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We are requested to announce that Mrs. May will be "at home" at Government House on the first and third Thur days of every month.
The Hongkong A.D.C.'s performance of the comio opera His Excellency the Governor is likely to take place in the second week of February. Owing to the Theatre being 80 much engaged just now, it would be difficult to have a sufficient number of rehearsals to put it on before.
Another, the fourth, very successful dance was given on the 2nd inst. by the Masonic Quadrille Club, in the Masonic Hall. As usual everything possible was done to provide an enjoyable evening, and the committee once again scored a success, dancing being kept up with great spirit until 1 a.m., when the last stragglers fled to catch the ferry for Kowloon.
Only two cases of communicable disease were reported in the week ending on the 2nd, oue being of enteric fever and the other of small-por, Both were European Cases. Yet Hongkong is still partly quaran- tined in Manila, Shanghai, Siam, Indo-China,
and British North Borneo. in the last instance, the ban seems a particular outrage from a neighbouring British Colony.
Every week our sporting friends seem to ba more daring in their pursuit of birds. On the 3rd inst. they went all the way to Shaiheung, situated at the northermost end of Taishan Bay. The weather was ideal; everything, in fact, bespoke a pleasant outing. After the steamer had anchored some considerable distance off the shore, they made their way near to land in a large sampan, and from there to the beach in flat mud-skiffs, shoved by women. The country in the vicinity of haiheung
village, or,
as the Chinese would call it, Shaiheung City, was flat, with a range of hills in the background. The country appeared to be in very good condition. Poor sport was at first experienced, but, later, between four and five (afternoon), pigeons commenced to arrive from all directions; they were refugning "home" to roost in the trees. To cut a long story short, no less than 163 were knocked down. They
were mostly of the rock (about twice as big as a dove), and red-wing (small, about the size of a thrush species. Shaiheung will be visited again.
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At the Warrant Officers' Club a very success-
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Municipality of Saigon has decided to borrow 16 millions of frangs for the construction of waterworks.
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P.I., have been taken to Manila, where they A gang of fifteen bandits, captured in Albay,
are all to be hanged as sʊon as arrangements can be made.
Wireless telegraphy between Nagasaki and Kelung, Formosa, which was under trial by two engineers of the Japanese Department of Communications, is reported to have proved effective,
The campaign in Manila for the removal of Señor Legarda from the Ciril Commission is growing stronger, and President Roosevelt has instructed the Governor, General Wright, to deal with the matter at his discretion.
It is now stated that Viceroy Alexieff is not going to move his headquarters to Vladivostock, according to Japanese papers. It is also stated
to be removed to Khabarovsk, that the littoral government at Vladivostook is
The trial of the Coreans Ko Ei-kon and Ro In-mei, the murderers of Han-zen, a Corean refugee in Ja; an, concluped at Hiroshima on the 26th ult., Ko being condemned to death and Ko to penal, servitude for life. The former
for life. is expected to appeal.
The Nori Krai, Admiral Alexieff's organ, considers it a great mistake on the part of England to oppose Russia in the matter of Tibet at the very moment that symptoms of an
Anglo-Russian rapprochement were being mani-
fested! This is news indeed.
It is announced at Port Arthur from Seoul that the Corean Government has addressed to
the French Ambassador an official note a suring him that the rumours relative to the concession to the Japanese for the Seoul-Wiju railway are absolutely without foundation,
native newspapers in North China:-Feking, The following is the number of foreign and
10 Tientsin, 14; Chefoo, 1; Têngohou, 1; Weihaiwei, 1; Tsingtao, 1; Port Arthur, 1- making in all 29, of which 17 are in Chinese, 7 in English, 1 in Japan se, in German, 1 in Russian, and I in Italian.
As our Shanghai correspondent announced by telegram last week, Chang Yen-mao, formerly Chief Director of the Kaiping mines and an ex-Director of the North China Railway, has been cashiered.
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According to the P. and T. Times, Chang Yen-mao's fault is selling the Kaiping Mines to the present company without obtaining permission from the Viceroy of Chili, though there was no Viceroy at the time to appeal to. At present he is only suspended, and has been mines for the Chinese. given two months in which to recover the
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Capt. the Hon. C. M. B. Ponsonby, M.V.O., 3rd Grenadier Guards, Aido-de-Camp to H. E. Sir Henry Blake, and second son of Viscount Dancannon, arrived at Colombo on the 17th inst. by the French mail steamer l'olynesien. With his arrival, Sir John Keane ceased to not aA.D.C, and assumed duties as Private Secre tary, a post he held here.
Seven Chinese stowed away on the steamer Rohilla Maru, and were apprehended at Manila as they were attempting to make a landing. Colonel H. B. McCoy, acting collector of customs, has decided that the Toyo Kisen Kaisha SS. Co, must pay a fine of $2,100. The law imposes a penalty of $300 for eack Chinese secretly landed on Philippine soil.
The Tokyo correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News telegraphed on the 28th ult.:-It is not war that noW whether there shall be peace or constitutes the question, but the Government is bonsidering how to meet the worst. Marquis Ito, Marquis Yamagata, Count Matsukats, and other Privy Councillors are this forenoon examining the Ministers, and finally settling measures necessary to defray, the extraordinary military expenses, and the cost of the completion of the Seoul-Fusan railway before the end of 1904. The Elder Statesmen and the Cabinet
are firmly united in the determination to make a bold stand.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd publishes the follow- ing telegram dated Berlin, 30th December :— The situation in the Far East has been con- sidered here, during the last few days, to be s little more serious, but not desperate. Now all minds have been made easier by an official ment, according to which Japan has neither notification by Japan to the German Govern-
presented to Russia an ultimatum, nor is on the point of so doing. On the other hand, it is reported from 8. Petersburg that the Russian Government has expressed great satisfaction at the conciliatory tone of the last Japanese declaration.
The Russian Press is also now much quieter. As has been shown by an ex. change of views between all European Govern. ments, no one thinks that war is unavoidable.
The Japan Mail, while strongly deprecating Russia's procrastinating procedure in her negotiations with Japan, which is in such contrast with the diligence with which she is adding to her naval and military strength_in
The Ostasiatische Lloyd publishes the follow- the Far East, did not (on the 25th ult.) considering telegram dated Berlin, 24th December: the situation hopeless.
The Kölnische Zeitung receives a report from S. Petersburg according to which Grand-Duke Alexander Michaelovich was acting together with other most influential persons against the outbreak of war, at least for a postponement of the conflict. They hope to achieve this, between others, by a transfer of the negotiations from Tokyo to 8. Petersburg. The Frankfurter Zeitung learns from London that hussia is making concessions to Japan with regard to Corea for the sole purpose of gaining time for further armaments. But Japan was demanding territorial guarantees in Corea to be safeguard. ed against any future attack of Russia. The pessimism of the English and French Press about the Far East question is not shared by the respective governments.
ful smoking concert was held on Tuesday night under the genial presidency of Mr. Bryant, There were a many good entertaines present, and the evening passed away all too quickly. Mr. Bowen sang in his customary good form, his numbers comprising "The British Lion," Simple Simon, "Queen of the Earth,' and "In Friendship's Aame. Among the other vocalists Mr. Kent made a good appearance in "I will be there' and Mulligan's Jaotor-car." Mr. Bond gave a capital ren- d. ring of “For old time's sake," while the irrepressible Air. King obliged with his well- known favourite "The farmer's boy," und Annie Laurie." Among the others who sus- tained the programme were Mr. Penk, "Wiads that blow from the South" and The sen- try"; Mr. H. W. Wolfe, "A soldier and a man," and "The skipper and his boy"; Mr. Presley, "The Camptown Races (gramo- phone); Mr. Gladwell, "I wonder why Mr. Presley, jun. "Upidea"; Mr. Bur den, "Think before
Mr. you speak "; Webb," Kitty Wills" and "The Union Jack" Mr. Bryant,
"An old man's darling;" and Mr. Digle, "How do you like London." Duties of accompanist were ably undertaken by Mr Sheffield.” The Singing of “God Save the King," which brought an enjoyable enter- tainment to a close, took place &
few minutes before midnight arrived so as to allow the Kowloon contingent to catch the last ferry.
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The NC. Daily News says that the Chinese fast cruisers Haitien, Haich'i and, two others belonging to the Peiyanz squadron, anchored at Woosung, began to assume their warpaint dusky grey colour-last caturday, and also to take in extra ammunition, coal and food supplies. It appears that orders had been received from Viceroy Yuan Shikai, who controls the Peiyang squadron, to be ready for emergencies. Sailing orders were expected every moment from the north by Admiral Sah, commanding the squadron.
It appears that he was denounced to the Throne by Viceroy Yuan Shi-kai or ing to the discovery of certain irre: gularities with regard to the mines, out of which he is alleged to have pocketed no less than two million taels.
The Japan Mail writes:-Insurgents have again made their appearance in Core. They call themselves Tong-hak" -or the Students of the East-but ramour says that they are no hing more than unhappy sod middle-class subjects driven to despair by the exactions of the tax-collector. At all events, troops have been sent to deal with them, a duty which might
almost have been left to the winter season, This is not the time for insurrections in Corea We cannot forget, however, that a rising of Tong-hak was the proximate cause of the war of 1894-5. Absit omen!
About 7 p.m. on Christmas Day a foreigner was found lying injured close to the railway line at Nishinomiya, Japan. The man had evidently been run over by a passing train, as his left leg was badly injured. He was sent to the Kobe Hospital, where he is now undergoing treatment. He is likely to be in hospital some months. The man belongs to Texas, U.S.A. His name is Honeyett, and he is thirty-four years of age. He says he was in the U.S. Army and bad recently arrived from Houg- kong. He had been suffering from dysentery, and was making his way back to the States as well as he was able without funds.
A Mr. H. C. Pearson gives the Times of Cey- ton some notes on Mr Alleyne Ireland, in con- nection with the latter's attack on the. Hongkong Civil Service. Mr Ireland was simply a man, said Mr. Pearson, who tried to make as much as he could get by writing up sensations. He had as his so-called manager an American named Dr. Thorpe, of Boston. This Dr. Thorpe came to Mr. Pearson one day and informed him that Mr. Ireland had obtained a concession of 20,000 acres of land in British North Borneo, which he wished to exploit, if he could secure the necessary capital, for its gutta-percha. Mr. Pearson declined to have anything to do with the speculation, and suggested that Mr Ireland might obtain what he wanted in England, where the people knew something about it. Mr. Pear- son thought it "a great shame" that such⠀⠀ • man should turn on his hosts as he did. He would be shunned wherever he went, particular- ly in America.
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