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Hongkong. WIDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1896,

DARING PIRACY NEAR HONGKONG.

TWO OF THE VICTIMS NOW IN HOSPITAL HERE.

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From two patients in the Tung Wah Hospital the following tale of a daring piracy was obtained WHERE is he? Thus a Bangkok contemp. of by the Polles this morning-On the and 19th ultimo Mr. G. dos Remedios, at one Tascary a large trading junk of 1,500 pleats time employed as foreman la thé Siam Fru capacity, with a general cargo of merchan Fress office, ad later as clerk In the office of dive, a crew of twelve hands, with three the Consulting Engineer to the Siamese passengers, left the harbour of Penghol, bound government, mysteriously disappeared on Tues- for this port. Do the following day (3rd Inst.) day last, and no trace of him can be found. He near the Island of Nim Shan, shout balf way want on Tuesday on a message to Sepatoom, _between_Switch__mnd Hongkong, they were- and failed to arrive at bia desilgation. He has attacked by two pirate junks which came close since disappeared wlihout the least reason being to them without exciting suspicion, and then apparent for his stringe conduct. attacked them with maskets and stink-pots Portuguese Consul General is taking every During the first, onslaught and sallor was shot manus to trace the lost mad, and any taforma A SERIOUS BLUNDER.

under the arms and one passenger badly injured latton on this subject should be addressed to the thelg. The trading junk's crew then warrendered, Portognese Consulate. His Excellency the Governor has, of his and the vessel was taken possession of by We observe from recent San Francisco exchanger own authority and without legislative the pirates, who numbered about fifty all told. that the Pacific coast commercial csterias are in sanction, suspended the operation of the

The crew and passengers were, au usual, driven | a state of utter bewilderment at the threatened Ordinance. Fight and Pass

He has committed an offence, and a great offence, below, where they were kept for two days industrial Invasion of America by the Japanese, against constitutional law. Jakes II lost his and two nights. Daring this time the desperadoes Oxa prominent arm la San Francisco says that throno for the same offence. No charge salled their prize to a bay near by, where they was more bitterly pressed against Sex Jory carefully examined the cargo, foally trans POPE HENESSEY than that he, of his own ferring two-thirds of this and all the authority, directed the Executive Officers of clothing and money they could find to the Government not to put in force certain their own boals, in which they salled away laws affecting Chinese crimināls, It during the night. The goods stolen from the Is a fundamental principle of English trading junk were valued at about $7,coo. The Constitutional Law that only the law-crew confined below soon discovered the absence making power can interfere with a law of their captors and breaking out of their stuffy once made. When His Excellency cable, safl was at once set for Hongkong, which determined, and rightly determined,

was reached on the 6th fastant. that the Light and Pass Ordinance ought not to be in force, it was his duty to have called the Legislative Council together and either to have repealed the law or amended it, or

suspended t. But perhaps his Excellency did not care to meet the Legislative Council. Had he called the Council together for such a purpose there would have been some strong expressions of opinion about the general polley of the Government In Its dealing with the Chinese, and the opinions his Excellency has received in private

The outrage was reported to the Kowloon Customs, and the wounded men were sent to the Tong Wah Hospital. It is wald by the wounded passenger that he can and b-th the pirates and their junks; so it is to be hoped that serious attempt will be made at once to bring these sex-robbers to justice.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

traveller representing a Kobe firm offered. them a car-load of ballons at a lower price per great gross than the local manufacturers could pradnewthem at per gross simple (ra dozen). This identical firm also offers matches at 40 cents per great gross. This seeds no comment; It spanks for itself and the question is merely this-Win America have to levy a special tariff as ogalast Japan? We should not be surprised if this was the solution of one of the most important com- mercial difficulifes of the day, which must sooner or later be very definitely settled,

THE Hongkong correspondent of our Shanghal morning contemporary, in the course of a budget of "News from the South," dated 27th December, refer to the appointment of Mr. Robert Shawan to be a member of the Court of Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank- lag Corporation in the following manner :-All things come to him who wafts. Mr. Robert Shewan bas bren fuvited to a seat on the Board

THE Nagaiaki Rising Sun`atutes that from. the-st-inst the ordinary-Portal-Service was.... established with Wel-hai-mel, Kealong, Taipeh, Talomo, Takao, Liogchow, Changwho, Makong, |'Kujco, Aaplog, and eight smäller places fa

Formosa,

| The services of Mr. H. Slade, Deputy Conserv

vator of Forests, Burma, have been lent for“ three years to the Government of Slam with a view to the development of the forests of Sium. The whole of Mr. Slade's thirteen years' service in the Forest Department has been spent la Burma, and blu many friends there, says the Rangoon Gazette, will wish him every success in his new post.

ACCORDING to the Seoul News, the Korean budget for 1896 is as follows:-

1.-Land tax ...................

$1,098,500

House taxi'acampa Miscellancou.......................................

210,816

*17,785

Ginseng

105,000

Maritime Customs.

439,883

300,000

2.-Mint (proot on subsidiary

colaage) ...... 3-Mint (@lacellaneous receipts

10,000

and sale of postaga stampa) Ass comment on the way in which the country is governed it may, says the Seoul correspondent of or Shanghai morning contemporary, be well to add the sole appended to the Budget, which says that this estimate is only 3 ds of the real receipts, the remaining 1/31d belug allowed for peculation by officials, etc.

TRE SRAUKIWAN TRAGEDY.

CORONE. 'S INQUEST, At the Magistracy thle afternoon ma fequest was held by the Coroner Into the clrctimstances Kitending the deaths of Pan Kamelot and Sunt Slogk, P.C. 545, at the Shankfwan Police Station, on the evening of the and Instant, as reported in these columns on the 3rd.

qualified English Chemist and will bear compa- might have been conveyed to him a lit MR. K. YAMADA has been appointed Japanese. of the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking at the back of the Charge Room I LAW &

rison with the best English Manufactures,

Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MEES and other Large Consumers.

Any complaints should be addressed to the Manager. Hongkong, 3rd May, Rot.

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more forcibly in public. We strongly recommend the Government to legalize its position by calling the Council together very speedily, and putting through the measures necessary to make binding what has been done by the Governor. There will be no opposition to his proposals to modify the Ordinance, and to modify it very extensively; he will find a general concurrence la his opinion HONGKONG DISPENSARY

that it should not be entirely repealed, but should be kept in reserve. He may have has. Just received FRISH SUPPLIES of

to answer or evade some vexatious and bawlidering questions, but better submit WHOLESOME

to that than allow things to continue in their present unconstitutional state: While dealing with this subject we may as well CONFECTIONERY call attention to the wording of the Colo-

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nial Secretary's letter to the Captain Superintendent of Palice, sent us for publication the other day. From the beneficent provisions of the dispensing order certain persons are indicated as being exempted-all such persons as the Captain Superintendent of Police may consider to be suspicious characters. How are the persons Captain HASTINGS suspects to be notified that they are still within the Ordinance and must therefore provide themselves with lights and passes?

TELEGRAMS.

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REUTER'S MESSAGES.

THE TRANSVAAL INCIDENT.

LONDON, January 6th, Mr, Crell Rhodes has resigned, and Mr. Sprigga bas succeeded him as Premier of Cape

Colony,

The English papers unanimously declare that Germany's intervention in the Transvasi ir Inadmisible.

President Kruger has announced substantia concessions to the Ulilanders,

The National Union has formed a provisional G-vernment a Johannesburg to proserve o der and to protect the town sgalast the Boers.

A crowded train of refugees from Johannes baig has been derailed and 8a passengers killed and tojured. "

THE AMERICAN LOAN, The American loan of $100,000,000, for arme and muntilons of war, has been issued.

WHY THE REPUBLICANS "CHIPPED IN * WITH THE DEMOCRATS,

LONDON, December aand, The passing of the Bill for the formation of Boundary Commission in its entirety is uscribed to the destra of the Républicans to cast the whole of the responsibility upon President Cleveland, he baving recommended the measure,

Consul at Bombay.

A CHINESE "doctor," convicted at the Magis tracy of having injected morphine into a coolle, was to-day fined $50.

Dr. D. E. RIVIER, the Belgian physician who has been appointed medical adviser to H. M. the King of Slam, arrived at Bangkok on the" 24th ultimo,

TOMORROW afternoon the Hongkong Football Club will play the Ragby game for the sake of practise. As many members as possible are requested to attend ; pick-up on the field and kick-off at 4.30,

Corporation, and, needletar to say, har recapted the invitation. The firm of Shewan & Co., founded by this gentleman on the ashes of Resiell & Co., han gradually, by energy and good management and pitlenco, risen into prominence,"with"the resṣlt that its bend’is now

taking the position formerly held by the old Ken Cheong hoog, And, without wishing to stiume a prophetic #őle, I venture to predict be will susisin it woriblly.

Acting Inspector Hall, of Shaukiwanwfated —* At 9 pm. on the and alt, while in the Charge Room at my station I heard the sound of a shot fired behind the stallon, I went out xed on the steps leading along the compound

Chinaman with his jacket smouldering. He he collapsed on the floor. As he appeared to be was assisted into the Charge Room, where wounded I examined him and found he had bullet wound low down on the left side. There was also a hole on the left side of the bick where the bullet had come out. I asked him what was the matter, and he said "I am stot." I asked "Who shot you?” and he replied " Sant Ab Slagh, the Police trooper." I went for the Interpreter and bound up the wound roughly, sent for the ambulance and ordered hlar to be taken to the Government, Civil Hospital, THIS morning H.M.S. Grafton left for England, When I got to the Hosplial later I found them carrying the body (for he had died an the conveying to the sald countsle time expired way) to the Mortuary. I was present when the officers and men. Altogether about 530 men are Identification by the deceased's father took place, returalng In addition to the following efficers - After sending the Chinaman away, I searched From the Daphne-Lieutenants Talbot and

the station for Sort Singh, P.C. 545, and found Green; Paymaster Jenen; Surgeon Kelsey up the wounds of the Chinaman I heard two shots bim, after a time, in the bathroom. While binding From the Pigmy-Lleutenants Hopkins and fired in quick succession from somewhere near Kiddie; Surgeon Lomas; Engineer Lawrence. the station. P.C. McSwyd, No. 14 and I searched From the Alacrity-Engineer McGregor, the station, and in the bathroom found constable No. 345, named Suni Singh, lying on his back, Keogh; Assistant Paymaster Penny. From the This rifle (producedy was lying by his side with From the Plover-Lieutenant Oldham; Surgeon dead. He had been standing facing the doorway. Radpole--Lieutenant Besty-Pownall; Assistant | an empty cartridge in the barrel. Another Paymaster Greenwood. From the Canturton-mpty cartridge case was lying between kla Englueer Smith. From the Spartan-Lienten were in the inside beast-packet of bis overcoat. legs, between his feet, and four loaded cartridges THE "pofat to polit" steeplechase in Shanghai ant Thomas, HMS. Mercury will leave for He was qelle dead. A ballet bad penetrated on New Year's Day attracted a large number of home after the arrival of the French mall. the right side of his neck, which was buined, and spectators... The course was very hard owing to Lieutenant Hicks has been transferred to her the tip of his skull was frictured, and there was the intense cold, and lay over a difficulty from the Alacrity. Commander McArthur of a mark of where bullet had struck the Joiste abave. On searching the stable again we fovad country. The finish was very exciting, Mr. the Doping left by the Oxus to-day chief one loaded cartridge faside the door, and inside a Crawford belog first and Mr. H. "Sampron | Engineer Hicks, also of the Dapkus, leaves by room leading from the stable (ihq saddle-room) second. The annual hunt handicap is to be run,

we found an empty cartridge case and two other weather permitng, on the 1st proX.

he had had. There were blood stains on the wall loaded cartridges, toaking a total of ton cartridges.

of the saddle rooms, in the corner near the door, and also drops of bland on the floor. Close to the stains was a bullet hole through a glass window. On searching the next morning I saw

■ ballet mark on the wall of the Station store.

was sent to the Mortuary, where I saw it and was present at the identification.

THE China Gazelle reports that Mr. Silva, Belgian engineer, Prefect Shen and several Welyusas bave arrived at Soochow on the rall wfa Lomen, Fwanmen. Sumen, Changmen, to way survey. They were surveying the line Chiokiang, and Nanking. From Pwan-men a breach line will run to Hangchow,

THE Japan Mail of the grst ulto, publishes a list of twenty-three government and fourteen private bills to be introduced during the present session of the Diet. Of the former eleven refer to taxation, eight to fiscal matters and four to special subjects. Of the private bills, five refer to Municipal Government, fire are to rescind or ballık certain local taxation, and the remainder are on general sobjects, Including one impeaching the ministry,

THE following translation at a telegram from General Sakums, Commander-in-Chief of the occupied ferritory, dated Chemulpo 6.50 pim. December 26th, has been received at Principal Headquarters in Tokio :-"The handlog over of the Government property at Port Arthur

| the Tacoma on the xqjh Inst.; Assistant Pay- master Clarke, of the Plymy, Chlef Engineer

· Brown, and Assistant Paymaster Horsey, of the Alacrity, are awaiting relief,

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room about 60 feet off. The body of the Indias

THE China Ganifie of the 3rd 'Inst. says:-It is reported from Hankow that the unival of Mr. Chinda, the Japanese Consul-General with Mr. and Agriculture, at Shashi was signalized by Narabars, of the Tokyo Department of Commerce

His Worship How did beget the cartridgen? no unti-foreign, demontration by the people

Witness Each constable is allowed 20 (officials there, but no particulars had been revolver cartridges and five cartridges for kis carbine, But he had not taken his own. He received at Hankow when our last advices left. stole them from the pouch of No. 591, which The Chinese Telegraph Administration, ofwas hanging over the rack from which he took course, Wit shut enquiries. There was a farther report current

18 nimal agulast all his own rifle. I cannot account for the first of

the last two shots, on the grit, that, four of the fospect the commercial possibilities of that place Japanese merchants who 'went to Chungking to

had been killed in a Chinese demonstration

defialte information has been received here respecting the altered cutisge, which we trust It unfounded. But it is added by our informant that all efforts in Hankow to communicate with Chungking on the'cubjaci by telegraph

*SEYOR

Dr. Maiques, who held a post mortem exsmion- tion of the two bodies on the 4th inst, said.— One was that of a Chinaman, the other that of

to the Chinese authorities was completed in 1bree/ *gslust their advent in the district. No more might have been made by a bullet from a

Sib, He then described the wounds on the body of the Chinaman, and stated ibat. death resulted from hemorrhage. The wounds Marliini Henry carbine. Death in the case of.. the Indian was caused by cerebral concussion, and must have been instantaneous. who is the father of the deceased Pau Kum-lol Pan MI, tex-house keeper of Shavkiwan,

days December 18th, 19th and 20th--at Kio. chow on the 10th and 21st and at Linjutan on the sand and agið. The Chinese commission lo take delivery consisted of four mëmbars, Yes, Ko, Sekl and Lang. I (General Sakuma)

were frustrated by the refusal of the Chinese | son at the ad, identified the body of his embarked on the Yokohama Maru at I p.m. Talegraph Administration to forward any December 24th and left Tallenwan at p..enquiries to Chungking.

the following day having seen all our officers

of the following officers:-

stated that he

P.C. 253, aiutong, testified to being fald by the deceased Chinaman that Sunt Singh bad shot him. When asked "Why were you shot ?" he did not answer.

At this point the inquiry was closed, his Warship

FINDING

.:

(a.) That Pang Kun-tol died from hemorrhage rezulting from injuries to the spleen and left kidney caused by a ballet fired by ora Sant Singh,

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3.) That Sant Singh died from cerebral con. ~ cussion resulting from Injuries caused by a ballet fired by himself, ***

THE RIGHTS OF ALIENS IN HONGKONG.

(Spécis' 10 Slam Observer), THE VENEZUELA DIFFICULTY,

Lowbow, December soth, The prese here is unanimous in iis condem- pation of the Massage, rejecting the claims of and cooiles on board. I have called fo here to A FRISCO contemporary to hand by the last Mr. Cleveland as preposterous, The principal telagraph this,"

mail reports, with a great flourish of trempats, French papers refuse to recognize Mr. Cleve land's assertions regarding his application of

that two new battle-ships,\"unch" to cost the Monroe Doctrine, while the whole of the REAR-ADMIRAL-F, V, McNair, Commander-in- || $4,000,000 exclusive of armament, are to be bulli Continental prose is astounded at the President's Chief of the Unlied States Asiatic Squadron, kas for the United States Navy, and that by demands.

lassed the following General Order No. 1, dated special provision ose is to be balit on the U. S. fagahip Olympia, December 31st, 1895 : | Pacific conșt if satisfactory bids can be obtained. In obedience to the orders of the Honorable the The general dimensions are to be--length Secretary of the Navy, I have this day assumed on load-water line, 368 fret p: beam, ́extreme, command of the U. S. Naval Force on the❘ ya feat ; freeboard, forward, 14 foot ; freeboard, Astatic Station. My staff will be composed aft, xa fest ; mean draught with 410 toss of coal on board, 13 feet 6 inches ↑ corresponding / PERSONAL STAFF: Lieutenant L. L. Resmay, displacement, 11,500 tons; spoed in knots per U.S.N., Fisg Lieutenant ; Ensign George Wood hour, 16; indicated horse-power, 10,000

· We have received from Messa. Noronka Logan, U.S.N., Flag Secretary Ensign J. 9. batteries, main, four 13-inch, four E-inch, fourteen & Co. copy of a little work on the above unbject. Doddridge, U.S.N., Aid. GENERALETAFT: Chief | 5-inch ; secondary batteries, twenty 6-pounders, | It is practically a treatise on the past treatment Engineer George J. Barnap, U.S.N., Fleet Engi- | slx 1-pounders and machine guns. It is stated and the present position of the Portuguesa in mert Medical Inspector Joseph G.Ayres, U.S.N., that these dimensions will give less draught than

this Colony. The compiler, Mr. J. P. Braga, han Fest Surgeon Paymaster Albert W. Bacou, say frst-class battle-ship in the world, and U.S.N., Fleet Paymaster; Captala William F. enable them to enter all the principal navy yards Biddle, U.S.M.C., Fleet Marine Officări and ports of the country and render their docking THE "GRAND OLD MAN" NOT TO BZ. All Squadron Orders and Regulations now la easy. Their armour will be Harveyized nickels

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force will so continue until otherwise ordered. A steel ranging from seventeen inches on the book has bean, very ably compiled and very LOWDOW, December 24th. ; new series of Squadron General Orders, Circulars, turrets to six inches on the main deck, while the Telegraph has by far the largest circulation of A, S. WATSON & CO., LD York World (Democratic) an appeal for word Orders will commence on this date, beginning armour with a maen depth of seven and a half Mr. Gladstone, having received from the New Notices to Mariners, and General Court-Martial | sides of the ship will be protected by sixteen joch of peace and good fellowship to the present crisis, with No. 1, excepting the Squadron Buster of feet. The engines of these terrible fighting talegraphed that ke daras not interfore, but thus all thes is required, in the emergian, of common Oficer, which will continue in the ease machines will he triple appeal the glass

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