September 10, 1898.]
HONGKONG.
The Trade Mark Rules, made under Ordinance 18 of 1898, are published in the Gazette.
General Merritt and his aides-de-camp and secretary left Hongkong on Saturday for Europe in the Chusan.
Charles Wilson, of the Concord, was fined $5 at the Magistracy on Saturday for disorderly behaviour at No. 2 Police Station.
A list of persons licensed to shoot and take game within the colony is published in the Gazette "for general information."
At the Magistracy on Saturday a fireman was fined $300 for having in his possession 10 taels of prepared opium and 47 taels of opium dross.
The Manila Comercio hears that some of the estates belonging to the religious orders in Luzon have been leased to a Hongkong syndicate.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge | with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals:-Shing On, $29.
According to the Comercio the paddle steamer Kwonghoi has been purchased by a firm at Manila for $75,000, and is to be employed in running between Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, and other points in Manila Bay.
We hear that the Hon. W. M. Goodman, Attor Dey-General, goes home in a week or two on six months' leave of absence. Mr. H. E. Pol- lock will probably fill the acting appointment during Mr. Goodman's absence.
The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, advises us that he has received the following telegram from the mines giving the resqult of the August clean-up :-The mill rau 24 days crashing 1,900 tons yielding 180 ozs.
On Monday afternoon a lot of Crown land measuring 21,003 square feet and in the locality of New Road, Magazine Gap, and Plantation Road, was sold to a European for $2,515-825 above the upset price. Annual rent 8120; term 75 years.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT,
The N. C. Daily News hears that Mr. E. Ohlmer, late Commissioner of Customs at Ichang, has been appointed Commissioner of Customs at Kiaochau. Our contemporary would bare rondered a public service if it had been able to state what position the Chinese Customs at Kiaochau are to occupy in relation to the German Government there. Kiaochau has just been declared a free port, and a know- ledge of how that status is to be combined with the protection of the Chinese revenue might be of some assistance in the solution of pending questions at Hongkong.
A freman named Kahudt from the Kaiserin Augusta appeared before Commander Hastings yesterday morning on a charge of being drunk and disorderly in Queen's Road the previous evening. Tung Foi Woon was passing along when defendant rushed at him and gave him a blow on the neck. The assailant was, however, secured and taken to the Central Police Station. When asked what we had to say defendant said throngh Chief-Inspector Hanson, who acted as interpreter, "I was drunk and did not know what I was doing." He was fined $10.
Michael Molloy, chief gunner on one of the American war ressels, was charged with as- saulting an old man named Frank May early on Monday morning in Pedder street. Complain- ant found him lying across the side-walk near the Hongkong Hotel, and because he moved his legs defendant got up and knocked him down. He did not know defendant, Defendant—“ I must have been pretty full of liquor. I do not know anything about it." A fine of $15, or six months, was imposed. Molloy was further fined $10, or a month, for assaulting an Iudiau coustable.
A correspondent writes:--It is understood that the War Department of England is at present experimenting with the sun helmet invented by Mr. Tse T'san Tai, of the Public Works Department of Hougkong, in 1894, and presented by him to the British Government in 1896. Photos of Mr. Tse's helmets and their wearers-Officers of the Inniskillings at break fast, General Hammond and Staff reconnoitre-
Camp at Bara-may be seen in the Nary and Army Illustrated, dated February 18th, 1898, pages 274 and 275. Mr. Tse's invention is also recommended for the protection of horses.
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. A. W. Brewin has been allowed to resign the acting appointment of Registrar-General and that Mr.ing Gand's Pass, the Inniskilling Fusiliers in J. Dyer Ball has been appointed to act in that capacity. Mr. Ball returned from leave of absenca by the last English Mail.
On Wednesday morning Inspector Hanson and a party of police raided 42, Queen's Road, and arrested 33 men for gambling. They were brought before Commander Hastings later on. One of them was fined $25, or two months, two $15 each, and the rest 50 cents each.
An Elmira despatch of the 28th July reads :- Edwin Wildman of this city has been appointed by President McKinley Vice and Deputy Consul-General of the United States at Hong- kong. He will sail from San Francisco the latter part of August. He is a brother of Consul General Rounsevelle Wildman of Hong kong.
The Cable Companies notified on Wednesday that all lines to Kobe, Yokohama, Tokyo and other places north of Nagasaki were interrupted by typhoon. Later in the day it was notified that communication with Kobe was restored, but the lines to Yokohama, Tokyo, etc., were still in- terrupted. The railway beyond Kobe being also interrupted, telegrams were being for warded thence by steamer.
Robert Hilton, an ordinary seaman on H.M.S. Iphigenia, was at the Magistracy on 2nd Sept. fined $10 for assaulting a Chinese constable and $5 for disorderly conduct. Complainant| said he was in Hollywood Road on Thursday
afternoon when he saw defendant snatch a fan from a Chinaman, and on his going to get the fan defendant struck him on the chest.
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A Chinese seaman was charged at the Magistracy yesterday with obstructing P. C. Lippiatt in the execution of his duty. Monday night the constable and some other officers boarded a junk for the purpose of searching for opium. He saw defendant throw something down the rudder casing. He turned to go to see what it was when defendant and some others seized him and dragged him back. As he had further trouble with defendant he arrested him. Opium was found in the junk, but not in the possession of defendant. Defendant said he was lying down when the constable came and dragged him from the bed and said he had thrown something overboard. He did not smoke opium. A fine of $25, or six months, was imposed.
A Canton correspondent writes:-A few evenings ago, Mr. Webster, of the steamer Honam, who recently distinguished himself by ridding the Hongkong harbour of a monster, whilst walking on the band here with some friends encountered a big snake. Mr. Webster at once tackled the reptile, and after a sharp struggle succeeded in despatching it, and took it on board and bottled it up. It was found to be but the general knowledge of snakes is some. about 5 feet long, and some said it was a cobra; what of a visionary nature and so there is some doubt on this point. Where there is one, how ever, there are probably more; and as they are dangerous gentlemen to have around where so many children are playing Mr. Webster deserves the thanks of the community for hav- ing rid it of at least one of them.
At the Magistracy on 5th Sept. Frederick Shields, a seaman, was charged with stealing a jacket and a hat, value $20, the property of H. Jeusen, cook on the British ship Rainier, Complainant said he was at the Sailors' Home ou Saturday night. He went to the Home a little after nine o'clock, and as he did not know his room, being a stranger, he took off his coat and hat and lay down outside the superintendent's quarters. Early the next morning defendant woke him up and asked, "Have you lost any. thing He replied that he had not, as he had not been paid off yet. Defendant kept talking to him, and he ultimately told him to go away as it was too early for a drink. Soon after he (complainant) got up and went away for a short On 5th Sept. Commander Hastings had before
time. On his return he found that his coat and him a shopkeeper named Hwok Chun, who hat had gone. He told the watchman, and then was charged with assaulting Li Lak Chun, a a ('hinaman came up and said a man had taken servant boy. Complainant said he was a cook them upstairs, P. C. Macdonald doposed to at Hunghow and was 13 years of age. Onarresting defendant and finding the coat and Saturday might be went into defendant's shop | bat behind a door which was hooked back. De- to buy some cigarettes. He droppped a cash. Defendant asked him to pick it up. Because he did not do so defendant ran towards him. gave him two slaps, and knocked him down. Defendant also threw a stone at him cutting him on the head. He called a constable aud | defendant went with him. A coolie corro- borated. Defendant said complainant and a number of other small boys were throwing stones into his shop. He went out to drive them away. The boys ran and defendant fell and hurt himself. Fined $5, or 14 days.
The American blue-jackets who have come over to Hongkong from Manila during the last week or so have made up for the weary mouths they spent in Manila Bay. They have been having what they will no doubt call "a glorious time," having imbibed copiously and indulged freely in the amusement of "painting the town red." On the arrival of the German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta from Manila, the blue-jackets from that vessel appear to have broken loose in a similar manner. They crowded the drinking saloous at which soldiers and sailors do chiefly congregate, and a good number of them found themselves ou Monday night in the same place as some of the sailors of Uncle Sam. The ex-
At the Magistracy on 2nd Sept. Li Chau, a carpeuter, was charged with behaving in a dis- orderly manner in a public street, and fined $25. Lui On was charged with assaulting P. S.pected happened. Epithets of a character not Gidley when in the execution of Lis duty. The officer said that at a quarter to ten on Thursday night he was taking the previous defendant to the Police Station for disorderly conduct. When in Mason's lane the prisoner resisted violently and the fokis became very threatening. As they were going up Wyndham street defendant and another man not in custody attempted to rescu. the prisoner, witness being hit over the head with a stick. He blew his whistle and an Indian constable came to his assistance. A fine of $25 was imposed.
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particularly complimentary were exchanged. Blows followed words, and ultimately there was a regular melee. One Yankee sailor was parti cularly conspicuous. He was roving about Queen's Road with his trousers and sleeves rolled up asking in a thick voice Where are these mailed fists?" and coming across what he sought opened fire withont waiting for any formal declaration of war. Fortunately nothing resulted worse than a few banged-up eyes. The landlord will, however, have to lay in a new stock of glasses.
fendant said he intended to give them to the owner at daylight after he had complained to the superintendent. He did it to get the watchman into trouble because he searched him every night for liquor. Defendant was sent to prison for two months with hard labour..
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the return journey in Saturday's yacht race, says the N. C. Daily News of the 29th Aug., the Lorna was struck by a squall and capsized near the Japanese cruiser, throwing the crew of three and her skipper, Capt. J. P. Roberts, into the water. The Pingching sent a boat to them and with the assistance of two launches took the boat in tow to shallow water, where she was baled out and towed back to her moor-
ings. The damage done to the boat appears to be very slight, only a little of the planking on the starboard side near the stem being stove in.
At H.B.M. Police Court at Shanghai on the 1st September Charles Bithrey, a sullen-looking fellow, cook of the British sailing vessel Dun- fermline, was charged on a warrant that " wil- fully and of his malice aforethought he did attempt to murdor the mate of the said ship, oue Edwin Poole, by striking him with a cleaver on board the said vessel whilst lying in the port of Shanghai on the 39th August, 1898." It appears that there was some trouble be tween the chief mate and the cook, and that the latter attacked the mate with a chopper. The mate was removed to the General Hospital, where it was found that his skall was fractured" in three places, and that he had sustained other serious injuries. He is said to be in a most precarious condition.
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