July 29, 1899 ]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
THE PLAGUE,
well managed little line. I believe the plant and rolling stook are all subjected to quarterly tests, and I daresay the recent mishaps are
During the week ended 22nd July there were mostly due to exceptional causes, and if this is 30 cases of plague and 32 deaths, as against 64 the case it might be well for the management cases and 65 deaths the previous week. The to make some statement on the subject to reas-daily returns for the present week have been as sure the public. Perhaps, too, the Government follows:-Sunday, 7 cases, 7 deaths; Monday, should undertake pariodical inspections in ad- 6 cases. 6 deaths; Tuesday, 4 cases. 2 deaths; dition to the annual test. I make these sug- Wednesday, 5 cases, 8 deaths; Thursday, 8 gestions in the frisudliest spirit, and trust they cases, 8 deaths; Friday. 3 case, 4 deaths will be so received-Yours faithfully.
PASSENGER.
Hongkong. 26th July, 1899.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DALLY PRESS.
Dear Sir, -Our attention having been called to a letter in your issue of to-day signed "pas- senger, respecting the recent slight stoppages in traffic on the Peak Tramway, we shall be obliged if you will publish the following short explanation, received by us from the Tramway | Superintendent.
We may add that on the occasion of any mishap or detention, a detailed report is sent to us at once by the Superintendent.-We are, dear sir, yours faithfully,
THE HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL
TRAMWAYS CO., LIMITED.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS and Son, General Managers.
(Enclosure.)
27th July, 1899. Messrs. John D. Humphreys & Son. General Managers
Dear Sir,In reply to your enquiries asking for a short explanation of the causes of the three stoppages that have occurred lately, I may say briefly-in addition to my detailed accounts sent to the offfee-that the first mishap took place on Sunday morning last, when the breakage of a wheel delayed the running two hours. This was caused by no fault of the wheel or any part of the machinery, but by the pointsman not allowing the up car to clear the points before altering them for the down car, the result being that the hind part of the car was partly derailed. On this occasion the car was stopped by the brakesmau within 5 yards of its derailment.
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The second mishap occurred on Sunday night, when one of H.E. the Governor's coolies riding on the back seat upset a small kerosine lamp, on which occasion the car was delayed a few mi- nutes until the fire was put out.
The third stoppage took place on Tuesday last. When the 5.3 p.m. car was nearing Ken- nedy Road Station, the guide bracket that leads the rope under the car struck one of the pullies, which broke the guide. This was comparative- ly a trivial matter and on the car arriving at the Peak Station a hasty repair was made to avoid delaying the traffic. Unfortunately the repair was hardly sufficient and the car had again to return to have the guide properly fixed. causing a detention of half an hour.
With regard to inspection &c.. the rail, cars and machinery are examined daily and every thought is given to the safe running of the service. Yours faithfully,
C. B. BUYERS. Superintendent.
GRIEVANCE FROM BLUE
BUILDINGS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS.
Dear Sir.-The P.W.D. evidently purposes repairing the road opposite Blue Buildings and for this purpose have had in readiness on the
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DEATH OF A EUROPEAN FROM PLAGUE,
On Wednesday afternoon the remains of Mr. Hans Rehwoldt, who died of plague in Kennedy. town Hospital in the morning, were interred in the cemetery at Happy Valley. The deceased had been in the employ of Messrs Kruse and Co. for some time, and was attending to basi. uess within a day or two of his death. Last week, however, he complained of feeling un- well, and on Monday his temperature was so high that a medical ma was sent for aud an examination disclosed the fact that he was suffering from plague. He was at once taken to the Hospital, where he lay inseusible the greater part of the time up to his death. On Tuesday afternoon he was conscions for about an bour, and he utilised his time by writing a note to bis parents in Lubeck (Germany) and also one to his employers. Deceased was only 2 years of age. The flag at the German Club was on Wednesday flying half-mast.
THE CUS OM-HOUSE AT TSINTAU.
Ostasiatische Lloyd :
We make the following translation from the
re-
The Chinese Customs at Tsiutau affords the North-China Daily News occasion for degree. When our English cousins concern marks that have surprised us in the highest
themselves with our colonial mistakes we are
causes
generally accustomed to see their press more or less enjoying our misfortunes The cir cumstance, however, that on this occasion the N. C. Daily News assumes the role of warner us to attentively examine what it says. This is the article under notice. (Here follows a translation of the article, which was reproduced in the original in the Daily Press of the 15th July, in which the policy of establish- ing the Chinese Customs in the free port of Tsintau was criticised and the statement was made that the German merchants at Tsintau were strongly opposed to it.)
While, continues our German contemporary, we absolutely deny the right of the N. C. Daily News to ask the German Governor the reasons for his action. this belong- in absolutely to his superior authorities, yet
we will not conceal the fact that a number of
German merchants in Tsintau do hold the view expressed in the article in the N. C. Daily News. notified the decision regarding the provisional At the time that the Imperial Government Custom-house we published an article which, as we then stated, came from a well informed au- thority, and in which were given the essential reasons which had influenced the Imperial Go- vernment in regulating the matter so and not
otherwise.
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TYPHOON AT SHANGHAI,
Shanghai. 22nd July. have been suffering for two days seams
The very remarkable typhoon from which started from a point somewhere to the north of Formosa to make its way straight westward to the coast of China. The centre seems have arrived somewhere north of the Chusan Islands at about 3 a.m. yesterday, and then to bave stopped, the persistence of the wind in the north showing that, as reported by the Sicawei Observatory, it was stationary to the eastward- of Shanghai nearly the whole of yesterday. The rainfall here up to 11 p.m. yesterday was 3.89 inches, and this has so loosened the ground that the wind, which ranched force 8, has done a large amount of damage in the Settlements and the outside roads. The lowest reading of the barometer in the Settlement was 29.0 at 3`s.ml. yesterday. A large number of trees and fenowa have been blown down in the streets and on the outside roads, the French Band and the Public Garden having suffered very severely, Both telephone and electric light wires have given way in several places; two of the electric light circuits were put out for a couple of houts on Thursday night, and telephonic and teles graphic communication was so interrupted that the Father in charge of the Meteorological Station at Sicawei had to walk in through the storm yesterday morning to the Semaphore Several of the matsheds in the Public Beoren. Station to gather and impart information. tion Ground were blown down, but "Little Kianchon," as the German pavilion is popularly called, stood unharmed through the gale, a proof of the solidity of German construotion ‘in the Far East. At midnight on Thursday the head resident boy at the Swimming Bath warned the other boys there to keep awake and on the look- out for squalls, and at 2,30 a.m. the whole struc- ture collapsed and is now a mere heap of bamboo poles and mats. The Dutch Consular flagstaff is nodding to its fall in Hongkow, and several telephone and electric light posts are being held up by the wires, one on the Sinza Road being par- ticularly dangerous. There have been, as might be expected, unusually high tides, but the gampans and cargo-boats generally stowed themselves away in safe places before the gale was atits worst. Not a single vessel has arrived from outside, nor have any left Shanghai during the last twenty-four hours; there are several dus, but is hoped they have found places of refuge in good time. The Volunteer Parade called for last night had, of course, to be postponed, while a great part of the matshed Drill Hall on the Soochow Creek has been demolished. We have not heard so far that the typhoon has caused any injury to life or limb, and trust that this good record will not be broken.
Garden was submerged, there being nine inches At 11.30 p.m, yesterday the wind was still from the north, and at midnight the Publis. of water on the gravel, path abreast of the red lamp at Garden Point.-N. 6. Daily News,
FRENCH ACTION IN KWANG- CHOWAN.
*If the N. C. Daily News affirms that the Chinese merchants will find their interests pre-
The Universal Gazette states that the French have taken Hsiungehou and Shih Mên in the judiced by the establishment of the Customs at Tsintan, we affirm on the contrary that it is Bay of Kwangohow-wan. Some forts have the Chinese side that the greatest benefit will been taken down and French officials have
been nominated over each village which be derived. Whether, however, the period of
French have placed one short week is sufficient, as our
their control. clamations have been issued informing the temporary seems to, think. to form a de- finite judgment upon the advantages or disud people that they were under the French Go- vernment but no taxes of any kind would be vantages of the new arrangement we may doubt. imposed on them. The inhabitants are greatly We are far from saying that every regulation good. At the end of two weeks we for our part of Kwangchowan in the jurisdiction of Kancho, of the Kiscsban Government is to be called alarmed at this action. The vernacular paper
adds that Hsiung is situated at the south eas are not yet at hand the necess ry material to
Shih Men is situated on the north we material is available we will return to the sub-ing the first named place. Both are form an impartial view. So soon as such
same Bay to the west of Kacchow, and ject.
entrances to Kiangchowan. M
spot for several weeks a large quantity of road metal. Instead of preparing it for use prior to bringing it to the scene of intended operations it has been sent down large and this morning a gang of stone breakers were set on to reduce it to the required size, mach to the annoyance of the residents of the neighbourhood. While these operations are going on living in Blue Buildings is akin to living next door to a foundry, the noise of the hammers is so incessant. It is very provoking that these public works should be carried out with so little considera tion for those for whom the work is done, te, the public. One would think that the public were here for the convenience of the P.W.D.got on to his clothes, which became ignited. instead of the opposite. Yours faithfully,
His cries attracted the other servants, who pat SUFFERER.
out the flames, but the boy was so badly burned that he died at noon on the same day.
· Hongkong, 27th July, 1899.
On Wednesday morning Leung Kan, cook at 135. Des Voeux Road, was lighting a fire, and in order to make it burn up quicker he threw some kerosine oil on. The bottom of the can ¿containing the oil fell out and some of the oil
At the Magistracy on Tuesday two were each fined 825 for being in illegal day a Chinese constable saw defendants sion of arms and ammunition,~ The
Praya West to a sampan, and on exa in removing some parcels from the sh parcels he found that they contained $7 revol vers, 3,250 rounds of ammunition, and 800 boxe of caps.
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