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roughly typical of the Chinese idea of a "brave," | 1898, while for much general information I and wears u most ferocious and blood-ourdling | um under obligations to Captain Thomas, of the steamer Wuchow, whose readiness to impart it and general desire to minister to the comforts of the passengers I am only too pleased to thankfully acknowledge.
Quitting this interesting temple, we then proceeded along the base of the rook to the month of the famous limestone cave. I confess I was somewhat disappointed at first sight of this Chinese wonder. The entrance is low and looks much lower than it really is, as there is plenty of room for the tallest man to walk in upright. The onvern speedily widenson entering, and after traversing a paved causeway a distance of some eighty feet, the head of it is reached. The bottom of the cavern is full of water, and the pared causeway, which is railed on either
side, has been made for the convenience of visitors. The roof gradually grows loftier until at the head of the cave it rises into quite a lofty dome, the actual height of which we were unable to discover although we sent up several in. effective Chinese rockets. There is a peculiar weird echo, and one rook when struck by a mat bag gave forth a load resonant sound almost like the booming of a drum. There was no need for torches, because the light enters from both ends. At the head of the caveru a few steps up near the other outlet is a small rock cut temple, the presiding divinity of which is a figure of the Goddess of Heaven, seated in a deep recess. Two nearly life sized figures of warriors, each carved out of solid blocks of marble, also stand in this sanctuary. Yet another flight of stairs, and we found ourselves in the open air on the other side of the rock, on a small gallery out out of it, from which a room is entered, where the bonze comes for ward and invites us to in- scribe our names in a book kept for the purpose. This done and some silver distributed among the priests and their satellites, we return through the cavern and treat the aborigines to a scramble, in which I regret to say the males showed a sad lack of gallantry towards the weaker sex. I should have liked to visit some of the other rocks and see where the marble is quarried, but time did not permit. The pathway was in several parts paved with pieces of marble of various colours as well as of jet black and pure white. I was also unable to visit any of the monasteries perched up on the rocks in places where there was apparently only foothold for goats. A splendid view of the plain and river is no doubt obtainable from these syries.
Our party then got into the chairs, which were of a quaint description, peculiar, I should ima gine, to Shinhing. They are so small that the passenger has to sit tight; and they are boxed up at the aides yet without a roof a flapping little shutter of black matting falling in front on a level with the eyes, obstructing the view but answering no other conceivable purpose, They are so -frail that I put my foot through the bottom when getting into it, and one of them com- pletely collapsed under the weight of another member of the party, nearly letting him into the water in the paddy field below. I soon got tired of this mode of conveyance, and at the first halting place severed all connection (save that of paying) with both chair and bearers. We reached Shinhing without further adventure, stopping only to purchase some marble ware, and went on board with all despatch. The steamer was all ready, anchor was weighed directly we were on board, and we were quickly under steam for Samshui, which we should have reached an hour earlier but for interposing timber rafts.
At Samshui we took in some
cargo and passengers, and then continued the voyage, calling, as on the up trip, at Kamchuk and Kong man, the latter in the dark, and arrived safely in Hongkong harbour about 7 a.m. on the 25th October.
CONCLUDING REMARKS. The trip is a most enjoyable one, and affords complete change of scene to the jaded resident Hongkong, while to the stranger in these parta it will afford a good idea of the inland vigation of South China and the resources of the delta. The
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TYPHOON AT HAIPHONG
The steamer Hating. Captain Jenssen, which arrived on Sunday from Haiphong and Hoihow, reports that on the 9th November a very severe typhoon passed over Haiphong, doing consider able damage to the river steamers, lighters, and junks, of which several were carried far inland by the high flood. Several parts of the town were inundated.
The wind commenced blowing from the N.E. with heavy rain, this continuing up to noon, when the wind veered to the E. and blew with terrific force up the Haiphong reach. At 3 p.m. a sudden lall occured. The wind recom- menced shortly afterwards, blowing from the N W., but not so heavily as before. At 6 p.m. the weather was abating and by midnight the storm was over.
The Hating left Haiphong at 6 a.m. on the 10th. She passed quite a lot of wreckage be- tween Hondau Island and Norway Island. About six miles S.W. of Norway Island she picked up two shipwrecked Paklioi fishermen, who had been about twenty four hours on a raft and were the only two survivers out of a crew of ten. The master of the junk succumbed on the morning of the rescue. According to the statement of the two men rescued quite a nom- ber of fishing junks had been lost with all on board.
The Hating had fine weather up to Hong- kong.
ANNUAL LICENSING SESSIONS.
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Mr. Crawford called attention to the fact that the sureties were a director of the Hotel Com- pany and the Secretary (Messrs. Wilcox and Mooney) and the men who said
the applicant
was a respectable man were two of the directors (Mesars. Osborne and Wilcox) and the Secre- tary. It would have been better if outside people had been obtained. He had no objection to Hr. Haynes personally."
The application was granted.
CONNAUGHT HOUSE.
Antonio Fonseca applied for a license for Connaught House, 13, Queen's Road Central. The premises were formerly known as the Windsor Hotel, and the question was asked as to whether there would be anything to prevent the applicant having a bar on the premises.
The application was refused. We understand that it is intended to apply for an adjunct license.
The annual sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held at the Magistracy Wed- nesday afternoon for the purpose of considering publicans and adjunct licenses for the year H. J. Gompertz, Acting Police Magistrate, the 1899-1900. The chair was occupied by Mr. H.
Cobbold, Dr. Clark, the Hon. R. D. Ormsby, other gentlemen present being the Rev. R. E.
Deputy-Superintendent Baddeley, Messrs D. R. Crawford, A. Shelton Hooper, A. G. Morris, A. Findlay Smith. C.W. Duggan, and W. M. B. Arthur. There were 25 applications, including two for premises not hitherto licensed, namely. | plicant, Peter Hayes), and the Eastern Hotel. the Happy Retreat, Wongneichong Valley (apa 192 and 194 Queen's Road East (applicant, Bernard Jours.j
THE EASTERN HOTEL.
Bernard Jours applied for a license for the Eastern Hotel, 192 and 194, Queen's Road East. This was the second application, the first (made a short time ago) being refused. It is a new house.
Mr. Deacon, who appeared for the applicant, said the premises were about 100 yards from the Wanchai Market. They consisted of two houses-semi-detatched-and on one side was a lane and on the other a thoroughfare. The nearest hotel or public-house was the Praya East. Hotel, which was down on the Praya. Except that, there was not a public-house any. where near, except of course the Sailors' Club, which was restricted to sailors, and he believed also to soldiers. The applicant was a very re. spectable man. He was a native of Holland and had served in the American Navy and in Imperial Custome.
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The Rev. R. F. Cobbold asked if the number of licenses now was in excess of the number recommended by the Commission last year, and if so how many in excess. The Commission was appointed at the request of the Justices, and he thought the Justices ought to be in possession of the frots.
Mr. Arthur said the number was practically
of theory is certainly not so grand | the same.
t of the gorges on the Upper Yangtsse, incomparably superior to any met with the lower arm of that great father of waters. For certain facts regarding Wuchow I am indebted to the excellent and interesting report Mr. Acheson, Commissioner of Customs, on trade of the then newly opened port, for
Mr. Hooper said they ought to take each case on its merits, though they might take the re- commendation of the Commission as a guide.
The application was granted.
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The application was refused.
THE STAG HOTEL.
Rustomjee Cowasjee Banjee applied for the license of the Stag Hotel, 148 and 150, Queen's Road Central.
The police had objected to the renewal of the license."
Mr. Hursthouse, who appeared for the appli- cant, said the proprietor had teen unable to as- certain anything to justify certain allegations made against two women employed in the place as waitresses-anything to justify his dismise- ing them-but at the same time he wished him to say that should the Justices be in possession ........ of information with regard to them which he was not in possession of he would be glad to act upon it.
The application was refused.
OTHER LICENSES,
The following applications were granted :- Alexander Moir, The Peak Hotel, Rural Building Lot No. 77, the Peak. Has held a licence for about 11 years.
J. C. Goodchild, Thomas's Grill Room, No. 2, Queen's Road Central. Has held a licence for about 2 years.
Joachim Gomes, The International Hotel, held a licence for about 31 years. Nos. 318 and 820, Queen's Road Central. Hus
Heinrich Varrelmanu, The Western Hotel, Nos. 90 and 92, Queen's Road West, Has held a licence for about 9 months.
Haus Jertram, The German Tavern, Nos. 266 aud 268, Queen's Road Central. Has held
licence for about 2 years.
Nos. 33 and 39, Praya East. Has held a licence Henry James Faunch, The Praya East Hotel,
for about 9 months.
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James Wm. Osborne, The Kowloon Hotel, Elgin Road, Kowloon. Has held a licence for about 9 years.
Heary Oliver, The Travellers' Hotel, Nos. 12 and 13, Queen's Victoria Street. Has held a licence over 4 years.
Frederick Melhaish, The Criterion Hotel, Nos. 21 and 23, Pottinger Street. Has held a licence over 4 years.
Catherine Alice Bremner. (Adjunct Licence.) The Waverley Hotel, No. 8, Ice House Street. Has held a licence for 4 months.
Ismail Pillay Madar. The Now Victoria Hotel. No. 9, Queen's Road Central. Has held a licence for about 11 years.
Joseph H. Donnenberg. The Colonial Hotel, No. 1, Jubilee Street. Has held a licence for about 7 years.
Isaac Samuel Greenstein, The Central Ho- tel, Nos. 242 and 244, Queen's Road Central. Has held a licence for about 5 months.
lsydor Silberman, The Globe Hotel, No. 184 Queen's Road Central. Has held a licence for about 6 years.
Moritz Freimann, The Land We Live In Hotel, Nos. 332 and 334, Queen's Road Central. Has held a licence for over 1 year.
Wilholm Krater The Rose, Sharmrock & Thistle Hotel, Nos. £88, and 290 Queen's Hond Central. Has held a licence for about 5 years,
Nowrosjes B, Moola, The Hung Hom Hotel, No. 30, Balkeley Street, Hung Hom. Has never held a licence before. THE HONGKONG HOTEL LICENSN
S. J. Granville, The Metropole Hotel, No. Harry Haynes applied for the license of the 2 Shaukiwan Road Has never held a licence Hongkong Hotel.
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