THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
Vol. LX.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 11тя JULY, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 2
After his present Australasian tour, Pa. derewski was to have visited Japan, Shanghai,
Telegrams relating to the war will be found Hongkong and Singapore. This was before
CONTENTS.
PAAK
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Sanitation Prosecutions
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Yellow Peril not so Yellow
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Philippines Revenue Law
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Sir Robert Hart
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Tibetan Tergiversation Misrepresenting Japan
Hongkong Jottings
The War
War Items
Supreme Court
The Ordinances of Hongkong... Hongkong Electric Tramways Hongkong Nursing Institute
the war broke out, but afterwards it was not thought advisable to do so for the simple reason
The Hongkong trams start running next that Paderewski is a Pole and belongs to that month.
part of Poland which is under the dominion of. Russia.
Cable communication with Foochow is again
The death is announced of Mr. G. P. Peachey, The Japanese advance northwards has been who was until about two years ago attached to 21 going on slowly but surely.
the British Legation at Peking. He had since The Hon. Robert Shewan returned to Hong- and after unsuccessfully seeking to recuperate the Boxer troubles suffered greatly in health. kong by the Empress of Japan.
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There were 38 cases of plague in the Colony 26 last week, and 37 deaths from the disease.
The Hongkong Water supply, improved by a few day's rain, was put on the "full" basis.
A terrific explosion occurred on 1st July at the arsenal at Cronstadt causing great destruc- tion.
It is rumoured, says a Shanghai evening 30 contemporary, that Russia has bought one of
the Shanghai daily papers.
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Kowloon Docks
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Hongkong's Water Supply
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The Hongkong/Electric Co., Ld.
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Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
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Correspondence
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Canton Notes
Pakhoi
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The Canton Hankow Railway
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The Death of Archbishop Guidi.
The French Convent......
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United States Independence Day
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The Trade of Newchwang
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An Unpleasan: Adventure with Pirates
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A Journey in Mongolia
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Singapore and the Crown Agents ...
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Sport and Pastime
R. A. O. B.
Hongkong
Miscellaneous Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Chief Justice (Sir W. M. Goodman),
made some observations of interest on Chinese partnerships on the 7th inst.
A German lawyer has been retained by the Board of Punishments to draw up the new code of Penal Laws for the Chinese.
The census of the Philippines shows that the 23 total population is 7,635,426, including 647.740 33 natives classified as wild and uncivilised. This is the first complete return ever made in the Philippine Islands.
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At 49, Avenue Paul Brunat, the wife of Mr. H. BORNER, of a son.
On the 26th June, at No. 23, The Bund, Shang- hai, the wife of Walter Ellis, of a son.
On the 1st July, at "Belvoir," No. 165, Wan- chai Road, the wife of PATRICK H. MURRAY, of a daughter.
On the 8th July, at Government Civil Hospital,
the wife of James Walker, of a sou.
On the 7th July, at Weybridge, Surrey, the wife of EDWARD Osborne, of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 25th June, NELLIE, the beloved wife of H. G. MOSELEY SAINTY, of Shanghai, aged 38 years.
On the 26th June, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, EMMIE, the beloved wife of EENEST L. ALLEN, "hanghai Municipal Council.
On the 7th July, at his residence, Bombay, DORABJEE NOWROJEE, late of the Victoria and King Edward Hotels, Hongkong, aged eighty years, deeply regretted.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 7th June arrived, 1 per the 8.8. Prinz Regent Luitpold, on Tuesday,
the 5th inst.
It is announced that the United States Con- sulate at Newchwang has been elevated to the rank of a Consulate-General. This is " on account of the importance which Newchwang has assumed commercially and politically."
Since the resignation of Mr. Bonner, the for- mer Chief of the Fire Brigade at Manila, there has been considerable dissension in the ranks of the brigade. Matters have been brought to a head by the Acting Chief suspending the Assis- tant Chief, Mr. Hoey. The nature of the charges has not been disclosed.
A Canton lespatch to Northern papers states that owing to the energy displayed by Mr. Chên, prefect of Leichoufu, on the Kwangtung coast, in developing a gold mine in the district of Kaichien, in consequence of which the pro- spects of the mine are exceedingly bright, Viceroy Tsên Ch'un-hsüen has specially appoin- ted that prefect to be the head-manager of the mine, displacing, it is alleged, the former official in charge on the ground of incapacity.
The Sinwénpao states that Viceroy Tsên Chun-hsuen, of the Two Kuang provinces, has received instructions from the Throne to arrange without delay the opening of the port of Huichoufu (Cantonese: Waichow) on the Kuangtung coast, to international commerce. It is also stated in a translation by the N.-C. Daily News that the above step was taken at the instance of the British Minister at Peking, who protested against the delay in opening that new reaty port.
in Japan and New Zealand he went to the where, to the great regret of his many friends sanatorium on the Schatz-Alp, Davos Platz,
in China and elsewhere, he died on April 29th from pneumonia. The funeral took place at East- bourne, where his parents reside.
On the 25th ult. in the Yokohama District Court before Judge Danno judgment was given in the claim for damages brought by Mi. Dhunamal Challarm against the Hongkong and The plaintiff's claim was Shanghai Bank. dismissed with costs. It will be remembered, says the Japan Herald, that the plaintiff claimed him of the arrival of a certain sum payable to damages from the Bank for failure to inform
him, by which he was unable to fulfil a contract. The defendants claimed that in telegraphing the money a mistake had been made in the name of the payee, and they had no knowledge that the person meant was plaintiff.
A Peking letter states that a Portuguese gentleman is now in the Capital' trying to get the permission of the Shangpu and Waiwupu to construct a railway between Macao and Canton.
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It seems that this gentleman first went to Shanghai and approached H. E. Sheng Kung- pao with the object of making the proposed railway a private one, and a modus vivendi had even been settled upon when, it is reported. H.E. Viceroy Tsen Chun-hsuen of Canton wrote to H. E. Sheng Kung-pao asking the latter to delay signing any agreement con- cerning the railway. The Portuguese gentle- man, therefore, wearied with the delay in getting things settled in Shanghai, went to Peking to work his scheme officially through the Boards of Commerce and Foreign Affairs.”—N.-C. Daily News.
According to the Tientsin Chinese official organ, a wealthy Chinese merchant of Foochow named Lin Ying-ching has obtained permission from the Board of Commerce and the Viceroy of Min-che to establish a factory to manufacture Chinaware for export to foreign countries, because porcelain from China was once regarded as one of the most important exports. The company will have a capital of $120,000 at $50 per share to be entirely subscribed by Chinese officials and merchants. Experienced foreign and Chinese porcelain manufacturers will be engaged, and modern and foreign methods will be introduced to make all kinds of Chinaware for export to European countries and America. The company will be established at Ching-men in accordance with the sanctioned regulations and rules of the above mentioned Board.
The Viceroy of Min-che has issued strict instructions to his subordinates, com- manding them to extend their protection to the said company with a view of encouraging other wealthy Chinese to follow the example.