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Mr. Leach in opening the case, said the facts briefly were as follows. The prisoner was employed by Messrs Arthur and Co., whose manager here was Mr. Ogilvie, and he owed them a sum of about $900. Mr. Ogilvie in January last pressed for payment and the prisoner told him that although he had not the cash he would give a promissory note backed by a guarantee. Chan Yau Lok was mentioned as the surety and it was expressed, his willingness to sign. A promissory note was drawn up by Mr. Ogilvie and signed by the parties, but later on it was found to be worthless by the fact that it was unstamped. Mr. Ogilvie went to the office and told the prisoner that the note had no value and that a new one would have to be drawn up on duly stamped paper. The original document was returned to the prisoner, and a new promissory note was made out. The prisoner went to Chan Yau Lok to get it signed as his guarantor and returned with the signature. From what Mr. Ogilvie learned afterwards, however, it transpired that Chan Yau Lok denied the signature and disputed his liability. The prisoner was therefore charged with forging Chan Yau Lok's signature and uttering the forged note.
Evidence was then taken.
The jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty and His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
22nd May.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS HONOUR J. ACKROYD AND A SPECIAL JURY.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
FIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD WEST,
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED, V. HIM KEE ALUM This was an action brought by the National Bank of China, Limited against Him Kee Alum, trader, of Foochow, to recover £2,460 4s. 5d. or its equivalent in dollars, due by the defendant on shares held by him in the plaintiff company, and for interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent.
Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mr. H. E. Pollock (instructed by Mr. Wright, of Mr. V. H. Deacon's office) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. Robinson (instructed by Mr. Bowley, of Mr. H. L. Deacon's office) represented the defendant.
The following special jury was empanelled: Messrs. H. M. Joseph, M. S. S. Sassoon, J. T. V. Vernon, J. B. Donghtyric, J. J. B. Heemskerk, B. C. Wilcox, and W. B. Loxley.
(May 24, 1894.) DEFEAT OF THE ANTI-FOREIGN PARTY IN JAPAN,
We learn that a telegram has been received from Tokyo stating that in the House of Representatives the motion for the adoption of an address to the Emperor, of which the prominent feature was the Radical idea of the strict enforcement of the treaties, has been defeated.
On the morning of the 15th inst., about 6 o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 127, Queen's Road West, occupied by a second-hand clothes dealer. The outbreak centred on the ground floor, attributable, it is said, to the upsetting of the inevitable kerosine lamp, and the flames quickly spread to the upper stories. When the Brigade under Mr. H. Wodehouse and Deputy Superintendent Horspool arrived they found the whole place in a blaze. The fortunate circumstance that there was little or no breeze was somewhat discounted by the difficulty in getting water, as in the pre-treaty stipulations, which would preclude foreigners from residing outside the lists of the treaty ports and how difficulties in the way of travel in the interior.
With very praiseworthy briskness, however, the steam was got up on the engines and in a few minutes, some good streams of water from the half-an-hour's work sufficed to remove all danger as the coolies were playing on the flames. About the whole of No. 137 was destroyed and the adjoining houses suffered slight damage by fire and water. The contents of No. 137 were insured for $4,400 in the Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance Company, for which Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. are agents.
THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION REPORT.
The following report of the Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, report on this department for the year 1893.
Hongkong, 7th May, 1894.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit the annual report on this department for the year 1893.
BOTANIC GARDENS.
After the fire had been extinguished, the partition wall between No. 137 and No. 139 fell down, and six men and women, who had entered the basement to recover some of the damaged goods, were buried under the debris. The police at once set to work to rescue the unfortunate people and, strange to say, found that only one man was at all injured, and he not seriously. The others were almost unscathed. The injured man was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.
At the Magistracy on Thursday Mr. H. E. Wodehouse opened an enquiry into the circumstances of the fire at 137, Queen's Road West, which occurred on the 15th.
Mr. G. C. C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master) represented the fire insurance agents, Messrs. Carlowitz and Co.
Inspector Mackie is in charge of the case for the police.
I am the wife of Wong A Pui, a dealer in fish at Chau Tai, Singapore. I reside in a house in Queen's Road West. I was at No. 137 on the morning of the 15th, sleeping in a room with my three children.
A light which I saw through a hole in the floor of my room attracted my attention, and looking through it I saw a man with a piece of lighted paper in his hand standing over a heap of clothes on which he was pouring kerosine. A moment or two afterwards he applied the light to the clothes and they immediately blazed up.
I shouted "Burn everyone in the house!" I got up about 2 o'clock. He made no reply and the other people in the house then ran out. I had been awake some time before I got up and had noticed a smell of kerosine. The hole through which I looked was about a foot long and an inch wide. I could see quite distinctly. I am not acquainted with the people on the ground floor.
The grounds, plant-houses, buildings, fences, walks and elections of plants have all been maintained in good order, and improvements have been effected in various directions.
IMPROVEMENTS.
1. An additional glass-roofed plant-house 50 feet long by 12 feet wide, situated in the nursery, has been completed. The woodwork has been chiefly made and fitted by our carpenter who is on the staff.
2. Certain walks in the Botanical and Government House Gardens have been concreted. These additions now finish all that is needed in this kind of walk formation.
3. Extensions have been made to rockeries where circumstances rendered these necessary.
LAWNS.
Towards the end of the summer the moths and caterpillars mentioned in paragraph No. 14 of my last report again appeared, but having learnt by past experience the habits of these pests their advent was anticipated, and on their first appearance remedies for their destruction were at once applied and maintained at regular intervals until the termination of their season of activity. By these means the lawns were preserved from injury.
Dr. A. Gunther, F.R.S., Keeper of the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), to whom I sent specimens of the larvæ, chrysalids, and moths for determination, has very kindly informed me that its name is Thialleta signifera (Walk.). The chief injury to the grass is caused by this species, but another one, which appears simultaneously with the Thialleta is also responsible for some damage.
This one Dr. Günther has also determined from specimens which I sent. It is Pharazia bicarnea (Wlk.).
6. Children continue to run over places where grass should be, but which they have long ago worn away. As the attendants and police are unable to prevent this, it would be advisable to provide low iron fences on the margins of walks where children chiefly congregate, of sufficient height to prevent the children leaving the walks.
Mr. Pollok opened the case by reading the pleadings filed and the answer. From these it appeared that when Messrs. Russell and Co. failed the firm was indebted to the defendant for a sum of $10,000 and defendant was indebted to them for $50,000. Besides carrying on their ordinary business as merchants at Foochow, however, Messrs. Russell and Company were the agents for the plaintiff bank, and the plaintiff bank tried to induce the defendant to acknowledge that he was indebted to it for $50,000 instead of to Messrs. Russell and Co. The defendant, however, would not recognise this liability at all. Towards the end of 1891 the defendant was desirous of selling all his shares to Mr. Weeks, a broker at Foochow. Mr. Weeks asked for a transfer of the shares and expressed his willingness to pay any outstanding claims. The bank claimed a lien on the shares and refused to allow the transfer until the $50,000 alleged to be due was paid.
Mr. Francis on these pleadings asked for judgment for the full amount claimed. Even supposing all the facts alleged were admitted, he submitted that there was no equitable defence. The only defence really set up was that the bank refused to allow a transfer of the shares, but that was no ground of defence in this case, but only a possible case of action for damages.
Mr. Robinson then addressed the Court at great length, first stating that he had not anticipated that a legal point would have been raised until the whole of the case had been laid before the Court and the verdict of the jury obtained.
Wodehouse concluded the enquiry into the fire at No. 127, Queen's Road West.
At the Magistracy, on Saturday Mr. H. E. Wodehouse concluded the enquiry into the fire at No. 127, Queen's Road West. Mr. G. C. C. Master (of Messrs. Jobson, Stokes and Master) appeared for the insurance agents, Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. Mr. J. F. Reece represented the shopkeeper.
P.C. McEwen said that when he forced his way into the shop on the alarm being given he found a quilt on the counter in flames, but the fire spread up the side of the wall and the whole place was eventually destroyed.
The premises were released.
Ultimately the case was adjourned until the next day.
Pittosporum tobira on the terrace below the fountain died during the year. This caused temporary incompleteness in the arrangement, but new plants have been put in the place of those which died.
May 24, 1894.
HONGKONG.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead leaves to-day by the Empress of Japan.
At the Magistracy on Tuesday before Commander W. C. H. Hastings a coolie was fined $75, with the option of three months' imprisonment, for having in his possession 29 taels of opium.
The plague has during the past week continued to claim 30 or 40 victims daily, notwithstanding the heavy rains and the measures which have been taken by the authorities to mitigate the disease. There are indications now, however, that the plague is becoming less virulent, and the returns show a diminution in the number of fatal cases.
H.E. Sir William and Lady Robinson returned to the colony on the 15th inst. after a very enjoyable sojourn in Japan.
Mr. Cyril Platt, Private Secretary to His Excellency, has left for Shanghai in order to catch the homeward French mail and thereby avoid the difficulties of booking from Hongkong. Mr. Platt is going home on six months' leave, and during his absence the duties of Private Secretary will be discharged by Capt. Sterling, A.D.C.
In the fire which occurred near the new reservoir for the Taikoo Sugar Refinery on the 13th inst. even large matsheds were destroyed. A coolie who was endeavouring to save his property was rather seriously burnt about the hands and face and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.
Our Anjer correspondent writes:-On the night of the 2nd inst. the German ship Christine, from Philadelphia to Hyogo, took the ground at Old Anjer and remained fast for three hours, without any further assistance. The ship apparently made no water, and the captain decided on proceeding on his voyage.
On Thursday morning a large stone was seen on the tram line as the motor car was descending.
The breaksman gave the signal to stop the engine and at the same time let go the break. The stone was removed and the break having been unscrewed the car resumed its journey. There was only a momentary delay, and the next car left punctually at its proper time, 12:30.
A meeting of the Odd Volumes" was held on Friday night, at which a good number of members were present.
Mr. J. Stuart Harrison delivered a very interesting lecture on "The Telephone," illustrated by diagrams and practical illustrations.
At the Magistracy on the 15th inst. A. H. C. Rao, a telegraph clerk employed at the Kowloon Police Station, was fined $10 for removing certain property from his house, which the Supreme Court bailiff had seized under a distress warrant for rent.
The fine was paid.
On Saturday evening a smoking concert was given in the Theatre by Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew, assisted by several amateurs. It was decided to commence the tournament on June 1st and the first round will be completed by July 31st. The second round will then commence and the entire tournament will conclude on September 30th.
A set of rules regulating the competition were passed and a committee, consisting of Messrs. H. Humphreys, T. H. Reid, and H. E. Pollock was appointed to make the necessary arrangements.
Mr. Quong Tart, who arrived from Sydney by the Menmuir, had quite an enthusiastic send-off when the vessel left. The poop was gaily decorated with flags, etc., and the city band was present.
Sir George Dibbs, the Premier of New South Wales, was amongst those who attended to wish the traveller bon voyage, and in responding to the toast of prosperity to New South Wales, with which his name was coupled, he remarked that if Mr. Tart succeeded in establishing the wool trade between the two countries, as he was about to try and do, he should have a statue erected in his honour 10ft. high.
In replying to the toast of his health, Mr. Tart said that he would do his best to further the interests of the wool trade while he was away.
The health of Captain Craig, the popular commander of the Menmuir, was also honoured.
Tart is accompanied by Mrs. Quong Tart and family, and the principal object of his voyage is to pay a visit to his mother, who resides near Mono.
A correspondent writes:-I see in a Trinidad paper which has just reached me a report of a meeting of the Legislative Council, at which was read a letter from Mr. Osbert Chadwick on the water supply and sanitation of Port-of-Spain.
It is notified that on Friday, the day appointed for the celebration of Her Majesty's birth, His Excellency the Governor will hold a levée at Government House from 12 to 1 p.m.
The steamer Dvochis, which arrived on Monday from Saigon, reports that the steamers Bengice, Bucephalus, Bantam, Holstein, Decima, and Jacobs were lying in quarantine at Cape Vin.
Mr. H. P. Tooker has been appointed Acting Director of Public Works during the absence on leave of Mr. W. Chatham.
We understand that the Hon. J. B. Stewart Imokhart, who was elected Chairman of the Victoria Recreation Club for the ensuing year, has declined the honour.
A meeting of chess-players was held on the 15th inst. at Bank Buildings in connection with the recently formed Club, for the purpose of arranging a tournament.
Mr. H. E. Pollock presided.
There were 729 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 93 were Europeans.
Early on Monday morning a junk was capsized at Murray Pier in a squall. No lives were lost.
The lung Wah Hospital and its temporary branch at the Glassworks have been connected with the telephone system.
For some time past the villagers of Yau Ma Tei and Yaumati have brought reports of devourings by two tigers and these grew so numerous that at length a party headed by some European sportsmen, armed with a few rifles and miscellaneous weapons, set off in search of the other tigers still supposed to infest the district.
Well, the tigers were tracked to their lair in a rare and they were wide enough not to get choked at two miles from the boundary and shot.
Some trouble has been given by a demonstration of native prejudice and ignorance, this on Saturday and day last giving rise to disturbances in the Pakwanshan district.
The Government mitigated the trouble by granting permission to place the patients in a hospital on shore under Chinese direction.
Our Tientsin contemporary gives the following particulars:-
Mr. James Cantlie, F.R.C.S. Eng., of Hongkong, with Mrs. Cantlie, and Mr. Ernest L. C. Berger, arrived in Tientsin on Wednesday, 9th inst., and left the following morning for Peking and the Great Wall.
The Glenugle arrived at Woosung on the 13th inst., 39 days from London, including all stoppages. She will be the first steamer this season to lead tea for New York, via the Suez Canal.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An order has been sent to Europe for two iron towers for the Manila cathedral to replace the stone ones destroyed in the last great earthquake.
The animals at the Pokfulam Dairy Farm are now quite free from the pleuro which recently broke out there, and only one animal, which is segregated at a distance, is now under treatment.
The cattle are being inspected by Mr. C. Vivian Ladds, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and already 120 have been treated, generally with complete success.
The annual general meeting of A. S. Watson and Co., Limited, was held on the 19th, the report and accounts being passed without discussion.
On the 22nd the general meeting of the Humphras Estate and Finance Company, Limited, was held.
Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew are still performing at the City Hall Theatre and will leave for San Francisco next week.
I am quite satisfied that the separate system of drainage and nothing else is the cause of the plague. Formerly, when all house sewage ran into the storm water channels, it was deponent sayeth not.
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Mr: Leach in opening the ossa. said the fets briefly were as follows. The prisoner was. emi- ployed by Mesa Arthur and Co, whose man- ager here was Mr. Ogilvie, and he owed them a sum of aboat $900. Mr. Ogilvie in January last pre-sed for pigment and, the prisoner told him that although he had not the cash h: would giv a promissory note bicked by a guarantee. Char Yau Lok was mentioned as the surety and it fic-t expressed, his willinguess to sign. A primissory note was drawn up by Wr. Ogilvie sad nigued by the parties, but later on it was found to be worthless by the fact that it was unsts apod. Mr. Ogilvie went to the office and told he prisoner that the note had no value and that a new one would have to be drawn up on duly stamped paper. The original d camont was returned to the prisoner, and a new promissory note ras made out. The prisoner went to Chan Yau Link to get it signed as his goaraator and returned with the signature. From what Mr. Ögile learned afterwards, however, it transpired thathan Yau Lok denied the signature and disputed his liability. The prisoner was there fore charge with forging Chan Yaa Lok's signature and uttering the forged note.
Evidence was then taken.
The jury retarded a unsaimons verdict of guilty and bis Lordship sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment with hard labour,
22nd May.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS HONQUERE. J. ACKROYD AND A SPECIAL JURY.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY-PRESS AND
·FIRE IN QUEEN'S. ROAD WEST,
THE NATIONAL BANK, OF CHINA, LIMITED, V. HIM KER ALUM This was an aution brought by the National Bank of China, Limited against Him Kee Alum, trader, of Foodhur, to recover £2.460 48. 5d. or its equivalent in dollars, das by the defendant op shares held by him in the plaintiff company, and for interest thereon at the rate of ten per snt.
Mr. J. J. Francis. QC, and Mr. H. E. Pol- lock (instructed by Mr. Wright, of Mr. V. H. Deacon's office appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. Robinson instructed by Mr. Bowley, of Mr. H. L. Deanga's office) represented the de-
fendant.
The following special jury was empanelled -Messra. H. II. Joseph. M. S. S. Sassoon, J. T. V. Vernon, J. B. Donghtric, J. J. B. Heemskerk, B. C. Wilcox, and W. B. Loxley.
(May 24, 1894. DEFEAT OF THE ANTI-FOREIGN PARTY IN JAPAN,
from Tokyo stating that in the House of Re We learn that a telegram has been reo-ived presentatives the motion for the adoption of an address to the Emperor, of which the pro minent feature ws the Radiol idea of the strict enforcement of the treaties, has bosa defented.
past three fire broke out at No. 127, Queen's Road On the morning of the 15th inst..aboutagnarfer West, occupied by a second-hand clothes dealer. 'The outbreak cenrred on the grund floor, at tributable, it is said, t› the upsetting of the inevit abi, kerosine lamp, and the flies qajukly spread to the apper stories. When the Brigade under Mr H.. Wodehouse and Deputy Superintendent Horspool arrived they found the whole place is forcement of the treaties is to rander the resi The object of the advocates of the strict en- was little or no reeze was somewhat disepuuted sibl. by i sisting on the lite observanes of the a blaze. The fortunate oiroumstance that there deno- of foreigners in Japan as irksome as pos by the difficulty in getting water, us in the pre-treaty stipulations, which would preclude tv- useless to attach the hoses, there being no pressure, treaty ports and how difficulties in the way sent condition of the fresh water supply it was signers from residing outside the lists of the With very praiseworthy briskness, however, the of travel in te interior. steam was got up on the engines and in a few minutes, some good streams of water from the half-an-hour's work sufficed to remove all danger ba bour were playing on the flames. About of the copiigration extending, ba the whole of No 137 was destroyed and the adjoining bases suffered slight damage by fire and water. The contents of No 137 wore insured for $4.400 in the for which Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. are agents. Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance Company,
THE BOTANICAL.ND AFFORESTA-
TION REPORT.
of the Botanical and Afforestation Department for 1893 is pablished in the Gazette:-
The fol owing report of the Superintendent
Botanic Gardens,
report on this department for the year 893.
Hongkong 7th May, 1894. Sir, I have the honour to submit the snoual
BOTANIC GARDENS.
After the fire had been extinguished, the parti tion wall between No 137 and No. 139 fell down, and six men and women, who had entered the basement to recover some of the damaged goods, walks, and elections of plants have all been The grounds. plant-bouses, buildings, fouces, were buried under the débris. The police at maintained in good order, and improvements ones set to work to resone the nnfortunate peo-have been offected in various directions. Some ple and, strange to say, found that only one man was at all injured, and he not seriously. The others were almost unscathed. The injured man was removed to the Government Civil Hospital. At the Magistracy ou Thursday Mr. H. E stances of the fire at 137. Queen's Road West. Wodehouse opened an enquiry into the circum- which accurred on the 15th.
Mr. G. C. C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master) represented the fire in- surance agents, Mesere Garlowitz and Co.
Inspector Mackie is in charge of the case for the police.
am the wife of Wong A Pui, a dealer in fist at Chau Tai, the Erst witness called, said: Singapore. I reside in a house in Queen's Road West. I was at No. 137 on the morning of the 15th, sleeping in a room with my three children. through a hole in the floor of my room attracted I got up about 2 o'clock. A light which I saw my attention, and looking through it I saw a man with a piece of lighted paper in his hand standing kerosine. A moment or two afterwards he ap over a heap of clothes on which he was pouring plied the light to the clothes and they immediate- ly blazed up burn everyone in the honse " He made no I shouted but, "Do you mean to reply and the other people in the house then ran out. I had been awake some time before I got up and had noticed a smell of kerosine. The hole through which i looked was about a foot long and an inch wide. I could see quite distinctly. I am not acquainted with the people on the ground floor.
rough by wear and weather and will need-re. of the conerated. walks are becoming a little making before long. The smaller of the under- sequence of the want of sleeper gradients, ara ground drains beneath level walks, in oon.
af débris within them. These should all ba subject to continual blocking by aceamalations
saficient funds. taken.ap and relaid some time when there are
IMPROVEMENTS.
fest long by 12 feet wide, situated in the nursery, 2.-An additional glass-roofed plant-house 50
on the staff. The glass houses in the nncsery chiefly made and fitted by our carpenter who is has been completed. The woodwork has been
purposes. One more small addition will oom- are now nearly sufficient for our needs for nursery plete the requirements..
mont House Gardens have been concreted. These 3.-Certain walks in the Botanical and Govern-
kind of walk formation. additions now finish all that is needed in this
where circumstances rendered these peonssary.
4-Extensions have been made to rockeries
LAWNS.
and caterpillars mentioned in paragraph No 14 of my last report again appeared, but having 5-Towards the end of the summer the moths
learnt by past experience the habits of these pests their advent was anticipated, and on their first appearance remedies for their destruation were at once applied and maintained at regular intervals nutil the termination of their season of activity. Be these means the lawns were pre- served from injury.
Department of Zoology, British Museum (Na
Dr. A. Gunther. FR.S., Keeper of the fural History), to whom I sent specimens of the farve, chrysalids, and moths for determination, bas very kindly informed me that its name is Thialieta signifera (Walk.) The chief injury to the grass is caused by this species, but sa- other one, which appears simultaneously with the This one Dr, Günther has also determined from Thialleta is also responsible for some damage. specimens which I sent. siantis Waik.).
It is Pharazia bicar 6-Children contísne to rup over places where
Mr. Pollok opened the case by read ng the pleadings filed and the answer. From these it appeared that when Messrs, Russell and Co. failed the firm was indebted to the defendant for a sum of $10,000 and defendant, was indebted to them for $50,000. Besides carrying on their ordinary business, as merchants at Fonchow, bowerer, Messrs. Russell and Company were the agents for the plaintiff bank, and the plaintiff bank tried to induce the defendant in acknowledge that he was indebted to it for $50,000 instead of to Messrs. Russell and Co. The defendant, however, would not recognise Wodehouse concluded the enquiry into the fire At the Magistracy, on Saturday Mr. H. E. this liability at all. Towards the end of 1891at No. 127. Queen's Road West Mr. G. C. C. the defendant was desirous of selling all his Master (of Messrs Jobson, Stokes and Master) shares to Mr. Weeks, a broker at Foochow Mr.appeared for the insuranes, agents, Mesars. Weeks asked for a transfer of the shares and Carlowitz and Co. Mr. J. F. Reece represen expressed his willingness to pay ang outstanding ted the shopkeeper. P.C. McEwen said that claims. The bank claimed å lien on the shares when he forced his way into the shop on and refused to allow the transfer until the the alarm being given he found a quilt on $50,000 alleged to be fue was paid.
the counter ia flames. Mr. Francis on these pleadings asked for but the fire spread up the side of the wall He seized the guilt, judgment for the full amonst claimed. Even and the whole place was eventually destroyed. supposing all the facts alleged were admitted, he submitted that there was no equitable defence. though he considered the cironmstances of the His Worship said that he released the premises, The only defence really set up was that the fire so suspicions that the polics ought to, if posgrass, should be, but which they have long ago bank refused to allow a transfer of the shares, but sible, arrive at the true facts of the case. His worn away. As the attendants and police are that was no ground of defence in this case, Worship said he was in doubt whether or not to unable to prevent this, it would be advisable but only a possible ease of action for damages.order the prosecution of the three men for arson, to provide low fron fuos, on the merries of The debt was a special debt and as there was and if the woman's story-the woman who said walks where children chiefly congregate, of only no defenos of payment or satisfaction of the she saw somebody setting fire to the bons could suficient beight to prevent the children leaving amount there was, he submitted, no case for, his have been believed, he would bare bad ng hesit the walks. The ordinary annnal vote has not friend. On the pleadings as they stood heation about ordering a prosecnfion. But he could hitherto provi ed means for proanrlug` such a sked for judgment.
Mr Robinson then addressed the Court at The place she pointed out as being the place
not believe that she was telling the whole truth, fence. great length, first stating that he had not anti-that she saw the heap of clothes set on fira did cipated that a legal point would have been not coincide with what theurpean coastable raised until the whole of the case had been laid before the Court and the verdict of the jury trustworthy, bt that these three men did set KEW Her evidence, therefore, was not quite obtained.
this quilt there was very little doubt in his mind. fire to the house and that it was set fire to by The premises were released.
Ultimately the case was adjourned until the next day..
Pittasporum tobira on the terrace below the 7. One of the four large clumps of of pped fountain died during the year. This cansed & but new plants have been put in the place of temporary incompleteness in the arrangement,
the po-ition, as have those which remain, for those which died The old ones had scanpied about 80 years.
Jay 24, 1894 J
HONGKONG.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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411
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead leaves to-day by: At the Magistracy ou Tnesday before Com- the Empress of Japan. The hon. gentleman mander W. C. H. Hastings a coolie was fined The plague bas during the past week con- carries with him the best wishes of the entire $75, with the option of three months' imprison ed to claim 30 or 40 victims daily, notwith-community for a pleasant holiday and every one ment, for having in his possession 29 taels of ading the heavy rains and the measures will be glad to see him back again at its ter opinn dross. ch have been taken by the authorities to mination to resume his labours on behalf of the H.E. Sir William and Lady Robinson re- bat the disease. There are indications now, public in the Legislative Council.
turned to the colony on the 15th inst. after a very
ward
Wall.
r, that the plagne is becoming less Mr. Cyril Platt, Private Secretary to His Ex- enjoyable sojourn in Japan. Thero also srrived at sad the returns show a diminution celleney, has left for Shanghai in order to catch M. de Champeaux, who has been on leave for the number of fatal caseS. Some trouble the homeward French mail and thereby avoid some time, and Dr. and Mrs. Hartigan. been given by a demonstration of native pre- the difficulties of booking from Hongkong. Mr. ice and ignorance, this on Saturday and Platt is going bome on six months' leave, and ing-Mr. James Cantlie, F.R.C.S. Pug, of Our Tientsin contemporary gives the follow- day last giving rise to disturbances in the during his absence the duties of Private Secre- Hongkong, with Mrs. Cantlis, and Mr. Ernest pingsban district. The Government mat the tary will be discharged by Capt. Sterling, A.D.C. L. C. Berger. Hongkong Regioient, arrived in bile section by granting permission to place In the fire which occurred near the new re- Tientsin on Wednesday, 9th inst., and left the the patients in a hospital on shore under servoir for the Taikoo Sugar Refinery on following morning for Peking and the Great Chinese direction.
The Glassw rks were in the 13th inst. even large matsheds diately converted into a temporary hospital destroyed. A coolie who was endeavouring to
Our Anjer correspondent writes:-On, the and all cases are now being sent there, A Chi- save his property was rather seriously burat night of the 2nd inst. the German ship Christine, e deputation waited on the Governor on the about the hands and face and was removed to the from Philadelphia to Hyogo, took the ground at ad praying that the boasy to house visita. Government Civil Hospital. tea should cease, but His Excellenøy refused signed for the outbreak, which resulted in dam- but eventually got off with the help of her sails No cause is as Old Anjar and remained fast for three hours, grant this, and has called for fifty volun- age to the amount of $1,300.
without any further assistance. The ship ap- parently made no water, and the captain de- cided on proceeding on his voyage.
On Thursday morning a large stone was seen on the tram line as the moon car was descending.
rs to assist in the work of inspection. On the 16th an extraordinary general meeting of the animals at the Pokfulam Dairy Farm are now It may interest our readers to know that the Union Insurance Society of Cantou, Limited,
plate success.
was held, at which resolutions altering car. quite free from the pleuro which recently broke ain of the articles of association were confirmed out there, and only one auimal, which is segre- The breaksman gave the signal to stop the The suunal general meeting of the Victoria gated at a distance, is now under treatment. The Recreation Club was held on the 17th, at which cattle are being insealated by Mr. C. Vivian engine and at the same time let go the break. Be report and accounts
Ladds, Colonial Voterinary Bargeon, and al- The stone was removed and the break having Mopted. At a meeting of the creditors of ready 120 have been treated, generally with com- There was only a momentary delay, and the next
were unanimously
been uascrewed the car resumed its journey. Mera Forbes and Tomes hold on the same data dividend of 5 per cent. was declared. The annual meeting of A. S. Watson and Co., Limited, was held on the 19th, the report and accounts be ing passed without discussion. On the 22nd the general meeting of the Humphra s Estate and Finance Company, Limited, was hald. Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew are still performing at the City Hall Theatre and will leave for San There were 729 visitors to the City Hall Masoum last week, of whom 93 were Europeans. Early on Monday morning a junk was capsised Murray Pier in a squall. No lives were lost, The lung Wah Hospital and its temporary banoh at the Glassworks have been connected with the telephone system.
Mr. H. P. Tooker has been appointed Acting Director of Public Works during the absence on leave of Mr. W. Chatham.
Francison next week.
We understand that the Hon. J. B. Stewart Imokhart who was elected Chairman of the Victoria Recreation Club for the ensuing year
has declined the honour.
car left punctually at its proper time, 12:30. A meeting of chess-players was held on the 15th inst. at Bank Buildings in connection with the Menmuir, had quite an enthusiastic send-off Mr. Quong Tart, who arrived from Sydney by the recently formed Club, for the purpose of ar- ragging a tournainent. Mr. H. E. Pollock pre-corated with flags, etc., and the city band was
when the vessel left. The poop was gaily da sided. It was decided to commence the tourna present. ment on June 1st and the first round will be Now Sonth Wales, was amongst those who at- Sir George Dibbs, the Premier of completed by July 31st. The second round will tended to wish the traveller bon voyage, and in then commence and the entire tournament will responding to the toast of prosperity to New conclude on September 30th. A set of ralos re- South Wales, with which his name was coupled, gulating the competition were passed and a he remarked that if Mr. Tart succeeded in es committee, consisting of Messrs. H. Humphreys, tablishing the wool trade between the two coun T. H. Reid, and H. E. Pollock was appointed to tries, as he was about to try and do, he should make the necessary arrangements. Each player have a status erected in bis honour 10ft, high, will have to play every other competitor in both In replying to the toast of his bealth, Mr. Tart rounds. One evening a week is set apart for said that be would do his best to farther the in- play, which will take place alternately in the terests of the wool trade while he was away. The offices of Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mr. H. E. health of Captain Craig, the popular commander Pollock.
of the Menmuir, was also honoured. Tart is accompanied by Mrs. Quong Tart and family, and the principal object of his voyaga ia to pay a visit to his mother, who resides near Mono.
A correspondent writes:-I see in a Trinidad paper which has just reached me a report of a meeting of the Legislative Council, at which was read a letter from Mr. Osbert Chadwick on the water supply and sanitation of Port-of-Spain. It is notified that on Friday, the day appointed Mr. Chadwick offers his services and a month's given in the Theatre by Mrs. Potter and Mr. On Saturday evening a smoking concert was for the celebration of Her Majesty's birth. visit to the colony for a consideration. While Bellew, assisted by several amateurs. It se day. His Excellency the Governor will hold a throwing no doubt on the learned engineer's abi-a trifle infra dig. that such an accomplished lerée at Government House from 12 to 1 p.m.
lity in bis profession, I sincerely trust that for actress as Mrs. Potter should appear in public The steamer dvochis, which arrived on Monday the sake of their own health and that of succeed as an entertainer at such a function ass smoking on Saigon, reports that the steamers Bengice, ing generations the people of the colony will concert, and to those who admire ker art it to us! Bucephalus, Bantam, Holstein, Decima, and Go hesitate long before giving Mr. Chadwick the have been a matter of regret. The concert, Jacobs were lying in quarantine at Cape Win Hongkong gave it to bit and he estab- the attendance, owing probably to the wretched full and uncontrolled power that he asks for. nevertheless, proved a great success, although A meeting of the Odd Volumes" was held cost an enormous sum, and the result has been Mrs. Potter contributed three recitations to the lished the separate system of drainage. It has conditions of weather, was rather disappointing. o Friday night, at which a good number of
St. James.
ak illustrations.
The
ers were present. Mr. J Stuart Harrison great sickness from choked house draius and programme in admirable style, for each of which delivered a very interesting lecture on. The now, the Plagno. I and others predicted in sbe received enthusiastic applause. Mr. bellew Telephone," illustrated by diagrams and practi. your columns only bid results from the scheme, also gave two recitations, one of which was the and the resident civil engineers who had local beautiful and pathetic Bridge of Sighs," in At the Magistracy on the 15th inst. A. H. C. unsuited to the habits of the Chinese.
experience generally opposed it as utterly f which the popular artiste showed himself to be Yet an elocutionist of consummate ability. Mr. Brady Cairal Police Station, was fined $10 for remor.he Chery and lived at a hotel at the Peak for a which he received persistent encores.
nao, a telegraph clerk employed at the the Colony acted on the opinion of a stranger who sang two comic songs in inimitable style, for og certain property from his house, which the for mouths, and had therefore neither the time other contributors to the evening's amusement preme Court baill had seized under a dis-nor opportunity of sequiring Ruy, real practical were Mr. Craufurd, Mr. G. E. Grace, Mr. Goffe,
The tine was paid. al sportsmen, fired of the wily woodcock whose mind was probably, like that of many Light Infantry rendered valuable assistance, knowledge of the place or its inhabitants, and aud Mr. Crow. The band of the Shropshire mingoiabing themselves by the capture of comprehend that what might be admirably suited |
tamo suipe, have an opportunity now of others, so wedded to theories that he could not Mr. E. W. Mitcholl occupied the chair. und Yaumati have brought reports of de erreme. For some time past the vi lagers for one place might be completely iunpplicable Tadatious by two tigers and the-e grow so oying that at length a party headed by some Dragoons Californian Chinuman went out to sewage ran into the storm water chanuels, it
the. Well,
tint for rent.
to another.
I am quite satisfied that the sepa rate system of drainage and nothing else is the cause of the plague. Formerly, when all house
MISCELLANEOUS.
towers for the Manila cathedral to replace the An order has been sent to Europe for two iron
waty were tracked to their lair in a rare and they were wide enough not to get choked stone ones destroyed in the last great earth- at two miles from the boundary and shot. during the dry season. Those who held the quake.
ir bodies were brought in triumph to Yau- opinion that the beavy rains would stay, the
and
the 131h inst., 39 days from London, including
The steamer Glenugle arrived at Woosing nu
all stoppages. She will be the first steamer bis
season to lead tea for New York, via the Saez Canal.
inals. Ou the 14th inst., we learu, some Bure to the subject. The rains wash out the storm armed with a few rides and miscellaneous water cholecls, which don't much need it; but the posed to infest the district, but what the drains does práctically no good. Until the whole set off in search of the other tigers still small amount which finds its way into the boure was deponent sayeth not.
H.M.S. Plover returned to Shanghai on the resume that the expedition was not a spill have plagne ou plague, and lovers and her orders for the Bebring Sea having bees. Wat snccess, or we should never have heard pestilence getting worse overy, year till the place! onuntermanded. She left again ou the 17th for We may, how-parate system is entirely done away with we 15th inst. from Nagasaki and Port Hamilton,
nd of it:
will become utterly uninhabitable.
Chinking.
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