October 14, 1896.1
The following Ordinances have been approved Majesty An Ordinance for the Aturalisation of Lee Show, and an Ordinance the provisions of the Licensing Conso dation Ordinance, 1887.
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Mr. G. P. Lammert sold the British iron ship Glen Caladh by auction on Friday. The hull with one anchor and chain down fetshed: $5,000, the purchaser being a Chinaman. The remaining anchors, chains, sails, and appurten- were sold in different lots and realised $2,000
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stitute of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, the subject being "The medical arrangements of a British Army in War Owing to the wet weather there was, unfortunately, only a small attendance, but the audience was most attentive the and appreciative and at the conclusion expressed through the hope that Surgeon-Colonel Evatt would owing to the drains repeat the lecture. His Honour Dr. Carrington | of carrying (Chief Justice) presided, and in opening the pro- ceedings said that years ago he was connected Bund were awash, andin with the Volunteers and held a commission at water had överdowe Oxford, while of late years he held a commission the North Soo The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., in British Guians. Surgeon-Colonel Evatt then way across the Limited, advises us that he has received the delivered his lecture. He showed in a very clear was completely flooded, following telegram giving the result of the and able manner how the wounded in the fieldings facing the river September cyanide clean-up :-The cyanide of battle were cared for and how s wounded sol- | water in the compounds an ant ran 22 days treating 720 tons of oon- dier was conveyed by easy stages from the field A pleasant little ceremo centrates yielding 323 ozs of bullion of an to the Notley Hospital in England. The reading room of the Hongko
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lecturer graphically described the organisation morning. His Excellency the Beginning with the China, sailing from San of the Army Medical Staff Corps, contrasted Macao arrived in Hongkong by the ncisco October 8th, and the City of Peking, the treatment the wounded soldiers receive now steamer Melbourne and about six od ailing from Hongkong October 27th, all with what they received during the Crimean morning he proceeded to the
mers of the Pacific Mail S. S. Co. and War, and averred that so perfect were the ar to wait for the Portuguese guni Occidental and Oriental S. 8. Co. will call strangements now that a wounded man could be was to convey him to Macao, Shanghai, Nagasaki, and Kobe, both on their as well cared for on the field of battle as in his returning after six months' leave outward and homeward voyages, passing through own home. The lecturer also spoke eloquently While in the hotel his Excellenc the Inland Sen.
on the efforts of medical officers to prevent dis-upon by the Portuguese Consul, ease, dwelling particularly on the means now Romano, the directors of the Lusita taken to prevent overcrowding in the barracks several Portuguese residents," and and instancing the case of the London officials who had made a special Guards-the finest body of men in the world-cao. The Consul soted as spokesm who years ago died in large numbers from con- warmly welcoming the Governor bask sumption due to overcrowding. Such was not East thanked him for acting as the the case now; each soldier had 600 cubic feet of photograph in oils of the King air and every measure possible was taken to which his Majesty had sent to be avoid transgressing Nature's laws. Hearty votes Lusitano Club. His Excellency suita of thanks were passed at the conclusion. We and at 9.30 embarked on the gumbost f understand that Surgeon-Colonel Evatt will re- peat his lecture towards the end of this month.
At the Police Court on the 7th October Chinese youth was charged with stealing bangle from an inmate of a brothel and the Magistrate sent him to guol for four months and further ordered him to receive twelve strokes with the rattan. Later some of the prisoner's friends appeared fn Court and begged the Magistrate to impose a more lenient penalty, promising at the same time to send the accused away from the colony. His Worship consented to reduce the punish- ment to a fine of $150.
At the Police Court on the 9th October Mr. Van Epps was summoned for disobeying four notices served on him by the Sanitary Board to abate nuisances existing on his property. The defendant stated that a portion of the work had been executed. His Worship said the Sanitary Board had given defendant every consideration and had extended the notices on several oc- casions. He imposed a fine of $10 in respect of each notice and allowed fourteen days in which to abate the nuisances.
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formerly of Yarmouth, U.S.A., which left New The sailing vessel Lillian L. Robbins York on the 4th June, 1895, for the Far East, and which was dismanted in a typhoon and put into Saigon, has now been towed to Singapore. that a court-martial was recently held on board The Nagasaki Shipping List understands H.M.S Spartan, at Port Hamilton, upon one of the officers of the Daphne, who was sen- tenced to lose twelve months' seniority and to be dismissed his ship.
The chartered Spanish transport Montserrat, Capt. Marroig, with troops for the Philippines, arrived at Singapore on the 1st October from Barcelona, via Penang, calling en route at Malta and Aden. She left Barcelona on the 8th September, having on board 93 passengers, 31 officers, and 1,043 troops.
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An important Crown land sale was conducted on Monday afternoon by Mr. J. H. Prosser. The lot was marine lot No. 278 situate in Connaught Road, Prays Reclamation. The ground contains 8,427 square feet, the annual rent is $155, and the upset price was $67,416. There was only one bidder and the lot was knocked down to Mr. A. Shelton Hooper, who was acting for the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company, Limited, for $67,441. We understand that offices are to be built on the site, which is between Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's new premises, and the new office recently established at Changsha, the provincial A new Chief Bureau for Mining has been being erected for the Eastern Extension Tele-apital of Hunan, which has for its object the
raph Company.
On Monday morning another case of murder Connected with this Bureau will be the office opening of mines in Hunan with foreign plant. reported to the Polica. An Indian con of the commercial branch of the Telegraph was on duty in Kowloon Road when he Administration, while the Government line cross the dead body of a Chinaman in the office will be, for convenience sake, situated next of the road. The man had evidently met door to the Governor's yamen.-N. G. Daily
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The Chinking correspondent of the N Daily News writes:Another factory, whic some of the natives are wondering about, and are curiously asking to find out what it is put Not that eggs are manufactured there, no, no, but up for, is what might be called the Egg Factory that they are packed for shipping after going through a course of preparation. Some Germa gentlemen are at the head of the establishment. a certain treatment are heated in small. The whites and yolks are separated, then afte pans. After the heating the white of the egg has a candied consistency and colour, and i ready for shipping in large boxes. When
native was naked what was to be done with the shipped article he answered, We Chinese have a saying Believe nothing that you hear and all that you see!' I have not seen what they do with the article, but I hear that the foreigners use it to make lamp chimneys with. However that may be, he is quite certain that the price of duck eggs is advanc.. ing, and unless this wholesale shipping is stopped, he does not know where the coming generations will get one of their most important articles for a first-class feast.
The final of the Shanghai C.C. Lawn Tennis Handicap (Singles) took place on the 1st Octo- ber between Messrs. P. A. Cox and W. H. Drummond, the latter owing 15 and and giving 15 to his opponent. The first set was
The Japanese papers comment en “a great second and third sets by Cox by 6 to 2 and 6 to 1. rails, locomotive engines, &c., by the Railway won by Drummond by 6 games to 4, and the improvement" in the method of purchasing
banged outside Nagasaki by order of a court bought through Messrs. Malcolm Bunker & On the 21st September a Russian soldier was Bureau. For over twenty years all had been martial. He had been on board a transport Co. of London under a special contract, the and had threatened to shoot the captain. When money being sometimes paid in advance. the transport arrived at Nagasaki he was handed Some Japanese merchants some time ago sent over to the man-of-war and tried. The war. vessel then got up steam, proceeded outside, the contract should be given to them. The a petition to the Railway Bureau asking that hanged the culprit, and returned to her anchor-petition was rejected by the Railway. Bureau age.—Union.
on the ground that the Japanese merchants had Enraged at this. a certain Japanese merch. not sufficient experience in the business. imported very good rails from London cheaper Bunker & Co. and presented than those obtained through the Railway Burean (1) - Bino tion of the Law of Finance; over 500 yen are bound to be purchased tender. The Railway Bureau did not observ the law and continued the contract with A collision occurred off the Wada Quaran-Malcolm Bunker & Co. Mr. Shirane, between the Suminoys-maru and the Vulcan, adherence to the law, and, on the tine Station at 7.50 p.m. on the 29th September Minister for Communications, insisted inward bound from Shanghai. The Japanese public tenders, were invited for steamer was rather severely damaged about the for the contract of certain bows and assistance had to be sent from the Illies & Co. and many other Sakura-maru (the quarantine steamer) before Japan tendered, the disabled vessel could be towed by the quaran successful. This left, tine launch into Hyogo Bay. There were no profit of £16,603 30 barrels of sugar and 208 bags of rice→→ personal injuries, but the Buminoys's cargo.— has yet to be in part damaged.—Hyogo News.
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