ing the row, and in addition 20 more French marines came up from adother direction, taking the British seamen in the rear.
+
In another message it is stated that the murderer of the British scantan has been found to belong in die crew of the Bijou.
All (shore leave has been stopped by the Jkish and French 'Commanders.
THE RECENT ‘AMOK' IN THE SANDAKAN, GAOL.
A TRUE STORY.
Al
Mr. H. A. Frere, Superintendent of Gaols, Sandakan, British North Borneo, tells the followbig le
That murning Tuesday 13 November last. 1 had been informed that a convict by name Mat Simpol was to be executed, and had chosen the fallawing Friday, at 7 a.in, as the day and hour for that event to take place. On
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1901.
evening, and I seek my meat from God: let Science and Theology do their worst
......
often an old woman as a little boy; he is some
A Cooly has neither sex npr age. He is as
baby; sometimes a man, in the prime of life. times a strapping, grinning girl suckling, a He completes a meagre day's work as a little black damsel of tea; and reappears next morn verge of transmigration, ing as a toltering, greybeard on the extreme
!
TO-MORROW. Noon-C. P. R. steamer Empress of India with Mails passengers etc. leaves for Daylight-O.S.K.sicamer duping Maruleaves
Vancouver B.C.,
for Coast Ports.
THURSDAY, 25th,
:
leaves for Indian Ports.
Passengers-Arrived, Per Sishaw, from Saigon-33 Chinesa. Per Kwangs, from Wuhu-s Chinese. Per Awanglez, from Shanghai-64 Chinese. Per Sungkang, from Manila-Mrs. Wi Stewart Smith, Mrs. Alex. Nelson and infant, Miss Fannie Mania, Capt. Merry, Lt. Beechar, Messrs. Carl Morecraft, Carl Ditish, Jacinto Mest Aron Lam, Jas. S. Beecher, C. Loring, F. L. Harvey, P. Roach, W. P. Hughes, P. M. Newhall, G. M. Robinson, D. Barriosabat goitia, Eduardo Ros, J. Montero, N. G. Upario de Silva, R. V. Reins, E. H. Bastian,, H. C. Gibbon, and 58 Chinese,
them. Neither was a Shan-hu dulton, or fint- class mandarin, though it is understood.ons was a Yuenting, or blue-batton, that is, second class. As for the suicides, who include better. known names, they are not to be considered at all, for substitutes could easily be found, the real culprits lying for as long as might seem and does not carry with it any degradation of politic. Moreover, suicide is not execution, ancestors or personal or family share. The PD: S. S& Co.'s steamer Lightning Sujeco, lilario Pabalan, L. J. Lambert, Benito sentiment of the natives would not be outraged the Emperor himself were to commit suicide. negotiations is to leave. the white residents in The net result of these somewhat undignified China in a slightly worse position than before,
international jealousies will never allow it to trated that Europe may be safely defied, since because the Imperial Government has demons
This is the chief lesson China has learned present a united front to the common, foc from the recent campaign-it is one she is not4 likely to forget.
STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE,
NAVAL MYSTERY AT HONGKONG.
Cargo ex Ceylan subject to rent, Cargo ex Gisela subject to rent. Cargo ex Socotra subject to rent.
.!
Daylight-N. V. K. steamer Shinano Maru FRIDAY, 26th.
leaves for Japanese Ports:! Noon-N. V. K. steamer Kagoshima Maru
p.m.-N. Y. K. steamer. Yowata Maru leaves
leaves for Bombay via Singapore etc. for Australian Ports via Manila etc! 4p.m.-NY. K. steamer Yowata Maru leaves
for Manila.
SATURDAY 17th.
1
Ngon-P, KO. steamer 'Sabrsen Mails
with etc..leaves for Europe. 5P.m.-C. M. Co.'s steamer Esmeralda leaves
Mr Manil
SUNDAY, 28th
- for Coast Ports. A
Noon-U.S.
ولا
TUESDAY, 30th. Mail steamer City of Peking leaves for San Francisco via Shanghai
WEDNESDAY 1st, May.
*
Per Shinano Maru, from Singapore, for Hongkong Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland, Messrs. W: Davis, Wilson, E. B. Pye, 'A. Consland, G children, Mr. Thomson, Mrs. E. Burgoyne and Yvanovitch, Rev. and Mrs. Ware and five one child, Messrs, Sundamme, Thoborrow, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, and Mrs. C. F. Smith White, Dataldson, Mr. and Mrs. Ruchwaldy; and one child. For.Yokohama Mr. and Mrs Waraker, Mr. and Mrs. Franskeland Capt. and Mrs. Wynter For Kobe-Mr. T. Tahora.
Departed.
Per Fuensang, for Manila-Mr. F. Newman, Per America Maru, for Shanghai-Messrs. H: Miller and Y. Nakashima. For Yokohama Mesers. C. D. Herron and C. A. Burckhardt. Was Por, Messrs. Ab Chow, Lam Ah Hook, Ab Chew, frs. Chan Lan, Messrs. Lan Ling and Ling Seug Lau. For San Francisco Gurley Colore and nurse, Mrs. G. R. McKenzie, Mrs. W. G. Pard, Miss Charlotte Fardu, Mrs. Misses L. Sandman, A. C. Keyes, Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Hopkins Master Hiran C. Hopkins, Master Hubert R. Hopkins, Master HerluinG.
N. D. L. Co's steamer Prinsest Tree Hopkins, Messrs. Tai Foo Yuen, Tam Han leaves for Southampton.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
A strange story of a mysterious disappear Vat might dispense with every Secretary in
ance has been sent to the United price the Department of Public Works, and the bar known, the squadron on that station has lately Gazelle from the China Station. As is well racks would tumble down, the bridges coles reinforced by hew battleship. On the Daylight-Q.S. K. steamer Daijin Maru leaves For HonolulisMrs: Cheung Shi, Miss Wong lapae, and the State railways fail just as they do at present but without the Cooly there professor would attend ph board at 1.30p.m. 10. arrival of the vessel at Hongkong signal was. could be no Department of Public Works at
made from the Tamar that the local French all. It would crumble to pieces like its own
give instruction to the young gentlemen. A boat alone represents practice; while the other sional by reason of a pair of huge spectacles, architecture: he is its prop and stay. He M. Beranger, looking more than usually profes was sent accordingly, and at the appointell hour
lites and theory..
members of the Department are all for theodo
duly arrived on board, and the class prepared to India that Coolies gravitate to them as by Up to a certain time all went well, until, in
Famines are now so well understood in enjoy the "good time" commoni associated Noon
with the ministrations of a foreign professor in chattering circles, awaiting relief is a mode lapse of the form on which the class were some law of nature. To sit about the county fact, the precise moment arrived for the col of life altogether agreeable to the Cooly's tastes. Though content with a famine, a Cooly is cap.scated. After that the course of events was able of enjoying a more adventurous life. He quite without, precedent. The professor said likes being deported in ship-loads to Trinidador Jamaica. If he gets a little food now and then see him you would suppose he had been sailing round the world all his life. Arrived at his destin he will be perfectly happy on the voyags. To
ation, he will probably adopt a silver currency. His habits are so frugal and his powers of spreading a little work over a large area are so treat, that he often grows fat; and occasionally rich. A bit of work that anyone else would
thresh cut a week's pay: from the most trivial, for a week. With wonderful husbandry he will task:
was a var-ree dangerous bench." and his young friends would get hurted if they them to stand. The new professor showed of ship life, and assumed a very haughty trusted to it again; he would therefore pray himself also strangely familiar with the routine attitude towards the officer of the watch, send- ing him a imessage that if there was not less captain. To cut a long story short, after two din on deck he would report him to the hours' standing, and suffering many defeats
MAILS DUE. American (City of Peking) 25th instant. English (Ballaarat) 26th instapt." Australian (Eastern) 29th instant, American (Garlic) 29th instant. German (Preussen) ist prax, Canadian (Empress of Japan) 6th prox. American (Hongkong Maru) 7th prox. American (China) 15th prox...
the afternoon of the 13th, 1.entered Simpol's unity, assisted by a friend Mr. J. who had kindly squander in an hour, a Cndly win-live upon and discomfitures, the young gentlemen were The P. & O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Tientsin, left
DVD
he 0-0 S. 5. Co.'s steamer Gaelic, with Mails, from San Francisco to the got
to, za Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and left for this port this morning via inland mean
Star Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai..
H.M.S. Swift
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
at Kowtown res U.S.S. Bennington.
Deck,
Burnside Kweiyang Companiada.
MURDER OF A EUROPEAN CHILD Ping Su
AT CALOUTTA.
his fingers which the blade lacerated till he had to let go, escaping with a gash in the shin. At this juncture Meer Abdullah, the 'Pathan One British seaman was stabbed by a knife, condemned, prisoner, rushed in hand-cuffed.
And the Codly safe. Science and Theology in the abdomen and killed, and two others were
Cannot touch the Cooly, Galileo and Luther saw Captain H, running out of the cell, and bave lived in vain as regards the Cooly. Dis severely wounded about the face and body.interposed himself between the latter and the coveries and crusades may march in blood and Over Ten Frenchmien were injured, "The mapine and so warding off several blows till triumph over the whole world, but the Conly Japanese police attempted to stop, the fighting more help care to hand. By this time the but their efforts were file. Eventually order shrieking and cries of the wounded Gaoler, along on its furious orbit; but the Cooly is not survives. The cyclone of progress sweeps was re-tared by the arrival of a French officer and Wirder who had been carried down to even a reed shaken by the wind: not even the and three petty ethers who promptly dispersed the Got Hospital to have their wounds waving grass of the field; he is only a Cooly the French sailors...
dressed alarmed the guant, and Sikhs And Beyond the reach of metaphor. A fater telegram to the same joumai states Pathans rushed in, some with rifles and that some of Britishysailors after getting away some with brooms and sticks and drove Sitapol locality: Where there is no work to be done The Cooly has neither home, nor fields, nor from Matsugaye Chin fell fout of nine Saigon back fighting to the last till opposite his cell here are no Coolies; but if you hold up an troopers, and assaulted them. The Saigon where he was felled with the butt-ends of their troopers who made little or no resistance, were
anna on the top of Kinchinjunga or in the not seriously injured. There appears in be little balcony and come up from behind and press Coolies will start up around you, with smiles rides. Meantime had run round the other heart of the desert of Bikanik, a hundred likelihood of the discovery of the actual mus derer of the dead seaman. The affair is under the murderer who lay struggling with the kaifseamed the Cooties will vanish into some din ing through the crowd I was enabled to get at and, baskets to earn it. When the coin is investigation and the Chief Public Procurator, in his hand. After a pretty hard tussle I the Chief of Police and the Consuls are busy wrested the knife from him and he was carried They are seen no more.
world of Beggardon, at the back of Phenomena. exchanging calls.
The Chief Public Pro into his call and locked in, were he died short caror pccompanied by the French Consully after. The knife was one without a handle, boarded the French, warships and opened an about three inches of blade, left exposed, the enquiry with a view to finding the murderer, rest-raped round in the form of a handle with but the task is said to present grave shreds of prison clothing. By this time the little difficulties. Rumour has it that the French Gaal Hospital had been converted into a shame declare they have killed four British ready and will have the blond of three inore, wound in the head and that in the stoninch albles and blood was pouring from Ram Singh's to avenge seven of their comrades who were which was exposing his bowels; Dewar Singh's alled in Shanghai. The police authorities tongue was badly cleft by a deep knife gash ve poder consideration & proposal to enforce and he was vomiting blood, the wound in the special police surveillance and to prohibit the breast, having been stanched in the meantithe, Carrying of swords and other arms in and about by the P. MO. Dr. H., who with Dr. D. and the former concession. It has been decided the Chinese Apothecary assisted by the convict to station policemen in each street in the for tukang obat (Dresser) were working away with mer concession at a distance of 4 cho, in lightning speed, so as to log time in order to stop further disorders.
thoroughly cleaning Ram Singh's langerous wound with antiseptis and few up the bowel, the only means of saving his life. Mabout has for some time acted as my confidential ad- this time, a good-conduct prisoner and 'one who viser on Gaol characters, accosted me and ex- plained that the "anoker's" brother was in the saw-shed at work and that as soon as he was to hear of the "amok" and death of his brother, he might very possibly take the matter to heart and run amuck" himself, as the tendency is a very infectious one, especially petrated that act was accordingly supplied by amongst relatives of those who have once per the O. C, with a guard and we arrested Simore, who fortunately offered no resistance, and was taken and locked up in a cell. Then came the operation of feeding the prisoners who by this time (5 pm) were returning from their words While this was taking place I took the oppory cell and informed in that he was going to be Ganl to render any assistance that lay in his
not illpleased to see the back of this weird Singapore for this port yesterday, the 22nd inst come up on bearing of the disturbance in the hanged on Friday next at 7am 1. stayed some time in his cell talking to him, the thoroughly searched for any likely implement The Army Commission once proposed mising power, to have the Gaol and prisgners clothing.
and uncanny professor, when a boat was at 5 p.m. Sergeant and Ganter and 4th Wander were
manned to take the French gentleman ashore. with me. He received the news in the usual
that might be used as weapon of offence. This some Cooly, regiments to serve in the mor over, the convicts were marched one by one to unhealthy tracts of the North East frontier.
And now we come to the strange part of this native manner, imputing his fate to some personal motive on my part or to the inexor cells and the building locked up for the night light, and went down to the dust, nor was seen their places in the wards and to their respective. But the Cooly viewed the mitter in a different
history. The professor insisted on going to the Tamer to visit a "varree" dear friend. The able will of the Government which I repre- Next, we were informed that Acer Abdullah any more fill this thought of the cocked-hats
boat's crew are willing to depase they duly put sented, rather than as being just récompense Khan who had very probably saved Captain had subsided. Like the Bengali Babao the
lum on board the Tamar. No mortal eye has for his cowardly murderous crimes. Tudn pun sub (The white man's will) apa budi Hi's life by keeping the murderer at bay was Cooly disapproves of the military professionsolutely no trace of the professor, his wig, or seen his emerge from that ship. There is ab- (What can I do?) he cried, as he glared anxious to see his Commanding Office And Oh, Lord." said the Bengali Baboo after the his spectacles on board the Tamar, but for behind his stocks ima. which at night-time This Berhaps it was the extreme self sacrifice of the battle of Khusk-i-Nakhud, this is very
days after his mysterious disapparance yards feet were locked. Having given orders for him
than who, condemned to death-n fate he dangerous Department"
of French exercises floated about the ward- to be hand-cüßed, which orders were unfor
may be said to have met entirely through But the Cooly is something of a sportsman; room, and their perusal served to brighten up tunately not carried out at once, the door of h Captain Hi's agency, who by a very able
he is an ardent beater, Quail he prefers; but the spirits of the officers in what might other cell was closed and..I returned to my office tion of the judge-recognized the appar. together in sufficient numbers and stay him sion. Who could trouble his head as to "What
prosecution proved his guilt to the satisfache will beat for a tiger, if you gather him wise have been moments of gloom and depresHongkon
Adamaster where other business awaited.me. A Pathan was anxious to confess his guilt, the murder of the tunity for making some antends for the foul with pice. It is true that he loves an unlikely happened to Jones" while this mystery of the
Kaifong Regimental Sergeant Major, but his depositions he had committed, and for the life cover, and will beat passionately such tussocks strange disappears of M. Paul Beranger re
Athenian would have to be taken down by his Command.
I had taken to give back a life at what easily of grass as are hardly calculated to affordains unsolved --Ex. ⠀ ing Officer, so I telephoned for Captain II, who might have been the expense of his own, that shelter to the larger carnivora; but yet when said he would come round to the Gaol some brought tears to the eyes of one of us. It was the great cat is on foot and moving before the time on the morrow. Shortly afterwards a wretch and paid assassin who, though brutal joy and enthusiasm, that finds "expression in mercy be asked for, he the poor, misguided beat he will sometimes be seized with a fierce telephonic megsuge reached me that the C. enough to shoot an innocent man through blank cartridge and points, of war upon the was coming at once, so I sent for the Pathan the head as he lay asleep in his bed, drum. The tiger bears our Codly no grudge who was brought up to the office by a guard ofwas not the coward his employers, who had he will eat the Cooly from time to time. three Sikhs with fixed bayonets, the prisoner paid him to do the deed, were, and who himself being hand-cuffed. To understand the circumstances of the tragedy that was so shortly possessed both a degree of bravery and feeling of a punkah rope through a long summer's day; at a critical moment had shewn that he favourite pursuit. He will crauch over the end Funkah pulling is perhaps the Cooly's to be enacted, a brief description of the Gaol is
of affection for the Officer against whom he bore with his head between his knees be will sleep necessary, The building, 150 feet by fifty, he will, though directly the means of de over it in jerks from sunset till dawn. All day height from ground to top-of the roof 75 feel, is priving him of his life. Poor Ram Singh naver, the fierce rays of the sun beat on the convex of divided into two stories-ground floor occupied recovered from the hideous wound in his abdo- bis spine; all night the jackals laugh demonias by rst class Chinese and Malays, ist storey by 2nd class Chinese and Malays, and the.
men which proved fatal three days afterwards. calls around him; but he remains within him appar storey which consists of 24 cells in
Dewar Singh and Chason Singh at the time of self, subjective. His blood beats its dull me which life-sentence prisoners,, bad characters
writing were fast recovering. The incident has sure; a score of organi secrete a score of our and those under a sentence of death are-con-
for a time dispelled the. feeling of security, a scure juices on advanced principles behind the fined. The first and second storeys are really itself in the Gaol, and we are more careful
false une, that was supposed to have established veil of all science; his brain, like, a storm only enlarged gallaries constructed so that one
Pharos fashes athwart his grossness, at long may look down from the top storey through a
about details than we were before. Any prison- intervals, a thought; and he lives as mysterious kind of well on the convicts in the rooms below; er might play the some trick on us, and bely as the pout or philosopher-2 poor man, but round this well in the floor railings are placed.
cause he hasn't attempted to. do so during the Tuminous with immortality. Yet shy your hoot The office is at one corner of the building on the
past 20 years may do so to-morrow, and we jack at him, for he is only a Cooly. know it. People who deal with Asiatics and upper storey and adjoining the cells. There
dwell among them know that they are living are some 200 convicts at present in the Goal, who are looked after by a staff of 11, including and the longer they live the more prepared they on a yolcano which may erupt at any moment, the Superintendent, Apothecary, and Gaoler- who is generally a Sergeant seconded from the are for and against an eruption. Constabulary. By night the Goal is surrounded by police with fixed bayoners and 6 rounds of ammunition each. By day one Warder does duty over the few bad characters who are hot allowed out of their cells, and goes rounds. amongst the intramural gangs who are in ad. dition guarded by sentries. To return to our natative. While Captain H. and I were sitting in the Office hearing the confession of the wretch who was paid to shoot the Regimental Sergeant. Major through the hand as lay in his bed, we were suddenly startled by thrleksand the rushing of bare feet along the corridor in front of the cells. My first impression was that the lunatic at the further end on the same side ofthie building had got loose from his cell and, when we both rushed out, I went in that direction, al most falling into the arms of Mandore Dewar Singh who had fainted from the effects of a stab in the mouth and breast, from which blood was pouring. Before I bad time to make opt what had exactly happened, my attention was at. tracted to the other side of the building where in the narrow passage between the balustrade and the cells I saw a convict loose, making for Capt. Harington who had slipped into an open ..cell thinking to get behind the manaic as he swept by. To my horror the gonvict followed Captain H: in, stabbing the latter in the breast and then I saw who the man was,it was Simpol the condemned-convict, the notorious murderer who was going to be hanged in three days' time and who was now making one des perate effort to reach the Office and murder the white man in it and all who stood in his way that he might die with his blood up and not in anguish of mind on the public searold. But he met his fate without accomplishing his object for he never got further than the door of the upper storey 3 feet off the Office, where he was beaten back with the the butt-ends of some dozen rifles, beaten back fighting and dying to bis cell whence he made such a daring escape. What really happened was told me by the murderer's first victim Dewar Singh, It He will sleep in the sum of June among the Wanting imagination, he is always cheerful appears that shortly after
had informed sand and pickaxes of a ballast train; he Simpel of his fate, he had cried out for water will chatter gaily on the topmost rail of a high to the warder on duty. As Dowar Singh level bridge scaffolding, with hungry Eternity opened the door of the cell to give it to yawning beneath him; he will drink out of the Simpol, the latter suddenly rushed out knife in louiest cesspool, and die.freely of cholera in hand he had been standing prepared for it scores, as if it were his vocation. He envies and hir asking for water was merely a fejht to no man his genies, or wealth, or piety. He have the door unlocked, and stabbed Dowalees the Assistant Engineer measuring metal to the first place, the great body of the Singh in the head and mouth, and then beaps, according to the most advanced prin Chinese will never hear, anything about it; tried to throw him over the balcony to the ciples of Cooper Hill, and negards him not; while all but the narrowest circle will be in floor, 50 feet below. Then came the Gaoler. He coks at the planter counting out his money structed that the two officials displeased the Sergeant Ram Singh who caught hold of the but it suggests to him nothing, the voice of Emporary and died at his good pleasure with amoker by the neck, thereby leaving the brutes the missionaty falls upon his cars, but with the probable further embellishingat, that punish hand froo... Poor Ram Singh was stabbed with miler he considereth rip his precepts. He went was inflicted for failure against the deadly violence in the head, thigh and stomach, ays to hithself am only a Godly, trample foreigner. In the second place it is quite un- The next to rush up was Warder Chation upon melet Science, Wealthy and Religion certain if the selected victims filled, in the ayer Singh who with considerable pluck and trample upon malam.only Cooly, i ro of the Chinese, se considerable's place as they praeeace of mind caught hold of the knife with forth to my work, and to my jabout vatili the aid 49
ONLY A COOLY,
(From the Bombay Castle.)
THE COMEDY IN PEKING. [From Pall Mall Gazette," 20th March)
Where China folk foregather there has been mich smiling the last few weeks, some shrug- ging of shoulders, and a few hend-shakings. -over the little comedy provided by the course
of events in the Far East;
a
It is manifestly impossible for the layman to The Cooly, is the great motive paper in the East Orders vibrating down through all order that alliance between fire and water, milk guage the difficulty of keeping in working classes of society take affect upon the Cooly. and vinegar, which is designated the Concord The Viceroy projects n railway, and a thrill of of the Powers. Therefore he may be forgiven instructions pastes through a Member of Coun especially if his property be at stake) if he regrets cil, Secretary Under Secretary, Chief Engi- that the real question at issue-as China folk Subordinate Engineer until breaking upon the adjustment of such arrangements as shall enable neer, Executive Engineer, Assistant Engineer understand matters-has long ceased to be the shores of Coalydom. it passes off in labour. the white residents to live safely among the The Comptroller General cuts a, Governor's tives with a reasonable prospect of obtaining pay, and the Governor transmits a wave of re-secure and profitable investment for their capital. trenchment through his entire household, until it surges upon shop-keepers and servants, and publle of the various countries, concerned that It was the early impression among the general a Conly dies of starvation. The Commander the attainment of this laudable end was the in-Chief administers a reprimand, and Generals original and only objective of the Allies. Pro. swear, Colonels curse, Major's blasphenie, Cep bably, however, from the first, a different sim tains threaten, and finally a Subaltern thrashes presented itself to the respective Governments, his punkah Coolies. Thus orders convertible in a greater or less. degree, according to the into labour or pain are carried off by the Cooly magnitude of the individual nation's ambition. The Cooly suffers, and Eastern Society The Legations once relieved, attention from porged of exertion and heat.
the subject wandered-Eastern problems bore: The Cooly is not much to look at. To the the man in the street-and Ching folk sadly descending scale, before you reach anthro watched the negotiations slipping away from pomorphous apes, he is the last thing you can the consideration of their well-being into the call a man. He is just on the windy side of channels of political compromise between con humanity. A step more and he would be the ficting European interests. Incidentally, of apex of the animal kingdom: he would'sup.course, the whole white population may gather plant the Ourang-outang and the chimpanzee a few advantages, though up to the present this
He has neither religion, por caste, nor music, remains doubtful. nor tradition, har prejudice. He would eat an the Archbishop of Canterbury, or hang himself overseer or platelayer he would dine with in a pigskin if the occasion arose His life is without the sailing directions of any social law written or unwritten his eye rest upon the lodestar of appetite, and he carries about a basketful of earth, or grubs in the weeds of a plantation:
The home public felt that a great effort had wheels were to she belicaded. Then it was been successfully made on behalf of civilization, officials to be Then it was that the smile became audible where Chins folk do meet, Two of these men have actually" exalted tools of those prime offenders whom paid the penalty of being the most active and the Concord of Powers is not quite strong These wretches, it is true, entirely merited enough to condemn in their proper persons. their fate, but if from their execution it is inferred that a serious blow has been dealt at the reactionary party of the Dowager Empress, than, Indeed, may it confidently be asserted that the voluminous sleeves of the wily Li cover a very broad grin at the fatuity of all
foreign devils,"
Calcutin by the news of a peculiarly atrocious.
Ma Lung Tsing. A most painful sensation was caused in Hangchow
•U.S.S. Concord!
seriously assaulted the nurse and singthered.
Colonies South British Insurance Co. It appears that a crime at the residence of Mr. G. F. Ross, of the
Pelliana man or mon gpt into the house at night,
Clara Mr. Ross's infant son to death. The child was smothered with a shawl round the head and pillow and rug on the top. The cutrage accurred about one in the morning of the 27th of March. The Commissioner of Police has offered is. 1,000 taward for the arrest of the murderer of Mr. Rose's child.
NOTAND
CALENDAR.
APRIL Meteorological means based on ten year okservations to 1893.
Barometer
Thermometer
Humidity..... Rainfall
TR.PAY,
WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer.. Temperature Humidity Rainfall..
30.059
Do date at 'O date at
29.78
4 p..
29.89
81
82
76
0,01
TO-DAY.
*
Chinese-f of 3rd mean of ofth year of
Tuesday, 23rd April, fyor.","
Kwang-tü. Sun-Rise
Spir
小
Then ghr, kimi, High water-Marning phr. min. Afternoon" tikra zimin, Low water-Morning akr 33min. Afternoon Ohr min.
1616 Shakespeare died. 1845-Happy Valley drainage completed. 1893-Capt. Braxendale drowned at Shangbai. 1897-Attempted assassination of the King of
ANNIVERSARIES,
Italy.
.
18g1-J. S. Government call for 125,000 Vo 1899-Collision between. Glessgie and City of
lunteers,
Kingston, latter foundered. Fire at Shangha za houses destroyed......
TO-MORROW. Chinese-oth of 3rd moan of 27th year of
Wednesday, 24th April, 1901,2, Rivang.su. Son-R
Sets
Skr 34min
High water-Morning is phr, zymin, Afternoon Ahr, 23miti, Low walor-Morning Shr. 28min. Altermaan kun Thr. agminM. * ANNIVERSARIES
1694--Bank of England founded. 1711-Daniel Defoe died. 1863-The Federal feet took New Orleans. 1877 Russia declared war against Turkey 1806-Defeat of the Marable at Bulawayo. 18-Interview between U: S. Consul and 1897 Larissa evacuated by the Greeks,
1899-Wreck of the barque Locksley near
Aguinaldo at Singapore. Kangaroo laland, 31 lives lost.
AGENDA
Cosmopoli
Aberdeen
Wing, Mr. and Mrs. Maddock; Messrs. R. W. Handley, EG. Edwards, Mrs. Chas, A Adams, Mrs. F. M. Bostwick, Miss R. Riorden, Mis W. S. Wallace, Miss.J. M. Holmer Messrs. V. Dreester, AT. Steele, Mrs. F. Smyth, Mr. D. Bradford, Lieut. Condr. A. Merts, Messrs. L. B. Lowe, Lou-Nara, F. Johnson, G. Dono hen, Pang Ah Yoke, Yu Ping, John Warren, F.linderiet, H. Bordman, J. S. Jacks, Mrs. Lee Moy, and Mrs. Lang Yook. Fot Melwan- kee-Mrs. L. Grove. For London-Messrs. A. G. von Maasdyk, H. Francis, W. Egertos. L. H. Littlefield and C. W: Porter. For Paris Mr. Rud Baur. For New York Mr. H. L' Loomus, and Mr. and Mrs. Dodges
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Capt. Frahin, of the steamship Deutires, from Sourabaya, reports-Fine, weather.
from Bangkok, reports:S: 'wind and fine Capt. J. Hillberg, of the steamship Victoria, weather.
Captain G. E. Morehouse, of the steamship Sishan, from Saigon, reports-Light S. winds and fine weather.
Captain Moore, of the steamship Sungkiang; from Manila, reports-Light S. breeze, and fine pleasant weather throughout.
Captain A. Harris, of the steamship Kwangu, from Wuhu, reports:-Moderate breeze and thick fog to Turnabout, thence to port light S. winds and hazy weather.
Captain R. Lincoln, of the steamship Kwang Lee, from Shanghai, reports:Experienced moderata N.W. winds with overcast sky to Turnabout, thence to Breaker Point dense banks of fog and moderate S.W.winds to part.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Names.
From
April-Oak Branch, Glenartney. H. H. Meier, City of Peking...... Shanghai..
PASSED THE CANAL.'' Outward-4th Apríl-Oral, Dardanus. 9th Yawata Maru Nagavali. To-morrow Glenturret, Japan, Claverley, Kawachi Maru, Kagoshima Maru.. Shimonoseki... April asth Coningsby Gloucester City, Preussen. 12th Ballarat ........... Singapore
April 15th April-Bayern, Hitachi Maru, Laos, Eidsvold, Segovia....
...... April 26th Folmina, 16th April-Machaon, Achilles, Eastem... India, Adriatico, Deucalion, Easingwold, Ville, Gaelic d'Alger. 19th April-Banglos, Banca, Nurnberg, Empress of Japan. Vancouver...... May 6th Homeward-and April-Tonkin, Kiauls Hongkong Maru... San Francisco... May 7th shou. 4th April-Ixion, Molacea, 9th April-Chib Wittenberg, Ransa, 16th April-Patroclus.
Arrivals at Home 17th April-Polarst- jernen, Kawachi Mary Hamburg, Benjamin
Preusson
Singapore ...... April 26th Japan April 29th Port Darwin April 27th
San Francisco... May 15th ...Colombo,..., May 18th
Packard, Ixien, H. R. Maier, 30th April-style la which "Steamers. Expected and "Projecter Sailings
We would direct the attention of shipping fee to the Nordkap.
Shipping.
Arrivals.
KWANGSE, British steamer, 1,248, A. Harris,
zand April, Wuhu 17th April, General Burfield & Swire.
ne now published in these columns, and in so dalni respects fully urge the managers of shipping firms to give orders.co their clasks to farajah this offer on the form already u piled graěle with ·Jusaur negilible Informention every day
Ship.
PROJECTED SAILINGS,
Ajax.....
London America Maru.. San Francisco, Ambria... Havie, &c.
Anping Maru... Foochow Antenor............London.
Asturia Ballaarat
Bayern
Calchas
Candia
Carlisle City...... Canton
China.....
Destination.
Dalt
April 30th
June roth
&cjuly 4th
April 14th
May 14th
New York
¡¡May 4th
Shanghai
April 17th
Straits, &c.
July 25th
London.....
May 28th
London...
April 18th
London......
May 18th
May 15th
San Diego, &c.
San Francisco, & May, 25th
SUNCE, British steamer, 1,041, S. W. Moore, 23rd April,-Manila 20th April General Butterfield & Swire. KWANG LEE, British steamer, 1,467, RL Lincoln, 23rd April, Shanghal 19th April, General, CM, 8, N. Co., $19HAN, British steamet, 852, G. E. Morehouse, 23rd April-Saigon 19th April, Rice Bradley & Co. KACHIDATE MARU, Japanese steamer, 2,734, S. Fugiki, 23rd April-Karatsu 17th April Coal-Mitsui Busian Kaisha SHINANO MARU, Japanese steamer, 3,960, G.
E. P. Cook, and April,Singapore 28th. City of Peking San Francisco, &c May 1st April, General-Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
Coptic
San Francisco, &c. June 17th SKAT, Russian torpedo-bolt, 350, Smirnow, Dailla Maru Tamsui Mini Apel th
23rd April-Salgon seth April
Doric
Sua Francisco, &ċijune sat KARATKA, Russian torpedo boat, 350, Moura Emp. ChinaVancouver &... June 5th Duke of Fife... Victoria B.C. May 7th VICTORIA, Swedish steamer, 989, J. A. Hu. Emp, India
viet 23rd April-Saigon 20th April
WAW. April 14th berg, 23rd April-Bangkok 17th April, Emp. Japan Rice-Yuen Fat Hong.
May 15th. Esmeralda
April 27th DEUTEROS, German steamer, foc, Frahm, Ferndene.....
May 3rd 23rd April, Sourabaya 13th April, Sugar.
Gaelic
...San Francisco, &c. May 7th Siemssen & Co.
Guthrie ...Sydney, &c. May 9th KEONGWAI, German steamer 1,115, A ven Hongkong Maru San Francisco, &c May 16th
Hamburg
Straits, &c. June 13th Riegen, 23rd April-Bangkok 14th April, General Butterfield & Swire.
Japan
Hiroshima Mare, Inpanese str., for Moji. Clearances at the Harbour Offos.
Maris Jebsen, German air for Slagapore. Richmond Castle, British str., for Manila. Hrishka, British str., for Chinkiang Pak Kong, British str., for Canton. Hollie E. Smith, American ship, for Saipan, Aushun, British str., for Shanghai. Kwanglez, British str., for Canton. Hangi, French str., for Hollow.... America Maru, Japanese stry for Shanghai. Strathgyle, British str., for Maji. Aging Maru, Japanese str, for Swatow Buckingham, British str, for Moji
Departures.
April 23, Hanoi, French st, for Hoihow. April 23, America Mare, Japanese str., for Sa April 23, Skarpsno, Norw, sir, for Bangkok
Francisco.
Apr 113, 7 diman, British sir, for Austrália, April 23 Yuko Maru, Jap, stry for Chefoo April 13, Yang, British Mr,, for Manila: April 13, Furhun, Britishy fit for Shapphai, The Arough Company at the Theatre Apiters, Chuangphe British att farmoy
ZITO-DAYSALIS
Manila
New York
Shanghal &
May 7th
Companion... Portland, &c.
May 20th
Kagoshima Maru Bombay
April 26th
Kaifeng lalla, &c.
May 2nd
Kiantichou Straits, &C
July Tith
König Albert Straits,
Aug. 22nd
Königsberg... Havre, &c.
May 3rd
Kweiyang... Tientsin
April 19th
Lightning Singapore, &c...... April asth Nippon Maru San Francisco, &c. June: rith Olympia
Victoria, B.C....... April 16th
Perla
Manila ............ April 18
Predsien....
Straits, &c. May 19th Straits, &c,....
May 15th
May toth
June 27th
May 26th
Prinz Heinrich
Prinzese Irene...Straits, &c. Pyrrhua. Liverpool.... Sachico... Strait, &c. Segovia
Hayre, &c.
Shinang Mam.., Kobe & Yokohama April 26th
Submon
Strathgyle.
Stuttgart
Sungliang Szechen
Tacoma Ulysses
Marseilles, &c., April 7th
San Diego, April 4th Straits,
Manila, &c. ..... April 26th Shanghai
oria B.G.
Aug. th
April 20
MAY 17h
May 24th
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