Gotober 8, 1896.1
scribe for the benefit of that reholders are bound to pro- the club and the public with it. If it is actually the ere is more than enough money I why while the upper circles are emselves at the ball, the poor should allowed to share in some way in the nts of the day. This would do away, with all division of opinion, because all who have subscribed would be glad to think that
Art was being used in charity.
3rd October.
On Friday morning when the turnkey opened the Monte Fort prison, four prisoners who confined there awaiting deportation to tried to make their escape. The caught one and a soldier another they had time to jump from the wall fort. The other two however, jumped A soldier jumped after them and with word he gave one of them a severe cut and captured him, but the other one made his escape and has not yet been recaptured.
SRAGE
A little over two months ago seven men tried to make their escape from this, gaol, of hom three succeeded. This ought to have
the authorities on their guard to take recautions against any more escapes. If things e to go on in this way it would be better to put the prisoners in the public gaol and keep hone in the Monte Fort prison, because the former is safer.
CANTON NOTES:
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FROM THE CHUNG NGÔI SAN PO” There are more than two thousand robbers quartering in Fa-un district. The name of the leader is Cheung Wan, and he is about thirty ears of age: They set forth in large bands to commit robberies of every sort and sometimes "thirty or forty houses have been robbed at a time. Some time ago about forty soldiers ere despatched thither from Canton, but when they arrived the leader of the robbers told them to go back, for he said that their force was insufficient to cope with the band. The soldiers were thus compelled to return to Can- tori. The local sub-Magistrate, who has received many complaints from the people, ordered the local Sansz to effect the capture of the leader, and they were further told that if they failed to do this they would be punished. The Sansz, being unable to arrest the leader, were obliged to bring his elder brother to the sub-Magistrate, who at once sent him to the local Magistrate. Several days ago Cheung Wan went himself with five robbers to see the sub-Magistrate in his yamen and said "I am Cheung Wan. If you want to arrest me, you can arrest me now. You are a coward. If you are unable to arrest me, why should you arrest my elder brother, who is a peaceful man. If you will not release my brother, I will come to destroy your yamen and kill you and all your belongings." The sub-Magistrate, who was almost frightened to death, was unable to utter a word. It is said that the sub-Magistrate has written to the Magistrate to that effect and that the captive has been released.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
the place, were often reported committing serious crimes, soldiers and policemen have been empowered to go to their quarters to arrest any of them when necessary.
HONGKONG.
A gale was experienced on Monday and Tuesday and rain fell in torrents at intervals Fortunately practically no damage was done. On Friday the Jockey Club held an important extraordinary general meeting, at which it was decided to expunge certain words from the rules which were objectionable to the naval and mili- tary people. The annual meeting of the Club was afterwards held.
H.M.S. Redpole arrived from Manila on the 5th October.
Museum last week, of whom 174 were Europeans. There were 2,332 visitors to the City Hall The Ordinance to provide for the issue of warrants in the case of suspected coinage offences has been approved by Her Majesty.
The Rev. R. F. Cobbold, Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, is booked to leave Vancouver by the C. P. steamer Empress of India on the
12th October,
mitted Lam Hung for trial on a charge of On Saturday Hon. Commander Hastings com- causing the death of a foki in a shop in Queen's
Road East.
Dr. F. W. Clark, of the Civil Service, has been appointed a director of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund, vice Mr. A. K. Travers, resigned.
H.M.S. Swift has cracked the high pressure shaft of her starboard engine. She is to repair at Nagasaki, where she arrived on the 25th September from Korniloff Bay.
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A proclamation by the Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of North Borneo, providing for the extradition of fugitive criminals from Hongkong, is published in Saturday's Gazette.
The Government has received the following telegram from the British Minister at Tokyo :- "Medical inspection at Japanese ports discon tinued on arrivals from Hongkong and China ports."
Chan Tsung Sham, assistant Secretary to the Man On Insurance Company, was on Saturday bound over in the sum of $50 to be of good behaviour for six months. He assaulted a lakong in Pottinger Street and created a disturbance.
At the Police Court on Saturday the master and the accountant of a shop at 12, Cheung Shau Street West, were charged with having counter- feit coins in their possession. Detective Ser- geant Holt made a seizure in the shop of 36 base coins. The Magistrate ordered each defend ant to pay a fine of $50 and $5 for each coin.
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The coxswain of the P. & O. lanno fined on the 29th Septemb blowing his whist
that he wanted to wake apse coolie some tiffin baskets ashore.
Police Constable James Lawtie died Government Civil Hospital 4th October from fever, w attacked two or three days previo deceased was the force.
He can out about The funeral took place on th 5th at the Happy Valley. The formed by the whole of the European duty and several private residents als
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At the Police Court on the 5th 00 Hon. Commander Hastings, three me charged with slaughtering a the master and it was proved that slaughter-house at Yanmati.” One of the implements used were his and that two men were his employés. He was not however, himself and the Magistrate that owing to a legal technicality he could not
How inflict the full penalty on the master ever, to show how he believed in the man
innocence he would bind him over in the sum
each. of $100. The other two men were fined $100-
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An important arrest was made on Friday. For some time past Messrs. Ullmann jewellers, Queen's Road Central, have been robbed in rather a mysterious manner of a large quantity of jewellery, &c, It was not until Friday that the thieves were discovered. Mr. M. Bernheim the manager, saw one of the shop coolies-steal a number of watch springs and the thief was at once given into custody Detective Sergeants Holt and Molver made enquiries and found pawntickets relating to stolen property and implicating
two other shop coolies who have decamped. On Saturda the thief who was caught red-handed was sent to gaol for six months.
Says the Singapore Free Press The Rev G. M. Reith, our genial "Padre in Partibus," has now arrived in Scotland safe, sound, and
single, He writes:-"Was in Edinburgh the other day and met Col. D. G. Anderson, who is going strong as usual and expressed his joy in bis usual boisterous manner. Many in Singa- pore, and Hongkong for that matter, will be pleased to hear tidings of jovial "Jock Ander- son, who began and ended his service with the Old Steelbacks of the 58th From the Padre's guarded phrase we fancy that all Princes Street must have stood still to witness the greeting of the two big. Scots, and to hear the old Colonel's grand flow of welcome, studded every fifteen seconds by the famous "D'ye understaun" p” ⠀--
The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, advises us that he has received the The Volunteer Camp of Instruction will start at Stonecutter's Island at 6.30 a.m, next following cable from the mine giving the re- sult of the September clean up- The mill Saturday. Any member can join the camp ran 28 days crushing 1,150 tons of ore yielding from 5 p.m. on Friday, but he must give notice 570 ozs. of smelted gold. Fifty tons of con-at head quarters. The camp promises to be one centrates calcined yielded 80 ́ozs. of smelted gold."
A thief made a fatal leap on Thursday. He came out of a house in Jubilee Street with some stolen property and on catching sight of
of the most successful yet formed and there will doubtless be a very strong muster at each drill. A new and interesting feature will be the publication of two numbers of a paper to be called The Camp Gazetle, and we understand the complete success of the journal. We may also mention for the benefit of the general public, who are cordially invited to attend, that the Principal Medical Officer has kindly consented to give a lecture, at headqu to-morrow night on "The medical ments of a British Army in War.
A fire broke ont in a leather box shop named a watchman he ran back and went upstairs. In that every endeavour is being made to ensure Trim Yuen, în Chong-yuen-fong, inside the city on the 27th ultimo, at 7 p.m. The fire ras not got under control until II p.m. Forty
ises were destroved.
endeavouring to jump from a window on the first storey to a window in a house opposite, he fell short of the mark and was killed on the pavement below..
* On the 15th ultimo a fire occurred in a Joseph Kieber, the man charged with the carpenter's shop in Yau Ying Street, in Kwei- manslaughter of Arthur Connor, of the steam lin, the capital of Kwangsi. About thirty ship Radley, was brought before the Magistrate houses were burnt to the ground, five lives were again on the 30th September. Mr. H. L.
and two persons were injured.
Dennys for the defence submitted that A large quantity of copper coins weighing defendant did not strike the deceased with seven candareens which were ordered by the intent to cause him grievous bodily harm. Nanking for the currency of that His Worship eventually decided to reduce the
ins already been made, and they will charge to one of serious assault, and sentenced soon be sent to their destination.
defendant to three months hard labour.
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