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The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals:-Parsee Charity Fund, $100.
The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week included 448 non-Chinese and 179 Chinese to the former institution, 248 non-Chin:se and 2,558 Chinese to the latter.
Captain Hofmeier, in command of the Ger- man battleship Weissenburg, now in harbour here, was formerly captain of the unfortunate schoolship Gneisenau, which has just been wrecked at Malaga.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
About one hundred feet of the sea wall at Lychikok gave way on Thursday afternoon and became a heap of ruins.
For the first time since the 27th of November a fresh plague case has been reported. This occurred during the 24 hours ending at noon on Tuesday, and resulted in death.
The body of Stoker Sullivan, of H.M.S. Isis, was found floating in the harbour on the 15th inst off Fenwick's engineering establishment. Sullivan had been missing since theprevious Sunday.
(December 22, 1900.
The Fire Brigade turned out on the 18th inst. to a fire supposed to have broken out in the Wanchai district, but found, when they got to the Police Station there, that the alarm was a false one.
The public anction of Inland Lot No. 982, advertised to have taken place on the 19th inst. at the office of Mr. George P. Lammert in Duddell Street, has been postponed for the present.
Over twenty thousand dollars' worth of grain and other cereals stored on the New Parade We understand that among the horses which Ground have been found to be damaged by the Hongkong is contributing to the Amoy races recent typhoon. The loss would have been on the 10th, 11th and 12th prox. are Consul much heavier had it not been for the energetic General Wildman's Thistle, Mr. G. H. Potts's manner in which Captain Williams of the The Dook detachment of the Hongkong Vo-Tocsin, and Lieut. R. P. Johnson's Wizard. Indian Commissariat and his subordinates lunteer Corps had their annual dinner at the Mr Kato Motoshiro is provisionally recog-separated the bags of wet gram from those within the centre of the various stacks which Hongkong Hotel on the 15th inst., the Com-nised as Consul for Japan at this port.
were not affected by the wind and rain. mandant, Lieut-Cel. Sir John Carrington, C.M.G., being among those present.
A spark from the cook-house on the 15th inst. set fire to a gardener's hut at Yaumati, and before the outbreak was mastered by the police and soldiers promptly in attendance several other matsheds were involved and destroyed The damage amounts to $300.
The Sisters of the Agile de la Sainte Enfance desire to thank all the ladies who presided over the stalls, and the public who patronised the Bazaar in connection with their institution last week.
The sum realised at the Bazaar was $2,200. The Bazaar is still open daily at the French Convent.
The proposed chess match on the 17th inst. between the Army and Civilians did not come off, owing to the failure of the Army, through the sickness of some of their members, to raise a team. The contest for the Club Championship, of which Mr. H. E. Pollock, Q. C., is the holder, has commenced.
Four hundred and fifty out of the twelve hundred siege-train bullocks now at Laichi- kok, and details, under Capt. Gooch, R.A., are to proceed to India by the first available tran- sport, it being the present intention of the authorities to keep only a sufficient number of animals here to work the guns at Kowloon.
Next to the Harbour, in which 70 cases were found during the year, the greatest numbers of dead bodies of plague sufferers found were:-- Yaumati 43, Praya Reclamation Central 15, Kowloon Point, Mongkoktsui, and Hung Hom 14 each, Praya West 13, Canton Wharf and Queen's Road East, 12 each.
Dr. Francis Clark mentions in his report on this year's plague epidemic at Hongkong that early in the year the Government procured a considerable quantity of Haffkine's prophylacic serum, but unfortunately it has not been found possible to persuade many of the Chinese to accept protection in this form.
Arrah-Na-Pogue, one of the most popular of Irish dramas, was given at the Theatre Royal on Thursday night, before a fairly large audience, by Miss Ella Carrington and Company, Miss Carrington impersonating the heroine of the piece, and Mr. Charlie Taylor taking the part of Shaun O' the Post. The company are to be congratulated on the success with which, not- withstanding several drawbacks, they acquitted themselves. Miss Carrington was frequently applauded, and the audience evidently thorough- ly appreciated Mr. Taylor's efforts. characters were also in good hands. Last night Rip Van Winkle was staged and to-night Mr. Barnes of New York will be played.
The other
Mr. A. G. Ward, the talented organist of St. John's Cathedral, has just composed two very
The despatch of the Canadian Pacific Rail- pretty vesper hymns, one of which was sung at the close of evensong by the choir on Sunday way Company's steamer Empress of Japan from last. The second hymn will be sung to this port on Wednesday is another instance of in. morrow. Mr. Ward has composed some ex-dustrial enterprise put forth in the colony when cellent church music, his Te Deum, for example, emergency demands it. The steamer, it will which is one of the best in the repertoire of be remembered, collided with a sailing ship the Cathedral choir, and was originally com- while on her outward passage and had to put posed for a festival of choirs in Oxfordshire. back to Victoria for repairs. She was patched It is to be hoped Mr. Ward's many social duties up and left her Pacific port five days after her will not deter him from accomplishing more advertised time. On the passage, she made up good work in this beautiful art of composition three days, and when she reached Hongkong was but two days beyond her time. She arrived of church music.
The Catholic Union will hold a grand on the Friday afternoon, and inmediately went bazaar of toys to-morrow, on the ground alongside the wharf. The Kowloon Godown of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, from 3 to Company started discharging her cargo of 1,500 8 p.m. By kind permission of Lieut.-Col. tons the next morning, and by the evening she Teversham, D. S. O., and the officers of the was finished and went into dock the first thing 3rd Madras Light Infantry, their excellent band on Monday morning. By Tuesday morning will be in attendance and play a selection of the repairs were finished, and, in addition, 2,000 music during the afternoon. The proceeds of tons of cargo were shipped on board. That the bazaar will be devoted, as was the case last being accomplished, the Empress of Japan The following appointments are notified in year, in providing Christmas treats to about steamed out of the harbour on the return pas the Gazette:-Mr. R. F. Johnston to be Acting,400 children and 100 old people. The price of sage on the moment of her scheduled time, to the a ticket of admission for adults is 50 cents and satisfaction of all concerned. It says much for Private Secretary to H. E. the Governor, in the absence of the Earl of Donoughmore; Mr. C. this entitles the holder to a Christmas present; the quick despatch of cargo by the Kowloon Clementi to be Acting Assistant Colonial Secre- for children the price is only 10 cents. The Godown Company, and is a creditable piece of tary and Clerk of Councils; Mr. P. P. J. Wode- object of the bazaar is very laudable and work by the Dock Company. They had to re- house to be a Census Officer for taking the thoroughly deserves the support of the public. | place a number of plates, and execute consider. Census in 1901.
The result of last year's sale was very satis-able repairs to the after-cabins and saloon, factory, and was the means of providing a besides which they had to unship and repair the Christmas I ree, tea, and a special dinner to a few foremast, as well as refit some deck gear which hundreds of orphans and poor of this colony, had been carried away during the collision. and still leaving a credit balance of $60, as shown by the statement sent us by the Com. mittee.
The examiners at the forthcoming examina- tions at Queen's College will be Messrs. C. Clementi and S. B. C. Ross. The Earl of Donoughmore, then Viscount Suirdale, was ori- ginally selected with Mr: Clementi, but his de- parture for home has prevented his presence at the examinations, and Mr. Ross has taken his place.
Among the pleasures in store for amusement lovers, nothing comes along more welcome than the old favourites who have been absent from Hongkong for several years. The Harm- ston Circus Company are now having a suc cessful season at Bangkok, and will shortly be seen here. Col. Hicks has arrived and is pro- specting for a suitable site. Due notice will be given of the opening date.
The body of Sergeant W. J. Howell, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who died in hospital on the 16th inst. from fever, was interred at Happy Valley on the 17th inst. with military honours. Ser. geant Howell for some time was instructor of "D" Company, Hongkong Volunteer Corps, and as a tribute to the memory of the deceased, Sergeant-Major Power, in name of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the corps, sent 'a baxutiful wreath to be placed on the grave.
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Another attempt at raising the dredger
A Paris telegram of the 10th inst, states that Canton River was made on Sunday, but it ended
the commencement of work on the Vistri rather disastrously. The Sabine Rickmers, as usual, was filled with water down to her Plimsoll Laokay and Ninhbinh-Giemquinh sections of mark, and having made fast to the dredger the Indo-Chinese railway-has been officially started to pump the water out of her oil tanks., authorised.
Up to the present over 218 miles of railway The strain on the cables encircling the dred- gor, as may easily be imagined, was tremendous, in Japan have been opened for traffic during the This brings up the total mileage and they proved unable to bear it and parted-present year. the sunken vessel, which however, had not been in the Empire to over 3,633 miles, of which 832 raised any appreciable extent, immediately miles are Government lines and 2,806 miles settling back into its old place. In consquence. private lines. the work of raising the dredger has been abandoned for the present, it having been found that the method hitherto pursued-that of attempting to lift her by means of two cables inserted through a hole bored in the bottom at each end of the sunken vecsel-is not at all likely to prove successful, at least within an ap- preciable period of time. It is now purposed to adopt what is known among seaman as the parbuckle system, and to drill at least twelve holes in the bottom of the dredger, from one end to the other, through which hawsers will be passed and an effort made to lift her by her own 450,000 150,000 | weight. She is very deeply imbedded in the mud, and the divers are now making excavations $9,883,893 86,650,000 1 in pursuance of the method now adopted.
The following is the return of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong during the month ended 30th November, as certified by the respective banks:
Banks.
Average Specie in Chartered Bank of India, amount. Reserve.
Australia and China... $2,658,660 $1,500,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation 6,775,233 5,000,000 National Bank of China,
Limited
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A commission on the subject of the revision of the powers of native judges in French colonies has expressed itself in favour of the absolute abolition of corporal punishment. This opinion will be received with interest in Indo-China, when the question is a vexed one.
Among the recent arrivals from Europe to Colombo is Mr Von Kamm, a distinguished member of the Imperial Russian Civil Service. He was en route to Bombay to assume duties there as Consul General in India. He has been in Bokhara as the Russian Consul there, and counted distinguished services which have entitled him to the present office, which by the way is the first of its kind created in British India.
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