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Our latest advices extend to May 20. The French mail of April 21, per M.M. steamer Tonkin f arrived on May 19,The past week has seen a further extension of British sovereignty on the mainland, reports the Weekly Press. Early in the week it became evident that spme important * movement was on foot, and eventually an expedition in force was despatched, but the greatest reticence was observed by the authorities, and it was not until the object had been successfully accomplished that information was forthcoming. Her Majesty’s Government, to mark .their sence of the duplicity of the Chinese authorities in connection with the taking over of the New Territory, sent out instructions that Kowloon walled city and Shamchun were to be occupied. For human tarian purposes it was desired that bloodshed should be avoided if possible, and it was accordingly directed that the preparations should be conducted with the greatest secrecy and that a force sufficiently overwhelm ng to show the futility of opposition should be employed. These instructions were carried out and Kowloon walled city was occupied by a small force of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Hong Kong Volunteer corps, while the main body of the troops, under the direct command of Major-General Gascoigne, occupied Shamchun. No opposition was encountered in either case. The policing of the new territory is being rapidly pushed forward. The latest station is on the frontier near Shang-shui, where fourteen Indian constables and fifty men of the Hong Kong Regiment have been sent.The Gazette notifies :—The Hon. James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., to be, and to perform the duties and exercise the jurisdiction of, a Police Magistrate and Justice of the Peace within the additional territories acquired by this Colony under the provisions of a convention, dated June 9, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and his Imperial Majesty.the Emperor of China.A notification appears in the Gazette ordering that an additional rate of 2 per cent, per annum, to take effect from July 1, 1899, be levied on the villages of Hunghom, Mong-kok, Chaiwan, Wongneichung, Pc idfulam, North Point, and Tai Han, in consequence of the destruction of trees in those places and their neighbourhood.The Haimun berthed alongside the Douglas Wharf onMay 18, being the first of the company’s steamers to bebrought alongside.Mr. J. Edwards having obtained a least from the Government, and having erected a commodious mat-shed at, Tai Wan Bay, has commenced to run a steam launch at 5.15 p.m. from the New Stone Pier at the foot of Pottenger-street every day during the bathing season. Tai Wan Bay is a pretty little spot near the corner of Kowloon Bay—just behind the docks, and is an admirable place for hathing.The old saying that “ It is a good thing to have friends in high places ” is well exemplified in this week’s Gazette. As it appears that the total amount collected from the Peak district for water during the previous year amounted to $4,465, while the cost of pumping the water to the high levels mounts up to between ten and twelve thousanddollars, making something over six thousand dollars to come out of the rate-payers’pockets.r 4The Telegraph says The new mill erected for the Hong Kong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dying Company(Limited), at Causeway Bay, successfully started the huge steam engine. The massive piece of machinery worked
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London and China Telegraph
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Jun 19, 1899
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