August 7, 1905,”
THE PASSION. FOR OPIUM.
A CURIOUS SOURCE OF SUPPLY.
Previous Police Court reports have revealed some of the many methods resorted to by the opium smoker to obtain the drug without paying the lawful priee thereof. The following case explains a new way in which the luxury is obtained. On the 1st August a native, residing at No. 32 Connaught Road West. was arrested for having 15 lbs. of raw opium coverings in his possession. He was charged before Mr. G. N. Orme at the Police Court yesterday
the appeared Kong Sin lefendant, who pleaded not guilty. The case was remanded until the 4th instant, bail being
Mr. Otto
allowed in the sum of $1,000.
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Mr. Hogarth, Excise Officer, informed a Daily Press reporter that a certain amount of juice saturates the coverings in which opium is wrapped. On the 27th ultimo the Opium Farmer had a number of these coverings analysed, and found that they yielded 25 per cent. of dry opium, equalling 31.7 per cent, "of moist opium.
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IMPORTANT PURCHASE BY SHANGHAI RACE CLUB.
au extraordinary general meeting of the members of the changhai Race Club held at the Grand Stand on July 25th, it was decided that the club should purchase B. C. Lot 361 A, with the buildings thereon known as Mokank Terrace, for the sum of Tis. 150,00). By purchasing this property the danger of any obstruction being raised to the view of the straight run in from the grand stand is We understand with. away permanently done that the former owner was Mr. Henry Morriss. himself one of the principal supporters of the
Club.
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THE SHAUKIWAN MURDER.
Further evidence was adduced before Mr A. Haze and at the Police Court on July 25 in the Shaukiwau suspected murder case. Yut Ming, a priest. stated that as I was walking towards Shaukiwan on the night of the 20th June. he noticed three men land from a rowing boat. The defendant. Cheung Fat, was one of them. Inspector Robertson's 1stimony was to the effect that he found no mark of violence on the body, and appearances pointed to the fact that death was due to drowning. Ou xamining the boat be found a beard with fresh blood stains on it
The case was again remanded.
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BECOMES A PASSENGER BOAT.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
SIDELIGHT ON SHANGHAI ASSESSMENTS.
The following, from the N.-C. Daily News of July 26th. shows how the value of land in Shanghai has appreciated:-
The sale which was advertised to take place at 11.30 am. yesterday, at the salesroom of Mossrs. Niel, Murray & Co., Ld., of a plot of
round registered in the British Consulate ander title deed as Lot No. 125 situated at the corner of the Peking aud Kweichow Roads, measuring 3m. f. 11. ith, and belonging to the estate of the late Mathew Wrigh man Boyd, deceased, the one time popular min- ager of the Chartered Bank here, created
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more than usual interest, the attendance
large and representative. being very rough estimate of the aggregate
wealth present was fully Tls. 15.000,00, and included del well known men as Messrs. Chun-bing him, Yuen-cheong. Chu li-chec. Law-sung. Clu-pao-san, Cheap Jack, Chow Ka-ches, and many of the leading compradores and pro- prietors of silk, piece goods, and other hongs, as well as a thoroughly representative gathering of foreign landed proprietors. After the reading of the conditions of sale by Mr. G. W. Noel, the auctioneer, the bidding started at Tls. 30,000 and was rapidly advanced to Tls. 72,000 when the bids dropped from advances of thousands to those of fire hundred taels until the land was finally knocked down at TS 81,500 to Mr. C. on behalf of a native friend. Selby Moore. The assessed value of the land, it may be noted.
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TWO LAND OFFICES.
In a Government Gazelle extraordinary ou the 1st inst, was published the following order, made by the Governor in Council under Section of the New Territories Land Ordinance, 1905 (Ordinance No. 3 of 1903), on 31st July.
It is hereby ordered that there shall be established two District Land Offices for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of the New Territories Land Ordinance, 1905, and it is further ordered that for the purposes of the said Ordinance the New Territories shall be
divided into two districts, viz
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(A.) One district to be hereafter called and to include known as the Northern District the whole of the New Territories situate on the mainland excepting such portion thereof as is known as " New Kowloon and including all islands which are East of Longitude 114.10 and North of Latitude 22.15, excepting the islands of Tunglung, Fatau Chau and Slope Island.
(B.) Auother district to be called the "Southern District" to include that portion of the New Territories known as New Kowloon" and the remainder of the islands in the New the Northern Territories not included in District.
The Humber, recently soll by the Admiralty has been in the hands of the Hongkong and
And it is further ordered that the office for Whampoa Dock Company for the last 2 days the Northern District shall be situate at Tai undergoing extensive alterations so as to carry. Po in the New Territories, and the office for first class and steerage passengers between the Southern District shall be situate at the Hongkong, Laichow and Kwang-chow-wau. ! The plates of the vessel have been found in building known as Beaconsfield in the City of
Victoria. Hongkong. excellent condition, a great credit to the Admiralty. The engines, also, were found in very good order. The steamer will be ready to fake up her un on the first cr s ́cond of August. She has been renamed the Lucia Vittorin.
THE BATTERY PATH AFFAIR.
CHARGE ALTERED TO MANSLAUGHTER.
Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police, Court on July 31st the case in which Aaron Ellis was charged with the murder of Gunner Richard Sampson, R.G.A., was called ou
Mr. F. B. L. Bowl-y. Crown Solicitor, applied for permission to alter the charge from murder to that of manslaughter. The accused pleaded not guilty
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MISCELLANEOUS.
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The sailing ship 4. G. Ropes, from Hongkong to Baltimore via the Horù, lost all her spars except her foremast and bowsprit in a typhoon off the Looohoos on the 17th, but succeeded in making the Kii chanuel, and was towed into Kobe by the steamer Spezia.
"I wanted to see the time," was the impudent remark of a native when charged b-fore Mr. . N. Ormo, at the Police Court on Saturday with the larceny of a watch from the residence His of the Rev. J. H. France at Kowloon. Worship sentenced the man to two month hard labour and six hours' stocks.
The output of gold in Japan last year is stated to have shown an increase of 50 per cent. as compared with the previous year. It is believed that this year the yield will exhibit a still greater advance, and it is estimated that in Kagoshima Prefecture alone, gold to the value of 10,00,000 Yen will be obtained by the end of next December.
Au explosion of a magazine, containing 8,000 catties of smokeless porder, belonging to the Chinese troops at Woosung, occurred on Sunday afternoon, the 23rd July at 5.30 o'clock. No lives fortunately were lost. It is claimed that the explosion was due to spontaneous combustion owing to the very dry and hot weather of the previous days.
The Hotel Metropole Co., Ltd.. at Shanghai held its first annual meeting on July 24th. Although a great deal of money ($10,561) had to be spent on improvements, it was all met by the first year's earnings which further provided interim an dividend of four per cent, and a final dividend of six per cent and left $4,699 to carry forward. There are still 500 shares unissued.
It is reported in our Chinese paper, the Chung Ngoi Sun Po. that the Viceroy proposes to employ the yamen of the ex-Governor as an
Anti-opium Office Officers who are over forty years of age will be ordered to reside in the office to abandon the opium-smoking habit. It is also proposed to prepare opium in that office, where prepared opium will be sold in retail and wholesale, and no other place. in the province of Kwaugtung is to be allowed to prepare it.
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The Japanese comment here reproduced illumines the supposed severity" of a recent sentence. "In this conuection it may be pointed out that the offence charged against Captain Bongouin was one which the law could not fully overlook, but so soon as the law vindicate, the Emperor is represented as feeling that the occasion is one demanding leniency Obviously, the sentence was never intended to be enforce. Our allies continue to improve as our acquaintance ripens
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In both England and America, there appears to be considerable feeling against too rapidly driven autocars. Que American minister has directed a sermon exclusively at reckless chauffeurs. He quotes Nahum, ch. 2. v. 4, as a "prophecy of the motor nuisance :-"The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways they shall seem like torches. they shall run like the lightning. Prophecy or no prophecy. the text is aptly chosen.
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The following alleged acknowledgment by Li Hung-chang of the gift of a tine bull terrier sent him by an English admirer appears in Cherry Blossoms, the Nagasaki Press monthly:---
My Dear Sir.-While tendering my best thanks for sending me your dog, I beg to say that. as for myself I have long since given up the practice of eating dog's flesh; but my attendants, to whom I handed the creature, tell me they never tasted anything so nice.-Your devoted L.”
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Weihaiwei. 23rd June, 1905. Sir. With reference to your letter of the 4th March last, regarding the tenure of Wei- baiwei, a copy of which was transmitted to the Colonial Office. I have the honour, by direction of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State
Common-sense" writes to the N.-C. Daily for the Colonies, to inform you that His Majesty's Government do not consider that the News that men who have studied the history of British tenure of Weihaiwei is affected or is Japan's intercourse with the Foreign Powers likely to be affected by the result of the will appreciate the importance of China's not throwing herself wide open, till the time arrives operations now in progress in the Far East.
when she could say to the world, as Japan did, I have the honour to be Sir.
We permit your subjects to travel and reside Your most obedient servant,
in any part of our cuatry, but you must sur- render your right of extraterritoriality." J. H. Stewart Lockhart
not Japan.
The (Commissioner). | Unfortunately, China is
Japanese Emperor's order to respect foreigners is sufficient protection anywhere in Japan. Can as much be said in China?
Mr. P. W. Goldring Un behalf of the defendant applie l for bail. He understood that the Crown Solicitor offered Lo objection to the accused being allowed out on two personal bonds · of $5,000 each. Bail wa‹ allowed, and the Learing of the case was set dowu for Sth H. ngust. A
L. Beer, E..
Head Master,
Weihaiwei School.
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