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It is notified in the Gazette that H.E. the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinances: Au Ordinance to further amend the Waterworks Ordinance, 1890; An Ordin- ance for the Naturalisation of U Hoi Chan alias U Chiu Tsun; and An Ordinance to amend the Closed Houses and Insanitary Dwellings Ordinance, 1894.
Hou. H. E. Wodehouse on 10th Nov. concluded the hearing of the case in which Lam Sam was charged with baving administered a drug to a gardener and his wife at Yaumati on the 20th October. Mr. F. Browne, Government Analyst, gare evidence that morphine was found in the rice submitted to him for analysis. Dr. Bell, Assistant Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, also gave evidence and His Worship committed the prisoner for trial at the next Criminal Sessions.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals :—
Lung Kwan Shuu... Yü Yuk Chi
$5 4
In the report of the enquiry at the Harbour Office into the Elsie and Morning Star collision the Dock Company's No. 1. launch was blamed for having been the main cause of the trouble. The stéersinan was stated to have run away, but this was a mistake and on Wednesday morning he appeared before the Harbour Master with the coxswains of the other two launches and was entirely exonerated.
The following returns of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong during the month ended 31st October, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks, are published:-
Average Specie in Amonnt.
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, National Bank of
China, Limited,
$2.803.076
55,793,252
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The
At the Magistracy on 13th Nov, the first mate of the steamer Meninon was charged with having assaulted a Chinese quartermaster on the 12th instant. Mr. C. D. Wilkinsou appeared for the defence. The mate was fined $10. second officer on board the same ship was charged by another quartermaster with a similar offence and was ordered to pay a fine of $5.
Inspector Duncan obtained a gambling warrant on the 9th instaut and proceeded to the top floor of No. 6, Heung Lare, where he found about twenty men gambling. He arrested three of the number, but one of them subsequently managed to make his escape. The other two were brought before Hon. H. E. Wodehouse on 10th Nov, and one was fined $25 with the alternative of six weeks' imprison- ment, while the other was discharged at the request of the Police.
Ernest Small, fourth engineer of the P. & O. steamer Canton, summoned a lascar on 13th Nov. for assault. It appeared from the evidence that there had been a dispute between the parties, and Small reported the matter to his superior. The lascar was cautioned, but paid no heed, and on the 8th inst. he became insolent and struck the fourth engineer a blow on the head with a hammer, rushing at him from behind. The chief engineer said the defendant was a greaser on board, and bore a very bad character, having been the instigator of several disturbances. Hon. H.E. Wodehouse sentenced the delinquent to six months' im- prisoument with hard labour.
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(November 18, 1897.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
SH NOHAI, 12th November From Messrs. Welch, Lewis & Co.'s Circular.-Our last printed "Tea markt advices were dated 29th ultimo. London deliveries of China Congou for October were 1,770,000 lbs., ngainst 2,723,000 lbs. for the corresponding month of last year. Stock 11,400,000 lbs., against 16,812,000 lbs. on 31st October, 1896. Black Teas.-Rather improved advices from Londod have sitmulated demand here and the market has been firm. The lowest quotations is Tls. 11 a picul, but Teas at this price would probably be "shut out" of the American markets.
Settlements reported are:-- Ningehow 558 1-chts. at Tls. 1āj to 21 a pel.
Oona ......6,808
Hohow
222
*
7,618 -chests.
Stock, 13,374 chests.
14 to 15 11 to 16
**
Green Teus.-Pingsucys.-Most of the good Tens having found buyers, this market has been
quiet. Te-men are inclined to ship off some of their holdings, if they can get advances on them; we have not hard of any settlem-nts. Country Teas. There is not much change to report in this market; the volume of business las been smaller and prices for Fine Teas are a little easier. Supplies have contibued to come forward, but it is confidently asserted that very little more is availabl». Hy ons.-There is still no demand for shipment to Bombay, but for Batoum a fair business has been done. Medium to Fine Tens bare been dealt in to a moderate extent at Tis. 23 and Tls. 30, and show good valne. Choice Teis are wanted, but stocks are almost exhausted and no further supplies can be expected from the Country. The Export of Green Ten to the chief markets in the United States to date is:—
Ps.
Ils.
On Sunday 14th Nov., the yacht Pirouette met with rather a bad accident whilst sailing behind Stonecutters Island. She was tacking for the north-east point of the island when a dock launch, which was rounding the point in the direction of the South pier ran into the port bow of the yacht and made a terrible gash half way through her deck, the little craft having to be immediately run ashore. The affair was apparently a pure accident. Neither the oc- $1.300,000 cupants of the launch nor those in the yacht were
Settlements reported are:- aware of the close proximity of the two craft Pingsney. 3,234 h-cht, ut Tls. 26 to 304 a pel. until the collision
unavoidable.
Moyune The
6,208 82.000,000 | launch immediately put astern but could not
Reserve.
$ 370,580 $ 205,000
Total......... $8,966,908 $3,505,000 The 15 subscription griffins that arrived per Wingsang on the 8th November were drawn for the same afternoon at five o'clock with the following result :-
1 Chestnut...
2 Grey
3 Grey
4 Marble Grey
5 Grey
6 Chestnut...
7 White
8 Dark Chestnut
9. Nutmeg Grey
10 Grey
Shanghai Time.
Hon. T. H. Whitehead 1.38 Mr. P. de C. Morris ...1.38
D. E. Brown Hart Buck ..
Monsieur Le Roux
Mr. G. H. Potts
D. Dorabjee
C. F. Harton
Capt. Berger, H.K.R.
**
R. H. Bruce
Hart Buck
-
11 Dark Grey
12 Chestnut.
Mr. D. Landale
A. P. McEwen
..
..
H. N. Mody
-13 Skewbald
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.1.40 .1.38
1.404
.1.384
13
was
To New York 7,305,820, against 8,300,221
Chicago...1,453,656,
1,036,756
'Tienkni Fychow
5,399
turn in time to avoid colliding with the yacht. Local packed. 608
Three Europeans were in the yacht and also two Chinamen. One of the latter, seeing that a collision was imminent, immediately jumped overboard and swam to the launch, but this was the only "wetting" that was attributable to the accident.
MISCELLANEOUN,
We (N. C. Daily News) regret to announce the death of Captain Null, who for many years commanded one of the China Merchants' S. N. Co.'s steamers. Indeed the late Captain Null could show a record of continuous service seldom met with, for he joined the Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. as mate in 1874, and has ever since been in the employ of that line and its
27
319
Total...... 15.858 1-chts.
23 to 33
21
♪
23 to 361
19 to 224
204 to 214
AWIUB OF
date last
season.
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Total settlements from opening of the market to date:-
Stock. -chts. -chta.
Settlements.
hts.-cbts.
1897. 1806.
1897. 1896.
Pings:ey Moyune Tienkai
72,237
119 031
33,418
11.146
73,786
72,407
77,684
13,370
13.275
15,441
21,700 15,211
7,430
1,319
564
48,642
27,154
4-chts.
Fychow Local picked. 16,076
Total...261,43 263,410 Total arrivals to date are:-
Pingsury 1.40
1.404 ...1.37 1.38
1.40 .1.40 .1.39
successors,
-chts. 10,655 against 130,177 Country Ten &
Local packed 203,870
to same
date last
year.
309 55
160426
200,603
EXPORT OF 1EA FROM CHINA TO GREAT BRITAIN.
1897-68 1896-97
Ibs.
Ibs. 4,019,452 4,051,010 12,199,523 14.363,552 11,653.068 12,009,532
591.7.9
521,605
29,266,802
31,845,699
Canton and Macao Shanghai and Hankow ... Foochow Amoy..
There has recently arrived at Shanghai General Wang Th-sheng of Tientsin, on his way to attend the army mantenvres in Japan this month. General Wang, who is accompanied by First Captain Wu and Second Captain Yen, of the Chibli army, was a graduate of the Spandau Artillery School in Germany, and now commands the foreign-drilled battalions which during the ex-Viceroy Li's time constituted H.E.'s famous body-guard.-N. C. Daily News. A serious case of stabbing was before the German Court at Shanghai on the 8th Novem- ber. A seaman named Reimarck. belonging to H.I.G.M.S. Arcona, was charged before Dr. Schrameier with dangerously wounding a 'rick- EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED sha coolie by stabbing him with a knife, in the Kiangse Road. From the depositions it appears that the accnsed, who was under the influence of drink at the time, had been riding in a 'ricksha, and when asked for payment, retorted by stabbing the coolie in the back and thigh. The injured man was removed to the Shantung Road hospital, where his wounds were found to be of a dangerons nature. His assailant was arrested, and after an enquiry had been held on board the ship, he was handed over to the Con-
14. Grey '15 Dark Grey'
G. W. Böning ..1.40% On Saturday afternoon, 13th inst.. be- tween Que and two o'clock, the large tree by the side of the Roman Catholic Orphanage in Glenealy fell across the nullah, snapping in two close to the ground the iron telegraph post near the Cathedral, breaking the parapet of the upper terrace, and completely blocking up the road. The two stretches of tele- graph wires from the Caine Road southward which cross this much frequented roadway two or three times were of course brought down and lay in some places so close to the ground as to easily upset the unsuspecting passenger and in others just the height of a person's neck or face. The obstruction and dauger was worst at the steepest part of the pathway. Inconceivable though it may appear, nothing was done to clear the road on Saturday and after dark it remained in the same highly dangerous condition without even a light or a warning of any kind, and it is probable that many accidents have hapsular authorities to be dealt with. It is not pened in consequence. Hundreds of ladies, children, and elderly men traverse this road on their way to and from church and yet nothing was done till mid-day on Monday.
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Shanghai
Amoy Foochow
STATES AND CANADA.
1897-98 lbs. 15,027,615
1896.97
40,729,432
11 8. 14,363,552 12,622,531
6,771,076
7,827,142
33,428,123
34,813,2:8
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Kobe
thought that the unfortunate coolie's injuries Yokohamna..... will prove fatal, but his deposition was taken, and the prisoner stands remanded for the pre- sent.-N. C. Daily News.
1807-98
1596-97 lbs.
lbs. 24,113,099 23,005,420 14,322,202 12,056,362
38,435,301 35,061,782
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