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Lot 24-No. 26, Cross Street; area 594 square feet; aunual crown ront $8.96; purchaser, Mr. Li Pan Kwai; price $9.300,>= Lot 38.-Godown No. 43, Praya East; actual area 24,190 square feet; term 999 years; annual crown rent $381.28; purchaser Mr. Un Li Chuen; price $42,742 ($1.80 per {** Loot.)
The sales for the day realised $192,892. - Messrs. Hughes and Hough continued their sale of leasehold properties belonging to Mr. Ho Tung on Saturday, when there was agait a good attendance. Thirteen lots were disposed of and fetched $58,600. Lots 39 and 40 were not sold: The following are the details:- Lot 25-No. 24, Cross Street; ares 596 square feet, annual crown rent 88.96; purchaser Mr. Mok Yu; price $3,50. Lot 26-No. 22 Cross Street; area 606 square feet; annual crown rent 89.12; purchaser Mr. Mok Yu; price $9,5000. Lot 27-No. 20, Cross Street; area 600 square feet; annual crown rent $9.10; purchaser Mr. Mok Yu; price $3,300. Lot 28.—No. 18, Cross Street; area 604 square fest; annual crown rent 39.13; purchaser Mr. Mok Yu; price $3,500. Lot 29-No. 16, Cross street, area 636 square fest; annual crown rent $9.60; purchaser Mr. Mok Yu; price $5000 Lot 30 No. 13, Tai Wo Street. area 830 square feet; annual crown rent 812.61; purchaser Mr. Ip Chun Kan; price $3,100. Lot 31-No. 12, Tai Wo Street; area 840
square feet; annual crown rent $12.76; purchaser Mr. Ip Chun Kan; price $2,850. Lot 82-No. 11, Tai Wo Street; area 840 square feet; annual crown rent $12.76; purchaser Mr. Ip Chan Kan; price $2,800. Lot 33.-No, 10, Tai Wo Street: area 879 square feet; annual crown rent $13.36; purchaser Mr Ip Chun Kan; price $3,000. Lot 34-No. 8, Stone Nullah Lane; area 830) square feet; annual crown rent $12.61; purchaser Mr. Mok Yu; price $2,950. Lot 35-No. 6. Stone Nullah Lane; area 840
square feet; annual crown rent $12.76 purchaser Mr. Ip Chun Kan; price $2,800, Lot 36.-No. 4, Stone Nullah Lane; area 84
square feet; annual brown rent $12.76; purchaser Mr. Ip Chun Kan., price 82,750. Lot 37.-No. 2, Stone Nullah Lane, area 880 square feet, annual crown reut $18,37.; pur- chaser Mr. Ip Chun Kan; price $2,950. The last mentioned 16 Lots forming the whole of Inland Lot No. 430 are held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 999 years. Lot 39.-No. 5, Li Yden Street West, ares 824 square feet, annual crown rent $13.24; reserve not reached; the best bid $8,500. Lot 40.-No. 7, Li Yuen Street West; ares 824 square feet; annual crown rent $13.25; reserve not reached; highest bid $8,300.
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The fortnightly meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board was held on Thursday afternoon. The President (Dr. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer) occupied the chair, and there were also present the Hon. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Mr. E. Osborne, Dr. Lowson (Acting Medical Officer of Health), and Mr. C. W. Duggan (Secretary). APPLICATION FROM THE HUNGHOM DOCKS. application was received for permission ot water-closets for the use of Europeans
Hunghom Dooks.
In the minutes referring to the application Vice-President and Dr. Clark expressed themselves against the application being grant- ed and the President and the Hon. R. D. Orms- by in favour,
Hunghom
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for
The Hon. R. D. Ormsby in proposing that the application be granted, subject to the ap- proval of the Board's surveyor, said it appear
"that they had had water-closets at the
Be Docks
number .of They had not proved a nuisance anybody. This was merely a recons- notion. Mr. Gillies had pointed out the him and informed him there was a ontinuous rush of salt water through the short
at pipe to the sea. Dr. LOWSON seconded, and the motion was
THE PLAGUE.
A further report as to the plague at Penang showed that for the week ended July 15th there were three cases and the same number of deaths, the number of cases reported up to noon, July 14th, being 48; deaths 36
A report from Bombay city showed that from June 20th to July 3rd (inclusive) there were 104 cases and 93 deaths.
The mortality returns from Macao for the week ended July 9th showed 67 deaths includ ing 11 from plague) and 67 for the following week (including four from plague).
HONGKONG-DEATH RATE.
The mortality statistics for the colony of. Hongkong for the week ended July 15th showed a death rate of 311, against 401 for the pre- vious week and 157 for the corresponding week last year. The rate for the following week was 22-8, against 25.5 for the corresponding week
last year.
LIMEWASHING.
Mr. OSBORNE asked whether any steps had been taken to prosecute owners of unlimewashed premises in the Western division, as it was more especially with regard to that division that it was understood they were to take action. According to the report apparently no notices had been served.
The PRESIDENT said it appeared that owing to the illness of the Inspector of No. 9 district the notices had not been served. Steps would be taken to have them served as soon as possible
Mr. OSBORNE said they had a law providing for periodical cleansing and penalties for neglect. ing the same and the moment they attempted to put that law into effect they found they were powerless to do it owing to an insufficient staff, and he begged to move that a representation on the subject be made to the Government with a view to an immediate increase in the staff for the purpose of prosecuting owners of property who failed to comply with the law.
The PRESIDENT-The Chief Inspector has arrived lately and it is one of his duties to undertake these prosecutions,
Dr. Lowson-We might leave this matter over for a fortnight to see what can be done.
Mr. OSBORNE agreed to this. This was all the business.
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THE SILK TRADE INTERRUPTED BY THE LAWLESSNESS IN KWANGTUNG.
NATIVE DEALERS UNABLE TO FULFIL THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.
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REPRESENTATIONS TO THE FOREIGN
MINISTERS AT PEKING.
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August 6, 1800.
Ngohnin banditsnow number over a thouand
meu.
Colonel Shok garrisoned his troops in the Ngtaopo village school for the protection of the village. The robbers had their head-quar- ters in the ancestral hall of Lukkongkok and were levying blackmail. The villagers, know- ing that the mandarin soldiers were soldiers only in name and could not fight, had to submit to the squeezes applied to then and pay over, it is said, many thousands of dollars. · Colonel Shek, knowing the weakness of his troops, dared not advance to the attack, and the robbers now threaten the complete destruction of his force..
A sternwheel "man power" boat named the Katchau, plying betweon Canton and Saichin was attacked some time ago by pirates and robbed and a promise was extracted from the master
to
pay a squeeze of $100
a month for immunity from further attack. Of late the master has failed to pay this squeeze, pleading that business was bad. On the 22nd July, while the boat was on her way from Can- ton to Saichiu and was near Koonsan, a force of several hundred robbers armed with modern
quick-firing rifles was seen on the river bank, and they demanded from the muster the squeeze agreed upon and an explanation of his failure to pay. They gave him one day's grace for påy. meut, and the master, knowing it was not safe to approach the shore for further parley got away as quickly as he could and was afraid to return next day.
There is practically a stoppage of trade tween Canton and the disturbed districts.
THE ASSESSMENT FOR 1899-1900.
The report of Mr. Arthur Chapman, assessor, on the assessment for the year 1899-1900) is published in the Gazette.
The result of the new valuation is that the rateable value of the city of Victoria is, in the list which came into force on the 1st July, $4,241,919 as compared with last year's (1898-99) assessment $3,828,577, an increase in rateable value of $418,342 equivalent to 10.79 per cent:
The rateable value of the. Hill District is now $149,875 against $138.765 last year, an increase of $11,110 or 8.00 per cent.
The rateable value of the Hongkong villages - bas risen from $172,543 to $176,063, an increase of $3,520 or 2.04 per cent.
The rateable value of the district known as, Kowloon point has increased from $187,935 to $144,530, à difference of $7,195, equal to 5.23 per cent.
The rateable value of the villages comprising the remainder of British Kowloon is now $274,447 as compared with $244,727 last year, an increase of $29,720 or 12.14 per cont
The rateable value of the whole colony is now $4,986,834 as compared with last year's assess- ment of $4,521,947, an increase of $464,887 or 10.27 per cent.
MORE HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.
In consequence of the robberies and piracies up country in Kwangtung, the silk merchants in Canton are afraid they will be unable to meet their engagements. The silk producers are threatened and blackmailed by the lawless pirates (who now run riot unchecked through the Two Kwang) to such an extent that they are unable to send the silk down for fear either
On Tuesday as a gentlemen of the name of that it should be capturedjor the money paid for Berwick was walking along the south side of it seized on its way up country. The foreign Queen's Road Central, near Watson & Co.'s, be merchants at Canton, in view of the serious heard a scream and on looking in the direction position of affairs, have, through their Consals, whence it came across the road, he saw a Euro- represented the condition of affairs to the For-pean lady struggling in the grasp of a China- eign Ministers at Peking.
THE DISORDER IN KWANGTUNG
A Canton correspondent writes as follows Further details of brigandage prevailing in Saichin are to hand and show the extent to which the unfortunate people of the district are blackmailed. The Namboi Magistrate Yiang was sent by the Viceroy to suppress the distur- bance, and he had seventeen robbers arrested and brought back to Canton. The robber chiefs, emboldened by the paltriness of their loss, sent an impudent letter to the elders demanding the return of these seventeen men, failing which they threatend to set fire to the market town of Hangkeung. The people, greatly alarmed, for they have good reason to dread the vengeance of the robbers, closed their shops, the market was suspended, and all business stopped. The robbers also threatened to seize the principal elder, named Shun. The
man. He at once ran to her assistance with another gentleman, who turned out to be the captain of the steamer Hangchow. The captain fell as he ran down a lane after the thief, but Mr. Berwick, in spite of his fifteen stone weight. for he is now well on in the forties, nimbly over- took the thief. Mr. Berwick was a champion runner in his younger days. When handed over to an Indian constable and searched the lady's purse was found on the thief. The lady had her daughter with her at the time she was attacked. The police in every case that these attacks on foreign ladies have occurred have failed to arrest the perpetrators, and it is pleasant to find that in this case the scoundrel did not get off sout free, thanks to the nimble Mr. Berwick
At the Magistracy on Thursday the two men were convicted of being rogues and vagabonds. The police have every reason to believe that the men are connected with one or other of the recent highway robberies, but they cannot be identified."
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