Following the example of all other purveyors, the local Gas Company announce their intention to raise the price of gas from $3.00 to $3.50 per thousand feet. The ostensible reason is, I believe, the high cost of coal, but with the increasing competition of the electric light and the fragility of the Welsbach mantles which alone enable it to compete with that light, I should have thought that gas would have retained its present. price.
The S.S. Tampa Maru Aground.
Whilst Jeaving the Harbour for Japan the $.8, Tampa Maru ran aground about 200 yards from the Police Pier near Kowoon Point. The steamer floated off safely without assistance later on, and proceeded Jon her way to Japan, no damage having leen sustained. It would be interesting know whether this was due to faulty pilotage or whether the harbour is silting hip. There is a sandspit, I believe, which ruins cwt near the Point, but which is easily avoided with care.
[Drowning Fatality in Harbour.
On Thursday night on the return trip lof the Terrible's private liberty launch a stoker named George West fell overboard land was drowned, no sign of him being lecen in spite of every effort being made to locate his whereabouts. On the same evening a man jumped overboard from the monitor Monadnock, and after swimming or some distance was resewed by one of the beats of the steamer Namsang.
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