Co-day's Advertisements.
THI HONG KONG 2ND WHAN FOA DOCK CO., LIMITED..
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the OFFICE" of the Company, No. 1, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Bonglom os MONDAY, the 21st day of January, 1991, at 12 o'clock Noos, when the undermentioned RESOLUTIONS which were passed at the Extraordinary Gencial Meeting of the Company hold on the 31st Dereliber, 1900,- will be submitted for confirmation as SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS.
RESOLUTIONS. That the following Asticle 'he inserted after Article 6, namely:-
63.-The Directors may issue
**Directs may inste
"Certificate
*Certificates for fiictions of Shares
and provide for the Exchange of "soch fractional Certificates amoun ting to a whole Share or number of Shares fr Certificates of a "whole Share or Shares."
2. That in Article 11 the figures"400" be 3-That the existing Shues in the Capital, namely 13,500 fully paid up Shares of Sta ench, be subdivided into 31,zzo fully paid up Shares of 50 eath.
substituted for the figures "1.000"
That is Article 4 the figurus "1000" be substituted for the figures.
5-That in ide sa the words "Four "Thousand" be submitted for the wor's "One Thousand."
6. That in Article do the words "for every "complete additional number of Porty Shares" "be substituted for the words "for every com.
"
plete additional number of Ten Shares?”
7.That in Anticle 71 the words "more than
"twelve or less than six be substitute for the was "nore than wine or less than four"
8-That in Article 71 the words two hun "dred "be substituted for the word " fifty."
That in Article 96 the words "and bonuses" be feted, and that at the end of the same Article there be added the following paragraph, namely:
The Directors may also, with the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY JANUARY 5, 1901.
To-day's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL THE Company's Steamship
'
"FORMOSA,"
Captain Hodgins, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 8th instant,
Daylight.
For Freight ur l'assage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPĶAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 5th January, 1901. THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM-
SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. ·
FOR MANILA.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1901.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
трамет
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says: On the 5th at 5 p.n the barometer is tising on the China coast. The depression has probably reached E. Japan, and pressure is highest over N. China. Fresh monsoon in S. China, increasing monsoon in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast:-Modemte to fresh N. and N. E. winds; some drizzling rain or mist.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THE FORTHCOMING BOXING CONTEST.
Mr. Kemp fined him $5c or two months' hard labour.
Ho did not pay.
Tang Lik, shop-keeper of Sha Kong, pleaded guilty before Mr. Kemp this morning to being in unlawful possession of 12 taels of loose mw opium, z tacle of prepared opium and 3 tuels of dross opium.
His Worship inflicted fines of 560 or one month's hard labour on the first charge, $120 or two months on the second charge, and $20 or one month on the remaining charge.
The fines were not paid, so he went to gooi..
Our sporting contributor writes as follows:- now give Mustue's record. Muster was born in 1873, at Cheltenham Gloucestershire, and comes frou a vicinity seething, one might say, with first-class men in every branch of sport. His birthplace is the home of Dick Burge, champion light-weight of the world, of Dr. W. G. Grace, our famous veteran cricketer, of the late Fred Archer the most renowned jockey that ever piloted a winner past the post, and such old time pugilists as Jim and Tim Belcher and Tom Cribb. With these. sur- soundings it was only "natural" "that le should lave turned his attention to the ring His trade was, like Riley's, that of a black smith, and this will at once account for his The latest step in progress taken in Bangkok enormous muscular development. The muda is the acquisition of a brilliant ted tricycle by whose physique is brought to perfection mus. the Post Office, in order to facilitate the collec-cularly by dealing sledge hammer blows oned 4 taels and 7 mace.
iron will undoubtly leave a good impression en ion of mails. *
an opponent's face..
DURING the war, Rhodesia produced, over a quarter of a million pounds' worth of gold, and was the only, gokl-exporting country in South
In the discussion at the Sanitary Board Meeting on the 3rd inst., Mr. May, in his reply to Mr. OSBORNE, condenins the administra tion of the Government out of his own mouth. He said "The Colony was not yet in its teens. It was only a child, and it was going
Africa. [age to grow into a very big man, gul if i was allowed to grow the way it had grom, with that stupendous want of foresight and fores thought which seemed to be the characteris. tic of the British race, all he could say was that it would be a very bad thing." Whose want of foresight and forethought? Why, the Government's, of course. This is a Captain A. Ramsay, will be despatched for the Crown Colony, and the Government is re-
HE
Company's New Steamship
* DIAMANTE
A Laan python, which had been fasting for two mouths in the Perth Zoological Gardens, W. Australia, made its way into a cage of or
above part, on FRIDAY, the ith instant,sponsible for all public works and adminisang utans and swallowed two of the occupants.
at 5 PM.
"The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steiner. She is fitted throughout with Electric
Light. A Doctor is carrjed.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
tration of the Colony. Mr. MAY made that quite clear when he stated that "it was their STAMP collectors will be interested to learn (the Board's) duty to put before, the Govern that a new three-pies Indian postage stamp ment what they thought was right, and if has just made its appearance. The last issue the Goverment did not choose to do it, that
was printed in a delicate rose tint; the present SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
had nothing to do with them. Quite suis in a delicate gicy. General Managers.
This makes it as clear as daylight that any Honglenng, 5th January, 1901.
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stupendous want of foresight and forethought which have acted unfavourably on the Co. lany in past years is to be credited to the Government, and the Government only. How can Mr. May argue it otherwise when he has just proved that the Government can accept or reject recommendations as it please? We agree with him, however, that if it is allowed to grow the way it has grown, ... it will be a very bad thing."
Kutinations. EYE-SIGHT.
Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES
al, Queen's Rond Central, (R, HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL). Business hours:-9 A.M. to 5 PM.
A RETURN shewing the number of cases of Bulionic Plague which have occurred in this Colony fram the 1st inst, to noon of the 4th inst. gives: till noon of the 4th inst. I case; during the past twenty-four hours 1 case. Number of deaths during the past twenty-four hours, 3. hotle Chinese.
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que following deaths are announced by the 4. & C. Express of the 7th December--Mr. Daniel MacAleese, M. Prince Alexander Incretinsky, Governor General of Warsaw, Professor Leibl, the genre and portrait painter, and Mr. Henry Russel, the famous song-writer and public entertainer.
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In height Muston is slightly taller than Riley, ment is under Kiley's by three quarters of an being a little over 5.11). His chest measure-
longer. In appeance he is lighter than Riley, inch but, on the other hand, his reach is but he is really only four pounds less in weight.
He has gone in for the manly at ever since he knew how to put gloves on and of his many tussles I have selected the following as the most important.
In 1893, exactly eight years ago this month, he fought a very severe battle at Cheltenham with the well known Tom Rodgers and it was not until the foulteenth round that Rodgers gave to superior strength and science. Following up this well earned victory he pro Di Hughes, a local heavy weight whose colours ceeded next year to Newport and engaged with hitherto had not been hauled down. After a severe struggle, lasting twelve rounds, Mustor poved victorious.
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Kaw Cheong Kiu, márried woman of Lo Kuk,? pleaded guilty to having in her possession 7
aels of prepared opium without a valid. certificate.
She questioned the weight, and an Excisa
officer weighed it and found that it only weigh
Mr. Kemp fined the woman $85 de three months' hard labour for the offence.
She went to goal.
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Inspector McEwen brought Lo To and Ng Fal, labourers of Wing Fung Street, before Mr. Kemp this morning for stealing five inunds, of copper, value $2, the property of the Naval Yaul authorities.
`STEALING FROM THE NAVAL YARD.
His. Worship, after hearing the evidence of Inspector McEwen and Mr. Ä. Lean, convicted the defendants. The 6rst was sentenced to a month's hard labour and the second to 14 days.
CANTON NOTES.
OFFICIAL, DISMISSED. [From Our Own Correspondent.] *
CANTON, January 3rd., You Fu, Ting Wai Leung, the chief military official of sick Lung, district of Lung Kun, was dismissed from office on the 7th of the present Chinese month. The Tung-Kun magistrate finds that this official is responsible for the destruction of the mission property during the trouble in the eighth month, inasmuch as he made no attempt to restrain the mal. The orders of his superiors were disregarded and he
"consent of and in stich manner, and GREAT proportion of cataracts and shown in the proceedings of the Beard the The latest thing in delusions comes from a few years' prevented his appearing in the ring matter for himself. Sa far as I can learn, no
"ipon sa hconditions and at such times "as shall be authorised by Shareholders in meeting, employ the Reserve Funst for the time being, or any part thereof, "in the payment of a bonus pr houses "to Shareholders in respect of every
Share and fraction of a Siară” ·
By Order of the Board,
D. GILLIES),
Chief Manager.
Tie
Hongkong, 3rd January, 1901
THE HONGKONG AND WEAMPOA
DOCK CO., LIMITEDN
NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING [OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
of the Company will be held at the OFFICE of the Company, No. 1, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 21st day of lacukry, 1901, at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon orgso soun after- wards as the Extraordinary General Meeting to be previously held on that day shall be con
discases affecting thuse advancing in life occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.
Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi cated deficiency in the form of the eye require Ling Classes only to correct and cure.
Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.
ADVICE FREE.
NOW READY..
A PAMPHLET
ON
It would be interesting to know how many people in the Coloity read the fortnightly reports of the meetings of the Sanitary Board. Judging by the lack of interest number must be very small. It is true that United States lunatic asylum. One of the the subjects for consideration, various as they are, are as a rule ratlier dull reading. inmates fancies that he is a poached egg, and A brush between the Unofficial Memberse has been for some years looking for a piece and the Government Oficials is the only of toast large enough to sit upon. Mats and incident that occasionally livens up the khaki coloured carpets have been offered by proceedings: The Unofficial Members sympathiserg but he is not taking any. may with justice protest again and again of DURING the progress of a football match at their treatment by the Government officials. but the latter, deeming themselves in San Francisto on the 30th November, some fallible, seidont trouble to reply. They of the spectators were watching the game from are too fond, as Dr. Hartigar aptly says, collapsed. The spectators, dropping through, the roof of a glassworks establishment, which of playing at being great officers of the Crown to attend to such a paltry Eleven were killed, and 40 others were badly
fell into boiling vats or on to the furnaces [1453 matter as the Sanitation of the City. They, burned.
like Nero, fiddle whilst Rome burns. it therefore amusing to notice that at the last meeting of the Board, in answer to an enquiry of the Board as to the cause of the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Pokfulain, a reply was read from
SOME SERIOUS LOCAL PROBLEMS AND
it
THE greater part of the shares in the Chinese Coast Navigation Company of Hamburg, says Fairplay of November 29th ulto, have been bought up by Messrs. Menzell & Co., of Hamburg, and a group of capitalists connected Company in China has been made over to the with them; and the representation of the said. suggesting that perhaps the cause of the East Asiatic Trading Company, which is disease was due to "spontaneous genera-managed by Messrs. Menzell & Co. tion," although he states that this theory The Band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers will is now universally discredited.
cluded, when the following RESOLUTIONS A FEW SUGGESTION FOR DEALING Mr. LADDS, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon will be proposed, namely:-
1.-That out of the present Reserve Fund amounting to Siyoo,bro and out of the sum
of $37,500 representing undivided profits, the Directors do pay to every Shareholder
WITH THEM.
REING A LECTURE DELIVERED
BEFORE
THE ODD VOLUMES SOCIETY ΣΥ
Mr. H. E. POLLOCK, Barrister-at-Law.
It is no
wonder the official members of the Board play at the Hongkong Hotel, this evening, from took offence at this insult to their intélli, 8 to 9.30 p.m.--
which is registered in his name on the 28th To be obtained at the OFFICE of This Paper gence. To quote the P.C.M.O.'s own words
a bonus at the rate of $30 per Share in rea- pect of every Share and friction of a Share
day of February, 1901, and that such bonus
be, at the option, expressed in writing, of any Shareholder, applicable to the payment of the amount payable by such Shareholder in respect of the taking up by him of his proportion of new Shares under the pro- visions of the next of these Resolutions. 2-That on the said 28th day of February, he increased from
PRICE 50 CENTS. Hongkong, 1st June, roon.
1901, the Capital, be best of A. S. WATSON & Co., flippant style was not to be barnet Perhaps
18,750 new fully paid up Shares of $0 each, and that suchi new Shares be offered at par to every Shareholder who on that
date is registered as such in the proportion of three new Shares for every five Shares of his registered holding on that date, and that if any such Shareholder shati not take andpay for bis said proportion of new shares before the first day of June, 1901, the Directors may dispose of the porportion of new Shares not so taken up and paid för at such prices (not being less than the par value thereof) and upon such terins as they may in their discretion think fit. The Directiors may, however, in their discre tion, if the special circumstances of the case appear to them to render such a course desimble in order to obviate hard- ship to a Shareholder, permit a Shareholder to take up and pay for the proportion of new Shares to which he would be entitled under this Resolution, notwithstanding that the aforesaid time-limit for doing so, numely the first day of June, 1901, has passed. 3.-That the said new Shares shall rank for dividend and bonus as on and from the First day of January, 1991. By order of the Board,,
D. GILLIES,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 3rd January, 1951.
£32c
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
LIMITED.
and insinuate that the disease "fell down from Heaven" gave offence to that gentleman. The Official Members of the Board are accustomed to
not very courteous minutes on official documents from some of the Members of the Board, but. that a Junior Officer should write in such a the most amusing incident.in connection with the discussion was the resolution moved by the President-" that Mr. LADDS be in- formed that when the Board requested him to write a report the Board expected from him a careful report of facts, all other re- marks to be avoided." As in the particular instance Mr. LAUDs had been instructed to report on the causes" of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease this resolution was singularly inappropriate. It is impossible. to report on causes without introducing matters of opinion. This motion was subse C.L ARET S.quently dropped and the President is to see
Mr. LADDS on the matter.
WINE, MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
***
ST. ESTEPHE, Red Capsule...$ 6.96. $ 7.56 CST. JULIEN, Red Capsule 9.00 9,60 DLA ROSE, Red Capsule....... 12.96 13.92 CHATEAU HAUT BRION LAR-
KIVET
18.60. 19.20 CHATEAU MOUTAN D'ARMAIL - "
· HACQ.............
21.00 22.20 CHATEAU PONTET CARNET...... 25.00 'CHATEAU, La' TOUR CARNET... 30.09. Chateau RauUZAN..........
42.00 CHATEAU LAFITTE
48.00
These CLARES are bought direct from the leading French growers. The lowest priced are of exceptional, value and guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of the STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, grape, and are not artificially made as is generally the case with cheap Wines.
STEAM FOR
ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS).
THE
HE. Steamship
"CHUSAN,"
Capihin CD. Bennett, R.N.R., carrying Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatcher from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY,, the 19th instant at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the
above Ports.
Sille and. Valuables, all Cargo for, France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will
CHATEAU LA TOUR CARNET, CHA TEAU RAUZAN and Guateau Lafitte are commended to the notice of Con- noisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines of a rich and rare character."
Sample bottles and smaller quanti-
be transhipped at: Colombo into, a steamer ties will be supplied at proportionate
proceeding direct to Marseilles and Londons wholesale rates.
other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed
id Bombay with Transhipment.
Parcels will be received at this Office until Pat. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required. pa
Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's
Bill of Lading
For further Particulars, apply to
A.M. MARSHALL,
Acting Superintendent.
Hongkong, 5th January Toot
We
Ve guarantee our Winos and Spirits
to be genuine only when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast
Ports
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
CAPE COLONY. GUNS LANDED AT
March......
Valie.......
Selection
PROGRAMME.
"Delle of Chicago"
Darling Mabel
..SOUR. ..Williams, A. Gaiety Girl
.........Jones, Syng..." Flight of Ages
Bleven. Polka..
"Chapples"-ga
.F. Fate Selection. "Les Cloches de Carneville...Planquetic Extra, Barndance........Co lang “...........
"God Sava, the Queen,"
Carr.
ACCORDING to our Canton correspondent, the natives of that city have lately had rare old times with games of stone throwing. After all, there is perhaps as much chance of a broken head at football as in this other apparently popular game. It has occurred to us that very likely several little stone-throwing games in which Missionaries took (unwilling) part, may only have been the Chinese playfulness of character shown in these recreations, and that if the Missionaries had joined heartily in the fun, nothing serious would have occurred. A RATHER big fire is reported from Tai o village, in the New Territory. About 70 wooden houses have been burnt up in one street, besides a few others and a stone or half stone house or two which have been destroyed elsewhere. About Goo people are rendered homeless by the fire, which was luckily got under after a lot of damage had been done, by the villagers and police. The amount repre senting the damage, cannot yet be ascertained, but it will be some thousand dollars. The origin of the outbreak is still unknown, but it is
CAPETOWN.sed to have been caused by carelessness
in connection with a cook house.
It is reparted from Tokyo, says the Nagasaki Press of the 28th wito, that the Communica tions Department of the Central Government has decided to construct a new training chip of 2500 tons, for the use of the Government Mer cantile Navigation School, in pince of the Tsukishima-maru, which foundered the other day. The designs are now being hastened
LONDON, January 3rd. Griqualand West is full of Boer parties working South towards Prieska; as an ob- jective contre of the Colony. The parties are assisted by the Dutch population, whom the lack of arms chiefly restrains from rising The guard-ship Monarch lands guns at Cape-forward at the above school, so that a bill in town as a precautionary measure.
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LORD ROBERTS IN ENGLAND. The Princess Beatrice and the Duke of Connaught met Lord Roberts at Cowes from whence they drove to Osborne.
THE MARINES.
Colonel-in-Chief of the Marines.
The Duke of York has been appointed
A. ROYAL VISIT IMPOSSIBLE. H.E. the Governor has courteously forwarded us the following telegrams:- TELEGRAMS. Governor, Hongkong, to Secretary of State, London, dated 20th December, 1900. The Unofficial Members of Council on behalf of the Community beg me to forward their humble request that Their Royal High- nesses the Duke and Duchess of York will honour the Colony of Hongkong with a visit on their way to or from Australia.",
the form of a supplementary budget may be submitted to the Imperial Diet now in session in Tokyo. The vessel is to cost 625,000 yen, or at the rate of 250 yen per too, and will be three times larger than the late Tsukishima- waru,
did not even prevent his soldiers from taking part in the looting. This action has been taken by the magistrate after, having investigated the charges were prefered against this official by. any of the consuls, The Jug Kun ongistrate is regarded as a fair minded official and as belonging to the progressive party. He is great admirer of the emperor, Kwong Si, and openly declares that if Kwong Su is not returned to power he, the magistrate, will retire from: official life.
In his next most important battle, however, he sustained defeat. This was with Dide Plumb, at Portsmouth, in 1896, Plumb dismiss sing his opponent in the fourth round. Un deterred, however, by this, his first loss, le challenged the famous Mike Flynn, a name so widely known in the South of England, and drew with him in a six-round contest:
The exigencies of the service for the next until just a year ago when he knocked out Ben Hughes in the eleventh round on the same stage as he meets Riley on Tuesday night. The fight was as severe a out as has been witnessed here and Mustoc had all his work cut ont. He gat the decision in his favour, however, and he now comes forward in reply to Riley's challenge. It is not for me to openly, select either man as my choice. I have sinted before that no
For some time past the Board of Reorganiza- two better matched men ever stepped into the ring. I know exactly cach man's condition; theirtion has been paying indemnities to the various periods of training are alike in duration so that consuls for the destruction of property, during yet there is not the slightest doubt that Mustee brought to one of the consuls a few days ago, no preference could be shewn on tint, point, the late riots. A large sum of Bank notes was
had before, and feet quite sure that Riley of the notes had been raised to higher demon- will give Riley a fight that the latter has not and in counting it, it was discovered that several knows this too well. There is nothing to do inations. A five dollar note was raised to fifty now but to await the result of Tuesday night. dollars, a ten to a hundred, and several other The purse is the largest ever offered here and changes were detected. It has not yet been the contestants are the two best men in the ascertained who is the author of the fraud, but the case is being investigated, and an attempt Far East, so all we can do is to wait and sec who is the best exponent of the art this side will be made to find the guilty party.
of the Globe.
"AT THE MAGISTRACY,
A STABBING AFFAIR
An old offender convicted, Before Mr. Hazeland this morning a Japanese" sailor Tamed Charles Kuranago was brought by Sergeant Garrod on a charge of unlawfully and maliciously stabbing another Japanese named Fulka, at a house in Upper Lascar Road on the 29th December.
The injured man said that the defendant took a jack knife and stabbed him in the chest. He was drunk at the time. It was about two o'clock in the morning.
Lascar Row gave evidence as, to finding the The keeper of the lodging house in Upper injured man with a wound near the heart. He did not see the blow but saw blood running from the man. He had the defendant taken to the station. The wounded man was taken to the hospital.
Another Japanese living at the same house said that heremembered the complainant telling the defendant to go to sleep. The complainant asked witness to give him assistance when he had been cut,
Sergeant Garrod gave evidence as to sending the wounded seaman to hospital, and His Worship convicted the defendant and sentenced
him to four months' hard labour.
matter of using weapons. He has been three This man is a dangerous character in the
times previously convicted for a similar offence, and it is fortunaid that he will be cut of the way for some time,
QUARANTINE.
Fines for not observing the Regulations.
Before Mr. Kemp this morning, the master of the German steamer Loyal was fined a
nominal fine of $1 for not going into quaran
tine, Singapore being the last place of call...
The master of the P. and O. steamer Bengal also appeared before Mr. Kemp for the same offence,
ATTEMPT AT FRAUD.
CHINESE JUSTICE.
- A few months ago a man by the name of Mo was doing a small retail business in the city. His brother is a noted gambler, and for years the brothers have had no dealings or com- munication with each other. About two months. ago the gambler committed some offence, and was wanted by the officials. Of course ha.
could not be found, and in accordance with Chinese law, the honest brother was arrested squeezed until all his property and money and cast into prison. Day after day he was
passed over to the officials. When all was gone he was set at liberty. Such cases are constantly occurring and it is little wonder that the people generally lools upon the officials as their oppressors. And yet in almost every yaniên - you will find in a conspicuous place the motto A good official loves his people as a father loves his son."
A NEW NAM HOL
January 4th.
noon or carly this morning, giving notice that a A proclamation was posted yesterday after- Mr. Chan has heen appointed magistrate of the Nam Hol district in place of the former occup- ant. No reason is given for the change. The Viceroy, will profit by the change, as the new magistrate will have to pay well for his office. The proclaination also states that the city is full of robbers, and calls upon the officers of the guard stations to exert theinselves so as to pur an end to the robbers. The street elders aro also requested to have the city gales closed early.
THE CRISIS IN CHINA. TIENTSIN:
Affairs in the North. (From Our Ogun Correspondent.)
TIENTSIN, December 2204. Time passes quickly here but leaves fittle 10 record. We see large bodies of French or Ger mans on the more occasionally, and reports reach us from time to time of projected move- P. C. Hudson, L. S. Burchill and others gavements in this or that direction. But little hap evidence. The police hailed the P. and 0. boat about 3 in the morning of the 9th Dec ember and directed her to go into quarantine, The vessel failed to do so..
His Worship imposed a fine of $25. the quarantine, regulations. They may fre- It often pays a steamer to fail to observe the
quenily lose a day through having to go into quarantine, and a fine of almost any possible amount is preferred to losing time in quaran- tine. The penalty should be a considerably larger one for such an offence, if we do not wish to have further experience of epidemics in the Colony.
THE many friends in Hongkong of the popular Lieutenant Rahson U.S.A. will regret to levn
ANOTHER RAID. ON GAMBLERS, that he is suffering from an attack of typhoid
Inspector McNab and a party of police-sur- lever. We take the following from the Marprised a gang of coolies numbering sixteen, ning Leader of the 7th December. Poor this morning at No. 4 hfan Hing Lane, whilst Lieutenant Hobson, who is said to be engaged in playing the fascinating game of dying of typhoid, earned a memorable name fan a
for playing This particular house, No. 4 Man Hing Lane, is notorious as a gambling resort, and one previous conviction is lately recorded against the house.
by successfully sinking the Merrimac in the They were brought before Mr. Kemp this channel at Santiago, on 3 June, 1808, Taken morning and fined $3 or 14 days for pl prisoner by Admiral Cervera, he was ignised the game. with the utmost American extravagance on his release. The result was the kissing," absur dity, which before long made him a nuisance in high places. Mr. Hobson was then sharply ordered off to Manila. He is just thirty, and a fine-looking, man. It is not generally known that in the course of his training he spent a couple of years at Woolwich.
THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
HEAVY SENTENCES FOR OPIUM Wong Hing, barber of Tung Taw Village, pleaded guilty to being found in possession of 5aels prepared opium without a valid certificate at the Long Market on the 3rd inst, and
Mr. Kemp this morning fined hins $top or three months' hard labour
Secretary of Stale, London, to Governor, the 6th instant. Course from Police Pier, He went to prison.
Hongkong, dated 4th January, 1931. Referring to your telegram of 20th Decem. ber, His Royal Highness the Duke of York regrets that the arrangements made for his tour A 8. WATSON & 00, LIMITED preclude the possibility of a visit to Hongkong,
The Fifth Club Race will be sailed to marrow passing Cosmopolitan Dock Buay to port, North Fairway Buoy to starboard, Mark Boat off Chung Hoe to starboard, Stonecutter's Taland to starboard and return to Police Pier. Dis tance fourteen miles,
peus, and the grains of truth are so enveloped
in a mass of obvious canard that one-hesitates to accept anything even fróm one's best "ref=" able, source. If anything is done-it-will-born done by the French and Germans, if for lack of a better reason, simply to keep. their men out of mischief. It seems essential for these troops to be kept legitimately fighting, or they fall to murdering and other forms of crime and vice. They are not, kept in hand as the British are, and are therefore less well adapted for a waiting game. Not that the Germans are not strict with their men. I believe they are so very, when satisfied that they have offended, though it is not always easy for other nationals to bring home the conviction. But they allow their men more licence, and they carry side arins, and the result is frequently, mischief to kill the time. People accuse our officers of playing too much and grumble at the time we devote to sport, but it is belfer to ace time be ing given to football, cricket, races and poloer rehearsing for sonic entertainment than loating round grog shops of the vilest description, con suming indescribable concoctions at exhorbitant charges. So far we have managed to keep our fellows in hand and a fairly clean health bill. Of course, having mainly natives, our task is easier in a way, but in other ways the antive troops give far more trouble and anxiety. They have to be watched like children. Both the French and Germans have a terrible sick list, and their hospitals are full. We have about 18 white men on the sick list, none wery
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without which the Cables pay him for all messages for raw opium having a valid certificate, this mortir
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