tober 20, 1900,
tibeen shelved, and that there is no desire
part of the Government to shelve it. Hon. C. P. CH. emphasised the im portance of the work not being lost sight of, and The CHAIRMAN again re-assured members on the point.
On the item "School and House at Un Long, $1,500 being read out,
The Hon. Dr., Họ KAI observed-I think there were two schools recommended, one at Un Long and the other at Yanmati. Consider fing that Yaumati has grown, so much of late I think a school there is much more necessary than one at Un Long. I would like to know why a school at the latter place has been sanc- tioned while there is no mention of one at Yau-
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
| they left him on the the three men
had witnessed the ault following shortly afterwards. As the result of the attack upon him the deceased's skull was fractured and his spleen ruptured. The jury would be aware that for some reason or other very little injury would injure the spleen of any one belonging to the coolie class. Hearing of the row the police went to Jardine's Bazaar between nine and ten o'clock. They found the deceased there and sent him to the Hospital, where he died two days afterwards. The post mortem examination disclosed the fact that the small fracture of the skull brought on hemorrhage on the brain. There was a small clot of blood which pressed upon the brain near the base, and this was the cause of death. The question then arose as The CHAIRMAN expressed his inability to to the part the prisoners took in the transac answer this question, but expressed his willing-tion. After the deceased had been taken to the ness to have a recommendation from the un- Hospital the police were taken to No. 27, Jar official members as to a school at Yaumati dine's Bazaar, and the prisoners were pointed recorded if they wished it. The unofficial out to them as being two of the six men who. attacked the deceased. The others had cleared members signifying assent this was done.
away.
mati.
This concluded the discussion on the esti- mates..
The CHAIRMAN-That is all the business. I think we can congratulate ourselves on the expeditious and satisfactory manner in which we have got through the estimates.
SUPREME COURT.
18th October.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR JOHN CARRINGTON, C.M.G. (CHIEF JUSTICE.)
THE FATAL FIGHT AT EAST POINT. There was only one case for the sessions, and that arose out of the quarrels which took place among the coolies employed at Jardine's Sugar Refinery at East Point on the 19th September, two men named U Tai Ngan and U Ching Tsun being charged with the manslaughter of Cheng Ngan Hong. They pleaded not guilty.
The jurors were Messrs. J. A. Tarrant (foreman), A. Tillet, A. Van Nierop, H. E. Craddock, A. A. E. Milroy, A. Forbes, and C. L. Gorham,
last-
The evidence for the prosecution was then given.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they were each sentenced to four years' hard labour.
THE CRISIS IN: CHINA.
LOCAL MOVEMENTS.
The British transport Dalhousie returned from Taku on the 13th inst.
The British transport Pentakota left on the 14th inst. for Taku.
The German gunboat Tiger came back on the 14th inst. from Canton.
The Austrian transport Elektra arrived on the 13th inst. from Odessa.
The British transport Ashruf returned from Shanghai on 15th inst.
The Japanese battleship Asahi left on the 15th inst. for Japan.
The German gunboat Tiger left the harbon on the 16th inst. for Shanghai.
The U.S. gunboat Marietta arrived on the 17th inst. from Swatow and left again for Canton.
The transport Ashruf departed on Tuesday night on her return journey to Bombay.
THE FUSILIERS TO RETURN TO HONGKONG.
intimated this before, but in consequence of contradicting reports being published we en- quired at Headquarters on the 12th inst. and were informed that our statement was correct.
THE TROUBLE IN KWANGTUNG.
13th October.
on the 15th inst. the 22nd Bombay 1 the Asiatic artillery, R. details.
17th
Another thousand. Chinese ed at Bamchun, with a ɑview against the rebels, but no forward movement seems to have been taken as yet..
Rumours were current on the 16th inst., and the story appeared in our evening contemporary the China Mail, to the effect that IL.M.S. Handy had a brush on Monday with a mob of rebels on the New Territory border near Sam- chun, who were advancing in the direction of British ground, The Handy is alleged to have fired into the mob and killed many. As a matter of fact the Handy was all the time in Hongkong harbour, and also there were no rebels in the district specified. laget.
Verso 18th October The rebels appear to be retreating still fur- ther from the British border. A party who were posted at Sha Wo Kang have left and joined another body at Pak Mang Fa, still another body being stationed not far from the latter place-Sam Cho Chuk. Pak Máng Fa-. is some 25 miles north of Samshui, non polan It is understood that Admiral Ho proposes to commence his advance on Wongkong at once.
The report that the Handy fired on a body of the rebels and killed 40 of them had no foundation.
19th October. Admiral Ho has commenced his advance upon the rebels. No other news is to hand from the other side to-day. --
THE GERMAN ACCOUNT OF
SHANHAIKWAN. The Ostasiatische Lloyd gives the following account of the capture of Shanhaikwan
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The Shanhaikwan forts have been occupied by the allied forces without a shot being fired. Vice-Admiral Bendemann, who was ordered to attack the forts with ships of the different nationalities, sent the British gunboat Pigmy on ahead from Taku to Shanhaikwan to demand the surrender. When the Pigmy arrived at Shanhaikwan, the Chinese commander surren- dered the fort to the Allied Powers, without attempting any resistance. It is said that he had received instructions from Li Hung-chang to do so. The commander of the Pigmy im- mediately hoisted the British flag, giving notice to the chief of the squadron of what had happened. Thereupon men-of-war of all na- tionalities left Taku to take part in the formal occupation of Shanhaikwan. The Russian troops, who in the meantime had started to reach the forts by land, did not reach them before they were surrendered to the allied fleet.
The Attorney-General (the Hon. W. Meigh Goodman, Q.C.) said he took that most of the jury knew that Messrs. Jardine had a sugar refinery down by East Point. About a month ago that was, at about half-past six
The Welsh Fusiliers and other members of on the morning of the 19th September the Hongkong Garrison who went north are
-a number of coolies were engaged there piling and carrying sugar.
returning to Hongkong for the winter, to A squab ble arose over some trifling matter, but hogether with the Bengal Lancers. We have did not think there was any actual fighting. At half-past eight the coolies stopped work for breakfast. The prisoners belonged to the same clan. It appeared that there were a good many coolies belonging to the U clan employed at the Sugar Works. There were also a number of Chengs, and the jury would notice that the deceased man was called Cheng Shui Hong, Ho had no doubt that clan feeling would incline the U's to take the part of any member of the clan who had had trouble with the Chengs or any other clan. The coolies of the U clan lived at 27, Jardine's Bazaar, and the Chéngs at 30. On the way to their quarters the clans began to wrangle and then to fight. The deceased man was more or less injured in the quarrel. This fight, however, was not a serious affair. The result of the fight was that two men-one from each clan were left on the ground after the others had cleared away. Their names were Cheng Ki and U Shui Hing. They were found by the police, who took them to the Police Station, U. Shui 'Chepg being afterwards Bogue Forts. The rebels, said to be 3,000 in the Shanhaiwan fort that the Fume mw. Gerd
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It is reported that the rebels, some. 2,500 strong, continue to move northwards, being afraid to meet Admiral Ho and his troops Three of the places occupied by them have been evacuated.
On the 8th inst, the rebels surprised a body of Chinese troops at Pak Leung Sha, near Sam shui, and defeated them. They took 40 pri- soners, whose heads they cut off in the approved Chinese fashion.
15th October,
Admiral Ho has not yet commenced his ad vance from Samchun on the rebels. He has some 2,500 men with him, but he is awaiting 2,000 more, which are being sent to him from the
number by this time, keep to the north. They still occupy a position at Lo Mo King. It was near the latter place that about 1,000 of them ambushed some 200 of Admiral Ho's men on the 8th inst., and killed 40 of them.
Captain Superintendent May is still on the border, and in Hongkong a military force is kept in readiness to cope with the rebels should they cross into British territory.
sent to the Hospital. This man charged the other with assault. ⠀⠀⠀ The case came before the Magistrate, who adjourned it. In the meantime the prisoners had been arrested for being concerned in the attack on the deceased, and, fearing lest he too might be implicated, U Shui Hing went away and the charge against the other man was dismissed. It appeared that the deceased was soon to enter his quar
16th October. ters by three men, who would say that he was followed by six members of the U clan, who The rebels in Kwangtung have advanced no caught hold of him and began to kick and knock nearer British territory, but in order to be pre- him about, no one interfering with them.pared for eventualities » British, fores som When they thought they had given him enough 500 strong, under Major Kettlewell, left for the
The account which has reached us of the cocupation of Shanhaikwan is a little different, says the N.-C. Daily News of the 9th inst, from that contained in the Ostasiatische Lloyd's Extra, nor do we see why, as Admiral Seymour is at Taku, the Pigmy should take her orders from Admiral Bendemann. The true account is that the Pigmy was sent to reconnoitre the Shanhaikwan fort, and found it ovagusted, on which she landed 18 men and an officer and hoisted the British flag on the fort, only about an hour before a force of some three thousand Russians arrived by rail. It is reported that the evacuation was arranged between Li Hung- chang and the Russians The Pigmy steamed back at once to Taku to report, and the Fame. was sent and brought back word that the Chi. nese flag was still flying on the fort, whence a story arose that the Pigmy's party had been captured by the Chinese. It was not, however,
eral Reid has now gone to Shanhaikwan with the third brigade from Weihaiwei
PRINCE TUAN'S REVENGE. A number of letters recently received Shansi by bankers, natives of that prov ing business in Shanghai, News, all agree in stating of terror and pillage in capital of Shanai, where been staying for three to be due to the
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