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December 8, 1897.]

A boatman charged with attempting to murder his sister-in-law on the 30th September in her sampan which was then anchored in Causeway Bay was on 5th December committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions.

Vessels arriving from the South all report very heavy weather, and some exceptionally long passages have been made. The Port Adelaide was sixteen days coming up from Singapore, the Kutsung twelve days, and the Orestes ten days.

On Saturday night, 5th December. Robert Torrence, 35 years of age, an engineer on the steamer Honam, fell from the verandah of a

houses and sustained such severe injuries that he died as he was being conveyed to the hospital. Deceased, who was well known in the colony, was at the time of the accident leaning over the verandah to speak to some one in the next house.

The football match on 2nd December on the Happy Valley between the Hongkong Football Club and 12th Company, S.D., R.A., resulted in a win for the former by three goals to nil. The game was well contested throughout and proved of great interest, as it is the first time these teams have met this season. The new ground of the Club will in the future be a centre of attraction to followers of football whenever Clubs meet to try conclusions.

We have received a printed copy of a paper read at the Institution of Engineers and Ship: builders of Hongkong on Friday evening last by Mr. W. S. Bailey on The Steam Engine Indicator." The paper, we understand, excited much interest amongst the audience before whom it was read. and a long disenssion took place, in which the Chairman (Mr. W. J. Can- ter, Inspector of Machinery, Royal Naval Yard) and Messrs. Winterburn, Johnson, Curtis, and Cousins took part.

The Secretary of the Panjom Mining Co.,

Limited, advises us that he has received the following telegram giving the result of the November clean up: The mill ran 30 days crushing 33 tons of ore yielding 10 ozs. of smelted gold; 2,500 tons of headings crushed, yielding 166 ozs. of gold. Thirty tons of con- centrates were ground in the Berdan pans, yielding 20 ozs. The cyauide plaut rau 26 days treating 720 tons of tailings, yielding 226 ozs. of bullion valued at 18/9 per oz. The north shaft has connected with the 200 ft, level.

At the Magistracy on 1st Dec. au Indian cou- stable was sent to gaol for six months with hard labour for stealing from a Chinese hawker the sum of $1.55. A few days ago the cou- stable saw a Chinaman carrying some wood at Tsimsatsui and gave chase. He met a hawker and instantly seized him, searched his pockets, and found $1.75. The constable returned twenty cents to the hawker and told him to go. The Chinaman, however, remember, d his coins, and went straightway to the Station to make a report against the constable, whose number he gare. Mr. E. J. Grist appeared for the defence.

The Moralist" of the Straits Times says: I am gratified to see that Mr. Gilbert Whyte, the acting manager of Raub, is satisfied that he will be able to maintain or to improve the average of the last crushing, which was a good crushing. We want to see Paliang become a great gold country; wherefore the sooner the Americans take over the working of Punjom the better we will all be pleased. I must confess I have given up the attempt to understand Punjom. I always was told that it was a rich gold district, and, I think, Mr. Bibby told me that be regarded it as even better than Ranb. Yet for some incon- ceivable reason Punjom always seems to be re- constituting itself.

CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.

H.M.S. despatch vessel Alacrity, with Admir- al Buller on board, arrived from Swatow on 3rd December.

An amah was on 3rd Dec. sentenced to four months imprisonment with hard labour for refusing to leave the honse when she was ordered to do so by her mistress and for biting the band of Mrs. A. J. Barry, on the 2nd instant. Mrs. Barry stated that the defendant was an amah to Mrs. Dalton, who was living in her house, No. IIA, Blue Buildings, Praya East. On the 2nd iust. at 2 p.m. witness was in the dining

room with her mother and Mrs. Dalton. Mrs. Dalton sent for the amah to pay her off. The amah was engaged at $8 a month, but she had only been twenty days in the service, so was paid six dollars. She, however, refused to leave, unless another dollar was given her. Witness told her to go, but she became insolent and finally slapped witness across the face with her open palm, and then bit her on the hand. The wound was a painful one and bled profusely. Witness's mother went and fetched a constable. The defendant then said she was willing to accept six dollars, but was given in custody.

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At the magistracy on 5th Dec. Lam Tai Kau, the mau arrested at Yaumati through informa tion supplied by the Chinese authorities as being implicated in the raid committed on a village in the Haifong district, was again brought before. Hon. H. E. Wodehouse. Lam Yuk Fong said he was a lieutenant in the Lok fong district. It was he who gave informa.

to the Captain

of Superintendent Police about the prisoner being in this colony. The prisoner was not a rebel nor was be connected with any political movement. The prisoner begged the Magistrate to have compassion on him as he was wrongly accused of the crime by some of his enemies. The Magistrate told the prisoner that a requisition had been refeived from the Chinese authorities for his rendition. He would be committed to the gaol pending the order of H.E. The Go-

vernor and would not be handed over till after fifteen days, and in the meanwhile he could, if he wished, apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of hubers corpus,

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At the Magistracy on 1st Dec. Hon. H. E. Wodehouse concluded the inquest on the bodies of the fifteen people who met their deaths at the fire in Third Street on the 20th instant. The finding was that death', resulted from suf- focation.

The proceeds of the recent open-air fête in the grounds of Government House, in aid of the Church Extension Society's winter relief work amount to over $1,600 when all expenses bave amongst the London poor, are expected to been paid.

On Saturday afternoon. 5th Dec., a young man named A. illis nearly lost his life in the harbour, He was taking part in a tub boat race in prepara. tion for the regatta. There were two heats and four boats in each heat, the first two to be in the final for the regatta. P. Hyndham. F. H. Hyndman, J. Logan, and F. M. Roza Pereira were in the first heat, which was won by F. H.- Hyndman, Logan being second. F. H. Kew, A. Ellis, J. Roza Pereira, and M. E. Asgar then rowed in the second heat. It was dark at the time and therefore it is not surprising an acci- dent occurred. Soon after starting Ellis collided with a junk and was at once thrown into the water. The back of his head bumped against the anchor of the junk, but fortunately be suc ceeded in getting hold of the upturned boat. The accident had not been noticed by the other rowers nor by the people in a lanach which was following Luckily, however, Ellis was observed from a Naval Yard launch and some

one on

board plunged into the water and sup- ported Ellis, who was very fatigued. He was then taken on the launch by Inspector McEwen and conveyed to the Victoria Recreation Club, where he

SOOD revived. The other three tubs continued the race ignorant of what bad' transpired, and pon nearing the winning post Pereira fonled a sampan and the race was won by Asgar, Kew bing second.

At the Magistracy on 3rd Dec. Mr. Melbourne applied for the rehearing of a case in which a

Chinaman was sentenced to three months' for stoaling a portion of an iron store from the house of Mr. W. Farmer, manager of the New To the great regret of every member of the Victoria Hotel ou the 21st instant. The grounds Police Force, Mr. Thomas Campbell, assistant for the rehearing were that the prisoner was engineer in the Hongkong Fire Brigado, died arrested last Sunday week for stealing a portion at the Government Civil Hospital on Saturday of a store. Two witnesses had since been found morning, 5th Dec. The deceased was formerly in who could testify to the man's good character. the Police Force, but for a number of years past The defendant was for some time employed as a he had been attached to the Fire Brigade as assis-coolie to Mr. Farmer He was recommended to tant engineer. During the fire in Third Street he was drenched to the skin, and this seriously affected his lungs, but contrary to the advice of his friends he declined to go to the hospital un- til within two days of his death. the colony about thirty years ago and was very highly esteemed by all with whom he came in contact. He was a most energetic workman and his death will be a great loss to the Fire Brigade. He was buried at the Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon, his funeral being at- tended by Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, and all the available members of the Police Force, including Hon. F. H. May, Cap- tain Superintendent.

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that gentleman by the boy. The boy and coolie had subsequently a quarrel, owing to which, the coolie had left the service of Mr. Farmer, The boy had since been seeking an opportunity to to pay off his grudge against his enemy. The defendant was in the habit of going round the colony buying old bottles, and was dealing in them.

He had often peen to Mr. Farmer's house to get old bottles Whenever he passed the house he used to knock at the door and it was opened to him. On the day of the arrest, he knocked at the door at about 11 a.m. but not hearing anyone inside he left. He was arrested at 4.30 p.m. that afternoon through a report the boy_made. No theft What is the correct pronunciation of Mac. actually occurred. One of the witnesses would Donnell? The word was wrestled with by the prove that there was a quarrel between the' Judge and members of the Bar on Monday after-parties. and that the defendant left Mr. noon towards the end of the day's proceedings Farmer's service in consequence of it. The in the Belilios case. Mr. Danby pronounced the

other would testify to the prisoner bearing word Macdou-nell. His Lordship expressed a good character. The Magistrate granted the doubt as to whether there were two n's in the rehearing. When the two witnesses had given word and then asked if the correct prounucia-their evidence, Mr. Farmer said that at 12.30 tion was not Macdonnell. Mr. Pollock believed p.m. on the 21st instant, his coolie told him it was usually pronounced that way. Then Mr. that the back door of his house was broken by some one, Witness went to the spot and saw Francis, with considerable emphasis, remarked, We note that railings are being set up in vari- "It's Macdonnell. There was a Governor here the door broken. He also found that part of a store was missing, and calling for his boy said ous unprotected parts of the roads at the Peak and of that name and he always called himself Mac- -Magazine Gap, an improvement for which the donnell. Then a Colonel of Artillery caine here that he was going to make a report to the Police, public thanks are due to the Public Works and he called himself Macdounell, but he was of; but the boy suggested that as so much of the Department. It is to be hoped the work will French descent." If we possessed an institution store had been taken, the thief might return for The boy was ordered to keep be made complete and all daugerous parts of similar to L'Academie Française difficulties of something more.

a watch on the spot, and witness returned the roads be duly protected. There have been this sort would be entirely removed. For our-

At 4.30 he heard a goise downstairs various accidents by persons falling over the selves, we prefer the accent on the "don," but upstairs

He found the precipitons sides of the roads in the dark, and we should decline to argue with anybody who and went below to see the cause. the necessity for protection at one of the thought "rell" should be accented. We always defandant in the enstody of the boy. He then points now being dealt with was strikingly thought the Irishman was a wise man who, went to the station und brought back a Chinese a bet on the constable. The prisoner said that if he were proved by the fact that some time ago an amah.

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either should be pro-

let off he would show where the portion of the stepped off the road there in the dark and question of whether

Witness handed him over to the eyether" or eether." replied stove was. sustained a broken arm and other injuries,nounced

Some other witnesses were then and, being unable to more, remained undis- Begorra, it's nayther," and pocketed the stakes constable,

called and the sentence was confirmed. covered until next morning.

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