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THE
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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Hongkong
Lending Articles :—
New Admiralty Dook Fiasco Sanitary Board Election
Camphor Production in China
Gold in Manchuria”
The New Treaty....
The Mail Contracts
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American Trade with China Admiralty Dock Removal Question Sanitary Board Elections
The Murder of Constable Evang
The New Tung Wa Hospital
'Odd Volumes Lecture in City Hall
Supreme Court
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Green Island Cement Co., Ld. ............................ Humphreys Estats and Finance Co., Ld. Watkins, Limited
VictoriaGoal in 1902. ........
Eeamen's Church and Mission
Amoy Notes
Football
Cricket
Victoria Recreation Club Rowing Races Miscellaneous
Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 28th MAR' H, 1903.
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HONGKONG,
The number of plague cases in the Colony
from January 1st to date is returned as 122.
Mr. A. H. Skelton, J.P.. has been appointed Visiting Justice to the Po Leung Kuk in place of Captain G. C. Anderson, resigned.
The appointment of Dr. W. F. Pearse, to not as Medical Officer of Health, Sanitary Superia- tendeut, and Superintendent of Statistics during the absence of Dr. Clark is gazetted,
A. Colombo rumour states that Sir Henry Blake will succeed Sir Joseph West Ridgeway ...226
88 Governor of Ceylon in the event of his 228 probable Iransference to South Africa. ...228-
The following names have been added to the 223 | list of authorised architects: Messrs H W. ....230 Bird, G. Blood, A. Bryer, C. H. Gale, A. H. 231 Hewitt, A. II. Hollingsworth, G. E. See, and 221 A. H. Ongh.
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A coolie named Cheung Sam sust ined an ..232 | injury to his leg by being struck with a ....282 stone dislodged thr ugh blasting o, erat ons 232 at Quarry Bay on the 24th inst. He was sent .......................233 | tɔ hospital.
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A notification in a Government Grzelte .......233 Extraordinary issu d on Thursday states that 228 telegraphic information has been received that .....................237 | the Government of Burms has declared Hong-.
kong to be an infected port.
On the 8th March, at Fo chow, the wife of
.D. A. G. FARRANT, of & › OD.
On the 17th March, at No 13, Poone Roa), Shanghai, the wife of O. A. MadAE, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 28th February, at Mengtsze, Yunnan, at the Catholic Chapel, by the Rev. Father de
"Gorostarzu, and at the French Consulate by Mr. Samson, Fench Consul. ONIA GIOVANNI DI Dro TIBERII, of Tolfo, Chieti, Italy, to ENRICHETTA ELISABETH IRENE DE VIOLINI, only daughter of GIBERTO NOBILE DE VIOLINI and Mrs GINA DE VIOLINI, of Brezcin, Italy.
DEATHS.
On the 8th March, at Tient in, A'URDO MAC- KENZIE, of L.M. Customs, aged 61 years.
On the 11th March, at Tongshan, ANSIE, the wife of ENOCH PINKS.
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The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week guding 22nd March were 289 non-Chinese and 62 Chinese to the
former, and 59 non-hinese and 2,501 Chinese
to the latter institution.
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to provisionally appoint Dr. J. M. Atkinson, principal civil med cal officer, to be an official member of the Legislative Conneil on the resiguati n of the Hou F J. Badeley.
The N.-C_Daily News of the 21st inst. has the following paragraph :-A harbour notifica- tion states that the port of Hongkong is deolar d infected, and vosse's arriving there from are subject to the usual 'quaroutine at | Weosung.
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A boxing contest, (ivilians v. Service Men, was held in the Theatro Royal on the 26th inst. for the benefit of Mr. J.. Downs, who his leav- ing the Colony on account of ill health. The large
On the 14th March, at Ningpo, the wife of ALFRED JOSEPH HUDSON, aged 35 years.
On the 14th March, at 19, Miller Ko..d, Shang-number of spectators wh› turned out to witness hai, 18ABEL FRANCISCA TERRIBLE, aged 54 years.
On the 15th March, at Eingapore, CAROLINE, widow of Capt. JOHN DILL Ross,
Hongkong Telechly Press
the bou's was evidence of the popularity in which Mr Downs is hold.
Mr. A. J. May. of Queen's Collage, is going home on leave and is taking with him four Eurasian boys, all Queen's College scholars. Their names are:-Hang Hing Kam. Hung Kwok Leung Ho Sai Kwong, and Ho Sai HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL Leung. The first two have already passed the LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLKET STREET, E.OSenior Oxford Local Framinations and the other two sie stil students in the Queen's Collego.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The many friends of Mr. Mike Collins, who The French mail of the 20th February arrived, ha long been a familiar and popular figure as manager of the Engineers' Institute, will be per NY K. 8.8.. Wakasa Maru (transferred from. p eased to learn that he h`s taken over the pro- the M.M.8.5. Tonkin) on the 25th March (33days); | prietary of the Bay View Hotel. As the objective and the Euglish-mail of the 27th Februaryf an after-dinner ricksh1 ride, the Bay View has no equal in the Colony, and under Mr. Ballgarut, on the 27th Collins's experienced management I should become even more popular than it is at present,
Arrived, per P. &0.
March (28 days),
No 18
The Chinaman who was injured during blasting operations at Pine Wood ✨ Battery, Pokfulum, has since died in hospital.
The following police changes consequent on Captain Superintendent, on leave of absence are the departure of Mr. F. J. Badeley, the notified in the Government Gazette :—Captain F. W. Lyons to act as Captain. Superintend- ent of Police, Sa; erintendent of the Fire Brigade, and Sup sintendent of Victoria Gual; Mr. E. R. Hallifar fo not asi Superintendent of Police and eat of the Fire Brigade. Wodehouse to act as Assistant "uperintend
At the Regular Convocation of Chapter, No. 1,165 E.C., held at the Freemasons' Hell on the 20th inst., M. E. Comp. E. C. Ray (for the District Grand Superintendent) and the Officers of the District Grand Chapt r attended and installed the Principals for the ensuing twelve months, viz., M. E. CompeW. H.Wickham, M.E.Z.; E. Comp. R. C. Edwards, H.; E. Comp. . H. Bottenheim, J.The M.E,Z invested the following officers :-Comp. J. W. C. Bennar, S.E.; Comp. E. A. Banner, S.N.; Comp. W. A. Sims, Treasurer; Comp. E. H. Ray, P.S.; Comp. C. H. Blason, 1st. A.S.; Comp. A. Cochrane, 2nd. A.S.↑ Comp. C. P. Chater, jun., D.C.; Comp. G. E. Cole, Steward; Comp. J. Vanstone, Janitor, r
A coolie at the Police Court on Thursday told an ingenious story in giving his version of an incident that led to his appearance in the dock on charge of stealing two jacke's which were drying on the roof of a house in Bonham Strand. He was carrying ́s bird in his hand, he said, and the bird flow away. It lighted on seeing this, the erstwhile owner of the feathered the bamboo pole carrying the two jackets, and, pet climbed the scaffolding surrounding the house to recapture it. Just se he was on the point of laying his hand on the bird, it flow away again, and he was clutching the jackets- in his hand, quite unconscions of what he was doing, when the owner of the clothing appeared and arrested him. The Magistrate did not believe the story, and sent the defendant to goal for one month, with hard labour.
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In October, 1898, the 8.P.C.K voted £50 towards a church at Kowloon, to cɔst £250 and to seat 100 people, but this grant could not be claimed. Archdeacon Bannister, of Hongkong, we learn from a licme paper, has now written :-- "It was not possible for us at that time to fulfil your two conditions, namely, that the church should be vested in a corporation, and that the church should remain, on that site for ever inasmuch as the Church in Hongkong was not then organised, and also becaus i of the foot tha the land was only held on an annual I minable at the will of the Goverment two difficulties have been, removed Church has now been supporting and self-göver Anglican Communion,” vernment have made site for the erection of a churc now proposed to build church will cost from accommodate 400° Victoria supported the committee reco
of £30 should be writt of £100 should I church at Kowloon,