October 6, 1900.]
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
LOCAL MOVEMENTS. The Landaura arrived from Calcutta on Saturday, 14th September, with the Ulwar Im. perial Service troops and No. 3 Native General Hospital, with baggage, horses, mules, and bullocks.
The Uganda arrived on the same day.
On the 1st inst. the transport Loodiana arrived from Calcutta, bringing Capts. Tribe, I. S. (., and Entrican, I. M S., and 513 rank and file.
H. M. destroyers Otter and Handy left Macao soon after 8 a.m. on the 1st inst., and crossed over to Hongkong.
The Portuguese cruiser Adamastor also arrived on the 1st., having left Macao over night. The transport Uganda left on the 1st. for Taku with a squadron of Jodpore Lancers and the Muttra for Calcutta.
H.M. gunboat Redpole left on the 2nd inst. for Shanghai.
The transport Itaura left for Taku.
The Austrian steamer Maria Teresa, charter- ed by the Russian Government, arrived on the 2nd inst. from Odessa with Russian troops and
munitions of war on board for the nort.
The Italian transport Marco Mingbelti and Singapore arrived on the 1st inst. from Taku.
The British transport Fazilka arrived on the 3rd inst. from Weihaiwei.
The British transport Umta left on the 3rd inst. for Taku.
The British transport Urlana arrived on Thursday from Calcutta, which she left on the 17th ult., being obliged to spend four days in the river, owing to the stormy weather. Sho brought the following officers-Capt. Turner, Lieuts. Hitchins, Cox, Wright, Bridges, and Norman; six European N.CO.'s; and 524 Na- tive troops and followers, including parts of the Sanitary Establishment, 62nd Native Field Hospital, and the Remount Dêpot.
The Mombassa returned on the same day from Weihaiwei.
The four transports Loodiana, Nuddea, Warora, and Wardha left on Thursday for Taku. The Japanese cruiser Takachiho arrived from Amoy on Thursday.
The Palamcotta arrived from Taku yesterday and the Fuzilka left for Calcutta.
THE DISTURBANCES IN CANTON
"NEIGHBOURHOOD.
BRITISH FLAG FIRED ON.
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We received from Canton confirmation of the story given by our correspondent on the 28th ult. that as the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Lungkiang was on her way up from Canton to Wuchow she was fired at from the town of Luklao or Lak Low, near Kumchuck, on the 24th Sept. One Chinese mem- ber of her crew was wounded and a European passenger (one of the 1. M. Customs staff) was. we understand, also hurt.
The affair was reported to the French gun. boat Avalanche.
THE ARMS ORDINANCE.
AN IMPORTANT POINT.
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At the Magistracy on the 2nd inst. Mr. Haze land gave his decision in the case of the arms dealer (Ho Sai Wing. Queen's Road), against whom three summonses had been issued for offences against the Arms Ordinance,
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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Date, 3rd day; purchaser's name, European; | DISASTROUS FIRE AT YAUMATI. occupation, for protection address Chung Wan; description of goods, 150 cartridges; price $3.70.
Purchaser, European; description of goods, 100 cartridges; price $1.
The third entry with which fault was found read as follows:-Bound for San U. Tai Ping pass boat; to be loaded with sundry goods; moored at West Point, 30 boxes big caps; received $6.30.
There is an imperative duty on every im- porter of, dealer in or vendor of arms and am- munition under section 14 to enter certain par- ticulars in his book of sales.
In the present case the book of sales which has been put in show that the section has not been complied with. The onus is therefore in my opinion shifted on the Defendant to show to the Court that is was impossible for him to comply with the terms of the said Section.
Section 6 of the Ordinance is as follows. "No arms or ammunition shall be sold to any person (not exempted by the provisos in section 5 from the necessity of taking out a license).
(a.) for use within the colony unless the purchaser presents at or before the time of have in his possession such arms or ammunition, purchase a valid license either to carry or to
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(b) for export from the colony unless the vendor has obtained from the Captain Super- intendent of Police an export permit which may be in the form given in the schedule hereto annexed marked and shall be made out in Chinese as well as in English: Provided, nevertheless, that no export permit shall be required in respect of any ammunition which is being exported from the colony direct from the Government Depot on Stonecutter's Island under a delivery order issued by the Harbour Master.
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Such export permit or such delivery order license of the Captain Superintendent of Police when granted shall be deemed equivalent to the to carry or possess arms or ammunition, but in the case of an export permit it shall only operate as such a license up to the time named in such permit for the return of such permit.
An application for such permit shall be in the form given in the schedule hereto annexed marked A and shall be made out in Chinese as well as in English in cases where the applicant is a Chinaman, and shall be signed by the vend- or of the said arms or ammunition and filed by him with the Captain Superintendent of Police. No fce shall be payable in respect of filing such application or granting such permit."
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A BOAT-BUILDER'S YARD BURNT OUT One of the most disastrous res experienced in the colony for some time took place in the Kowloon peninsula on the night of the 28th ult.. when the village of Mongkoksui(between Yaumati and Taikokani), which consisted almost entirely of boat-building sheds, with about a dozen family houses for the workpeople, was destroyed, to- gether with a number of junks, launches, and fishing boats which were either being construct- ed or repaired.
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Inspector Macdonald, of the Yaumati Police Station, noticed the outbreak at about ten o'clock in the evening. He was the only European in the Station at the time, but with the assistance of the Chi- nese on the premises the fire-engine was got out and taken with all speed to the scene of the outbreak, In the mean- time fames and smoke had been кезд issuing from a launch-building shed owned by Cheong Kit, by a Chinaman in the vicinity. This man immediately gave the alarm, so that by the time the Yaumati Fire Brigade arrived the workpeople were doing all they could to combat great rapidity. It was the flames, which, however, had spread with seen at once that to save the yard was almost a hopeless task, and from the first the efforts of the fire- men were directed towards preventing the flames from spreading beyond a certain area. The military authorities had been informed early on, and two companies of the 22nd Bombay Infantry and two companies of the 3rd Madras Infantry were placed under arms and formed a fire pic- ket. The Madras men held the Yaumati ap- proach to the fire while the Bombays guarded the approach from the other side, remaining on duty until one o'clock on Saturday morning. The
two Government fire floats and the Dook Com-
pany's float did what they could to assist in combatting the flames, together with the fire engine from Yaumati. Their efforts, however, seemed to make but little impression. Soon the whole yard was in a blaze. Looked at from the adjoining hills it seemed as if a small town were in flames, the area covered by the blasing mate- rial being a good half-mile. Mat-sheds, brick houses, launches, junks, aud fishing boats burned fiercely, and gave many people on the Hong- kong side of the water the impression that the Cosmopolitan Docks or the adjoining kerosene tanks had caught fire,
Hundreds of the Kowloon residents crowded towards the scene of the fire, whilst H. E. the Governor, along with Viscount Sairdale, A.D.C., the Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Colonel. The O'Gorman, Deputy Superintendent Badeley, and others hurried over from the other
Under sub-section (a) the name at least of the person licensed to carry or have in his pos- session arms or ammunition would be within the knowledge of the Defendant and if the pur-side. chaser was an "exempted person" it would be the vendor's duty to satisfy himself that such purchaser was an exempted person. With respect to sub-section (b) the vendor is required by form B in the schedule to the Ordin- ance to return the permit together with the master's or mate's receipt. Under this sub-section at any rate the vendor would know the name and address of the purchaser who would be the consignes of the said "arms and ammunition."
I therefore convict the defendaut, and fine
three summonses-such fines to be consecutive. him the sum of fifty dollars on each of the
A telegram to Japan from Masampo, Cores, states that a piece of land extending over 1.500 His Worship said-The Defendant was taubo, which was leased to Russia, and another summoned pursuant to section 14 of the piece of the same area in possession of a Japa- Arms and Ammunition Ordinance 1900, on nese at that Corean port, have been exchanged three summonses, for that he being a at the request of the Russian authorities. It licensed dealer in arms unlawfully did neglect appears, says the Nagasaki Press, that the long to enter in his book of sales the name, occupa-
talked-of Masampo affair has thus been brought tion and address of the purchaser of the arms to an amicable settlement among the parties set out in the said three summonses.
concerned.
The defendant pleaded that the mere fact of a dealer- in arms having omitted to keep a re- cord in his book of sales of the name, occupa tion, and address of a purchaser from him of arms and ammunition is no offence unless it is proved that such name, occupation and address was “at the time of the purchase given to the arms dealer by the purchaser."
The sales book of the Defendant was put in and the three items under which the Defendant
was summoned are as follows:
By order of the Japanese Government, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha is about to open two new steamship services to Cores, in addition to the Company's regular service between Kobe and Masampo. One of the new lines is from Kobe to themulpo ria Moji, Fusan, and Mokpo, the other one being from Kobe to Chinnampo by way of Moji, Nagasaki, Fusan, and Chemul- po. These lines will be run twice every three weeks by the Sumidagawa-maru, Chikugegawa- maru and the Shinanogawa-maru.
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Until midnight the fire burned fiercely. It then began to die out, but it was near on to five o'clock in the morning before it was altogether extinguished. The damage will be considerable. and as it is not covered by insurance heavy losses will be experienced by the people con- corned.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF BRITISH BLUE-JACKETS.
KNOCKING A CHINESE CONSTABLE ABOUT.
Though somewhat noisy at times the average British Blue-jacket is not often guilty of such conduct as that of which four seamen from H.M.S. Argonaut were found guilty at the Magistracy on the 4th inst., their names were John McElligott, Joseph Tanner, W.'J. Farrall, and Joseph Scott, and there were two charges against them-behaving in a disorderly manner in Queen's Road East, and assaulting P. C. Man Wo (336) and breaking his police whistle.
P. C. Man Wo said that at about midnight on Wednesday he was on duty in Queen's Road East when he met the defendants. The first defendant put his arms round him and then struck him with his fist. The second took
off his helmet and throw it away. The third drew his sword and threw it away. He blew his whistle, whereupon the fourth defendant snatched it from him and threw it away. All the defendants then ran away and he ran after them.
he was on duty in Ship Street when he heard P.C. Fife said that on Wednesday midnight
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