August 27, 1904.J
HONGKONG.
Mr. H. Hackwood, ex-resident engineer of the Hongkong Electric Tramway Co.," has left by the Empress of India for Home.
Mr. J. H. Kemp was sworn in as Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court on the 22nd inst. He will continue to act as second police magistrate till the return from furlough of Mr. Hazeland, in November next.
A tramway accident occurred on the 20th inst. A man employed cementing on the track was knocked down by one of the cars, sustaining such injuries, bruises, etc., that necessitated his removal to hospital.
There was no plague case to record during the week-end, and there are no fresh cases of communicable disease. The one plague fatality last week brings the total up-to-date, for 1904, to 489 cases, of which 474 were fatal.
HM.S. Leviathan will leave her berth at No. 1 Kowloon Dock in another two or three days. The damaged plates have been re-rolled and replaced. Her repairs have taken about four weeks.
The final in the Chess Championship for the Colony has been concluded. Those who figured in it, as will be remembered, were Messrs. C. H. Falloon and J. H. Kemp. It was the best out of five games. Mr Falloon won by 34-14.
In the Water Polo Shield competition the R.G.A. beat the Sherwood Foresters, at the V.R.C. on the 22nd inst., by 10-0. The R.G.A. will now have to play V.R.C. "A team; and the winner of this game will contest the final with V.R.C. "B" team.
Mr. J. W. Bull, on behalf of the Standard Oil Co., has purchased New Kowloon Inland Lot 11, a piece of Crown land at Laichikok containing some 58,580 sq. ft. He bid $54,850. $50 higher than the upset price, and met with no opposition.
Among the passengers who left by the Empress of India recently was Mr. Irvin W. Kew, who has been working with his brothers for some time in Hongkong, and has now gone to study for his graduation in the dental department of Harvard University.
Several of the Parsees and Indian merchants, friends and admirers of Mr. S. D. Setna. presented themselves at his place. 22. Stanley Street, on the 24th inst. and presented him handsome gold watch. together with an address signed by a large number of his friends who wished to congratulats the first Parsee Primo appointed by the R.A.0.B.
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Mak Shong, a Chinese lady, 102 years of age. died of old age at No. 200, Queen's Road East, on the 19th inst. She was born in Nga Pin Village, Sun On District; and has resided in this colony for the last 50 years. In the last moments of her illness she was surrounded by her grandsons and great-grandchildren. For about 16 years previous to her death the old woman was blind, and, for the most part, con- fined to bed. She retained her memory, how-
and continued to relish a little samshu ever, with meals.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Parsee Charity Funds of Hongkong lost two trustees by the deaths of Mr. M. N. Melita and Mr. D. Nowrojee. Mr. N. K. Antia (of Messrs. Tata & Co.) and Mr. H. N. Cooper. merchant, have been appointed to the vacancies. Mr. F. H. Arjani, secretary of the Funds, is going home to India at Navsaree" next month, and his place will be taken by Mr. B. L. Batliwalla (new manager, N. Mody & Co.). Mr. Batliwalla is expected to arrive on the steamer A. Apcar.
Attended by a large number of the seafaring men of Hongkong, the funeral took place on the 22nd inst. of Mr. Scott, who died on the previous day on the sailing ship Eclipse, which he had
Mr. Scott just joined as chief officer.
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very well known on the coast and the Canton River. He was at one time on the Algoa Bay, and afterwards served on the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's s.s. Fat han and on the Tak Hing of the same company as chief officer. His death was due to heat apoplexy. Rev. C. H. Hickling performed the funeral service.
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H.M.S. Humber, storeship, Lieut.-Com- mander P. M. Riadore, arrived from Weihaiwei yesterday. She left port on the 14th inst. She brought down four Russian officers and 61 Russian non-commissioned officers and men rescued from the torpedo-boat destroyer Bruni. The Russian officers and men were transhipped to the Tamar, receiving ship, where they will remain till advices are received by the Com- modore as to what the British Government intend to do with them. Some anxiety was caused by the Humber being due: and the Sirius, 2nd-class cruiser. about to leave in search of her when she was signalled. The Bruni went ashore between Shantung promontory and Yungching Bay, and was blown up. The crew then came to Weihaiwei. Her commander came to Weihaiwei by sampan and asked the British fleet for succour, and the British Admiral sent a small vessel which brought the four officers and61 non-commissiou- ed officers and men to Weihaiwei. The Humber leaves for the north on Saturday,
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H.H. Pa Lun, the Chinese prince who recently passed through Hongkong, entertained to dinner by the Shanghai Municipal Council. While in the northern port, he was waited upon by the Consuls-General and Vice- Consals for Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austro-Hun- gary, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Belgium. Mr. Odagiri, the Japanese Consul-General, and his interpreter, called upon the Prince, and had an interview occupying nearly two hours. During his rare excursions abroad, the prince was escorted by six Sikh lancers, commanded by a European police sergeant. The prince was to have left for Tientsin on the 21st.
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Mrs. Pym. wife of the Bishop of Bombay. died of cholera at Poona.
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The Times of Ceylon says the Governor, Sir H. A. Blake, is a good waltzer,
Mr. T. J. Campbell, who succeeds Mr. J. L. Pigot as Conservator of Forests in Ceylon, arrived on the 8th instant by the Sumatra from
Calcutta.
The Paris Temps reports new and important gold discoveries near Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. The reefs are said to be similar to those of the Transvaal.
A Bengali has been fined $15 and sentenced to one day's imprisonment at Singapore, for kidnapping a European child about two years of age. The penalty seems inadequate.
Another alarum is provided for Hongkong folk by the report of an accident at Colombo. The Chief Clerk of the Railway Department there had his shoulder dislocated; the wheel of the ricsha in which he was riding got into a tramway groove and upset him.
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A oricket match was played last month at Beckenham between the Hongkong and Shang hai Bank and the Chartered Bank. The game was won by the former with a score of 98, the total of the Chartered Bank's team teing 55.
Mr. Chamberlain in a recent speech in the House of Commons referred to the Chinese emigrants to South Africa as men who earned about a penny a day in their own country. We wonder where coolies willing to work for about a penny a day are obtainable?
At the monthly meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. the secretary said that in North China Bishop Scott was about to re-erect the buildings destroyed by the Boxers in Peking. The com- mittee had given him carte blanche to erect them wherever he desired; and it must be remembered that the Bishop and the society would claim no compensation for the destruc- tion of their property from the Chinese Govern. ment.
A Manila Custom House employee, W. H. Wilson, died in the San Lazaro Hospital last week from lockjaw. It is reported in the Manila papers that tetanus was brought on by an infected arm,. Wilson having some days previously been inoculated against plague.
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Mr. W. J. Tarnbull, one of Shanghai's crack cricketers, is at present staying at the King Edward Hotel, Hongkong. He is an Austra- lian. and acquired his cricket there. He arrived in Shanghai in 1898, and has captained the S.R.C. eleven since 1902. He has topped the batting averages three seasons, and bowling one. Other years he was next best.
We shall next hear, comments the N.-C. Daily News, of these obtrusive vessels being stationed off the mouths of the Thames and the Scheldt, and overhauling every vessel that leaves London or Antwerp for the East. situation is becoming intolerable, and the British people are not likely to endure very long seeing their trade transferred from British to German bottoms in time of peace. Russia can hardly wish to see our alliance with Japan converted from passivity to activity, but her naval department seems to be bent on this. At the outbreak of the war, all the Great Powers, Russia included, expressed their firm desire to limit its area to Japan, Corea, and Manchuria. Russia is now carrying the war into European waters, and she will have to account for her breach of the understanding to which she was a party.
seriously ill, and after calling in native doctors Viceroy Chang Chi-tung has been rather
he sent for some foreign doctors. But he was impatient to be cured immediately and took double doses of his medicines, which made him worse. Then he wired to Shanghai for a court physician, but before he reached Hupeh, the patient had recovered from the offects of his overdose and was nearly well.
A Canton correspondent writes: Among the recipients of the Royal favour it is gratifying to learn by the last mail from Lisbon that His most Faithful Majesty Don Carlos I, the King of Portugal, has been pleased to confer upon Sir João Damaso da Costa de Moraes, Consul- General for Portugal in Canton, the honour of Commenda da Ordem de Christo, and the Com- menda da Conceição for services.
In proroguing Parliament the King regretted that hostilities were still in progress between Russia and Japan, and said: Questions involving the treatment of neutral commerce have arisen. The issues involved, which are of the gravest moment to the trade of the Empire, will I trust
be amicably settled. My Government will energetically support my subjects in the exercise of rights recognised by international law as belonging to neutrals. "
Shanghai preserved remarkable calmness in face of the threatened irruption of a Japanese squadro", which according to some wild stories put in circulation, was to drag the Askold out of dock and forcibly tow her off à la Riesitelini-or worse. There is a possibility that a Ja, anese oruiser may put into Woosung, as the Akitsushima did o. a earlier occasion, to exercise a watch over the still armed to put a little stiffening into the Chinese and fast-repairing Askold, and incidentally authorities in enforcing their neutrality. Chins unfortunately is more easily bluffed by Mr Lessar and his colleagues than the Tsingtao authorities, and takes a longer time to announce her decision, but though the word is unspoken as yet, it can hardly differ in the end from that which has condemned the Czarevitch to lie up
quietly at Tsingtao till the end of the war. N.-C. Herald.
Word was received from Tsingtao on August 15th that the flags of the Russian ships which put into that port were hauled down and turned over to the German authorities in the presence of the Governor of the Colony. Previous to this action the government at Tsingtao receiv- ed instructions from Berlin that such ships as were seaworthy must leave the port. If not seaworthy. they must be repaired as quickly as possible under German supervision, and proceed to sea immediately on the completion of the The hauling down of the flags repairs. signifies that while the vessels are undergoing repairs, they are under German control. The ceremony of hauling down the flag was per- formed with all due formality, first on the shattered Czarevitch, and later the same core- mony took place on the three destroyers. While the Russian ships have not been dis- mantled, it is certain that unless some unforeseen contingency arises, they will be disarmed when their repairs are completed, as it would be suicide for them to attempt to escape in the face of the Japanese naval force scouting the neighbouring waters. The des troyers, according to international law, cannot be allowed to the depart in a body, but must leave singly at intervals of six hours.--Chefoo Daily News.
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