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weight of ordinary ice, the experiment need not be tabooed on account of the expense. It might be urged that these glasses would be an incentive to rapid drinking, but such a result is not likely to follow in Hongkong, where we are always being reminded of what the Governor of South Caro lina remarked to the Governor of North Carolina.
RODERICK RANDOM.
HONGKONG,
Only one case of plague was reported in the Colony last week.
The name of Mr. A. E. Wright has been added to the list of the Colony's authorised architects.
Mr. William C. Jack, M.I.N.A.; of Hongkong, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute.
Part of the cargo of the junk Sun Fook Hop which was pirated last month on her way to Taiping has been traced.“
Three Chinese were at the Magistracy on A ug. 26 fined $25 each for having stowed away on the steamer Mausang from Sandakan.
At the Magistracy on Aug. 23 four Chinese were fined $100 each for making fast their sampans to the 8.8. Ithaka while she was under weigh in the harbour.
While a Queen's Road merchant was absent at Canton the four fokis whom he had left in charge took advantage of the occasion to loot the shop, taking away articles to the value of $789. They have not been traced yet.
Atthe Magistracy on Aug. 20 Mr. J. R. Wood fined the compradore of a steamer running.from Kongmoon to Hongkong $25 for infringing the exclusive rights of the Postmaster General by bringing unstamped letters into the Colony.
Our London correspondent writes:-A marriage is to take place in September between Harry Hancock, youngest son of Mr. Alfred Hancock, late of Hongkong, and Ethel Seymour the eldest daughter of Mr. William Wright late of Clifton, near Bristol.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
A Chinese contractor residing at Ship Street reports to the police that his wife has abscond- ed, taking with her jewellry. belonging to him | valued at $600.
Cathedral, went to Manila last week to formally Mr. Denman Fuller, organist of St. John's open a new and beautiful organ at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John by two recitals, Fuller is the guest of Bishop Brent.
Mr.
Two men who took the big risk of uttering & ten cent. and a five cent piece which were spurious at a cigarette stall were at the Magis tracy on Aug, 27 sentenced to four months' imprisonment each and six hour in the stocks.
A reward of $500 is offered by the police for information which may lead to the apprehension of the person or persons who were concerned in the murder of the two Indian police at the Lam Tsun Gap, Au Tau, New Territory, on the morning of the 20th August.
The total amount of fees received by the Government from the Civil Hospital and its an- "nexes (excluding Victoria Hospital), was $26,970 last year as compared with $33,771 in 1907. The fees at the Victoria Hospital amounted to $5,119 as compared with $5,812 in 1907.
The four public bath houses in Hongkong appear to be largely used by the Chinese. During last year the numbers using them totalled 349,567. Two of these bath houses are for men only, one for women only and the fourth for men and women.
His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to Ordinance No. 4 of 1909, entitled- phy Ordinance, 1903; and Ordinance No. 11 of An Ordinance to amend the Wireless Telegra- 1909, entitled-An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances, 1903. 1908.
A return of the number of death sentences and executions in British Crown Colonies and Protectorates in 1908 has recently been laid before Parliament. list with only one death sentence and no Hongkong figures in the executions. In the Straits Settlements the death sentence was passed on seven persons, but there were no executions during the year.
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A stabbing affray took place at Wellington Barracks on Saturday. Two Chinese quarrelled, and one drawing a knife stabbed his companion in the back. The latter was badly wounded and had to be taken to the hospital. When the assailant appeared before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday he told him that he did not intend to seriously wound the other man, who aggravated him by striking him first. The case was remanded.
Five men were charged at the Magistracy on Aug. 25 with being concerned in the piracy of a junk trading between Hongkong and Tai- ping on the 18th July. Nothing was heard of the boat or crew for several days, when one man informed the Hongkong police that the junk had been attacked and boarded at Nam Wan Bay, off Cheung Chau Island, and that the pirates had gone off with the cargo, valued at $18,000 and tackle worth $1,400. The junk was beached and the crew dispersed. The case was remanded.
Messrs J. Wilbur Chapman and Charles M. Alexander, the eminent evangelists, are due here on Monday by the Kumano. Maru from Australia. It was expected that climatic con- ditions would make it inadvisable for them to conduct meetings in Hongkong on their way through to Shanghai, but we are informed that arrangements are being made for meetings to be held in the Theatre
and on Tuesday Wednesday next. The party numbers about ten, and includes, in addition to Messrs. Chapman and Alexander, a well-known soloist and accompanist.
Mr. J. R. Wood presided over a meeting of Justices of the Peace held at the Magistracy on Aug. 20th, and there were also present Messrs. F. J. Badeley, P. H. Holyoak and C.D. Melbourne. The business was to consider an application from G. Bertolone for permission to remove the business now carried on by him under an adjunct licence at 37, Queen's Road Central the unnumbered premises in York Buildings formerly occupied by Messrs. Cottam and Company. The Justices considered the application in camera, and when the Court re-opened the chairman announced that it had been refused.
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In view of the impending departure of Dr, G. M. Harston on a holiday, we understand that the leading Chinese residents intend to make a presentation to him in recognition of the services he has voluntarily rendered in the treatment of keepers were fined $300 each, and the remainder by the P. & O. steamer Caledonia for India.
Chinese suffering from eye diseases.
An interesting case came before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy on Aug. 26 when a junk man was charged with being in possession of 100 tons of sand. Apparently the sand ought to have been dumped at North Point reclamation, but instead of doing so he tried to sell it. The case was remanded.
On the 27th inst. at the Magistracy Inspector Gourlay proceeded against a shopkeeper for having in his shop 288 cases of spirits of wine and 40 cases of arrack without a licence from
the Government. Mr. Goldring, who appeared for the defendant asked, for a remand, which was granted.
H. B. M.'s Consul at Batavia has informed the Government by telegram that quarantine against Hongkong in Netherlands India has been removed. We have also received an in-
timation from Mr. de Reus, the Consul-General for the Netherlands at Hongkong, to the same effect.
The Full Court on Aug. 23 reversed the deci- sion given by the Chief Justice in December last in the action brought by Messrs. S. J. David and Company against their Compradore for the recovery of $648,816, damages due under agreement. The decision of the Full Court was in favour of the firm, with costs in the Court below and on the appeal.
A correspondent writes to as a letter in which he appeals to the Government, in the interests of public decency and morality, to take some effective action to suppress the intolerable nuisances which respectable residents in the neighbourhood of Wyndham Street have so long had to endure. Attention has been called again and again to the matter, but so far the complaints appear to have been absolutely disregarded. Our correspondent hopes that this further appeal will receive some attention, and he suggests as a remedy the removal of brothels from the central districts of the city.
Heavy fines were on Aug. 27 imposed on the Twenty-two had been arrested, and the four keepers of a gambling school at Yaumati.
forfeited.
$15 each. The amount captured by the police when they made the arrest was $96, which was After the hearing of the case Mr. Goldring appeared and asked for a re-hearing of the case against the four keepers. This was granted.
Two Chinese were brought before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy on Aug. 24 on a charge of kidnapping two boys out of the Colony. They took the boys into Chinese territory, but the fare collector on the steamer recognised one of the boys, whom he asked what he was doing there. The boy replied that he was taken by force from his home, whereupon the collector detained the two men and sent them back to Hongkong. Evidence was called and the case remanded.
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A robbery with violence is reported to have taken place on the Taipo Road on Friday. evening last, the victim being a cook, who states that he was met by three men who seized him. He asked what they wanted and they replied that they were going to search him. He said that he had only one dollar, which he handed over to them, after which they tied his hands behind him and fastened him to a tree, where he remained for two hours before he was released by a man who passed.
Six weeks hard labour and six hours in the stocks was the punishment meted out to a Chinese at the Magistracy on Aug. 25 for entering a shop at Yaumati and stealing a pair of boots. It appears that owing to the heat the door was left open. Prisoner took advantage to crawl into the shop and went under the bed of one of the fokis, who, thinking it was a companion on joking intent, paid no attention until he saw a hand reach out and take his boots from the side of the bed. Then the discovery was made that there was a thief in the house. The defendant explained his conduct by saying that he wished to go to Canton and he took the boots in the hope of raising the price of his fare.
Mr. S. D. Setna, a well-known Parsee merchant of Hongkong, who has spent more than twenty years in the Colony, left
kong house of Cawajee Pallanjee & Co., of which For several years he was manager of the Hong-
firm his late father was a partner. Latterly Mr. Setna had managed the local branch of the firm of Phirozsha B Petit & Co., which has recently been closed owing to the long continued depression in the yarn and opium markets in China. Mr. Setna's departure is regretted alike by the Parsee community and by all who have had business relations with him and esteemed him as a man of the strictest integrity and honour.
THE REVENUE PROBLEM.
RESOLUTION BY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council was held on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 18th, at which the following resolutions were passed unanimously
(1) That a duty be imposed on all Foreign and Chinese alcoholic liquors imported and consumed in this Colony. Liquors supplied to ships, in unbroken cases for consumption on board, and liquors re-exported, to be exempt from duty.
(2) That Arrack and spirits of wine be treated
as alcoholic liquors.
(3) That all licensing fees be based on a valua- tion of the annual turn-over of the business of the licencee.
(4) That in the event of the preceding re- solution being adopted the issuing of adjunct licences be discontinued. (5) That all places where liquors are sold by retail for consumption on the premises be required to take out licences.
(6) That as to the method of collecting the import duties a spirit farm is undesirable. These resolutions were communicated to His Excellency the Governor the following day
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