September 14, 1901.]
HONGKONG.
There left by the Yarra on the 11th inst. for France M. L. G. Le Roux, Consul-General-for- France at this ports with. Madame Le Roux
and their two children.
Seven-police constables have been temporarily transferred to the Gaol Department. Should they like the work and give satisfaction, we understand that they will be permanently
transferred.
We learn that a Chinaman stabbed a woman on a boat at Yaumati. The victim, in order to escape a second assault, jumped over the side of the boat and was drowned, it is said. We were unable to discover further particulars, as the police have not yet finished their enquiry. ·
The appeal against the decision in the action for breach of warranty and authority brought by Luk Lai Cho, merchant, 32, Bonham Strand, against Messrs. Kinghorn and Macdonald marine engineers, Beaconsfield Arcade, in which judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costs, will be heard on 16th inst. at the Supreme Court. Telegraphic information was received by the Hongkong Jockey Club on the 10th inst. from Singapore that a consignment of Australian waler griffins ordered for the Club, through Mr. Abrams of Singapore, had arrived at that port. They may be expected in Hongkong therefore within the next ten or twelve days. The animals number between 70 and 8),
A Chinese woman not a hundred miles from Hongkong lost some clothing a few days aga,
cnbicle.
while looking for her fowl under the bed, found her missing clothes.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Rev. G. J. Williams, pastor of the Union Church, has resigned his post through | ill-health. He will remain until a successor is
chosen.
is published in the axette, to the following A telegram, dated Singapore, 6th September,
effect :--" Hongkong released from quarantine; inspection continues."
The Indian temple at Happy Valley, called shape, and of the two stories which it will the Siri Goru. Singh Sabah, is fast assuming
consist of one is almost completed.
HM.8. Isis came out of dock on the 11th. She has been repainted, and in her new coat of black above and greyish white below, with black funnels, looks quite a different vessel.
During the week ending the 7th September, the City Hall Library and Museum were visited by $18 non-Chinese and 79 Chinese, and 72 non Chinese and 1.957 Chinese respectively.
We call our readers' attention to the special 28th inst., on behalf of the numerous orphans sale at the Italian Convent from the 23rd to the
who are cared for by this charitable institution. The Italian Convent should not appeal in vain, for its work is eminently deserving of support. The Gazette contains notifications of the ap- pointments of Mr. F. J. Badeley to be Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, Acting Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, and Acting Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, and Inspector A. Mackie to be Acting Deputy Su- perintendent of Police and Acting Assistant Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, both during the absence on leave of the Hon F. H, May,
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A prayer was said in St. John's Cathedral- and the Union Church on the 8th int. for the, recovery of President McKinley,
Messrs. Lamke and Rogge informed us on from Messrs. W. G. Hale & Co., of Baigon, that Thursday that they had received a telegram
quarantine at that port against vessels arriving from Hongkong has been reduced to one' day's observation, passengers prohibited. terday I fresh cases of plague, with 11 deaths * During the week which ended at noon yos-
(Chinese), were reported. The total for the week ending the 7th September was :—6` cason: - (3 in Victoria), 6 deaths. No other cases of communicable disease were reported in the, Colony during the week,
A man who is said to have the biggest face in the world graced the Magistracy verandah with his presence on the 10th inst. He was a Chinese, and, while not especially tall or broad, had a face at least four times the ordinary siss however, is, that while his face is to enormous even of a large man's face. The peculiarity, his head is of normal size, giving him the appearance of wearing a large mask.
The burglary season is evidently at its height now in Hongkong. On Thursday morning Dr. G. Harston, who is temporarily stopping at a friend's house in Queen's Gardens, suffered a serious loss.
He was unable to retire to rest
until 5 a.m., and between this hour and 7 the robbery occurred, while Dr. Harston was asleep. The thief secured a gold presentation watch, a silver cigarette-case, pencil, etc., and some loose cash, amounting altogether to about $100, There is at present no clue, but the police have the case in hand.
A Filipino aged 33, a musician, residing staggered into the Central Station charge-room on the 10th -
and intuition or superstition caused hor to con- sult a chicken, to help her to recover the stolen
A leading article in O Porrir of the 7th inst. clothes. The fowl, unused to such distinction, takes up the accusation brought by the Hon. got frightened and escaped into the next FH. May against Portuguese clerks of being
in Queen's Road East, The devont woman followed, and as a class careless, inaccurate. and inclined to strates with this biassed expression of opinion idleness. Our Portuguese contemporary remon. and appeals to the Acting Postmaster General's report. The publication of Mr. May's remark in the Government Gazette makes the offence worse, and insults the whole Portuguese community. O Partir hopes that Mr. My will repent on his journey home,
A fire occurred in a tailor's shop in Upper Lascar Row between 11 and 12 p.m. on Tues day inst., and did damage to the extent of about 8500. The premises. strange to say, were not insured. The capsising of a kerosene lamp is said to be the cause of the outbreak. The Fire Brigade, under Acting Deputy Superintendent Mackie, attended, and prevented the flames from spreading. The recoil and third floors were gutted, however, before the firo was extinguished.
The following returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st August, 1901, are certified by the managers of the respective Banks :-
Banks,
Chartered Bank of India, Aus-
tralia and China.... Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation ... National Bank of China, Limited
Average Specie in
Amount.
Reserve. $
2,925,822 1,600,000
8,128,757 5,000,000 147,560 120,000
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F. A. Horwits, a clerk in the employ of the Hongkong Ice Co., after embezzling about $600 of the Company's money, is supposed to have bezzled, there are a score, more or less, of friends gone to Shanghai. Besides the amount em- inourning his absence who would be glad of his return or better still the return of the various sms he owes them. Mr. Mee Cheung, the photographer, is especially anxions to see him again. Horwitz had a diamond ring, which he pawned for $200; then taking the pawn ticket to Mr. Mee (heung, to whom he already owed $100, he sold him the ticket for another 8100. A few days after, in fact, while on his way to the steamer which took him away, he called on Mr. Mee Cheung, and finding the latter had redeemed the ring, told him that he had an engagement with some lady friends for the evening, and asked him to fend him the ring, promising to return it the next day. Mr. Mee Chung complied with the request, and that is the last he saw of either his friend or the ring.
Total.... ..$11,500,145 6,750,000 The British transport Yerasa, which has arrived at this port from Shanghai, had on board the officers and men of the 2nd Rajputs, the regiment that is to relieve the 3rd Madras, who sailed on the 1th inst. for Singapore to augment the garrison there. The officers of The Chinaman appears to be getting slightly the 2nd Rajputs are:-Lieut-Col. C. W. Harris, out of hand again, and the result is seen in the Major H. L. Dodgson, Captains C. Hamilton, number of robberies, armed and otherwise, that F. A. Smith, F. P. 8. Dunsford, and J., have taken place recently. Among the latest is Pilkington (Postal Department), Lieutenants s case of housebreaking, which occurred: at the A. Le F. Smith, R. J. Cumming, G. W. Ross, and C. Hudson (I. M. 8.), and Second Lieuten ants Hon. A. C. Murray and A. 11. McCloverty. There are 656 non-commissioned officers and meň.
| Peak one night last week, the victim being Mrs. Retallick, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Retallick, Hongkong Regiment, who is at present in Tientsin. The robbery was com- mitted on the night of the military tattoo, A most audacious robbery took place early when Mrs. Retallick dined out. On return on the 7th inst. in the office of this paper.ing home she found that her place had been At about 2.30 a.m., one of the workmen saw a' practically stripped of all it contained, money, man passing through the general office carry. jewelry and clothing being missing. The ing a ream of paper which he had apparently policë, for a reason best known to them stolen from the store-room. He gave the selves, kept the fact of the robbery a secret, alarm ; and · the workmen on duty left the and we were consequently unable to record it. machines, called to the watchman patrolling In acting as they did the police may have been outside of the premises and gare chase to animated by professional motives, but it so ma the thief. -- The latter escaped in the darkness, on the face of it to be a return to their old dropping the ream of paper-which weighed churlishnem-The head boy disappeared the 72 lbs. In the morning it was found that the mame night and has never been seen or heard thieyes had entered from the back premises,of simen Ho is believed to be the thief. The pared through the general office, scaled a chances of catching him now are remote, as it partition thirteen feet high, stolen about $100. | is safe to assume that he has made his way to worth of paper, and had carried it through the Canton or some other part of Chiness territory. | streets under the nome of the police, who are His booty is valued at $1,000, and is principally now.investigating.
made up of jewelry.
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inst., his hands pressed to his left side, and told Inspector McNab that he had been stabbed. His shirt at the side indicated was saturated in blood. He told the inspector after much questioning that he was at a hongo in Upper Albert Road, when a young lady stabbed him with a pocket knife. He failed, however, to give particulars or any reason to account for the stabbing. He was taken in a chair to the Civil Hopital to have his wound knife had been used in self-defence, the musician's examined. It subsequently was stated that the attentions having been decidedly too pressing.- The young Spanish woman who was stabbed by a Filipino in a house in Upper Albert Road on the 9th inst, was stabbed three times in the abdomen, but only one of the wounds is serious, The weapon used was an ordinary pocket knife, with a blade about two inches long. On Thurs- day she was visited at the Government Civil Hospital by a representative of the police, and her depositions were taken. Her assailant is also in the Civil Hospital and is recovering.... from the effects of the imperficial wound in the side.
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H M.8. Dido left the harbour on the'Stk' inst, for Weihsiwei.
The French vrqisor Guiches arrived the 10th ́· inst. at 1 p.m. frote Nagasaki, and the British transport Nevand from Shanghai.
The British_storeship Humber arrived from. Woosung on Thursday morning.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Lieutenant W. B. Hulke, Lincolnshire Regi. ment, is granted the local rank of Captalu whilst employed with the Chinese Regiment.
H.B.M. Consul at Amoy has notified the local authorities that the port is now free from plague and that clean bills of health are being issued there.
A painful accident is reported from Tientuin on the last day of August. A box of friction tubes exploded while being handled by Mr. Bauld, the representative of Mosers. Vickers, Maxim & Co., Ld. He was burnt on the face and hands, and was taken to the Victoria Hospital.
Hêng Shon (Mancku) has been appointed Deputy Assistant Military Governor of Liang- chou, in Kansa provines. This is a very important military, post, as it guards the approaches lending from Chinese Turkestan on the West and Mongolis on the North, futo Kanan provinos. It is considered the second. line of defence against invasion from the went
and north.
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