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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The British cruiser Arethusa arrived on the 12th inst. from Yokohama.
inʼand served by him with both hands; and he laughingly requested me to keep the cup as a momento of the interview, in which he said the Wo begito acknowledge with thanks the re- pleasure had been all his own. He also preceipt of a cheque for $50 from “ A.B.
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o with his antograph and asked me for fund to assist the family of the murdered school my photograph, and with mutual salaame, the master, Yeung Ku Wan, and of one for $10 interview was at an end. Times of India, from "Mancunia.”
CASHONGKONG.
H.M:S. Goliath arrived on Thursday from the North and went at once into dock, and H.M.S. Aurora arrived from Shanghai, having left Woosung on the 10th inst.
During the absence from the Colony of Mr. J. M. Zuniga, Spanish and Peruvian Acting Consul, Mr Jesus Gonzalez is recognised as in charge of the Consulates.
On Thursday afternoon the remains of Mr Thomas Herbert Glover, who died on Wednes day at No. 3, Des Voeux Villa, The Peak, a the age of 36 years, were interred at Happy Valley. Mr. Glover, who was employed as ac- countant at the office of the Joint Telegraph Companies, had been ill for several months.
A fire broke out in a dwelling house at Sai- kong on the 7th inst. The polic and villagers erlinguished the flames before serious damage was done. By a fire at Taipo village on the 6th inst damage to property to the extent of about $300 was done. In neither case was the loss covered by insurance.
Two outbreaks of fire were reported by the police on Tuesday morning. The first was at half past ten on Monday evening in a family house in Queen's Road West, when damage to the extent of 8.0 was done. The Fire Brigade under Captain Superint ndent May were prompt ly on the scene, and soon had the fire under control. The brigade had barely returned to the station when the fire bell again raug. This time a joss-stick maker's shop in Third Street was involved. The damages arounted to about $300. Neither place was insured."·
Another armed highway robbery is reported from the New Territory. A contractor carry- ing on business in Pottinger Street was travel ling the other side of the harbour on Tuesday, and near the village of Au-Tat he was attacked. by several armed men. The contractor had on * his person a sum of money amounting to 2400 and a diamond ring of considerable value. The robbers possessed themselves of everything, and made off. No arrests have so far been made, but active investigations are being con- ducted by the police.
etc.
The property destroyed by the fire on the 13th instant at No. 9, Kwai Wa Lane, was insured for $3,000 with the Western Assurance of Toronto, for which Messrs. W. Meyerink and Co. are the local representatives. flour in a godown at West Point on Tuesday, Whilst a zumber of coolies were storing the flooring suddenly gave way. Two men were injured by the falling sacks, one of them Eo severely that he had to be admitted to the hospital.
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By the fire in Lam Loo Street, Kowloon City on the 7th inst., the occurrence of which we reported on the 8th inst. three dwelling not covered by insurance, amounting to $1,000. houses were burned down, the damage, which is
The origin of the outbreak in unknown.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial with thanks the following donations to the funds and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge of the Hospitals:-
Ho Ngok Lau Poultry Guild
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The report of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund for 1900 is published in the Gazette. The amount to the credit of the Fund on the 31st December was $88,793.24. number of contributors on the books was 318, an increase of 72 since the 31st December, 1899, During the year 111 officers joined the Fund, 36 left, and four died. There are 271 children on the books. The pensioners number 14, draw- ing the aggregate pensions of $1,341.94 per
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by Captain Colby M. Chester. The full com- plement of the ship is 540 men and 60 marines, besides 32 officers.
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On the 11th inst., H.M. despatch bost Alacrity arrived from Shanghai, and the French gunboat Comète from Haiphong.
Apart from two cases of bubonic plague (Chinese), both fatal, there were no instances of communicable disease in the Colony, during last week.
Whilst loading sugar on the steamer Onsang in the harbour on the 11th inst. a.coolie fell down the hold and sustained injuries from which he died. The body was taken to the mortuary.
Library and Museum last week shows that 898
The return of visitors to the City Hall
non-Chinese and 115 Chinese visited the former, and 163 non-Chinese and 2,622 Chinese the latter institution.
An earth-coolie was making excavations, Kennedy Road way on Friday 8th inst. Then the bank collapsed and buried him. He was dead before help arrived. The body was con veyed to the mortuary.
The body of a Chinaman, apparently about 40 years of age, was found hanging by the neck in a drain in course of construction opposite Road Central. He is supposed to have commit the building now being, erected at Des Vœux
ted suicide.
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Another well-known figure in the colony has been call away by death, Mr. Paul Jordan breath- ing his last on the 9th inst. at Forest Lodge, Caine Road, the residence of his brother Dr. G. P. Jordan. -Latterly Mr. Jordan had not been in the best of health; but his end was 'not thought to be so near, until a short time before his death, when he became unconscious and re- mained so until the end.. The deceased gentleman was 49 years of age and leaves a widow and At one time Mr. Jordan was employed in the a largo family, who are at present in England.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, leaving some years ago to start business for himself as a share and general broker. Being a lover of sports, he was a familiar-figure at the Jockey Club Race Meetings, entering ponies for many years. The funeral took place on Saturday, when many Freemasons, Mr. Jordan" being a prominent member of the fraternity, attended.
The U.S.S. Kentucky entered the Harbour on the 12th inst., having left Manila on the 9th ins. She is the first American battleship that ever crossed the Atlantic Ocean to foreign ports, and all on board are proud of her record. She has been engaged in persuading the Sultan of Turkey. to pay the indemnity due to the United States over missionary outrages in In good time, and rather earlier than in some Armenia. The Kentucky is a sister ship to the previous years, the Chronicle and Directory for Kearsarge, bein built by the Newport News China Japan, the Straits Settlements, Indo- Ship-building Company and launched some 18. China, the Philippines, &c., “has made, ifa,ap- months ago. At her trial trip she developed a pearance. The Volume for 1901 is a trifle speed of 17 knots an hour. Her armament bulkier than its predecessors notwithstanding consists of the following: four 13-inch and four the efforts made to keep it within manageable 8-inch guns mounted in superimposed turrets limits by compressing the information and rear. fore and aft, fourteen 5-inch guns, twelve 6 ranging certain portions of the contents, Oh the Eth inst. we sent a cheque for $100 to pounders on superstructure, eight 6-pounders on the local Hon. Treasurer of the Indian Famine berth. deck, four 1-poand automatic and four Ghine together and those in Japan together. such as the grouping of the missionaries in Fund, the proceeds of the pamphlet entitled 1-pound rapid fire in lower main tops, four Colt and omitting them from the alphabetical Mountings of Naval Guns and Their Subse- Machine guns in upper main tops, two 3-inch index of foreign residents. This will be quent Use with the Ladysmith Relief Column," field pieces, and four torpedo tubes. The found a much more convenient mode, and, as being a lecture delivered here by Captains Scott Kentucky can throw at one round, more metal they are in alphabetical order, easier for refer- and Limpus in November, last, and reprinted.than any battleship afloat. She is commanded once. The missionaries in Japan follow next from the Hongkong Daily Press. This sum
resents the proceeds of the book, after pay
China follow the Szemao, directory, and precede after the Nagasaki directory, and those in represents ment of charges of lithographing, cost of paper, eight, ete, tihe various agents who sold the
that for Hongkong. In the description of Mr. GJ. W. King sold by public auc, China is incorporated "an interesting sketch hooks in the Far East generously declined their tion six lots of Crown land at the Public of the events which led to the anti. sual commission and a larger sum would have. Works offices on the 11th inst. There was foreign outbreaks and the hostilities of been realised had not the box of books sent quite a number of Chinese buyers, who bid with last year; in the Peking description is em. home to the London dépôt of the Navy League much spirit, more especially in the first two-lots, bodied a graphic account of the events pre- been damaged in transit. The Navy League which increased by the fifties and hundreds In cading the siege of the Legations and of their wero asked kindly to distribute such of these as the three smaller lats at Kowloon the bidding defence by the foreigners from June to the were readable to naval and military institutions. was wholly confined to hinese, advancing relief on the 13th Angust; and in the account On the 8th irst. His Honour T. Sercombe steadily by tens, and twenties till three of Tientsin is included a narrative of the hosti- Smith (Acting Puisne Judge) gave fudgment times the upset prices was reached. Thelities there and investment of the foreign in the case Chan Yik Chov. Chan Po Shan. following are the particulars of each lot, with settlements by the Boxers. These particulars This was a promissory note case, the plaintiff the prices at which the hammer fell. Kowloon have all been supplied from the north, and are suing the defendant for $600. The defendant Inland Lot, No: 1,122, at Mong Kok Tsui, 5550 valuable both as being interesting reading and was alleged to have signed and delivered to one ∙sq. ft., at an annual rent of 64 and.upset price as orming an historically accurate record. Li Lui Chin à Chinese document, which was 83,33; knocked down to. Lau Chin Ting for The other numerous descriptions have all been translated as follows Now borrowed from 88,100. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,118, com- brought up to date, and the directions carefully Mr. Li Lui Chin the sum of $600 exactly, inprising 20,050 sq. ft., at an annual rent of $220, revised. Those in the northern parts of Chins Hongkong current bunk notes. It is allowed and with an upset price of $6,015, purchased by may possibly be somewhat incomplete awing to demand payment at any time. This is proof." Mr. A. Shelton Hooper for $8,035. Kow-to the changes going on and the difficulty in The instrument was endorsed by Li Lui Chin loon Inland Lots: 1119, 1120 and 1121, at Fuk some cases of obtaining accurate returns in to the plaintiff, Clan Tik Cho, as if it were a Tsun Heung, comprising respectively, 1,500,time for the work to go to prees,⠀⠀ The usual promissory note: The two questions for the 1,327 and 1,762 sq. ft., with respective Kninual maps, and plans will be found in the larger Court were :— (1) Does this, instrument satisfy rentals of 812, $10 and $14, and upset prices edition brought up to date. “The work has, we
he definition of a promissory note which must of $300 $266 and $353. The first two lots notice, been much more: largel“, availe intain an unconditional promise to pay 2 (2). were purchased by Yau Chin Chi, and the third advertisers, who are evidently discoverin If it is a promissory note, has the plafutin en- by Li Chung, Sang...” The last lot put up was a vade mecum the Directory is to every
see proved that the note was made by the one in Kennedy Road (Inland Lot 1628) withness house in Eastern Asis The book defendant P His Lordship dealt at some length an area of 18,225 sq. ft. and a yearly rental of retains the red cover which has become such with these points, finally holding that the in- $106. The upset price was $2,733 and it familiar object in the East, and in its gener strument was not a promissory note and that realised $2753, the purchaser being Mr. B. get up and letterpress fally maintient le r The plaintiff must be non-suited with costs. Brotherton Harker,
putation.
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