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number of men and women paid $300 and $400 for small articles. The total number of tickets sold for admission into the Bazaar during the eight days was 23, 66, which realized $12,283,9. The angold articles will be put up for public auction at the Bazaar to-morrow.
It is reported that the Viceroy intends to present the value of the jade sceptre to the relief funds.
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The largest bayers at the Bazaar during the eight days are Mr. So Sing Kue $13,00", Mr. Kong Hung Yan Han Lin) $6,000, Messrs. Lak Hou Chau and Lo Kwan Shek $6,000, each. The Kwan Wan Girls School stall sold over $25 000 worth of articles and the Ha Kot Girls School above $9,000. The total amount of ch sales during the eight days was about $80,0. On the 13th instant the Committee reported that they have collected $15,000 of the credit sales, and donations. I think the proceeds of the eight days, including donations, will amount to about $160,000. The commit- tee and stall holders of the Bazaar really deserve high praise for the excellent work done by them especially as this is the first Bazar of the kind held in China.
The Canton Flood Relief Society bas deputed Mr. Cha Yan Luk to represent them at the
Macao Flood Fund Bazaar which will open to-morrow Mr. Cha bas taken with him to Macao over 30 cases of articles presented from the Cantonese people,
CANTON.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
August 6th.
CANTON-H; NKOW RAILWAY.
His Excellency Chang Chi Tung. Chief Superintendent of the above railway, bas cabled to the President here to dismiss many super- numerary employees of the Company. He is also sending several special deputies to Canton to have a thorough investigation into the affairs of the Company.
ABOLITION OF MANCHU COURT.
The Board of Punishment has wired to the local authorities to abolish the Manchu Court which was established for the exclusive purpose of trying cases in which Manchus and Banner. man were involved. Henceforth all cases will be tried by the Nam Hoi and Poon Yu Magistrates.
SEARCH FOR FIRE ARMS.
The Waiwupu has telegraphed to I. M. Customs here stating that in future all seizures of firearms above four pieces and four cartridges will be considered as an important seizure and a serious offence. They request the Customs Authorities to make rigid search for firearms.
OBSERVATORY FOR CANTON.
Owing to the great destruction of property and loss of life in the recent tpboon H.E. Viceroy Chang has given i struotious to the Commissioner of Customs here to establish an Observatory and erect tbree stations in the Harbour for hoisting typhoon signals to warn the public of approaching typhoons.
I.M. CUSTOMS TRAINING COLLEGE.
Out of 286 candidates who went in for the preliminary examination for admission into the I.M. Customa Training College at Peking only 80 of them passed the first part of the examination and I have great pleasure in reporting that about half the number who passed are students from Hongkong Colleges and sobools. The second part of the pre- liminary examination will commence on the 11th instant.
August 7th.
CANTON VICEROY'S BON.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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THE RECENT TYPHOON,
The French Wuchow liner "Thng Kong" Shortly after the late disastrous typhoon which sank in the vicinity of the ocean steamers Viceroy Chang memorialized the Throne giving anchorage in the late typhoon has been refloated | full details of the damage done and the number by the IM. Customs. The owners of the vessel
lives lost. Yesterday His Excellency are Hongkong merchants and could not under-received a cabled décres soknowledging receipt take the refloating themselves as the price of the memorial and expressing the great demanded by the contractors was too high. sympathy of the Throne. The deares The Customs have done the work themselves requested the Viceroy to secure the co-operation at the expiration of the notice given to the of all civil and military officials to relieve the owners, as the wreck was a constant danger to sufferers and not to look upon it as a slight the shipping.
affair.
August 8th,
PRACTICALLY NO SILVER RESERVE, The Provincial paper money in circulation at present represents subsidiary coins and is at a big discount (about 10 per cent). It is stated that there are about seven million dollars of these notes in circulation. Government has been endeavouring to enforce Recently the the circulation of the new dollar notes and seeking at the same time some means of raising the value of the subsidiary coins and notes to par. The Viceroy placed this difficult proposi. tion in the hands of the Bureau of Local Affairs suggesting that the Barean should call in some of the subsidiary coin notes and replace them
by the dollar notes but owing to the high premium demanded for the latter the difficulties in the way are considerable.
I think that this state of affairs arises out of the enormous amount of these notes in circula. tion, against which there is practically no silver reserve,
and the Government would no doubt be placed in an embarrassing situation if only one third of the notes were presented to be cashed.
August 12th.
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY—FOREIGN LOAN
THREATENED.
It is reported that H. E. Chang Chi Tung has sent many telegrams to the Railway Com- pany instructing them to collect the second instalment of the Railway shares and that if the Directors should delay in doing so the Central Government will take back the line, raise the necessary funds from foreign countries and itself construct the Kwang Tung section of the line. This section of the line, he added, is one of the most important lines in China and he intends personally to visit Canton and Liang Hu in the autumn to inquire into the complications. CHINESE DOCTOR CHARGED WITH "PROFESSIONAL INCOMPETENCY." Yesterday a Chinese Doctor named Luk Pak Yu was arrested on a charge of professional incompetency. The complainant is a wealthy Cantonese, named Lo Ki Wong, who resides in the Western surburbs. Lo deposed in Court
that he sent for doctor Luk to attend to his 13- year old daughter who was slightly indisposed on the 10th instant. Doctor Luk, after feeling the girl's pulses, declared that she was suffering from diphtheria. He wrote out a prescription and left. Shortly after Miss Lo took the medicine, she began to vomit and had several convulsions with almost fatal results. Mr. Lo seeing the precarious condition of his daughter immediate. ly sent for the doctor again who on arrival prescribed some counteracting medicine. The purpose of the first medicine, it is stated, was to cool the blood while the second was very strong tonic. Lo, however, did not give the second medicine to his daughter but gave her instead some lizard powder" which had been recommended as a panacea by a friend. After taking a dose of the powder she recovered.
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At the trial of the case a doctor from one of the Government Hospitals was called and gave evidence regarding the two prescriptions. He stated that the medicine on the first prescription Last month His Excellency Viceroy Chang was the proper medicine for curing diphtheria wrote a letter to his son Mr. Chang Man Yin, and when taken would produce the effects stated who is Superintendent of the Ta Ching Bank by the complainant, as in diphtheria cases it was in Tientsin, in which His Excellency related necessary to clear the wind pipes and all the the serious disaster cansed by the food. Mr. tubes of the langs so as to prevent them from Chang Man Yin, after reading his father's being choked by phlegm and other matter. But letter, immediately remitted one month's the medicine subsequently prescribed could salary and a sum of $5,000. He also got the not be administered to a diphtheria patient. If Deputy Superintendent, Mr Chan Hon Po, to the girl had taken the second medicine it subsoribe $5,000 towards the Flood Fand. Mr.might have killed her. The magistrate Chang Man Yin writes that he is starting & ordered Doctor Lak's signboard to be im- Flood Fund in Tientsin and will not charge mediately taken down, and suspended him from anything for remitting to Canton the funds further practice, threatening severe punishment collected.
if this injunction is disobeyed,
ANOTHER REBELLION IN KWANGSI. Telegrams were received by the local anthorities and merchants here yesterday that the soldiers under Colonel Chang Tsau Tak at Kong How, in Kwange, have It is re- shot the Colonel and rebelled. ported that the Colonel is dead. The rebels The Military officials in Kwangsi have cabled have captured Kong How and other towns.
for reinforcements as the soldiers in that vicinity are inadequate to cope with the rising. Colonel Chang was formerly a merchant in Kwangsi. He offered his services to ex-Viceroy He captured the notorious Kwangsi Sham. rebel obief, Luk Ab Fat, and was made a oulonel for his bravery and military ability.
Admiral Li Tsan left this morning with a body of troops for Wuchow.
It is reported here that ex-Marshal Sou is likely to return to Kwangsi shortly. There has been trouble in that province ever since his departure and Viceroy Chang, in a recent memorial to the Throne, stated that Son is the only man o pable of keeping that Province quiet. Ex-Marshal Son was degraded and banished during Viceroy Shum's régime.
August, 13th.
TYPHOON WARNING STATIONS. The merchants at Fat Shan have petitioned to Viceroy, Chang for permission to arrange for typhoon warning stations in that town. They also request His Excellency to com. municate with His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong asking the latter to cable all typhoon warnings to Canton so that they may warn the public by hoisting signals and firing guns announcing the approach of typhoous.
THE NOTORIOUS PIRATE CHIEF. Recently the notorious pirate chief, Luk La Ching, sent many letters to both foreign and Chinese firms in Canton demanding large sams of money and threatening reprisals if they did not pay up the sums demanded. It is reported that the International Banking Cor- poration and Messrs. A. 8. Watson and Co.. Ltd. have also received similar letters.
A few days ago the manager of Kwong (hi Koon, one of the largest drug shops here received a letter from Luk demanding a sum of $20,000. The manager paid no attention to the note received. Qu the following day a man named Ng Chek had the andasity to call person- ally at the shop and asked if the manager had received Lnk's letter and demanded a reply.
The "fokis" not knowing soything about it replied that the manager was out. Ng told them to inform their taipan that he had called for a reply and calmly left the shop. The shop has sent a petition to the Viceroy reporting the matter and requesting protection.
IMPORTANT SBIZUKE OF EXPLOSIVES. It is reported that on the 10th instant the I. M. Customs officers here made a seizure of 20 lbs. of dynamite and 2,000 percussion caps which wire hidden in one of the life boats on Commissioner has reported the seizure to the board the 8.8.
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DEATH OF A RISING OFFICIAL, It is reported that Toatai Yew Sew Shu died in Loongchow, Kwongsi Province on the 8th instant. He was acting Nam Hoi Magistrate during Ex-Viceroy Sham's régime and owing to his ability and knowledge of the Ta Ching laws, Viceroy Chang made him his Chief Chinese Secretary and Deputy Superintendent of Police last year, shortly afterwards pro- moting him to the Taoliship of the Tai Ping and Yan Shan Prefectures in Kwongsi, All the officials here looked upon Toatai Yew as one of the brightest men in the southern service and deeply regret his unexpected death.
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