February 2, 1901.] --
CHINA OVERLAND TRADË REPORT.
port for boats' davits in the lighthouse steam- | THE PIRATICAL OUTRAGE NEAR | pirate-fraternity has sworn a vengeance, tender Stanley.
Chair Shelter at Peak
Disinfector Station and Quarters Starling Inlet Police Station... Causeway and Pier in Deep Water,
Taipo
Sookunpo Latrine Public Latrines... Sewerage of Victoria
Total...
$18,712.77 The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of $1,145 in aid towards the sufferers
CANTON.
crew
95.
when they had a chance of coming across any foreigners they attack and kill them if possible.
DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE.
ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION. -*-* THE BISHOP ADVOCATES EUROPEAN SCHOOLS
FOR EUROPEANS.
The Governor recommends the Council to re-vote the following sums, being unexpended balances of the votes for 1900 under the head. Telegraphic information reached the firm of
Messrs. Carlowits & Co. courteously inform ing" Public Works Extraordinary" :---
Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. on the 28th ult. that
us that the best possible medical and nursing Completion Improvement Wongnei-
Mr. Buckhardt and Mr. Spalinger who, accom-skill has been obtained for Messrs, Burckhardt chong Recreation Ground 83.132.10 panied by Mr. Huygen, had on the previous and Spalinger, who are recovering as speedily as Expenses in the New Territory 609.28 day left the Shameen at Canton in their lorcha can be expected under the circumstances. The Yaumali Nullah...
1,263.32 for a shooting expedition up the West River, search for the desperadoes is being continued, 900.00 had been boarded and attacked by pirates with but up to the present no clue has been obtained 1,957.79 fatal results. The party loft in the early morn which will lead to their capture. 1,371.83 ing accompanied by Ah Loong, their confiden-
tial servant, who had been in the employ of 2,969.28 | the firm for over forty years, and two 2,155.34 or three house-servants. The boat's 2,709.35 were men who had repeatedly sailed in the 1,644.48 lorcha on similar excursions, and had taken the party out last Christmas for five or six days without any mishap. Every preparation was therefore made for a pleasant trip, and all went well till towards the afternoon, when but a few miles from the Shameen the party were sur- prised and board d by a gang of pirates. UP to the present the firm in Hongkong have but meagre particulars of what actually happened, but there must have been a plucky and determined resistance towards the despera. does by those on board the lorcha, for Mr. Buckhardt has been wounded in two places, once in the right thigh and again in the foot, while Mr. Spalinger has received a nasty body gunshot-wound. Mr. Huygen and one of the house-servants have also been in jared, the latter, it is said. rather seriously. The Hongkong representatives of the firm made the necessary arrangements to send a nurse to the sufferers immediately on receipt of | the telegram, and the consular authorities were at once notified with a view to the arrest of the pirates.
by the fire at Tai O on the 2nd instant.
This was all the business.
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
ADJOURNMENT TILL NEXT WEDNESDAY.
On Thursday afternoon a meeting of the Hong- kong Sanitary Board was held. The President (the Hon.R.D.Ormsby, Director of Public Works) occupied the chair, and there were also present the Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G. (Captain Superin- tendent of Police), Dr. Bell (Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer), Lieut. Col. Hughes, R.A.M.C., Mr. J. McKie, Dr. Hartigan, Mr. E. Osborne, Dr. F. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Mr. Fung Wa Chuen, Mr. Chan A Fook and Mr. G. A. Woodcock (Secretary).
The PRESIDENT, after moving the adoption of minutes of last meeting, said-Gentlemen, this being our first meeting since the nows was received of the death of the Queen, it is but fitting that I should make some refer- ence to the event, which has plunged the whole Empire in grief and mourning. It is hard to find words to give expression to our feelings on such a sad occasion. The memory of Queen Victoria will be for ever enshrined in our hearts. Truly
She wrought her people lasting good.” Now God has given her peace, and we mourn, not for her, but for ourselves and for our chil- dren. We know Queen Victoria no more.
The PRESIDENT, after resuming his seat, again rose and moved the adjournment of the meeting. He said-I think I am expressing the wishes of those present when I move that we now adjourn. There is no very important business, and I think it will be better to adjourn till Wednesday next. We cannot have it next Thursday, as that day is fixed for a meeting of the Legislative Council, at which both myself and the Vice-President will be present.
On the return of the Canton boat on the 28th ult. we learnt that it was while proceeding up the Brick Kiln Creek that the party was at- tacked. A fusilade was fired at the boat from both sides, and a stink-pot was thrown into the cabin. It is stated that the man who threw the pot was killed, and two others with him, but as to that there is no confirmation at present. Mr. Buckhardt threw the pot over the side, and at once made for his rifle. With
that he did good service in beating the pirates off, as also did his companions. A steamlaunch was engaged at daylight on Monday morning, and a search party went out later in the day. Other boats have been requisitioned, and it is hoped that the gang will be captured
28th ult., sent the following details:-
Our Canton correspondent, writing on the
with the Diocesan School and Orphanage took The annual prize distribution in connection place on Tuesday, 29th ult. The chair was occu there were also present the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, pied by the Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Hoare), and the Rev. R. F. Johnson, the Rev. Mr. Wells, Chief Inspector Mackie, and Mr. C. Money. Selections of music were given by the boys, Masters Eustace and Walter Hagen sang very nicely "What are the wild waves saying " and Mr. F. S. Whittick (one of the assistants) gave
a song.
Mr. H. SYKES, the Acting Headmaster, submitted his report, which was as follows:
"The school continues to increase in num. bers, the average attendance during the past year being 154 against 148 the previous year. The result of the examination by the Inspector of Schools has not yet been received, so that I Fifteen candidates entered for the Oxford Uni- am unable to give any particulars as to results.
these 13 passed; 1 in the Senior, 6 in the versity Local Examinations in July, and of Junior and 6 in the Preliminary. Mr. and earned holiday, and we hope that at the Mrs. Piercy are at present away on a well- end of the year they will return with renewed health and strength to carry on for many years the work which has hitherto so prospered in their hands. Mrs. Piercy's place is being all- ed by Mrs. Snuggs, who has already gained the sympathy and good-will of the boys. Mr. Frampton, who had worked very sealously for the school, left in December to take charge of the Government English School in Seoul. We expect a master from England in a fow weeks to take his place. Mr. Horth, who came out in April, left the colony in July, and his place has been filled by Mr. Whittick, an experienced teacher from Manchester, who with Mr. Snuggs and Mr. Arnold is doing excellent On Saturday evening, the 26th inst., a party work in the school. During the year various consisting of four gentlemen-Messrs. C. A. improvements have been completed. The old Burckhardt (of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co.), U. kitchens have been removed, thus largely Spalinger (of Messrs. Jardino, Matheson & Co.); increasing the play-ground a new boundary A. V. Hogg (of Messrs. Reiss & Co), and wall has been built, and a new entrance provid- G. E. Huygen (of Messrs. Meyer & Co.) ed, and a tennis court has been made, an addition went in a stern-wheel house-boat for a picnic. greatly appreciated by the boys. The building Just as she neared Sam Yung Kee at about 2 has also been fitted with gas. On the whole the boys have enjoyed good health during the a.m. on Sunday, 27th inst., the helmsman saw a boat ahead and he shouted out to her to give year, there having been no serious cases of way; but she kept on her course. On nearing sickness. Instruction in physical drill has the men on board of her fired two or three shots, bean regularly given thoughout the year by to begin with and then threw two stink-pots sergeant of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. During one after the other, one alighting on the upper the suminer the boys were taken for swimming deck of the house boat, and the other fall. to Lai Chi-kok twice a week. On Boxing The Japan Cement Company and seven other ing into the water. Thereupon the helms Day, through the kindness of Sir T man shouted out and awoke the party in the Jackson and Mr. Cobbold, the boys were en- similar companies are reported to have agreed cabin. They got up, blow out the light, and tak abled to have a launch picnic to Kap-Sui-Mun. to form a trust to maintain the price of cement, ing their revolvers and rifles had a hot fight with Our best thanks are due to the Medical Staff of says the Kobe Chronicle. Since 1899 the price the pirates, who by that time had already boarded the Government Civil Hospital for kind atten- of cement has continued to fall, and the godowns the boat, two or three of the gentlemen being tion to sick boys, to Mr. Chadwick Kew for of the various cement manufacturing compa- somewhat severely wounded and a boatman dental aid, and to the following gentlemen for nies were filled to overflowing. On more than Lung, who had been in the employ of Messrs. prizes: The Right Reverend the Bishop of one occasion a proposal had been made to form Carlowitz & Co. for over 40 years, was shot dead. Victoria, Sir T. Jackson, Sir J. Carrington, a trust to keep up the price, but no conclusion Had it not been for one of the gentlemen, who Hon. W. M. Goodman, Hon. Wei Yuk, Messrs. could be arrived at. Happily the cement used his repeating rifle so effectively as to drive D. R. Crawford, Choa Seep Chee, D. Elphin- market improved last spring, and with the in- away the pirates, some of whom were shot too
stone, Fung Wa Ch'ün, D. Gillies, T. Hunter, creased demand almost all the stock in the go- while others jumped into the water, there would A. Mackie, F. Southey, W. Whiley. During dewns of the companies has been cleared off. have been a wholesale murder on board. But the year, the Rev. R. F. Cobbold has attended The price has, however, remained low, and the it is said that the attack was made not so much to give religious instruction to the elder boys, proposal to form a trust was recently renewed. for robberry as for vengeance; as there was not and the Rev. J. H. France examined the whole At a conference of the manufacturers held to much to not in a house-boat. It may be re-school in Scripture. His report is appended.” aonsider the matter, the Japan, Asano, Onoda,membered, that on the 2nd of November Report of Scripture Examination by the last year the German armed steam-pinnace Schamien, when cruising somewhere near Shek moon, surprised and captured several pirates together with a lot of booty and handed them over to HIG.M.S. Luchs. Since then the
Mr. OSBORNE said-In seconding your pro- posal, sir, I feel sure that I echo the feelings of every one present in saying that we entirely coincide with your views as to an adjournment of this meeting, and we do so in humble tribute to the sacred memory of
our late beloved Sovereign, Queen Victoria
The PRESIDENT Thanks, gentlemen; that is all.
Chuwo Osaka, Zeniya, Kitangawa and Mikawa, Cement Companies came to an agreement. The price agreed upon was 4 yen per cask of 380 lbs. net. The agreement will remain in force for
e year.
Rev. J. H. France :—
“I have examined 119 boys in Holy Scrip- ture and find that the boys give evidence of careful and accurate teaching. written work
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