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struction of a ship canal navigable at all stages of the tide for the largest vessels. Starting a little below Kajao creek, the canal is to run in a northerly direction (N. W. to N. } W.) across Pheasant Point, entering the Yangtsze River a little below the Lismore light.
The total length, including the cutting across the low banks outside, will be close on four miles, the depth at low water between 24 and 25 feets It will and the width of the bottom 200 feet. thus be seen that the syndicate design to con- struct a really noble waterway, by means of which Shanghai will be accessible at all states of the tide to the largest sea-going vessels without the trouble, risk, and inconvenience which at present are always contingencies to be looked for in the crossing of the Woo- sung Bar. At the Yangtsze end two large semi. circular jetties will be constructed, reaching far out into the river and giving what may be called the seaward entranco to the canal, a bell-mouthed shape, the reason for which is that the ebb tide running down the Yangtsze river may be turned aside from the canal, and thus that the silt may be prevented from being taken up and de- posited in the now artificial waterway.
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It would seem that building on the vacant piece of land in front of the Central Police Station is at last to be undertaken, as tenders for contracts in conuection with the work are invited.
The Hou. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial aud Nethersole Hospita's bags to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitals:-
Collected by Li Shü Ying Yung Siu Poo.......
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We hear that the new afedical Officer of Health, who is shortly expect d from home, will reside at Kowloon, that being one of the torms of his agreement. It is considered undesirable, fom a public point of view, that the Peninsula should be left withont any resident medical man. H.M.S. Tamar arrived on Friday afternoon. She proceeds to Shanghai and Hakodato and will be away about a month effecting reliefs, and on her return it is expected she will be paid off and then prepared for taking the place of the Victor Emanuel as receiving ship. Nothing definite, however, is settled yet.
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Chartered Bank have reduced their rate of interest on twelve months' deposits to four per cent.
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The Hon. Secretary of to Cricket Club has forwarded to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph a draft for £10, being Hongkong's contribution to the testimonial that has been inaugurated at home in honour of Dr. W. Grace. Excellency the Governor took considerable in- terest in and was one of the first of the 200 sub-cribers to the local fund; and the names of most of the gentlemen in the colony who are interested in cricket are to be found in the list of contributors. Welcome subscriptions were re. ceived also from the Sergeants' Mess of the Royal Artillery, as well as from some of the younger and knickerbockered generation who are growing up in Hongkong.
Just before one o'clock on Monday morning a a fire broke out at 70, Jervois Street, a piece goods shop. The Fire Brigade, under Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings and Mr. Badeley, The storm of the 28th and 29th July was at once turned out. The fire had obtained a experienced at Macao in much the same way as good hold of the upper portion of the premises, at Hongkong, torrents of rain falling, accoin- and fu a short time it had spread to 245, Queen's Road Central, which is at the back. After panied by sharp squalls, but no damage is reported. The patients in the Lappa plage working two hours the flames were extinguished. The shop in Jervois Street was completely hospital were removed for fear that the struc
burnt in the upper storeys, and the shop was con- ture might be blown down by the typhoon..
The shop in The Field Battery of the Hongkong Vo-siderably damaged by water.
Queen's Road suffered similar damage. The lunteer Corps hold their third monthly com petition for the cup presented by Captain premises are iusured respectively with Messrs. MacCallum, on Saturday afternoon. The cup Loxley & Co. for $10,000 and with Messrs. was won by Gunner W. Duncan with a good Carlowitz & Co, for $12,600. The master of each score of 89 over the 200, 400, and 500 yards shop is expected to return shortly from Canton. ranges. Former winners-Gunner Stewart in June and Sergt. Macdonald in July,
Thomas Picton, a guanor in the Roval Marine Artillery, was tried by courtmartial qp the Victor Emanuel on Monday for attempting to steal a purse belonging to a Chinese coxswain. The Court consisted of Captain Blaxlaud, presi- aud Burrows. The prisoner, who picked up the purse while ou sentry duty and did not give it up to a superior officer, was sent to gaol for six months and dismissed the servico.
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We (Singapore Free Press) bear that Lients. Talbot and Long, of the Rifle Brigado, from Hongkong, have had some sport in the Malay Poniusula. From a note from Liput. Talbot to a friend it appears that he got a tusker elephant and a sladang. On one occasion he saw fifteen or twenty elephants pass within easy shot, but, him to touch the weaker sex.
The mud dug out in the course of construction will be piled up in dykes on each bank and a wide roadway constructed right along on each side of the canal. The syndicato undertake to complete the work in three years, although they expect they may be able to do it in a much shorter time if necessary, and they stipulate in the negotiations which are at present going on with the Tsungli Yamen that if the Chinese Government approve of the scheme, they will give the syndicate the work of structing the canal in preference to any other contractor who may come forward, always pro- vided that the terms of the syndicate are as reason. able as any others that may be tendered. The syndicate have all the money that will be necessary for the work ready at hand. and they will not require to raise any outside. It is ex-dent, Commander Bearcroft, Lieutenants Aguewalas! they were all ladies and chivalry forbade pected that the canal will have to be concreted or very firmly bunded to prevent the banks, which are composed of mud and silt, from slipping into the bed of the stream. The advantages which steamers trading at the port will derive from the canal, if it is ever completed, are obvious to the most casual observer. By means of it the inner bar, Gough Island, the outer bar, and the extremity of Pheasant Point will be cut off and neither in-coming nor out-going vessels need any longer navigate the dangerous and crowded an chorage at Woosung, while for vessels trading between Shanghai and the Yangtsze ports a sav ing of seven miles will be effected on the run. We wish M. de Martean and the syndicate he represents every success in their undertaking, which if carried through successfully, would be the greatest blessing ever conferred upon Shanghai.
The Gazette in a subsequent issue sys: -In reference to our article of last night on the proposed Pootung caual, we further learn that tho syndicate is not quile correctly described as French. It is more or less international iu character, as it embraces two leading firms of British contractors and ougineers. The neces- sary plans and details of the scheme have not yet been completed, until the general principle of the project has been officially approved, as we hope to announce in a short time it will.
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The massacre of missionaries at Kutien has caused a feeling of intense horror in the colony, and a public meeting has been suggested for the purpose of arging the home Government to take decisive action. An extraordinary case of in- cendiarism is engaging the attention of the police, and
an outrage by Chinese Customs cruisers in the waters of the colony is also com- manding a thorough investigation. On Thurs- day the Sanitary Board met and important statements were made in reference to the intro duction of water closets. A petition for an appeal in a husband and wife case was dismissed by the Full Court. The half yearly meeting of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamship Co., Limited, was held on Saturday,
At the Alice Memorial Hospital last month there were fifty-nine in-patients treated and the number of out-patient visits was 1,880. At the Nethersole Hospital the numbers were 18 and 63 respectively.
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Amongst the present visitors to Tientsiu, says the Peking and Tientsin Times of the 27th July, appears the name of the Hon. T. H. White head, of Hongkong. This gentleman has just returned from home, where he has recently been giving evidence to the Government on matters affecting the constitution of the Legislative Council of the Crown Colony of which he is a member. Wo understand Mr. Whitehead pur- poses continuing his journey to Peking after a short visit to Tongshan and Shanhaikuan.
The Glen Lino steamer Glenearn arrived at Singapore on the 24th July from China with rather a serious outbreak of cholera ou board, She left Swatow on the 15th July with three hundred and eighty-one Chinese passengers for Singapore, and touched at Hongkong, On the run down two European seamen died from cholera, and one Chinese passenger succumbed to general debility. Another Europeau member of the crew had boru seized with cholera and lay a precarious condition. The Glenearn was immediately ordered into quarantine.
The captain of the steamer Taichow, from Kob-si-chaug, reports that on the 2nd inst., in lat. 21° 10′ N, long. 113′′ E., a Chinese sailor was taken off the mainsail of a junk floating in the water, He stated his name to be Tam Tai Chye, a native of Pakho, aud was one of the crew of a junk named Chan Mo-lee which left Chapu on the 27th July bound to Hoihow with a cargo of oil. At midnight on the 28th the junk foundered, he and two others saving themselves by clinging to the sail. On the 31st the other two dropped off into the water and he was the only survivor. The crew numbered eighteen hands and two passengers.
He also wounded the old tusker and got both barrels into him, but the tusker get clean away and could not be founde He speaks enthusiastically of the kind- ness he has received in Sungei Ujong and Jeloba. Lieuts. Talbot and Long are going to visit Selangor and thereafter Perak. The former speaks of the Peninsula as capital shooting ground, and he wouders that more men do not find their way here.
Mr. Brady will give his farewell concert, in aid of the funds of the Kowloon Institute, on the 17th inst. During his short residence in the colony Mr. Brady has appeared over a hundred times at entertainments of one kind and augther and each appearance has added to his popularity. It is seldom that an amatenr has in combination the will and ability to contribute so freely to the public amusement as the accomplishod and versatile Mr. Brady. Those who possess the ability sometimes lack the will, while those who possess the will often lack the ability. Mr. Brady, however, is always able and willing, and on several occasions he has given monologue entertainments, keeping the audience interested and amused for a whole evening without any assistance. On the occa sion of his farewell appearance everyone will wish to be present to give him a good send-off, and had therefore better avoid making other engagements for the 17th. Mr Brady leaves for Batavia on the 21st.
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At the Police Court on Friday, before Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, Thomas David Stevens, a private in the Rifle Brigade, was charged with assaulting a 'ricksha coolie. The complainant said that on Thursday afternoon the defendant and two comrades came out of the Bay View Hotel, when defendant struck him over the eye with his stick, inflicting a severe out. No pro- vocation was given, and when defendant got into a 'ricksba he was driven to Wanchai police On Wednesday the Hon. H. G. Wodehouse station, Defendant denied the assault. The
complainant opened the enquiry respecting the fire which oc-
might have been struck right curred at 34, Winglok Street at 4a.m. on the 29th enough," but there were twenty soldiers there. IIe called a witness, who said ult. A shop coolie spoke to leaving the ground at the time. floor to boil some conger in the kitchen on the ho did not see Stevens strike the coolie. The first floor. He took a forosine lamp with him, and constable in charge of the case said the com- he forgot to take it back. He put it near a door, plainant made several conflicting statements at and it was alight. Some time afterwards the fire the station, and in the morning he asked where broke out, in the rod where he had left the thu affair happened. The Magistrate inflicted a lamp. He did not know what caused the drẻ. fine of $3, and ordered defendant to give $1 com- The master went to Penzug some days ago,ponsation to the coolie; iu default fourteen days. Tho enquiry was adjourned until Tue.day, the Captain Stewart said the defendant's character
was indifferent. promises being released in the meantime.
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