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From the same source we hear that the Russian transports landed 2,000 men in Port Arthur on or about March the 21st; that General Sung retired with his forces (!) to Kinchow; that the telegraphic communication | between the Regent's Sword and Peking was in Russian hands; and that the Chinese in Chihli could get no replies to their messages. At the same time we hear that Col. Wogack has left Tientsin for Port Arthur, it is rumoured to be made acting Governor, and that the Tientsin agent of the Russo-Chinese Bank has gone over to make financial arrange. ments for the large garrison which will here- after remain in Port Arthur. We have reason to believe that all this Port Arthur news is correct; and even if the crisis is not already at hand, it will certainly bo precipitated by these events.
We may add to this that there is good reason to believe that Russia is not yet prepared for war, and that firmness on England's part will be followed by concession on the part of Russia. -N. C. Daily News.
HONGKONⱭ.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
There were 2,988 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week of whom 194 were Europeans. The assistant compradore of the Yiksang was on 5th April fined $500 for being in possession of a quantity of opium.
The usual Easter meeting of the Hongkong Rifle Association has been unavoidably post- poned and will be held at Whitsuntide.
For stealing eight brass bolts, the property of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com- pany, a Chinese was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
Commander Hastings on 4th April fined two hospital ward boys $15 each, or six weeks' im- prisonment, for leaving their employment with
out notice.
Inspector Gillies has been presented with a match rifle by the Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., for services rendered in instruction in shooting.
It is notified in the Gazette that H.E. the Acting Governor has been pleased to recognise Mr. Armin Haupt as in charge of the Imperial Russian Consulate.
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. C. W. Duggan has been appointed a Director of the Widows and Orphans Fund, vice Mr. T. J. Machado, resigned.
The following telegram has been received by the Government :-"Alexandria, 29th March, 1898. Governor, Hongkong. Plague Regula. tions applied in Egypt to arrivals from Hong. kong.-GOULD."
On Thursday a man and a woman were each fined $10 for removing the dead body of a boy from a house in Yanmati without having a permit. The boy is supposed to have been afflicted with the plague.
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The following appointments have been made during the absence of the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart-Hou. T. S. Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary, to be a member of the Governing Body of Queen's College, and Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Captain Superintendent of Police, to be chairman of the Board of Examiners.
On Saturday evening the journalists of Hongkong gave a farewell dinner at the New Club to Mr. G. T. Crook, of the Daily Press, who leaves for England on Wednesday by the C. P. steamer Empress of China. Mr. Crook has been on the staff of the Daily Press for the last three years as reporter and sub-editor.
On Friday afternoon, April 1st, Prince Henry was included in a team representing the Army and Navy who were opposed to a team of civilians in a polo match, the Prince's team winning by one goal and two subs. to one sub. In the evening a dinner was given in His Highness's honour at Government House, Sir Charles and Lady Mit- chell being among the distinguished company pre- sent. The Victorious left Hongkong on Saturday afternoon. The Immortalité, which has been expected to leave every day since, is still with The following appointments have been made us. The fourth annual athletic meeting in con- during the absence of Mr. H. McCallum :-Dr. qection with the Victoria Recreation Club took F. W. Clark to be Acting Secretary of the Sani- lace on Saturday afternoon, and though the tary Board, and Mr. C. V. Ladds to be tem- entries fell short of last year's the proceedingsporary Assistant Secretary to the Sanitary were most interesting. The annual dinner in connection with the Hongkong Football Club took place on Saturday, when the badges and Challenge Cup were presented. The tennis match between the Cricket Club and the Ladies' Recreation Club cime off on Monday afternoon, when the L.R.C. had 83 games to their credit against 74. On Monday an Indian constable was sentenced to six months' hard labour for unlawfully wounding a brother constable. At special session of Justices of the Peace, on Tuesday morning an application from Mr. A. H. Harper, formerly manager of the Stag Hotel, for a license for the Sportsman's Arms, Queen's Road Central, was refused. The same afternoon the annual meeting of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce was held. On Wednesday Sir John Carrington delivered a lecture before the members of the Odd Volumes Society on "Volunteering," a subject with which Sir John, as Commandant of the local corps, is well fitted to deal. Among those who left by the Empress of China on Wednesday were Sirvious years a further dividend of 10 per cent. Charles and Lady Mitchell, the Hon H. E. Wodehouse and Mr. C. C. Platt, the Governor's Secretary. Mr. Wodehonse, who had filled the post of Police Magistrate for 17 years, addressed a few farewell words to the European members of the Police Force on Monday afternoon. On Tuesday be was the recipient of an address from the Chinese community, and on Wednesday the Magistracy staff presented him with a handsome silver bowl and announced their intention of forwarding him an address; on behalf of Mrs. Wodehouse be accepted a gold brooch. In the Supreme Court on Wednesday judgment was given in the champarty appeals. The convictions were quashed but the Court refused to allow costs. At a meeting of the Sanitary Board on Thurs- day the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon (Dr. C. Vivian Ladds) reported that he had succeeded in ouring a case of rinderpest taken from Sassoon's Villa, Pokfulam, by means of the serum treatment. He was ordered to provide the Board with a detailed report of his method of treatment.
A house boy named Wong Mun and residing at Pan U, was fined $50, or two months' hard labour, on Saturday for having "unlawfully infringed the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster-General by being the bearer of letters for tradesmen to Canton unstamped and not having passed hr ough the General Post-Office."
Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co., agents of the Yangtsze Insurance Association, Limited, inform us that they have received a telegraphic communication from Shanghai which they trans- late as follows:-The directors will recommend at the general meeting of shafeholders that no dividend be paid on the past year; but on pre-
Commander Hastings had two watch-stealing cases before him on 4th April. In one case a house coolie was sentenced to six months' imprison- ment for stealing a gold watch, valued at $250, the property of Mrs. Stainfield, of Duddell street, and in the other a vehicle driver was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for stealing a silver watch belonging to a woman in Graham street.
The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, advises us that he has received the following telegram from the mines giving the result of the March clean-up: The mill ran 29 days crushing 2,400 tons of headings yielding 256 oz, of gold. Thirty-three tons of concentrates ground in Berdan pans yielding 18 ozs of gold. The cyanide plant ran 28 days treating 575 tons of tailings for a yield of 200 oz, of bullion valued at 15/9d. per oz.'
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A dinner party was given at Government House on the 1st April in honour of H.R.H. Prince Henry of Prussia, amongst the guests being Sir Charles and Lady Mitchell, who ar- rived from Singapore by the P. & O. steamer Verona. After dinner a number of men of the Hongkong Regiment entertained the company by giving a war dance on the lawn. The pierc- ing war ories which were given at short inter- vals by the men could be heard a long distance off and they caused much amusement and per- haps astonishment to the distinguished company.
[April 9, 1898.
In the tennis match between the Cricket Club and the Ladies' Recreation Club played on the Cricket ground on the 4th April the L.R.C. scored 83 games and the Cricket Club 74.
A servant boy named Tsang Ming was fined $15, or six months' imprisonment, by Comman der Hastings on Saturday, for unlawfully con- cealing a case of bubonic plague at 30, Gough Street, on Saturday. It is to be hoped that for the sake of the community at large this offence will be severely dealt with.
Messrs. John D. Humphreys & Son, General Managers of Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited, inform us that they have received telegraphic advices from the mines to the effect that 900 tons of stone were crushed during March, yield- ing 253 ounces of gold.
It may interest collectors of postage stamps to learn that the Hongkong Post Office have jast issued two new stamps. The ten cent brown on red being exhausted, the thirty cent green has been surcharged in black" 10 cents," and the old plate of the ninety-six cent stamp with "1 dollar" surcharged on it in black has been reprinted wholly in black and now forms the dollar issue.
The invitation to British residents to visit and inspect H.M.S. Victorious was accepted by a large number of people on Saturday, 2nd April, and they were most kindly treated while on board. Coaling operations, which were commenced on Friday, were concluded about eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, and the vessel was very quickly robbed of its thick coating of coal dust, so that visitors ran no risk of getting them- selves begrimed with dirt. The Victorious is truly a magnificent battleship and the many visitors expressed the highest admiration of everything they saw, the working of the big guns and the method of serving them with ammunition being especially interesting. Dur- ing the day the Victorious took on board further supplies of ammunition and at four o'clock in the afternoon she sailed for the North.
The special issue of postage stamps and post cards in connection with the fourth centenary of the discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco de Gama was placed on sale at Macao on the 1st April, and the Post Office was thronged with eager purchasers. The set consists of. eight stamps of half, one, two, four, eight, twelve, sixteen, and twenty-four cents spectively and two post cards of two and three cents each, the two-cent post card being issued in two varieties and the three cent one in four. The design on the one cent stamp represents
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the arrival of Vasco de Gama at Calicut and that on the two cent stamp the departure of the expedition from Portugal. The designs on the other stamps are emblematical, ships being introduced in all of them and Indian subjects in the twenty-four cent one. The post cards are adorned with pictures of celebrated cathedrals and castles, some being on the address side and some on the reverse. All are executed in the highest style of art and the collection is one that many besides confirmed philatelists will be pleased to possess.
The fourth annual dinner of the Hongkong Football Club was held on Saturday evening, 2nd April, at the Hongkong Club. Dr. Atkinson was in the chair. During the evening the badges, tokens, and the six-a-side challenge cup were presented. Messrs. Moberley, H.K.R., Mayson, ard Kew were awarded badges for specially The useful play in the Association game,
was won by Mr. six-a-side challenge cup Moberley's team and in consequence the fol- lowing players were awarded tokens, viz:- Messrs. H. S. Moberley, H.K.R., A. Brooke- Smith, W. D. Mayson, F. B. Deacon, and C. W. Gordon, W.Y.R. A very pleasant evening was participated in by a large number of mem- bers. The following was the programme :-
The Queen
Toast
Toast
The Hongkong Football Club Proposed by Mr. H. E. Pollock. Responders:
Mr. H. W. Looker (Capt., Assoc.), Lieut. P. G. Davies, R.A. (Capt., Rugby.) Recitation.....
Mr. H. E. Pollock Presentation of Badges, Tokens, and the Six-a-Side Challenge Cup.
Toast....
Other Football Clube in Hongkong Proposed by the Chairman. Responder:- Lient. R. G. Parker, K.O.R. Entertainment on the graphophone by Dr. Jordan. The Chairman
Toast
Proposed by Mr. E. D. Sanders.
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