October 21, 1901.]
Mr. G. J. W. King has been appointed Acting Assessor, during the absence of Mr. D. Wood: and Mr. W. A. Crake, Acting Government Marine Surveyor, during the absence of Mr. R. C. Dixon.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week showed that .327 non-Chinese and 161 Chinese visited the former institution, 156 non-Chinese and 2,132 Chinese the latter.
The only cases of communicable disease notified as occurring in the Colony last week were two of enteric fever, one in Victoria and the other on H.M.S. Tamar, the latter patient being an European. One case proved fatal.
In the early hours of the 15th inst. a steam-launch belonging to Messrs. Watkins, Limited, was struck by a squall while moored in Hunghom Bay, and foundered. The crew were saved by another launch moored close at hand. The launch had on board a large cargo at the time, but the loss, it is understood, is fully covered by insurance.
The Football Shield Committee met on the 14th inst. and decided that entries for this season's competition must be sent in ou or before the 29th November next. Six-a side football matches were played on each day of last week excepting Saturday. The tie on the 15th inst. between Lowe and ring resulted in a draw-nothing all.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The resurrected dredger Canton River has, we hear, been bought by the United States Government for use in Manila harbour.
During the quarter ending the 30th September the samples examined under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance were six of whisky and one of milk. The milk alone was found to be adulterated.
The boxing match between Bentley and Phillips is likely to come off at the Theatre Royal uext month, and a fine contest is looked forward to by local amateurs. The number of rounds, we believe, is likely to be fixed at 20.
We were informed on the 14th inst. from the Colonial Secretary's Office that the Govern- ment of Indo-China has removed all restrictions against vessels arrived from Hongkong. The Chamber of Commerce and Messrs. Lamke and Rogge informed us to the same effect.
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In Amoy harbour on the 14th inst. there were two British and two Japanese warships- H.M S. Astraea and Albion, and the Japanese cruisers Talsuta and Suma.
The Corean Customs have engaged three Japanese graduates of the High Commercial School to serve in the capacity of clerks. This idea is said to have originated with Mr. Mc- Leavy Brown, but it is thought probable that Mr. Gubbins had much to say to it.
The Japanese authorities state that as a result of negotiations on the Honolulu quaran- tine affair with the United States Government, the Japanese Government has accepted the apologies tendered by the Hawaiian quarantine officer and agreed to regard the matter as closed upon the appointment of some lady doctors as quarantine officers at Honolulu.
According to advices from Vladivostock last The German mail steamer Humburg, which month, the work of construction on the Man- delayed her departure on Wednesday owing to churian line is being so actively pushed forward. the threatened typhoon, sailed south early that the rails have already been laid from the on the 17th inst. By her there travelled, on north-west line towards Port Arthur. A large their way home to England. Sir J. W. Car-quantity of material is being transported for. rington, C.M.G., and his daughter. The wishes use in laying the western line, of which there of the Colony for a pleasant and not too eventful only remains a distance of less than 300 voyage go with them.
kilomètres to lay down. It is hoped that the junction of this line with the Siberian line will shortly be effected.
By the death at 430 p.m., on Wednesday, the 16th inst. of Mr. A. G. Aitken, of the Hong- Gold-kong and Whampoa Dock Co., the Colony loses The Ostusintische Lloyd'states that the Ger- yet another of its old residents, and one widely man community at Shanghai contemplates known and respected in Hongkong and its forming a German Concert Society, which will neighbourhood. Mr. Aitken first knew the give three annual concerts, at which only the Colony as a foreman engineer in the employ of best productions of the great masters will be the P. & O. S. N. Côt, subsequently joining he given, and thereby show that the Germans at Dock Co., in 1876, in the capacity of harbour Shanghai are both able and willing to contribute foreman, as which he has done invaluable work. as much toward the promotion of social life in Last year he left Hongkong on sick-leave, only the international colony as the English and returning hither on the 1st inst. He had not. French have been doing with their Amateur however, recovered, and his loss is now generally Dramatic Club and Societé Dramatique Fran- mourned, by none more than by his fellowçaise. Scots-for he was Edinburgh-born and a well- known member of the local St. Andrew's Society. The funeral took place yesterday at 5 p.m. Much sympathy is felt for his widow and family.
In view of the many enquiries made with re- gard to the new rickshas in the Colony, we may state that they are on exactly the same footing as the old. In fact, they are "first-class" only in so far as they are better-fitted vehicles. Coal-coolies, etc., are quite entitled to use them, so that we have yet to wait for the first-class rickshas which were spoken about last year.
At a special meeting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace on the 15th inst. at the Magis- tracy, when Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Police Magis- trate, presided, and there were present Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Acting Police Magistrate, Mr. C. A.D. Melbourne, Chief Clerk at the Magistracy, and Mr. H. P. Tooker, an application by Mr. H. Ruttonjee for a publican's licence for the "Queen's Hotel," Elgin Road, Kowloon, was granted unanimously,
The following returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th September, 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 thina, Limited
Average Specie in Amount. Reserve.
$
$ 2,829,843 1,600,000
7,922,633 5,000,000 439,431 150.000
Total............ $11,191,907 6,750,000 The funeral took place at Happy Valley on the 15th inst. of Captain A. W. R. Cobban, who died during Sunday night or Mon day morning in his house at No. 11, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon. The deceased complained of feeling unwell on Sunday afternoon, and went to bed about six o'clock. In the morning he was found to be dead. The body was re- moved to the public mortuary on Monday, and a post-mortem examination showed that death was due to apoplexy. To heighten the sadness of the event, Mrs. Cobban died four days later at the Peak Hospital. The double tragedy has evoked much sympathy.
Mr. de Giers, the Russian Minister at Peking, and his wife and family were passengers by the 8.8. Hamburg which arrived the 15th inst. He is on his way to Munich, to which place he has been transferred. An unpleasant incident occurred in connection with his visit to the Colony. He landed from the ferry with two of his sons, and the chair-coolies-as usual in this well-regulated place- rushed to the passengers, and secured one of the boys as a fare, and in the turmoil went off with him and were speedily out of sight. The lad was soon missed, but some time elapsed before he was found, having been carried beyond the General Hospital where the coolies dropped him and demanded money. Having none, they turned him over to a ricksha coolie, who was found with him in Queen's Road West. We wonder what our visitors think of the admirable police system which prevails in regard to chair and ricksha traffic in this
olony?
The U.S. monitor Monadnock arrived on the evening of the 11th inst. from Shanghai.
Among the noticeable items of outlay in the Straits Settlements Estimates for 1902 are, in Singapore. $10,213 for contribution to the London Queen Victoria Memorial; survey of Singapore (on a $20,400 estimate), $50.160; addition to Central Police Station, $50,000; erection of Court of Requests, $20,000; raising On Saturday, 12th inst., the British hospital. of Elgin Bridge. $30,000; harbour improve- ship Carthage left for Bumbay and the U.S.ments (preliminary vote) $100,000; One Fathom monitor Monterey for Shanghai. On the 13th Bank Light $60,000; reclamation and mole inst. the British transport Pentakota arrived near Post Office, $65,000; residences for Gov- from Calcutta, and the French cruiser Styzernment Officers. $40,0 10. Other large items from Canton.
are: Extension of Penang Government Offices, $30,000 (on an estimate of $50,0001, Penang reclamation $117,000: new Residency at Malacca $25,000.
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The French transport Nive arrived on the 15th inst, from Taku, and the British transport Pentakota left for Taku.
The British cruiser Endymion arrived in the harbour on the 16th inst from Yokohama and the U.S. monitor Monadnock left for Canton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
H.M.S. Alterity, with Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge on board, was at Kinkiang on the 6th inst.
Mr. Hugh Clifford, C.M.G., British Re- sident, Pahang, appointed to act as British Resident. Selangor, assumed the duties of his appointment on the 1st inst.
The Tientsin Autumn Race Meeting will be he'd on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th November. Seven races are arranged for each day. 17 of which are for China ponies only, according to the programme.
Pulo Way continues to be more and more frequented by large vessels, but the authorities are said to show little enterprise in taking advantage of this, and not much is being done to develop the island.
The agents of Smith, Bell & Co. and War. ner Barnes & Co., the two largest British firms in Manila. have been ordered by the military authorities to leave the Island of Samar, says The true significance of the Manila Critic. the order has not yet appeared, although it is probably to give a clear field for an active cam- paign against the insurgents.
The charges of assault preferred by a Mrs. Frances Carroll against a boy employed at the Yokohama Station restaurant and & Japanese police uan, the alleged details of which were reported some time ago, has been dismissed by the Japanese Public Procurator on the ground of insufficient evidence. This case was made very much of in some of the English papers in Japan,
A Tacoma despatch of the 7th ult. says:- The Chinese employed in various capacities in the Canadian Pacific steamship Hating have given notice that they will quit their present employment as speedily as possible, in conse- quence of the Islander wreck. Some of their countrymen were drowned of that vessel, and the Chinese have gained the idea that in case of an accident they will not be given an equal chance for their lives with white men. The cook of the Huting informed Captain Gosse that his brother-in-law, who was a cook on the Islander, was shamefully treated when he tried to save himself. He was thrown off the life raft three times, and saved his life only by clinging desperately to it after getting aboard the fourth time. Two of the Hating Chinese employees left her at Skagway, and others will leave as fast as their places are filled.
outh.
The following telegram was received by Chinese officials in Shanghai on the 7th inst.:-- The Empress Dowager and Emperor left Hsian this morning at bont 9 o'clock by the gate, and passing en route the Pa Hsienngan, or Temple of the Eight Genii, in the Eastern suburbs or carriers. Their Majesties alighted from their conveyances and offered incense to the Genii [praying for a prosperous journey on the road]. Having done this, their Majesties continued the journey, and passed the night at Tungkuan-a city standing at the apex of the triangle formed by the frontiers of the three provinces of Shensi, Honan and Shansi. set at rest any doubts as to the present ultimate destination of the Imporial Court it is necessary to state that it is bunnd for Kaifeng, where a stay of a least six months will be made by the Empress Dowager-perhaps much longer- while the Emperor will remain at least until the end of November before any more can be made for any other place.
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