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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
COLLISION IN THE HARBOUR,
[March 23, 1901.
THE VITRIOL-THROWING
OUTRAGE.
it the
Thursday afternoon, the British steamer Between half-past four and five o'clock ou Glengyle, (of the Glen line, whose agents are police have thus early been able to bring home We are pleased to be able to state that the
just then entering the harbour from London and Reek Messrs. McGregor Bros. and Gow) which was to the guilty parties the crime of which Mr. Singapore, collided with the British steamer victim.
Was on the 14th inst. made the Hangchow, one of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's His Honour Mr. F. A. Hazeland at
Three men were charged before vessels, which had como in from Chingkiang. Magistracy on the 15th inst. and formally The spot where the mish p occurred was about remanded until Tuesday, 19th just., one of the mid-stream, opposite a point between Pedder's three was discharged, while another was only Street and the Ferry wharf. has received the greatest injury, having had The case against the third was adjourned until The Hangehow charged with being an accessory before the fact. her bows completely smashed in. In fact next Tuesday. the impact has been so great as to damage the about one half the distance to the rail has whole of the plates above the water line, and
fore side of the water-tight bulkhead. been opened out, leaving a large aperture on the Glengyle is but slightly injured.
The The exact matter of conjecture, and, under the peculiar canse of the casualty is at present a mere circumstances attending it, must remain so until the Marine Court of Enquiry reveals it. The damage is estimated at several thousands
THEATRE ROYAL.
Four divers were employed for this purpose. | When the work was completed the "idea W&5 to partly pump the
vessel out and then to drag her over the bottom of the harbour into shallow water. This was arranged for by bringing a forty-two purchase from the Prays to her stern. On the Thursday preceding the accident the pumps were started, the dredger's engine-room cleared of water, and two compartments forward partly pumped out. The vessel's stern rose, and was hauled round till the dredger was broadside with the Praya. The attempt to raise her had then to be abandoned on account of bad weather. On Saturday, 2nd inst.. after certain necessary repairs had been completed, the pumps were again started at about noon. These pumps were a 12in. and 9in. centrifugal în the engine-room aft, the Goverument fire-engine 8in. pump in No. 2 coffer-dam, port side, and a 6in. centri- fugal in No. compartment, starboard side. The stern was cleared of water, the Din. pump shifted to No. 2 coffer-dam, port side, and the Government fire-engine sent to the starboard side to replace the 6in. pump, which had broken down. On examination, the purchase from shore was found to be quite tant, and as no more could be gained on the dredger it was de- cided to lighten her forward by keeping the pumps there going and allowing the engine. room to fill again slowly, when it was hoped that the purchase would be sufficient to haul the vessel in over the bottom. Everything appeared to be going well, and no danger of her capsizing was anticipated so long as the flat bilge of the dredger remained on the bottom. The divers had just come round in their punt, and had secured it to the dredger inside the fire-engine. They were going down to stop a large leak at the base of No. 2 starboard cofferdam. Witness was sitting on the top of the coffer-dam, and Johnson was just under water on his diving ladder, when the vessel commenced to list to port. Witness at once shouted to the attendants to call the diver altogether 360 watches stolen. Information lady's part of San Toy, the captivating little of the detective staff, was given charge of the daughter of Mandarin Yen How. She was From one of the Chinese detectives again in capital voice, and was encorel at every turn. Miss May Norton as Dudley, the maid, employed by him Sergeant Murison learned suddenly that the attendants had no time that an attempt had been made to, pawn the Kave another proof of her natural ability as an
watches, and following up this slight clue he had in their possession a basket containing on Thursday morning arrested three men, who about two hundred watches. It is believed
up: Brodie was standing on the punt ready to go down, fully dressed, except that he had his front glass off. The vessel went over
80
of dollars.
ANOTHER BÜRGLARY IN
QUEEN'S ROAD,
Full houses assembled in the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday, 14th and 15th inst., 10 San 1 oy, by the Dallas Musical Comedy Company, witness the staging of the great London success, Asin blorodora, there is but the merest suspicion of a plot in the opera-just enongh to impart an added interest to a production over enjoy- able and never cloying. It is written by Edward Morton in two acts, and is brimful of those racy, catchy melodies which impart the necessary fillip to such productions and carry the audience along in complete en- joyment and enthusiasm from start to finish. The Messrs. Droz & Company. 1, Queen's Road Performers, upon whom the success of the burglary on Chinese New Year's day. when rise to the fall of the curtain encores followed Central, who were made the victims of a daring complete mastery of their parts, and from the play depends so largely, had one and all a,
the window of their shop was broken and something like one hundred and fifty watches one upon the other with the utmost rapidity. stolen, have again been similarly visited, their that has been seen in the Theatre Royal, and if The scenery was splendid, probably the best premises having been broken into either late the dresses savoured more of Japanese than of on Wednesday night or early on Thursday morn-Chinese, such a trifling inconsistency was easily ing. On this occasion an entrance into the forgotten in the tastelulness of the costumes. premises was effected from the back, and
Miss Evelyne de Worms took the leading
DROZ AND COMPANY AGÁIn burgled.
was given to the police, and Sergeant Murison,
case.
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actress, going through her part with an easy
who fills the dignified and onerons office of grace that shows she is quite at home when facing an audionce. The role of Wun Lung,
to get the pant clear, and she was capsized, floating bottom up. Johnson, when witness last saw him, had just got into the punt and had his glass removed. Both divers sank to the bottom, Johnson's attendant. Hanson, go that the same gang was responsible for the Perpetual Corporal of the Emperor's Own,
ing with them. The last-named rose to the surface, and was picked up with an injured arm. Part of Brodie's air pipe was found floating, and they hauled him to the sur- face, where his dress was cut off and efforts made to bring him round. Dr. Gibson soon after arrived on the scene and took up the re- storative measures, but finding these unavailing ordered Brodie's removal to the Tamar. No trace of Johnson's air-pipe or life-line could be found, but his dead body was recovered by a diver about half-an-hour afterwards. Witness could hardly express an opinion as to the cause of the accident, but that the dredger did not leave the bottom he was absolutely certain. The accident was probably caused by the very unstable nature of the vessel due to her peculiar
construction.
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Dr. Gibson, H.M.S. Tamar, gave evidence certifying that Brodie died on the 7th inst. from pneumonia brought on by submersion.
Mr. Haseland's finding was to the effect that in the case of Johnson death was due to drown ing, and in that of Brodie to pneumonia brought on by submersion, consequent on the overturn ing of the dredger. The accident was in his opinion due to the very unstable nature of the vessel, consequent on the construction of a dredger, under conditions of being submerged and pumped out.
According to the Universal Gazette, & District Magistrate has already been sent to Honan to arrange for the reception of the Imperial party on the
to Peking, and for this special ex- pense some few tens of thousands of faels have provided. According to one story, the Court starts back on the 1st of the 2nd moon. But according to others, the start will not be
till the middle of the 2nd moon. On the other hand, » certain high official is reported to have urged his brethren and nephews to hasten back to Hsian, for the Empress is not willing to return to Peking,
former burglary at Messrs. Droz & Company shop, in connection with which the police at the time were unable to make any arrests,
SHOOTING AFFAIR AT THE ARSENAL.
A BEPOY SHOT,
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ton, and Miss Minnie Evelyne, Miss Hettie had a clever exponent in Miss Zaidie Monck- Peel, Miss Beryl Mackay, and Miss Glyan, as the Little Wives of Yon How, perform. ed their wifely duties in such a way as to satisfy even the most exacting and angust of mandarins, a remark which also applies to Miss Montague, Miss Violet Capel, Miss Daisy Albert, and Miss Topsy Albert, the Emperor's Wivos. Miss Bertha Hunter as Poppy, daughter of Sir Bingo Preston, Miss Nance Leslie as Miss Harley Streeter, and Miss Mario Lyonson as Lady Pickleton, were successful in rescuing their respective parts from obscurity.
Some little commotion was caused in the neigh- bourhood of the Arsenal on Friday night, 15th inst., by the sound of three rifle reports with a short interval between the first and the second and third. The havildar of the 22nd Bombay guard at the Ordnance Yard at once turned out his Amongst the actors, Mr. Henry Dallas once men, and enquiries were set afoot to ascertain the more proved himself a comedian of merit. The canse of the unusual sounds, which seemed to ability to create laughter seems to come to him came from the sentry on guard just inside the naturally, and on his part there was none of gato. On reaching that spot a Sepoy was found that painful straining after jokes so often stretched out on the ground on his left side, with witnessed on the stage. His songs were encor- his rifle just a few inches to the right of him, ed time and again, and if selection can he unconscious. He was picked up and taken to made from a repertoire of such excellence, an the Station Hospital, when two bullet wounds especial hit was made by his rendering of "The were found on the left side, one of them in the Chinese Soldier Man," the last verse of which region of the abdomen. Everything possible he had to repeat no less than three times. was done for him, and although he did not Tommy Atkins was introduced with regain consciousness it was thought advisable effect by Mr. Geo. L. Wilson, and en- to remove him to the Kowloon Hospital on cored. Mr. Wilson is still auffering from Saturday, where he now remains in a precarious a cold, but his dramatic rendering of this condition. How the man received his injuries popular patriotic air quite atoned for anything still remains a mystery, but the theory advanced by the military authorities is that they were self inflicted, a conclusion borne out by all the circumstances,
the song lacked in voice. Mr. Hugh Metcalfe was as reliable as ever, and made an ideal army captain. Mr. Harold Godwin and Mr. J. B. Farrell were also excellent, and the latter played his part of the Emperor with all the dignited w We have received the December and January extravagances popularly applied to the riler number of the China Review, which commences of the Flowery Land. Sir Bingo Preston, the with an interesting article on "Han Wu Ti fussy old British Consul at Pynka Pong, had and the Aboriginal Tribes on the South an able exponent in Mr. Arthur Stanley, and Western Frontier of China," by Mr. T. W. Mr. James Sharp and Mr. D. Munro were seen Kingsmill. The magazine contains also con- to advantage in their respective parts of Sing tributions by Messrs Edkins, Von Zach, and J. Hi and Fo Hop. Indeed, the whole Dyer Ball, and Mr. 8. H. Farker's Notes and ance gave the highest satisfaction, and adds Queries."
another to the many successes scored by, the
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