Tadsi Shimoura and Heichi Hirano of the Nanyitsa Mara were charged with being drunk and disorderly in the Broadway at 7.50 p.m, on the 23rd instant. It was alleged that accused jostled the congregation st St. Andrew's as it came out of church.
Hirano was fined $1 and Shimoura the Japanese Consular Court on Wednesday morning, before Mr. T. Takishima, Police Magistrate, Miss Fokni Ai, of No. 191 Chapoo Road, was brought up on remand, charged with keeping an unlicensed restaurant and retailing liquor therein on various dates.—The defendant was fined $3 and ordered to close the restaurant until 1 licence was procured for same. the French Consular Court on the 20th instant A. Meylan and M. Perroud were brought up on remand, charged with assaulting and beating native P. C. 425 on the Band at 2.20 a.m. on the 8th instant, and with causing the constable to lose his truncheon and whistle, valued at $1.75.—Meylan was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and ordered to pay the costs of Court and $50 compensation to the complainant. Meylan thereupon appealed and the sentence was suspended, The charge against Perroud was dismissed. the Mixed Court on Saturday morning, before Mr. 8. Y. Wong (Assistant Magistrate) and Mr. nitech (German Assessor), named Wei Kuan-ping was charged with gross carelessness in causing fire at Nos. 662-3 Tiendong Road on the the 16th instant. The evidence showed that the fire was caused by a defective stove which bad not been properly attended to. The fire broke out in one of the lower rooms and in the upper rooms the floors were littered witl straw. The contents of the premises were insured for Tls. 2,000. During the fire some children were rescued from the upper story, and they would have been burnt to death but for defendant the promptness of the fire-mev.—The was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
Ox Saturday, the 15th instant, native, charged with the theft of " gold ring, stated that he had swallowed the ring. He was remanded for one week and ordered to be sent to St. Luke's Hospital for treatment. The man remained at the Hospital for three days and then, getting tired of the medical treatment, confessed that he had not swallowed the ring, but had given it to an accomplice. 'The defendant was brought up on remand at the Mixed Court on Saturday and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
M.S. Snipe and the German gaubest Jaguar arrived here on the 22nd instant.
The German torpedo-boat 890 left Shanghai on the 24th instant.
The Chinese gunboat Kienwai left Shanghai on 21st instant.
The German gunboat Iltis, whic arrived here on the 19th instant, took up moorings at the N.-D. L. Buoy on Friday morning.
The Chinese revenue cruisers Lit shing and Chuentiso leit Shanghai on the 26th instant.
The watermark at Hankow on the 20th instant was 14ft. 7 in., at Ki kiang on the following day ift. Sin., and at Wuhu on the 22nd idem 10ft.
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The ©. N. S. Poyang, which arrived here on Sunday from the River ports, reports having seen H. M. 8. Nigh ingle above Nanking bound up M. S. Britomart and Thistle at Chinkiang.
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