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July 28, 1900.]
HONGKONG.
The addition to the Register of qualified Medical and Surgical Practitioners in the Colony of Mr. Robert Gibson is notified in the Gazette. The plague cases in the Colony from the beginning of the year to noon on the 27th inst. were 961 and the deaths 904, the last week giv. ing 36 cases and 33 deaths.
Last week's return of visitors to the (ity Hall Library and Museum shows that 398 non- Chinese and 154 Chinese visited the former institution, 157 non-Chinese and 1,782 Chinese the latter..
We regret to have to record the death of Captain S. W. Goggin. late of the Canton steamer Honam, on the 23rd instant, at the age of 57 years. Captain Goggin was for many years in the service of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, and was well known and highly respected by Hongkong and Canton residents.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
For stealing a dollar's worth of copper from the Naval Yard a coolie was sentenced on the 20th inst. to two months' hard labour,
Since the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance come into operation at the beginning of the year $2,000 have been paid in fines for breaches of the same.
The five men arrested for committing an armed robbery near Shatin were brought before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistrae you the 26th inst. Evidence was given as to the prisoners being found in possession of the stolen property, and the case was adjourned.
A fatal accident of a somewhat extraordinary character took place at the East Point Sugar Refinery on the night of the 17th inst. A coolie was in charge of a boiling pan whera piece of wood dropped in. It was at once thrown up by the machinery, and catching the coolie some- where on the body killed him on the spot.
The Dutch cruiser Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden left the harbour on the 26th inst. for Shanghai.
A fire broke out at about four a.m. on the 21st inst. at 274, Queen's road Central. The building is a four-storeyed one used us a tobacco manufactory. The fire broke outo in the drying room behind the first floor and quickly spread to the floors above, which were soon gutted. Deputy Superintendent Mackie and his men, however, succeeded in preventing any of the adjoining buildings from becoming ignited. The loss is recovered by insurance in the Norwich Union Insurance Company.
The report of the Inspecting Medical officer on the Tung Wah Hospital for the second quarter of 1900 shows that 154 patients remain- ed on 1st April, 905 were admitted in April, May, and June, 587 were discharged, 337 died, 135 remained on 1st July. The 905 admissions The other night a sampan man reported to compare with 655 for the second quarter of No. 7 Police Station that his wife had mysteri-1897, 700 of 1898, and 812 for 1900. Of the admissions, 329 were under European treat- and on the 16th inst. the body was found by P. C. | ment, 351 under Chinese. Free burial was pro- George in the harbour opposite Connaught vided for 501 persons. 53 vaccinations were Road. There was a bad out on the head. It is performed. understood that the woman fell overboard, and that the cut was caused by a passing vessel.
At the Magistracy on the 21st inst. a gunnerously disappeared. A search was instituted in the Asiatic Artillery charged a Chinaman with assault. He said he was doing sentry duty at the Barracks yesterday when he had occasion to move on a crowd of Chinese who had gathered to watch the buglers' practice. One of the Chinese threw a stone at him. His Worship ad. monished the defendant and sentenced him to
two months' hard labour.
A Chinaman who was fined $2 on the 26th inst. for causing an obstruction complained that the Indian constable who arrested him ill-treated him by kicking and knocking him about. Mr. Hazeland told him that he could take a sum- mons out against the constable if he wished to do so. The constable is evidently a new. hand, and His Worship warned him against ill-using his prisoners.
On Wednesday night Sergeant Cameron saw a Chinaman coming off the premises of the Cement Company at Kowloon carrying some iron bars. He arrested him, and on the 26th inst. the man was brought before Mr. Hazeland. He said a man employed at the works had asked him to come down and carry the iron bars to his house, promising him ten confs if he would do 80. He was sentenced to a month's hard labour. A shopkeeper at Shaukiwan was on the 24th inst. charged with carrying ammunition without & permit. A constable found him in Bonham Strand with 300 rounds of ammunition. It was made clear that the man was taking the ammunition to a junk for the purpose of selling it to the people oue board in a legitimate Under the circumstances the man was only fined $10, the ammunition being forfeited.
manner.
A private in the Madras Light Infantry ap peared at the Magistracy on the 25th inst. to pre- fera charge of theftagainst an unemployed coolie named Tseung Tai. The complainant said that he and four others were sent into a shop to buy some brass and copper for the Army department. Three of the men went inside and the complain- ant and another man remained outside, and while they were there the defendant came to- wards him and snatched his purse, which was hanging out of his pocket by a piece of string. He gave chase, caught the defendant, and gave him into custody. The purse contained a rupee and 18 twenty cent pieces. The defendant was sent to prison for two months.
An Indian boy who had been found wander- ing about the colony appeared before Mr. Haze- land on the 23rd inst. In answer to His Worship, he said he came over with some soldiers from Calcutta. He was a follower. He came ashore, and while he was ashore the vessel he come in went away.
His Worship said that the boy was evidently a camp follower. The military authorities ought not to allow these boys ashore without someone to look after them.
A man of the name of James Thomas (aged 49), formerly mate on board the sailing ship Stainfield, died suddenly at Bay View Hotel on the 22nd inst. He slept at the hotel on Saturday evening and got up for breakfast the following morning, when he was evidently in his usual state of health. He subsequently came over to Hongkong, returning to Bay View in the afternoon. While he sat down he was taken sud- denly ill and died before medical aid could be procured. Heat apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of death.
A Chinaman appeared at the Magistracy on the 26th inst. to give evidence against a couple of barbers, whom he charged with assault. He said he was passing their shop at Wanchai with a woman when the defendants threw some sund on to her. He remonstrated, whereupon they went for him, tearing his coat, banging him about the head, and otherwise ill-using him, telling him that he should mind his own business. They were each fined $25, or two months.
At the Magistracy on the 24th inst. a German was charged with trespassing within the limits of Belchers Fort on Monday morning, The defendant was found wandering about the land opposite the fort across Pokfulum road and given into custody. He said he did not know he was trespassing in a fortification or he would not have gone there. There was no notice-board up. Lieutenant Painter informed his Worship that he did not think the man was there for any unlawful purpose. He had possibly been misled, as there was no notice board up to show that he was on War Department property. The man was discharged with a caution. We understand that notices are to be put up forth with.
A Chinese seaman named Chu Tai Ching, employed on the Pakhoi, was charged with dis- orderly conduct. It appears that at about seven o'clock on Monday night a lakong was near the The perpetrator of a burglary at Shaukiwan Canton wharf when he saw the defendant look- on the 15th inst. was captured on Wednesday, ing at some games. He then began to make a and on the 26th inst. Mr. Hazeland sentenced noise, and on being asked what was the matter him to six months' hard labour, the first and last he replied that he had lost tens of dollars and fortnights to be in solitary confinement. It was commenced to cry and lament over his loss., reported to the police that the house-little The man then attempted to jump into the more than a hovel-was entered by means of harbour, but was stopped by the lukong, who a hole made in the wall and that several articles took him into custody-His Worship: Where of clothing, etc., had been stolen, the burglary did you get the money which you lost from ?- not being discovered until later on in the The defendant: I borrowed it from my friends. morning. The police were supplied with a His Worship: What do you say about at- description of the stolen property, which in- tempting to commit suicide? The defendant:cluded an umbrella. On Wednesday night a After I had lost my money I wanted to commit suicide. His Worship: You must not do that; it is against the law. The defendant (weeping): I have lost all my money, and I cannot live in the world-The defendant was bound over, in the sum of $50, to come up for judgment when called upon. The boatswain undertook to see the man on board the Yuensang.
Chinese constable observed a man trying to sell an umbrella like the one stolen to a hawker, and he took him into custody. On his house being searched by Inspector Robertson several articles of clothing which had been stolen were found, together with soine pawn-tickets referring to the remainder. The defendant admitted his guilt
At the Magistracy on the 26th inst. Tai Long Po, who keeps a school at No. 2, Cochrane Street, was charged with administering excessive corporal punishment to one of his pupils, a boy ten years old, named Leang Kan Sin. The boy said that on the 24th inst. the defendant struck him because he dropped a book on to the floor. He first hit him with a piece of wood and afterwards with the school cane, striking him with great violence. The boy bared his back, which was seen to be covered with bruises evidently caused by a stick. Another boy corroborated and de- posed to having fetched the complainant's mother.-The complainant's mother said that when she spoke to the defendant he told her she could summon him if she liked. The boy's back was covered with marks which were not there when he went to school on Tuesday morning.-The defendant said the boy's grandfather had told him to best the boy because he was naughty. He called two or three scholars to prove this. His Wor- ship told the defendant that according to English law a schoolmaster could flog a boy by way of lawful correction, but such flogging must not be excessive. He was quite satisfied that in this case the flogging was excessive, and the defen- dant would be fined $25, or a month.
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Two of the men concerned in the armed rob- bery bn a sampan in Kowloon Bay on the 21st June were brought before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy on the 24th inst. Mr. Bowley, (Crown solicitor) said that the charge was real- ly armed robbery, but as the old man who was in the sampan and who was badly wounded by the prisonors had since died he ordered that the charge might be amended to one of wilful mur- der. This was accordingly done.-The de- ceased's widow said that her late husband was the owner of rowing boat No. 291. He was 73 years of age and was blind. Besides herself and her husband there were in the boat her daughter-in-law, grandson (aged nine), and grand-daughter (aged three). On the morn- ing of the 21st June, while the boat⠀ was lying at Hung Hom wharf, three men in- eluding the two prisoners, came up and engaged the boat, and were taken across Kow. loon Bay to Sai Too Wan. Here the men land. ed. They returned in about half an hour, and the boat was headed towards Hung Hom, When in the middle of the bay, the first prison- er and the man not in custody got up. The man not in custody walked across to her hus band, and produced two choppers and began to chop the old man. The first prisoner walked up to her daughter-in-law and caught hold of her. He had a chopper in his hand. The second prisoner, who had no knife in his hand caught hold of witness and pressed her head down. Then the man not in custody struck her twice on the head with a chopper. Her grand. daughter was chopped in the face by the same man. She and her grand-daughter were drag. ged into the hold by the first prisoner and the man not in custody, and then her husband, daughter-in-law, and grand-son were thrust in. The three men then ransacked the boat and subsequently went away. Her husband, was removed to the Hospital and had since died. Other evidence was given and the further hear. ing was adjourned,
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