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The CHAIRMAN: Well, gentlemen, I am much obliged to you for the vote of thanks, which has been moved and seconded. With regard to the enquiry which has been made just now, I can only say that the question will have the consideration of the Board. I think there is some reason in it, and it is a matter which has not escaped our attention altogether, but we have thought it better to adhere to the former practice of the Company so far. However, it will be taken into consideration and I hope we shall meet you with an aqually satisfactory account a year hence. (Applause.)
The proceedings then terminated.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
"C" MACHINE GUN COMPANY. The monthly pienic in connection with the above quit took place on the 15th inst. A launch left East Point at 1.45 p.m., calling at Murray Pier at 2 p.in. After a run as far as Quarry Bay the launch was headed for Stone. cutters Island and here a competition took place between the Right and Left Half sections of the company, the ranges being 200 and 500 yards. Though the day was fine it was not very good for shooting and accordingly the scores were not phenomenal. The Right Half proved the winners, their total being 361 against 302. The following were the best scores:-
200. 500. H'cap. Total. * Sergeant Smillie 26 21 scratch 47 * Sergeant Bevan 19
18 9 46 46
* Gunner. J. Lee
17
20
9
* Sorgt:-Mjr. Roger 19
21
2
42
* Bomb. Gloyue. 19
16
42
Gun. McCorquodale 22
16
41
Gunner Galbraith
17
18
6
41
Gunner C. Lee
19
15
4.1
Gunner S. Gidley 18
15
* Winners of Spoons.
THE HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
LONG RANGE CUP AND SPOONS,
SCORES.
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600 700 800 Handi- To- yds. yds. yds. cap.
tal. * Mr. M. S. Northcote 22 31 24 15 92
* Mr. J. Pidgeon
31 33 27
91
* Inspt. McLennan
29 31
38
Mr. G. H. May
23 Lt. Throllfell, R.N.... 29
26 19 20 23 20° 12
83
St 79 79
C.S. M. Wallace, R.E. S 34 17 Mr. P. Wodehouse 98 23 8 20
Mr. Northcote winner of the Cup, * Winners of Spoons.
HONGKONG.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The Dutch cruiser Holland, which arrived here on the 1st inst., left for Shanghai on the 14th inst.
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At about ten o'clock p.m. on the 14th inst. a Ng Hin, who had previously been convicted of man was walking along Kowloon Road at Walarcony by false pretences, was on the 17th inst. Tan Wai when he was shot by some men who charged with a similar offence. A piece were evidently in wait for him. Hearing the goods dealer said that on the 9th ult, he shot the police proceeded in the direction whence was offering his goods for sale in Praya it came and found the man seriously wounded. Central when the defendant came up and He was sent to the Hospital. The outrage is bought six jackets and five waistcoats. He supposed to be the work of a trades union. said he had no money with him, but that if he would accompany him he would get it for him. When they got near to the Clock Tower the defendant went into an hotel, taking the bundle of clothing with him. He asked the complain- ant to wait and he would fetch him the money. He waited for an hour, but as the defendant did not return he gave information to the police. That (Tuesday) morning he caught sight of the defendant and gave him into custody. The defendant had dealt with him before. Corro- borative evidence was given, and the defendant was sentenced to four months with hard labour.
The following are the returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve during the month ended 30th June:-
Banks.
Average Specie in Chartered Bank of India, amount. Reserve.
Australia and China...$ 2,889,062 $1,500,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation. 7,936,667 5,000,000 National Bank of China,
Lunited
441,925 150,000
$11,267,654 $6,650,000
Total
An Indian watchman employed at the docks ut Aberdeen was on the 17th inst. charged with disor- derly behaviour at Aberdeen and also with assaul- ting a hinaman. The complainant said that the defendant came knocking at his door and bo- | cause he objected to his coming into his house the defendant struck him with a stick. He called defendant's story was that the complainant ask- the police and gave the man into custody.-The ed him into his house and made him drunk. He remembered nothing after this. A fine of $3, or seven days, was imposed for disorderly conduct and one of $5, or 14 days for assault.
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l'he cook has been ill lately and it is surmised he died from failure of the heart's action. hody was recovered on Sunday, being found on the beach at Stonecutters' Island.
On the 16th inst. at Happy Valley the funeral took place of Heinrich Lindemann, of Kiel, Germany, late cook on board the German sailing vessel R. C. Rickmers, who met his death by drowning in saving a comrade's life. On Friday morning last week the deceased was engaged in writing a letter whilst some of the sailors were having a swim. Suddenly one of the latter got cramp and shouted for help. A lifebelt was thrown to him, but he was too weak to reach it, and whilst the first officer of the ves- sel was lowering a boat the cook rushed on deck, jumped in the water and swam with the lifebelt to the drowning man, who got hold of it and A coolie named Li Yau was charged on the was saved. The cook, who was a good swim- 14th inst. with stealing a gold watch and chain mer, started for theship by himself, when sudden- from a Chinese child about two years old. Anly he disappeared and was not seen again alive. amah said that on the previous afternoon she was in Tung Man Street, off Graham Street. with the child in her arms, the watch and chain being fastened on to the child's jacket. The defendant came fast, snatched away the watch. and ran away.-District Watchman No. 11 suid he was
standing at the end of Pottinger Street when he herd the previous witness calling out. At the same time he saw the defondant running down towards Queen's Road and he gave chase, catching him at the entra ice to Lee Yuan Street West. He found the watch and chain wrapped up in his jacket. He took him to the Police Station.-The defendant said he heard a noise as though something had fallen and on looking down saw the watch and picked 111 and walked away. He was followed by a crowd and at the entrance to Lee Yuen Street was stopped by a district watchman, who ar- restel him. He offered to give up the watch to him.-Sentenced to six months hard labour and ten strokes with the birch rod.
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John Alfreds, lamp trimmer on the 8.8. Teen- kai, appeared before Mr. Hazeland on th: 14th inst. to prefer a charge of assault against a cou ple of Chinamen employed on the same ship. Ho Said that at about five o'clock the previous Monday afternoon he was disinfecting a certain portion of the ship with Jeyes' fluid when the defendants attacked him. the second throwing a basin at him and cutting his head open and
Mr. E. C. Lewis has been appointed a Directhe first hitting him on the wrist with a chopper. tor of the Widows and Orphans Fund, vice Mr. C. W. Duggan, absent on leave.
A Proclamation is published in the Gazette extending for a further period of four months the export from the Colony or the carriage coastwise of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and naval and military stores.
Two men have been arrested for being con. cerned in the robbery of a Chinaman near Man Tan Wai on the 12th inst. The complainant and the police were searching for them when they met them near to where the robbery took place The men were arrested and brought up at the Magistracy on the 14th inst., when they were remanded for further enquiries.
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His Worship: Were there no words between you? The Complainant: None at all. His Worship: It is very extraordinary that these men should come and attack you without any- thing being said-Inspector Gauld: They say that they were having their food and that soine of the Jeyes fluid got on to it. The Complain ant: I am positive there was none on the food. I walked by where their food was, and a little may have dropped on to the deck from the outside of the bucket, R. G. Woodgate, second officer on the Terukai, said he was on duty on the bridge when he saw the lamp-trimmer standing on deck with his head bleeding. He blew his whis tle, and ou seeing the first defendant strike at the complainant with a chopper he rushed down A boy 16 years of age, named Lam Chi. was on to his assistance. seizing the first defendant and the 13th inst. sentenced to a month's hard labour putting in in irons-His Worship: Can you for obtaining four brass door-bolts by false pre- suggest any reason for the assault?-Witness: tences. At one time he worked for a contractor They said some of the Jeyes' fluid got on to their named Tam Wo, and had been in the habit of food. I do not know whether it did or not. They going to a shop in Wellington Street for different ate their rice afterwards. The defendants, when things. The other day-after he had left Tam asked if they had anything to say, repeated Wo's employ he went to the shop and said his the story about the Jeyes' fluid getting on to master had sent him for four brass door-bolts their food, but would not say that it was put on which were handed to him. He was subse-purposely. His Worship said he was satisfied quently found endeavouring to sell them to a marine hawker by a district watchman and arrested.
that the assault was committed, and would com- mit the defendants to prison for three months hard labour.
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One of the Malays mixed up in the disturb- ance in Queen's Road East on the night of the 13th inst. was charged on remand on the 17th inst. with cutting and wounding a Chinaman, who is an engineer at the Naval Yard and resides in Queen's Road East. The complainant had been stabbed in the side and appeared very weak; defendant also looked as if he had been “in the wars," his head being bandaged. The com. plainant said he was walking along Queen's Road East on the night in question when he saw defendant with a knife in his hand. tried to get away but the defendant ran after him and stabbed him, causing him to fall down and lose consciousness. He did not notice that there were a great many Chinamen about. It was not correct that he struck the defondant. He did not see any one else strike the defendant. He could suggest no reason why the defendant stabbed him, only because there was a noise." He did not see any Chinese throw stones at the defendant. A Chinaman residing in Queen's Road East said that on the night of 13th inst., at the end of St. Francis Street, he noticed that there was crowd of people fighting. The complainant was among the crowd. Then the crowd dispersed and only the complainant and the defendant were left. He saw the defendant stab the com- plainant and run away. A Chinese constable said he saw the defendant running away with a dagger in his hand. He went towards him and the defendant attempted to stab him. He
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knocked the dagger out of his hand and arrested him. When he first saw the defendant he was not far from the complainant. -The defendant denied stabbing the complainant, but said that a crowd of Chinese, including the complainant, were throwing stones at him, several of which struck him on the head. A couple of Malays called as witnesses deposed to seeing a crowd of Chinese throwing stones and striking at him with sticks. One of them said he did not see the complainant there, but the other said he saw the complain. ant with a hammer, though he did not see him strike the defendant. His Worship said he was quite satisfied that he stabbed the complainant. He was also satisfied that a very serious assault was commited upon the defen dant-an absolutely unjustificable assault. At the same time he was not justified in using a dagger. He was, however, satisfied that there was great provocation, and he should make the same order as in the last case --order the defen- dant to be discharged on entering into recogni- sance of one surety of $25 to keep the peace for six months.
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