Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, assistant superin-
dent of police, left by the P. &. Chvsan on nine months' leave.
8.8.
The 8.8. Lothian left last week with 500
locally recruited Chinamen for the Rand.
8.8 Cranley goes next.
The
A Chinaman in the witness box was recently ordered by Mr. Wolfe to desist fanning himself, and to learn manners. The youth was arrogant in bearing.
Mr. John Merrillees Masson passed his first class engineer's examination recently, and Mr. Alexander Thomson his second class engineer's examination. Both candidates were examined by Mr. James Macdonald.
The sum of £307,242 figures in the estimates for 1904-5 as estimated expenditure on the Hongkong dockyard extension, which will cost altogether £1,245,000. The works are to be completed in 1905-6.
The name of Augusto Carriera D'Azevedo, a member of the College of Medicine of the University of Oporto, Portugal, has been added to the register of medical and surgical practi- tioners qualified to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony.
The wreck of an old 'Dragon-bost,' which, no doubt, has in its day figured in many a festival at Hunghom, lies in a stagnant pool of water near the Tin Hing Engineering Co.'s works. This stagnant pool, by the way, might with advantage be filled in.
The rocks facing the head of No. 1 dock at Kowloon are ornamented with the names of several American ships, which have, at different times, been docked there. In some instances the sailors must have undergone serious risk to paint them.
market.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
On and after 1st October next "British postal orders will be cashable at Hongkong and its agencies in China.”
From the 1st October next money orders will be obtainable at the Hongkong post office, payable in Transvaal Colony,
Bishop of Hongkong, broke his journey to The Rt. Rev. Piazzoli, Roman Catholic Italy at Colombo, owing to poor health. He was visited by Sir Henry Blake.
restrictions on arrivals from Tainan-fu and Hongkong continues to place quarantine Anping, in Formosa; and Amoy, Plague is prevalent in these places.
the Hongkong Observatory, was 27.6 in. The The rainfall of August, as registered at
degrees; maximum, 86 degrees; and minimum, mean temperature for the month was 80.8
77.2 degrees.
Artillery, Hongkong, is returning from leave Sergeant Morris, of the Royal Garrison by the next English Mail. He was to have married in May last Miss Gorham, late of Hongkong; but since the latter's arrival in England she has been in the Royal Hospital, Southampton, where she has undergone a had to le postponed. According to latest news critical operation. The wedding has therefore Miss Gorham is now well on the road to recovery.
By a recent copy of the Liverpool Institute School Magazine we see that J. Rumjahn, a Hongkong boy, won the sports senior cham- pionship. In the high jump he beat the others, his jump being 4ft. 8in.; he won the long jump, with a jump of 16ft. 8in.; the 100 yds., 10 3/5 sec.; 220 yds, 26 sec.; 440 yds. and hurdle race.
added to the local list of authorised architects.
The name of Charles Hamilton Rew has been
Quarantine restrictions at Straits Settle. ments, placed on arrivals from Hongkong, have been removed.
man "stand in a corner "!
Cocoanut palms flourish in the sandy soil at both Hongkong and Kowloon, House owners at some places, Penang, for instance, make money by selling nuts collected from their tenants' gardens. Very often, when palms are
The Kobe Chronicle quotes from a contem- laden with frait at East Point, Hongkong, porary its account of an incident in the court green cocoanuts are not procurable at the of Mr. H. H. J.. Gompertz. For smoking a HE. the Governor has appointed the follow-cigarette in Court, Mr. Gompertz made a China- ing gentlemen to be members of the board of
for two hours, holding examiners for local pilots: The Assistant Har- up the offensive cigarette. The Chronicle has the bour Master: the Commander (n) of the Naval of course, one to excite a smile, and yet its following comment thereon: The incident is, Yard, or the King's Harbour Master of H.M.S. justice may be questioned. If a foreigner were Tamar; Mr. Thomas Philip Hall; Mr. Stephen to enter a Japanese Court, and for inadvertently McIsaac; and Mr. Frederick Archibald Brown. offending against one of the rules for instance, Capt. Arbuthnot Leslie, A.D.C. to Sir that which involves the removal of the overcoat Matthew Nathan, having been summoned home should be placed in a humiliating position on urgent private affairs, Capt. Smith, R.A., for a couple of hours, there would be a pretty has been appointed to the post at Government outcry. But it is difficult to imagine such a House. He has relinquished one "A.D.C." for thing occurring in a Japanese Court. Possibly another, having given up his part in the cast of it is only in Hongkong, where the magistrates and exuberance, that such an incident could appear to have a certain youthful irresponsibility
happen. Apparently our reporting the incident and chuckling over it, contemporary, in
conrage the respect of the Chinese for British does not perceive that such things do not en-
justice."
Dorothy, in the Amateur Dramatic Club's forth- coming entertainment. Capt. Arbuthnot Leslie left in H.M.S. Terrible.
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Many Parsees met on the 14th inst, at the Parsee Club premises. The Jasan Core- mony of “Naoroz” (new year) was performed by the Parsee Dastoor " (priest), Sorab Jamasjes. After the religious prayer and “Hamajor" ceremony, the crowd dispersed. King Yezdered, the last of the Parsee Kings, came to the throne of Persia 1,274 years ago to-day. Many of the Parsees closed their business premises at noon. [Contributed.]
Major Dopping-Hepenstal's (R.E.) office at Head Quarters is quite a little museum of patents. Foremost is an inkstand, invented by the Major. When the pen is lifted from it the lid of the ink-bottle opens automatically; and it shuts again when the pen is replaced. The holder keeps the pen in the most convenient position. A similar appliance is used for rubber stamps there are Dopping-Hepenstal patent files; patent arrangements for copying; and even patents for keeping dust from plans. All simple, yet very clever.
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At the busy junction of Wing Lok Street with Dos Vœux Road is Victoria Jubilee Fountain-1887.” It is (now) an old iron affair! with a leaky trough, but that does not matter. for water never flows now from its rusty taps, and, even if it did, a coolie would think twice1
drinking from the corroded cups. A What is left of one, surmounts it. The broken and dirty. At night time there
Beneath the bowl-shaped trough bricks fruit skins and other garbage. lef use now seems to be that of a "dossing for coolies. It should either be made presentable, or removed.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
[September 19, 1004,
Sir John Keane, Private Henry Blake, has returned to holiday at Home, toda
According to the Tokyo corre contemporary, money is easy and dearer. A third issue of exchequer, the amount of eighty million yen, for October, thus fully covering the budget.
The engagement is announced of Ewen Allan, eldest son of Bir Ewen Cameron,
garet, eldest daughter of the late Alexander K.C.M.G., and Lady Cameron, to Rachel Mar Geddes, of Blairmore, Aberdeenshire, and of Mrs. Geddes. 1
excusable.
This little shot, by a Japanese, is unkind, but "Some of the Japanese papers the Russians are conducting their retreat, a express their admiration of the manner in which
manoeuvre of which the Japanese have no ex- perience."
The Shanghai Daily News hears on reliable authority that a serious anti-Catholic "distur bance has arisen in the Shuichonfu Prefecture of North Kiangai. The prefect was imprisoned for three weeks by the malcontents, and the Governor of the province has issued instructions to exterminate the whole clan responsible for this uprising.
The retirement of Sir William Wharton from the office of Hydrographer of the Navy rendered vacant for the first time for 20 years one of the most responsible posts under Admiralty control. Captain A. M. Field, who succeeds Sir William Wharton, has had a life-long connection with the department, and has seen a good deal of surveying service in Far Eastern waters.
On August 30th news of anti-missionary troubles at Jaochow, Chingtoh-ohin, Loping- hsien and Liutien reached Nanchang, says the Universal Gazette. At Jaochow and Chingteh- chin the Catholic missions, hospitals, and con- vent were in danger, and the missions at Loping- haien and Liutien had been plundered and burnt. The local officials had been ordered to protect
the missions.
It is pleasant to read in the Times a poem by Baron Takasaki to Lord Tennyson (the late Laureate's son) praying for an Anglo-Japanese Captious critics may see a dubious compliment alliance in literature as well as politics. in the line "when shall I meet again my peer- less friend and grasp his great, good hand?" The leg-of-mutton fist suggestion was perhaps due to the difficulty of translation.
Wonders will never cease-in Corea. A
native reporter writes to the Korea Daily News
as follows. "There is a serious beast in the
house of the man named Kim in Hongsan district of Choong Chong province, that was hair is like pins and it's mouth is like pig's born which between wild pig and horse. It's
catties of things can be loaded on its back and mouth. It make a very curious noise, many
it can run very fast like the fowls do.”
Many people interested in foreign missions will hear with sorrów 'of the death of Mrs. Hudson Taylor, wife of the founder of the China Inland Mission." Mrs. Taylor shared her husband's active interest in the evangelisation of China, and she was his companion in the It is contemplated for the future to publish frequently dangerous and always weary journeys all medical reports, or extracts from them, in through China which he undertook so often. the Journal of Tropical Medicine.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Taylor have been Mr. J. K. S. Fleming, of the I. M. C., accord-in weak health, and a message of sympathy was ing to a Tientsin paper, has been promoted to the rank of Captain.
Coolies recruited here for the Rand mines are supplied with a sort of khaki uniform bearing a red "C" on the right arm.
Telegraphic information was received in Shanghai on the 5th instant of the death at Hankow of Mr. R. Rorden, Upper Yangtae pilot.
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Why don't the papers that persist in spelling Tokyo" as "Tokio" spell “Yokohama " Tokohama"? The same Kana syllable is used for both by the Japanese.
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Two turtles, weighing 200 and 250lbs. respectively, have been washed ashore at Chefoo. The Chinese say that they have been patrolling the sea at Port Arthur in the Russian interest, and their death means the doom of the port.
Total Cheng Teh-pei, the Director of the Military College at Nanking, who is well known among foreigners, died on the 3rd instant Viceroy Wei Kwangtao appointed Total Wei as Director of the Military College in place of the deceased official.
sent a few days ago to them from the Keswick Convention, at which in past years they had often spoken. Mrs. Taylor's illness terminated very peacefully at La Paisible, Chevalleyres, Blonay, Switzerland.
Mr. 8. Pollard writes to the Times from Chao-tong, Yunnan, West China, on May 18, to say that a report is current in Yunnan that Admiral Ting, who was generally supposed to have committed suicide after his defeat at Wei- hai-wei in 1894, is still alive. The admiral is a native of the province of Yun-nan, his home being near Ta-liifu. Instead of committing suicide, he changed his name and returned home, keeping quiet until the storm had blown over. He is now said to be a military mandarin in command of some troops, and, serving under Viceroy '1 s'en, is sharing in the attempt to put down the rebellion in Kwang si. "This ation Mr. Pollard first obtainé whose home is also in thé Since then he has had it con and finds that it seems be generally as true.
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