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The St. George's Day celebration at Shaughai, which took place on the evening of the 14th inst. in Chiang Sa-ho's Garden, proved a great success. It took the form of an English Fair and Grand Rural Fête.
The death of Mr. F. W. White at Foochow, already reported, was caused by his falling over the verandah during the night. He was found lying on the ground with his skull fractured, never regaining consciousness.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
A robbery took place on the night of the 17th inst. in one of the fantan houses at Macao. From the particulars given in the Independente it appears that about nine o'clock in the evening the fantan house named Trevy, situated in the Rua Nova d'El-rei, was attacked by a gang of seven men armed with knives and revolvers, who took all the money on the table, some $200 more or less. They then made off, firing at the watchman, Joan Panio de Souza, as they left, inflicting two wounds. The wounded man was taken to the hospital, but his life is despaired of.
At the Peking races on the 5th instant, Mr. Detring's Sendgraf, which had been unplaced in two other races, won the Consolation Stakes. Thus qualified he was started in the Champion Stakes which followed, and won the race by a length.
The British ship Queen Victoria, 1,587 tons, Captain Logie, left Kobe on May 7th, consigned to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Yokohama, arrived in the bay on the morning of the 15th inst., passing the lighthouse at Kent at 8.30 a.m., and shortly after grounded on Fatton spit. Mr. Lafin, on the news being received, immediately proceeded to her assistance in the Yokosuka-maru, but the high wind prevailing prevented much being done.
Owing to the drought and famine in the Pescadores, says a Formosa despatch quoted by the N. C. Daily News, the Governor, E. Sho, sent a ship named Chu, with about several thousand piculs of potatoes and a load of rice, this last being the gift of H. E. T'ang Chuang-chih, Viceroy at Foochow, for distribution amongst the sufferers. Mr. Chu personally visited the thirty-two islands of the group, and distributed an average of twenty-five catties of rice to each person. Some 6,000 out of the 9,000 inhabitants availed themselves of the government charity.
No danger is anticipated, as she is a strongly built vessel. The place on which she has grounded, we learn from the Japan Gazette, is composed of soft mud, so that when the weather moderates and she is lightened it is probable that she will get off without injury.
A plucky rescue from drowning was accomplished at Kobe by Morton Thurgason, A.B., of the Centurion, in the harbour on the 12th inst., we learn from the Hyogo News. A shipmate engaged in cleaning the ship's sides was seized by a fit, and in a helpless condition fell into the water. Thurgason immediately jumped from the rail and seizing the sinking man he succeeded in keeping his head above water until help arrived.
Our contemporary hopes that proper representations will be made of the matter to the Royal Humane Society.
May 24, 1894
At the Bien-su Spring Race Meeting on the 17th inst., the Chalin Stakes was won by Pilgrim, the London Plate by Tristar, the Spring Cup by Depatch, the Welter Stakes by Plebian, the Oaks by Pilgrim, Sorthen Zupyzten, and the Viceroy's Cup by Mountain Dr.
On the 18th inst. the Tientsin Derby was won by Loadstar, the Anatolia Flag Class by chain, the Mongol Ce Casting bir, the Paotai's Cup by Bay-bay, the Cathay Cup by Loadstar, and the Tientsin Stakes by Reichskanzler.
The Koyo Maru, a steamship owned by the Koyei Steamship Company of Osaka, we learn from the Kobe Herald, stranded on a rock off Naniwamura in Isami Gun, Chita Ken, during a gale, on the night of the 4th inst., and sank the next morning. The Koyo Maru was the late Orestes, built in England, and measuring 320 ft. in length, 38 ft. in breadth, and 26 ft. in depth. Her tonnage is 2176 and registered tonnage 1329. She was commanded by Captain W. H. vekardt.
Dr. Morrison, who is journeying from Chungking to Bhamo, has been heard from at Pusseik, in Yunnan, where he was on the 7th of last month, a letter to a gentleman in Shanghai says (N. C. Daily News). The Doctor says: "I did the fourteen stages to Ubaulung in four days, and waiting there one day I started to Tangobeup, and compassed the remaining stages in three and a bit. So far I have come very quickly from Chungking to Snifa. 230 miles, of which I rode 33 miles, chair 20 miles, boat 40 miles and walked 137 miles; Snifa to Laowatan, 15 miles chair 82 miles, walked 113 miles; Laowatan to Hantung, 145 miles, chair 43 miles, walked 102 miles; Hantung to Tungcheun 110 miles; 80 miles, walked 30 miles.
Everyone is very well."
We take the following from the N. C. Daily News: Some engineers while exploring in the district of Hsingkouchon, Anhui, came across at the end of last month an old shaft, in which there happened to be a number of dead bodies, apparently miners, suddenly cut off from the upper world by the collapse of the mine, less than 400 years ago. The explorers were so scared that they at once gave up further exploration, filling the hole which revealed to them the gruesome sight. Although the coal deposits were reported to be especially rich, the superstition of the people was too great, and a good mine has thus been lost to the proprietors. The dead bodies are said to have been free from decay and the features were quite natural, but no sooner did the outside air enter the hole than the bodies and clothing suddenly crumbled away, leaving nothing but skeletons.
A serious misfortune at Yonezawa, Yamagata Ken, on the 29th ult. Miss Imhoff, a missionary in Japan, met with an accident. According to a native version of the affair, Miss Imhoff had the temerity to preach a sermon whilst standing beside a monument erected in honour of the founder of the Uyesugi family, a former daimyo of Yonezawa, in memory of whom a native religious festival was just then being held. Apparently exasperated at the intrusion, a demonstration was organised, and one of the party threw a stone, which struck Miss Imhoff's eye-glasses, breaking one of the glasses, and injuring the eye so seriously that she will probably lose the sight.
The true version of the case, however, is given by a correspondent of the Japan Mail as follows: It being the anniversary of the festival of the Uyengi Shrine, permission was asked by the pastor of the Christian churches of the place to hold an open-air meeting, which request was granted by the authorities, a policeman being in attendance. The meeting was not within the enclosure of the shrine, but in the public park adjoining. A meeting was held in the afternoon, at which such good order prevailed that it was decided to hold one in the evening also. The speakers at both meetings were men, Japanese, the pastors and others, Miss Imhoff going by request to assist in the singing, which, aside from distributing tracts and picture cards, was the only part she took. In the evening good attention was given till one of the young men, a student, rather unwisely charged the people with worshipping idols that were not gods, when they became somewhat noisy, though not interrupting the speakers, who finished the meeting in good order. After the close of the meeting, and as Miss Imhoff was reaching up to take down her foreign lantern, a stone, which seems to have been the first and only one, was thrown, striking her in the right eye, breaking her spectacle glass, and entering the eye. A Japanese physician was called, who removed the pieces and who is now caring for the patient. He is an able man and seems to be doing all that can be done. He hopes that after the wound has healed, by an operation similar to that performed for cataract, partial vision may be restored to the injured eye.
The Shanghai papers record the death of Mr. Charles H. Dallas, who was a prominent member of the Masonic craft, having held the high office of District Grand Master in Japan for some time. At the funeral the Masonic as well as the Church service was read. Mr. Dallas came out to join his brother, Mr. Barnes Dallas, in Shanghai, over thirty years ago, and then made his home in Japan for some years, where he narrowly escaped death at the hands of two ronians, who savagely slashed him from behind with their swords. He returned to Shanghai some years ago. He has left a widow and children.
The neighbourhood of Ningpo, the N. C. Daily News says, has for a long time been considered a very quiet one. It is therefore surprising to hear that, a few nights ago, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society was attacked and robbed at night by brigands within ten miles of the city. He was travelling in a native boat, so probably the rascals did not know that they were attacking a European; and as soon as the foreigner's presence was discovered they decamped; but not before they had severely beaten the boatman, and given the missionary one or two heavy blows. It is to be hoped that the officials will take prompt steps to stop any repetition of such proceedings.
The Japan Mail says: We are informed by Captain Snow that during his recent adventures on the sealing vessels of a rock situated in about the position of the 20 fathom line, which was said to have been seen by the people of the Abyssinia on one of that steamer's voyages, and was subsequently searched for without being found. Mr. Snow expressed his opinion that the "Askold" rock does really exist. No one probably ever heard of a submerged danger in that locality would seem to indicate that the rock is a real one.
According to the N. C. Daily News, Peking, the recent competition for the Chinszih or metropolitan degree at Peking has been marred by a scandal. Owing to the repeated memoranda of various censors, crying out for stricter observance of the regulations of the examination hall, the examiners and other officials within the examination hall have been severely reprimanded and some of them have been punished. No less than from seventy to eighty chujen or competitors had their papers rejected and were disqualified for life.
A practical joke, and a very ill-advised one, says the Kobe Chronicle, was perpetrated by some mischievous persons at Yonezawa. Miss Imhoff is much respected and loved by the people of Yonezawa for her kind and gentle spirit, and they all, as one, regret the accident that befell her.
Small silver coins of the Hongkong and Canton mints have passed current in Kobe at par; in fact, the imported coin has often been found very welcome, owing to the great scarcity of native coin. Now, however, a change has suddenly come over the scene, and the exchange-shops in the town refuse to receive but Japanese coin at their counters. It is said that the stop has probably been taken from motives of jealousy, owing to the alleged large profits made by Chinese importers of the Canton silver.
Not only the Christians, but non-Christians, send her the most touching and sympathetic letters of sympathy. Miss Imhoff is very thankful for the kindness shown by the people, and has not the least bitterness, even toward the unknown person who caused her so much suffering and anxiety. She thinks it simply an accident, unintentional, at least, of serious results.
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(Minutes.)
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Interesting compliments.
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The St. George's Day celebration at Shaug-! hai, which took place on the evening of the 14th inst. in Chiang Sa-ho's Garden, prov da great Colds. It took the form of an English Fair and Grand Rural Fête."
T'he death of Mr. F. W. White at Fonobow, already reported, was caused by his failing over the verandah during the nigh He was found lying on the ground with his skal fractured, never regaining consciousness.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
A robbery took place on the night of the 17th | inst. in one of the fantan bous at Magan. | From the particulars given in the Independ at it appears that about nine o'clock in the evening the fantan house named Trevy, situated in the Hua Nova d'El-rei, was attacked by a gang of seven me armed with knives and revolvers, who took all the money on the table, some $200 more or less. They then made off, firing at the watchinun, Joan Panio de Souza, as they left, At the Peking races on the 5th instant, Mr. infl cting two wounds. The wounded man was Detring's Sendgraf, which had been anplaced intakes to the hospital, but his life is despaired of. two other races, won the Consolation Stakes, When the police arrived ou the soene the robbers Thus qualified be was started in the Champion had disappeared. Stakes which followed, and won the race by a length.
The British ship Queen Victoria, 1,587 tons. Captain Logie, left Kobe on My 7th, consigned Owing to the drought and famine in the to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Pescadores, says a Form sa despatch quoted by Yokohamon, she arrived in the bay on the mo - the N. C. Daily News the Governor, E. Sho, fog of the 15th inst.. passing the hightship at Kent an expectast efect named Chu, with about 8.30 am., and shortly after grounded ou several thousand pions of potatoes and a ship Fatton spit. Mr. Lafin, ou the news being re. losd of rice, this last bing the gift of H. cefred, immediately proceeded to her assistance in T'an Chuugiing. Vierop at Foochow, for dia. the Yokosuka-maru, bu the high wind prevailing tribution amongst the sufferers. Mr. Chu pr-preceated much being done. The place on which sonally visited the thirty-two islands of the she has gronaded, we learn from the Japan gronp, and distributed a average of 1wenty-five Gazelle, is composed of saft mud, so that when eatties of rice to each person. Some 6,000 ont the weather moderates and she is lightened it is of the 9,000 inhabitants availed themselves of probable that she will out off without injury. the government charity,
No danger is anticipated, as she is a strongly
A plucky resene from drowning was accom-built vessel. plished at Kobe by Morton Thurgason, A.B., of the Cenfruin, in the harbour on the 12th inst., we learn from the Hyoyo News. A shipmate engaged in cleaning the ship's sides was seized by a fit, and in a helpless condition fell into the water. Thurgason immediately jumped from the rail and seizing the sir king man he surgeded in keeping his bead above water until belp arrived.
Our contemporary hopes that proper representatious will be made of the matter to the Royal Humane Society.
| May 24, 1894
At the Bien su Spring Race Meeting on the 17th is, he chalin Stakes was was by Pilgrim, thadon Plato by Tristar, the Spring Cap by De-pitch, the Welter Stak by Plebian, theo Saks by Pilgrim, Sorthen Zupy Z ten, and the Viceroy's On by Mountain Dr. On the Ith inst. the T
in Derby was won by Loadstar, the Anato Flag Clas by chain. the Mongut Ce Casti bir, the Paotai's Cup by Bay-bay, th Cathar Cup by Load far, and the Tientsin Stak by Reichskanzler.
The Koyo Maru, a steamship owned by the Kyover Steamship Company of Osakk, we board of off Naniwamura in Isami Gan. Chils from the Kobe Herald stranded on 1 sunima
Ken, during 3 gale, on the night of The pissars and grow the 4th insi. and sank the next morning. The Ko Mars was the late Orestes, halt is
were safely Jud England, and measuring 320 ft. in lugth, 3 fr in breadth, and 26 it. in depth. H tonnage is 2176 and registered tonnage 132 vemby last your and was commanded by Cap She was purchased by the Kvoyel-sha
tain W. i. vekardt.
Dr. Morrison, who is journeying from Chusg king to Bhamo, has been heard fro a at Puss cheap, in Yonau, where he was on the 7th of
from that paso having been courteusly handels last month, a better to a gentleman in Shanghai tons (N. C. Daily Nus.) The Doctor says: "F did the fourteen tares to Ubaulung in fr days, and waiting there one day I started to Tangobeup, and compassed the re dags stages in three and a bit. So far I have one vary quickly Changking to Snifa. 230 miles, of which ; I rode 33 miles, chair 20 miles, boat 40 miles and
walked 187 miles, Snifa to Laowatan, 15 miles chair 82 miles, walked 113 mites; Laowatan isti hantung, 145 miles, chai 43 miles, walked it! miles; Chanting to Tungcheun 110 wils; s 30 miles, walked 8 miles. very well."
Everyontresis me
We take the following from the N. Dak the district of Hsingkouchon, Anhui Eving News Somo el ain-rs while exploring in
co e neross at the end of last month an oid staft bodies, apparently miners suddenly at off from in which there happened to be a number of ded the upper world by the collapse of the mis, less than 400 years ago, were so scared that they at once gave up further exploration, filling the hole which invealed to them the gross sight. Although the coal deposits were reported mine's was too maet, and a good wine has thes to be esp cilly rich, the superstition of the been lost to the proprietors. The dead beds are said to have bu free from dacay and th features were quite a toral, but na soner bri the outside air cater the bole than the badie, and clothing suddenly crumbled away, learis nothing but ske etous.
a serious misfortune at Yonezawa, Yamagata Miss Imboff, a missionary in Japan, met with ken, on the 29th alt. According to a native version of the affir, Miss Imhoff had the teme. rity to preach a sermon whilst standing begido a monament erected in honour of the founder of the yesugi family, a former daimyo of Yonezawa. in
memory of whom a native religious festival was just then being held. Apparently ex sp-rated at the intrusion, a demonstration was organised, and our of the The Shanghai papers record the death of Mr. party threw a stone, which struck Miss Imhoff's Charles H. Dallas, who was a prominent member ey-glasses, breaking one of the glasses, and in of the Masonic craft, having held the high office juring the eye so seriously that she will pro. of District Grand Master in Japan for me bably lose the sight. The true version of the time. At the funeral the Masonic as well as the case, however, is given by a correspondent of the Church service was read. Mr. Dallas came out Jupen Mail as follows:-1t being the anniver to join his brother, Mr. Barnes Dallas, in Shang-sary of the festival of the Uyengi Shrine, bai, over thirty years ago, and then made his permission was asked by the pastor of the home in Japan for some years, where he narwo Christian churches of the place to hold an rowly escaped death at the hands of two ronine, open air meeting, which request was granted by who savagely slashed him from behind with the authorities, a policeman being in attendance, their swords. He returned to Shanghai some The meeting was not within the enclosure of the years ago. He has left a widow and children.
shrine, but in the public park adjoining. A The neighbourhood of Ningpn, the N. C. meeting was held in the afternoon, at which such Daily News says, has for a long titue been con- good order prevailed that it was dielded to sidered a very quiet one. It is therefore surpris-hold one in the evening also. The speakers at ing to bear that, a few nights ago, a missionary both meetings were men, Japanese, the pastors of the Church Missionary Society was attacked and others, Miss Imbof going by request to assist at night by brigands within ten miles of the in the singing, which, aside fon distributing eity. He was travelling in a native boat, so tracts and piciore cards, was the only part she prob bly the rascals did not know that they were took. In the evening good attention was given attacking a European; and as soon as the for-ill one of the young men, a student, rather un. signer's presence was discovered they decamped; wisely charged the people with worshipping idols but not before they had severely beaten the that were not gods, when they became somewhat boatman, and given the missionary one or two aoisy, though not interrupting he speakers, who beavy blows. It is to be hoped that the officials finished the meeting in good order. After the will take prompt steps to stop any repetition of close of the meeting, and as Miss Imhof was such proceedings.
reaching up to take down her foreign lantern. a The Japan Mail says:-We are informed by stone, which seems to have been the first and Captain Snow that during his recent adventures oply one, was thrown, striking her in the right rock situated in about the position of the 20 the glass entering the eye. A Japanese he heard from some of the sealing vessels of a eye-breaking her spectacle, some pieces of
alled "Askold
rock, which was said to bare physician was called, who remord the pieces been seen by the people of the Abyssinia on our and who is now caring for the p-tient. He of that steainer's voyages, and was suber quently is an able man and seems to be doing all searched for without being found. Mr. Suor that can be done. He hopes that after the bad et prsed with men who had seen the rock yg bis healed. by an operation similar to salves expelled fom the grounds for irvist as rinin that its position End been that performed for cataract, partial vision may obtain help from other quarters. Ewen't-sig defen und by latitude. This voluntary and be restored to the injured eya.
nde, endent i vidence coming from men who imagines that the off der had any intention which heretofore had been consid-red the
No one these bad their papers mad- invalid for wit probably ever beard of a submerged danger in that locality would seem to indicate that the "Askold” rock does really exist.
but did to
estive letter, owing to the repeated memorist According to the N. C Daily News Paking of various ens rs, crying on: for stricter obser vance of the tiga tte and regulations of the ** amination ball, the recent competition for the chinskih or metropolitas degree at Peking h the part of the exaip Bers, pree ors and other beru hare vised by a z-ai and watobfolmasa
officals within the xamination hall preizes who has been unknown for quite a l No less than from seventy to eighty chujen o petiturs had the hears rejected and were the
of doing personal injury, but that be thought thing, and which had always been dogs op it a fue opportunity for A practical joke, and under the very ay s of the examiners t by breaking the foreign lantern and frighten- į selves says the Kobe Chronicle, ing the foreign lady, Miss Lab-f is misch the
This was the puping of a small fee small silver coins of the Hongkong and Can- i respected and loved ly the people of Yenazwa order to ensure more care while oopring them.) ton earrenes have passed on reuos in Kobo for her kind and gentle spirit, and thy all as one single char eter wrongly capied
and the competitor his new degree. The praction f
out would have spoiled the whole paper and c
at par; in fact, the im orted coiu bas often are greatly distressed that this accident should been found very welcome, owing to the great b-fall her. The Governor, Mayor. scarcity of native coin from the Osaka int. other officials called or seat messengers ex-paying such fees had always been allowed, 35 ils Now, however, a ohangs bas suddenly come over pressing their regret and inquiring as to her had un reference to asking the aid of the copgists.
Pot only the Christians, but non-
the scene, and with nt any warning whatever progress. trad-op ople and ex-hange-shops in the anties Christians, send her the most touching and But this time everything that bree to compose better theses than the origin! town refuse to recept are but dapanise quin at herti. It letters of sympathy. Miss Imhot is very approch to the pixing of mony we in less than 10 per cent, die wat, in feet, for or thankful for the fixtures shown by the people, they do they lie muur wat hiers po days the rate was 30 per out! The stop has and has pot the least bitterness, even toward the ground barate Casilicate he pribbly been taken frem motives of jealousy, one, unknown to her, who bag caused her so much in shares for another three Veld owing to the alleged leige preffis made by Chi-, suffering and anxiety. She thinks it simply su
sin importing the Canton inferick egin,
t Eccident, unintentional, at least, of serious results. have eren received sentence of benishment
of the copyists for receiving the ives in questice
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addressed to Ry find Lochhaut & Capt Supt
oporcie May,
expressing appreciation of
Conduct in suppressing
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