January 12, 1903.]
The New Year has brought with it a rise in the price of almost everything in the Co ony,
! so far, at least, as foodstuffs and 'qui's are concerned. The low dollar is blame.
Cu the 29th ult. P. C. Counsell is to be presented with the Balilios Medal and $25 and the Royal Humane Socisty's Medal for saving life in the harbour during a recent typhoon, and on the 2nd inst. h rehearsal parade was held at the Central P.lice station. It is notified in the Guzette that A E. the Governor has appointed Colonel W. E. Webb, M.D., RA.M.C., Principal Medical Officer of the Troops, to to a member of the Sanitary Board in place of Colonel Hughes, R.A.M C., resigned.
A coolis has been admitted to the Tung Wa Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, caused by a fall down a thirty-foot flight of stops whilst engaged in building work in Brilges Street on the 2nd inst. Angive boy who fell out of a first-floor window at Yaumati ou the samo night, and who sustained severe injuries was sent to the Government Civil Hospit. I.
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A ship's boat, belonging, we are informed, to H.M.S. Glory, was capsized wh le under sail the 2nd inst., about 3 o'clock, in the Harbour opposite the Kowloo1 Ducks. A choppy sea was rauning at the time and a gasty wind prevailed. All the occupants of the boat were thrown into the water. Luckily they were able to keep themselves afloat until they were picked up, the rescue, being effected by several boats which were in the neighbour. hood.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
H M. 8. Albion returned from a cruise on New Year's Day.
Mr. F. D. Baretto has been recognised as Vice- onsul for Mexico in Hongkong, in succession to the late Mr. A. J. Do Rosario.
Police Sergeants A. C. Langley and W. Cameron bare bee appointed Inspectors of Nuisances at Aberdeen and Stanley respectively, with effect from the 20th alt.
diseases in
The return of communicable Hongkong daring the week ending 3rd inst. was to cases of plague (Chinese), both fatal, and one case of enteric fever (Japanese), fatal
The police reported on the 8th inst that an ex- plosion of dynamite bombs occurred on Wednesday in a house at 33, Wongkoktsui, in the Yaumati distrist, damaging the premises but injuring no oue
The A.D C. has abandoned its idea of staging the musical com dy His Excellency, but will put on His Excelency the Governor-a comedy which has been played hero by the Dallas Company--next month. We believe that the impossibility of getting the Theatre Royal for a long enough period to rehearse for the musical piece led to the abandonment of His Excellency-which, it may Le remembered, was the piece in rehearsal at the time of the late Queen's death and was then dropped on acconut of the general monrning.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
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The Imperial authorities are thinking of engaging a foreign architect for the new Peking University building.
Foreign boots, hats, and other articles of clothing have been ordered at Tientsin for Peking officials,
Dr. T. Masso and Mr. J. Stewart Black have
Siam, the final Court of Appeal. ben appointed Judges of the “Dika Court,”
The China Navigation Compny, Limited (Messis. Butterfield & Swire, agenta), advertico reduced passage rates to Manila. saloon passage costs $20, and a retnru 835,
A single
Saughai Bank on the Kobe Bund were open d The new premises of the Hongkong and
with much ceremony on the 22nd ult,, Mr. J. C, Hall, H.F.M. Consul, making a speech which was responded to by the Manager Mr. R. Home Cook.
An Army Order announces, that the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers being permitted to bear the distinction “Peking, 19.0," upon the regi- mental colours, in recognition of services ron- dered in North China.
No mail matter can at present. be sent from Japan vid Siberia. It appears that some time ago the Japanese Department of Communicá. tions received official notics from the Russian Administration to the effect that muils would not be conveyed by the Trans-Siberian route. Formerly, though regular mails were not des- patched from Kobe letters bearing" Við Siberia" were accepted and forwarded to Port Arthur; but now even this cannot be done.
At the Supreme Court on the 8th inst.-His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir William M. Goodman presiding-Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mr. C. D. Wilkinson), made application that Mr. C. E. Hartnell Beavis, B.A. (Oxon), a solicitor of th Supreme Court of Ju- dicature in England, be admitted to practice as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hongkong. The Director of Sicawei Observatory, Shang- His Lordship granted the application and wished hai, notifies as that on January 1st, 1903, and Mr. Bovis success in his career in the Colosy, after, the time-bill, in Shanghai harbɔur, Mr. Beavis joins the offics of Mosers. Wilkin-French Settlement, will be dropped at noon of
The Government have grauted the use of the Sanitary Board offices at 56, Hollywood Road to the sanitary staff for the purposes of a read- ing-room and library, Books of a kind to be nseful to the members of the stiff in their work will be supplied, and there will be a sabscription of $5 a-head per annum to get suitable perio-son & Grist, solicitors. dical li'erature from home. The use of the
rooms is granted for three months, but this time wil te extended if it is found that the place is properly taken edvintage of. Of this
there can be little doubt as the need for such an institution bas made itself felt among the staff of the Sanitary Bard. A working com- mitt.e has been appointed to set the scheme agoing.
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The master of a fishing junk and two of his crew arrived in Hongkong from Macao on the 5th inst. and told the police a sad tale of shipwreck. While their filing-junk, a boat of about 40 picu's, was sailing off Phtoi, on the
other side of the island, about 9 o'clock, on the
In connection with the fatal house collapse at 43, Praya East during the t.phoon of 2ud August last, when thirteen Chinese were killed, and the magisterial enquiry into which ended in a verdict by the jury of criminal negligence on the part of the architects, Messrs. Leigh & Orange, and the contractor, Mau Wo, all three of whom were committed to trial for min. slaughter, the Attorney-General, Sir Henry S. Berkeley, K.C., acting in the capacity of a g and jury, has decided not to file an indict- ment against the parties
follard's Lilliputian Opera Compary's season hare has been changed som whst. It has now been definitely decided that the company will
perform in Hongkong for a short season of February, wolara. The first production will two weeks only, opening on or about the 3rd be The Le'lef New York, in which the clever artists scored such a phenominal success in America-end here, we may add. Paul Jones, La Mascotte, l'inofore, Gaiety Girl, &c., will follow in quick succession. We hear on good authority that the company brings a full
the 16th international time-zone (Chiua east time), c., 5 minutes 56 s conds 7 tenths later than formerly. This time has already been legalised in the Philippines ant differs exactly by one hour from Japan standard time. Å previous signal will be given 5 minutes before
noon.
In a recent report on the trade of the Regency of Tunis, the British Consul-General states that the consumption of tea is small and the day is high. The natives consume a certain amount of green tea, but the use of tea among the Europeans is growing rapidly, "Fire o'clock tea is becoming common. At present the French know little of other than China teas at a very high price, 5 francs per half kilo. 38. 74d. per lb. English being the usual retail quotation. A development in this trade seen.s wall within the reach of ordinary effort and attention on the part of sellers.
night of 3).h Decemler, she was run into by a big junk and capsized. The master and his crew of four were thrown into the water, but managed to get hold of their upthined craft, to which they clung deperately. Meanwlio the big juu had sa led on into the darkness without attempting to rescue the unfortunate people of the smaler boat. The held on to the ultom of the capsized junk for about six hours before being picked up, and when at 3 o'clock next morning a fishing-boat|bove along. / Filipino ope, atic orchestru. This will, if pos- declared to be plague. sile two of the numer were found to be missing, having been washed off by the heary s a which was inaning The three survivors were taken to Macao and reached Hongkong as described. Their boat was picked
up at Aplichan,
Mr. Droeza, Con: u-General in Houg ong for the Netherlands wii es to inform is that the Governor-General of Netherlands India has decreed that "all ships or vessels arriving from Hongkong or having called at this port are subject in Netherlands-India to a quarantine of ten days from the date of departure from this port or since the last case of plague on b ard, Imp art to is temporarily prohibited of auim 1 refus, olaws and houfs, animal or human hair, bristles, hides which are uḍtunnel and which are salted or cured with arsenic, raw wool, rags and bags or sacks which bave already been used, e miog from long ong or tran- shippe at this part. As it is temporarily prohibited to impo.t from Hongkong i to Netherlands-India tapestry and used brideries unless they are transported as proual ggage or in consence of chauge of residence." A Govern nent Notification was also is-u don the 8th inst. stating that telegraphic in- formation had been received from H.B.M. Coc- sul at Batavia of Hongkong being declared plague-infec ed,
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sible, add more to the Li liputians' popularity.
Hongkong people's experience of entertain- ments of the cinematogrphic kind hasduring the past year or so been such that it is little wouder if they regard them with a doubting eye and their hands tightly clasped on the dollars, but after all it is a mistake to it recentment prevail when such n good show is come amongst us us that which was given on the Eth ins'. in the Theatre Royal. The proprietary juter st belongs to Mr. T. J. Stevenson, a gentleman who has been associated with the business since its invention and who understands it from top to bottom. In North Chins the entertainment was receiv d well whetorer Mr. Stevenson went. udging from last night's reception is bids fair to have an equally favourable season here. The instrument is
st-class on,
and the pic'nres which it threw on the s reen were clar and distinct, while at the same time
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One of four cases of suspected plague which were detected among the operatives of the declared to be genuine plague on the 26th ult. Gassed Yara Spinning Company in Tokyo was Another infected operative died, and on the same day a fresh case was discovered and Seven dead rats were afterwards found on the premises of the & mpany. The authorities in Osaka, às a precaution against plague, have ordered the destruction of all rats, especially those in the spinning mills. Measures will be ri orously enforced in order t ol ar the city before the inflar of visitors to the Exhibition
A Kobe Chronicle correspondent writes under date Vladivostock, De ember 15:- The Ex- change Committee here is in receipt of instruc tions from the Department of Finance at St. Petersburg, to select from among the prominent residents a special Committee and Sub-Com- mittee to assist in perfecting the details in connection with the 'free-goue harbour'ate the port of Vladivostock, authorised by the Minister of Finance, M. de Witte, during his recent visit to the port." Thẻ Kobe Chronicle comments as follows:—“ Japan will have to be од the alort if shẻ.
of a most iute esting character. Specia ly api tends to make any of her ports free, for
reciated were the scenes descriptive of the Coronation festivities, and the Chines views were quite a novelty. Among otter no able trips up n which the B cs ope carri-d the spectators
wer a voyug across the Atlantic on the Kronprints Wilhelm, and a ride on the St. Go.hard express through the famous Wassen loops. The comic pictures, of which there was abundance, kept the audience greatly amused.
if similar action be taken at Dalny as in proposed at Vladivostock, Japan will find her oppor unity of acting as a gre tatorehouse for the Far East to be gradually slipping Away from her. Nothing seems to have been heard since their formation of the Eccle
Eocieties for promoting the establishment är file, ports în Japan. Indeed the majority of Societies in this country appear to be still-börn.
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