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poration in 1899, provided for the construction of a branch line to the colliery, and part of the proceeds of the loan have been specially set aside for this purpose. In accordance with the agreement with the Pekin Syndicate (Limited), a.company with the title of Chinese Central Railways (Limited) has been formed, and has | taken over, with the exceptions agreed upon, the railway interests of the Corporation and of the syndicate north of the Yangtse. The Corpora- tion has been refunded its outlay on the interests transferred and it holds 22,500 shares of £1 each in the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), subscribed for at par, and upon which 63. per share, or £6,750 in the aggregate, has been paid up.
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Mr. G. Sim has been appointed an Inspector of Nuisances under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance of 1896.
The names of G. J. B. Sayer, J. C. Lowe, and A. P. Samy have been added to the list of authorised architects at Hongkong.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed R. A. Nicholson to be a Surveyor of Boilers in all unlicensed steamships of less than sixty tons! burden.
A Shanghai beachcomber on his begging rounds walked off with a raincoat and umbrella
while the "boy" went to announce his visit. The umbrellas, etc., now disappearing at Hong- kong are perhaps not all taken by Chinese.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint George Herbert Wakeman, As- sistant Land Officer, to act as Land Officer and Official Receiver in Bankruptcy during the illness of Bruce Shepherd, I.S.O., or until further notice.
The total number of plague cases on 1st inst. was ten, the previous week having added three, one of which was imported from Shanghai. One European was reported down with enteric, and there is the case of smallpox imported from Shanghai. Tientsin contributed a case of re- lapsing fever. The return of 31st ult, added two more plague cases, one a Chinese found dead near the Gas Works.
Mr. F. Loureiro (has joined the H.K.V.A, and Messrs. H. W. Lochead and A. S. Mason have joined the H.K.V. Engineer Company. Gunner H. C. Austen, H.K.V.A., has been granted six months' leave of absence. Gunners H. D. Ball and G. Blood, H.K.V.A., have been promoted to Bombardiers. Corporal R. Laps-
ey,
H.K.V.E., has been promoted to Sergeant. Second Corporal J. H. Witchell, H.K.V.E., has been promoted to Corporal.
Burck and Wel, two sailors of the s.s. Forest Hall, were charged before Mr. Hazeland at the Police Court on Feb. 1 with behaving in a disorderly manner at West Point on Tuesday night last. In a fight, Wel is said to have stabbed his antagonist in the back, and was in his turn felled with a belaying pin by an onlooker. The defendants were each fined $5 and bound over in the sum of $100 personal security to keep the peace for two months.
The Hongkong Police received certain information on the 29th January which enabled them to catch three Chinese named Au Sang, Ho Sing and Mack Sang red-handed in a robbery. The prisoners broke into a house at Poling Fong, bound and gagged the occupants, two women, and were departing with $125 worth of clothing and $2,275 worth of jewellery when arrested. Placed before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy on 31st January, all three pleaded guilty, and the case was remanded In Fbruary, 1903, subordinate members of the Civil Service of Hongkong who had been in the service of the Government for periods varying from three to thirty years requested Sir Henry Blake then Governor, to forward a petit.on to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. They pleaded that during their term of service the salaries attached to their respective offices had never been materially altered, while there had beea મ ste dy depreciation in the value of the currency of the Colony, in which these salaries had been and Sir Henry Blake forwarded the petition, but did not recommend that the request be acceded to. His Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan has now been approached on the same subject.
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At about 11.30 a.m. on Feb. 1 a Chinese boy was knocked down by an electric tram. His skull was fractured. He was removed to Government Civil Hospital.
Before Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz sitting as coroner, and a jury, an inquiry was held at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon into the cause of death of a coolie named Kan Lui Tsz, who
was run over by a movable crane in the Naval Extension Dockyard. The evidence led proved that deceased had been run over while going to a nullah for a drink of water, while Dr. Hunter's testimony showed that death was due to a fracture of the pelvis. A verdict of accid- ental death was returned.
At Happy Valley on January 39th, on the annexe to the racecourse, Messrs. Hughes and Hough, auctioneers, sold the privileges in connection with the forthcoming races, which are to be erected between the Golf Club and
the Grand Stand, north of the Grand Stand
enclosure, as follows:--Lots 1, 8210, Mr. Xavier, proprietor of the Hongkong Printing Press; 2, $270, 3, 8150, and 4, 8250, M Lesbirel, Steward of the V.R.C., 5, $200. Mr. Vass; 6, $170, Mr. Razack; 7. $320, Mr. Reme- dios; 8, 3215, and 9. $145, Messrs. Ritchie and Co., 10, $140, Mr. Ho Chuk Wai; 11, $160, Mr. Lang Tai; 12, $200, and 13, 3165, Mr. T. Arakawa of the Japanese Club; 14, 890, Mr. Yee Pak Hung; 15, $60, Mr. Sam Yee; 16, $35, Mr. Razark; 17, $30, Mr. Lortis; 18, 895;
and 19, $103, Mr. Ahn. The total amount realised from these privileges is $3,010:
An amusing mistake occurred at the Police Court on January 30th. Inspector Collett of No. 7 Station had a case wherein two natives charged with creating a disturbance were out on bail. Inspector Macdonald of-Yaumati had a similar case. When the West Point case was called od before Mr. Gompertz one of the West Point offenders and one of the offenders from Yaumati were placed in the dock. The West Point disturber of the peace was telling His Worship how the second defendant, assisted by ten other men, had set upon him and given him sound thrashing. The Yaumati offender informed the Bench that the first defendant went
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to his eating house and ordered ohow," for which he refused to pay. Neither defendant was aware that he had not met the other in combat until Inspector Collett appeared in Court and explained matters! The second defendant in this case was then put in the dock with the first, and after hearing their stories, His Worship inflicted a fine of $3 each.
FAR EASTERN ITEMS.
It is suggested that Baron Speck von Sternberg may be transferred to one of the European capitals, and be succeeded at Washing- ton by Baron Mumm von Schwartzenstein, now German Minister to China.
The Foochow Echo says that a scheme is on foot for the formation of Golf Links on the Recreation Ground. The links are to lie entirely within the creek which separates the Race Course from the rest of the Recreation Ground. Arrangements are to be made that they shall not interfere with cricket or lawn tennis, whilst no extra expense is involved except possibly a small extra subscription from the votaries of the new game.
A hotel keeper interviewed by a Cablenews, reporter said that at Manila any American with a clean suit and often when it isn't clean, can get board at about any place in town simply for the asking, the proprietor trusting to his honesty to pay up at the end of the month. If he takes a hand-bag some fine morning and ays that he is going out into the provinces for a few days, he is taken at his word. He can be well past Hongkong before anything is suspected.
It is reported, a propos the present illness of the Empress Dowager's favourite retainer, the well-known chief Eunuch, Li Lien-ying, who has been lying sick for the past three weeks from a combination of causes, and whose suffering the doctors of the Imperial College of Physicians in the capital have been at their wits end to alleviate, that the Empress Do- wager is much alarmed at the condition of her favourite, and has therefore offered a reward of one thousand taels to the physician who shall
effect a cure.
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The Manila Cablenews says :-' charges of fraud have been filed against former Consul-General Goodnow. That number of rascally dealings is enough to make anybody anlucky." The best Americans, like the English, reserve such comments until a man is proven guilty. The Cablenews does not represent the best Americans.
The Tientsin Times reports that of the fifty. two head of cattle on Messrs. Walte and Co.'s farm forty-seven have already died, including the two imported bulls. Of the four remaining cows, one is expected to die at any time, while the others are all ailing. None of the other farms have suffered from rinderpest, Mach sympathy will be felt with Mr. Walte, who started this farm with so much public spirit, and spared neither money nor pains to make it a success. It is the more unfortunate that the loss has occurred during his absence.
During the trial of H, B. Collins at Yoko-
hama, as a Russian spy, the accused stated that he is a British subject and was born in Hongkong. He is 40 years old. His parents died in Yokohama some years ago. He arrived at Yokohama accompanied by his parents when he was an infant. In 1898 he went to China, and thence to Port Arthur, where he was employed by a firm. After the outbreak of the when he received instructions from Colonel war, he removed to Tientsin in June, 1904, Ogorodinkoff to proceed to Japan to act as a
spy.
He sent his reports to Mr. Mondon of Shanghai, who in turn handed them to General Dessino!
Another step in the introduction of Western education into the Chinese Empire has just been taken, says the Glasgow Herald, by the provincial government of Chili in the appoint- ment of Mr. Jas. Russell Henderson, B.Sc. of Glasgow, to a newly-created professorship of chemistry and physics in the Provincial College of Chili at Paoting-fu, North China. Mr Henderson was educated at Hutchesons' Gram- mar School and at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in science, and for a time acted as a demonstrator in the chemical depart- ment. While at the University he was asso- ciated with Dr. Carriok Anderson in his researches on Indian and Japanese coal, and during the last three years has gained additional experience in practical metallurgy as chemist to the engineering firm of Glenfield & Kennedy The new professor (Limited), Kilmarnock. enters on his duties at Paoting-fu after the Chinese New Year.
Steps are being taken in Peking, among the Chinese merchants, for the organisation of a Board of Trade. They have received the con- sent and co-operation of the Board of Commeros, who have agreed to appoint two subordinate officials to attend every other day and assist in settling matters that otherwise might take the time and trouble of the larger Board. Small difficulties are to be settled here and plans made for extending the commercial interests of the city. The location has been decided on, not far outside the main gate of the city. Also, says the N. C. Daily News, the establishment of a bank has been decided on. The bank is to be opened for business in the first month of the New Year. The bank-notes are to be printed
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to in Japan and a special commissioner is to Japan and see to the printing of bills to the extent of three million taels.
The Manila Cablenews says:-It is certain that the small stores in Manila-those kept by Chinese and Filipinos-will not lose anything under the new revenue law if they continue to find customers to purchase what they offer for sale. The dealers in poultry, fish and similar domestic products have advanced their prices all along the line, under the excuse that the new internal revenue tax will absorb their profits. For example, a small chicken could be purchased in Manila for about thirty-five cents, local our- rency, before the first of the year. The price The small booth keepers is now sixty cents. have advanced the price of their goods all the way from twenty to fifty per cent., and give as excuse that the demands of the internal an revenue law must be met. It is to be regretted that the Government could not exact one half of all advance in price over and above that actually required by the new revenue, where such advance is based on the excuse that is now give
ven by the small dealer.
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