Laud Claude Hamilton, captain the Grenadier Guards, andj A.D.C. to H.R\H. the Prince of Wales, has arrived in British Columbia. ae s on a big panne hunting trip. At Telegraph Creek, away in the north, a Hudson's Bay Gompany outfit, a pack train of 12 horses is waiting to take him to the best big game shooting grounds known to the HiB.C. trappers. He is travelling incognito and the signature, Hamilton" on the Hotel Vancouver register gives no inkling as to his identity. His lordship has shot big game in most of the wild parts of the British Empire but tais is his first attempt in British Columbia. He is anxious to bag a grizzly bear to add to his collection of trophies. ry A Link wits SHaneuat.
Admiral John Moresby passed away recent in England at the ripe old age of 92. His long life was marked by a picturesque career, pats of which were of peculiar interest to Shanghai, for in the late sixties, or early seventies, Admiral Moresby, as commander first of the Snake and afterwards of the Argus, took part in the defence of Shanghai against the Taipings, having charge of a force of Chinese troops for that purpose. He was actively employed in the suppression of Chinese pirates, taking or destroyipg 14 piratical junks, manned by 240 men. In command of the Argus he took part in the operations against Japan which involved the opening of the inland sea, and the attack on Shimonoseki. As long ago as 1853, Admiral Moresby led an expedition against the Indians on Vancouver Island 8.c., now so far {civilized that it is almost a replica of rural England.
Admiral Moresby was a son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fairfax Moresby, a veteran who served under Nelson at St. Vincent, his ship, the Amazon, taking part in Nelson's pursuit of Villeneuve to the West Indies. In his early days in the navy the son sailed in a 50- gun frigate on the Pacific. In 1873 he annexed British New Guinea to the British Empire. "I was sailing off New Guinea," he related, "when the idea came to me to go explore ing. When I had finished my survey I had hoisted the British flag on 20 large islands and about 140 smaller ones." Admiral Moresby was the discoverer of the finest har-hour on the southern coast of New Guinea which was fittingly named Port Moresby and became the seat of government. During the Great War Lord Fisher named a, destroyer, the Moresby, after him. Up the British Columbia coast, north of the lane of trans-Pacific passenger steamer traffic lies Moresby Island on which the admiral first hoisted the British flag.
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One of the heaviest sentences handed down in the city police court at Victoria p.c. for a long time was given to Fong Chang-bee who was found to be in possession of no less than 28 tins of opium when the Empress of Asia tied up at the docks here on arrival from the Orient. The drugs were estimated to be worth $5,000 at retail value on this side. Fong loses all this and besides must serve 18 months in gaol. Some of the tins of drug were found in a basket of sweet potatoes, others in the false bottom of a trunk.
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