December 29, 1900.]
We are informed that the Volunteer Ball will be held on Friday, 15th February. Tickets will be available early next week at Headquar- ters.
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The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week included 450 non-Chinese to the former and 309 non-Chinese and 2,548 Chinese to the latter institution.
A fresh case of plague was reported during the 24 hours between noon of the 24th and noon of the 25th inst. This brings the number of cases for the year up to 1,085, while the num. ber of deaths remains at 1,026.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals:-Deutsche Kirchen und. Schulgemeinde zu Hongkong, $7.
The sale of leasehold properties in Ship Street, comprising six lots, advertised in our columns to have taken place on the 22nd inst. in the auction rooms, Duddell Street, by Mr. George P. Lammert, was withdrawn, the properties not fetching the reserve price.
Christmastide with the Hongkong branch of the Missions to Seamen was observed at the Star Coffee House by the manager, Mr. H. C. Ashman, preparing a seasonable dinner for those seamen of the Royal Navy and the sailing ships in harbour who were ashore for the day. Quite a large number partook of the good things provided for them.
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At the regular meeting of Victoria Lodge No. 1026 held on the 22nd inst., Wor. Bro. E. C. Ray, Deputy District Grand Master, pre- sided and Installed Bro. F. D. Goddard as Worshipful Master. Wor. Bro. Goddard then invested his officers as follows:--Bros. J. H. Underwood, Senior Warden; R. C. Edwards, Junior Warden; S. H. Joseph, Treasurer; Wor. Bro. A. O'D. Gourdin, Secretary; Bros. E. H. Ray, Senior Deacon; J. J. Woollen, Junior Deacon Wor. Bro. G. T. Lammert, Organist; Bros. W. M. Everall, Inner Guard; A S. Tuxford, Steward; F. R. C. Surplice, Director of Ceremonies; J. R. Grimble, Tyler.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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Mr. W. Crake has been appointed Temporary | Yu Taotai, before leaving Shanghai, has con- Assistant Marine Surveyor.
tributed $300 to the Chinese Young Men's Mr. E. F. X. dos Santos Remedios, Civil Christian Association. A foreign resident at Engineer, of 31, Wyndham Street, has been Shanghai has subscribed over $800 to the same elected a member of the Lisbon Geographical Association. Society.
The Admiralty announces that the following The Star launch Evening Star collided with additional promotions for services in China a junk in the harbour on the 21st inst. The have been made, to date Nov. 9, 1900— junk capsized, but the crew were rescued by Lieutenant William B. S. Wroy, to be Com- police pinnace No. 5. The launch suffered con-mander; Assistant-Paymaster Harry G. Wil siderable damage.
sou, to be Paymaster.
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., agents for The French regiment which was stated in the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., inform those columns a short time ago to have been us that they were on the 22nd inst. in receipt of held in readiness at Haiphong to occupy Canton the following telegram from the Agent of the in case of need, has received countermanding Company at Shanghai:-" Referring to our orders. The expense of keeping these troops telegram of December 5th, reconstruction con- on a war-footing with steamers waiting is set at firmed at a meeting held yesterday."
70,000 francs.
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The Squatters' Board, consisting of Sir John The new telegraph line from Taku to Carrington, C.M.G. (presiding), the Acting Tientsin was opened on the 20th inst. It is in Puisne Judge (the Hon. T. Sercombe Smith), connection with the neutral cable from Shang- and the Hon. R. D. Ormsby, with Mr. Bruce | hai to Taku, and the old rates for messages will Shepherd as Secretary, met at the Supreme now be restored. This line will shortly be Court on Thursday, when a number of squatters' extended to Peking, and thence overland to claims were investigated.
Kiakhta, giving an independent alternative The tie in the first competition of the Hong-route to Europe. Possibly when this is built, kong Gun Club (held on the 15th inst.) was says the N.-C. Daily News, we may hope that fired off on the 22nd inst. The competithe long-deferred reduction in rates to Europe tors were H.E. Sir Henry A. Blake and Mr. and America will become a tangible reality. J. A. Mackay, who had each scored 15 points. The Russian Ministry of Marine has an The tie resulted in favour of Mr. Mackay, who nounced that for the purpose of increasing the scored 13 to His Excellency's 9. The prizes strength of the torpedo flotilla belonging to the were presented by Lady Blake after the decision Russian Pacific Squadron, twelve new torpedo- of the competition.
boats will be sent out next year to the Far East. These boats will be sent out in sections, which. will be put together at Vladivostok and Port Arthur, and they will not be counted among the torpedo-boats at present being built for Russia, which the Ministry of Marine has expressed its intention of sending out to the Far East under steam. A credit vote of 318,000 roubles will be mede to cover the cost of build- ing these twelve projected torpedo-boats.
At the offices of the Public Works Depart. ment on Thursday afternoon Mr. G. J. W. King offered for public competition two lots of Crown land situate at Fuk Tsun Henng, Kowloon. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1114, which comprises 4,840 square feet, was sold for 8988 (upset 5968), and Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1115, which com- prises 756 square feet, was sold for $172 (upset $152). Li Ping and Li Chung Sien were the purchasers.
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The Secretary of State has sanctioned the addition of 594 horses to the establishment of Artillery in India to be distributed in the pro- portion of 22 additional horses to each of the six R. H. A. and 21 to each of the R. F. A.
We have received from the Colonial Secre- tary's Office and also from the Netherlands Consulate-General notifications that the Gover-holiday trip to America and Europe, and, batteries. Three hundred will be purchased
nor-General of Netherlands-India has decreed that all ships or vessels arriving from Hong- kong or having called at this port after the 22nd November, 1900, are subject in Nether lande-India to a quarantine of ten days from the date of departure from this port or since the last case of plague on board. Importation is temporarily prohibited of animal refuse, claws and hoofs, animal or human hair and bristles, hides which are untanned and which ate salted or cured with arsenic, raw wool and rags, bags or sacks which have already been used, coming from Hongkong or transhipped at this port. The importation is also temporarily prohibited from Hongkong into Netherlands-India of tapestry and used embroideries, unless they are transported as personal baggage or in con. sequence of change of resince.
Weung Sam, a foreman in the employ of Tung Tak, contractor, carrying on business in this colony, died in the Government Civil Hospital on Monday from the effects of wounds inflicted by robbers in an assault committed upon him in Shatin on the 13th inst. It will be remembered, by the report published in our columns at the time, that the unfortunate man, accompanied by two coolies, was being driven in a ricksha to the outlying district of Shatin, carrying on his person about $100 in twenty-cent pieces to pay his master's workmen there. At a lonely part of the road the little party was attacked by three robbers, armed with a chopper and bamboo poles. The coolies took tɔ flight, leaving Weung Sam to the morey of his assailants. A search party found him some time later, bleeding and unconscious, about twen- ty feet down the hillside. He was conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital, where, as already stated, he died on Monday last. His case from the first was recognised as hopeless. The police have arrested several men in connection with the affair, but, with the exception of one, these. have ali been liberated, the coolies who accom- panied the murdered man being unable to iden- tify any of them. The evidence against the man detained in custody is very slight, the main point apparently being that in his posses- sion were found a few rolls of twenty-cent pieces similar to those carried by the deceased man.
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Mr. J. D. Clark, the founder and editor of the Shanghai Mercury, was a passenger for Shanghai by the Chusan, which left Hongkong on the 24th inst. He is roturning from a
though he has been forty years in China, is looking forward to resuming his editorial duties. He has purchased new plant, type, and machinery, so we may anticipate an all-round improvement in our northern contemporary.
this year at an estimated cost of two and three quarter lakhs of rupees, and the remainder next year. The recruitment of one hundred men per Infantry Battalion in China is sanctioned, also ten per cont. on the peace strength of cavalry regiments and sapper companies, the estimated cost being two lakhs initial and } lakh recurring,
At the opening of the Blake Pier it was stated that it was proposed to erect a clock- tower on the base of the pier and a roof and shelter for passengers. In the Gazette | A general impression exists, says a home con- of Saturday last particulars and conditions are temporary, that Mr. Basil J. D: Guy, the gallant published of a competion for these additions young midshipman of H.M.S. Barfleur who to the pier. It will be seen that the tower is to has just been awarded the Victoria Cross for be erected in the centre of the pier's base, and conspicuous bravery at Tientsin, is the first is to be at least 120 feet high. It will contain naval officer of this rank to be thus honoured. ladies' and men's waiting rooms. The roof is to This, however, is by no means the case, for at extend over the first two sets of steps at each least two instances of midshipmen earning the side of the pier. An attendant will live in the same proud distinction are on record. The first tower, which must be designed to take the clock, of these is that of Mr. E. J. Daniels, who was of our existing tower.
granted the V.C. for an act of great courage performed under fire during the Crimean cam- paign. In 1864 a second midshipman, Mr. G. D. Boyes, of H.M.S. Euryalus, won a similar honour while on active service.in Japan. Both of these young officers died before they rose to the rank for which their gallantry fitted them.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It is reported at Penang that the Acting Governor las recommended to the Secretary of State an increase of 15 per cent, on the salaries of the Straits Settlements clerical service.
A Seoul despatch states that the Corean Government has engaged a German bandmas- ter at a salary of 300 yen a month to teach the military bands.. Ho gave his first lesson on the 17th inst. to the band of the Imperial Bodyguard at Seoul.
The offorts being made by the Vatican to obtain from China a special indemnity for the missionaries massacred has, states a Rome corres pondent, again raised the question of the pro- tectorate over Roman Catholics in the Near and Far East. Li Hung-chang is reported to have replied to the Vatican that the murdered miss ionarios belonged to different nationalities, and The Tatung, which arrived at Shanghai from would be included in the indemnities demanded Yangtze porta at the end of last week, reported from China by their respective Governments. H.M.S. Daphne, the German Iltis and two This reply did not suit the Vatican, which French ganhosts at Hankow, H.M.S. Redpole thinks it sees in the Chinese conflict a chance of at Kiukiang, H.M.8. Linnet at Wuhu, H.M.8. asserting its existence as a Temporal Power Hermione and a German cruiser at Nanking, and which is never disposed to regard Italian and HI.M.S. P'ique at Chinkiang.
priests as subjects of the King of Italy. With We have received the programme of the the help of France it intends to press its claim. Amoy Race Club Meeting on the 10th, 11th. It is doubtful if Germany, who not long ago and 12th prox. Six races are on the list for declared a German protectorate over German each day, the chief altraction being the Amoy missionaries and Roman Catholics in the Levant Stakes on the first day and the Champion and in China, will asociate herself with the Stakes on the third. The entries include Wizard, Franco-Vatican claims, or whether she will not Thistle, Tocsin, Bewitchment, and Sin-ho, repre- rather support her ally Italy in upholding the senting Messrs. R. B. Johnson, Rounsevelle principle of national protectorates.-L. & 0. Wildman, and (the last three). G. Hutton Potts. Express.
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