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The Rev. R. F. Cobbold informs us that col- lections at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday for the Alice Memorial and Nethersole. Hospitals amounted to $272.09.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
All ships, junks, and other vessels are warned, in the Gazette, that torpedoes will be run on the Kowloon range from the 12th inst. until furthered notice, between the hours, of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily.
The steamer Haitan, which arrived here on Tuesday from coast ports, reports H.M.S. Mahowk at Foochow, H.M.S. Isis and a Japanese orniser at Amoy, and the German Bussard at Swatow.
Some commotion was caused in the city at about six p.m. on the 9th inst. by a launch blowing her whistle continuously. It was discovered that in consequence of the high wind she had broken loose from her moorings. Another launch went to her assistance and she was again secured.
Among the general damage done by the typhoon the China and Japan Telephone Co.'s property suffered very heavily, practically all the wires being wrecked. Though efforts are being made to restore them, commencing with the central part of the town, the complete restora- tion is expected to take several weeks.
The Hon. C. P. Chater, Dr. Jordan and Messrs. Mitchell, Lewis, and Cox, who went up to Shanghai for the races, returned to the colony on the 9th inst. by the P. & O. mail steamer Chu- san. Among the passengers by the same boat we also notice the name of Mr. George Hutton Potts, who took his part in the fighting up North, and also carried off one first prize and three seconds at the Shanghai races.
Another consignent of Australian ponies, 22 in number, started on Tuesday from Sydney for .Hongkong. These belong to the class known
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The body of John McIlroy, the carpenter who was drowned by the capsizing of the dredger Canton River during the typhoon, was found floating in the harbour at Pedder's Wharf on Monday at half-past five. The remains were conveyed to the mortuary, where they were identified yesterday morning by Captain Scott, master of the Canton River, and by the first and second engineers.
On Monday afternoon, at the offices of the Public Works Department. Mr. G. J. W. King offered for competition three lots of Crown land. Inland Lot 1,591, which is situate in Queen's Road West and comprises 4,550 square fest, was sold for $27,100 (upset $18,224). In- land Lot 1,592, which is also situate in Queens' Road West, and comprises 4,819 square feet, was sold for $21,820 (upset $14,457). Garden Lot No. 16, which is situate in Upper Richmond Road and comprises 37,200 square feet, was sold for $20 above the upset, which was $372.
The somewhat rough weather we have been experiencing since the night of the 8th inst. has had a disastrous effect on the small craft in the harbour. The pleasure yacht Pioneer, of Mr. H. E. Pollock, Q.C, was among the vessels which came to grief. She was moored near the Victoria Recreation Club when she sprung her anchor or carried away her moorings on that night, and was dashed against Murray Pier, ultimately sinking. The boat was only built last year, and was most comfortably fitted up. Also a cargo boat which was being towed to the Refuge in Causeway Bay sank.
Among the passengers who arrived on Wed- nesday by the German mail Konig Albert, was the Right Rev. Bishop Piazzoli, the director of the Roman Catholic Mission in this colony, His Lordship was received at the wharf by all the clergy and a good number of people, and immediately on landing proceeded direct to the Cathedral, where a solemn Te Deum was sung, The service was highly impressive and was attended by all the clergy, the girls and boys of the Roman Catholic schols, and a large number of the Roman Catholic community. Yesterday evening the members of the “Catholic Union had an At Home to welcome His Lordship on. his return There was a large attendance, and the guests were entertained by songs and music provided by the members. Altogether a very pleasant evening was spent.
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Communication with the New Territory is The Russian Minister of Marine has ordered still cut off, and until it has been restored no all the vessels comprising the Russian Pacific accurate estimate can be made of the havoc Squadron now stationed in the Far East to bo wrought by the typhoon in life and property. fitted with wireless telegraph apparatus. ⠀
Mr. E. C. Ray and Messrs Lamke and Rogge According to a Japanese paper, the Corean informed us on the 9th inst. that they had receiv-standing army consists of 6,500 men, of whom telegrams from Saigon stating that quaran- 3,000 Imperial Bodyguards, 400 Artillery, and tine has been removed on steamers from this port 100 Cavalry are in Seoul. The remainder are to Saigon.
distributed among the provincial garrisons and A notification is published in the Gazette of a range in numbers from 100 to 200. It is now telegram from the Governor General of Indo-reported that the strength of the Imperial Body- China, announcing the rescinding on the 8th guard is to be raised to 5,000, so that the standing inst. of the decree of the 3rd May, declaring army will exceed 8,000 men in all. Hongkong infected with plague.
An alarm of fire was raised on the 9th instant, about five p.m., at 68, Lower Las- car Road, the premises involved being an eating- house situated there. The outbreak was slight one, and easily subdued by the fire bri- gade.
The New York Sun intimates that the Ameri. can War Department has detailed Lieut. Col. John S. Mallory, of the 41st Infantry at Manila, to be retained by Consul-General Wildman at Hongkong as military attaché. We under- stand that Colonel Mallory is at present in Hongkong.
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The following notification appears in the Gazette :--- The Hongkong Regiment. Lieu- tenant H.S. Moberley, Indian Staff Corps, wing officer, to be quartermaster, vice Captain A. C. J. Campbell, the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), wing officer, who has vacated that appointment.
The damage to Government matsheds all over the colony by the recent typhoon is simply enormous. There is scarcely one left standing, and the figure for re-erecting them will, it it expected, approximate $10,000. Governmen, buildings have emerged wonderfully well sustaining, in fact, practically no damage.
The first performance by the A.D.U. of the three-act comedy Our Flat is now definitely announced for Saturday, the 24th inst., and a second representation will take place on the following Monday night. Rehearsals have been proceeding busily for some time and all pro- mises well for the opening night.
The damage sustained by H.M.S. Fame dur- ing the late typhoon is greater than was at first imagined. In the fore part the plates are so strained that it is thought they will have to be removed and replaced by new ones, and in the after parts several feet of the hull will have to be renewed. The repairs are being proceed ❘ed with.
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The Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Com- pany have just inaugurated a new service be- tween Australia and China and the Straits. Two lines have been started-one from Sydney via the Caroline Islands to Hongkong, and the other from Sydney via Now Gnines to Singa. pore-the Munchen running on the former line The service and the Stettin on the latter. between Europe and Australia via Colombo is shortly to be enlarged from a monthly to s This service will be started three-weekly one. as soon as some of the steamers of the Company, - which have been chartered by the German Go. vernment for transport work between Germany and China, are released from their contracts.
A. Seoul telegram to the deahi states that the Corean Government has been trying to procure five million yen to relieve its financial burdens. It had been proposed to put forward the Customs revenue as security but Mr. Mo- Leavy Brown protested against the idea. The authorities ther tried to offer the mines a5 security, but there too they encountered objec tion. They attempted to float a loan in America last summer, but this again proved a failure. The recent movements in connection with the Seoul-Wiju railway are reported to refer to a loan of five million yen. The railway will be given as security. The expense of constructing the line between Seoul and Raijo is estimated at two million yen at the outside.
The dearth of coal and the present crisis in the coal market has brought Java coal to the front. The coal measures of the island are described in the Batavia Nieuwsblad as very extensive and as being found mainly at Bayah in the residency of Bantam. Only Eocene coal is met with in the island. Brown coal also abounds in Java. Coal gimilar to that founi at Bayah is mined in Northumberland and in Lancashire. The government sent an engineer He reported to examine the Bayah seams. favourably on their quality and extent. But the government did not follow this up by min- ing operations, owing to difficulties of trans- port, especially the absence of railway com- ill|munication between the coalfields and the nearest seaport. These difficulties have now been almost surmounted. A company has been formed to work the Bayah coalfields. It is ex- pected that shortly Java will be no longer dependent upon foreign coal.
The new P. & O. 8.8. Sobraon, though, as told elsewhere, she did not run into the typhoon, had rough weather all the way up to Hongkong. She shows, however, but very slight signs of usage. The Sobraon is not, as has been stated pretty widely in the press, definitely intended as yet to inaugurate a new service of boats for the Far East. Her trip is more of the nature of an experiment. In type she is an improved Malta, and passengers say that she is a very comfortable boat.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The U.8. Army launch Hoi Wing, bound from Hongkong to Taku, had her boilers burnt out when 150 miles north of Shanghai, and returned to the latter port under sail, reaching there on the 6th inst.
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The Times in no doubtful manner endorses the remarks of Dr. Morrison on the guilt of the Chinese Government in connection with the Boxer movement and the attack on the Peking Legations, and also the complicity of the Chinese Ministers abroad. In its issue of the 15th ult. the Times says:-The whole story, as told by our correspondent, hangs together. It proves beyond all reasonable doubt the main points we have consistently affirmed. It shows that the "Boxer " movement was originated by an obscure official, who was promoted to high The N.-C. Daily News Tientsin correspon- dent writes that he learned from Sir Claude Mac-rank for inaugurating the association. It shows donald that he asked the Foreign Office for Japan that the movement was seized upon by the when he was offered Teheran a year ago. The Dowager Empress and diverted by her against exchange of posts with Sir Ernest Satow was, the foreigners and the Christians for her own Boxer" chiefs as we have already mentioned, decided on last purposes. It shows that the
and patrons were drawn from her personal May before the troubles at Peking.
clique. It shows that the Imperial troops open- ly co-operated in the murderous attacks on the Legations and on the native Christiars. It shows that, from first to last, high officials of the Empire, including the reformed Tsungli Yamên, did all in their power to make those attacks successful and to betray the Ministers With reference to the press communiqué into the hands of their would be murderers. issued with regard to the coinage of silver, the Lastly, it shows that, while these officials in Madras Mail says that the handsome profit of Peking were so engaged, the representatives nearly three orores which Government have of China abroad, aided by personages like made over the transaction should be set aside Sheng and Li Hung-chang, were endeavour- as a reserve fund for the maintenance of the ing to delude the Powers by wholesale and rupee at its present level, and not be appro-systematic falsehood, calculated to defer relief priated as profit to Government.
until relief should be too late,
A large fire broke out on the 30th October in the native city of Amoy, which destroyed 130 houses. For several hours great danger existed for the foreign settlement. The main work in getting control of the fire was done by the crew of a Russian man-of-war in harbour and the custom-house staff.
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