September 23, 1901.]
M. R. Réan is now in charge of the French! Consulate at Hongkong.
Quarantine on arrivals from Hongkong is now removed at Weihaiwei.
On Friday the French flagship Amiral Chorner arrived from the Pescadores.
The Italian cruiser Stromboli left for Italy on the 13th inst,
The French cruiser Guichen left on the 14th inst. for France. On the 15th inst. the U.S. monitor Monterey arrived from Canton.
The British transport Rajah arrived on the 16th inst. from Shanghai.
On the 17th inst. the British transport Uganda arrived from Taku.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Dr. Davidson has taken up the appointment of Port Health Officer at Singapore.
The Marquis Ito was expected to leave Japan on a visit to the United States on the 18th inst. The agitation in favour of reorganisation of the police force is being carried on onergetically in Tonkin.
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The French Municipal Council at Shanghai has decided to introduce tramways in the French Settlement.
The Pioneer suggests that Mr. Donald Smeaton is the probable Lieutenant-Governor of Burma when "Sir Frederic Fryer retires in May, but no announcement is likely to be made till after the Viceroy's tour.
Capt. Sir Boucher Wrey, of H.M.S. Brisk,
Mr. R. T. Reid, one of the best cricketers in who left for home by the Princess Irene a fort- night ago, is understood to have retired from Singapore, left for home on long leave in the the Navy. Capt. Martin is now in command German mail steamer Prinzess Irene. His departure from Singapore is mourned as a great of the Brisk.
Mlle. Hélène Doumer, daughter of the Gov-loss to the Straits team that is coming up to ernor-General of French Indo-China, was mar-Hongkong. ried to M. Pierre Emery, of the Indo-Chinese Civil Service, at Cap› St. James, on the 7th inst.
On the 18th inst. the British transport Rajah left for Calcutta, and the German gunboat fltis arrived from Canton. The hospital-ship Carthage The Corporation of Portsmouth has ban. arrived on the 17th inst. from Calcutta, andquetted Admiral Seymour, officers and crow of H. M. S. Centurion. The guests included left again on the 19th for Taku.
the Earl of Selborne. First Lord of the Admiralty.
On the 19th inst. the British transports Ugandi and Sumatra left for Calcutta.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Harmston's Circus is now performing in Java, where it has met with a warm reception.
The first American bank to be started in the Philippines will open for business on the 26th inst.
The following appointment has been made at the Admiralty:-Captain R. W. White, to the Ocean, to date 29th August.
The British residents of North Formosa, including naturalised Chinese, have forwarded a subscription amounting to £12. 108. to the Lord Mayor of London for the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund.
The local authorities have received informa- tion from the Portuguese Government that the plague at Macao is considered over and that the normal sanitary conditions of the city being totally restored, all especial measures taken at Macao against the plague have now been suspended.
In the recent interport match between the Foochow and Shanghai Gun Clubs, the former won the cap by 5 points, grassing 72 birds against Shanghais 67. The Ballistite Cup pre- sented by Messrs. Nobel, was shot for by the members of the Shanghai Gun Club on the 8th inst, and won by Mr. W. N. Fleming.
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The Malay Mail says:-There seems to be no progress with the mooted scheme for the regis. tration of domestic servants in Selangor. great bulk of these people being Chinese, any registration would have to be done through the Chinese Protectorate, and it is an open secret that Mr. Hare is opposed to any such scheme.
A marriage will shortly take place. between the Rev. Roland Alleu, chaplain to the Bishop of North Chins, youngest son of the late Rev. Charles Fletcher Allen and author of The Siege of the Peking Legations lately reviewed in these columns, and Mary Beatrice, elder daughter of the late Admiral Sir John Walter Tarleton, K.C.B.
The expenditure of the French Laos for the current year is estimated at $758,640. Of that sum $525,000 will be provided from the general budget of Indo-China. Of the balance, SÏ43,400 will come from direct taxation and 890,260 from the various customs and other dues. The royal treasury of Luang Prabang pays $12.000 for the maintenance of the militia, half the cost of the school and hospital at Luang Prabang, and half the amount by which its receipts exceed its expenditure.
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talk with two officers of Count von Waldersce's staff, just after their return from China. Both were enthusiastic in praise of the English troops in China, and were of opinion that our men are wonderfully disciplined and useful to any emergency. One officer said: Tommy Atkins is always a gentleman and a man of the world. I never imagined such good feeling between officers and men possible." The German officers seemed most impressed by the fine British artillery work, the genuine patriotism of the Indian troops, and the extraordinary hardiness of the naval brigade. We are only amateurs at the game," said one, "and we are obliged to drill
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like children.” Great cordiality, the Germans state, existed between the English and German troops.
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At the American Consular Court, 'Shanghai, on the 10th inst, before John Goodnow, Esq., U. S. Consul-General (Acting Judicially), Ernest Horwitz was brought before the Court on a charge of having embezzled $600 is Hongkong. Defendant had been arrested on a British Consular warrant. No one appeared to prosecute, the duty of the Shanghai police having concluded with the arrest of the accused. His Honour dismissed the case, as there was no prosecution and no complaint had been filed.
We notice that the New American has again changed hands. It is now called the Manila American, and apparently has been taken over
In the House of Commons on the 14th ult., by its present editor and subeditor from the company that bought it about six months ago. during the discussion on the secoud reading of This is about the seventh time this paper has the Naval Works Bill, Mr. Pretyman said that the three great foreign stations which were now changed hands, and the third alteration of name.
A telegram has been received by the Hong-proposed to be dealt with were Gibraltar, Malta koug Government from the Secretary to the and Hongkong, at each of which placas a large Government of India, Home Department, Simla, expenditure was proposed in order to maintain stating that 171 cases and 137 deaths from the large storage necessary. As to Hongkong, plague were reported at Broach Port, Bombay a very great difficulty arose on the outbreak of Pre-idency, between the 13th August and 12th the recent trouble in China owing to there September last.
being an insufficient store of coal. It was proposed to erect coal appliances and a station on the mainland of Kowloon in the situation suggested by the Colony for the extension of the dockyard, and to provide for a storage of at In least 1.000.000 tons in that situation. telegraphing this out, Reuter curiously enough put the storage figures at 100,000 tons onlv.
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Since the arrival in British North Borneo of Mr. Birch as Governor, great interest in sports has arisen. it is said, especially among the officers of the Company. Sandakan bids fair to turn ont really good teams at cricket and football, while Labuan with fewer inhabitants is trying its best to follow in its wake.
It is rumored that there will be a Central F. M. S. Andit Office, having its head quarters in Kuala Lumpur. The office will consist of a large staff, selected from the various Audit It is Offices in the Federated Malay States, also reported that this Central Audit Office will be under the supervision of the Federal Account. ant and Auditor.
Iba Sotaro, the murderer of Mr. Hoshi Toru, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for the crime. Iba Sotaro was himself desirous of having the death sentence passed upon him, but whether he will take the unprecedented course of appealing for a heavier sentence, or whether the Higher Court would accept such appeal, is very doubtful.
Mr. N. Ruchwaldy, the Manager of the Robinson Piano Company's office in Raffles Place, Singapore, committed suicide in the premises of the Company on the 11th inst. It appears that, ourly in the afternoon, Mr. Ruchwaldy, who had moved into rooms over the business premises a few days before and was living there with his wife, was missed for some time, and it was found that the door of a small bath-room on the premises was locked on the inside. Mr. Robinson, who had just recently come down to Singapore connection with the business of the Singapore branch, was
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L'Echo de Chine says that an enquiry has been held into the reported fracas in which: French soldiers were concerned in the Foochow Road, Shanghai. It appears that on the 8th a French corporal passing along the Pakhoi Road wanted a light for his cigar, and sosing a lamp burning in a ground-floor room at No. 169, he went in. An old woman and two young ones were there, and doubting his intentions, they called out for help. Numerous Chinese armed with clubs and iron bars attacked the corporal, who was seriously wounded, but escaped to the International Police Post at 383, Nanking Road. The chief of the post went to the house and everything was settled. The corporal was no- ber, and the whole affair was just such a misun- derstanding as is sure to occur between people ignorant of each other's language. No one has been found deserving of punishment.
The Tientsin correspondent of the Courrier d Haiphong writes as follows:-" The Fronch and English soldiers are always ready to come to blows; the officers of one nation are never saluted by the soldiers, and very rarely by the officers, of the other. The opposite is the case would hardly be satisfied at the relations between between the French and Germans; chauvinists the two nations. There seems nothing either intentional or forced in this grouping of sym- quently a convivial party between French and pathies; it is simply natural, and not infre German soldiers ends in the infliction of s beating on the common enemy of all, the Eng- lish. The latter no longer count their reverses, as in the Transvaal they are getting used to them." For a combination of sheer malice and mendacity this paragraph would be hard to match. We should like to see this precious correspondent sign his name to his effusion; but this would involve the possession of courage, with which even a partie de plaisir with his German friends might fail to inspire him. Anonymity is a great blessing for a certain
sent for and he called in policeman. The door was burst open, and the deceased was found hanging by an inch rope from a oross-bar near the window. He was quite dead and had been dead for a couple of hours, the cause of death being strangula- tion by hanging. The deceased was cut down and a doctor was sont for, but his services were of course useless. The body was taken later in the evening to the mortuary of the General Hospital, where an inquest was held. A verdict of suicide by hanging was given. The deceased was married a short time back, and much sympathy is felt in Singapore for
A Kaifeng despatch states that the city is "It is his wife. A local journal says:
entirely inundated and that the foundations of generally known amongst the friends of the the Imperial Palace, intended for the Court on deceased that for some time back Mr. Rach-arrival there, have been washed away, and that waldy had been in negotiation with the pro- the telegraph poles are washed down. The prietor for the taking over of the Singapore roads to be taken by the Court on their route branch, but owing to an apparent impossibility to the south-east are flooded or very muddy, of arriving at satisfactory terms, Mr. Rach- waldy had been greatly disappointed, and it caused by the incessant rains. The high pro- are doing their best to prepare the roads for is here that the real motive of this sad suicide incial officials are at their wits end, but they is to be looked for."
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