December 7, 1901.]
An organ recital was given in the Union Church on Thursday afternoon by Mr. Geo. Grimble, assisted by Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Madie, and Messrs. Ardron, Goldring, and Sharp. Every seat in the body of the church was occupied, and not a few in the galleries. The recital was a most successful one, and each of the various items included in the programme was rendered in a manner that quite justified the large attendance present.
His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal has been pleased to confer on Mr. J. J. Leiria, who has been connected with the Por- tuguese Consulate General in this Colony for many years, the Knighthood of the Order of Christ. The insignias of the order, u cross and a star, were broug it out from Lisbon by Captain Apra of the l'ortuguese transport Africa. This order has bsan bestowed on Mr. Leiria for gratuitous services rendered to the Portuguese Government at the Consulate.
We regret to have to record the death of an old and much respected Chinese resident of this Colony, in the person of Mr. Chos Chee Bee, who was for over 30 years compradore to the China Sugar Refining Company. The deceased was a Strails-born Chinaman and came to this Colony many years ago. He was noted for his charitable disposition, and was a Justice of the Peace. His illness was of short duration, and he succumbed at the age of 65 years, leaving a large family to mourn his loss.
On Thursday night, the 29th ult., Messrs W. 8. Bailey & Co. launched from their works in Kowloon Bay a steam water and cargo boat, to the order of Messrs. Leopold Spatz & Co., agents for Mr. M. T. Figueras, of Manila. The vessel is fully equipped with powerful pump, sluices, bulkheads, etc., and is designed to carry either water or ordinary cargo. She is propelled by compound surface condensing engines giving a speed of 7 knots per hour, and is intended for service in Manila. The present vessel is a duplicate of one recently built by Mesars Bailey & Co. for another Manila firm.
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A rather serious outbreak of fire occurred
the 30th ult. at 189, Queen's Road West, in premises on the ground and first floors occupied by a dealer in medicines and mis- cellaneous goods. The fire, which spread rapidly, gutting the first two floors and partially destroying the second, was caused through the overheating of a medicine drying stove. The stock of the medicine-dealer was insured for $21,000, and the loss will probably be covered by this sum. The damage to the second floor, where a quantity of jewellery was destroyed, is estimated at $1,400, and is, we are informed, uncovered by insurance.
In view of the success which attended the championship boxing contest held in the City Hall at the beginning of last month, another pugilistic meeting has been arranged to be held on Monday evening next for a purse presented by a club of local gentlemen. A varied programme has already been drawn up, and the different encounters promise to be most inter- esting; whilst, as for the management, it has deservedly secured the complete confidence of the public and may be looked upon to see the matches carried out in a manner satisfactory alike to contestants and spectators. In the middle-weight class, Privates Sandford and H. Warren of the Royal Welch Fusiliers will face each other.
Seaman Howell and Private Howard, R.WF.. feather-weight champion, well meet in a feather-weight encounter; while P. O. Hendrick, champion of Essex, undertakes to stop "Sailor" Smith, who won the light and middle-weight cham- pionships of the Colony about year ago, in six rounds, for a stake of $300. In addition to the aboye, there is offered for com- petition by Mr. Lacook, of the Bay View Hotel,
■ handsome silver oup. With all these items on the programme, the success of the venture nosūřed.
H.M.SS. Endymion and Waterigitch left on the 2nd inst. for Mirs Bay.
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The fleet of six Italian men-of-war, including the flagship of the Italian Admiral steamed out of the Lyeemun Pass at 2 p.m. on the 2nd inst. The U.S. battleship Kentucky left for Amoy on the 3rd inst.
H.M,8. Orlando arrived on the 4th inst. from Shanghai,
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT:
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Joseph Hein (Straits Settlements) har been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonia Institute,
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M. Edouard Huber, attaché of the French School of the Far East, has been charged with a mission of exploration in Southern hina.
The Matin states that the total casualties of the French force during the China expedition were 433 men, including 53 killed and eight died from wounds.
The London Gazette announces:-The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr. John Charles Edward Douglas, to be Registrar of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Cores.
Capt. Tillard, R.N., who was recently out on this station in command of H.M.8. Dido, is the step-father of young Lieutenant Cecil, who married Miss Jesse Bain the other day under romantic conditions.
A home paper learns that Mr. Tan Jiak Kim, who recently left London after his visit to England with his father, is engaged to be married to the second daughter of the Chinese Minister in London, H.E. Lo Feng-lu.
A Seoul despatch dated the 20th alt, says that Mr. Hayashi, Japanese Minister, has lodged an application with the Corean Government, requesting the construction of branch offices of the Seoul-Fusan telegraph at various important points on the southern coast.
proclamation of the Shanghai mandarins has been issued informing the public that orders have been received from Governor Nieh, of Soochow, to introduce into Shanghai, in the near future, copper ten-cash pieces (Tang-shih- Socchow. These ten-cash, or cent pieces have ta'ien), now being coined in the cash mint at already been introduced into circulation at Canton and Wuchang, with varying success, and the people in Shanghai have also been informed that they are to be allowed to use these ten-cash pieces, in the proportion of one half ordinary cash and one-half ter -cash pieces, in paying land taxes and lekin duties.
FI. M. the King held a special Court of Investiture at St. James's Palace at noon on the 29th October. Amongst the recipients of Orders were many who had taken part in actions in South Africa and China. General Sir A. Gaselee was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Indian Empire, and Brigadier-General Reid was made Knight Commander of the Bath. The Distinguished Service Order was conferred upon the following officers who had taken part in the China campaign: Major J. Philipps, Indian Staff Corps, Captain C.P.G. Griffin, Indian Staff Corps; Captain E. C. Rowcroft, Indian Staff Corps; and Lieutenant F. J. Walwyn, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
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The French transport Nive is on her way from the North with the last of the French
roops returning home from China.
The Hamburg-Amerika Linie stenmor Savia, specially built for the Pacific, and hitherto .sed as an ambulance-ship for the German 'hina Expedition, will open the new German line from Hongkong to Japan and Vladivos. tock. This line, by means of ice breakers, will run all the year round, it is said, and is expected to run all through the winter of 1902 and thereafter.
A report from Changsha, the capital of Hunan, states that, with reference to the new Settlement the Japanese Government is going to establish in that city, the regulations have been mutually agreed upon between the Japanese authorities and Governor Yu Lien-san of Hunan, and that arrangements are being pre- pared to commence work in the new concession early next spring.
According to more than one of the Paris journals the French. Government is still considering the selection of a successor to M. Doumer, Governor-General of Indo-China, whose return home in February may be regard- ed as certain. He intends again to take up his Parliamentary life. The candidates recently put forward (we have recently mentioned their names) are said to have been rejected, and it is believed that the Government intends to send to Indo-China a diplomatist who has held a bigh position in the Far East, and who is with Indo-Chinese thoroughly conversant
Whatever decision is taken, it is affairs. probable that the decree of April 21, 1891, Gvernor-General considerable giving the powers, will be modified.
in the Straits Times:- It is seldom that the
The following is from the "F.M.S. Notes' visit of a team from one place to another has the misfortune to end with such a fiasco as that which terminated the visit of the Selangorites to Negri Sembilan last week. Least said, soonest mended; the last half of the old proverb, however, cannot be applied to the billiard table at the Club in Seremban, (where these gentle- men dined the last day of their stay), for it is irreparably broken. Unless the cost of repair- ing the damage is shared amongst all those who were the cause of it, the expense is likely to fall unpleasantly heavily upon the members of the Club, who are comparatively few in number, and many of them could have no sympathy with, or in any way enjoy, the havoc usually made by a "bull in a China shop."
The following diplomatic appointments are announced:-Mr. J. B. Whitehead, Secretary of Legation at Tokyo, to be Secretary of Legation at Brussels; Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart., Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro, to be Secretary of Legation at Tokyo; and Mr. H.E. Chang Te-yi, formerly First-class W. Beaupré Townley, Second Secretary at Secretary of the Tsungli Yamên and ex-Tutor Rome, to be Secretary of Legation at Peking, in English to the Emperor Kwang Hsu, and Of the two new nominees to ports in the now appointed Minister to Great Britain is Far East, Sir Brooke Boothby was nominated (says the Y.-C. Daily News) a proficient in the an Attaché in 1881, and passed a competitive English language, having for several years examination early in 1882, another in Public before been an Attaché of the Chinese Legation Law a year later. That year, 1883, he was in London. When H.E. returned from abroad appointed to Athens, and promoted to be a in 1897 he was appointed to the Tsangli Yamên, Third Secretary in 1884. he was transferred and in the autumn of the same year, previous to Brussels the same year, to Lisbon in 1886, He was promoted to the famous year of the Reform Edicts of and to Rome, July 16, 1887. H.I.M. Kwang Heu (1898) became English to be a Second Secretary in 1888; and trans tutor to his Majesty who, at the same time, also ferred to Vienna, 1889, to Lisbon 1894, and to as Chargé took up studies in French under a Manchu Munich 1895, where he acted colleague of H.E, in the Tsungli Yamên. Sub-d'Affaires on two occasions. He was transferred sequently (spring of 1898), owing to want of to Paris at the end of 1896, where he also acted time, his Majesty, who was then be inning to as Chargé d'Affaires for a few days. In 1898 be fully occupied with his schemes of reform, he was promoted to be Secretary of Legation at had to be given up temporarily both English Rio de Janeiro, whence he is now transferred to and French lessons. This may have been Tokyo. Mr. Walter Beaupré Townley, the new somewhat fortunate to H.E. Chang Tê-yi, for Secretary at Peking in succession to Mr. Tower, when the storm burst in September of that was nominated an Attaché in 1885, passing a year, that official passed through unscathed. competitive examination the same year, and The latest official work done by the new Minis-being appointed to Paris the following year. ter was under Frince Ching during the peace He passed an examination in Public Law in negotiations last year and this. H.E. acted 1889, and was promoted to be a Third Secretary, throughout as Confidential Secretary and Ad- 1887. He was transferred to Teheran in 1889, viser to the Prince, who has rewarded his and obtained an allowance for knowledge of henchman by strongly recommending and Persian in 1890. He was transferred to Paris obtaining for him from the Throne H.E.'s new 1892, and promoted to be a Second Secre- tary the same year. Thence he went to Bu- post With H.E.'s well-known courteousness and suavity, coupled with a good knowledge of charest 1894, where he acted as Chargé d'Affaires, and again to Paris towards the end of the year. English and acquaintance with Western cus- toms and manners, there is no doubt but that He was transferred to Lisbon in 1897, to Berlin H.E. will be just as popular in England as his in 1898, and to Rome a year later, whence he
roessds to Peking. predecessor.
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