HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25TH APRIL, 1903.
HONGKONG.
The number of plague cases in the Colony 283 from January lɛt to date is returned at 329,
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Sergt. E. Sherwin, H.K.V C., sailed for 889 home per the Empress of India on the 22nd inst., 290 and received a hearty send-off from his many .290❘ friends.
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Mr. H. L. Dennys, of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, solicitors, was among the passengers 295 who left on the Empress on the 22nd inst.; be
has gone home on leave.
The Famine in Kwangs
Mosquitoes and Malaria
St. George's Day
Hongkong Legislative Council
New Pacifio Mail Taners ..
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Proposed New Law Against Stowaways.....
Supreme Court
Correspondence
.297
China and Mani's Steamship Co., Ld.....
.297
The British Consul" at Hongkong
...597
Canton
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Amoy ......****
The Electric Light Station in Kowloon
Fires in Hongkong|| .
Wreck of a Barkentine......
Polo Club Gymkhana
Shanghai and China's Currency ...
Miscellaneous”.
Commercial..
Shipping ....
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No 17
It has been pointed out to us that it is by no means “a new departure" in the Colony for the Attorney-General to receive the acting. appointment of the Chief Justiceship. While it is true that the Puisne Judge received that honour in 1901, we have been reminded that the Attorney General was absent from the Colony at the time. While Sir William Goodman was Attorney General he received the zoting-appointment of Chief Justice în 1895, 1896 and 1899-1900,
On the severance of his connection with the offie of the Hongkong Daily Press, of which he has been the local manager during the past three years, Mr. Alfred Cunningham wai on the 20th inst. presented by the European and Chinese staffs with a handsome souvenir in the form of a suitably-inscribed silver fruit-dish and four silver flower-vases for table decoration.
A Chinese hawker was robbed by highway men beyond Kowloon City on the 16th inst. .299 299 last. He was stabbed in the right aro and The presentation was made on behalf of the 298 robbed of a small sum of money. ་་་་་་་་་་་་ ་་་་་་
Army Estimates for the Far East
BIRTHS.
On the 9th April, at Shanghai, the wife of D. LANDAU, of a son.
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Captain Milroy of the Sailors' Home, who was bitten by a dog some time ago and went to Saigon for treatment on the Pasteur method, is 300 reported to be quite out of danger.
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On the 18th April, at Singapore, the wife of D. MAW, of a son.
On the 20th April, at Ewo, Shanghai, the wife of DAVID LANDALE, of a daughter.
On the 22nd April, at Rose Terrace, Kowloon, the wife of EDWARD JONES, of a von.
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MARRIAGE.
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On the 8th April, at Kobe, at the Netherlands Consulate, HENDRIK VAN OORDT Van Lauwen- RECHT, Netherlands Consul, to Mrs. EUGENIA MATILDE PANTALONAIDEL CAMPO Y VILCHES,
widow of A. VAN DER VALK, late of Manila,
DEATHS.
On the 17th March, a Bushey, Herts, Englard, TA. COWD. RO late of Shanghai, aged 65 years. On the 10th April, at Nagasaki, Čaptain I. A. Koon, late Secretary of the German Consulate, Nagasaki, aged 68 years
On the 11th April, at No. 2, Ward Road, Shanghai, REGINALD EUSTACE, the third son of FETHERSIONHAUGH, aged
JAMEƑ and AMANDA three years.
On the 20th April, at Pea': l'espital, Hongkong, James Henry MAGLEKOSE, aged 58 years.
On the 23rd April, at Hongkong, J. PESTONJER (JEHANGIRJEE FESTONJE KHABAS), aged 72 years. Bombay nd Japan paprs please copy.
Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VOUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 27th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 24th April (28 days); and the U.s, mail of the 27th March arrived, per the T.K.K. steamer America Maru on the 24th April (28)
The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ended 19th April were 226 non-Chinese and 65 Chinese to the former, and 72 non-Chinese and 2,435 Chinese to the latter institution.
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A small outbreak of fire (ccurrel in an empty house at 67, Battery Street. Yaumati between two and three o'clock Wednesday morning. Fortunately it was discovered before the flames had made much headway, and Inspector Macdonald in charge of some firemen from Yaumati was able to overcome the out- break, the damage by which does not exceed $20. Vice-Admiral Marechal, who arrived on the 19th inst. on the flagship Af ntcalm, came ashore on the 21st inst. and visited His Excellency the Governor. The Admiral landed at Blake Pier where he was received by a guard of honour of the Sherwood Foresters and the regimental band. He saluted the Foresters colours in passing. H.M.S. Albion fired a salute as the Admiral neared Blake Pier.
A meeting of Justices of the Peace was held on the 21st inst. at the Magistracy to con- sider an application from Frank Francis for the transfer of his publican's licence for Thomas's Hotel to Ardesher Eejaujee Kharas. Mr. F. A. Hazeland presided. and there were also present Messrs. J. H. Kemp. B. H. Craig, H. E. Pollock, K.C., and C. D. Melbourne. Mr. J. Hastings appeared for the applicant. There were no police objections, and the application was granted unanimously.
The petitions sent in to His Excellency the Governor (for travsmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies) by the Chinese and non- Chinese subordinate civil servants, praying that they be paid exchange compensation on their salaries, have been duly forwarded, but, we unde stand, the heads of the several Govern- mental departments have been requested to inform the petitioners that His Excellency cannot see his way to recommend any further increase of officials salaries at the present time. The petitioners' case was that they were entitled
participate in the compensation privilege extended to the senior officials some time ago.
staff by Mr. B. A. Hale, the acting Editor, who succeeds Mr. Cunningham in the manage- ment. Mr. Cunningham left Hongkong on the 21st inst. by the s.s. Kaga Maru for England.
On the 16th inst. a daring piracy was com- mitted on board a fishing-junk lying at anchor in Starlit Inlet, & bay situated in British waters outside the harbour, but close to Chinese territory. Six Chinamen rowed off to the junk and boarded her before the occupants became aware of the hostile intentions of the visitors, who were armed with revolvers and d'ggers. A fight ensued, and one of the junk's crow was wounded by a shot; this man in his fear jumped overboard and was drowned. Tho remaining members of the crew, seeing the measures the pirates were prepared to adopt to achieve their purpose, ceased to oppose them, and the pirates proceeded to pillage the junk They took $100 in money and everything worth the trouble of carrying away, ultimately leaving the boat and making their way back into Chinese territory beyond the possibility of capture.
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The N. Y. K. steamer Inaba Maru, which left here on the 18th inst. for Europe, takes away two of the oldest residents in the Colony, In fact, we believe Mr. C. C. Cohen was the oldest resident. He came out in 1857 to join the firm of Oxford & Co, and has only visited his native country once since bis arrival. - Mr. Cohen was. Chairman of the Stockbrokers' Association, and has been a familiar figure amongst the brokers for the last thirty years. Mr. G. C. Anderson, who is also a very old resident, has been nearly as long in China. He was for many years in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s coasting steamers, and was well known as commander of the Appin. He left that steamer to accept a shore appointment in the Indo-China S. N. Co., and has more lately acted as agent of the Bureau Veritas, Mr Anderson has always taken a keen interest more than two years has in the Navy, and for acted as Hon. Secretary of the Navy League, i the promotion of which he showed much energy large accession of members. and secured An address from the Committee expressiva of their great appreciation of bis services. In this capacity was presented to him shortly bei departure. Mr. Anderson was also entertain at a farewell dinner at the Hongkong Hotel houmerous friends connected with the sh
interest, while the St. Andrew's Social,
Apresented! (of which he was a former charmber
with a silver quaich as a memento of his long connection with it.
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