September 8, 1900.]
The plague cases for the week ending at noon yesterday were only 3, and there were 3 deaths. Two contractor's coolies employed in con- nection with some building operations in Mosque Junction began to quarrel on the 30th ult. One injured the other in a vital part and the man had to be taken to hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition. The other man appeared before Mr. Hazeland on the 31st ult., and on the application of Mr. Mounsey the case was ad- journed until September 7th, bail to the extent of $100 being allowed.
Ten Shanghai firemen appeared before Mr. Hazeland on Tuesday charged with absenting themselves from the 8.8. Calgan without leave. Mr. William Budge, the chief engineer, said the men left the ship at five o'clock that morning without asking leave. The ship was to leave in the afternoon. It was not true that the men left because he ill-treated them. They left because they did not wish to accom- pany the ship to Japan. His Worship made an order that the defendants be forcibly put on board the ship by the police.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
On the 30th ult, about a dozen men got into the Central Market and began to indulge in some horse-play. They tried to knock over some slates. Two men were arrested and brought before Mr. Hazeland on the 31st ult, but were discharged, factory. the evidence as to identification not being satis-
ment on the 4th inst. Mr G. J. W. King offered At the Offices of the Public Works Depart for competition one lot of Crown Land, viz. Kow- loon Inland Lot No. 1,109, situate at Ma-Tan- Kok, which was sold for $2,720, to Messrs. Punchard, Lowther and Co. The upset price was $2.700.
the other day three scavengers found themselves As the result of a row in the Central Market charged at the Magistracy on Thursday by the appears that a foki went to the top to draw owner of No. 54 stall with upsetting it. It
saying that it was too late. An altercation some water. The scavenger in charge objected, ensued. From words they came to blows. The friends of each party joined in and the com- upset. The hearing was adjourned. plainant alleged that in the tussle his stall was
The hearing of the case Sze Fo Shing v. Sit 3rd inst. The Chief Justice said he would re- Yee was concluded at the Supreme Court on the
and carries on business as a foreign goods dealer serve his decision. The plaintiff is a trader, at No. 265, Queen's Road Central, the defen- 'Street, Wanchai. The claim is for specific per- dant being a widow residing at 30, Albany
of January, 1900, for the sale by the defendant formance of an agreement dated the 12th day
49, Ship Street. to the plaintiff of three houses, Nos. 44, 47, and
At the Magistracy on the 31stult. Lieut. George Hutchinson, of the 22nd Bombay Infantry, at present stationed in Hongkong, charged his ser- vant, Sayad Rustam Khan, with leaving his service without reasonable notice. The com- plainant said he engaged the defendant before leaving India. The defendant having asked for an advance, he advanced him 50 rupees. told him he would make no arrangements as to He what he would pay him in Hongkong, as he would wait and see what was the current rate of pay there. The other officers acted in the same way. When they arrived at Hongkong they agreed to give their servants their food and 20 rupees a month.-His Worship: That would be very excellent pay.-The Complainant: In India it would be extraordinarily good. He added that he engaged the defendant on the 29th June, so that the 50 rupees advanced to him would take him to the middle of Sep- tember. When the defendant arrived here he demanded 30 rupees a month, and he told him 'he could not have it. He was continually ask- ing for more money, but he refused to promise him more, and on the 23rd August the defon- dant told him he would not work for him any longer. On the following morning the com- plainant went out early and on returning at about 11 o'clock he found that the defendant had gone away. He did not see him again until that day. The defendant: On the 23rd did you not strike me?-The complainant: Yes, I did; he was extremely insulting to me.-His Wor- ship: Now you had no business to strike him. That puts you out of court. You had no right to take the law into your own hands. Under the circumstances I must discharge the defendant.
Ah Wing, a contractor, residing at 30, Coch- rane Street, was charged at the Magistracy on the 5th inst., at the instance of Mr. J. Bryan, As- sistant Sanitary Surveyor, for doing drainage work without being authorised by the Sanitary Board. His Worship: The Sanitary Board are not very consistent; you told me the last case you had that if a man does his work well, although he is not on the list, you do nothing. Mr. Bryan: It would be rather hard to sum. mon a man if he does it well-His Worship: You do nothing -Mr. Bryan: We don't sum- mon him. We have him up at the office and caution him. In this case the man had absolutely done work which endangered the health of the inmates of the house. He was fined only last June for a similar offence, so that he knew he was doing wrong.- A fine of $50 was imposed. An interesting point affecting servants was raised at the Magistracy on the 5th inst. Three coolies employed on the hospital ship Meeane were charged with refusing duty. On Mr. Bryant, the ship-keeper, telling them to go to work they refused, the fact being that they do not consider they get pay enough--$6 a month, the same as ten years ago and they acted in this manner so that they might get discharged. His Worship was not satisfied that he could deal with the defendants as domestic servants, seeing that they did not live in a house, and as the Meeane is not a sea-going ship they could not be classed as seamen and taken before the Harbour Master. Mr. Bryant asked what remedy he had then, in case a coolie refused work, and His Worship replied that he had none unless the coolie was disorderly. The defendant would be discharged.
The cinder-boats which ply about the harbour another, and accordingly when the water police are continually stealing coal from one vessel or
Early on the 31st ult. P. C. (71) William come across one they generally make a search. Pitt searched a cinder-boat and found between two and three hundredweight of coal hidden un- derneath some cinders. As the two men in charge they became possessed of the coal the constable could give no satisfactory account as to how took them to the Police Station. They were each fined $100, or three months.
The four-car scratch race of the Boat Club was rowed on Tuesday night, -mile on Regatta for spoons, with the result that E. P. Herbst's course crew won, J. Hance's being second, and lead after a good start, but storing a somewhat G. M. Young's third. Hance got away with the erratic course quickly took second place to Herbst; the boats maintaining these positions to the end. the distance separating the first and second bats being three lengths. The follow- ing were the winning crew:-E. P. Herbst, Stroke, J. Wilson, J. Dauby, S. Stevens, F. W. White, Cox. held on the 17th Sept., and a scratch lace for A 4-mile race for tubs will be four-oars on 1st Oct.
who live some distance from the centre of the It is a common complaint on the part of those town that they have the greatest difficulty in getting chairs, inasmuch as the chair coolies, when they see them coming towards them take to their heels, carrying their chair with them. manner followed the runways up and gave them It would have a good effect if all served in this
of Queen's College, did last week, the coolies into custody. This is what Mr. T. K. Dealy, being fined $3, or eight days, on the 1st inst, by Mr. Hazeland. The Magistrate remarked from the Bench that the behaviour of coolies in this Colony was becoming intolerable-a remark that every one will endorse.
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An Indian constable was on the 4th inst. fined City. His Worship said there had been far too $10 for assaulting a rickshaw coolie at Kowloon many of these cases lately.
batch of property owners before the Magistracy Sanitary Inspector L. C. Brett had another on the 31st ult. for breaches of the regulat and a fine of $15 per house was imposed. as to backyards. There were 23 houses affected,
At the Magistracy on Thursday a Chinaman was dealt with for cruelly ill-treating pigs. He at Kennedytown and had them packed co was landing them from a vessel in a small boat
others. When landed it was found that during stand, some being in fact placed on the top of closely that there was not room for them to
the transit two of them had their legs broken. A fine of $25 was imposed.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Some anxiety is being felt for the safety of the Roy, and Mrs. Lewis and Mr. Hewett, of the China Inland Mission, who are supposed to be on their way to Canton from Hing Yi in Kweichow.
The following appointments have been made to the Centurion for the Whiting, in command, at the Admiralty:-Lientenant C. MacKenzie, to date July 28; Lieutenant H. S. Sherbrooke, to the Centurion, to date August 20,
Marshall, of Plantation Road, charged another A chair coolie in the employ of Mr. A. M. chair coolie employed by the Chief Justice (Sir John Carrington, C.M.G.), at the Magistracy on Thursday with stealing two jackets. The com- plainant said that the previous night he carried his master to Mr. McKie's. On returning he saw the defendant, whom he had never seen before, coming out of his quarters with two jackets over his arm. but stumbled and fell and the complainant The defendant began to run, caught him. The defendant's story was that the complainant owed him some money which he lost to him at gambling, and because he de- manded it of him when he met him on Wednes- day night the complainant charged him with stealing the jackets.--Mr. Hazeland was not altogether satisfied with the evidence, and dis- missed the case,
The first-class gunboat Rattler, recently paid commission in November for another term of off from the China Station, is to be ready to foreign service. The Rattler is to be refitted at Sheerness Dockyard at a cost of £12,514.
As Dr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent news in reference to him may be mentioned. of the Times, is now safe, a point of literary
most handsome offer to write a book on China When he was last in England he received a as he has known it during recent years. He undertook the book, and meant to begin it when he got back to Peking. Events have been have also shut off all tidings of his book so far. historic there since Dr. Morrison's return; they
Mr. John Gardiner Austin, C. M. G., whose death at Hove, Brighton, at the age of eighty...... eight has just been announced, was Colonial Secretary of Hongkong from 1868 to 1878, when he retired, performing also the duties of Treasurer from 1871 onwards. He was in 1875 : and was nominated a C. M. G. while he held Administrator of the Government of Hongkong
menced in 1849, when he was appointed acting that office. Mr. Austin's colonial service.com- stipendiary in British Guiana.
demonstrative when the first vessel of the North The German residents of Brisbane were quite German Lloyd Company, the Munchen, arrived port. on her first voyage from the Far East to that Her regular trip will be from Sydney to Brisbane, Rockhampton, Herbertshohe, Ste- ~ phansort. Ponape, Saigon, and Hongkong. Her companion steamer, the Stettin, slightly making her voyage via Batavia, Macassar, varies this route, starting from Singapore and Berinhafen, Stephansort, Herbertshohe, Rock- hampton, Brisbane, ard Sydney. The voyage": is expected to take 35 days each way, the steam- ers remaining six days at each terminal port. employed in this trade. The steamer Dresden will be the third vessel
of the officers of the Indian troops now in camp The death is announced from Shanghai of one there, Lieut. Charles Gray Campbell passing away at the General Hospital on Tuesday morning. The deceased officer belonged to the battalion, to which he was attached for service 4th Rajputs, and arrived with the 2nd in China. On the voyage from India, the N-C Daily News states, Lieut. Campbell did not leaving Hongkong in the transport Zamania have any illness of a serious nature, but after
Shanghai. His condition became so bad that he he caught a chill and was ill on arrival at was sent to the General Hospital. The cause abscess on the liver. The deceased officer, who of death is reported to have been pleurisy and an was born in 1868, obtained his lieutenancy in 1893, first entering the Scottish Rifles. He had officers as being a very promising young soldier. no war service, but is spoken of by his brother The funeral took place on the 28th ult. HM.S. Undaunted supplied the band, and the Chaplain of H.M.S. Bonaventure, the Rev. Mr, Cane, conducted the burial service.
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