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September 22, 1900.]
Among the departures by the Parramatta we notice the name of Mr. J. Y. Mayston, inspector of machinery at the Naval Yard, who has gone home after three years in the Colony.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week shows that the former institution was visited by 357 non- Chinese and 112 Chinese, the latter by 428 non-Chinese and 998 Chinese.
The body of a coolie named Lam Ip, aged 60 years, has been sent to the mortuary. He fell from a scaffold on a new building in Des Voeux Road West, while assisting three others to carry a piece of iron. He fell about 40 feet on to some timber.
The prosecutions instituted by the Sanitary Board are adding considerably to the colony's ex- chequer. On the 19th Inst. Inspector L. C. Brett got 20 persons fined $2 each for illegal cubicles, seven persons $10 each for neglecting to lime. wish, and two others $10 each for other offences against the Sanitary Bye-laws.
Among the invalids who arrived from the north the other day in the Jelunga on his way home was Corporal Hammond, of the R. W. F., who lost his left arm at the attack on Tientsin. He and his section were sitting on a railway siding when a shell burst near them, and his arm was taken clean out of the socket.
A Hindoo Cemetery has been authorised on the south slope of Danger Flag Hill, Kowloon, on Military Reserve Land, midway between the Military and Association Rifle Ranges and about thirty yards to the north of the line join ing the butte. The Cemetery measures fifty feet square, and ita limits have been defined by wooden pickets.
On the 19th inst. Mr. Hazeland fined a Kow.
loon ricksha coolie $2 or eight days' hard for using abusive language towards Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, of the Supreme Court. On Monday last Mr. D'Almada e Castro took a ricksha from Kowloon Ferry Wharf to the V.R.C. (four minutes' drive) and paid the man the usual fee, five cents. The coolie thought he was insufficient- ly paid and used very bad language. His Wor- ship-remarked that he himself had found the coolies very abusive. We hope this will be a good lesson both to the ricksha coolies here and at Kowloon, for they are really very dis- agreeable sometimes.
There is a block of houses in Hollywood Road, opposite the Chinese Recreation Ground, which has earned an unenviable reputation as the re- sort of gamblers. The police are continually making raids, and during one of these raids on 244, Hollywood Road, in January last, one of the gamblers lost his life while attempting to escape. On the 18th instant Chief Detective Inspector Hanson and a party of police visited 226, Hollywood Road, the third floor. They found a crowd of people, including some women, gambling round a table. Twenty arrests were made. Three men attempted to escape into the next house by way of the verandah. They were naturally in a hurry, and one of them missed his footing and fell into the street. He alighted on his head, which was smashed in, and died on the spot. The keepers of the house were fined $25 each, or two months, and the rest $3, or 14 days.
Three Shaukiwan barbers appeared at the Magistracy on the 19th inst. charged with as- saulting Bhuda Khan, a gunner in the Asiatic, Artillery. Asked for a few particulars of the case, Inspector Robertson said that the other afternoon the complainant was in plain clothes near the market at Shaukiwan. There being nothing much doing at the time some of the market employees were having a game at cards. The complainant went up to one group and asked for cumshaw. He was told to go away, but re- fused to do so. He still refused when offered ten cents, and one of the men pushed him, whereupon the complainant took him by the queue to drag him to the Police Station. A crowd of 40 or 50 people followed and called "Ta" The Inspector added that the com- plainant persisted in saying that the defendants were the men who assaulted him, but he believed that he was mistaken, as from enquiries he had found out that they were in their shops at the time. His Worship said that if there had been an assault it was all the complainant's own doing. He should not have had anything to do with the Chinese. They did not want him. He should wind his own business. The defen- dants would be discharged.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Mr. H. Humphreys's house, "Derrington," was sold on the 19th instant to a Chinaman for $85,000,
Chan Kau, a widow residing at No. 3, Lee Yuen Street, placed a jacket out to dry on a bamboo on the 19th inst., and at ten o'clock she saw a man, whose name was found to be Fung Lui, come along, pick up the jacket and bamboo and walk away. The woman raised an alarm and the man was arrested on the 19th int. Mr. Hazeland sentenced him to six weeks' hard labour.
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Two of our local legal luminaries had a heated altercation in the Supreme ourt the other day at the conclusion of a certain case. One thought the other had been rather unscrupulous in a certain matter and called him "a cad." The other retaliated with "and you're a blackguard ! The spectators would not have been surprised if from words the parties had come to blows. It has been suggested that they should settle their differences early some morning by retiring to the Race Course with coffee and pistols.
Indian constable No. 744 is evidently not devoid of the detective instinct. He was on duty on the Praya on the 13th instant when he saw a man come off the Canton boat who at once aroused his suspicions. The man wore a queue and was dressed as a Chinaman. The constable, however, thought there was some thing wrong about him, particularly as he looked rather bulky about the body, as if wishing to conceal something. He accordingly stopped him, and as the man seemed disinclined to stay and be interrogated, the constable seized him by the queue, when lo and behold the hirsute appendage came off into his hand! This convinced the Indian that all was not square, so he took his capture to the Central Police
Station.
Here the sham Chinaman was And found to be a Japanese in disguise. not only that but it
was discovered that he had in his possession two revolvers, 50 rounds of ammunition, and a couple of knives. He also had a case containing two burglar's tools of a special pattern-that is a steel saw for inserting between the edge of a door and the groove, and another instrument with a gouge at the end and with sides as sharp as a razor. The man declined to give any explanation ex- cept that he was on business for a certain firm whose name he would not divulge. On the 14th inst. he was taken before Mr. Hazeland and fined $250, or three months, for being in pos- session of arms without a permit. It may be assumed that the police will keep an eye on him while he is in Hongkong.
Two firemen from the U.S.8. Meade found themselves in the dock on the 15th inst. charged with riotous behaviour in the Hunghom Hotel while drunk. Their names were George Nash and John Halston. When charged Nash said he was drunk but not riotous. Halston denied being drunk, adding that he merely tried to quell a disturbance which was going The landlord's story was on in the hotel.
that at five o'clock the previous evening Nash came into his hotel and ask for some wine. As the man was drunk he refused to serve him: Nash then became very angry, and revenged himself by going behind the bar and smashing five or six tumblers. Then Halston came in. He took a bottle of whisky from the counter, drank out of it, and then threw it away, The men attempted to strike him. He told them to go away, and because they refused he sent for the police and had them arrested.-Nash said there were two men fighting in a back room and he interfered Halston said he never broke a bot le of whisky. He removed a bottle from a chair and put it away so that the men who were fighting could not break it.-His Worship, to the complainant: Why did you not stop the men who were fighting? Why did you not call in the police? The complainant: I went for the police and in the meantime they went away.-The barman's story was somewhat different from the landlord's. He said. Nash came in with two bottles of whiskey which he had bought at the compradore's shop next to the hotel. He asked him for a corkscrew, and be cause he refused to let him have one he abused him. Then he went up to two or three men who were sitting on a bench, let them drink, and then threw the bottle on to the floor. This was all he saw. He did not see any tumblers broken. The two stories were so contradictory that His Worship dismissed the case.
Notification is given in an Express from the Colonial Secretary's office to the effect that the Peak water supply will be out off from 12 moon to 6 p.m. daily until further notice. This is owing, it is understood, to a temporary break down of the pumping machinery.
At the Harbour Master's Office on the 13th inst. the charge of desertion against Long Sing, fireman on board the British steamer Shansi, was heard. The defendant pleaded guilty, but declared that he was not a fireman, only a cook; John George Carnaghan, master of the Shansi, said defendant was either fireman or coal-trim- mer. He deserted some time during the night of Saturday, the 8th inst. He knew of no reason why the defendant should have deserted: -John Lumer, chief engineer of the Shansi, said defendant was a trimmer and was employed as cook for one day only. He said that fires were alight during Saturday night, and firemen were keeping watches. In the morning all were found to have left the ship. He first knew about it at 7 a.m. on Sunday, when the fires had burnt out, and there were 50 or 60 lbs. steam in the boilers. There were no Europeans оп watch below during the night. Jas. McNair, second engineer on the ship, said the defendant was coal-trimmer of his watch. He discovered he had deserted about 6.50 on Sunday morning. The defendant should have kept the morning watch. The Defendant stated he left the ship to buy provisions. He returned the following morning and had been acting as cook since.-The Master and second en- gineer stated that he had not been seen on the ship since his desertion. The Chief Engineer corroborated.-Mr. Basil Taylor found him guilty of desertion. He was to forfeit all wages and effects, and to undergo eight weeks' hard labour. Long Sing is only one of eleven of the orew of the Shansi who deserted in Victoria Harbour. The remaining ten have not yet been apprehended.
Tseng Fu Tsoi, Leung Kan and Ho Kam Wing, masters of cargo boats 1,396, 1,032, and 1,025 respectively, were charged before Mr. Hazeland on the 17th inst. with unlawfully fail- ing to cover with serviceable tarpaulin some kero- sene which they had in their boats on Saturday. The first and second defendants were further charged with having fires on their boat while they were laden with kerosene, and the first defendant was still further charged with failing to display a red flag on his boat while it was laden with kerosene.- Sergeant Gourlay said that on Saturday last he visited the defendant's boats, which were near Stonecutters Island. In the first defendant's boat he found 13 tins of kerosene. It was covered with a piece of sheeting only, and even the sheeting was full of holes. He could count the tins without remov- ing the cloth. The defendant had three men on board soldering up the tins and also had two fires in chatties. He also displayed no red flag. The second defendant had eight or nine tins of kerosene in his boat. It was par tially covered with a small piece of cloth. In the stern of the boat he found the cinders left of a fire at which the defendant had been cook- ing his chow. The third defendant had kero sene loose on board, it being in his hold. The other coolies were taking it out and putting it in the tins. He believed the third defendant got the kerosene from a ship, and he engaged the others to help him to put it in tins.-The first defendant said he was soldering the tins and he had a fire there for the purpose, but he was very careful. The second defendant said: I had just got fixed to the other junk when the police launch came alongside. We had done about six tins when the launch came alongside. The third defendant said: I received the kerosene first into my junk, and the other two took it out.- His Worship said that within a very short time two fires had occurred on kerosene junks, doubt- less due to the regulations as to dangerous goods being ignored. Had a wind suddenly risen and one of these junks had drifted down the harbour, it was too terrible to think what It was almost damage would have beeen.
make these men un- the impossible to derstand the great damage of ne lecting the rules and regulations. The first defendant was fined $100, the second $25, and the third $25. A boatwoman was also dealt with for hav- ing a fire on board her boat when laden with
kerosene,
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