September 5, 1904.]
Mr. Homi N. Karanjia, a young Parsee mer- chant connected with the firm of Messrs. Bomanji & Co., Shameen, Canton, died on the 2nd inst. at the Peak Hospital. He had some time before undergone an operation | necessitated by the condition of his liver. His friends are grateful to Drs. Stedman and Rennie, and to all at the Hospital, for their efforts to save the young man, who was about to
marry.
Hongkong "volunteers have been notified that Captain George J. B. Sayer is away on six weeks' leave; that W. R. P. Scott joined the No. 2 Company on the 27th ultimo; that Gunner R. Galloway has resigned; that Gunner J. Thompson has been struck off the strength; and that volunteers going Home are invited to qualify while there in machine gun instruc tion. Those who do will be entitled to payment for the time so spent, officers eight shillings a day and non-coms. Four shillings a day.
The announcement that the Star Ferry Com. pany contemplate the inauguration of an all- round-the-harbour service brings up visions of delightful trips. Hitherto anyone who wanted to do the rounds of our beautiful bay had to trust to the uncertainties and uncleanliness of the Chinese launches which run on the circular tour, and though as fine as it is, it loses a good deal of its attractiveness when one has to travel cheek by jowl alongside an evil-smelling ld coal-coolie. Let us hope that the Ferry Company's action will introduce a new order of things.
Dr. Carreira d'Azevedo, who arrived in Hongkong by the Chusan, has started practice in the city. He is not without experience in the Far East, having been on three previous occasions on board the Portuguese gunboats Bengo, Diu, and Zaire as surgeon captain. He is still attached to the Portuguese Navy, and is out here on furlough with the permission of his Government to practise. For the last two years Dr. d'Azevedo has been engaged in several of the principal hospitals in Lisbon, and has made a special study of tropical diseases. The medical profession is not over-represented in Hongkong, and Dr. d'Azevedo should make a
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Captain Stopford, R.N., who is well known in the Far East, as captain of H.M.S. Blenheim, which returned home recently, has been given | the command of the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham. A Service journal mentions that Captain Stopford (who obtained his present rank in 1897) is one of those whose promotion to flag rank on the active list is doubtful, owing' to his having been overlooked for some years in the distribution of patronage.
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The following item, accompanied by an ex- cellent photograph of the Band, appeared in the l'olice Review: The Tientsin City Police Brass Band is composed of some 25 young Chinese boys, whose ages range from 15 to about 21 years. Organised by the Commissioner early in 1902, after 18 months' patient and indefatigable teaching by the bandmaster, Mr. Davis, the band is already able to play international an- thems, marches, etc., and hopes to undertake music of a more classical description at an early date. The bandmaster belongs to the 21st Punjab Infantry, a regiment at present station-
The Hon. Sec. of the Tientsin Cricket Club has received a letter from the Hon. Sec. of the Shanghai Cricket Club regretting that his com. mittes will be unable to accept the invitationed at Tientsin. of Tientsin to send a team this year owing to the fact that they are sending a team to Hong- kong in November, and cannot manage both visite It has been suggested that Tientsia should visit Shanghai between now and the end of October, but it is feared a sufficiently strong team cannot be got together.
On the 27th ult. Sir William Meigh Good man. Chief Justice of Hongkong, and Lady Goodman. left for home on the P. & 0.8.8. Coromandel on leave. Sir William came here about 14 years ago as Attorney-General, and was appointed Chief Justice in succession to Sir John Carrington in April of 1902. Pre- viously Sir William was Attorney-General and Chief Justice of British Honduras. Hon. Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley will act as Chief Justice during the absence of Sir William Goodman, who expects to be back in Hongkong in a year's time or so. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C.. will act as Attorney-General during the in- terregnum. There was a large company at Blake Pier to see Sir William and Lady Goodman off. among those present being Right Rev. Bishop J. C. Hoare, Hon. F. H. May, Hon. Gershom Stewart and Mrs. Stewart. Hon. W. J. Gresson. Sir Henry Berkeley. Mr. F. J. Badeley, Mr. C. W. May. Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse. Dr. J. W. Atkinson. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, and others.
MISCELLANEOUS,
News has been received of the total loss on the Goto Islands in the typhoon, of the Mitsu Bishi Co.'s steam collier Akunoura Maru, 1,065 tons. Dr. Eberle, of the U.S. army. has discovered in the Philippines the microbe of dengue fever, and has named it plasmoeba.
River navigation in Burma during monsoon floods has its own peculiar risks, according to the Burkish Times. The river near Yeh was in high flood, and the BI.B.N. Co.'s 9.8. Mergui foundered "in a paddy field."
Experiments have been made at Shanghai in raising from seed plants of Ocinum Veride, The Mosquito Plant." This plant was first in- troduced last year at Kew, when a specimen was received from Northern Nigeria.
Its intro- ducer claims that by placing two or three plants in a room, it is kept free from mosquitos.
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A band of armed desperadoes belonging to the locality made a raid a few days ago on the house of a Mixed Court runner, living not far from the Railway Station, at Hongkow, Shanghai. Apparently the desperadoes had grudge against the runuer, who, by the way, is said to be a ne hew of the head runner in the Shanghai Magistrate's yamên, for they put a ballet through the neck of their victim besides sticking their knives in half a dozen parts of his body. The desperadoes got off almost uumolėsted, taking away with them eight well- filled trunks of fine clothes and jewellery and money-s valuable haul" considering what ought to be the circumstances and position in life of the victim. However, there is evidently more in the philosophy of these yamên runners thin outsiders wot of.
with any
A fracas. Inokily unattended serious results, caused some excitement in Hongkow. Shanghai, on the 19th instant, according to the N-C. Daily News. The trouble was, it is believed, started by a Japanese who followed a French sailor up an alleyway, and when he turned hit him over the head with a wooden sandal. His yells brought out several other Freach and Russian sailors from a res- taurant close by, and the Japanese also being reinforced by his countrymen, a serious fracas seemed imminent. A Sikh policemen who saw the trouble blew his whistle, and immediately the Russians and French decamped. One sailor, & Russian from the Mandjour, was escorted to the police station by the constable, a foreigner. and two American sailors, He was sent to his Consul yester ay and ordered back to his ship. In the mêlés a Japanese got a nasty cut behind the ear. Detective-Sergeant Vaughan, who at auce made enquiries, discovered four other Japanese (suffering from slight wounds. The one whose ear was injured was sent to the JapaueRA hospital. It is said that sight Russians and seven Frenchmen took part in the fight, but it is unlikely that any of them will be traced.
t has been
Our shipping reporter learns that American naval men, owing to a misunderstanding, con- sider they have a grievance against the Com. modore. Recently, it appears. the U.8.8. Solace came and applied for a buoy on the Victoria side of the harbour. They could not have it. as three buoys had just been reserved (hy telegram) for three French ships arriving, and the do'uce had to go over to the Foreign man-o'-war anchorage.. When they saw the French ships
The engagement of Captain C. W. Mead. tie up, knowing nothing of the telegram. they Engineer-in-Chief and General Manager of It is freqently the case in the country dis- thought they had been slighted. We do not the American China Development Company.tricts of China that usages which apply to a suppose the U.S. fficers shared this foolish Canton Hankow Railway, to marry Miss Bea- particular neighbourhood are quite unknown in feeling; but the incident shows how brittletrice Zils, of Shanghai, is announced.
other districts not far removed. At Tungpo. a thing an "entente cordiale " may be.
sitasted not far from Whampoa, s strange custom obtains, to the effect that when the bride visits her boms, after the first month of married life, she need not return to her husband till two or three years have expired.
me, on reliable authority, that reported to recently six young brides committed suicide together. They were more or less friendly as vill ge maidens, and had all been married within a year.
Having all returned to their homes according to custom, the husband of one of them insisted that his wife should return to him, or he would take a cononbine. Thereupon the six young women, it is alleged, determined to commit suicide together, and in order to do this effectively they secretly proceeded to the river's bank, and each couple having tied themselves by the wrists and ankles flung themselves into the river. They accom- plished their purpose and were drowned. There- upon the husband of one of them threatened to bring an action against the parents of his wife, because they had failed to instruct their daughter, when young, in her duty. The parents, fearing trouble as far as their daughter was concerned, paid the angry husband $60. We may assume that these statements are reliable, and if so this sad picture pressats us with a terrible revelation of native life. Those who know China best, are most conscious of how very little they really know of the inner life of this strange people, and it is only by such facts as these that light is really thrown on their social and family life. anton Cor- respondent of N.-C. Daily News.
His Lordship the Bishop of Macao. D. João Paulino d'Azevedo Castro, accompanied by the Revs. A. Gomes, T. Nunes. W. Arkwright. Scares and Lima. arrived on the 31st ult. by the German mail steamer Bayern from his pastoral visit to the Portuguese missions in Singapore and Malacca.
The postponed concert was given on the Volunteer Parade Ground on the 2nd inst, under a beautiful star-lit sky. and was very well attended. As usual, the ambrageous surround ings were made more attractive by the addition of festoons of paper lamps, and other decora- tions. Sergeant Terrill sang "The Deathless Army with perfect enunciation, and much sweetness of voice. Mrs. Dealy was encored after singing "Dainty Claire." The instru mental quartet by Messrs. Tuxford, Koenig, Gonzales, and A. G. Ward was a most agreablo item, but rather too long. Lieutenant G. P. Lammert was awarded a rapturous encore for "Doreen," and gavo Songs of Araby." He has a splendid voice, which he manages well. Occasionally, he is apt to mar the effect by permitting verbal liaisons. an dall" &c.; but this may have been due to the difficulty of producing sufficient tone in the open air. Mr. H. A. Tozer, the humorous vocalist, had au enthusiastic reception. His encore piece cer- The 114th tainly had the desired effect."
Apropos the rent London ruling in a P. & Mahratta band was, as usual, good, one instru - O. case, with regard to steamer companies' ment being perhaps a trifle too breathy" in liabilities in respect of passengers' luggage, a places. Other vocalists to follow (when we New York judge has given quite a contrary
The conditions | were obliged to leave) were Mrs. Maitland and decision in a similar case. Mr. W. E. Sobmidt. The intervals between printed upon the back of the tickets he held “are items were much too long, some being made hot binding, because they are not reasonable, Admir longer by the necessity of hunting for chairs nor in accordance with public policy." that ought to have been ready. We suggestalty lawyers regard the decision as of great the appointment of a stage manager. On the importance in establishing a precedent in con- whole, of course, 'twas a highly enjoyable nection with the liability of steamship owners performance.
in regard to losses of valuables on shipboard.
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A recent fracas at Shanghai. between Japanese. Russians, and French. was begun, it is said. by a Japanese striking a French sailor with one of his geta (wooden clogs). The Echo de Chine points out the terrible insult to the French uniform, and characteristically adds:--
:-" Si c'était une pantoufle de marquise, passe encore, mais une sandale japonaise c'est un peu brutal!"
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