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certain that when he left the ship his pocket- book was safe, as his last act on leaving the vessel was to feel in his pocket to assure himself of its security; and he was positive that it must have been stolen from him as he was about to enter the train. The police. who were evidently disappointed at not being given per- mission to make a wholesale arrest of Japanese, were unable to trace the perpetrator of the theft, which is hardly to be wondered at when it is considered that the money was taken in
the midst of a crowd
It was also found that a part of the Trans Siberian Railway was not in working order, and after his experience on shore the American gentleman thought it best to return to Japan, considering that it would be more comfortable and perhaps sifer to proceed to Europe by s83.
HONGKONG.
We regret to hear that Senhor A G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal, is confined to bed, suffering from what is thought to be a ruptured internal artery. Dr. Rennis is attending on the patient.
The manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China informed us on Thursday that he had that morning received from the London office a telegram advising thata dividend has been declared for the past half year to the 30th June at 10 per cent. per sunum, free of income tax.
It will have been neted with satisfaction that the police have issued widely throughout the city red bills with an offer of $500 reward for information leading to the capture of the recent daylight burglars in Belilios Terrace. We understand also that several arrests have been made on suspicion.
Among the arrivals by the Australian on Thurs- day morning was Sir David Evans, K.C.M.G., who was Lord Mayor of London in 1891-92, He is head of the firm of Richard Evans and Co., | trimming-manufacturers, and director of the Anglo-Foreign Bank and the Hand-in-Hand Insurance Society. He was born in 1849.
It is with regret we announce the death of Mr. H. Brost, foreman shipwright in the Kowloon Docks. He died from dysentery on Thursday morning. Mr. Brost had been in the service of the Dock Co. for a period of about 10 years and was 53 years of age. He leaves a widow and two of a family, one of them a married daughter. The funeral took place on Thursday at Happy Valley.
Fire broke ont at Cheungshawau, British Kowloon, on Wednesday afternoon, in a matshed used for bost building. Five matsheds were soon completely gutted and the boats in course of building burnt. The villagers turned out with an old fire manual, but as the tide was low could not render much assistance. Chief Inspector Baker with firemen from the Central proceeded to the scene with a flouting engine and kept the flames from spreading.
As the matsheds mere uninsured their loss wil be keenly felt. The damage is estimated at $2,000.
We regret to announce the death at Kowloon Docks on the 21st inst., from heart failure, of Mr. E. J. Maiu, superintendent engineer. On Saturday Mr. Main played for the Duck team, who were unsuccessful in a bowling match against Kowloon, and his death was sudden and anexpected. A native of Leith, Scotland, the deceased had been in the employ of the Dock Co. for eighteen years. ife returned from a home visit about a year ago, then being promoted from the Cosmopolitan Dock to superintendent engineer at the Kowloon establishment. Awife and two children are left to mourn his death.
It was freely rumoured in the Colony on the 23rd inst. that the gs. Pembrokeshire had been sold to the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha asa coal-carrier. The vessel is owned by Me:sis, Jenkins & Co. 1egistered in London, and the local agents are Messrs. Shewau, Tomes & Cr. We believe that the repo.t has its foundation in fact, although the sale his not yet been actually completed in all its details. The Pembrokeshire is a steel screw steamer of 294 tors gross, registerel 100 Alat Lloyd's. She was built at Suuderland in 1901 by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Co., Ld. Her dimensions are length, 360ft.; breadth, 48ft. lin.; depth, 20ft. 5in.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
About the 1st January next, No. 89 Co. Royal Garrison Artillery will leave Hongkong by freight-ship for India.
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applicable to British vessels and subjects, is A Siamese Royal Decree on quaran tins, published in the Gazette.
Kowloon City on the 21st inst., a Chinese woman Whilst cutting grass on the hillside behind slipped, fell over a precipice about 150 feet high, and was killed.
Singapore has withdrawn the quarautine hitherto existing against Hongkong. This was notified by a telegram of the 18th inst. to the Colonial Secretary.
One case only of cmmunicable disease was reported in the Colony last week, the victim being a Chinese who died of plagae. A fresh cas3 was reported as occurring during the day ending at noon on the 22 d inst., another Chinese having
succumbed to the disease in Caine Road.
Taking warning from the saying "ne never knows the want of water till the well is dry." the P. W. D. might set about the repair of leaking water-tips. The number of these to be seen in the city, both east and west, is large, and now is the time to have them put in order. The P. W. D. are busy repairing the roof at the Central Police Station, which is at present in an unsafe condition due to the devastations of white ants. These pests give the P. W. D. plenty to keep them busy. Queen's Colleg in the earlier part of the year had to be re-roofed at a cost of $10,000.
The appointments are notified in the Gazelte of Colonel L. F. Brown, R. E., as member of the Fxecutive and Legislative Councils; of Mr. Basil R. H. Taylor as Acting Harbour- master and as Member of the Legislative Council; aud of the Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinsou
as Member of the Executive Council.
While the Amphitrite was lying at Mirs Bay last week a stoker fell down the stoke-hole, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death. From Mirs Bay the Naval Yard was communicated with by means of wireless telegraphy, and arrangements made for the funeral, which took place at Happy Valley Cemetery, at 7 a.m., on Sunday, with nival honours, the bind and a firing party lauding from the Amphitrite about 6.30.
Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts, general managers of the Oriente Hotel, Mauila, inform ns that a paragraph in our issue of Saturday to the effect that the hotel has not been sold to th Philippine Government, is incorrect. This, of course, is conclusive; but our information was nevertheless taken from one of the more reliable Manila papers,
which devoted a consider- ablee amount of space and a few headlines to announcing that the hota was not to be sold.
On the 19th inst. a gentleman living at Morrison Hill discovered that a quantity of jewellery had been abstracted from his cash-box. Apparently a skeleton key had been used to
unlock the box. Earlier in the week the same
gentleman missed an umbrella, and on the following day lost from his house a silver watch and the new umbrella which he had just purchased to replace the other. He has now deemed it advisable to remove his valuables to the office safe.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. F. W. Potter, the Shanghai cricketer, is fortunately getting over his cholera attack.
Tokyo has now 1,839,788 inhabitants, of whom the males number 946,671.
The valus of the Siam currency notes in oirculation 09 the 31st August was Ticals 6,384,450. The whole of this sum was retained in silver at the head office.
The Director of Public Instruction in Burma has withdrawn his order regarding the shiko their teachers, but they were promptly with. question. Burmese boys were ordered to wai drawn from the schoo's instead.
The death occurred on the 11th inst., at the S. Louis Hospital. Bangkok, of Mr. H. Gragge, who came out to Siam about sixteen years ago. He had been with Messrs. A. W. Schmidt & Co., with Mr. Kinder, and in the Customs Depart- ment at Bangkok,
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Many of our readers will regret to learn of the death of Sr. Don José de Navarroy_Lopez do Ayala, who was for some years Consul- General for Spain in Hongkong. According to the El Imparcial (Madrid), Sr. Navarro died at Tunis on the 14th ult.
In the British Court at Bangkok on the 8th instant. Mr. A. F. G. Tilleke and a Burmese
clerk were committed for trial on a charge of receiving a large amount of jewellery, the admitted to bail in two sureties of £500 each. proceeds of a recent robbery. Mr. Tilleke was
hama, died at Kobe on the 8th. inst. He M. Paul Vincent Launay, a resident of Yoko-
arrived at Kobe just a week before feel- ing unwell, During the night he be- came worse and a doctor was called in. The veloped, and he was removed to the Infectious following morning choleraic symptoms de- Dis ases Hospital. With constant and care- ulf attention his condition much improved for a few diya, but inflammation of the kidneys and other complications developed, and M. Launay died within a week of his arrival in Kobe. His body was cremated.
At Shanghai, on the 14th inst., the wreak and cargo of the Norwegian steamer Spol were put ap to auction for the account of the under- writers. The hulk and appartenances were put knocked down to Mr. Lui Chong Sing. The up first, and at Tls. 3,400 the vessel was
cargo of coal, about 1900 tous, was next put up; the bidding went up to Tls. 2,500, when the coal was knocked down to the sa e gentleman who secured the vessel. Two life boats and gear were lastly put up, and after a few bids the boats were knocked down at Tls, 130 to the purchaser of the vessel and cargo, Mr. Liu Chong Sing, compradore to Messrs. Ricine, Ackerman & Co
The Osaka Mainchi publishes a Vienna telegram to the effect that it is believed in authoritative quarters in the capital that the Government is desirous of forming a new European concert in regard to the Far East question, and with this object_has Com- municated with the French, the British, and Russiau Governments, The same telegram further states that the negotiations which were in progress at St. Petersburg between Count Lamsdorff and Mr Kurino, Japanese Minister, have encountered a hitch; but, as Russia has tions will probably be resumed and a more no inclination to enter upon a war, the negotia- favourable phase of the question opened.
The following is from the Kobe Chronicle:- Reverence for the Imperial family was shown in a peculiar manner in Corea recently, and fittingly rewarded according to the customs of the country. It appears that a number of soldiers were engaged in destroying worms which were playing havoc with the pine-trees To show his surrounding the Queen's tomb. loyalty to the Government or reigning family and his anger at the audacity of the worms to approach so near the Royal tomb, one of the
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soldiers ate a bowl full of the mushi. This act was reported to high quarters and the worm- eater was promptly made a captain. Unworthy imitators of the noble (deed followed. soldier was made very sick by the repast, and he failed to a cure promotion, so the chances are that he will affiliate with the first revolutionary organisation he hears of.
Speaking at a general meeting of the share holders of the Bank of Formosa, President Yagiu stated that the Formosan industries “had made much progress, especially in the case of tea-maunfacturing and railway traffic. The value of exports during the first six months. of this year was 4500,000 yen and imports 5,700,000 you. The exports to Japan proper were valued at 5,500,000 yen and imports at 5,20,000 yen.
The export of Formosan rice showed an increase, while that of sugar decreased. The price of silver so frequently fluctuated that the Bank of Formosa had to change the exchange rate six times in the course of the half year. The prios of the one yen silver coin showed a disparity of ten son at one time. It was thought necessary therefore to change the currency system of Formosa.- The amount of the Bank of Formosa's notes stood at 5,800,000 yen on an average, and of this 4,400,000 yen was in circulation, showing an increase of 700,000 yen as compared with the figures last year,
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