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H.E. the Governor has re-appointed Mr. E.| D.C. Wolfe Registrar of the Land Court.
The official announcement of the appointment of Mr. L. A. M. Johnston as Postmaster appoars in the fovernment Gazette.
It is notified in the Gazette that the King's exgustar empowering Mr. Edward S. Bragg to act as Consul General of the United States at Hongkong has received His Majesty's signature. H.E. the Governor has appointed Dr. J. M. Atkinson presi lent, Hon, W. Chatham vice- president, and Colonel W. E. Wabb, R.A.M.C., Messrs. E. Osborne, Fung Wa Chun and Lan Chu Pak members of the Sanitary Board.
A truck loaded with iron overpowered the five coolies in charge of it in Staunton Street on the 10th inst, and dashed into a house, the wall of which it smushed. No one, fortunately, was injured. The coolies avoided arrest by run- ning away and leaving the truck where it lay Dr. Hall Wright, a very popular medico ou one of the C. P. R. liners, has given up the sea to practice in Hongkong." He was presented with a very handsome silver bowl by his former captain and fellow officers of the Empress of Japan, before the vessel left on the 11th inst.
The police reported on the 11th inst. that a Japanese member of the crew of the steamer Diamante has succumbed in the Government Civil Hospital to injuries caused by an accidental blow from some heary tackle which was being swung aboard the steamer from a lighter.
On the 10th inst. native shopkeeper in Bonham Strand fell into the harbour off the Winglok Street wharf, and was resched in an unconscions state by a Chinese excise officer, Indian P.C. 581, and a Chinese boatman, He was removed for treatment to the Government Civil Hospital.
The Medical Officer of Health's weekly return of cases of communicable diseases notified in the Colony during the week ended March 7th shows 19 cases of plagne, 17 being fatal. Sixteen cases occurred in the City of Victoria and of three in the outside districts. No case cholera was reported, only one of diphtheria, two European cases of scarlet fever, and one Chinese case of smallpox.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
MISCELLANEOUS,
The N.Y.K. steamer Hitachi Maru bronght out from London gold bars of the valne of £150,00 for the Far East.
Tue recorded foreign death-rate in Shanghai The rate for last year was 18.1 per 1,000. Ingland and Wales in 1901 was 16.9.
'The French-owned steamer Pingthun, be longing to a Saigon firm, which left Hongkong recently bound for Saigon, ran ashore, the other day, at the north end of Cape Varella, a dangerons coast exposed to the north-east winds and sea. Sh had $200,000 worth of treasure aboard.
The steamer Brutus of the Compagnia Maritima. Manila, has been docked by S. C. Farnhım, Boyd and Co., Ld., to undergo extén- sive repairs and renewals. The NC. Daily News is informed that this is the third steamer the Compagnia Maritima have sent to Shanghai, and others are expected shortly.
On the anthority of the Shanghai Municipal Report, we learn that the contiuned advance in rentals has been productive of increased activity on the part of foreign house-builders, The demand for house accommodation is at the present moment faily supplied, more especially in the case of houses of ordinary size, and the rentals charged may now be considered to Have reached their fall válne Can às much be said of Hongkong?
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[March 14, 1903.
The Emperor of Chins sent a telegram off condolence to the Emperor of Japan conched! in most sympathetic terms in reforen :é to thé death of Prince Komatsu.
As a contribution to the Currency Questión,“ a correspondent in a Singapore, contemporary" obs rves:-" White is a sigu ‘ôf mourning amongst the Chinese: silvor is white. It is therefore surprising that some of them have an undying predilection for it."
The marriage of Mr. G. W. Pearson, of H.B M. Consulate at Foochow to Miss Mães kinnon, sister of a former assistant, was celebrated at II.B.M. Consal's residence on the 24th ult, in the presence of a brilliant assembly of guests. Most of th Foochow community were there, says the Echo, and, in addition, a ́ number of Chinese officials, who took a keen interest in the fortunes of the popular bride- groom.
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If is reported in local mandarin circles, says “ the N-G. Daily News, that on Friday the Chinese authorities having received information that several hundred cases of breech-loading rifles and accompanying ammunition had been
native-owned surreptitionsly conveyed to a
Tsan," honse, called Tai Têog-ch'nan ferry, on the Poolang side of the river, a raid was made on the place the same day by a body of Chinese "braves" who seized the contraband without trouble. An employee of the godown was arrested at the same time, but the owner, At the Pilico Court, Shanghai, on the 6th Tai Têng-ch'uan, managed to escape. Besides inst., Messrs. W. G. Bayne, Robert. Carr, El B. the arms and ammunition, two uniforms with Skottowe, James Maun, G. C F. Holland, and the coguis.nce of Marshal Su, now Provincial W. R. Parkin were charged with having failed | Commander-in-Chief of Kwangsi, were also to register in the year 193 as British subjects; found by the officials. This would lead one to and not bavi g excused such failure, in accord | suppose that the arms were meant for the ance with section 114 of the China and Japan Kwangsi rebels under the guise of having been Order in Council, 1865. The summonses ordered from this province for the use of against Messrs. Payne, Holland, Skottowe, and Marshal Su's army. Carr were withdrawn. Mr. Manu was finell 82 and costs, and Mr. Parkin $5 and costs.
With reference to the power of certain plants to drive away mosquitoes, a correspondent in Nature gives some interesting particnlars. Between his honse near Canton and the river strofched a line of papaw-trees, and he noticed that it enjoyed a singular immuuily from mosquitoes, which was not shared by the houses
near.
He stated that though he had them frequently under observation, he never saw one of those trees with a mosquito npon it, and he is inclined to attribute the fact to the proteolytic action of the juice they secrete.
The one
Mr. K. Sumitomo, the "Copper King" of Japan and the proprietor of the Sumitomo Bank, free is providing the City of Osaka with a library. There are about forty free libraries in Japan, the Kobe Chronicle states, but they are mostly of small dimensions. which is now being built at the expense of Mr. Sumitomo is described as a huge building Mr. Sumitomo offered to provide 159,000 yen for the building and 50,000 yen towards the purchase of books. The City authorities provided the site of the building and have agreed to contribute 15,000 yen towards the book fund before taking over the building and to provide at least 10,000 yen a year for ten years towards maintenance and general mauagement,
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The following is from a San Francisco paper dated February 3rd:-Among the arrivals at the Palace are two Chinamen, Hok Fong and Kam Ming, president and vice-president of the China Commercial Steamship Company. They have been East to Washington and from there"", to Mexico making final arrangements for the"' new Oriental steamship line which is shortly to be inaugurated. President Hok Fong said' yesterday that the first s ́eamer of this line would leave Hongkong où March 27, calling at Shanghai, Yokohama, Honolulu and Manza- nillo, Mexico. On the retura trip the steam r would call at San Francisco and thence direct to Yokohama. The president of the company considers there is a large field in Mexico for Chinese labour in the mines, railroads and plantations, and that the steamship company of which he is president will carry on a big business. between China aud Mexico transporting coolies to Mexico. J. 8. Van Buren, general maunger of the new steamship company, has been in th's city for 8-veral weeks negotiating in Europ for the chartering of several vessels for the use of the steamship line.
The following list of authorised architects, prepared under Section 7 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903, by His Excellency the Governor in Council, is published in the Gazette:-James Fettes Boulton, William Chatham, William Danby, Albert Denison, Henry George Corrall Fisher, Lawrence Gibbs, Bernard Brotherton farker, Ernest Manning Hazeland, Angustus Shelton Hooper, Robert Kennaway Leigh, John Lemm, James Orange, Clement Palmer, Edward Albert Ram, Engenio Francisco Xavier dos Santos 1 emedics, Hugh Pollock Tooker, Arthur Turner, Charles Warren, Wong Kat Sou, and Wong A Cheong. It was reported on the 10th inst, that on the previons night the shop in Caine Road near the Italian Convent, occupied by Mrs. Carvalho as a ladies' and children's supply store, had been
The German Colonial Offioa, the Berlin. broken into by burglars and goods to the value of about $500 stolen. The burglars were
correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle apparently well acquainted with the place, for
reports, has presented the Reichstag with a as it happened the proprietress had just rec-ived
highly-coloured report of the progress which is a consigament of new goods. Üf the most
being made at Kiaochau, According to this valuable of these the robbers made a selection to
A Tacoma correspondent writes:-The Asiatic | report the Government entertain the most carry away with them. Some of the goods were
freight barsan, comprising six traus-Pacific optimistic views regarding the future of this "place in the sun." In five years the railway hidden in a refuse basket and were afterwards steamship,lines, running ont of Tacoma, Seattle, discovered there by the police. The burglars Portland and Vauconver, has raised the freight has been completed from Tringtan to the rates on aur to Shanghai 50 cents a ton. nearest coalfields in the hinterland, and the managed to car. y off a large portion of the loot.
At the Harbour Office on the 10th iust, before Formerly exporters paid $5 a tou ou sack ship. | first trains with coals have arrived at the coast. Commander R. Murray Rumsey, R.N.R., Harments, while hereafter the rate will be $5 50. | The official report does not express itself vory bour master, F. McIntosh, first mate of the The old rate paid, E5 a ton on flour in barrels, enthusiastically about the quality of these coals, British ship Howard D. Troop, was charged with will remain. The new rate became effectiveIt says only that they are better than Japanese. having assaulted William Macdonald, A.B., on on February 1st and will be charged by the the high seas. He pleaded not guilty. Complain. Northern Pacific, China Mutual, Portland and ant stated in evidence that he was shipped at New Asiatic, Cansdian Pacific, Nippon Yusen Kai- York in October. On 9th November while he sha and Boston Steamship companies. Local was at work the defendant came up to him, four exporters said that the price of flour in swore at him and struck him. James Morris, the Orient will be raised shortly to cover the A.B., gave corroborative evidenos. Haus Olsen, increased cost of transportation. They believe A.B., deposed that he saw the mate-shake but that the new rate to Shanghai is experimental not punch the complainant. The defendant stated with the object of soon extending it to all orts that Macdonald gave him insolence and that he between Vladivostook and Hongkong. If suc- shook his fist in his face; he did not strike him. or ssful it is believed that a general increase in The case was dismissed, the Magistrate not being trans-Pacific rates will result, affecting all satisfied that an assault had been committed.
exports from this country. The four manu- : On the 8th iust, the U.S. cruiser New Orleans facturers point out that little harm will ensue arrived from Saigon, and yesterday the British under present conditions, unless shippers from aloop Phoenix from Swatów.
the Black 8.a should obtain a reduced rate, in which event they could obtain the flour business now coming to this coast.
HIMSS. Amphitrits, Pique, and Rambler left for practice on the 9th fast.
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coals, with greater heating power and less smoke,, Trade is rapidly developing. A silk factory has been established, deep-sea fisheries have been begun, and a. steamboat built wholly in the colony has been launched. The sanitation is also improving, and disease of an endemic nature disappearing. Ta'ngtau begins to be visited by sea bathers, and the report looks forward to the time when large numbers of visitors will flock to the colony as a seaside resort. Then as to building, the laying out of streets, and the construction of docks, the report mentions that striking progress has been made. ready, In a short time the new mole will be when large ocean steamers will be able to load is cargoes of coal. The planting of forent and o fruit trees is being energetically pursued, and ** si ki Chamber of Commerce has been established,
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