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The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals :-
Kin Tai Loong Man Fuk Co. Wong Chuk Yau Wong Shü T'ong Lam Kam Ting Ng Yuen Hing Wong Yu Chün Yeung Hin Pong Hin Un
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At an open meeting of the "Geneva Cross' Lodge, 1.0.G.T., held on the evening of the 31st August in the Soldiers' and Sailors In. stitute, Queen's Road East, the Principal Medical Officer of the garrison, Surgeon Colonel Evatt, gave an address on the general effect of total abstinence in the British army, showing why and how 籍 soldier could and should be an abstainer from strong waters, especially some of the awful stuf
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Amongst the passengers who left for home on the 2nd September by the Empress of India was Staff Commander L. Rowlatt, who, we re- gret to learn, has been invalided.
The Volunteer Camp of Instruction will be held at Stonecutters' Island from the 10th to the 18th October. Major Pemberton, the Com- mandant, bas sent a circular to the various busi- ness places requesting employers to give those volunteers in their employ as much leave as pos- sible during the week. We hope the Major's request will be cordially acceded to.
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At Yokohama on the 28th Ar seen to jump off the pier into the an alarm being raised a boat spot, but it was not until the some time in the water that it was It
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was subsequently identified as the Herbert William Webb, in the employ Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The deceased, hails from Kingston, Jamaica, had for some time been second mate of the Nagoya- but left that vessel the previous day. deceased was 27 years of age. An inquest held and a verdict of suicide while in an un- sound state of mind was returned.
News was received from the British Consul at Canton on Saturday stating that the Viceroy had ordered Lai Mit to be re-tried. The
A correspondent writing from Hangohow, Viceroy's deputy conducted the trial at Namtau under date the 31st of August, states that there on Thursday, when the prisoner stoutly denied are at present only two foreigners there, who having confessed to the murder of the lukong are living in boats anchored off the Settlement. in Hongkong. As he persisted in his denial he So far, he says, no application has been made. was tortured and the suffering he underwent for land except by the Japanese Consul, who for a few minutes brought ont a full confession would like to have the whole Settlement if it is of his guilt and he was ordered to be decapitated.possible. It is thought that he will be success He is expected to be brought to Kowloon City ful. in obtaining half of it. Everything is in the course of a few days.
reported to be at a standstill except the build- ing of the Custom House, which is going on of October. Our correspondent seems to think
P. Kennedy, a police constable in the Naval retailed in the Far East." Brother Lochead, Yard, was charged at the Police Court on the 3rd | apace, and the port is to be opened on the 1st were very many present who were not Templars. September with stealing a silver card tray. It ap- that matters are not proceeding apace on account.
C.D.C.T., Hongkong, was in the chair. There
In the interval refreshments were handed round by the committee, after which addresses and songs were given.
The following returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st August, 1896, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks, are published
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India,
Average Specie in
amount.
reserve.
Australia and China... $1.868,542 $1,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking. Corporation. 4,254,769 2,500,000 National Bank of China,
Limited
385,444
205,000
Total... $6,508,755 $3,705,000 A
young thief and intimidator was on the 4th September sent to gaol for forty-two days. The boys employed by the Golf Club wear badges to distinguish them from the ordinary ruck. Some time ago a few of them gave trouble and they were sent away. The prisoner was one of them and on the 30th alt. he stole a badge and also threatened the owner with violence if he again performed any service for the Club. The police were informed of this state of things and the accused was arrested at Wanchai on Thursday night. The exemplary sentence passed upon him will doubtless act as a severe warning to the other malcontents.
The man who stole a clock from a Police Court while the magistrate was sitting has an equal in Hongkong. For some time articles have been missed from the policemen's sleeping quarters at the Central Police £tation, and on Thursday night a couple of watches were stolen. The were placed at the head of the respective owners' beds at midnight and on the following morning they had disappeared. Detective Sergeants Holt and McIvor paraded the coolies who pull the bedroom punkahs during the night and in one of their boxes were found the two watches,
which had been stolen while the owners were sleeping. The coolie claiming the box was arrested and was on the 4th September sent to gaol for three months with hard labour. One of the watches belonged to P.C. Clark and the other to P.C. Ratty.
On the evening of the 2nd Sept., about 8.30, Sergeant Moffatt and a posse of police made a raid on a gambling house at 24, High Street, West Point, and found about thirty coolies playing fantan. The house was suspected by Sergeant Moffatt as being a large gambling establish- ment frequented by coolies. Almost every form of Chinese gambling instruments was found on the premises, and $20 in small coin and a large quantity of copper cash was seized. When the police entered the house the men commenced to throw the money out of the window. The two masters of the Louse and nineteen coolies were arrested and they were charged at the Police Court next day with playing fantan. The Magistrate, Hon. Commander Hastings, fined the masters of the house $50 each and the other defendants
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pears that on Tuesday, the 1st inst., Mr. Shelton Hooper purchased the card tray with the inten- tion of presenting it to the Rev. S. St. A. next day for England. He despatched his Baylee, Naval Chaplain, who was leaving the
hair coolie with the parcel containing the sent and a letter addressed to the Rev. St. A. Baylee at the Naval Yard. The defendant was on duty at the gate and received the parcel and note, signing the receipt for the same. retained the parcel, however, and only delivered the letter. Consequently when the Rev. Bayles, read the communication he discovered that the parcel was missing and immediately came off from the Victor Emanuel and made enquiries at the Naval Yard. The defendant was questioned, but he denied having received the parcel, although the statement of the coolie showed that it was delivered into his hands, and further proof was furnished by the fact that the receipt bore his signature. The next day Inspector MacEwen, of the Naval Yard Police, reported the matter to the Central Police Station and Sergeant Holt was entrusted with the case.
for the lion's share and to this the officials seem
of the attitude of the Japanese, who are seeking
city recently assembled all the chiefs of wards, rather averse.-N. C. Daily News.
The three District Magistrates of Soochow tipaos, etc., under them at their three yamêns, and commanded them to warn all the inhabit ants, those possessing land in the new settle- ments excepted to refrain from selling land to foreigners under pain of severe penalties and confiscation of property. The order was given verbally because written proclamations would grants permission to any foreigner to buy land naturally conflict with the Treaty clause which and reside in any part of the empire. The mandarins, however, contend that "they only desire to make the new settlements outside the Pan gate, after all the trouble taken over the thing, a grand success, and not with any desire to cause obstruction to foreigners settling in other parts of the city," which sounds well. N. C. Daily News..
Mr. Dawson, third engineer of the Saikio In consequence of his prompt | Maru, was arrested at Shanghai on the 28th enquiries he was able to trace the stolen pro- August for complicity in the robbery of a box perty to a pawn shop at Wanchai. He then containing Japanese coins to the value of 2,000, arrested the defendant, who Cenied all know. yen. On his room being searched, about 4,000 ledge of the affair. When brought before the newly minted twenty-sen pieces were found Magistrate yesterday, however, he admitted the There is a strong probability, however, the theft and Commander Hastings sentenced him Daily News says, that the money was put into to three months' hard labour. The card tray his cabin in order to divert suspicion. He was was valued at $22 and was pawned for $8.
put on board the ship just before sailing, and→ will be charged before the British Consul in Yokohama on the ship's arrived. Edwin Ryder, formerly second officer of the steamer, was charged before the British Court at Yokohama on the 27th August in connection with the the evidence that the keys of the mail room same robbery. It transpired in the course of where the treasure was placed, were kept on a shelf in the chief officer's room where anybody could get at them.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha is reported from Hako- Another assault upon a foreign officer of the date. The second engineer of the Nagoya-maru was set upon by a number of firemen and had both arms broken.
The Nagasaki Express says:-According to the native papers a large increase in the amount of sugar imported here from Hongkong has recently taken place. During the first half of August no less than 6,949 bags were sent from Nagasaki to various p ́aces in Kiushiu.
One million yen is the capital to be raised for the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Tokyo, and on an estimated output of 219,000 bags in ten months a dividend of 37 per cent. per annum is expected. The existing Mombetan Refinery will probably be incorporated.-Lyogo News.
The N. C. Daily News says:-A collision occurred off the Point on Thursday evening, 27th August, between the Whangpoo, which was re- turning from Woosung with 95 passengers and the mails from the Saghalien, and the Samson. The Whangpoo's engines were going astern when the collision happened and neither vessel had much headway, or the result would, in all probability, have been much more serious. The Samson struck the Whangpoo on the port bow, breaking the guard, and driving a part of it through the plate. The Samson sustained Considerable alarm almost similar damage. was caused among the Whangpoo's passengers, but fortunately no one was hurt,
The steamer Tientsin, which arrived at Shanghai at 1 p.m. on the 27th August fromar Amoy, collided with the Siamese barque Aurora, which was anchored in mid-stream in the first section of the harbour. As the Tientsin was off Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's wharves, Pootung, she dropped her anchors, at a distance of about half a ship's length from the Aurora, but, owing to a strong flood tide which was running at the time, her anchors probably did. not hold; so in swinging round she collided with the barque. The captain of the Aurora, seeing out 30 the danger his vessel was in, veered fathoms of chain to enable his vessel to get clear of the Tientsin, but the Tientsin's stern caught the Aurora, breaking her bowsprit ont. ride of the knight-heads, damaging her head gear, and carrying away her port cathead and sprit-sail yard. M. A. Peterson & Co. are ag for the Aurora, and we are informed that owners of the Tientsin have offered to rep damage that has occurred, which is estima to be $1,000. Had not the captain of the barque veered his chain, the ship would ha been seriously damaged. The ship, although old, is very strongly built, otherwise it would not have sustained the shock. Mercury,
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