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matter satisfactorily adjusted by making repre- sentation to the proper quarter.-We are, Bir, Your obedient servants,
EDBERT A. HEWETT,
Acting Agent, P. & O. S. N. Co. MELCHERS & Co..
Agents, Norddeutscher Lloyd.
. J. CHAPSAL,
Agent. Messageries Maritimes Cie. THE CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co., LTD.
Geo, Sutherland. Acting Agent. ARNOLD KARBERG & Co.,
Agents, Shell Line.
p. pro. DODWell Carlill & Co.,
O. MEUSER.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co,
Agents, Ben Line Steamers. DAVID. Sassoon, Sons & Co.
Agouts, Austrian Lloyds S.N. C'o. P. pro. SIEMSSEN & Co.
A. WASSERFALL.
P. pro. JARDINE, MATHESOx & Co.
A. W. DICKSON, Agents, Canadian Pacific R. Co.
“Glen Line Steamers
J. GRAHAM.
Assist. Manager. Nippon Yusen Kaishą. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agents. Ocean S.S. Co.
A. P. MACEWEN, Esq., Chairman General, Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. Shanghai.
HONGKONG,
The weather during the past week has been most seasonable and outdoor exercise has been¦ indulged in very largely. On Thursday the Sanitary Board met, and at the Police Commit on the same day x well-known Chinamap was sent to prisen for seven days for using insulting language in the Court, He gav notice of appeal. On Friday the Chinese Chamber of Commerce was opened by a Chinese official with Chinese rites. On Saturday His Excellency the Governor laid the foundation stone of the new home for women and children which is being built by the Pa Leung Kuk Society. On Monday the annual meeting of the shareholders in the Hongkong High Levál Tramways Co., Limited, was held. On Mon day night, as the On Sung was coming into the harbour, she ran 0117 a rock. The ship w24- thereupon leached.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
At the Marine Margistrate's Court on the 15th Jan. before Hon. R. M. Rumsey, Richard Lilly, seaman on the British barque Highland Forest, was sent to gaol for seven days for absenting himself from the ship without leave and also for refusing to obey the lawful commands of the
master.
The accounts of St. John's C-thedral for 1895 show that the receipts were $7,995 and the expenditure $7,937. A balance of $135 was brought forward from 1894 and the amount carried forward to 1896 is $193. The amount on fixed deposit has been increased from $2,900 to $3,059 by the addition of interest
The claims paid by Fire Insurance Companies in respect of Hongkong risks in 1856 amounted, we hear, to over $700,000. The year is under- stood to have been a good one for the local Companies, but if the above figures are correct some of the home Companies must have suffered rather heavily in proportion to their local in-
come.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Edgar Relief Fund begs to acknowledge with (thanks the following donation:--
Messrs. A.S. WatsouCo. Limited $100 Brought Forward
Total up to date
282
$982
Shortly after six o'clock on on the 16th Jan. the steamer Pouran went around just after passing the barrier at Canton. A junk got in the way of the steamer, which was steered round, and she then got aground. Fortunately no damage was done to the vessel. but there was a delay of six hours in reaching her destination.
At the Magistracy on the 16th Jan. Mr. T. Sexombe Sanith held the inquiry concerning the death of the little boy who was strangled in Richmond Road. There was a curious discre- poury in the evidence. The mother of the lad said he left home wearing a silver anklet about four o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th inst, whil a pawn coker in Queen's Road said the anklet was je by a boy at 230 the same afternoon. His Worship found that the boy had een strangle to death, but by whom there was 1
uo evidence to show.
Two German seamen on the Karlsruhe were charged at the Police Court on Saturday with assauiting a sampan woman. They took H.M.S. Huber, storeship, arrivel at Hong-being taken to the wrong steamer they struck sumpan and because they thought they were kong on Saturday.
H.M.S. Narcissus was exported to leave Singa- pore on the 17th inst. for Hongkong.
It is probable that Mr. Justice Wise (Puisne Judge) will go home on leave next April.
There were 1.879 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 152 Were Europeans.
A matshed at Hongham was burnt to the ground on Sunday night, and damage to the amount of 20 was the result.
At the Magistracy on the 15thJan. before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, a man was fined $50, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, for injecting morphine. He went to prison.
Another seaman on the Highland Forest was sent to goal on the 16th Jas. for seven days by the Harbour Master. The defendant's name is C. Sorensor and he left the ship without leave and also refused to work.
Saturday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire. A general salute was fired at noon in honour of the occasion and in the evening there was a dinner at the German Club.
The match between the Centurion and Company of the Rifle Brigade in the third round of the Football Cup competition took place on Saturday and resulted in a victory for the sailors by one goal to nil.
The newly erected hall of the Chinese Cham-
ber of Com narce was opened on the 17th Jun.
with the usual nativa ceremonies. Colonel Chun, the military commandant. of Kowloon, was present and took the principal part in the de- dication of the building.
The Hon. Treasures of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals :- Poultry Guild Steamer Namoa: Fines
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the woman and one of the men pointed a loaded revolver at her. P. C. Barrou heard the dis-
the men. turbance, and putting off in a sampan arrested The prisoner who presented the the other man was fined $25, with the alternative revolver was sent to goal for four months and
of one month's imprisonment.
About 11.40 p.m. on the 15th Jan, the roof of a building in the Mosque compound, occupied by several poverty stricken Mahommedans col- lapsed. Three men were buried in the fallen brickwork, and they were rescued by several Portuguese residents who quickly volunteered assistance, and also by the police. Two of the men sustained a shock to the system and one received a severe cut on his head. They were first of all attended to by Dr. Marques, who visited the scene of the accident as soon as he
could, and were then sent to the hospital, where they were detained.
Property in Hongkong does not yield a very remunerative rate of interest, judging from the report of the Land Investment Company. The balance sheet shows a sum of $1,797,736 invested in property and the rents shown in the profit and loss account amount to $74.682, which gives a return of 4.15 per cent. The amount advanced on mortgage is $2,512,624, and the in- terest shown in profit and loss account amounts to $166.277, giving a return of 6.61 per cent. The capital and reserve fund of the Company amount
together to $3,750,000 and the net income, after deducting all charges, including directors' fees, amounts to $212,420, or 5.66 per cent. The dividend of 8 per cent. on the capital cannot be looked upon as a very handsome return by those of the shareholders who took up the second issue at a hundred per cent. premium. The Company has, however, a considerable amount of undeveloped property, which will be made to yield a return in course of time.
[January 2, 1896.
Hon. W. M. Goodman (Attorney-General) will act as Chief Justice until the arrival of Mr. Carrington, who takes Sir Fielding Clarke's position, and Mr. H. E. Pollock will act as Attorney-General. Both gentlemen were sworn in on the 16th Jan. It is not yet known when Mr. Carrington will arrive in the colony. He is expected to leave British Guiana on the 22nd inst. He will go direct to England, and at the earliest he cannot arrive here until the end of March, but it is expected that he will take a holiday before coming out, so that he may not be here until the end of the summer.
On the night of the 16th Jan. a fire broke out in a basement room of the old Victoria Hotel building which was filled with thousands of new baskets which had come from Canton for the Cheung Lee firm. How the fire originated is a mystery. Fortunately the outbreak was not a serious one and the Fire Brigade quickly con trolled it. The hotel building itself. which is owned by Messrs. Sassoon and Chater, is insured with the Northern Assurance Co. (Messrs. Shewan & Co. also have a line of $40,000 on Turner & Co., agents) for $30,000, Messrs.
the block, and the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. one of $30,000.
At the Police Court on the 17th Jan. two men were charged with taking part in a robbery with violence at Quarry Bay. Early on the morning of the 14th inst, three men armed with revolvers eutered a shop used as a branch store by the opium farmers and bound up the inmates, two in number. The gang then rifled the premises and took away $119 and $25 worth of opium. The police were informed of the occurrence, and on Thursday night, the 16th inst., a Chinesa detective arrested two men who have been identified as having taken an active part in the robbery. They were brought up at the Police Court the following day and remanded for further inquiries to be made.
The Registrar-General's returns of births and deaths for the fourth quarter of 1895 show that in the British and Foreign community the annual birth-rate was 25 per thousand and the death rate 18.02, while in the Chinese population
the birth-rate was 6.18 and the death-rate 27.69. The Sanitary Board's returns of deaths for the month of December are also published in Satur- day's Gazette and give the rate for the British and Foreign community, civil population, as 31.3 and for the Chinese community 27.9. Adding the figures for the last three months together the rate is 24.66. The more favourable rate shown by the Registrar-General's returns is due to the inclusion of the garrison.
At two o'clock on the morning of the 15th Jan. a coolie was wheeling a barrow along the Praya, near Kennedytown. He was very sleepy and he
the same time. He shut his eyes and kept on tried to do what he could not-sleep and work at
wheeling when suddenly the barrow turned itself into the sea. The somnolent one of course followed and he then opened his eyes and screamed. Fortunately two Indian policemen heard the cries for help, and one of them-No. 515-jumped in after him and held his head qut of the water, while the other-No. 513-unrolled clutched hold of it and was brought safely to his turban and threw it out to the coolie, who
the shore. The conduct of the two policemen deserves recognition.
On the 15th Jan. at 2.45 am., a fire broke out in the cook house of 30. Winglok Street, a piece goods shop, and spread with such rapidity that 111, Prays Central, which backs the house, was destroyed, and the top floors at 110 and 112, Praya Central, also piece goods shops, were completely burnt out, and the other floors were damaged by water. The Fire Brigade. ander Hon. Commander Hastings and Mr. Badeley, turned out as quickly as possible, and tried hard to prevent the flames from spread- ing, but a strong wind was blowing and this materially assisted the progress of the fire. The shop where the fire originated was insured with
Messrs. Schelhass and Co. for $8,000, and also with Messrs. Sander and Co. for $1,000.
Despatches received at Shanghai frem Tient- sin state that a large number of artisans and dockyard men who belonged before the war to the Port Arthur works and who have been awaiting re-employment at Tientsin have started for the retroceded port to repair the damages done by the Japanese.
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