The contraband case at the Supreme Court being a particularly interesting one Mr. Collier, Attorney General of Singapore, and the French Consul here were invited to sit in Court next to His Lordship.
It is said that the committee of the Corona- tion Fund have decided to expand the balance of the fund, about $15,000, in erecting a statue of Queen Alexandra; if the amount is found sufficient to purchase a statue suitable to place alongside that of the King, to be presented by Sir Paul Chater.
Fire broke out on the 6th inst, on the second floor of No. 22. Wallington Street. Chinese residing | there had placed red candles and juss sticks in a little altar on the staircase. One of these fell and set fire to the steps. The flames were put out by the inmates of the house, there being very slight damage. ̈-
There are now practically no sanitary mea- iures adopted against Hongkong. Manila Hongkong vessels may bring steerage pas. sengers, and, if the health of Hongkong be satisfactory, may proceed direct to Manila after 1st November. Fresh vegetables prohibited. Siam-Inspection at Paknam; Newchwang -Importation of rags, waste paper, hair, earth” and manure from Hongkong prohibited.
In connection with the departure to Rangoon, of the Rev. Thomas Wright, it is reported that a few friends of seamen have contributed the
stipend of a harbour chaplain for one year, but the Missions to Seamen Society has every hope that others will contribute the stipend for successive years. The other expenses for boats, &c., will be met locally by residents in Burmah and friends of the officers of the ships benefited, It is said that instructions have been received at Hongkong to the effect that HM. ships Algerine, Phoenix, Rosario, Bramble, and Bri- tomart have been ordered to proceed to this port for the purpose of being paid off. officers and ships' companies will return to England in merchant steamers, but the men required for the care and maintenance of the vessels in reserve will be retained from the ́ships' companies. They will be laid up in the
reserve at Hongkong.
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On Nov. 8th night a small fire occurred on the Indo-China 8.8. Wo Sana, then lying off Jardine's Wharf. The fire broke out in the second officer's cabin. Flames burst through the port hole and set fire to the overhead awning, which, with the spars, was burnt down; the deck, also, was slightly charred. The second officer's cabin was completely rutted. The crew set to work and subdued the Hames in a very short time. The Fire Float arrived after the fire was extinguished.
At the expiration of three months from the 29th ult, the following companies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the companies will be dissolved, VIE: The China Ginger Manufacturing Co., Ld; The Ramie Fibre Co., Ld.; '1 he Wei-hai- wei Mining Syndicate, Ld.; The Hongkong Marina, Ld; The Stoneley Gold Prospecting Co. Ld.; The Hongkong Building Materials Co., Id., The Heung Sing Steamboat Co., Id.
The Hongkong Chess Club has the honour now of HE the Governor's patronage. Mr. Thomas Swaby, the acting hon. seo., on behalf of the President (Mr. H. E.. Pollock, K.C.) and Committee, invited the Governor to become patron, pointing out that the Club was over ten years old, and had an honourable record. His Excellency replied on Saturday: "Dear Sir, I accept with pleasure the kind suggestion of Mr. Pollock and the Committee of the Hongkong Chess Club that I should become patron of the Club. Yours faithfully, M. NATHAN,”
Dr. F. H. Swan, captain of the Kowloon Cricket Club, has seen the Hon. P. N. Jones, Director of Public Works, regarding the Aallotment of a cricket ground for the new olub, at King's Park, Kowloon. The Hon. P. N. Jones' very kindly gave Dr. Swan the option of. two places. The first turf will now soon be laid. A Chinaman named Wong Pin was removed from Ching Wan to the Yaumati Mortuary, upposed to have been murdered. A woman d the Police that she had seen a man beating him.” On making a post mortem exemi- nation, however, Dr. MacFarlane, Medical, Omoor of Health
ealth at Kowloon, found that the man's death was due to plague.→ This is the Arst case of plague reported from this vicinity.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
After a fight in Queen's Road on Nov. 8th an Indian was admitted to the Civil Hospital with a nasty wound above the temple. It appears that a Spaniard attacked him with a knife, inflicting a wound about four and a half inches in length The police are reticent about it
A good story reached us Nov. 9th whe the mail from Home came in. The proverbial London 'bus conductor was the hero. A cab had collided with the Putney 'bus, and the conductor withered the careless driver with these words: Call yourself a kebman? You ain't fit to command a Rooshian gunboat."
The Masonic Quadrille Club held their first dance in the banqueting chamber of the Masonic Hall, Zetland Street, n the 7th inst. The arrangements carried out by Bro. Harry Wolfe and the Committee, were very good. Dancing commenced at nine o'clock, about fifty couples being present. Bros. J. J. Sibbit and W. H. E. Smith (treasurer) carried out the duties of M. Cs. with credit. Bro. Jenkins (violin) and Mr. Fielding (piano) supplied the music.. Bro. Eagleton acted as Steward, presiding over the ladies' buffet. Other members of the committee present were Bros. A. P. Goodwin (secretary, W. B. Ruse, Summers and T. Swaby, Bro. Vanstone was responsible for the excellent con- dition of the floor.
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The N. Daily News thus tenders the amende to our local, much-maligned postal officials :-We remarked not long since that the gentleman at Hongkong who looks after the mails for the British navy is much more energetic than the Postmaster-General in Hong- kong, the occasion of this remark being that the navy received a certain French mail here some days before the general mail arrived here. But the fault, we find, was not with Hongkong but with Bombay. The French mail for the uavy came via Bombay and Negapatam, and was placed on board the B. I. 8. Purnea at Madras. The rest of the mail was shipped at Bombay on the steamer Capri, which reached. Hongkong only three days after the British India steamer. The body of the late Mr. Chan A Tong, whose death notice appears
this issue, was buried on the 9th inst. Many friends were present at the funeral. Mr. Chan A. Tong has been the leading contractor in the Colony for many years. It was he who contracted to build the Tytam Reservoir, one of the greatest under akings in the Colony. He contracted with Messrs. Punchard and Lowther regarding the Naval Yard extension; built Central Market; and contracted for the new Post At one time, Office and the new Law Courts. he was reputed to be a very wealthy man but subsequently it is said he lost large sums of money in shipping business. He was a quarry farmer for many years, supplying a very great part of the granite used for public works. He was 59 years of age.
FAR EASTERN ITEMS.
The Scottish Trust Loan Company of Ceylon, Ld., has paid a final dividend of 7 per cent., making a total of 10 per cent. for the year. sum of £1,884 is carried forward.
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It is reported from Canton that there has been a sudden subsidence of the line at a place. called Laoshukang, in Sanshui district, on the Canton-Sanshui-line. No lives were lost.
[November 14, 1904.
The Straits Times regrets to g death of Mr. R. V. Boswell Boswell was in the PWD Settlements for over twenty five retired on pension in 1895. He had been about six months. The deceased, who 40 years of age, leaves a widow and sight children.
It is rather confusing to read that the Shanghai Municipal Council is anxious to do all in its power to suppress the gambling evil: This was mentioned in connection with the prosecution of a "hotel" which certainly has an evil reputation. But on the other hand, every hotel and club has a race lottery, and the respectable papers are full of “ tips. "
A Tientsin despatch states that under recom- mendation of Viveroy Yuan Shih-Kai the Waiwapu will appoint Taotsi Liu Yuk-lin, Chevalier of the Order of Leopold, to be Chinese Consul-General at Johannesburg, in view of the large number of Chinese labourers at the Rand. Liu Taotai is also a returned American student, and in 1902 was Chinese Chargé d'Affaires at Brussels, Belgium, where he was a great favourite with King Leopold.
A Peking letter reports that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, not content with making hostile criticisms against the recommendations of Bir Robert Hart, already noted in these columns, has also presented a strong memorial to the Throne against Professor Jenks' financial re commendations for a gold standard for China, declaring that such a step would on the contrary. cause financial disaster to the country:
A deputy of the Commissioner of the Im perial silk looms at Soochow recently left for Peking, in charge of a large number of leather trunks containing no less than three hundred yellow satin, silk, and gauze-embroidered robes, intended for His Majesty Kuang Hsu's sole use during the next twelve months! Each robe was of course elaborately embroidered, or richly damasked with the Imperial emblem of "five-clawed "dragons,
H.E. Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy-designate of - the Liangkiang provinces, has sent up memorial to the Throne declining the honour of his appointment on the ground that he fears that his ability is not equal to the success- ful ruling of so many important provinces. Concerning the appointment of Chon-fu as Viceroy of Liangkiang, and his subsequent ples of unfitness for such a responsible post, the Shanghai Mercury's translator says this last is always done in such cases as a matter of form.
It is rumoured at Canton that recently largo- quantities of rifles, with the necessary ammuni. tion, are being imported into the Kwangtung province, and are finding their way into the interior under transit passes. In the unsettled condition of the north of this province and the state of things in Kwangsi, the introduction of such large quantities-it is stated that not less than fifty thousand have been imported unless they are for the use of the imperial forces, must be regarded with suspicion, if not with appre
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Professor Sir Robert K. Douglas lecturing on Christianity in Chins,” said "The task of conveying the knowledge of Christianity to the Chinese had been a long and difficult one, taking them back to the sixth century Later, he said “There could not be any doubt that - things were moving in the direction of know- ledge and incidentally of Christianity?" These Puck says that missionary effort in Japan two statements taken together do something to has received a fresh impetus from the fact that illustrate the conservatism" of the Chinese. some of the recent naval victories of the After nearly fourteen hundred years of mission- Mikado's forces have been won by convertedary enterprise, there is a perceptible movement cruisers.
The Kobe Chronicle has seen a copy of a telegram despatched from Yokohama to Kobe, marked urgent, and paid for at the higher rate. It was sent on the 20th October and was delivered in Kobe on the 25th-five days later.
They are having “skating dinners" at Raffles', Singapore. The Straits Times says that a large, crowd of diners skated about after dinner. until eleven o'clock on October 29th, both ladies and gentlemen. The proprietors of the hotel provided the skates.
A Japanese who recently posted a petition of appeal in a civil suit, and registered it, is suing the Japanese Minister of Communications for Y5,000 damages, because the document was despatched as an ordinary letter, and arrived. day too late for leave of appeal to be granted.
towards knowledge, an incidental deviation towards Christianity. Wonderful q
For over a year the Straits Tuines has aired
the grievance of Li Min, a coolie who wa imprisoned and persecuted by the governing authorities of British North Borneo Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., asked questions about it in the House. Our contemporary
announces that the man has been releaser
hu compensated with t contemporary comme this enquiry and we have so official from the harbinger. Empire wil the Colony
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