February 28, 1898.)
The performands of the pantomimė“ Robinson Crusoe at the Theatre Royal on Saturday was one of the most successful of the series. There was a very big audience, and the great enthusiasm which ran through the whole piece was not on the side of the spectators alone. The performers, ladies and gentlemen, all did their best to make the pantomime brimful of spirit and energy. Many times during the evening bouquets were handed to the lady artists, and the lond applange which greated the many good things which were said and done was thoroughly deserved. The Race Meeting received plenty of attention. Mr. Brady forced everybody to roar with laughter at the string of jokes he fired off, and the sentences which he happily constructed with the names of the various horses were exceedingly clever. The last performance will be giren this after
noon.
An Interesting ceremony was performed in the Council (hamber on Tuesday afternoon by Mr. Digby Barker, in the presence of the Go- Terhor (Sir William Robinson) and a number of*Indien had gentlemen. P.Ć. 87 Mokwen was awarded the Belilios silver medal and $25
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for gallantry in saving a woman named Kwok Sa ht New Pedder's Wharf, on the 11th inst. and Lai Yun Bing, fireman on board the steamer Kam On was awarded a bronze medal and $25 for gallantry in rescuing from drowning A woman named Choi Knm in the barbour on. the 15th inst.: Mr. J. J. Francis road a state. ment from the reports of the Captain Super- intendent of Police describing the acts of gal lantry. His Excellency at Mrs. Barker's re- quest, addressed the men and congratulated them upon their bravery and hoped they would take great pride in the awards allowed them. and that these would be an encouragement to. them to behave in a similar manner on any Enture cocasion. Mrs. Barker then pinned the medals on the men's coats and presented the recipients with the accompanying certificates and also congratulated them,
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
On Friday the men of war in port dressed ship and a salute was fired at noon in honour of the anniversary of George Washington's birth- day.
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It is stated that Mr. F. von der Pfordten will probably relieve Mr. Judd in Hongkong as Manager of the Cable Companies when Mr. Judd goes to Singapore.
take the place of the Oceanic on the O. & O. The White Star steamer Coptic, which is to Company's San Francisco line, arrived here on Sunday with a cargo of coal from Cardiff.
Major E. G. Barrow, of the Hongkong Rezi- ment, who has hitherto possessed the local rank of Lieut-Colonel, has been promoted to that rank substantively in recognition of his services in raising and organising the Regiment.
A football match was played on the Kowloon Docks ground on the evening of the 19th inst. between the Navy and the Kowloon Club which after a bard but pleasant game resulted in a win for the Kowloon Club by three goals to pil.
The silver shield to be presented to the non- Infantry i recognition of their work during last commissioned officers of the 1st Shropshire Light Fear's plagne is, by kind permission on view at Messrs Lan, Crawford & Co, where it will remain for a few days. A similar shield is also realy for presentation to the Police Force,
The performance of Ragged Robin" recently held at Government House realized the sum of $256.5, which has been distributed among local charitis for children, as follows:-
Baxter Mission
Berlin Foundling House
Victoria Home and Orphanage Alice Memorial Hospital Italian Convent
French Convent
.$100,00
56.52 25.00 125,00
25.00
25.00
The United States cruiser Detroit, omm nder J. S Newall, arrived on the 19th inst. from Newport, Rhode Island, via the (anal, Colombo, and icgapore, and exchanged the usual saintes. HM. Centurion arrived from the North on The Detroit is a vessel of 2.00 tops with the 20th inst. She has come down to have some enrines of 5.400 b p., and carrying a crew of alterations and improvements made in her ma-
250 men. Her armament consists of 16 runs. chinery, which will probably take a month to effect. The following is a list of her offic rs: - Com-|| Admiral Fremantle has not come down in the flag-mander, J S. Nowell; Chief
nineer, G. ship, but remains in the North. Just before leav. Roche; Lieutenants, J. M. Hawley. J. T. Smith. ing Weihaiwei the Centurion had the misfortuns | C. C. Rodgers, and E. Lloyd; Surgeon H. E to lose a man overboard. A strong gale was blow Ames; Assistant Paymaster, CS. Williams; ing and a very high sea running. While work was going on forward a wave broke over the ship, carrying a reral officers and a number of men off their feet, but with one exception they all managed to hold on by ropes, rails, etc. The exception was an ordinary seaman named Daniel Edwards, who was washed overboard. A boat was lowered with great difficulty. but Edwards sank before it reached him. Several buoys had bɔén thrown towards him, but the unfortunate man failed to catch
any of them. The weather was piercingly cold at the time and the grew of the boat that had put off to attempt the resone of Edwards were so benumbed and exhausted that on their return to the ship they had to be assisted out of the bost and have stimulants administered to them.
The design for the memorial window to Cap. tain Vesey has been received by this mail and will be submitted to the Committee at its next meeting The upper lights are filled with angela berring a scroll, on which is "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends." In one of the lower lights in St. Michael as an emblem of the triumph of good over evil, and in the other light is St. Alban, who was a Briton and a soldjer and who did literally lay down his life for his friend; for he exchanged clothes with Christian priest who was under sentence of death,' and' when he had escaped St. Alban in civilian dress gave himself up and was mar- tyre on the spot where now stands St. Alban's Cathedral. In the small opening at the top is to be Captain Vesey's monogram. The badge of the Shropshire Regiment being the red and white rose, these have been worked in as a border. The motto of the Regiment " Aucto splendore resurgo" (I will arise in greater splendour), which appears at the bottom of the window, is suggested by putting the setting sun in the background of St.
lban and the rising in greater splendour in the upper parts with the angels. It is to be hoped that the funds at the disposal of the committee will permit of this effective design being carried out.
Passed Assistant Eugineer, T. H Matthews Ensigns, B E T, Hurston, Waldo Evans, J. R. Y. Blakely; Assistant Engineer, D. E. Dumukes; Naval (adet, J. M. Hudgins; and Pay-Clerk, H. J. Clark
Shortly after oue o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th inst. fire broke ont iu
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Chinese house in Wai Tak Lane, at the back of the China Mail office. Some of the members of the Fire Brigade were speedily the spot with one of the useful fire despatch boxes, and a hose being run though the China Mail office a good stream of water locality is closely built over, but the fire was was soon pouring on the burning building The prevented from spreading and confined to the house in which it originated. The top floor was occupied by some bricklayers and the second floor as a family residence. It was in the top flocr that the fire originated but how it was caused is unknown, as all the men were absent at the time.The property was not insured.
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We had a visit on Thursday morning from Miss Londonderry, a young lady in a Bloomer costume, who is a bicyclist, travelling around the world. Miss Londonderry hails from Boston. crossed the Atlantic from that port to Havre, wheeled from Havre to Marseilles, took passage. by the Sydney at that port and will go on by her to Yokohama, where she will tranship to one of the Pacific liners, and from San Francisco, travel on her machine back to Boston. The trip or whatever her port of arrival may be, she will is being made without money and, as is usual under these circumstances, is to decide a bet of $30,000. Miss Londonderry describes herself as a journalist, but says that according to the terms of her bet she is allowed neither to work nor to beg On our venturing to express our disap- proval of people travelling round the world without money the young lady asked what was the good of travelling with money, and went on to explain that with money you could do any thing, but that her object was to show what could be done without money. We did not try to argue the point with her.
TIENTSIN.
8th February
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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Tientsin, although swarming with military mouths the most ill-informed spot on the coast attachés and news agents, has been for two of China. Ever since the post closed on 10th December we have been cut off from all munication with the outside and inside world except such as is supplied by the overland courier, service. The popplation of our port is so much greater than usual that even this service has proved unequal to the demand on it, and we have on three separate occasions beef22,0.5 Shang- hi advices for periods of twenty-three days. The Chinese military anthorities have pow gone so far as to prohibit code telegraphy even when accompanied by a consular testamur as to its purely commercial character; incoming wires" in cipher or in plain words are also now stopped, so that we know less about the war than, any foreign community in the Middle Kingdom.
Rumour has replaced news and daily maltreats truth and reticence. We know that the land forts at Weihaiwei have fallen, but to-day (8th February) we do not know the fate of the fleet, nor is it known in the Chinese Admiralty Secre- tariat here. The natives have circumstantial details on everything, viz., that the fleet is in possession of the enemy, that the seven foreigners on board are all killed, and that brevet-Admiral
often to be readily gulled by stuff like this at McClure was shot in the guilet while using his binocular, &c., &c. We have been deceived too
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Your readers, however, may look forward with certainty to Tientsin becoming a centre of trust- worthy news in the immediate future, and we shall then try to atone for the present atrophy of our intelligence department.
Both the Chinese and foreign officials here tive of the Japs. affect to believe that we shall be the next objec- Clearly the Japanose can now easily blockade I venture to doubt this. the Gulf of Pechili in general, by placing a few cruisers across from Hope Sound to Port Arthur, and the Peibo in particular; they can thus cut off the sea-borne rice for the capital. They have The catching of a deer is such a rare occur. also an inducement to come this way by reason rence in Hongkong that when one does fall into a of the two arsenals located here and the railway trap the fact is worthy of notice. An autelope communication with Taku. But on the other doe was caught at Sheko on Thuriday night by hand it is undoubtedly the line of greatest prize by a man who was attending to the pre- all it involves chances of misunderstanding with some Chindmen. They were seen carrying the resistance to their final goal-Peking-and above werve of Mr. F. H. May. Captain Superintendent the foreign powers. Japan is now denuded of which had been set for a fox, and when seen was vanced in a hostile country some distance from of Police. The doe had got caught in a trap troops, her soldiers are in most cases well ad- alive, but its injuries were so serious that it was killed as soon as possible. Portions of it were Western naval power would actually imperil their naval bases, and a misunderstanding with a sent to His Excellency the Governor. Major- Japan's existence as a nation. Russia, France, General Digby Barker, and Mr. and Mrs Kes- especially England, at the present moment wick. The animal was similar to those found in hold Japan's fate in the hollow of their the Kwantung Province, but is probably in-hands. For this reason digenous to Hongkong. A short time ago a likely that the Japanese will decline blockade
alone I deem deer drive was organised by Mr. May, Captain and will at present avoid Tientsin. assisted by forty men of the Brigade and about Newchwang (Ying-kou) and Chefoo, which for Murray, and a few officers of the Rifle Brigade. nothing of their scrupulous abstention from forty coolies. They raised one hog deer, which is most likely one of the herd set down on the mercy the presence of foreigners and foreign the last two months have been entirely at their island some time ago by Messrs. W. Keswick trade alone gives any adequate reason for their and J. Bell Irving. Traces of deer were plenti- avoidance of these places. ful in the neighbourhood of Sheko.
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