Inst, à guard boat sailing from atshan was attacked midway by There were twenty soldiers on zu encounter of a few minutes re defeated and jumped over their escape. The pirates seized charge of the guard boat, who overboard on account of his to swim. The pirates then carried weapons and ammunition found on boat, The offoer was at last released affer they had besten him until deadi
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1,904 visitors to the City Hall reak, 151 of whom were Europesus fall for the twenty-four hours ending Thursday amounted to 6.75 inches. G. T. Backle, lately Assistant Colonial laft for Australia by the Guthrie, nokle, we understand, has resigned the kong Civil Servicenfan Addition to plague the only cases of com- cable disease reported last week were one enterie fever and one fatal case of puerperal It is notified in the Gazette that the Hon. H.
Pollock hus, been elected a a member of the Church Body for the current year, vice Mr. A. P. MacEwen resigned.
On Tuesday afternoon a coolie who was work- the City of Carlisle was killed by the work-mate's hammer, which flew off
him on the head.
ay afternoon Mr. G. J. W. King sale by auction Kowloon Inland 907 and 908, hut was not able to
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The death rate last month was, for the British and Foreign community, 36.3, and for the Chinese community
29.3.
August 28, 1899.
A Gastle Extraodinary was issued on Thurs- day revoking the proclamation of the 18th Maro delaring Amoy an infected port. 2104 21077). staying at Craigieburn, having been com The Right Rev. Bishop Bardon is at to leave Pakhoi owing, we regret to
On Tuesday afternoon a coolie employed on some houses in the course of erection in Mac. donnell koad fell from a scaffold, à distance of 15 feet from the ground, and was killed in-breakdown in health. staneously.
The statement that the six months working of the China Sugar Refining Co., Limited, has resulted in a loss, has come as a great surprise to the shareholders, who had looked for a quite different announcement. Messrs. J. P. Bisset & Co., of Shanghai, in their share circular dated 14th August, referring, to this stock say :--“It is reported that the interim dividend will be $5." Instead of that there is a dividend of $2 only, to be paid not from profits but from the equalisation of dividends fund.
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On Saturday afternoon the interment of the remains of Private Williams, who died from plague at the Military Hospital in the morning, took place. Deceased was admitted to the How pital on Thursday evening.
A Vancouver paper saysThe high raten demanded by sailing ships for carrying wheat have resulted in bringing the tram steamers info. chartered for new-season wheat is the steamer
the field. The first one to
Flintshire, 2,476 tons met, to load at Portland for the United Kingdom, at 40 shillings. ; The Fintshire is now on her way to Hongkong via
Suez.
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the employ of the shroff of Messrs. Caldbeck, At the Magistracy on 18th August a boy in
months hard labour for embezzling $49.50. - On Macgregor and Co. was sentened to four
$74.50 from Mrs. Stevens, Edenhall. the 15th July defendant collected a cheque, for cashed the cheque at the Chartered Bank and paid $25 to the shroff, Defendant admitted the offence, and stated he gave the money to friend.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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The 'ricksha is to be introduced into Manila, some 500 having been ordered from Japan to begin with.
Mr. Grist appeared at the Magistracy on Thursday for several Chinese shopkeepers, who were charged, according to the summons, that they did commit divers offence sagainst the pro- of 1890, as set forth in the complaint hereto visions of the Merchandise Marks Ordinance 18 attached." Mr. Grist remarked that there was no complaint attached-Mr. Gedge, who ap- Peared for complainante, said he applied for summonses and they were issued by the clerks in the Magistracy with the four charges against the defendants pinned to the original sum, monses but not to the copies, as they were issued. late the previous evening and in a great hurry. The police had instructions to show the ori ginals to the defendants.-The cases were adjourned for a week, Mr. Gedge promising to supply Mr. Grist with the charges in the mean time.--The defendants are Sa To Yuk and La Pak, masters of the Lai Wo Cheung shop, 255, Queen's Road Central; Sz To Wan and Li by night Chief Detective Inspector Cheung, masters of the Mai Cheung shop, Detective Sullivan raided No. 244 259, Queen's Road Central; Chan Fuk Hing, Rosd, and arrested 17 men engaged master of the Shui Yik shop, No. 280 Queen's bling. They were brought up at the Road Central; Fong Yan, master of the Ying doy on Monday morning. The two keep-Cheung Lung shop, 291, Queen's Road Central; each fined $25, and the rest $5 each, Ng Ki Cheung and Ng Ki Fat, master of the same house where a gambling raid Shun On Cheung shop 295, Queen's Road Cen- January last, on which occasion tral; and Tain U Kai, master of the Wo On. his life by falling from a height shop. 302, Queen's Road Central. The charges sttempting to escape.
are four in number. The first charge alleges process of the gradual acquisition by that the defendants unlawfully and with intent of houses on the upper levels is going to defraud the New York Condensed Milk Com- idly. The residence of the Hon. C. P.
pany forged the trade mark or mark of the The typhoon has apparently been felt with- C.M.G on Caine Road, has just been figure of an eagle with outstretched wings some severity further north. Notifications
Chinese investor for $55,000. The
standing with outstretched talons. On a scroll were issued by the Cable Companies: yesterday is very handsome, though the house is
on either side are the words Eagle" and stating that cable communication with Amoy. Braud," and above the eagle are the words and Foochow was interrupted, and that there Gail Bardon" depicted on a scroll. The other appeared to be no communication by the Chi- charges are but slightly different from the nese land lines either.
and stands in a considerable compound. Norwegian-built Australian barque Rose," Bickers, which left Hongkong on the July for Vancouver in ballast, arrived at nghai on the 14th August in distress, want- epairs, having had an extremely dangerous during the recent typhoon when to the wärd of Formosa,
Magistracy on Tuesday Henry Oliver, of the Travellers' Hotel, Queen Victoria et, was charged with allowing a disorder on Inspector McLennan said that „past nine on Sunday night he was bug Queen's Road in a rioksha, and Queen Victoria Street he heard a ile blown from the direction of the Hotel. He ran down and met de fé at the door." He asked her what and she replied, "Please come in out these merchant seamen. He went found in the room seven or eight mer- seamen and about ten English blue
It looked as if there was going to trouble. Hearing a noise in the back if blows were being struck, he asked de
wife what was going on, and she went door and called out "Open the door, the Here:?! The door was opened at once
first.
We make the following extracts from Mr. E. Georg's weekly share list dated 19th August: Star Ferries have been done from $164 to $17, and are in demand at the latter figure. I hear it has been decided to build two more double enders" for the traffic, so that in addi- tion to calling up the remainder of the capital it may be neccessary to call for fresh capital to pay for them.-In the early part of the week, China Sugars, after going down to $167, ad. vanced to $168 buyers, but only to recede again to $167, which rate was kept up, with sales, till Thursday morning; but after the meeting of the Consulting Committee held on that day and at which it was disclosed that, instead of earning money, the Company had actually lost $80,000 during the half-year and that the interim dividend of $2 per share, payable on 2nd proximo, was to come out of the equalization of dividends fund, the rate suddenly fell to $160, at which figure a fair business has been done, the market closing weak to-day with sellers at $159. I hear, however, that since closing of the books ou 30th June, the Company has done well and propects are better. Hongkong and Wham- poa Dock Company's shares kept rather quiet during the early part of the week, and actually went down to 487 per cent. prem. forend of the month, at which rate and at 490 per cent, prem business was done, but later on a much firmer
inside, and he saw two blue-jackets / <
waist fighting They were 80- her men were more or less under ink. When they saw him the fighting and excused themselves
having a bit of a set-to.”
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The Macao papers report the outbreak of another rebellion in Timor. Lieutenant Duar- te was killed in an engagement with the rebels
Business is stopped at Newchwang by the plague and the alarm ita appearance has caused among the coolies and others.-N. C. Daily News.
A band of thirteen armed robbers made a raid on Messrs. Carlowitz & Co.'s godowns in the German Concession, Tientain, on 11th August, and afte trying up the watch men carried off a number of bales of piece</ goods.
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The Courrier d'Haiphong says The recent typhoon has destroyed the greater part of the mud-wall buildings erected at Kwangohowwan, amongst others the Military Hospital, t quarters of the Commandant and officers, and the Post Office. It will be necessary to rebuild all these. Let us hope that the authorities will profit by experience and that the new buildings will be made strong enough to resist the storms so frequent in these parts.
Mr. E. de Bavier, who has been writing a series of articles in the N. C. Daily News on the export trade of China, concludes with the following reflections: Our expectations have: run too high; we must look at things from a less lofty-position, dealing simply with matters of fact, which are easier to understand. There is no doubt of the commercial possibilities of China, but we hold that, for the present, the country's development cannot keep pace with the increased competition. There is too much talk about China's commerce, prosperity and future. What we want is less talk and more - business..
Writing of life in the tropics the “Moralist Is of the Straits Times: says:—The objection ?" have to the tropics is summed up largely in the fnot that one lives more or less in a state et perspiration, varying from mild to nevere I don't like it. I don't want to like it: and I never will like it. As a young gentleman
sures of love-making. What is the gou ded my informant, who is young,
was only about three-yards fooling set in, cansed by the news that probably to me the other day: "it spoils even the
must have heard what was he asked her why she had not itDefendant said the men,
heir drink somewhere else, omae started fighting. He sent r the police, at once. cautioned and discharged..
another good job was in store for the Company, by the stranding of the American transport Hooker on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay, and shares were strongly enquired after at 495 to 500 per cent, prem, without leading to much business. I make the closing rate 505 per cent. prem, buyers.
a pretty, woman a cheek when one find my with perspiration. A nios fresh, he said, "is what I want." I pointed that 1 thought he had plenty, of fru cheek.
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