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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 1ST JUNE, 1903.
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HONGKONG.
The umber of plague cases in the Colony 384 | from January 1st to date is returned at 900.
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Thrift, like virtue, has its own reward. A 88 former police constable here is now Postmaster-
General at Shanghai.
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The Official Murder by Chinese in Hongkong......388 Society in Hongkong.........
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The name of Dr. Carol Justi has been added to the register of medical and surgical practi- tioners qualified to practice in the Colony.
A paragraph in the London Daily Chronicle with reference to Mr. Belilios, says: "Mr, .389 Belilios has two fads-giving money away and 390 yachting."
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The French Army in the East
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Sir Robert Hart's Decorations,
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The New Dutch Steamship Line
Cable to the Philippines ...
Supreme Court
Police Court..
Armed Robberies. ...
A Hongkong Iribute to Beaconsfield
...390
The China League Annual Report.
Wreck of the 8.8. "Foomoon."
Correspondence
Kwangsi Famine Fund.
The Rice Tribute
Gold and Coal on the Siamese Frontier
The Conquest of Manchuria J.
Canton
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Singapore and Ships' Doctors.
192
A. 8. Watson & Co., Ld........
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Tungkun Medical Missionary Hospital
Mutiny on a British Ship
The Situation in Yuunan..............
Affairs in Japan....
American Misconduct in the Philippines...
Polo Club Gymkhana ...............
Police Sports
Boat Club Smoker..
The Far Eastern Mails
Siberian Gold
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
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Mr. Patrick N. H. Jones, lately Engineer of Water and Sewerage Works in Trinsdad, has been appointed Assistant Di ector of Public Works in Hongkong.
Official intimation is made of the dissolution of the partnership of Kinghorn and Macdonald which will as from 26th inst. be carried on by Mr. D. Macdonald under the style of Macdonald & Co.
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co, the local 393 agents of the Indo-China 8.N. Co.. Ld., inform .394 as that they have received the following
telegram from the Board of Directors :-
General Meeting of Shareholders will take 395 place on the 4th June when it is proposed to
93 declare a dividend of 5 per cent."
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The police are investigating a one of armed 997 robbery which occurred at 79. Praya East,
Wancbai, etween 9.30 and 10.15 on Wednes day night. The premises were occupied by a Chinaman as a place of business and residence, and the value of the property stolen is estimated at about $500. No further particulars are as yet available.
BIRTH, On the 24th May, at Shameen, Canton, the wife of MANUEL A. DE FIGUEIREDA, of a daughter (stil born).
MARRIAGE.
On the 14th April, at All Saints Farish Church, Wrington, fomerset, England, by the Rev. G. M. Ashdown. M.A., EDGAR JOHN PIERPOINT, Chief Warder, Victoria Gaol, Hongkong, to ALICE, only daughter of FREDERICK PARKS, of Wrington.
DEATHS.
On the 18th May at 21 Kwending Road, Shanghai, BRIDGET SMART, late matron, Military Female Hospital, Hongkong, aged 68 years.
On the 20th May, at No. 4, Leighton Hill Road, Hongkong, MARIAM MADAR, the dearly beloved wife of SHEIK ABDOOL RAMAN, aged 27 years Deeply regretted.
On the 24th May Shameen, Canton, FILOMENA, the dearly beloved wife of MANUEL A. DE FIGUEIREDO. Deeply regretted!
Chief Detective Inspector W. Hanson, acconi- panied by his wife, returned to the Colony on the 22nd inst. by the Chusan, looking very fit and weil after a year's sojourn in t'e old country. At the Central Folice Station Mr. Hanson had quite an ordeal of handshaking to go through. a tribute to the general esteem in which he is held in the Colony's Police Force.
sanitary inspector, hotel manager, etc., was George Williams, sailor, policeman, clerk,
found dead on the 23rd inst. in his room in a Chinese flat in Austin Road, Kowloon. Williams, who drank to excess, was at one time manager in the Queen's Hotel, Kowloon, and more recently a temporary inspector in the
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The King's approval of Mr. Gaston Ernest Liébert, as Consul of France in Hongkong, is announced in the London Gazette.
The 25th inst. wa-observed as a public holiday in honourof "Empire Day." There was an almost total cessation of business, the banks and the premises of the leading firms remaining closed. Most of the vessels in the harbour were, dressed and a salute was fired at noon by the warships. Except for a rain-shower in the afternoon, the weather was good, and numerous excursions and launch-parties left the City.
On Saturday the petty officers and police of the Naval Yard and the Royal Naval Hospital rave a concert in the Naval Yard. Mossrs. Hyde and Cheshire acted as accompanists and in the course of the evening Mr. Knight gave an excellent gramophone entertainment. A mong the other artistes were Messrs. Horsman, Burnett, Palmer, Dockrel, Reynolds, Gilbert, Jenkins, Rogers, Burgess, Muuge, Paisley and Bluett. The concert was a great success.
A mild sensation was caused on Thursday morn- ing at a quarter to eleven half-way up the ascent. of Battery Path by the death of a ricksha coolie in the employment of Major-General Gascoigne, assisted by another, was pushing behind the who has seated in the vehicle. The coolie, ricksha when he dropped dead, presumably from heart failure. Crowds of Chinese gathered round, but gave the corpse a wide berth, fearing plague. The occasion was improved by a well-
known resident behind a kodak.
Mr. James W. White, late assistant-teacher of Building Construction at the Municipal Technical Institute, Portsmouth, who has been appointed Assistant-Surveyor Royal Engineers (Civil Staff), at Hongkong, took much interest and an active part in Wesleyan work in Portsea, and was held in high esteem, especially by the members of the Wesleyan body. Before Mr White left Portsmonth we learn from a home paper that he was presented by his friends in that communion with a very handsome travel- ling bag, as a token of their regard; and he has with him in the Far East the best wishes his Portsea friends.
It seldom happers that the Friday Summary Court list is without a case in which some Indian money lender seeks to exact from a countryman, or it may be from a Chinese or e. Portuguese, the uttermost farthing of money lent. A promissory note is the favourite instru- ment between the lender and the borrower; and in some cases the rate of interest charged would bring a blush to the cheek of Shylock. In one recentin- stance it transpired that 180 per cent. was charged
Hongkong Wockly Dress employ of the Sanitary Board. The death is upon a loan. At. Friday's Court as money
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON. OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 16th April arrived per C.P.R. steamer Empress of China, on the 26th May (40 days); the mail of the steamer Roon, on the 27th May (29 days), and the French mail of the 1st May arrived, per M.M. steamer Annam, on the 31st May days).
28th April sirived, per N.DŤ/
-given as due to plague in Saturday's return of
the Acting Medical Officer of Health.
August Andersen, the Norwegian watchman at Quarry Bay shipyard who was remanded the other day at the Magistracy on a charge of assaulting & Chinaman under circumstances already detailed in these columns, was again brought up on the 22nd inst. before Mr. J. H. Kemp and fined $50 or two months for the assault, and $25 compen ation to the complainant, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment, the sentences to be consecutive, He went to prison,
lender of the accustomed type sued a Portuguese youth for $30, money lent, and costs. The debtor admitted the indebtedness, but stated that he had been paying interest on the 830 for about twelve months at a rate which, when figured out, showed more than 120 per cent. Mr. Justice Wise, who has more than once said he intended if possible to put a stop to this nefarious system of money-lending, gave judgment for the plain- tiff, with costs, with the proviso that the debt be paid into Court at the rate of $1 per month. At this rate the creditor will have to wait just two years and eight months before he recovers in full his $30 and costs.