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unboat has been sent from Canton to
kong to receive H.D. Kang Yi, the Grand Commissioner, who is expected to arrive at Hohrkong from Shanghai by the Anping on the 8th instant. The Examination Hall at Canton has been prepared for his reception.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
* The were 14 onses of plague last week and 14 deaths. From noon on Saturday to 2nd Sep. tember to noon yesterday the (8th) unmber of cases was 10 and the deaths 9, 20
We understand that Dr. Rieloff, the German Consul, leaves by the next French mail for the North, having taken a short period of leave to recruit his health. Dr. Rieloff goes first to Peking and afterwards to Japan.
We hear that the Hongkong, Canton and
[September 9, 1895.
HMS Powerful arrived on Thursday from the North, flying her homeward bound pen- nant.
At the Magistracy on Saturday a doolie was charged with purso-snatching. Mrs. Yatos, wife of a non-commissioned officer in tho Royal Welch Fusiliers, had just come out of a shop at the corner of Pottinger Street and Queen's Road Central at about half-paat sight on Friday night when a coolie snatched her
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FI7 mid thất His Excellency's visit to Can. Macao Steamboat Co's steamer White Cloud, purse out of her hand and ran down Pottinger.
ton is for the purpose of investigating
mapen the sum, amounting the salt which has been running between Canton and Street, She followed him and the coolie
several
Macao, has been sold to Mr. G. Robinson, of Manila. She is to be replaced on the Canton- Macao ran by a more inadørn vessel.
thousand dollars, paid in advance by atan monopolists after the Franco-China Afterwards the Peking Government op- fuch farming and the said sum, which yet been returned to the intended far. still supposed to remain in the treasury,liers, to be an Assistant Adjutant General, and to bave the substantive rank of Colonel in the mysteriously tied up.
Army. Govárnor Luk Chnen-lum, who is to ex-
the Governorship with H.E. Tak Son, por of Kiangsu, handed over his seal to Vloeroy on the 5th inst, and will go to rhál by the Anping in a few days, H.E. Bou being expected to arrive at Canton
he same steamer,
On Monday afternoon Mr. King offered for sale by auction at the offices of the Public Works Department rural building lot No. 101, which is situated near Plantation Road Station. It comprises 15,000 square feet, and the annual rent is $26. The upset prise was $1.800, and the Hon. F. H. May was the purchaser at $20 above the upset price.
robbers in Taiyaushan, in the perfecture chow, who were scattered by the Imperial the beginning of this year, have re- bled in large numbers and committed
every description. The case has beenfication No. 17 of the 11th January. 1899, the | young maiden from the Sunny Soath but one :
the Viceroy, but no troops have Wong Chuen-sin, t the late Director of the Lekin Revenue of Kwangtung, been released by the Board of Punishments Peking after a brief trial. It is reported has bribed all the high officials and the who therefore have withdrawn all the brought against him by them. His Ma Tachu, who' was looked up in prison, has also been discharged. said that Wong made over a million dol. lars during the time he was Director General of Lekin revenue.
The scarcity of copper cash is again being felt in Canton, where a dollar can now only be exchanged for nine hundred to nine hundred and fifty cash., Conts have been successfully brought from Hongkong to Canton lately to meet the demand. A ten cent piece can only be exchanged for nine and a half cents in Hongkong
Jo 19 - HONGKONG.
A Chinese girl fell off a lighter in the bour on Sunday afternoon and was drowned.
There were 1,765 visitors to the
har-
jumped into the harbour. Mr. A. E. Rose, of the Reclamation Office, heard Mrs. Yates series and saw the man running and jump into the The Queen has approved of the following water, and he and a constable got him.out. He appointment-Brevet Colonel R. B. Mainwarhad, however, left his coat and the purse in the ing. from Lient. Colonel Royal Welob Fusi-water. The defendant was sentenced to three... months' imprisonmeit, and ordered to receiveA ten strokes with the birch rod inde
A correspondent writes What might have been a serious accident in the harbour on Monday upon the blacao steamer Heungshan's turning to go down the costril fairway (save the mark!) after leaving the wharf was neatly turned into nothing more than a bentrail stanchion by touching the turn of the Chow Tai with the rema us of a 17th century cork: fender between, the squeeze on which was not greater than the gallant Captain Groves, im- pressed on the lily-white hand of a fair coy short year ago. The cause of the trouble was that Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co.'s buoy has been shifted out into the fairway and further east, and with the steamer Taisang. altached and swinging across the channel there is certainly insufficient room and it is made very difficult for th large river vessels to man- oeuvre round to go down the fairway. Why this buoy should have been shifted to its present position is hard to tell. as it blocks the way This channel is snposed to be over 1,000 feet wide, but with steamers on each side of over 3 0 feet stretching across the channel, as hap- pened on Monday, the width left may be ima gined, more especialy when junks and steam- launches are taken into consideration.
The following notification appears in the Gazette: With reference to Government noti
Governor has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Maurice Bernal Blake, Hongkong, Volunteer Corps, to be His Excellency's Aide-de-Camp with effect from the 1st September, 1899, vice Viscount Suirdale, resigned.
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At the Magistracy yesterday morning Chinese boatwoman was charged with being in unlawful possession of dynamite at Shaukiwan at 11 o'clock the previous night and also with neglecting to display a red flag to show that she had dangerous goods aboard. Inspector Ro- bertson said he found in the woman's boat 200 lbs of dynamite, ten packets of caps, and a large | quantity of fuses. She was fined $50 for the second offence, and for the other cautioned.
At the Magistracy on Saturday the master of a Chinese bakery at 333, Queen's Road Central, was charged at the instance of In- spector Brett with allowing five men to sleep on the premises. Inspector Fisher said be visited the bake-house between 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of the 30th August and found five men sleeping on the tables on which the dough was kneaded. A fine of $20 was imposed.
Taotai Wong, lately Director General of the Lekin Revenue in Kwangtung and the Com missioner appointed by the Viceroy to accom- pany the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lookhart in the delimitation of the New Territory frontier, has
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. E. A Hewett, Vice-Chair nan of the Council, and his colleague Mr. Skottowe have had to contribute $20 and $10 r spectively to the Shanghai municipal funds for allowing their dogs to be abroad unmazzled. En
The danger that lurks in a soda-water bottle, says the Hiogo Nets, was exemplified the other. evening on board a launch
Kalkhof, who was , was struck on the
Museum last week, of whom 155 were prison of the Board of Punishments at Peking
| City Hall | amerged from his temporary retirement in the a bottle exploded, and Math the harbour, when
Eu-
** The Italian orniser Marco Polo left for Sin- gapore on Monday homeward bound.
addition to plague the only cases of com- disease reported last week were three laver, one of which proved fatal. day night Inspector Macnab and a of police raided a house in Wai Lok Street 14 men found gambling. Two of them were fined $5 each and the rest 83
where he was confined on various charges
of peculation. Some particulars in reference to this interesting worthy will be found in our Canton Notes.
The Hongkong correspondent of N. G. Daily News, referring to the New Territory blue book,
right eye by a piece of glass. The wound, which standing several feet away, was dangerously hear ruining the sight, had to be stitched. Two other bottles subsequenly er- ploded. Neither of them was being handled by anybody at the time. There had evidently, been a little too much "Beration" of the water.
The N. C. Daily News of the 28th July says:
The Governor's despatch to Mr. Cham- berlain, detailing the circumstances, is clear and straightforwarded, but otherwise it is not a-It was learnt with very deep regret on Bat- brilliant effort. H.E. points out, however, very urday night that Mr. H. B. Hearn, who was on clearly that the Viceroy of the Two Kwang was the oricket ground in the afternoon in his usual Secretary of State's circular despatch on guilty of bad faith in the matter, and while at health, had a stroke of paralysis at about 7 p.m... first appearing willing to assist, he was all the while he was at the Country Club. He was time bent on creating trouble by underhand taken to his hous on the Bun, and Dr. Mac-- means. The Governor, on the other hand, apart leod found it to be a case of right hemiplegia. from his initial mistake in visiting the Viceroy His condition was unchanged up to last night, at Canton, seems to have acted with prudence and he was only semi-conscions. A foreign and firmness.
summary of which appeared in the ss of the 29th August, is pablished in
Gazette:
dulice, in his yarn circular for last mail, says As premised, a very quiry has been experienced throughout half of the fortnight, and buyers have
to the demands of holders and market of almost every desir- offer Prices show a substantial
784 to 85
On the Volunteer Parade Ground on the 31st. August a most enjoyable concert and one which was largely patronised⠀⠀ te place, Among the names on the programme
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nurse is in constant attendance on him.
Fuj has been co
conquered by a Cleveland "bike," which was ridden partly round the ora- ter and most of the way down by Mr. Vanghap, took ter and most. This, of course, is the first time per bale and quotations are of Miss Cranna aud Mr. Norval McGregor, of that anybody had the temerity to essay the task.
an upward tendency. Favourite able to arrive and some transac reported. With moderate, receipts takes our stocks are now brought The most noteworthy ght has been introduction arket of the product of our kong, Spinning, Weaving, The count at present 10. sad resembles the pro- deshi mill in thread and
Lont luction of the
Bay and
the Waldorf Dramatic Company. Miss Cranna and though it sounds, and may read sensational gave two or three re
recitations, which were mnch enough, it does not seem from Mr. |Yaughan's appreciated, and Mr. McGregor gave an effec: statements to have been a very serious operation: tive rendering of “The Switchman's Story." The view from the top on Saturday before By special request Miss Queenie Lambert gave
suz acturally rose be describes as the dance with which she created such a furors at font. He could casily see To the last pantomime and was as warmly received could moreover discern specks which he decided dosen good as ever. Messrs. A. Van Nierop and G. P to be shipping. He took about Lammert gave Excelsior" in good style, and photographs on the top, and besides riding Sergeant Ward, R.A.M.C., and Mr. Walwyn some distance along the side of the crater as- contributed comic songs. The band of the tounded the wd of pilgrims there by t Royal Welch Fusiliers was in attend
riding —Japan Gasette:
hibition of tri
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