Ix seems probable that the war will sond many residents who spend the summer at a watering-place to Tsingtuo this year, all who have been there in previous summers reporting on it very favourably. Tt will be learnt from an advertisement that the company owning the popular Prinz Heinrich Hotel are building a new. hotel on the beach,.and those who are thinking of going to Tsingtao this summer are requested to make early application for accommodation, so that the necessary provision may be made before the new building is completed.
We omitted to mention, in our report of the Masonic Ball on Thursday week that H.H. Prince Pu Lun, with his suite, and accompanied by the members of the Consular Body, ete., arrived at the Ball before midnight and watched the dancing with great interest. It should also have been mentioned that the electric lighting, which was so greatly admired, was the work of the Shanghai Electric & Asbestos Ca., La.
Tue same pair of crows have again built their nest this week at the top of the P.
O. flagstaff on the Bund. Mrs. Crow was making audible comment on the traffic, during the busiest hours of Friday forenoon. Sailors used to speak of the "crow's nest" at the masthead as a figure of speech; here it is literally fulfilled.
Tus majority of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's fleet having been chartered by the Japanese Government for transport purposes, the Company has chartered no less than nineteen vessels for coasting trade. These include the I.-C. steamers Wingsang and Taisang, which, with the Company's own vessel Yawata Maru, will continue the regular weekly service between Yokohama and Shanghai.
Wat an itinerant preacher once called "the pursual of good littery-chewer" does not seem too popular in Shanghai, if we are to judge by the re-fretful tone of Mr. F. 8. A. Bourne, chairman of the Library Committee, and by the fact that not a dozen subscribers attended the meeting on Monday evening. With the object of _popularising an institution that, like good wine, should need no advertising bush, the meeting decided to reduce the annual subscription to $12. Messrs. L. N. Lefee, C. Comins, (Rev.) G. H. Bondfield, and H. B. Morse wore elected committee, with augmentative powers.
Tar Union Church was crowded on Friday night, when the new organ was formally opened with a recital under the direction of Mr. J. M. D. Thomas. The first part of the recital, consisting of five well chosen pieces was played by Mr. F. L. Crompton. It is needless to say that he did full justice to the beautiful instrument at his disposal. The second part opened with a violin solo, played by Miss Maggie Richard, Mr. Thomas accompanying on the organ. Miss Richard's playing was exquisite. During the collection Mr. Thomas played Strelezki's Chant clu Soir, and the recital was closed with a beautiful rendering of Mendelssohn's " Hear My Prayer," sung by the Church choir. Mrs. Kelly did full justice to the solo parts, and Mr. E. Hall presided at the organ. The collection amounted to no less $234.
Arter two days' vacation, as a result of the visit of Prince P'n Lun, the Mixed Court resumed business on Friday morning before Mr. Kuan (Magistrate) and Mr. H. H. Bristow (British Assessor). 'There were few cha: ges of public interest in a long charge list. A houseboy, charged with forging a cheque on Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $12.55 and offering same for payment with intent to defraud, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. A shroff employed at the British Post Office, charged with embezzling money orders, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Other cases were mostly those in which both parties were Chinese, and therefore of little interest to the public.
Berwaxp Partridge has a very good cartoon in the last " Punch." It is called "Ina Tight Place," and the legend. is "<The Corean Government has decided to preserve a strict neutrality in the event of war between Japan and Russia.'—Daily paper." A Japanese and a Russian are engaged in a tug of war, a turn of the rope being taken round the chest of an unfortunate Corean, whose expression indicates the emotions which the constriction evokes.
A coytzmporany stated on Wednesday, on the responsibility of its own imagina: tion, that "the ' Daily Mail' contained a graphic account of the capture of Port Arthur, and that in consequence the commander of the journalistic Flying Dutchman has received the ancient order of the bag." It will interest Mr. Brindle's many friends in Shanghai to learn the real news about him, which is that he has been promoted to be the "Daily Mail's" special correspondent in Cores.
Az the U.S. Consular Court on Tuesday morning the adjourned hearing of the charge against L. R, Whinney of embox-zung and appropriating to his own use various sums of money, the property of the Shanghai Gas Company, Ld., came up. Messrs. C. R. Bennett and Charles Blake were sworn in as Assessors, Mr. E.
Lamme (prisoner's Counsel), saying ho had no objection if neither Assessor was prejudiced. Mr. Lamme asked for an ff adjournment, on the ground that he was sick and in his present state was unable to do justice to the case for the defence. Mr. McNeill, Counsel for the prosecution, raised no objection, and His Honour ae: cordingly adjourned the hearing to a date to be fixed later.
Ax the Russian Consular Court on Saturday, before M. Kleimenow, Consul-General, Bertha Weshnepolsky, and Marie Rosine, No. 391, Chapoo' Road, and Lizzie Ravenborg, of No. 38, Chapoo Road, were charged with keeping dis. orderly houses at the places mentioned in contravention of Municipal By-law No. XXXIV. After hearing the statements of Inspector Bourke, Detective-sergeant Gilfillan, and Detective Bookless, his Honour remanded the cases until' this morning for further enquiries.
Four Russian women were charged on remand before Mr. Kleiménow, on Wednesday, with keeping disorderly houses in Chapoo Road. Inspector Bourke, Det tive Sergeant Gilfillan and Detective Bookless gave evidence as to complaints received against accused. Two of the women were ordered to leave the Settlements within two weeks; a third had to close her house by the 25th inst., and as the fourth claimed to be ill she was re manded for a doctor's certificate to be obtained.
Tanex mon wore brought up by the Yangtsepoo Police at the Mixed Court on Saturday, one being charged with murdering a native at Yangtsepoo on Thursday night. The other two men were charged with being accessories after the fact. The mon were arrested by Detective Eadio on 4 Friday. It appeared that the murdered man owed the alleged murderer some money which he refused to pay. Accused then beat and kicked him to death. All the prisoners were handed over to the native authorities to be dealt with, Tax mafoo who was arrested in company with Schwind at Chinkiang was again brought up at the Mixed Court on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Ellis do-fended the man. The police admitted that they had no evidence to call, but the Court remanded the accused in order that he might find witnesses to prove what he was doing on the night Schwind made his escape.
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