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sion of the scene ran ́ along a path which led to the edge of a steep precipice, the proximity of which she could not have known, and her life- less body was found the next morning at its foot. There is ‘a romantic tale in which the young wife figures. It seems this young girl, for such she was, had been a geisha, a renowned beauty, often seen in the Tshiriki, a house of entertainment. She had left this lucrative life of ease and pleasure to wed the young man of her heart, a Japanese without wealth or posi tion, and with him she had put up with all the hardships of a life of comparative poverty in a wretched hut in a filthy fover-stricken village where life must have been torture and which fually ended in a horrible death.
The banditti stripped the houses of all their contents, even carrying away the mosquito nets and bedding, and after having set fire to the buildings and seen the conflagation well under way, retired in the darkness of the night and have not been heard of again. Besides the two fatalities mentioned there were five Japanese wounded. It might be mentioned that the handful of Chinese villagers present gave the Japanese every assistance in making their escape.
CAN ON OTES.
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[FROM THE CHƯNG NGOI BAN PO." On the 25th inst. seven pirates implicated in he piracy on the Portuguese steamer Taiping were taken out from the Namhoi prison and carried in baskets to Tintszmatow" for deca-
pitation. These pirates were captured by suprise while they were attending a theatrical performance in Kongman. One of the detec- tives who effected their capture was seriously wounded.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
July 1 8
142
144
**
100
98
15
64
65
22
30
32
29
37
39
Aug. 5
20
29
12
20
22
**
*
19 26
24
23
15
15
The daily returns for the past week have been as follows:
Ma Ta-ho, who as previously reported was arrested upou a charge of aiding and abet ting her master, Wong Tsun-shui, late Direc. tor-General of the likin revenue of Kwangtung, to make squeezes, was tried by the Punyu Magistrate the other day After a short trial she was released, but she was rearrested on the following day, when she said she had no kuow. ledge of the illegal action of her master and that she had only purchased eight houses for him. She has been severely tortured and is still looked up in the prison. The members of the family of Wong are now engaged in removing! all their moveable property to other places and have made every preparation for effecting their escape.
The Saichin brigands have taken refuge in Taipingsha, where mulberry trees are deusely planted. This place is a centre of the silk in- dustry. The Imperial troops who have sur- rounded the place dare not go in to root them
out.
General Lin Yung-fu and the Namboi Magistrate on the 14th and 15th August doa- troyed about 1,200 houses in Lokokwai. The place numbered in all about 4,000 houses, which have all been deserted. The Namhoi Magis trate, affected by the horrible sight of the ruins, found his conscience moved and on the 16th he ordered the soldiers to retire and stop burning the remaining houses. He has now returned to Canton with General Liu Yung-fu to ask the Viceroy to have mercy on the poor inhabitants and their houses.
All the junks towed by steam launches run- ning between Canton and Fa-nu district have given up their traffic on the gound of their being unable to satisfy the demands of the pirates for blackmail:
THE PLAGUE.
Sunday
-
CASES.
DEATHS.
3
3
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
3
3
Thursday Friday
4
4
Since the beginning of the year there have ben 1.418 cases and 1,360 deaths.
HONGKONG.
One of the men injured by the collapse of the old synagogue in Graham Street last week died in the Hospital on Friday.
On 24th August two more bodies were found among the debris of the old synagogus which callapsed in Graham Street the other day.
The only cases of communicable disease re- ported last week, in addition to plague, were one of enteric fever (fatal) and one of puerperal fever.
held by the Peak Club the Pavilions are to We hear that upon the termination of the lease
revert to their original use as a sanitarium for Government officials.
It is notified in the Gazette that the Queen's colli to act as Consul for Italy at Hongkong exequatur empowering Cavalieri Zanoni Volpi- has received Her Majesty's signature.
Chau Fuk, who had nine previous convictions At the Magistracy on Tuesday a boy named against him, was sentenced to a year's imprison- ment for disobeying an order of banishment.
A coolie employed in the erection of the new structure behind Queen's Buildings fell from ing injuries which caused his almost immediate the top storey on Saturday afternoon, sustain
death.
There were 1,645 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week of whom 171 weÉS ropears.
Mr. W. H. T. Davis, the local agent Straits Insurance Co., Limited, informa he has received telegraphic advice from office, Singapore, that negotiations are in gress for the transfer of the Eastern of the Company to the South British Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of New Zealand, a
It is notified in the Gazette that H.E. the Governor has been pleased to re ognise Mr. Austro-Hungarian consulate during the absence H. E. Silvestri as in temporary charge of the
of Mr. M. Kutschera or until further notice."
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead proposes to ask at the next meeting of the Legislative Council if it is true that Tang Cheong was foully and brutally murdered at or near the village of Un Loong on 17th or 18th April last. Seeing that a jury in the. Supreme Court has found the fact of the murder proved, and that two of the murderers have been convicted aud executed, the question seems rather superfluous.
Lodge R.A.O.B., held at the Lodge room, No. At a regular meeting of the Lion and Rose
10, Queen's Road Central, on 29th August, the following officers were elected for the month of September:-S. P., Primo Dalton; C. Mar.; Bro. Marsden; C. Tyler, Bro. Tuohy; C. Con., Bro. Shute; C. Cham., Bro. Mackie; C. Rer, Bro. Burnett; C. A. of B., Primo Oxbery; C. Min., Primo Barrett; C. Treas., Bro. Ro- Parkinsou; C. Ta.. Bro. Cours; C. Phy., Bro. berts; C. Sec., Primo Watling; C.W., Bro.
Jenner. Harmony was contributed during the evening by Primos Dalton, Oxberry and Bur- rell, and Brothers Jenner, Ward, Hopkins, Marsden, and Roberts.
The carpenters employed at Hunghom Docks being at loggerheads with their guild, halles dozen constables have been sent across to vent breaches of the peace. The mem the guild have not only threatened viel one evening last week armed themselt - knives and chisels and attacked three dock carpenters. One of the latter. riously wounded that he had to be Hospital.
The British four-masted-barque Simla, Capt. Cebu, Huestes, which arrived on 25th August Plague still lingers in the colony, notwith-from which port she left on the 22nd July, exper- standing all the measures taken for its suppres-ienced a typhoon on the voyage. Captain Huestes sion, while it has disappeared from the neigh bouring Chinese ports of Amoy and Pakhoi, where nothing at all has been done in connection with improved sanitation. Occasionally a day pesses without any new cases being reported, but on others two, three, or four cases may occur. The weekly returns since June have been as Töllows :
WEEKENDING.
·
CASES.
June 3
92
DEATHS
97
10
97
'91
17
··109
117
24
148
193
A general order dated Tuesday says:—“ HE. the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Volunteer Corps, dated 24th August :- Maurice Bernal Blake, Esq., to be Lieutenant in the Field Battery, Hongkong. Volunteer Corps, Supernumerary to the Establishment; Thomas Skinner, Esq., to be Lieutenant in 'D' Infantry Company.” Mr. Maurice Bernal Blake is the Governor's son- and has come out to act as His Excellency a A.D.C.
reports:-In lat. 16 N. long. 127 E. ship en countered a typhoon and at 4.30 am. on 4th August the ballast shifted, throwing the ship on her beam ends. Cut away masts: ship righted somewhat; getting from one part of the ship to the other by walking on the outside part of her. The typhoon moderating on the 5th. The crew working incessantly at trimming the ballast for & week.
On 16th secured the remaining yards and masts and made all possible sail and set course for the Basbee Channel for Hongkong. Winds during the typhoon, N., N.W., S.W., and S.
Some doubt has been thrown on the state meat published in these columns that Baldo- mero Aguinaldo, cousin of the Filipino leader.. had arrived in Hongkong. We observe, how ever, that the Manila Times publishes a tele grain from its Hongkong correspondent stating that Baldomero has been seen on the street here by men who know him perfectly well; and that the statement that he had gone back to the Americans off the track. the Insurgent lines was only intended to put
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The advantage of employing a watchman is illustrated by the following extract from the Rev. R. F. Cobbold's "Notes" for September: "We have not had to wait long for a demons tration of the use of a watchmss. On Satur- day night, the 5th of August, at 11 a el man was discovered by the watchman, trying to effect an entrance into th On being observed, he ran sway, eight others, besides the watchman. chase, including three members of the managed to escape."
The Rev. R. F. Cobbold, Chaplain of 8f John's Cathedral, in his "Notes"-for-Septem- ber, says,-" The first section of the choir stalls be enabled to proceed with the second section. is at last completed, and we hope we may soon The clergy stalls (separate gifts) are The work has been excellently carried Chinese workmen from designs prep Mr. Danby's office, to whom also we are ed for the oak of which the stalls are ma has an historic interest, having been wheu H.M.8. Victor Emmanuel was last year."
At the Harbour Office on Tuesday, before Commander Rumsey, four Chinese who belong to the steward's department of the P. and O steamship Bombay were charged with unla fully deserting the ship while in Hồng. kong barbour on the 24th, 25th, and August Mr. Lawrence Lewis, chief the P. and O. office, said the defe were shipped in Hongkong, in Jul for six months. The Bombay arrived on the afternoon of the 23rd August, saloon waiters, three of whom, were in the dock.. deserted that day. On the following day, the steward in charge brought the No. salcon waiter (the first defendant) to the offoe and, ported the desertion of the four men. Engr was made but without satisfactory result. the ship was due to sail, four new mon shipped, The No. 1 stated that if done all the others would desert. sailed after the new men had been precautions had been taken on boa any further desertions. As the ing the bay it was reported t got away again from the ship:. detained in consequence of the being saloon waiters their absence in a very awkward position. sentened to four weeks' impri hard labour, and each of the days' imprisonment with hard, lab
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