January 27, 1902.]
Wreaths were sent, amongst others, by Major- General Sir William Gascoigne, C.M.G., Acting Governor; the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary; Lieut. A. Blake, "on behalf of Sir Henry A. Blake"; the Officers and Brethren of the United Mark Lodge, 419, E.C.; Officers and Brethren United Chapter, 1,34; Officers and Brethren Ararat Lodge, 264, E.C Postal Staff, General Post Office; Bishop and Mrs. Hoare, Colonel and Miss Barr. Dr. and Mrs. Swan, Superintendent and Staff P. & O. S. N. Company, etc.
Captain Hastings's grave is next to that of his son, whose death about three years ago came as a very severe blow to the deceased.
A BACTERIOLOGIST FOR HONGKONG,
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT,
THE ATTACK ON THE
NANNING."
T
HONOURS FOR THE CHINA EXPEDITION.
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We learn from semi-official sources that the
The King has given orders for the following investigations made by the British gunboat appointment to the Order of the Bath and for Robin regarding the alleged attack by Chinese the following appointments to the Distinguished soldiers upon the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Service Order, in recognition of services during Steamship Co.'s s.s. Nanning on the West River, the operations in hina, these rewards to bear on the 13th current, have not, happily, tended date of Nov. 29, 1900:-To be Companion of to encourage the justifiably serious view which the Bath: Major and Brevet Colonel James was taken of the affair when the news first Moncrieff Grierson, M.V.O., Royal Artillery. came to hand. The attendant circumstances To be Companions of the D.S.O.: Capt. will no doubt be fresh in the public memory, Herbert Campbell Holman, Indian Staff; but may be briefly recalled. On the morning Lieut. Stewart Gordon Loch, R.E.; Lieut. of the day indicated. the Nanning was in a trip Henry Edward Colvin Cowie, R.E.; Lieut, up the West River from Canton, having on
James Darid Stirling. Indian Staff; Lieut. board four European passengers, namely, Rev. James Macpherson, Indian Staff; and Lieut. F. J. Hardy, M.A., Chaplain to the Forces; Herbert Armstrong Williams. Indian Medical. Rev. C. E. L. Cowan. (hiplain, H.M S. Glory; A number of promotions in the army are also A home contemporary understands that the. Dr. R. Macdonald, of the Wesleyan Mission;
gazetted. To be Colonel: Major and Brevet- Colonial Office has appointed Dr. William and Mr. Fabian, an employé of the Imperial Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. L. Macdonald, C.I.E., Hunter, of Aberdeen, to be Government Customs. Shortly after mid-day, the passen- Royal Engineers. To be Lient.-Colonels: Major bacteriologist to this Colony. Dr. Hunter,gers' attention was called to the presence on the
A. L. M. Turner, Royal Artillery; Major F. W. who is the eldest son of the late Rev. William bank of a large body of Chinese soldiers, who, P. Angelo, Indian Staff Corps; Major A. Hunter, minister of Macduff, is but 26 years according to the evidence of those on board Phayre, Indian Staff Corps; Major T. F. B.
seemed to be having a field day or to be going Renny-Tailyour, Royal Engineers. of and has had a most distinguished career
age, says the journal from which we are quoting through manoeuvres of some kind. There were
Majors: Captain W. M. Watson, the Duke remarks. He received his early education at certainly no indications of hostility on the part of "Wellington's (West Riding Regiment); Macduff Public School and Milne's Institution, of the soldiers toward the Nanning, yet when Captain (now Major) J. M. Stewart, Indian Fochabers. Graduating M.B., C.M., at Aber she drew-opposite them, a number of shots were
Staff Corps; Captain (now Major)_H. Hudson, deen University in 1886 with academical fired, aud Mr. Cowan was hit in the leg, while Indian Staff Corps; Captain R. B. Low, honours, Dr. Hunter, during his undergraduate Mr. Fabian had his clothing cut by a spent D.S.O., Indian staff Corps; Captain G. H. G, career, received honours certificates in all his bullet. The Nonning afterwards fell in with Mockler, Indian Staff Corps; Captain D. R. classes, and was medallist in pathology and the British gunboats Robin and Sandpiper and Adye, Indian Staff Corps. Major C. C. bacteriology, physiology, histology, surgery, reported the affair. Mr Cowan and Mr. Hardy | Manifold, Indian Medical, to be Lieutenant- materia medica, forensic medicine, and biology. returned to Hongkong on the last named boat, Colonel. He was awarded the Dr. James Anderson and the. Robin proceeded to the sceno of the Medal and Scholarship for clinical medicine supposed ontrage to investigate. and gained the Joha Murray Medal and Scholarship, which is awarded to the most distinguished graduate of the year. For a time he acted as junior assis ant to Professor Hamilton, but in 1897 received the George Thompson Travelling Fellowship, and proceed ed to the Continent, where he studied in the medical schools of Leipzig and Berlin, undor such men as Professors Birch-Hirschfeld, Flechsig, Hertwing, Langerhaus, and Virchow. Returning to Britain, Dr. Hunter went to London, were he noted as clinical assistant to Professor Ferrier, and pursued his researeh work under the latter and Dr. W. Aldren Turnor. In July, 1899, he received the ap- pointment of assistant bacteriologist to the London Hospital, under Dr. William Bulloch, which he has since held. During his stay in London, Dr. Hunter has compiled number of important
contributions medical literature. Among his certificates, our contemporary records, are those of Professor Ferrier, King's College London; Professor R. W. Reid, F.R.C.S.; Professor Cash, F.R C.S.; Dr. G. Lenthal Cheatle, F.R,C.S., late consult. ing surgeon to H.M. Forces in South Africa; Dr. Leonard Hill, F.R S., Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons; Dr. W. Aldren Turner, King's College, London; Dr. William Bulloch, London, and others.
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Dr. Hunter was expected to leave home about the middle of the current month for Hongkong.
The location of the new U.S. military prison in the Philippines has been decided upon, and the island of Maligi has been chosen. Maligi is located in Lagana de Bay, near the island of Talim. General Bell was perfectly satisfied with the island on his recent visit there, believ ing that it was in every way adapted for the
purpose.
The King has conferred the decoration of the Royal Red Cross upou the undermentioned After having been fired upon, the Nanning nursing sisters, in recognition of their services passed three Chinese gunboats, laden with sol- to the sick and wounded during the operations diers, steaming toward the place where the affair in China: Miss Agnes Mary Waterbonse and had happened. When the Robin arrived there she Miss Marian Jeannette Hislop. The King has found a number of soldiers making preparations also approved of the grant of the medal for to attack a 1 rge piratical junk said to be in the distinguished condnet in the field to the neighbourhood. Enquiry among these elicited undermentioned non-commissioned officers in the statement that the shots which struck the recognition of their gallant conduct during Nanning were not fired by the soldiers, but by the operations in China: Colour-Sergeant R. pirates with whom they were then fighting and Ruxdon, Coldstream Guards, and Quarter- who doubtless mistook the Nanning for a gun-master-Sergeant E. Brooke, the Duke of boat coming to assist in attacking them. If the shots did come from the soldiers, then they were not intentionally aimed at her, but hit her simply became she happened to come into the Such was the story told by the line of fire. Chinese officers. They pointed out, too, that the shot which injured Mr. Cowan must have come from a distance of 1,000 or even 1,500 yards to have een so much spent as it was at the point of impact.
The commander of the Robin was afterwards asked to tow the soldiers toward the junk upon which they meditated the attack. The British officer readily consented to take the craft in which the soldiers were in tow, but at the last moment the Chinese declined to venture a conflict on the pretence that their guns were not large enough to tackle the pirate. Leaving them behind, the Robin went on alone to the place where the junk was said to have been, only to find that she had sailed away fourteen hours previously and had doubtless gained the
coast
The Chinese on the West River state that a piratical combination on a considerable scale feared in these waters, as overt threats to that effect have been thrown out of late.
At the dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce, British commercial interests in Japan were discussed. Baron Hayashi, Japanese Minister in London speaking thereon, expressed appreciation of the great interest British manufacturers took in Japanese trade.
Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), both attached to the Chinese Regiment of Infantry. The King has appointed Major Henry Edward Fane Goold. Adams, R.A., to be C.M.G., also for services in China.
It will be noted that Major and Brevet Lient.-Colonel J. R. L. Macdonald, of Uganda fame, has been promoted to the rank of full Colonel for his services with the expeditionary column. Colonel Macdonald is an engineer officer, and made the original survey for the Mombasa-Victoria Nyanza Railway. He will be remembered for his long struggle with the Soudaneso rebels in Uganda.
"BYGDO" IN
FIRE ON THE
HARBOUR.
On the 21st inst. fire broke out on board
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the Norwegian steamer Bygd, lying in the Harbour at the Austrian Lloyd Company's an- chorage. The Bygdo had taken in all her cargo, and the passengers were being passed by the police preparatory to the vessel's departure for Singapore, which was to have taken place almost immediately, when a sudden cry of "Fire raised. Hasty enquiry on the part of the ship's officers, who were at the time ou deck, elicited the information that, following almost imme- diately on the explosion of a naphtha lamp in the engine-room, smoke had been seen issuing miscellaneous The Labuan and North Borneo corres-
from the after-hold, where a pondent of the Singapore Free Press writes:-
cargo, including in large part "joss-sticks' and matting, was stored. The ship's fire- pumps Labuan begins the New Year with a very
were at once rigged up, and simultaneously a long face. Heavy taxes are imposed on wine, spirits and tobacoo. We remember that when
distress signal was hoisted at the mast-head. Governor Beaufort reduced these taxes, he had
When the Government floating engine arrived to obtain the permission of the Colonial Secre-Hai-ho Improvement Commission is taking half-an-hour later, those on board had succeededin tary. Has Mr. thamberlain been consulted in preliminary steps to deal with the Bar question. extinguishing the outbreak in the engine-room, the present case ? All classes and races have We understand that applications have been which had been set on fire by the explosion of somewhat to say to him on the subject. Is addressed to the British and Russian Admirals the naphtha lamp. The firemen on the floating there any
why Labuan, a reason
to secure their co-operation in a comprehensive engine at once directed their attention to the Colony, should be taxed to pay for a railway marine surrey of the whole debonchement of after-hold, the donse smoke from which told its that starts nowhere, goes nowhere, is con- the Ilai-ho. It is by netion like this that the own tale. Holes were cut in the deck to facilitate rivers and getting | T.P.G proves that it is ever on the alert to do the subjugation of the flames, and whilst tinually floating down
titemen
work their this lost in swamps ? What is Labuan to get good work, and that it is in splendid contrast the
were augmented considerably by in exchange for the "whiskey_money"? to the supine Chinese Government which numbers
the arrival of parties of bluejackets from Good administration, good roads? Perhaps. required to be goaded into beneficial action.
Crown
The P. & T. Times says:-The Tientsin Provisional Government in collusion with the
were
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