Ws. have received Hongkong papers to the 19th. inst fire broke' out at the Royal. Naval' Seamen's Club, Hongkong, the 12th, but was ied by' the sailors there after damage. amounting' to '$400 to'$500 had been done.—On the' 13th two_ interesting "presentations were made to\.Mr. "Norton Kyshe, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hongkong, who' has just gone home on.leave. 'They wore from the oficars of the Registry, including those of the Land' Office, and from, the Chinese cominunity.of Hongkong.—An enquiry was held, at Hongkong into the death of two junk' sailors. who were killed' by, pirates on the 10th. near Pinghoi, four others -being seriously wounded. The verdict - was 4 Murdered by pirates in from the Philippines' Daily: Press hears Chinese at 'Canton, both mandarins' and populace, are well satisfied with. the. verdict.atid sentence in the Cly ay be. expe Royal. Highness will be received by the Prince and representatives of the German Consulate and German community.and others and- will at once proceed to Mr. Siebs's house, Victoria Lodge, which has been placed at the disposal of Their Royal Highnesses for the period during which they remain in Hongkong. We understand it is the intention of the Prince to remain about two months, and then proceed to Kiaochou, when the Princess will accompany him, the arrangement that they should proceed to Kisochou forthwith'and spend Christmas there having been given up. eet Tur following notes.are from the Hon, kong Duily Press:
The story is told of Major Bower, has been sent to Weihaiwei to raise a regiment of Chinese, that he once sent be! to the British 'Archsiological Society' valuable Buddhist document he bad earthed in Tibet, together with a: hurti ly-written covering letter. "Only. ole oii cumstances detracted from' the, delight the savants: none of them peuld defi which was the Buddhist docuthent. and which the covering letter.—-Straits Times.
One of.the most wonderful recoveries on record fror z ved in action be, says Chronicle correspondent, that made' by tenant-Colonel" Slogget,"R.A.M.C. This officer was, states Surgeon-Captatg Jameson, shot through the breast and Iydgs at the battle of Omdurman, and: repotted dead in the casualty list.
When, '@ more [detailed examination. was made, it appeared' just possible that life was not yet wholly extinct, " Accordingly the Medical Staff resolved to persevere in' their efforts, and Colonel Slogget was' treated by Lord Lister's aseptic method. The result was a most happy. otic, for in three days the -wound had closed, and in. month "the gallant officer had'made an entire recovery.
'A correspondent' writes:—You have left cult the best part of the story about Colonel Slogget'é; wound, contracted at Omdurman. When asked at home. how it was that his heart had "escaped being wounded ho replied: '*I suppose it was because it was boots'at the time."
Referring to Lieutenant Wood, who has been appointed Captain in the Chinese Regiment to be raised for We i Singapore. Free Press so looking very well after hit the Nile with the "friendly 'Major Stuart-Wortley. They were on the opposite bank from Omdurman, but had show" of their own, as described recently, in the Singapore' Free Press; in which both' these near el had ly short time that has elapsed sined Lieut.
M. Wood left Singapore ho -has seen such varied experiences as being A.D.C. to the Governor of the Cape, thence joining. the army in Egypt and seeing the sapient, out to the finish, and now out to Weihaiwei, Indeed Lit. Wood was just on the point of going to Uganda, when, he was suddenly. wited to with"an offer' of the Weihaiwei billet. Whoa General Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., 'Adjutant-General to the Britigh forces, who must be expected to have an acute idea of how things are likely, to, turn, out,, counsels his. son, to~ 'Weihaiwei, that may fered as, in its way, a significant is' to the possible cdurso of affairs as- out in this quarter.
The Naval and Military Record says:—Lord Charles Beresfurd seems to be justifying the opinion expressed when he left for China that-he-could turn his hand to: anything and meet with success. As'a commissioner: on a large scale he seems tobe sweeping all before-him.. Accordi reports, Chinese merchants are rec: him with every kindness. - From the tity'i J is reported that his lordship has forestalled
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