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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND Chinaman named Pang Chee Wan in the| For neglecting to enclose with a scaffolding employ of Messrs. Watson and Co. was arrested a building at the junction of Ice-house Road hursday on a charge of embezzlement. and Zetland Street, while engaged in removing He was brought before Commander Hastings the roof, Tsan Sin, contractor, Wellington on Friday morning and remanded, bail Street, was on Saturday fined $50, to the extent of $6,000 being accepted. We understand that it is alleged that during 1897 he appropriated goods to the value of $1,000, falsifying the accounts.
It had been announced that on 14th Octo- bər Mr. G. P. Lammert would offer for sale by auction at his sale rooms in Duddell Street Kowloon inland lot No. 442. No bidders, how ever, appeared, so that the property was not put up. The property is held for the residue of a term of 75 years under a Crown lease dated June 24th, 1891. It contains 69,370 square feet and is subject to a Crown rent of $318 per
annum.
A prisoner in Victoria gaol died of plague on 19th Oct. The deceased, Lum Shu by name, went into gaol on the 12th October under sen tence of fourteen days' hard labour for larceny. He was admitted to hospital on the 17th and died yesterday morning. At the inquest Dr. Lowson gave evidence as to the cause of death and the jury, composed of Messrs. C.. Heer. mann, F. F. Ribeiro, and B. Vieira, returned & verdict accordingly.
Thursday being the hundredth anniversary of H.M.S. Immortalité, that is, the hundredth anniversary of the first entrance of a ship of that name in the Navy, the vessel was decorated with bunches of evergreens on the masts and yardarms and at night was brilliantly illum- inated, the figures 1798 forming a prominent feature in the design. The present Immortalité is the fifth of the name, the first having been captured from the French on the 20th October, 1798.
The Sungka ng on her arrival at Manila on the 5th October from Hongkong and Amoy was placed under observation for two days at the quarantine station at Mariveles by order of the United States sanitary authorities owing, the Comercio says, to the occurrence in this
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An amah employed at 35, Lower Lascar Row, appeared before Commander Hastings on Satur- day to answer a charge of stealing a box con- taining some jewellery and $70, the property of her mistress. The theft took place on the 15th September. The woman was arrested on board the Canton boat on Friday night with the box containing the jewellery and about $30 in her possession. She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
For stealing & travelling trunk containing $50, a Chinaman was on Saturday sentenced to The theft took six months' imprisonment. place on board the Telemachus, on which both prosecutor and the accused were passengers. On Friday prisoner was observed by the cook going forward with the box, and on its being discovered that the box had been stolen the man was put in irons and on arrival at Hongkong handed over to the police.
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Two launches took place at Hung hom
the on Saturday afternoon) one of the new double-ender for the Kowloon Ferry service, and the other a Customs oruiser. The christening ceremony was performed in the first case by Miss Murray Bain and in the second by Miss Hillier,
Mulla Singh, a watchman at the Rope Factory at Kennedytown, informed Commander Hast-- ings at the Magistracy on Saturday that atr about half-past 11 on Friday hight two China- men who were employed at the same place came and spoke to him because he, in accordance with his instructions, would not allow a friend of one of them to enter the works. One of them hit him on the head with a wooden rod and the other struck him on the shoulder with a piece of bamboo. Fines of 810, or a month, were im- posed, $5 being also ordered to be paid as com- pensation.
The Nippon Maru, belonging to the Tokyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Co. Tokyo), arrived on Saturday morning and fully answered the expectations that had been formed concerning her. She is command- On 18th October a plot of Crown landed by Captain Fred. R. Evans, who is well situate at Taipingshan was offered for sale by known on the China coast, having had several auction for a term of 75 years and was pur years' experience in this trade, and who is chased by the proprietors of the Tung Hing equally well known on the Atlantic. One of Theatre for $7,900-825 above the upset price. his principal feats was while waiting for the The plot contains 8,150 square feet and the completion of his steamer to successfully annual rent is $52. On Monday afternoon a accomplish what was probably the largest and plot of land in Morrison Hill Road measuring longest tow ever achieved, namely, the larges 9,313 square feet was sold to a Chinaman for pontoon or floating dry dock constructed in $3,285-$25 above the upset price. The term England for the harbour of Havana, He has had several experiences in life saving from is 75 years and the annual rent $116.
The Volunteer route march fixed for Satur-wrecked vessels while in command on the At- day last did not take place. There was a fair-lantic and is considered one of the most careful perhaps not a full-muster on the parade and capable commanders sailing from English ground when the “fall in was sounded shortly ports and will undoubtedly with his genial after 3 p.m., including the fife and drum band; manners and careful seamanship become the detachments were told off and formed into favourite with trans-Pacific travellers. The the order of march, but immediately afterwards chief officer is Mr. A. F. Kelly, the chief the Commandant, Major Sir John Carrington, engineer Mr. Herbert L. Whitburn, the purser Eustac gave the order, Detachments front; right turn; Mr. Wm. H. Magee, and the surgeon.
The Nippon dismiss." No reason was given for the abandon McDonogh.
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has been
colony of "some cases of dengue or trancazo." | ́ment of the march and some murmurings of built to Lloyd's highest Maru has all
It is to be hoped the Americans are not going to prove even more benighted that the Spanish in the administration of their quarantine regulations.
Kwang Yu-wei left Hongkong in the Hohen- zollern for Japan on Wednesday. We hear that after a short stay in Japan he intends to proceed to England. Printed slips have been distri- buted in Canton stating that Kang Yn-wei and his colleagues have been pardoned by the Empress-Dowager and that Chang Yin huan has been rescued by the English. It is believed that the intention of these announcements is partly to pacify the Cantonese and partly also to inveigle Kang Yu-wei into returning to Chinese territory, in which case his arrest would be affected.
disappointment were heard among the men.
Another case of carrying arins without a license came before Commander Hastings on 17th Oct., the offender being a Chinaman and the arms sword bayonets. Inspector Cuthbert board- ed a junk in the harbour that morning and found there 50 cases. On opening one of them he found it contained sword bayonets. He arrested defendant, who told him he was acting for Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. and produced a paper to show this. Mr. Bischoff, of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., said the arms, which were to be sent to Antwerp, were in course of tranship- ment, and the firm was not aware that a permit was required for that purpose. A fine of $1 was imposed.
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The following returns of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th September, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks, are published:-
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation National Bank of
China, Limited
Total
Average Amonnt.
$2,873,076
the latest improvements for passenger ac- commodation, which is 120 first class, 44 second class, and 1,300 emigrants. She will remain here some three days and then proceed Yokohama, where she will pass her surveys to obtain a mail subsidy from the Japanese Government. Her agents at this port are Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Foochow Echo of the 8th October says:-**** At an early hour yesterday morning a fire broke out in the business street of Nantai and lasted nearly three hours. Upwards of 100 native houses and shops, were destroyed. Ori- ginating in an eating house half a dozen doors eastward of Hing Chong's store, it crossed the street and burning all.
Il the houses up to the boundary of Tuck Hing appeared for a time to threaten that residence, but the intervening space in the compound proved to be sufficient to prevent worse happening. Nearer the river, it is said that Messrs. Fraser, Ramsay & Co.'s Tea Hong might have been lost but for precautions $2,000,000 taken by the agents of the Hongkong
Fire Insurance Company.
Specie in Reserve
A largely attended meeting of members took place in the rooms of the Engineers Institute on Saturday night, when the prizes in the recent billiard handicap were presented by the Chairman, Mr. W. Ramsay, as follows-First prize, Mr. D. Macdonald; second prize, Mr. R. V. Rutter, third prize, Mr. J. Kew. A. financial statement was presented showing a profit of $340 on the past nine months' working of the Institute. A smoker followed, in which some capital songs were rendered by Messrs.
A sensational shooting case occurred at Van Neirop, Murdoch, and C. T. Robinson,
6,180,333 3,500,000 Haiphong on the 12th October. It appears Mr. A. J. M. Farr accompanied.
that M. Jules Bedier, a transport contractor, 445,879 150,000 || had for a long time past been forcing his unwel- On 14th October Messrs.-
Hughes aud Hough offered for sale by auction the iron
come attentions up
3 upon Madame Hermann, the $9,499,288 5,650,000 wife of a lawyer's olerk. On the afternoon of screw steamer Memnon, the property of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. The starting bid was
The occupier of a draper's shop at 35, Jer- the day named he again went to the lady's $5,000 $20,000 was soon reached. Then the vois Street, was on 19th Oct, fined $75, or three house, and she, in a moment of excitement, fired price rose by bids of $500 to $27,000, subs- months, for obstructing Inspector Duncan, of two shots at him with a revolver. The wounded quently reaching $27,500, when the boat was the weights and measures department, while in man had strength enough left to try to escape knocked down to Messrs. Noel, Murray and the execution of his duty, The Inspector said by climbing over a bamboo fence which separated Co., of Shanghai. The Memnon was built he went to defendant's shop on Monday after the yard from that of the next house, but his at Greenock in 1861 by Messrs. Scott and noon and asked him for his measures. Defen- foot got caught between the spikes, and Madame Co. Her speed in fair weather is given radant, who spoke good English, said he dealt Hermann, who was in pursuit, fired at him a third 104 knots per hour. Other - particulars
time, striking him full in the heart. The post given with regard to her are tonnage, gross,
mortem examination showed that any one of 1,290; net, 1825; capacity cargo dead weight
the three wounds would have proved fatal, (inclusive of bankers), tons 1,300; measure-
There were two in the lower part of the ab ment, cubic feet 63,000; length between per
men, one of which had perforated the pendiculars, feet 254; breadth, feet 33; depth
while the other had traversed the pelvis and of hold, feet 23. Passenger accommodation=-
would have brought on peritonitis. The first class ten, third class twelve. Rooms
bullet passed through the heart and lodged
on deck 14.
the region of the liver.
wholesale and had no measure. He persisted in saying he had not got a measure in his shop, but on searching the Inspector found one on a wall behind some clothing. It was correct as regarded the length, but there was no tip on it. Defendant said he had forgotten he had the measure. The occupier of 51, Jervois Street was fined $25 for being in possession of an unjust measure.
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