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Capt. H. 8. Langhorne, R.A.., has joined the reorganised Army Ordnance Department as Ordnance Officer, fourth class..
The death rate last month was, for the Bri- tish and Foreign community, civil population, 24.4 per thousand and for the Chinese com- munity 18.3 per thousand.
A boy living at West Point fell from the roof of his mother's house and was seriously injured. His mother declined to allow him to be treated at the Government Civil Hospital
and on Monday morning he died.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
We are informed by the General Managers of The Olivers Freehold Mines. Limited, that a telegram has been received from Australia which indicates the probable failure of the negotiations for the sale of the joint properties. On Friday afternoon the woman who kid- napped the wife of a Canton mandarin into this colony was handed over to the lieutenant of the Chinese gunboat Kwang Li. It has been sus- pected here that the Chinese officials have been waiting for this woman to be delivered over to them before fixing the date for decapitation of Lai Mit, so we shall perhaps hear of the final decision in the murderer's case in the course of a few days,
On the 16th September the accountant in the Sam Shing Hing Japanese shop, 136, Queen's Road Central, was summoned for having made, executed, and signed a receipt for the pay- ment of the sum of $72.50 on unstamped paper, contrary to section 6 of Ordinance 16 of 1886. Mr. A. B. Johnson (Crown Solicitor) prosecuted. The defendant, who pleaded guilty, gave an unstamped receipt to a man who bought some goods of the value of $72.50 in the shop on the 26th June. Mr. Johnson remarked that the case was a very flagrant one and it was not the first time that an illegal receipt had been given in the defendant's shop. His Worship imposed a fine of $100, the maximum penalty.
Great efforts have been made to get up a Hongkong team of cricketers to visit Shanghai during the forthcoming season, but unfor- tunately the efforts have been in vain and it has been found impossible to send up a team this year. This news, which was telegraphed by Mr. E. A. Ram to Shanghai yesterday morning, will be very disappointing to the many cricket en- thusiasts in Hongkong, Shanghai, and Japan, but many circumstances, including the near departure of the Rifle Brigade, have cropped up which altogether preclude a representative team being sent. The Shanghai residents were looking forward with very great interest to a visit of a Hongkong team and arrangements were being made for the eleven to play matches against Shanghai and Yokohamu.
The members of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery Club entertained a large number of their friends at Quarry Bay on Saturday evening, the occasion being the first of their popular promenade concerts this season. A capital programme had been provided and the arrange- ments for the comfort and convenience of the guests were admirably carried out. The con- cert was held in the open air, a stage being erected on the lawn. The Taikoo minstrel troupe gave an amusing little sketch, introduc- ing several topical allusions. The band was composed of members of the Club assisted by friends. The concert was a great success, each item being well received. Owing to the length of the programme, however, the numerous de- mands for encores could not be responded to. The latest legal puzzle are opium divans common lodging houses P-is likely to be bronght forward at the next meeting of the Sanitary Board. It will be remembered that some time ago the Magistrate fined an opium divan keeper for keeping a lodging-house with- out a licence and he then expressed very decided views on the question. Notice of appeal was given and several similar cases were allowed to stand over, but it now turns out that there will bo no necessity to appeal, as the Magistrate two or three days ago reversed his decision and dismissed all the summonses. We do not know his reason for quashing the conviction he previously made, but it is believed the Sanitary Board will be in favour of pursuing the crusade and bringing the divans under control as lodging houses. It will probably rest with the law officers of the Crown as to what action is to be taken in the future.
Several house owners were summoned at the
Magistracy on Tuesday for failing to comply with notices calling upon them to abate nuisances on premises. In some cases fines were inflicted and the premises ordered to be put in proper repair and in other cases the summonses were ad- journed.
An inquest was held at the Magistracy on Tuesday morning on the body of a Sikh bombardier in the Asiatic Artillery. The man fell from a verandah in Queen's Road East. He was sitting on the coping stone, as was his usual custom, whilst taking his evening meal Nobody was on the verandah at the time and he accidentally fell over. A lakong who was passing immediately went to his assistance and the unfortunate man was conveyed to the hospital, where it was found that his skull was severely fractured. He died about twenty minutes afterwards. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
On Saturday the steamer Sunkiang brought from Manila the first officer and three seamen of the ship Flora P. Stafford, which was burnt at sea in June last. It will be remembered that when the ship was doomed to destruction by fire the crew took to three boats, two of which put in near Manila after a perilous voyage of thirty days, and it was thought that the missing boat, which contained the first officer and three men, had been capsized and the occupants drowned. It now transpires that they met a better fate than their comrades. They were well supplied with provisions and instruments and in ten days they reached the Pellew Islands, having fine weather the whole way. During the voyage two men alternately rowed-they were without sails--while the other two rested. From the Pellew Islands they sailed in the schooner Santa Cruz to Yap, but here they had to wait nearly two months for a steamer to take them to Manila. At Manila they saw the British Consul and then they were brought to Hong kong by the Sunkiang.
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In response to the invitation of Mr. Romano, the Consul-General for Portugal in this colony, a large number of Portuguese residents assem- bled on Sunday morning in the hall of the Club Lusitano to appoint a Committee to formulate a programme of festivities in commemoration of the fourth centenary of the departure of Vasco da Gama to discover the sea passage to India. Mr. Romano was duly elected to the chair and said that in compliance with the wishes of his Government he caused a circular to be issued inviting the community to meet to dis- cuss the best way to commemorate this historical event, and to elect a committee for that par- pose. He submitted a list of some thirty-two influential gentlemen whom he proposed to elect This proposal as a committee by acclamation. met with an objection on the part of some of the residents present, who suggested an election which at times was rather warm, the meeting, by ballot.
After a good deal of discussion,
on the proposal of the Chairman, was postponed till next Sunday, owing to those present being unable to come to a satisfactory agreement. Ă vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceedings.
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Assistant Paymaster Hen has been appointed Sec Oxley, second, in command on the Station, to date 16th August.
On Tuesday morning the night soil cool went on strike. Their only grievance is they are now compelled to take out free lic and use buckets supplied by the San Board, which are also given to them, is absolutely no charge mado, but som body has persuaded them that they will taxed, and a guild is supporting them to thể extent of giving each man $6 a month while they are on strike. The Sanitary Board off cials are doing their best to cope with the bloc inthe cleansing work caused by the defiant sttitude of the coolies and a number of new men have already been obtained, so that it is – probable that the cleansing work will be carried on, although of course somewhat slowly. It is well to know that householders can prosecute the coolies for refusing to work, and one pro- to charge his coolie as soon as the rebellious minent official has expressed his determination
measures adopted in a strike of this kinda? one can be caught. There ought to be no half Yesterday afternoon the Sanitary Board officials >> heard that the strikers would return to worki to-day.
At the Police Court on Tuesday, before Hon Commander Hastings, Mr. C. Ewens, solicitor, was summoned for failing to comply with two notices calling upon him to abate a nuisance at 140, Praya West. Mr. Ewens explained at the outset that he was not the owner of the pro- perty and had nothing to do with it. On the death of the tenant for life he might have some thing to do with it. He had told the Sanitary Board officer who was the proper person to serve the notice upon, Mr. McCallum, the Secretary to the Sanitary Board, told the Magistrate that Mr. Ewens was registered
at the Land Office as the trustee of the
property. Mr. Ewens replied that there was no i registration at all of titles at the Land Office there was only a registration of deeds.The Sanitary Board had no difficulty in their way The section said the person liable was "any house owner or the person for the time being receiving the rents of the premises." He did not receive the rents and had no control over the premises. Chan Ching was the person liable and the Sanitary Board could summon him. He (Mr. Ewens) was willing to give the Board every assistance and he did not think they ought to do this kind of thing. Mr. McCallum suggested that the summons against Mr. Ewens should be dismissed. A summons would be taken out against Chan Ching. The Magis- trate thereupon dismissed the summons against Mr. Ewens.
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At the Police Court on the 17th September and Thistle Hotel, was charged, together W. Krator, proprietor of the Bose, Shamrock,
with his wife, with behaving in a dis orderly manner on his licensed promises H. L. Dennys
on
the 15th inst. Mr.
P.C. 14 stated that he was op defended. duty in Queen's Road West at about 6.30 A boy was charged at the Magistracy p.m. on Tuesday and saw a large crowd collected the 18th September with absenting outside the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle. He himself from duty without the leave of dispersed the crowd and went into the house, his employer. He was in the service of where he saw the two defendants. They were Mr. G. Murray Bain and received $10 quarrelling and making a great commotion a month wages. On the 17th August, two days the female defendant was crying. He persuaded after he was engaged, he went away to bury the two to cease the disturbance, which, how his father and left a substitute to do his work, ever, was shortly renewed by the woman rushing but he did not return. On the 14th inst. he at her husband and striking him with her fist. wrote a letter to the substitute saying that he. The constable ordered the woman upstairs and could not return before the 26th and "if master thinking the quarrel was ended departed. He cannot wait till then he can easily get another entered the house again shortly afterwards and servant."
Mr. Bain was suspicious and the woman told him she would charge her izt communicated with the police, who found husband. The constable accordingly took that the boy had enrolled himself in the in custody and told the woman that she would service of the Chief Justice at a salary of $11 have to come to the station to substan a month. A gummons was served on him- acousation. She thereupon withdrew the the boy, not the Chief Justice-but he failed to saying she did not wish to go to the turn up at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, the The constable then released the m time mentioned in the summons. A warrant informed him that both he and was consequently issued and the boy ex be summoned for disorderly plained to the Magistrate that the reason he defence Mr. Dennys submi did not attend the Police Court was that he was affair was only a squab waiting upon the Chief Justice at the time.wife; it was not a The Magistrate said the boy had told and writ- ment should be ten lies and he would be fined $12, with the Hastings bound alternative of six weeks' imprisonment.
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