Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMISTS.
MANUFACTURERS OF AERÁTED WATERS.
WE devole special attention to this part of
our business, and our process ensures a perfect filtration and purification of the water, And thorough saturation with Gas.
Our plant comprises some of the largest and finest machines ever shipped from England, and embraces a combination of all the most modern improvements for filling corked bottles or syphons. Our machinery is fitted with tin-lined tubing, and the fact that our Waters are free from metallic or any other contamination is certified by Messrs. Hassall and Clayton; Analysts to the City of London.
The following are manufactured daily- AERATED WATER, GINGER ALE,
SELTZER, SODA WATER, LEMONADE, TONIC,
* LITHIA,
SARSAPARILLA.
Our Aerated Sarsaparilla is prepared from a fluid extract of Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla made in our own laboratory, and is not merely a flavoured water as so many brands of this popular beverage are. Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Hongkong, 14th April, 1890.
BY APPOINTMENT.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DEATH OF THE MARQUESS TSENG..
PERINO, April 13th. The Marqueis Tseng, late Chinese Ambas- sador to Great Britain and France, died here yesterday morning of typhoid fever.
On receipt of the above news in this colony His Excellenty the Officer Administering the Government despatched the following telegram to Sir John Walsham, British Minister as Peking :-
"The community of Hongkong has learned with sincere regret the news of the death of the Marquess Toông."
LOCAL AND GENERAL. ·
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THE French gunboat Vipère left Amey for Foo chow on the Toth inst.
THE Canadian Pacific Line steamer Abyssinia left Shanghai for this port yesterday morning. AN carthquake lasting ten seconds was felt at Ninh binh, Tonquin, on the gth inst. That at Hojhow was on the roth.
THE appointment of Mr. Andrew Johnston to be Acting Government Marine Surveyor, with effect from March 8th, is gazetted," TIE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending April 13th, are:-Europeans 177, Chinese, 2,008; total,
2,18.
A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, E.C., will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 16th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, brethren are cordially invited.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,
MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
WATERS.
OUR AERATED WATER MANUFACTORY is replete with the best Machinery, embodying all the latest improvements in the trade.
OUR Tientsin contemporary of the 5th says :— The Convention for the opening of Chungking to foreign trade was signed on the 31st March by Sir John Walsham, H.B.M. Minister, and the Tsung-li Yamta.
20th insi.
WE are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co.) that the China Shippers Mutual S. N. Ca's steamer Chingwe, from London and Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this The greatest attention has been paid to appli-morning, and may be expected on or about the ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to secure which we have added a Condenser cap- able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers: Our Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed anywhere.
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.
LARGE BOMBAY,
"SODAS"
We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
COAST. PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and
placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and thefull amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica.
tion..
Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.
The following is a List of Waters always
kept ready in Stock:
PURE AERATED WATERS
SODA WATER
LEMONADE
POTASH WATER
LITHIA WATER
SELTZER WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
TONIC WATER
GINGER ALE
GINGERADE.
THERE are eighteen gold mines in Tonquin, all of which have had to be abandoned through the incursions of pirates. AREGULAR Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 218, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 18th instant, at for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited,
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ALL those in need of a good, sound champagne cannot do better than try a case of 1. Lemoine's vin brut (gold scal), of which Dakin Bros, Limited, are the local agents: We have sampled this brand, and can testify as to its quality.” THE Canadian Government have presented a gold medal to Capt. Iribar, of the steamer Gloria, for his bravery, when in a pilot boat, in saving seventeen of the crew of the steamer Monarch, on the west coast of Mindoro, two years ago. THE agents (Mesars. Melchers & Co.) inform us that the Norddeutscher Lloyd's steamship Bayern, with the German mails, dated Berlin 18th March, left Singapore for this part at 1 a.m. yesterday, and may be expected on er about Friday, the 18th inst
A SRAMAN of the British steamship Bengloe was brought before Mr. Wodehouse this morning charged with stabbing Augustus Christophson, another of the crew. Complainant, now in bospital, is so seriously wounded as to be unable to appear in court for a few days yet. The case was therefore remanded. ON the 17th ulto. Rajah Sir Charles Brooke of S:rawak annexed the Limbang River, which SATURDAY'S Government Gazells contains the constitutes the main portion of Brunei, and to following notification:-"It is hereby notified obtain jurisdiction over which has been for so that Mr. Zelindo Maria Barradas, Superintendent long the policy of the Sarawak Government. No of the Money Order Office, having absented one was present from Brunci, and the hoisting himself from the colony without leave since the of the flag was not known to the Sultan. The 22nd day of March, 1890, His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has annexation is subject to the English approval,
declared, in accordance with the Colonial Regu- THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High-lations, that his office be considered as vacated
from that date." landers will play the following programme at the Officers Mess, to-morrow evening, com mencing at 8 o'clock;—
Suppe
bulka.
Overne......Bauer und Nichter" Valse Nos Danties Gens de Village". Selection..... Folk songs of Italy"...Rampezzotil Landler......" Gruumalterchen"...Tangez Selectloo. The Yeomen of the guard" Sullivan,
THE China Mail of Saturday night says that the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Krungchow has gone into dock, owing to her having lost some of the copper sheathing off her keel by touching the ground at Chung-chow while on her way from Macao on Thursday night in a heavy fog." The China Afail is a most reliable newspaper. Which dock, dear "Brownie," and when ? THE ten days law conceded by the French Government to Lun-ky, the captor of the Messrs, Roque, as part of the terms of release, has had the unpleasant effect of allowing the numerous bands of dacoils to renew their stores of arms and provisions, and pillage is rife. The autho- rities have had to redouble their efforts at suppression, but whole villages will have to be destroyed to disperse the robbers' confederates. A CURIOUS find was made by one of the Oplum Farther's myrmidone this afternoon. On the Praya, westwards, he saw a lot of new camphor- wood boxes, unattended. From one of them a dark thick substance was leaking, which he at once "spotted" as opium. On examining the boxes at the Central Station 1,500 taels of pre- pared opium, in bollow bambooe, were found in some of them, other of the boxes being full of [s iron hinges, etc. The only portion of the collec-
tion missing is the owner.
No Credit given for bottles that look dirty, or greasy, or that appear iq have heen used for any other purpose then that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, Hongkong, China, and Manila.
BIRTHS.
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At H. B. M. Consulate, Tamsui, on the rat instant, the wife of W. HOLLAND, of a son,
On the 8th March, at Oakbank, Chislehurst, England, the wife of T. JACKSON, of a son.
The Hongkong Gelegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY. ÁPRIL 14, 1850.
TELEGRAMS.
EAST AFRICA.
LONDON, April 7th,. The English press attack. Emin for his ingratitude, and warn the British Company to be in the alert with their German rivals.
RUSSIA.
The Czar is suffering from influenza.. He is greatly incensed at the disorders amongst the students of the St. Petersburg University, and threatens to close the colleges for a year.
FRANCE AND EGYPT, France having now sent a favorable reply to the Conversion scheme, Tigrane Pasha and Mr. Palmer are about to proceed to Paris to arrange
details.
GERMANY,
A rescript of the Emperor provides that com- missioned appointments in the Army and Navy are no longer to be restricted to those, of boble birth, but are in future to be open to, men of noble character and the sons of honorable citizens.
It deprecates extravagance as excluding the poorer aspirants, and enjoins commanders to enforce a simpler mode of life among the officers. It raises the pay of the Artillery, Rifles, and Cavalry,
FRANCE.
France has ordered ten sea-going and twenty first-class torpedo vessels to be bullt,
(From the Courrier d'Halpkong). FRANCE AND DAHOMEY.
PARIS, April 7th,
The French Government has ordered a blockade, of the Dahomey.coast, to prevent the Introduction of arma
By special messenger, our Tokyo correspondent wrote us (Japan Gazette), of sth instant, as follows: This morning, at about t o'clock, two robbers armed with swords effected an entrance into. the house of the Rev. T. A. Largo, No. 14th, Torzaka, Azabu-the Toyoewa Jo Gakko, in connection with the Canadian Methodist Mssion. Mr. Large in defending bimself was cut down and killed. Mrs. Large was badly slashed about the head, arms, and bands, and is in a very dangerous state.
AT the Police Court this morning two Chinese labourers in the employ of the Kowloon Dock Co. were charged with stealing a quantity of zinc, the property of the company. Mr. Robinson, in passing sentence of six months on one of the men, suggested that his name, crime, and the punishment mele! out to him should be posted on the Dock gates as a warning to other employees a proposition which should, we think, meet with ready response from the 'com. pany's officials.
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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1890.
Messrs. Wotton and Deacon) appeared for the plaintiffs Mr. Francis, Q.C., and Mr. Pollock, instructed by Messrs. Johnston, Stokes and Master, being for the defendants,
Hls Lordship said :-
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An extraordinary meeting of the above. Com pany was held at the office of Messis Gibb Livingston & Co. general manegers, this after- F. E. Abrahamson, H. L. Dalrymple (consulting noon. Mr. H. P. Tennant presided, and Messrs Committee) J.-S. Perry, G. Fenwick, St. L Danby, A Lum, etc, were present..
The Chairman proposed a resolution embody- ing regulations for dealing with unpaid shares or calls on shares.
Mr. Danby seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously.
The Chairman notified that a confirmatory meeting would be held at some future date, yet to be fixed, and the proceedings terminated.
SUICIDE ON THE “AVOCHIE”-
We learn, too late in the afternoon to gather the full details, that a case of attempted suicide occurred this morning on board the steamship- Avochie, the second mate, a man named Purdy, shooting himself through the head. He was taken to the Hospital, but lies in a dying state. Ho had only been in the ship about a month or s weeks, having previously been in the Cicero.
THE BELILIOS FUND.
The annual distribation of prizes in connec- tion with the Belillos Fund for education took pince at Government House this afternoon, the Administrator (Hon. F. Fleming, C.M.G.), per- forming the ceremony. The principal tenture of the occasion was the presence of the Catholic Bishop and all the pricats in the colony--an unprecedented "honor,"
Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., explained that Mr. Belilios had placed a sum of $3,000 in the hands of trustees for two purposes-one the rewarding of acts of bravery performed by the Police, Chinese, or others, and the other the appropria
the encouragement of tion of the surplus. education. For the latter purpose the trustees a. couple of years ago instituted examinations for boys of all nationalities educated at European schools, giris receiving European education, and girls receiving only a Chinese education, Each year they had been able to distribute about $200 in prizes. The examination in connection with to-day's prize-g'ving was held in December last, 34 boys, nine European-educated girls, and 16 Chinese-educated giria competing. The trustees were obliged to His Excellency for distributin the prizes, thereby adding to their value an encouraging masters and pupils to increased' efforts.
he hard-a-starboarded he expected the Kungpai THE SONGEI KOYAH PLANTING to pass him on the Hongkong side, which he thinks she could have done without starboarding. From the Captain's not seeing, the change in the Aungpar's course and dot bearing her signal it looks as though his attention was This is a collision action brought by the concentrated on the junks and that he put owners of the steamship Kungpat against the clearing them without reference to the Kungpai his helm hard a-starboard for the purpose of steamship Ancona, and there is a counterclaim and without duly considering her position and by the owners of the Ancona against the Kung-course. The question, however, still remains pai. On the morning of the 4th December last whether the maneuvre was in fact a safe and the Ancona going out of Hongkong harbour met proper one as regards the Kungpai and this the Kungpai coming in, and the collision took will derend in a great measure upon the distance the Kungai wan off at the time it was adopted. place a short distance, outside the boundary With a view of explaining my opinion upon this line of the barbour numbered in the Admiralty last question I must first state, my conclusious chart by a dotted line running between Kow-apon one or two subordinate points which have been more or less in dispute. From the evidence loon Decks and North Paint. The case is I think that the full speed of the Ancona on the extraordinary in the absence of any facts morning in question must be taken at 9, and that tending to impede the proper manoeuvring of the Kungpet at 7 knots or thereabouts. I am of the two ships. They sighted each other in satisfied that the Ancona's engines were not broad daylight at a distance of a miles and stopped before the collision soon enough to have had each other in full view from thence to the any appreciable effect on her speed. In fact place of collision. The weather was clear and
the entry in her "Stand-by "book Step and bright, the tide slack, no currents were Struck 647" convinces me that the two events experienced and both ships answered their took place practically at the same moment. I helma and were fully manned and in perfect think that the evidence is overwhelming that the A CORRESPONDENT in Corea sends us full con-
trim. These circumstances of course preclude Kungdai put her helm hard's put imediately any possible auggestion of inevitable accident she perceived the alteration in the Ancona's parture of General Le Gendre per steamship firmatory evidence regarding the sudden de-
and make it certain that blame is to be course, and that at the same time she stopped Tsuruga Maru for Tokio, which we mentioned attributed to one or both ships. The Kungpai and reversed, but I cannot rely upon the In our issue of the gth instant. He adds "the is owned by Chinese subjects, but it has engineer's log book as showing that she was THE "THAMES" IN QUARANTINE. been made common ground between the parties reversed for a minute or more before the collision, General will surely return.” Masses, Adamson, Bell-&-Co, agents-for-the-that_the_Regulations of 1884 for preventing inasmuch as the nex, preceding entry of "full. At a few minutes to twelve to-day the P. & 0, Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam collisions at sea are binding upon them equally, speed ahead" after the stopping in the Lyeemun S. N. Co.'s mail steamer Thames, Captain ship Parthia left Vancouver for this port, via and as the case has been argued entirely upon Passie obviously incorrect. The Assessors Seaton, was signalled. She was observed to be Japan, &c., on the morning of Friday laaf, the that footing I think I must assume that no ques- advise me that the Kungpai would have slowed flying the dreaded yellow flag, and anchored 11th inst. The silk or this vessel was delivered in arises from the nationality of the Kungpai sound quicker with reversed engines, and taking outside until visited by the Health Officer-Dr. in New York on the 11th inst.
The regulations upon which the evidence bear this into consideration with the very direct blow Jordan. He directed that she should proceeded are the 16th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and which the Ancona received I think that the to the quarantine anchorage, as a case of small- WITH laudable real, all the competing Christian 24th. The Ancona weighed anchor at about engines could not have been reversed for as pox har brcken out during the passage up from 6,20 m. and on the way out ported a little to much as a minute before the collision. If the Singapore, a native steward: being attacked in a bodies in Singapore made special efforts to save the soul of a Chinaman who was hanged last pass the American mail steamer Arabic which Chinese man at the wheel is approximately cor mild form. He was sent to Hospital this ever- Tuesday. In the end, the Presbyterian missions was coming in. This brought her near in to the rect, as I think he is, in saying that when he got ing, and arrangements made for disinfecting the ries were fortunate enough to secure the prize Hongkong side of the fairway, and in that posi- the order hard a port the Ancona was only a vessel. The mails were fumigated and sent at stake, The Chinaman was duly converted tion at some little distance inside, the boundary ship's length off there would not be much time ashore as soon as possible, a delay of about two line above mentioned she sighted the Kungpai for the reversal of the engines to operate, though hours being so caused. There were nearly sixty and baptized.
over the Wes ern headland of Quarry Bay I think it is probable that they did operate to a saloon passengers-seme for Hongkong-Incon- on her way from the Lycemun Pass to the slight extent. Without however going further venienced, but recollecting the havoc small-pox cultunce of the harbor and bearing, according into any question of minutes or seconde, which has made here in the past the thoroughness of to the memory and ni ion of the Captain and think it is inspossible to do satisfactorily, I think the measures taken was none tes great. There 4th officer of the Ancona who were on the bridge, that the collision followed very closely upon the has been no case reported here for about four about a point and a half on her starboard bow.reversal of the Kungpar's englues, and this, months now. I may bare say that I cannot take the evidence together with my conclusion as to the sequence of either side with regard to the bearing of the of events as above stated, convinces me that the other's ship at any particular moment as a basis distance between the ships when the Ancona very far. short for any exact calculation. It is clear that neither hard a starboarded ship was steering a course and that no definite of half a mile, and did not in fact exceed bearings were take, and the assessors advise 300 yards-an estimate practically the same me that it would be impossible for witnesses as that of the chef officer of the Kungpat. from mere bare secollection to fix positions With a view of testing the accuracy of my own with any degree of certainty. The King judgment I put this question to the Assessors Pai had anch red over right outside the "Assuming (1) The speed of the vessels to have Lycemun Pass, and at, or shortly after 6 bren as above stated (3) that the Ancona did not stop before the collision in time to materially am. Hongkorg time started on her way in through the pass. The Arabis passed her, affect her speed and (3) that the Kungpai bard As the witnesses say, when she was in the a ported and went full speed astern as soon as it middle of the pass, and she slowed down and became evident that the Ancona had hard a stopped at that point and then followed for some starhoirded, and taking into consideration the distance in the water of the Arabic. When off general courses of the two vessels as described the eastern head of Quarry Bay she sighted the by the two captains up to the time of the Ancona's Ancona un ber port bow. So far the only point hard a starboarding and the angle at which the in diffrence btween the parties seems to be Kunggal struck her, can you form any opinion the distance of the Kungpaf from the Hng as to the distance between the two vessels when kong shore at the time the vessels have in sight the Ancona hard a starboarded?" They a swer of eich her, the Ancona contending that she "To have sinuck as she did the ships must hive was closely hugging the shore, while the Kung been within of a mile of each other. Proba- par places herself well out from the land at a bly less." They further state that allowing for distance of from 800 yards to half a mile. At the Ancona going round in a circle of a mile this stage and afterwards it is admitted that the diameter, as the captain said she did, and the ships were crossing ships and that it was the Kungpal, being a smaller ship, in a circle of Ancona's duty under the 16th Regulation to keep rather less diameter, and placing the vessels as out of the way, white under the 22nd Regulation heading E.N.E. E. and N.W. by W. W. the Kungpai had to keep her course, f. the respectively, if they were half a mile apart they ordinary course for a steamer in her position mast bave cleared as it was, without even allow entering the harbour. On sighting the Kungpaling for the Kungpar having reversed. This His Excellency, then distributed the prizes, the Ancona's bauled out a little, not, as the
confirms my own opinion as to the distance, but and afterwards addressed those present. He Captain says in his evidence, with a view of taking what I conceive to be the greatest possi referred to the interest be took in the cause of getting out of the Kungfur's way, but merely to
ble limit I asked the assessors the following education, a matter which was receiving more have more searoom as he thought he was getting question :-"Assuming that, the Captain of the and more attention, in all civilised countries." too near in abore. Although in his reports of Ancona was right in hard a starboarding in order There was no subject in connection with which the case made very soon aller the collision he to keep out of the way of the Kungpaf, should be there were, as a rule, more difliculties; be anid - stated that the reason for porting at that time not have done so before he got within 500 yards as a role advisedly, for he thought the system
an exception had reference to the Kunggal, I am inclined of her?" They answer "Yes, he ought not to have in vogue in Hongkong was to accept bis evidence in this respect, especially tried to cross the Kungpai's bows even if he had one which might serve as a model for as it seems to me that his present account been as much as half a mile off" Adopting many other countries, and serve as oil is in keeping with his subsequent conduct. this conclusion I feel bound to hold that the on troubled waters by calming down dissen- accordance with adecision of the Right Honour. The Kungpal shortly after sighting the Ancona Ancona was to blame.
sions. They knew the trouble there had been" able the Secretary of State for the Colonies."two minutes is the time assessed by the Next as against the Kungpal it is suggested in Ireland in that respect, and, if they looked. What is the next startling changewe may expect Captain-ported from # of a point to a point, for in the first place that she was infringing the around, In many other places. It had been from Lord Knutsford? A C. M. G.-ship for the the purpose, na alleged, of keeping the usual arst rule by being on the wrong side of a alleged that on that account it was impossible to worthy usher wouldn't surprise us in the least.
course for entering the harbour a little to the "narrow channel The Assessors think that carry on education in its limited sense of practi north side of mid-channel. The courses of the the entrance to the Harbour is not a narrow cal learning together with the inculcation of THE chair-coolic charged with stealing a quantity two ships were then converging to a common channel from a seaman's point of view, but those principles of morality and religion, teaching ' of jewelry, a watch and chain and about fifty point outside the harbour boundary, but whether as I am not satisfied on the evidence that what was right and what was wrong, and, dollars from the private residence of Mr. Fielding that point was in the north or south side or in the Kungpal was on the wrong side it is not in short, the duties of mankind. But he Clarke, Acting Chief Justice, was again before the middle of the fairway depends upon the necessary to give a definite decision on the ventured to say that the system of education Mr. Robinson this morning. Mr. Fielding distance of the Kungpal from the Hongkong point, and having regard to the decision of the ss carried on bere encouraged by Government Clarke gave evidence, identifying the prisoner, shore, as to which there is a conflict of evidence. Privy Council in the case of the Rhonda L. R grasts-in-ald, by generosity such as they saw an some treasury notes, the gold watch and chain, When the ships were at a distance from each 8 App. ca 549 I should have considerable diffi example of to-day, did away with that to a great and various piher valuables, From Mr. Clarke's other, variously assessed by the witnesses from culty in doing so. The assessors consider that extent. It could not be denied that in all evidence it is clear that his house boy, amah, half a mile to 300 feet, the Ancona put her helm it would have been impossible for the witnesses important countries education had made great and the prisoner are implicated in a series of hard a starboard and blew two blasts of her on the Ancona, seeing the Kingpar as they did strides of late years, and it was the duty of those audacions robberies extending over several whistle. The Kunggas anawered by putting her over the land, to form a reliable opinion as to who recognised the want of education among weeks. The case was remanded until to-morrow. helm hard a port and giving one blast by the whether she was hugging the shore or not, and women in the East to do everything in their I therefore prefer to adopt the statement by the power to improve that state of things. He then THE following are the minutes of the Andaal whistle, and shortly afterwards the stem of the
Kungoat witnesses that they were keeping well referred to Mr. Belillos generosity and congra General Meeting of rate-payers held at the Kungpal struck the Ancona on the starboard
out. Moreover the statement of the chief officer tulated the pupils and their parents and friends, British Consulate, Amoy, on the 5th April, 1890 deg. greater than a right angle, the smaller of the Ancona that when the two vessels respec side abaft the fore-rigging at an angle some so Mr. R. J. Forrest, Her Majesty's Consul, in angle being between the two sterns. The effect tively made their final change of course they the chair.
of the blow was to make & large hole gift, by t were both ball a mile from the shore, would place The Minutes of last meeting were read, and it in the Ancana's side and to infllet consider the Kungpal to the north of the fairway, and A statement of accounts for the year ended able injury to the Kungpal's stem. Immediately this is borne out by Mr. Boyd, who as 31st December 1889 shewing a credit balance after parting both reamere were beached, the a close spectator consider the more rellable of $2,593.94, was laid on the table and was duly Kunghat on Nh P. and the Ancona on of the two shore witnesses as to the place passed.
the Kowloon side. As regards the interval of collision, and who is very positive that it It was resolved that taxes be levied as under between the Ancona hard a starboarding and was much nearer the Kowloon side than the the collision there is the usual conflict of test!- Hongkong side. There remain, however, the viz
mony as to time, distance, speed, and direction, questions whether the Kungpal in approaching and, as usual, the recollection of those engaged the Ancona should not, under the 18th and 24th. who had other things to think of at the time are Regulation read together, have slackened at the best a very faulty guide to the real facts, speed or stopped and reversed before she did The Captain of the Ancona says that be hard and whether she was Justified in putting her a starboarded for the purpose of avoiding the helm hard port after the Ancona had hard a Kungpai, but the evidence of the 4th officer starboarded. I think it is evident that putting suggests that it was as much to avoid two janke her helm a port was the very worst thing she which were on the Ancona's port bow, heading, could do unless the Ancona was close upon her as the Captain thinks, for Lyeemun Pass, but and a collision then absolutely inevitable, and A Sky Race Meeting under the auspices of more probably perhaps as the 3rd officer thinks this seems to place the Kungpafin the following the Hongkong Pole Club was held, by permission standing across for a little below. North Point dilemma -Either she hand a ported when she of the Stewards of the Jockey Club, at the Race The Captain says in putting his helm hard a ought to have kept her course or else continued course on Saturday afternoon, and proved a most starboard. he expected to cross the junks' track to approach a crossing steamer at full speed until gratifying success from a sporting point of view, asters of them, but that as the wind fell he did a collision was inevitable. It is suggested that although an accident to Mr. A. W. Maitland in not succeed and actually slightly collided with there was no " risk of collision!! within the 10th the Wayfoong Steeplechage, resulting in one of the junks shortly before the Kung Regulation until the Ancona hard a starboarded, broken collar bone, was a bubject of general par struck him. He says that after he but I cannot adopt this suggestion in view of my regret. The weather was will that could gave the order he watched the Kunghal opinion as tothe distance between the two vessels be desired, a fairly cool breeze blowing, whilst to see if there was any reply this whistle, but at that time. Bearing in mind that the Captain the sun was never disagreeable throughout the hearing none he went over to the port side of of the Kungdar himself, assesses the distance of afternoon, but the course was almost as hard as a the bridge to look at the junks; but it is quite the Ancona when she hard a starboarded at half turnpike road. There was a very large attendance clear that there was a reply and that the other a mile I saked the Assessors was the Captain of spectators, including many ladies, the Grand witnesses on the Ancona both saw the Kingpat of the Kungpal justified, as a sailor, jo Stand being closely packed, and both the porting and heard the signie blast to intimate supposing and he was within 500 yards of enclosure and the centre of the Valley were that she was doing so. The 3rd officer who was the Ancona that she could and would keep extensively patronised. A capital programm: in the forecastle with the chief officer says there out of the way ? And they answer "No, he of seven events five fat races and two steeple was about seconds between the Ascona turn, ought not to have carried on until she was chases, had bean arranged. the prizes for ing to port and the single blast on the Kungpas, within a quarter of a mile" This opinion I which were unusually handsome and valuable and the chief officer says he heard a whistle, fully adopt, and as I think that the distance was several of them, in fact, being quite up to the from the Kungpal almost immediately after 'eyen less than a quarter of a mile the neglect to standard of a regular Jockey Club meeting, the blasts from the Ancona. The fourth slaken speed or stop and reverse previously The Band and Pipers of the Argyll and officer fires the interval between the Ancona's was so much the more culpable Sutherland Highlanders were present (by per signal and the Kunghat's algual at from 30 to The final conclusion at which I am forced to mission of Colonel Chater and the Officers of the 40 seconds, and says that when he heard the are in that the Ancona failed without excuse Regiment) and played the following programme single whistle he said to the Captain why, she to keep out of the Kungpar's way when it was MarchOp: States is altering her courte, but that he got no answer her duty to cross, and that the Kungpad without and supposes that the Captain did not hear it, excuse, continued to approach the Ancona al The Captain also says that he stopped the Ancona full speed after there was risk of collision. before the collision on account of the fanks and, Judgment of both to blame, with the usual not on secount of the Kungpal, and that when a directions,
THE Courrier d'Haiphong says :-Two months ago Mr. L. Paulban, a lawyer here, went to Hongkong on alleged business. On the 26th February he wrote to the President of the Tribunal, saying that he would return via Tourare about the end of the month. Since thep he has not been seen, either in Hongkong or Tourane. But inquiries have shown that before leaving Haiphong he raised some $3,000 belonging to others. As he had been in good practice the affair is as yet incomprehensible. In future the clerks to the two judges of the Supreme Court will be officially designated as #First Clerk of the Court and Clerk to the Chief Justice" and "Second Clerk of the Court and Clerk to the Puisne Judge" respectively. This, we are told in the Government Gazette, is "la
confirmed;
IT is seven years since the construction of the Forth Bridge was first commenced, and all the knowledge that engineering science can yield has been brought to bear upon it. The bridge owes his origin, indeed, to the terrible calamity which occurred on the Tay a little more than ten years ago, and it has been pushed forward, in the face of tremendous difficulties, with a full recogni- tion of the strain which it will have to bear Some idea of the vastness of the structure will be conveyed by the statement that its extreme length is nearly a mile and a-quarter, and that, whilst eight millions of rivets have been used in its construction, and forty-two miles of bent plates have been used for its tubes, it, presents something like twenty acres of surface to the painter. The cost of construction smespis to | Powell and W. S. Om. £3,000,000.
i per cent on assessed value of property
renial 21 per cent Councillors for 1890 were elected viz. Messrs. R. H. Brace, F. Cass, J. F. Broadbent, C. S.
THE Graydon 15-in, dynamite gun and torpedo THE shooting match, eight men a-side, between thrower, which is capable of throwing 600 lbs. the Navy and Army, took place at the Military of dynamite a distance of three miles, was ranges, Kowloon, on Thursday, and after a most inspected last month, at Birmingtam, by officers interesting contest ended in favor of the Garrison representing the Japanese Board of War and inshootists" by a majority of as points. The condi. Roumanist Government. There are five lions were the usual seven shots cach at three European Governments now awaiting the com- ranges, and at the two short ranges the Army pletion of this dynamitegun-viz, Russia, Turkey, had all the best of the shooting, leading by no Span, Italy, and Roumania-and the work fewer than 36 points. At the 600 yards, however, being pushed forward with a view to a general the Naval men pulled up in good style, and demonstration of the working of the gun under totalled 216 to their opponents 199 The weather the auspices of Government, Lieutenant Gray- wax favorable for good. shocting to commence den, of the United States Navy, under whose with, but late in the afternoon the light supervision the work is being carried on, hopes became very puzzling. Garrison-Sergeant Major to double the range attained by the Zalinaki gun, Meredith coached the Garrison, Mr. May of and in making his weapon handy for training H.M.S. Swift doing the needful for the Navy, and elevating, the extreme length and unwield
ness of the Zallaski beluga serious drawback The following are the total scores →→
to its adoption. He hopes to have his 15-in gun ready for trial by May, and
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SUPREME COURT
IN VICE-ADMIRALTY, JURISDICTION. (Before His Honour Mr. Justice Flaulding Clarks, with List, Zory, RN and Captain
Seabury as Nautical Assessors.).
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THE " ANCONA " - " KUNOPAL" COLLISION CASE
JUDGMENT.
His Lordship, garo judgment in these suits to-day, Mr. W.V, Drummond, (instructed by
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HONGKONG SKY MEETING:
SATURDAY, 12TH APRIL, 1890, Patrons His Excellency F. Fleming, C.M.G.j His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, VC, K.C.B. His Excellency Major-General Bevan Edwards, C.B. Commities -G. 3. Coxon, Edq, T. H. Whitehead, Esq.; R. Gore, Esq. Capt. Paterson Capt. Reynolds; J. Armstrong, Esq. Major Fletcher Clerk of the Scales. Armstrong, Esq. Judge: The Hop. CA P. Chater.-Starter H Gare Booth, Esq.Assistant Stafler –R. M. Gray, Esq., Major Fletcher,Hon, Treasurer. E, H. Gore-Booth, Esq. Clerk of the Course.
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