July 4, 1903.]
Mr. Bowley-I think the bail at present is only a surety
Mr. Slade It is in hard cash. He has put up all the money he has
His Worship said he thought the amount sufficient, and he did not propose to incr ase if, Mr. Bowley next applied for the de, ositing in Court of the diary kept by the defendant whi at acting as inspector of markets, from which position he has been suspended. Perhaps his learned friend Mr. Slade would give bim the opportunity of seeing the diary ?
Mr. Slade I don't propose to give the prose cution any chance of seeing that diary until I
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
H Mattleship Golíuth, Capt. F. H. Hen- ders ›n, C.M.G, which left Weihaiwei on the 26th ́ult, arrived in the harbour on the 1st afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Goliath was com-
missioned at Sheerness on the 27th March, 19 0, and will weigh anchor for home to morrow.
MISCELLANEOUS,
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A s'eamer which arrived at Shimono.ek! lately from Formosa reported that Rugyosan, a volcano in Formosa, ba‹ bɔen active from the 12th ult.
A notification by Mr. L. A M. Johnston, L'Echo de Chine's Fomow correspondent Postmister-General, appears in the Gazette, to accuses the Americau mi-sonaries at that tooks accompanying letters seut by private acts. Such accusations, founded or unfounded, th effect that from the la: July next no chit-port of land-grabbing and other improper messengers to be pested will be stamped or
are not likely to help much the case of accordance with Government Notification No. iuiliale at the General Post Offies except iu
Christianity in China,
have heard the detailed evidence in suppor of 25; th t is to say. the exict copy of the address | 33,806 tons of permanent way materials for the
these charges.
His Worship, made no order, and the case was adjourned.
HONGKONG.
The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 27th June were 270 non-Chinese and 66 Chinese to the former and 52 non-Chinese and 1366 Chinese to the latter institutiou.
The rains wrought havoc at Sheung Shui, in the New Territory, according to a report received at the Central Police tation on the 30th ult. Many houses were flood d to a depth of several feet, and the ice-crops suffered severely. Householders in Macdonnell Road are com. plaining of their back windows being broken by stone-throwing schoolboys from Bowen Road. The archius make the window-paues a target for their catapults, to the amusement no dubt of themselves, but to the annoyance au 1 no small danger of the tenants.
On the 29th ult. a lot of Crown land in Ken- nedy Road, near the Union Church registored as Garden Lot No. 21, containing 5 JJ0 square feet, and having an anunal Crown rent of $12. was exposed for sale at the P.W.D offices and was bought by the RC. H. · iskling for $27, being $2) above the upset price.
The launch Jeannettel built for t'a P. & 0. Company by the l'ock Company at Hunghou Was launched on the 27th ult. The Jeannette's dimensions are-Length, 82 feet; breadth, 15 feet; and depth, 7 fort. Her draught is 5 feet 4 inches and speed 1) kao s. She is fitted with a WP. 150 boiler, anl carries compound engines.
Early on the 26th ult. H.M. guubot Espiègle (1,070 tons) was towed oat to the quarantine anchorage off Green Island, a cs of plague having occured on board, the victim being James Collins, A B It is rumoure in Naval circles that further cases of plagus have developed on H.M.S. Ocean since her d-pariure for Weihaiwei. The six patients from the Ocean are being treated in the isolation ward at the Naval Hospital.
The Ko Shing Theatre is the rendezvous of all the shady characters on the c-u'ar, who pretend to be deeply interested in the histrionic mysteries unfolding on the stage the while they rob the bystanders. On the 26th ult, one of the latter had his pocket out and a small sum of money extracted. He binght the thief, ia whose possession when searched at No 7 Polica Station by Inspector MacNab was fond a portion of a razor, keen of elge au handy of size for the slitting open of pockets. Inspectos MacNab pressed the charge, and Mr. F. A Hazeland passed sentence of three moths,
hard labour,
of each letter for which a cartifice is required must be entered in the chit-book and a postage stamp of the value of ons gent for each letter attached. his does not apply to the receipt books accompanying sealed boxes seit by box- holders in accord incwith paragraph 12 of the
On the 15th nlt. lenders for the supply of Royal Siamese State Railways were publicly opened. The lowest tender was from Belgiam. British (9 tenders out of a total of 24), German, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Ditch, and Japanese tenders were also received but none
from the United States.
Postal Guide.
The Asahi publi-hes a Seoul tel gram to the Before Mr. Justica Wise in the Supremeffect that th Russian Minister in Seoul has Phlips, barrister at-liw, mid a motion for tha the officials and people at Ryogampo are Cut on the 3th ult, Mr. T. Morgau| addressed a Note to the Fareiga Off je, stating the admission of Mr. Douald Piper to practise prone to maltreat the Russian resident there, as a solicitor of the upreme Court of Hong and this it was feared would impair the friendly kong. Th easy afflavits having been relations existing between the two countries. file, His Lordship granted the application The Minister therefore requsted that in- and we'cowed Mr. Piper to the Bar.structions be issued to the local authorities Mr. Piper has con out to join the firm of ordering them to afford the Russians proper Mesar. Johnson, Stokes & Master, solicitors.
protection. He belongs to Bedford, was trained at the Grammar School there and served articles with Messrs Halliley & Stimson, He was admitted to practise a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judica ure in England on 21st November, 1898.
Brigginshaw a wiler belonging t› Mr. Campbell MacMillan whose chances as an outsider drew numerous backers in the Mid Stake and Phaeton Stakes at the Races in February last, but who refused to leave the pot when the former race started and was a placed in the latter, came to an inglorious end on the 26th ul. fter a wild ranaway gallop through Wanchai. He br ke loose from his mafoo and tore ventre-à-terre up one street and down another, upasting first a Chinese wom in and then a Chinsman, both of wàɔm wire rendered unconsc ous by the concussion; the, latter, indeed, was removed to the Tang Wa Hospital very seriously hurt, but this main soon emua round, Bright's flight e ms to sudden in Russel Street he fell and broke his leg, and had to be killed where he lay.
On the 17th of Febrna-y last a master miriner was sav. g-ly assalted by a ricksha-coolie and another man, and robbed of a gold waŋch and chain hosides a sum of money am anting to between two and three hundred dollars. The
assault took place in the early hours of the morning in a lack strest in the w`stern district of 'he city, and the victim, who w s under the influnc of liquor, was left lying unen seius in the roadw y. Some time later, as he was coming to is senses, an Furopean policeman came upo him, and found that he was bleeding freely from a number of kaifs woauds. The man was taken to No. 7 Police Station, and when he had narrated his story there information of the affair was circulated aul eff rts were made to find the culprits blood-s'ained ricksha was the clu: that led to
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A dynamite bomb was recently exploded in a room in the Kanjo Hospital, Seoul, where the well known Corean politician Ye Yong-yik was under medical treatment. A portion of the building was damaged; bu: nobody was in jured. Ye Yong-yik also escaped unhurt, Ho left the hospital after the outrage, preferring not unnaturally to receive farther medical attend toce in his own house. The man who committed he outrage was still at large on the 15th ult. The affair is generally believed to have political significance.
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Mr. Fenwick, third engineer of the 8.8. Charterhouse, had ben missing from his vessel at Sin rapore sincs the night of the 17th nit. On h 19th the body of an Eucop an was seen floating in the harbour. The Marine Police went out, but were unable to find it. Next morning the body was discovered at Tanjong Rboo, miou the head and in a very decompose l condition. An officer of the Charterhouse Aidentified its being the body of the late Mr. Fenwic An inquest was held and the funeral took place shortly afterwards.
the identity of the coolio who hid bad the op'ain for a passenger, but b fore he could be arrested he had left the Colony for his native place in Chinese territory. The Chine84 authorities there were communicated with, and
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& Pratt offered for sile by auction the Eastern At Yokohama the other day. Messrs. Eyton
World printing and publishing business, with the escaped min was captured, his identity plant aud stock, etc, the whole to be sold as a being further established by a
going concern on account of the illness of the photgraph which the polics here hal tak-nner (Mr. F. Schroder) rendering it impossible for him to carry on the business. There was not when he was granted a ricksha-coolies ficar ce, and w ich they sent on after him. He wis
a large attendance and only ona bid was made, 10,000 yeu, by Mr. Ivisɔn. It was announced tried by his own roautrymea and sent need to
that the reserve price was considerably higher No teu years' imprisonment with hard libur.
than 10,000 y n, and that th owaer might tracs of his accomplice has ever been found.
d scuss the matter with Mr. Ivison's clients if thought desirable,
A correspondeut writes to us this week as fol- lows:-in the article which you printel in the Daily Press on Travelling in Japan" reference w.s made to the annoyance cius id to pedestrians in Japanese towns by the ricksha-men persistently following them in ever-increasing crowds and solici iuz fares even when distinct y told that the vehicl s are not requited. It strikes me that the same bu sance is not unknown in Hong- kong. The ricksha-men are not so bad, perhaps, as the cair-bearǝ18. But both classes are a Duisance. re only requires to observe how the chairs-siy half-a-dozen of them at once- are rushed acros: Queen's Rad to the Hong- kong Hotel when a probable fare is discovered away in the vista of the corridor, to see the dangers of allowing the coolias such unbridle? licence as they appoi top sisse. Lately a sailor was mn'ct d'iu penalty for trampling on and break ng the shaft of a public chir. though he explained that it was put right across his path, and that he did not want it and had not called for it. He hal my sympathy, Then what ein be more exasperating say when one is leisurely strolling along Queen's Roal, than to be accosted every few yards by the raneus roiced coolies with their chairs and rickshas? They manage these things better in Singapore and Shanghai.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1992-3
Yokohama Hiogo
lbs.
1901-2 lbs. 6,998,961 4,148,005
6,998,081 4,148,005
SILK.
Canton, 2nd July.-Exports.-Silk – During the interval the market has ruled extrémely quiet and we have a very uneventful fortnight to report, Reale s, being still busy filling their April-May contracts for Europe, are in no immediate hurry to make fresh engagements on the lower level propo ed by buyers (especially i view of the high cost of 2nd crop Cocoons), and nominally quotations are, with certain exceptions, about maintained. Re-reels-Ars offered of forward contract in small lots at $340 for 1, 2 & 3, Ordinary Selection, but without finding
sale of Wang Hing Nos. - buyers. was made at $920 average, $870. was pa for
2. Selected Quality. Filatures
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