Angust 11, 1900.]
HONGKONG.
The plague cases for the year up to noon yesterday were 1,008 and the number of deaths 950.
The French battleship Guichen arrived in the harbour on the 3rd inst., having left Brest on the 23rd June.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Rev. T. W. Pearce has been appointed Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society, in succession to the late Rev. J. Chalmers, LL.D.
On Monday of last week a marine connected with H. M. S. Isis disappeared, and on the 3rd inst. his body was found floating near the ship. It is supposed that he jumped overboard.
Inspector McLennan visited a barber's shop at 16. Hing Lung Street, on the 3rd inst., and found a number of men playing Ngai Pai. He arrested eleven of them and on the 4th two were fined $15 each, or a month, and the rest $9 each, or 14 days.
While riding on the Polo Ground, Causeway Bay, on the 4th inst., an employé of the from his horse, which shied, and was bruised Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was thrown
about the face. Fortunately none of his ih-
tenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps Field Mr, John Mossop has been appointed Lien-
Battery vice Mr. W. Machell, resigned. Lieut. M. W. Slade, of the same corps, has been ap-juries were serious,
At the Magistracy on the 7th inst. a boy lately in the employ of Mr. T. G. Hughes, of “Beryl' Kowloon, was fined $5, or 14 days, for leaving work without notice. He only went to "Beryl in Tuesday of last week and left on the follow-pointed supernumerary Captain. ing Thursday, having previously run away from & house in Knutsford Terrace.
The case against the crew of the launch Cheong Yuen was continued at the Magistracy on the 7th inst. and again adjourned. Evi- dence was given by two men from Canton, who identified some of the property found on board the launch as belonging to them, and as having been stolen when the Wo Ping junk was pirated.
On the 6th inst. a lukong appeared at the Central Police Station and produced a bundle of notes, valued at $1,000, which he said he had picked up in Queen's Road Central. A China- man engaged a ricksha, and as he drove away he dropped something. The lukong picked it up and found the notes. The Chinaman had by this time got out of sight.
Among the delinquents brought before Mr. Hazeland on the 3rd inst. were a couple of Chinese priests. P. C. Taylor, who is stationed at Aber- dean, was on duty near the harbour there on Thursday when he heard a loud noise proceed. ing from one of the junks, and on boarding her he found the defendants beating gongs. for doing which a fine of $3. or 14 days, was imposed. On the night of the 2nd inst. a man was observed to drop down in Queen's Road West at the corner of Centre Street, and on his being examined he was found to be dead. On the police appearing the man was removed and was found to hare died of plague. Later on Inspector Baker found a dead body in a house in Third Street, and it was afterwards discovered that death had resulted from the same cause.
On the 31st ult. a report was made to the police by Mr. C. T. Letton that he had lost a pair of pincenez, a silk handkerchief, and $5 in money at the bathing-shed at Kowloon Point. On the 7th inst. a Chinese detective who was on duty there seized a loafer who was going through the pockets of the bathers, and found the miss- ing silk handkerchief in his possession, and the pincenez was subsequently found concealed in the man's bed in his house by Sergeant Gourlay and the detective.
Mr. J. H. Dandy, the Chief Inspector of Nui- sances, appeared at the Magistracy on the 3rd inst. for the purpose of giving evidence against a milk seller carrying on business at No. 6, Cochrane Street, for adulterating his milk. It appeared. however, that the man who had been summoned, and for whom Mr. Wilkinson appeared, was not a milk-seller, and that he had been hauled before the bunch instead of another man to whom he sub-lets a portion of his premises. Under the circumstances the summons was with- drawn.
Mr. T. K. Dealy, assistant at Queen's College, appeared at the Magistracy on the 9th inst. to give evidence against his boy, whom he charged with leaving without notice and disobedience. On Wednesday night the boy refused to do any thing and said he would go home, which he accordingly did. The boy said the complainant kicked him and wanted him to do work which he could not do. He was engaged as house-boy and the complainant wanted him to do the cook ing as well. The complainant denied this. A fine of $10, or a month, was imposed.
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On the 8th inst. Messrs. Hughes and Hough offered for sale by auction one five- roomed bungalow and four semi-detached houses situate on the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 7 6 and known as Elliott Crescent, Robin- son Road. The property is held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 999 years and the proportion of Crown rent is $74.60 per annum. The bungalow was sold to Mr. Fung Wa Chuen for $23,900; No. 1, Elliott Crescent, to Mr. Figueiredo for $18,500; No. 2, Elliott Crescent, to Mr. Schonemann for $17,700; No. 3. Elliott Crescent, to Mr. Bolles for $17,600; and No. 4, Elliott Crescent, to Captain God. dard for $18,400. The total amount realised was $96,100.
A good deal of gambling in the open-air has taken place recently at Aberdeen, but so well have the scouts been posted that the police have hitherto not been able to catch any of the offen- A sailor named Albert Field was, at the Ma- ders. The police got wind of the fact that agistracy on the 9th iust., charged with disorderly party of gamblers were amusing themselves on behaviour in the Star Coffee House, D'Aguilar the hillside on the 2nd inst. They accordingly street. Mr. C. Olison, the manager, said that formed a circle, but before they could get near the defendant stayed at the Coffee House their presence was discovered and the gamblers occasionally. The previous night he told him decamped. P. C. Taylor, however, followed one there was no bed for him and the defendant of the men as he rushed up the hill, caught him, replied that he would stop in any case. He and gave evidence against him at the Magistracy then went upstairs. There was a temperance on the 3rd inst. Mr. Hazeland complimented meeting on at the time, and after the meeting Taylor, and fined the defendant 325-the he went upstairs to see the boys make the beds maximum penalty-or three months.
for the men. Finding the defendant in bed he told him to get out and lifted the bed up. The defendant then struck him on the chin. The other men in the room separated them. On coming downstairs the defendant struck him again. The man was discharged with a caution.
Acting on information received, a Chinese constable laid his hands on Chan San, the cook at Mount Austin Barracks, as he was walking along Queen's Road East on the night of the 2nd inst. and suspecting that there was something wrong, he took him to No. 3 Police Station, where In- The old Praya in front of the Hongkong and spector Ford searched him. He found two tins Shanghai Bank is much frequented in the even- of milk and one tin of lard ingeniously concealings by Chinese who are learning to ride the ed about the man's person, they being hidden by a cloth wrapped round his body. The fact was reported to Mount Austin Barracks, and on the larder being examined it was discovered that there were several tins short. The cook was brought before Mr. Hazeland on the 3rd inst. and sentenced to two months' hard labour.
At the Magistracy on the 8th inst. Cheung Su Ki. clerk, was charged at the instance of Inspec- tor McNab with keeping a house at No. 7. Li Yuen Street East, as a common gaming house, and Ho Cheung Leung, broker, Li Pak, broker, Leung Hing Sam, trader, Ho Ping Ku. ac countant, Leung hek Sang, trader. Mok Ki, bar-boy. Su Ping Leung, clerk. Wong Lam Kung, trader, and Ng Mun, Wei San, and Wong Ki, servants, were charged with gamb- ling therein. Mr. Mounsey appeared for the
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defonce. Chinese constable No. 262 said that at half-past 11 on Sunday night he went to No. 4, Li Yuen Street, and then into No. 7, Li Yuen Street, the houses being back to back. In No. 7 he found the first defendant taking in In our issue of the 7th we reported that a two stakes: The game of pi-kau was being lukong had picked up $1,000 in notes, which he played. He saw the first defendant pay $5 to saw a Chinaman drop as he got into a ricksha the second defendant and the latter paid 25 near the Clock Tower that morning. The same
The plato was by the He stood there evening a Chinaman presented himself at the side of the first defendunt. Central Police Station and reported that he had for a minute and then arrested the first and lost two $500 notes, and the $1,000 was accord-second defendants. The Inspector aud Sergeant came in and arrested the others. All the de- ingly handed to him, his description of the notes being correct. It was suggested to him that fendants except the last three wore gambling the lukong who found the notes was deserving The 10th, 11th, and 12th defendants were in a of some recompense, and after thinking the small room adjoining that in which the gamb- matter over the owner of the notes disbursed $10. ling was going on. On being cross-examined A loafer of the name of Leung Fu Shing, by Mr. Mounsey, the witness said he was stan- without occupation or abode, was charged on the ding by the side of the first defendant when he 6th inst. with stealing $5 from the person of s
took in the two stakes. The men were playing girl ten years old. The girl was in Queen's when he entered the room. He was a stranger, Road Central when the prisoner came along to them. Nobody spoke to him and nobody at- and-snatched a $5 note out of her hand. A tempted to escape. Before Sunday he did not man named Cheung Fak, of Wanchai Road, know that this was a gambling club. He did saw the occurrence, and instead of merely not know it as the Wo Kee Club. He did not shrugging his shoulders and passing along as
When he arrest many Celestials have done in similar cases, heed the first and second defendants they asked gave chase, caught the thief, and handed him him why he had done so, and he replied, for into custody. Mr. Hazeland warmly compli-gambling-Evidence was also given by a Chinese nented the man. The prisoner was sentenced to detective, Sergeant Murison, and Inspector Me- three months' hard labour and 20 strokes with Nab, and the further hearing was adjourned the birch-rod.
until Friday.
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bicycle. Lance-Sergeant Noble found a number of them reeling about on Tuesday night. One. of them who had no light on his machime tried to get away as soon as he caught sight of the officer, but was caught and on the 9th inst. appear- ed before Mr. Hazeland. He was defended by Mr. Thomson, who argued that the regulation applied to places where there was a good deal of traffic and not to places like where the defen- dant was, where there was absolutely no danger of anybody being run into. The bicycle had a light, but the light had gone out, and as the- lamp was damaged the defendant did not trouble to light it again. His Worship said it was im- perative that all bicycles should carry lights. He considered it very dangerous indeed to go without one, and the defendant would be fined $15 or a month.
The members of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps had a field day on the 4th inst. The Field Battery, "A," "B,"and “C” Machine Gun com. panies paraded at Headquarters at 4 p.m. while the "D" Infantry Company, under Cap- tain Forbes, mustered in front of the Polo Ground subsequently occupying the heights lining the nullah behind the Polo Ground. The men from the Headquarters, on the arrival at the Polo Ground, were divided into two lots, the Field Battery to the right and the Machine Gun Companies to the left, the object being to take the position occupied by the Infantry. They had some exceedingly difficult ground to cover, and as the sun was very hot their task was by no means light. They, however, reached the height all right. Before dismissing the men at Headquarters the Com mandant (Lieut. Col. Sir John Carrington, C.M.G.) addressed a few words to them. He said that the country had proved much more difficult than was anticipated, and was such as would have tried even experienced soldiers. Conse- quently the attack was not so concentrated sait might have boon. However, on the whole, he thought they had done very well, and he was certainly very pleased with the excellent spirit shown by the men. Before long some other operations of a similar character would be ar- ranged for on the Kowloon side, where the ground would be more favourable for the pur- рова.
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