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· (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
May 3rd.
-BALLWAY APPOINTMENTS, Cheang To-ohai (Taotai), who was in his native village in the Heangshan district at the time when he was elected president of the Rail- way, has declined to accept the position on account of old age and ill-health. He stated that he would accept the position of vice-pre- sident if offered to him.” He has requested Wên, Taotai, to report this to the Viceroy at
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HUPER'S SUPFORT.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
May 8th.
BAD POLICEMAN BRHEADED.
Lau Tai, a police constable from No. 4 police station, was tried a few days ago at the Nam- Hoi Magistracy on a charge of rape and having been found guilty was sentenced to death by Viceroy Sham. Lau Tai was taken yesterday to the execution ground and beheaded."
PENANG BUBSCRIPTIONS.
The Cantonese merchants of Penang have remitted $65 950 to the Kwong Kee firm of Canton on account of railway shares purchased on their behalf. This amount represents twenty per cent, of the value of shares subsoribed for.
THE NEW (CHINESE) WOMAN. A handsome looking Chinese nurse named Ah Sze was insulted by a vagabond while The Cantonese merchants in Hupeh sent a walking along the new band a short distance cable to the General Chamber of Commerce from the I. M. Customs. She was not to be here stating that 220,000 shares have been sub-intimidated, however, being the daughter of a soribed for and the first installment of one dollar pugilist, and she knocked the insulter over into per share has already been collected.
the river. The vagabond was rescued in time from a watery grave and handed over to the police, amidst the jears of the crowd that had inevitably gathered.
A FORBIDDEN INDULGENCE.
A military officer, Captain Lan Sik-kwong, has been arrested in an opium den in the act of smoking opium. He is locked up in the Military Yamen. Captain Lau alleges in
defence that he went in to search for soldiers imoking opium,
A QUAINT INCIDENT.
The head Monk of the Temple of the Guardian Spirit of the Town has been fined Tls. 2,000 by the Viceroy for keeping his temple in an insanitary condition. The Viceroy goes daily to that temple to pray for the cessation of rain.
NEW NAMHOL
Yu Yu-kwan, an expectant magistrate, who is at present director of the infantry college, has been appointed to the post of Nam-hoi, and will take up his appointment on the 27th inst.
FROM THAT BOURNE.
May 7th.
Acling under instruct ons from the Hong- kong Government, H.B.M's. Consul General in Canton has sent a despatch to Viceroy Shum requesting H. E. to effect the arrest of Leung Man-Bang, a writer in the Tung Wa Hospital, who is alleged to have embezzled a sum of $5,900 out of the institution's funds. It is said that Leung is in hiding in his native village at Lam-Tao, in a Heungshan district.
It is reported that the Viceroy has sent braves to effect his arrest and to seize any pro perty he may have.
CLAN FIGHTS.
A big clan fight has taken place between the people of the Tong Kai and bui Kong villages The Nam-Hoi magistrate sent one of his deputies named Chi Chung-you to the two villages in question to settle the trouble. The villagers refused to have anything to do with him and compelled him to turn back. The matter being reported to the Nam-Hoi. the latter has now despached Commodore Wong Pui-ohong with a strong force of soldiers to the village, while the Nam-Hoi and Pun-Yu are also proceeding there to deal summarily with the leading offenders of both sides.
FLOODS AND F`MINE.
The Tai-Chap, Ting-On, Fa-Kong, and Pak Mok-long district dykes, all in the Nam-hoi district, have been demolished. Hundreds of houses have been swept awɑy and the neighbour- ing fields are all flooded. The people hare petitioned the Viceroy for help as they are homeless and in danger of starvation. It is reported that H. E. left here at noon yesterday and has gone to the flooded villages accompanied by three weiyuens to distribute relief money amongst the sufferers. It is said that if the rains continue for a few days mors a severe
famine will be felt in South China.
STILL RAINING.
The recent rains have caused many buildings collapse. Yesterday a house in Tee Ling mews came down with a formidable crash, killing one of the inmates. At the No. 1 Police Station a huge tree fell, crashing through the Station. Fortunately for the inmates, the house did not collapse at once, and they were all able to escape. The unsuccessful cannonading to disperse the rain clouds has been shandoned.
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A CHINESE COME Y.
May 10th.
Expectant Magistrate Cheong, at present doing duty as deputy at the Chief Police Station, is an equestrian His pony is a good one, his saddle best English make, and as he | ambles through the narrow streets to the office every day, his sword dangling against the ribs | of his Rosinante, he outs a fue figure, and knows it.
His groom is a character, too, in his way. He is a welcome and familiar figure at the fan-tan table, notwithstanding that he has had a long said nothing", and the other day the lack turned, rug of luck. The fan-tan people “lay_low and | They cleaned him out. He pawned his master's fine English saddle, and sold the pony for 830 to & Bannerman, and disappeared. The Banner man ambled through the narrow streefs, cutting as fine a figure as the legitimate owner, until arrested. Now they
are hunting for the gambling groom.
THE NEW BUND.
The new bund from the steamers' wharves down to Dutch Folly is nearly completed and is fairly well done. Trees are being planted all along, and when the place has been trimmed a bit and the surplus materials removed, it will undoubtedly improve the appearance of this side of the City.
THE FLOODS,
Viceroy Shum returned on May 8th from his tour of inspection to the districts most affected by the recent floods, The district that has suffered most is the Poon Ya district, where numerous dykes have been washed away. The floods having somewhat subsided the Fatshan line has resumed running, but the trains travel slowly so as to avoid accidenta.
AN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR.” It is reported that on the 6th inst a foreigner accidentally shot a sampan girl and killed her. The matter was about to be amicably settled when the Nam Hoi Magistrato learning about the affair sent for her mother or mistress and told her that this being an international case it could not be settled out of court. The hearing of the case is proceeding.
COOLIES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
On May 7th the coolie transport ship Cranley arrived at Hongkong from Chinwaugtao on her way to South Afrios with 2,111 coolies on board This is invested with more than ordinary interest in view of present happenings in the Transvaal.
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H. E. the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. A. J. Darby to be secrotary to the Equatters' Board during the absence on leave of of Mr. L. C. Res, or until further notion; Mr. E. A. Hewett provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council in place of Mr. R. G. Shewan, resigned; Mr. M. H. Logan to be distriot engineer on the Kowloon-Canton railway construction, British section; Mr. Re Baker to be personal assistant to the chief resident engineer of the British section of the ❘ Kowloon-Canton railway.
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(May 14, 1908,
THE HARBOUR MASTER'S REPORT.
The following extracts are from the Harbour Master's report on Hongkong shipping for the year 1905-The total tonnage entering and olearing at ports of the year 1975 amounted to 34.185.091 tons, being an increase, compared with 1904, of 622,305 tons, and the highest tonnage yet recorded. There were 227,90g arrivals of 17,142,388 tons, and 224,849 depar. tares of 17,042,698 tons. Of British_ocean- going vessels 3,839,050 tons entered, and 3,833,274 tous cleared. Of Foreign comen-going vessels 2,017,550 tons entered, and 2,903,285 tons cleared. Of British river steamers 2,776,982 tons entered, and 2,777,040 tons cleareds Of Foreign river steamers 329.743 tons entered and 329.854 tons cleared. Of steam. ships under 60 tons trading to ports outside the waters of the Colony 35,724 tons entered, and 35,724 tons cleared (these figures do not include private steam lanuchee). Of junks in foreign trade 1,428,966 tons entered, and 1.446,474 tons cleared. Of steamships nuder 60 tons plying within the waters of the Colony 4.622,661 tons entered, and 4,546,651 tons cleared. Private steam launches or the Star Ferry Co's oraft are not included in these figures, as the company state that no record is kept of the number of trips made, or passengers carried by their vessels. Of junks in local trade 1.191,717 tons entered and 1,170,448 tous cleared. Thus :-British ocean-going vessels represented 22.4 per cent Foreign ocean-going vessels represented 17.0 per cent.; British river steamers represented 16.2 per cent.; Foreign river steamers represented 2.0 per cent. ; steam- ships under 60 tons, Foreign trade, represented 0.2 per cent.: junks in Foreign trade repre- souted 84 per cent.; steamships under 80 tons, local trade, represented 26.8 per cent.; junks in local trade represented 7.0 per cent, the exception of the large increase in steam- launches" plying within the waters of the Colony, which" affords good evidence of the enhanced internal traffic in the Colony. Th actual number of ships of European construc- tion (exclusive of river steamers and stearn, launches) entering during the year was 889 being 506 British and 383 Foreign. These 989 ships entered 3.926 times and gave a total tonnage of 6,756,600 tons. Thus, compared with 1904, 4 more ships entered 81 less Umer, and gave a collective tonnage increased by
212,890 tons.
Ocean vessels under the British Flag show & decrease of 320 ships of 36,4 0 tons. This decrease loses any significance it myy at first sight appear to possess when viewed in .con- junction with my report for 1904, where an increase appears of 352 ships of 930,300 tons which is shown to be practically due to special circumstances connected with" the late" war. These special circumstances bing removed with the advent of the Baltic Fleet in Far Eastern waters in April, 1905, the shipping tended to return to its normal state, and we are left with a net increase over the figures for 1903 (neglecting those for 19/4) of 33 ships of 883.890 tons. This seems to show a contiousuos of the general increase in size of British ships trading to the Far East. fn British Elver Steamers there is an increis⋅ shown of 1,616 ships, which is due to the additi^nal small oraft plying between here and Mirs Bay, which baro been treated as river steamers, though they do not strictly satisfy the definition. The decrease in tonnage, of 143,338 tons, is accounted for by the fact that three moderato sized vessels were taken off the run early in the year, and much smaller craft substituted. For foreign ocean vessels au increase of 149 ships of 499,938_trins is shown. Here, again, reference to my 1904 report is necessary in order to properly appre- that year, on account of the war, there was the ciste the significance of the figures. During
enormona decrease, of 1.149 ships of 1,910,689 tous, of which Japanese shipping accounted for 834 ships of 1,809,000 tons. The causes mil- itating against the employment of Japanese ships were not removed until late in 1905, indeed, they are not completely removed even now, so that the increase now shown is but the partial restoration to normal conditions, and should really be read sa a net decrosse, on the igures for 1903, of 1,000 ships of 1.440,951 tonal In foreign river steamers the decreases of 61 ships
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