June 4, 1896.]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
were started Wednesday afternoon and are The Carmarthenshire, with the Bonnington still at work. On Thursday all hands were in tow, arrived safely at Nagasaki about two kept busy baling water out of the hold and ao'clock on Thursday afternoon. As she sailed force pump was also worked from the main hence about 3 p.m. on Saturday, the 23rd inst., deck. The after hand pump could not be used this would mean an average speed of nine knots as the pipe as well as several stanchions, etc., for the voyage. had been carried away by the propeller blades, A correspondent writing to the Singapore The weather moderated between 4 and 8 o'clock Free Press from Pahang says:-The cyanide yesterday (Friday) morning fortunately. At process at Punjom is paying, but it has poisoned noon yesterday the ship was discovered to be the Priok River; the fish in that river die, at about 40 miles south and east of Oshima. A
any rate,
The other day an alligator ten feet Japanese steamer was met at 4.30 p.m. yester-long was killed by the poison. day, with which signals were exchanged to verify the ship's position. The ship arrived here at 10 a.m. to-day,
The picture presented on board is one not easily to be forgotten, the twisted and torn stanchions, ladders, pipes, etc., together with the fractured hatch combings, all of solid iron of course, bearing ample evidence as to the nature of the danger. When the ship arrived here she was ten feet by the stern with a heavy list to port. It may be seen from this what the position of the ship must have been 36 or 48 hours ago, before the pumps had materially reduced the volume of water in the holds.
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Too much credit cannot be given the ship's officers and engineers for their determined and happily successful struggle against the elements and a train of adverse circumstances. All hands have been constantly at work for sixty hours. The accident in the engine depart ment was due
the low
pressure gear giving out. This necessitated the disconnection of the .p. engine and the use of the intermediate and 1.p. engines alone. Nowithstanding the difficulty of working in such a sea, this was successfully accomplished. Twenty hours later the intermediate valve gear also gave out, but this defect was remedied in less time, as the h.p. gear was at hand with which to effect repairs. It is fortunate the ship carries four European engineers, as the lion's share of the work in the engine room devolved upon them. The Chinese crew lost heart again and again and had to be driven to their places at times.
The names of the ship's company are
as following:--Prentice, captain; E. Liddle, chief officer; R. Linfott, second officer; G. Gabbert, third officer; H. Wilson, chief engineer; D. MoFee, second engineer; Hattersley, third engineer; and Power, fourth engineer.
Captain Prentice was badly injured in one foot in trying to secure something on deck. The ship was visited by Mr. Ellerton, Lloyd's Surveyor, early this afternoon, but it is not yet decided whether the repairs will be affected here or at Nagasaki.
HONGKONG.
The event of the week has been the unveiling of the statue erected in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. The cere- mony was performed by His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Robinson, on Thursday last, the day appointed for the celebration of the Queen's birthday, and a general holiday was observed. Every British and foreign cial in the colony attended and, in addition to two thousand troops, thousands of people turned out to witness what was a very brilliant func tion. On Friday two men were convicted of arson, a crime which is very prevalent in the colony, and the Chief Justice sent them to guol for twelve years with hard labour. The total number of plague cases to date is 1,021, and among the patients this week were three Britishers, one of them, a soldier, having died a few hours after he was seized.
On the 31st May the C. P. steamer Empress of China, which arrived here on Tuesday, spoke the German steamer Peiyang lying at anchor in lat 29.38 N., long. 122.39 E., with her shaft broken. She wished to be reported to her owners and have a tug sent to her.
We hear that the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company's earnings for April amount to $132,000, making a total for the first four months of the year (including the amount brought forward) of something over $500,000, a most remarkable result and one that makes a record in the Company's annals.
It is notified that the foll wing Ordinances have been approved--An Ordinance to prevent doubts as to the validity of documents hereto- fore sealed with the seal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty of Hongkong; An Ordinance to amend the practice as to the vacating of the registration of a Lis pendens; An Ordinance for the incorporation of the President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.
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Owing to the absence of rain the water supply is now turned or for only a limited
time each day.
An Allahabad despatch of 14th May states Lieutenant-Colonel E. G. Barrow, that Assistant Adjutant-General, Rawalpindi, will officiate as junior Deputy Secretary in the during Captain De Military Department Brath's absence with the Suakim force.
From the Courrier de Saigon we learn that on the arrival of the steamer Gloucester City at Saigon from Hongkong a Chinese member of the crew was sent to hospital suffering from an illness suspected to be bubonic plague. The en- tire crew was placed under observation until further orders.
At the Police Court on the 27th May, before Hon. Commander Hastings, two coolies were charged with unlawfully wounding two other coolies in ahouse at 11, Rutter Street. Several coolies squabbled in the house and a hand to hand conflict resulted, the prisoners, armed with hatchets, being apparently the most deter- mined of the rowdies. They cracked one coolie's head and badly wounded another in the leg. The accused were remanded, as the injured coolies are being attended to at the Government Civil Hospital.
A special session of Justices was held at the Magistracy on the 27th May, when Elizabeth Goldberg applied for a transfer of her. publican's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises at Nos. 90 and 92, Queen's Road "The Western Hotel," to West, known as Fitzroy Ingledew Francis Bedford, formerly of the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade. Mr. Bowley appeared for the applicant. There were no objections by the Police. The Magistrates present were Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hast- ings, Mr. E. W. Mitchell, and Mr. W. M. B. Arthur, and they unanimously agreed to grant the application.
A dealer carrying on business in Wanchai was charged at the Magistracy on the 2nd June with selling old iron without a licence. The defen- dant is the owner of the shell which exploded some time ago in Bullock Lane and injured three people, and it turned out that he was in the habit of selling shells and other metal with- out a licence. He was fined 50 cents and the
Peter Gruenwald, the second engineer of the metal, which was worth a considerable sum, was Martha, was brought up at the Police Court on ordered to be dumped into the sea.
the 26th May charged with shooting and wound- On the arrival of the P. & O. homewarding two coolies during the affray on the vessel on English mail steamer Mirzapore in harbour Monday last. Mr. Mounsey appeared for the on Tuesday morning she proceeded to the quar- prosecution and said that his clients were in the antine ancharage. The Medical Officer of the hospital, one of them being very seriously port went on board and was shown an English wounded, and he therefore asked for a remand. steward who was suffering from smallpox. Prisoner, through Inspector Hanson, admitted The patient was at once transferred to the firing the shots, but he did not know he had | Hygeia and the usual precautions were taken on
hit anybody. He did not fire direct at any the vessel. The mails were not delivered until particular coolies, but simply amongst them. 3.30 p.m.. as they had to be disinfected.
Hon. Commander Hastings remanded the case until the 3rd June.
There were 1,508 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 123 were Europeans.
Vessels arriving at Haiphong from Hong-| kong are to be subjected to seven days' quarantine.
Mr. Ward, the new organist of St John's Cathedral, arrived on the 27th May by the P. & O. steamer Aden.
It is notified that the Vaccine Institute will be closed during the summer months from 1st June to 30th September, 1896.
On Friday afternoon Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., addressed the members of the Odd Volumes Society, taking for his subject Mahan's book, "The influence of sea power on history."
From the Comercio we learn that the Amer ican ship Berlin, from Amoy to the United states with tea, arrived at Manila on the 21st May with the captain injured. The vessel had been caught in the typhoon and in one of seas that washed the deck the captain received severe injuries to his left leg. which in- capacitated him for duty, and he consequently put into Manila to obtain another captain to navigate the vessel to her destination.
There were 20 cases of plague on the 26th May, on the 27th 12, on the 28th 13, on the 29th 18, on the 30th 17, on the 31st 7, on the 1st the 2nd 8. Amongst the June 6, and on patients on the 26th was Sapper Barr, of the the 28th. loyal Engineers, who died on Private Simmonds, of the Rifle Brigade, was attacked on the 1st June and died while being taken to hospital. Another European patient is the four year old son of Inspector Hanson, who is supposed to have contracted the disease from some of the people who have visited In- spector Hanson's station from plague infected houses.
Mr. May, second master at Queen's College, gave information to the police on Tuesday morn- ing of a robbery from his residence at 3, Mountain View, Peak. About breakfast time M18. May discovered that many silver articles, of the value of $15, were missing and she at once suspected a houseboy whom she discharged on the 23rd of last month. The boy went to the house on Monday night and made an enquiry for Mr. May, and early in the morning he was seen prowling about the house. It is thought that he entered the place by an open window and made off with the property. The police are now looking for him.
On the 2nd June Hon. Commander W. C.H.
Hastings held an inquest at the gaol concern- ing the death of a prisoner named Wong Kam Po. The following jurymen assisted in the in vestigation:-Messrs. C. H. Grace, E. A. L. Stephany, and G. Seirich. The evidence showed that the deceased was admitted to the gaol on the 11th of last month, having beon sentenced to twenty-eight days' hard labour for theft. On The first annual general meeting of the Fire the 18th ult. he was flogged for misconduct and Insurance Association of Hongkong was held received six strokes with the rattan. This flog- at the offices of the China Fire Insurance Co. ging evidently served him no purpose as on the on Friday afternoon. Mr. Macbean, Chair- 26th he again committed a breach of prison. man of the Association, presided. Twenty-four discipline and the Superintendent and a visit- Companies were represented. The Chairman.ing justice ordered the prisoner a further before moving the adoption of the report and punishment of twelve strokes. On both beca. accounts for the year ended 31st March, 1896, sions he was medically examined and declared addressed those present, reviewing the work in a fit condition to bear the castigation. He done by the Association during the year. The was put into the hospital on the 27th ult. and following gentlemen were elected the Committee his wounds were treated. On 1st June Dr. Bell, for the current year: Messrs. Macbean (Chair Medical Officer at the gaol, found the man very man), Tomlin, Fuhrmann, C. H. Lammert, weak and ordered him brandy and milk and Wicking, Alex. Ross, and Crombie (Hon. Secre-other delicacies, but these were of no avail and tary.) On the motion of Mr. Veitch, seconded by Mr. Wicking, a vote of thanks was accorded to the retiring Committee. With a vote of thanks to the Chairman the meeting ended.
he died at 1.45 a.m. on the 2nd June from blood poisoning due to abscesses which had formed on the buttocks. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with this evidence.
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