CHINA OVERI
D'TRADE REPORT.
1040
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PONDENT.
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and Shanghai Bank
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are now sold in:
The balance sheets will always be certi- Bed by the Chief Manager, and they will be presented to the shareholders not later than three months after date of issue.
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many oficialchanges are takı are to have a new Gover Bishop, and new Chief Justice or 8375 per
mande of the gunboat Bengo is to be ap that a Bank 13,
Harbour Master. The present Harbour Master on proper business
Senhor Albano Alves Branco, who is going and with a staff composed of men of
will be much missed. He has displayed fol [away, and integrity All mandarinioasay
a very charitable disposition and has always and officialdomy must therefore be
been ready to give assistance when necessary abooed from the new Bank if the
I am glad to say that since the desire it to prosper like the Hong
Acting Postmaster took charge of the office here everything in the department is proceeding smoothly and greatly to the credit of the official referred to. Since the Chinese maila have had to be dealt with in the office the * 27 — The following are the gentlemen (who staff has been increased. When the new system came into force there was some grumbling ave more than a local reputation) constituting amongst the Chinese, who said their letters the present Provisional Board of Directors to from Hongkong and Canton would be delayed inaugurate the establishment of the Bank:-
and that various inconveniences would arise, Chang Cheng-hsun, Yeh Ching-chong, Yen but their fears have not been justified and now Hsing hou, Yang Wen-shun, Liu Haio-shen, they seem well satisfied. The Chinese mail Yen Ying, Ch'en Hsien, Yang Ting-kao, Sebags on arrival at the Post Office are at once The chin and Chu Fei-chen. H.E. Sheng delivered to the agents and the Postmaster will have general supervision over the Bank takes great care that no cause of complaint shall until the regular Board be confirmed.-N. C. arise. A few days ago he published a table of the Daily News.
rates of postage payable on letters on delivery in China, and mail (tables in Portuguese and Chinese have been posted in the streets and widely circulated. Chinese letters are weighed according to Chinese weights, so before sending any letter to the Post Office the senders can ascertain for themselves the stamps required. The handling of the European letters is also much more satisfactory than it used to be. Instead of being delivered late at night, and sometimes not until next day, they are now delivered very promptly after the arrival of the steamer.
CANTON NOTES.
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FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO."] On the morning of the 16th instant a band of soldiers were sent by the Magistrate of Namhoi to effect the arrest of some notorious robbers who were known to demand money by sending letters to rich families under threats that if the demand was not complied with they would plunder their houses. The soldiers on their arrival were fired upon by the robbers and two of them were seriously There are two suggestions that the Post wounded, but this did not damp the courage of master might make to the Government for the the other soldiers, who bravely sprang forward, public benefit. The first is that a letter box and three criminals were captured. The re- should be again placed on board the steamer, mainder fled. The soldiers then made a search so that late letters could be posted on board of the house in which the robbers had lodged and up to the last moment. No doubt when this good quantity of ammunition and twenty re-system was in force, before people abused volvers were discoved.
it by posting letters with Hongkong stamps in order to effect a saving of one cent, the postage on a letter from Hongkong to Macao being only two cents, while from Macao to Hong- kong the charge is three cents. This abuse might be checked, however, by an occasional search being made of the box and the confica tion of any letters hearing Hongkong stamps. Better still would it be to reduce the post age to Hongkong and Canton to two cents. The second suggestion is that the Post Office should also undertake money order business. If it cannot be arranged that orders may be drawn on all countries, arrangements might at least be made for drawing them on Hongkong and Canton. At present people who have small sums to remit often have great difficulty in doing. so and have to appeal to the good nature of friends to take the money when they happen to be going or to send cheques for them. If the Postmaster could arrange a money order service he would confer a boon that would be appreciated by the public at all three places.
A native of Fatshán named Leung Piu, who was twenty years of age and some months ago married a wife named Leung Cheung-shi, a young girl of fifteen, committed suicide several daya ago. He wanted his old mother and his wife to die with him. One night he brought home five eggs and some sugar and tea, which he told his wife to prepare for chow-chow. When the food had been made ready, he and his mother each ate two eggs and his wife ate one. After they had taken the eggs, they experienced great pain internally. The mother and the son died not long after- wards, but the wife was cured by the neigh- bours. The neighbours then at once putthe poor wife under custody and reported the case to the local Magistrate, who detained the wife in his Yamen, after making some enquires into the matter, there being a suspicion that she might have administered the poison.
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The coffin of the late General Cheung-ki- Kwong was
was conveyed to Canton from Chekiang province the other day. It is said that a day has been appointed to hold a mourning service in memory of the General. His Excellency
native of San-oi district and enrolled If as a soldier at a youthful age." During his service in the army he gained many distino tions and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Chekiang province some years ago. He died in Chekiang two months since:
Two merchants named Ho Hon-hing and Chan Wing-hong applied to the Government be allowed port rice from Canton. The application was insedi
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The result months ended 28th Feb stone crushed, realising gold. The results, says Press, are even more sat the recent crushings, for touching 164 dwts, per tor two months work equals per ounce, otherwise about
would mean an annual return, allowance for increase of orushing p over $400,000 Mr. Bibby also reports that the greater part of Raub township has stroyed by fire. The Company has su loss. The township consisted m houses and the damage, it not amount to a large sum.
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On t the 18th March swarmg Chinese crowded in front of the Supreme Court build-
a glimpse ings in order, we suppose, to cat
wife of Chin Kwai, who is charged
to th But the man was not taken yesterday and the gaping, idle tinued to loiter and chatter in the that they would after a while gazo Kwai. The windows of the court room course all open and the noise made ble was so loud that the and all the other gentlemen business in court could scarcely his Lordship had to give orders for ness to be restored. The Captain dent of Police then ordered severs policemen to come from the Centr keep the road clear, but before the anything like orderly gener be made of men and boys wh obstruction. All these offender taken before Commander Hastings 87
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An interesting book of twenty-five pages has been published by the missionaries of the Col lege of St. Joseph, giving particulars of the Macao diocese: It contains four maps, namely, one of China, one of Hainan, one of the Malay tho Peninsula, and one showing the_islands of Timor and Macao, the mission stations being marked in colours, and an epitome given of the history of the missions from the time the Port uguese came to the Far East up to the present.
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