and burned with great 242 fierceness. On the alarm being given the Fire Brigade turned out under Mr. P. P. J. Wode- 34 house, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and 315 Mr. H. G. Baker, Chief Inspector. When the ....845 conflagration had been got under control it was 846 found that the damage amonnted - to about $.,00 L H.E. the Governor was among the ..350, ectators.
.342
741.
.:49
9949
.850 .350 ..85
.951
.351'
.352
At the Warrant Officers' Club, Blus Buildings on the 12th inst., a smoking concert was held .351 in honour of departing and new members of the institution that is to say, those who are going home on relief from the station and those who 852 arrived on the oruisers Spartiate and Eropa to 352 fill their places Songa were: ung and speeches 355 made, and altogether an exceedingly pleasant ....353 evening was spent. During its course the chairman, Mr. B. Kane, intimated that be had 354 pleasure in accepting from Mr. Hunt, R.E., on beh if of the Cipb, an interesting and unique ....54 gift in the shape of a photograph of Nelson's old ...56 flagship Vict ry, taken in Portsmouth Harbour on Trafalgar Day and showing the Admiral's historic signal flying. The frame of the photograph, which is to be suitably in oribed, is oak taken from the Victory.
.3.3
#51
251
365
366 357
MARRIAGE. On the 30th April, at Union Church, OTTO WAGNER, to BERTHA LEISTE both from Attro iler, Germany.
!
DEATHS.
On the 5th May, at Shanghai, LUIS GONZAGA PEREIRA DE CAMPOS, aged 6 years.
On the 8th May, at the Government Civil Hospital, C. pt. JENS ANTON AHLMANN, aged 79 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON. OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS,
The French mail of the 17th April arrived, per M.M. steamer Oceanien, on the 16th May (29 days)
HONGKONG.
he number of plague cases in the Colony from January 1st to date is returned at 656.
The name of Mr F.A L. Laing has been added to the official list of Justices of the Peace resident in the Colony,
The Report of Mr. FT. Badaley, Superia- sendent of the Fire Brigade, for the year 1902 shows that there were. 76 Bres and 95 incipient during the year. The Brigade turned out The estimated damages caused by 2,144,919 5|| ând by the incipient
$1,189.50.
2
knownza
!
George Rudoro, a German, was remsaded at the Police Lourt on the 13th inst. on a charge of attempting to obtain money by false pretences. He was formerly employed in the Café Weissmaun, but was disch rged, and it is alleged that he then went to the Rhenish Mission and attempted to collect an account due to his former master. As he produced no bill, and could not name the exact a nount of money owing, the lady at the Mission to whom he applied became suspicions and communicate with the Café Weissmann, with the result that Rndoro was arrested. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, and stated that he merely meant to collect the account and then inform his master that he intended to the keep the money in lieu of the wages which he asserts the firm did not pay him when they dispensed wit his services.
f
|
On the 1 th inst. a Chinaman stumbled across what appeared to be the dead body of ■ native woman lyng in a dark orner at the Government store in Prays East, Wanchai. He informed the police at No. 2 Police Station, who on going to the spot found that the woman was alive, but suffering from a terrible wound in the abdomen, as well -s from a number of minor injuries in different parts of the body. They had evidently been inflicted with a knife, and the murderer for the polic have reason to believe that the case is on of murder-mast hav attacked the unfortunate woman with the greatest fury, judging from the nature and number of the wounds; that in the abdomen, from which the bowels protruded, was alone rufficient to cause death, which ensued before the hospital was resobei. No one has yet been arrested, but every effort is being made by the authorities to bring the criminal to justion.
•
་
|
* No. 20
H. A. Brown, who recently emerged from prison after putting in two months' confineme for the theft of a silver watch and chain from the officers' mes of the 33rd Bombay Infantry, house of detention as a vagrant at (Kè Magik. stationed in Kowloon, was committed to the tracy on the 9th inst. Brown describes himself as a master mariner, and has evidently better days.
The friends of Mr. E. C. Wilks, consulting engineer, of this Colony, will be pleased” to - 1 arn that he has been elected Associate Masiber - of the Institute of Naval Architects, London. Mr. Wilks is at present in France superintend- ing the building of two large river stemmers to run on the West River under the French flag.. These vessels will come to the Far East under. their own steam, and are ́ due here about the month of October next.
:
The cutting of each other's boat-cables asème to be a favourite diversion amongst sampas people The pastime was indulged in at West, Point the other morning, and the bad feeling engendered culminated in an exchange of words, The Water Poline intervened, and a couple of bottles, and everything els› that came handy. the offenders were taken to the station. Before the Magistrate on the 12th inst they were bound over in $200 to keep the peace for six months.
We regret to have to record the death of- another old Hongkong resident We refer to Captain J. A. Ahlmann whose death took place at the Government Civil Hospital on the 8th inst. Captain Ahlmann was 79 years old at the time of his death, and was well known and much respected. He first came out to China in 1857 as chief officer in the service of the P. & O. Co., - for which Company he also acted as wharfinger for a good number of years until the P. &'O. Co. gave up their pier at West Point, when the deceased took charge of Messrs. F. Blackhead & Co.'s bulk at East Point. He remained in the same service until his death. Captain Ahlmann had never been home sincs he came out to the East. The funeral took place on the 9th inst. at the Happy Valley and wa attended by a jedly number of the donased's friends.
J
The O. C. dinner, held at the Hongkong Hotel on the 9th inst. proved a complete success. Mr. M. W. Slade (Old Clifton had been discussed, proposed the health occupied the chair, and after an excellent men
three schools, Charterhouse, Chelt nham, Clifton. Mr. A. Emerson responded Charterhouse and Mr. S. »W.#Two for Cheltenham. For the service members, Bir John Keane, Liruts. Watson, „R.A., and Milward, 8.F., and Mr. C. A. Parker, B.N., replied, and Messrs. John Hays and E. A. Booner spoke for the Law. Songs were sus by Mes rs. Hays, Parker, H. Hancock. Geyr and T. U. Gray, and at the close E. Ormiston, in an excellent speech, prop the healths of the Chairman, Mr. M. W. Blade, and Mr. T. C. Gray, who was instrumental i getting up the dinner. In his reply Mr. Gray said that he was amply recompasand, for any small trouble he had gone to an excellent and represe There were some notable had managed to get on (laughter)1⁄2. He would meeting sin sunnal with the ginging of “.
Y